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HOLY LIBERATING DEATH

God did not "wink" at the sin and rebellion, of humanity. God judged it with the finality He alone could accomplish. He did this in time, in history, through Jesus Christ, God the eternal Son, Incarnate from the Virgin Mary, fully God and fully man.

Jesus Christ bore the sin of the whole of humanity for all time. He received in His own self the just and full punishment we all deserved. His death was the death of deaths. No one has ever died as Jesus did. He was and is Life itself. 

The only way He could die is to choose to receive into Himself all that death, sin and the grave contained. By His death He has destroyed death, atoned for sin, and through that death and His resurrection, Jesus Christ has opened the door to eternal life for all who will believe.

Sin has been dealt with. The Door was opened through the death of Jesus Christ (Who IS the Door to eternal Life) so that whosoever would, might come. We come in recognition and acceptance that we have nothing to commend ourselves to God. 

All we have are liabilities, our sin and rebellion, and none of that, even any morality we might muster, can commend us to Holy God. We must simply, like a child, come to Him because He calls us to come. We must believe that He has already accomplished what was needed to redeem us and rescue us from sin and eternal separation from Him in death.

By death Jesus Christ has destroyed death and by His rising again has offered eternal life to all who will believe Him. Asking in earnest that you to be reconciled to God is not an empty plea, for God has already done everything necessary for you to receive forgiveness, be born anew in the Spirit, become a new creation, begin to live and mature in a new way of being, to become a joint heir with Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit becoming Life within you. You can come home, to the only home the human heart really longs for whether it realizes it or not.

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