Friday, December 26, 2014

Issue 492 Jesus Sacrifice December 26, 2014

I just felt like there was one aspect missing from our celebration of Jesus's birth.  That aspect was why he was given to us by God in the first place.  Allow me to tell you for those who do not know.

The why:  Jesus was given to us by God so that he could act as a sacrifice for mankind.  This is the whole reason why we celebrate his birth, death and resurrection.  The man known as Jesus knew that he was going to die in a very painful way, and if you read the Bible, you would know that even Jesus knew fear.  But Jesus with Gods will and support was sacrificed so that the souls of the departed can enter heaven based on how they lived their lives as individuals.  You see, past salvation was based on the collective whole, but Jesus died for the individual.  Jesus’s covenant with God allows us to be judged independent of one another.  At the same time Jesus also died so that we may achieve a kind of death and rebirth once baptized.  The baptism was and is the mark of the covenant for following generations of people so that they too may be part of this covenant with God. 


Conclusion:  These are the reasons Jesus died for us.  He was a selfless sacrifice from God and from Jesus himself for the blessing of all of mankind.  So let us never forget this sacrifice so long as we live.

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