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ONLY CHRIST DIED FOR US
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31
Daniel 9:25-27

Romans 5:8-12, 19-21

 

“Salvation is of the Lord.”

 

ONLY CHRIST DIED FOR US
 
Blessed be His name, the only “name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
 
In Him was no sin: neither original nor actual sin had defiled Him. Therefore death had no claim on Him. No man could have taken His life from Him justly, and none could have slain Him by force. “I lay it down of myself ” (John 10:18), said our Good Shepherd. “Greater love hath no man than this …” (John 15:13).
 
Herein is the love of God revealed, the mystery of the atonement: God sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:10). Man sins and his Maker suffers. Justice was offended by us, but found its satisfaction in Christ. Nothing that we could have done could have availed for the removal of sin: not rivers of tears, mountains of offerings, lifetimes of service - nothing but the blood of Jesus.
 
At Calvary He was cut off for us, and the cause of wrath was cut off at once, for sin was put away for ever. Herein is God’s wisdom: by substitution - God dying for man - full atonement was made, once and for all. There is no place for penance, self-mortification, pilgrimages, or any other manmade ways of gaining merit with God. The Lamb of God has paid our debt in full. On the cross He cried, “It is finished” (John 19:30).
 
Dear reader, do you see the Saviour bleeding for you, in your stead? Look to Him, God’s own Son, your representative, bearing away your sins, every one of them. Look only to Him, not to any other person, not to any priest or pastor, not to Mary or any beautiful image. Only Jesus! No one else died for you, only He, our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
 
THOUGHT: God calls: “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else” (Isa 45:22).

PRAYER: Father, I believe in Jesus. He is my Saviour and Lord.

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