Thursday, 28 March 2013

Jesus bore our sin


May God bless you, my friends. Praise God, Jesus bore your sin and makes you God’s child.
Good Friday is celebrated every year all over the world to remember how Jesus Christ had suffered and died because of our sin. But, only because of the death and resurrection of Jesus, our sins are forgiven by God and accepted us as His children through Jesus.
Read these lines, prophet Isaiah foretold many year years before Jesus was born how He had to suffer to save us from sin:
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. 
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
 Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering, 
yet we considered him punished by God, 
    stricken by him, and afflicted. 
 But he was pierced for our transgressions, 
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed. 
 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, 
    each of us has turned to our own way; 
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.
 He was oppressed and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth; 
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, 
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; 
    for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, 
    and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence, 
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.
 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, 
    and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, 
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
 After he has suffered, 
    he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities. 
 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, 
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death, 
    and was numbered with the transgressors. 
For he bore the sin of many, 
    and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:3-12)

Friend,  thank God in prayer if your sin has been taken away by Jesus Christ and pray to give you the Holy Spirit – to help, guide and teach you live a worthy life as His child.
If not yet, call Jesus to take away your sin by confessing your sin; invite Him to become the King in your life – to direct and control your life; accept Him as your Lord and Saviour. Pray to give you the Holy Spirit – to help, guide and teach you live a worthy life as His child.
Write ‘Amen’ if you pray. May God bless you.