The Perfect Sacrifice

Victory Can Be Yours!

Article # 8 – “The Perfect Sacrifice”

One of the greatest verses in the Bible is found in Romans, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom. 5:8)  Beginning in the Garden of Eden, man has turned his back on God.  Man has not honored God and has placed other things before Him. (Rom. 1:18-25)  Placing above God such things as; money, social recognition, power, pride, and so on.  But, because of God’s tremendous love for us He turned back to man, giving us an opportunity to be reunited to Him through offering the perfect sacrifice, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for our sin.  Now man can turn back to God through believing in that sacrifice, the death on the cross of His only begotten Son.  Those who choose to believe in Jesus and His tremendous act of love have been justified by faith. 

            “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.” (Rom. 8:9)  Therefore, those who believe will not come under the judgment of God.  There is coming a period of time in which God will pour out His wrath upon all unbelieving sinners.  “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.  Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” (Matt. 24:21, 22)  This will be suffering beyond any that man has ever known.  A time of suffering which we cannot begin to imagine, when Satan is allowed to have complete control over the earth.  All the power and wealth of this world cannot buy for you a safe place from the coming wrath of God upon unbelieving man.  “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3: 36)

            Another benefit of justification is that we are reconciled to Him. “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” (Rom. 5:10)  Through the death of His Son we are reunited with God, we are restored to harmony with Him.  Through this we become sons and daughters of His through adoption (Eph. 1:5).  We become heirs of God, fellow heirs with Christ.  “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.” (Rom. 8:16, 17)   

            You, too, can have victory in Jesus!  More will follow.

Lowell Parrish