Sunday, January 18, 2009

Innocence Stained Unjust

I watched the overladen Son of God
Wend His weary way through the gates of hell;
His load? All the sins of men, as He trod;
None His own, and none was refused, as well.
Through streaming tears, His Father I implored,
But His stern face turned resolute away,
Though His Son was mobbed by a demon horde;
The wages of sin only He could pay!
Then I learned how high was redemption's price,
When upon Him an eternity's pain
Was fast inflicted, in an awful trice;
Innocence stained unjust, for all men's gain!
Claim no merit or worth in your own right,
When Christ endured hell to redeem your plight!

"Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of us all." (Isaiah 53:4-6)

In the Bible passage above, Isaiah clearly explains how we have been redeemed from physical and spiritual death by Jesus. Jesus is God Himself, yet He loved us so much that He put Himself in the form of a man and lived a sinless life to qualify for the role of being sacrificed for our sins. Since God had made the wages of sin spiritual death, He had to endure the suffering inflicted by the demons of hell, thereby relieving you and me from that necessity. He purchased us back from Satan, and He is called our Savior and Redeemer.

None of us would have qualified to do that, because we have all committed sin. What is sin? It is failure to obey one or more of the commands of Jesus in the first 4 books of the New Testament. Simpler speaking, it is failing to love others as Jesus loved us, and failing to love God. If you believe you have not sinned, you are misled.

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