Well, as we come toward Easter I recall a Christian man in our church talking to me and saying, "Jesus didn't really have the sins of the world on Him when He was crucified. It was like so many other things in the Bible, just symbolism."
My response was to use logic the man could understand. "Do you believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one?" His response was, "Yes because that was perfectly clear in the Bible and spelled out in John 1:1".
"Was God perfect and could not be a part of sin", was my next question.
"Yes as that was pointed our many times in the Old Testament", he replied.
"So why do you think Jesus cried out on the cross, MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?", was my response.
I continued, "Since God will never be a part of sin and can not have sin anywhere near him.
Since Jesus was one third of the Trinity, God separated himself from Jesus at that moment just before Jesus cried out because he literally took on sin for the past, present, and the future.
It was that moment that God had to turn his back on His son and Jesus was truly alone for the first time in Eternity. It was at that moment that Jesus really DID have the sins of the world on Him. Then he carried those sins and our sins into his death.
This is why Easter is so important. He left those sins in the grave and was reunited with God and the Holy Spirit. So it is through Jesus that we have forgiveness of our sins and can have a personal relationship with God. Jesus never set up a religion through His sacrifice but built a one on one relationship with you through the Heavenly father."
"Knowing that Jesus literally took on the sins of the world will make me that more thankful for Easter", was my friend's reply, "because he DID leave my sins in the grave for eternity."
How about you? Did you know that you need to have that relationship with Jesus and know that your wrong doings throughout your life are gone because they were on the physical being of Jesus over 1977 years ago.
It relationship time!
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