Guest Post by Ben Johnson
The days leading up to Easter are wonderful days to reflect and meditate on the death and resurrection of Christ. It was during this week some 2,000 years ago that Christ was beaten, marched up Calvary and crucified. A death on a cross was nothing new. Many died at the hands of Roman soldiers nailing them to two pieces of wood. But when it came to Christ, no one died like He died.
He did not just endure the death of the cross, He endured the wrath of God on sin. On that cross, the holy and perfect one was punished for the unrighteous and wretched ones. He took our punishment willingly as a sheep to the slaughter. It was on that cross that He bore our sins and iniquities. A great and amazing transaction took place on Calvary that day.
But He didn’t stay dead. After three days in the tomb, He arose victorious over death, hell and the grave. By rising again, He showed us that the debt had been paid in full. So now as when we place our faith in Christ, His punishment on the cross is credited to us as payment for our sins. We are now viewed as holy and righteous. We are complete in Christ.
There is no greater message than that. There is no more exciting news than that and we are given the honor and privilege of telling people that message! We can tell them that the sins they so desperately try to pay for can be paid in full through faith in Christ. There is no more important job that we have been given than to get this message to the world. It is what we are called to do.
If we had the cure for all cancer then we would do our best to promote it and get it to everyone we could. But what we have is better than a cure for cancer! Cancer can only kill the body but not the soul. A cure can only save the body but only the Gospel can save the soul.
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