Questions in this episode: – In Numbers 21:8 is the serpent on the pole a violation of the Ten Commandments? – Is it okay for a man and women to live together if they had a ceremony joining them together, but wasn’t done legally? – Do you think the rapture takes the church out of …
Why the Incarnation Means Everything Christmas matters because the incarnate Christ alone provides our acceptance before God, accomplishing what we could never achieve on our own.
We must be careful to consider the high cost of our redemption as Jesus suffered sin’s just penalty on the cross purchasing reconciliation for those who are truly penitent.
We must learn to appreciate the great exchange of our redemption wherein Christ’s perfection is granted to sinners like us while the entire penalty for our sin was borne by him in his suffering and death.
The perfect and infinitely valuable life of Son of God fully paid the just demands of the Father’s holiness by incurring all the painful punishments our sins deserve.
The triune God demonstrated love for us in the most costly transaction imaginable; in response we ought to eternally thank him and sacrificially obey all that he commands.
God’s perfect justice was settled on behalf of sinners who trust in Christ by the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross resulting in a complete atonement.
God’s solution for our dilemma of guilt and judgment was secured by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.