THE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE NEWS
THE PRICE IS PAID
News varies in their sweetness. There is news you will hear and your response will be just to smile. There is another one you might hear and you will not know when you start dancing. I have heard of a case where one fainted because of a good news. The brain could not carry it at that time. For example, if you need like One hundred thousand naira for an urgent need and you get a cheque of one Billion dollars and an offer to come and become the American president, this is a too good to be true news. It is such news I want to share with you here. It is the news of HOW GOD became man in Christ to pay for all your sins.
Sin is a common denominator for mankind. Not everyone is poor. Not everyone is sick. Not everyone has issues. But, all have sinned. Adam introduced sin into the world.
Romans 5 :12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
It is because sin is reigning in the world that we have death. Everyday, we hear different tragic stories of different evils in the world. It has been like that since the fall of man in Adam.
BUT, there is a GOOD NEWS. The news that will make you to start dancing all by yourself. It is the news that JESUS paid the FULL PENALTY FOR your sin.
Romans 5: 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Notice the above Bible verse. It says He was delivered for our offences, not for His offences. Jesus didn’t die for himself. He died for Your sin. When He hung on the cross, it was because of you and I. If you were the only one in the world, Jesus would have still died for you. It is the height of God’s love for you that He left his majesty in heaven and come to the earth to die for you. This news is too good to be true. It is very rare to see someone die for a friend. The fact is that we were not even His friend, we were His enemies because of sin.
Romans 5: 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
God showed His love for you by Christ death on the cross.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRICE PAID
Many times people hear Jesus died for them, but they don’t know the implications of His death. They are ignorant of the hope of salvation. You will never appreciate a good news if you don’t know what is in it for you. Like the example I gave at the beginning, the man who was given the cheque will keep suffering if He doesn’t know what is in the cheque. Some of the implications of Christ death are explained below.
1.YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. One major implication of Jesus death on the cross is that NOW OUR SINS ARE FOREVER FORGIVEN. He paid the price for your sin. This means that the punishment for all your sins, past, present and future has been laid on Jesus on the cross. No need to pay for the recompense of your sin. There is a General belief in most religions that for every offence you commit you have to pay a particular price for it. To some you have to pray so and so time a day, to some you do something as penance, to others you have to bring something or confess to someone thereafter pay a penance for the sin. All of these are in religions. BUT, Jesus came and paid the FULL penance for your sin. This is why the coming of Christ was not to introduce a religion. What I am actually saying is that your sins are forgiven ONLY BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS has done. So you have NO NEED TO SUFFER FOR THE CONSEQUENCES of your sins. THIS NEWS IS too good to be true. BUT, IT IS TRUE ALL THE SAME. Jesus came to die for your sin so you can have life. This was what prophet Isaiah was speaking of in Isaiah 53.
Isaiah 53 :5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
It was for our sins He died. It was so that we can have peace with God He was punished. Now that He has been punished , the implication is that we have peace with God no matter what we have done. This is not in any way endorsing sin. It is the good news of what Christ has done.
Dearly beloved, the GOODNEWS is that your sins are eternally forgiven in Christ, past, present and future. The price is paid already. There is no sin, I mean no sin that the blood didn’t cover for. No matter What you have done, God is not imputing your sins on you. When He said YOUR SINS AND YOUR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE, He knew you will commit sins. Relax you are not wiser than God.
Hebrews 2: 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
No record of your sins before God. Now you have been justified, DECLARED NOT GUILTY BEFORE GOD. All your struggles to appease God are not needed, because God is not angry with you. Jesus was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. This means that because He rose from the dead, you have been declared not guilty before God. This is the too good to be true news. That you have now been accepted before God No matter what you have done. No sin, no shame, no pain can separate you from God. Calvary covers it all.
2.YOU CAN NOW HAVE THE LIFE OF GOD. Christ death on the cross was to the intent that we can have eternal life. His death for our sins was a means to this end. Now we have the life of God and have passed from condemnation unto life. We have escaped the wrath to come. Anyone that believe in Jesus is now a citizen of heaven. The person has escaped from hell and death.
Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Now that we are reconciled to God, we are sure of being with Jesus when He returns.
The life we have received also makes us to be God’s children. We now have the DNA of God.
Romans 8: 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
No religion in the world serves a God that is their father. The good news is that In Christ we have been made sons of God. This enables us to reign on earth as God’s representatives. It is a great privilege knowing that we carry God, because we have the Spirit and the life of God. All these are possible because of what Christ done.
John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Now we have the life of God and have passed from condemnation unto life. We have escaped the wrath to come. Anyone that believe in Jesus is now a citizen of heaven. The person has escaped from hell and death.
Jesus came to die for the whole world, but only those who believe in His death are saved. For example, if in a serious famine, a particular rich man goes to a restaurant and pay for the feeding of a village for one month. Then he sends some people to go announce to the villagers that the food has been paid for. Those who refuse to go will remain hungry even though the food is available. Others who are wise will eat and live. Certainly, those that eat not if they die no one is to blame. They choose to die in hunger because they didn’t believe in the price. It will be foolishness to blame their death on the rich man. It was their choice. This is exactly the case of those who don’t believe in Jesus. They are already sentenced to condemnation unless they believe. God is not sending anyone to hell. He has made provision for safety in Christ. ANYONE WHO DON’T BELIEVE N JESUS WILL SURELY BURN IN HELL FIRE. The good news is that, there is no need to go to hell when you can choose to believe in Jesus and go to Heaven. People go to hell for refusing to go to heaven. Notice In John 3, it is those that believe not in Jesus that are condemned, not those that sin. This is because He has paid for the sacrifice of sin. WHY CHOOSE TO WROTH IN HELL WHEN YOU CAN GO TO HEAVEN. ACCEPT WHAT JESUS has done now if you have not and be eternally saved.
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