Look inside this book.Where the Bush is Burning: A Daily Devotional by [Thomas Tice]
Christ Died For Our Sins

Christ Died For Our Sins

Christ Died For Our Sins

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures….

I Corinthians 13: 3 & 4

Before the Apostle Paul came to a discussion of the Resurrection, he spent some time laying the groundwork with the message of the Gospel. We have considered that this is a message which Paul had received from the Ancients, and that it was a message which is based upon the Scriptures. Today, let us consider that this message of the Gospel centers upon substitutionary atonement. Paul articulates it very simply when he says, ‘Christ died for our sins.’ Here is the genius of the Gospel. We who are born sinners, by nature and by choice, cannot have a relationship with God or receive forgiveness for our sins apart from the Atonement. Only Christ, by virtue of His utter Uniqueness, can accomplish the Atonement. This is at the heart of the Gospel Message which leads us inevitably to the Person of Christ. For this reason we make much of Christ. We return again and again to this ‘well of salvation,’ and with joy draw water from it.  ‘Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.’ ‘My sin, O the bliss of the glorious thought, my sin, not in part, but the whole, is nailed to His Cross and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!’ The peace and joy we have rests upon this glorious truth, ‘Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.’

Our Sin-Atoning Savior,
we praise You that You have laid down Your life,
and that no one has taken it from You.
We rejoice that Your Sacrifice has made, for us,
the difference between salvation and damnation.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning

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