Pays Our Great Price

I heard them say that Jesus died for me,
And surely, I ought to love Him for that!
But then I thought of earth's bloody melee,
Killing enjoyed, man's favorite format;
Young men born grist for old men's warring mill;
Agony so great, equal, or more, than His;
Some as nobly, and some as free of will!
I thought, Why is He owed as much as this?
And then His Spirit shed on me the light:
How His the only death could free grace bring;
That death of the sinless can sin requite;
Death brought by Adam, His cancel that sting!
Dear ones, there is no other sacrifice
That for us, sinners all, pays our great price!

Satan sees to it that when we are told that Jesus died for us, a doubt is raised; why should we feel guilty for Adam's foolish sin? But we are not so much guilty of Adam's sin as that we suffer the penalty of death for it, but because of his sin, he brought physical death to himself and on the whole human race. If he had not sinned, he could have stayed in the Garden of Eden where there was the Tree of Life, and he need not have ever died. Neither would we have died, for we would have access to the fruit of the Tree of Life. But God put Adam and Eve out of the Garden and doomed to death, and so are we. At least we would have been subject to physical and spiritual death had Jesus Christ not come to earth as a man and lived a sinless life. When He was crucified, He took our sins upon Himself; then He was resurrected, proving that if we accept Him for His sacrifice and love others as He loved us, we, too, will be resurrected to new life eternally.

"But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised." (1 Corinthians 15:12-13)

"For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive." (1 Corinthians 15:21-22)

Note that these quotes are quite close to each other in the Bible. I hope you will read he whole chapter in your Bible. It will answer any doubt that Satan raises about why we ought to love others as He loved us. All men's sins were paid for by Christ at His death, but only those who accept the gift of grace and believe in Jesus as Lord, and that He died and was resurrected, will be saved; they will be considered as sinless by God, not because they are actually sinless, but because Jesus erased their sins with His death!