What Could You Offer God for Your Sin?

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin's domain, and as a sin offering, in order that the law's requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:3-4 HCSB

 

Sin offering. He shall also bring his guilt offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin. Leviticus 5:6. That was the Old Testament law providing for forgiveness for sin. Step into the New Testament era. That lamb would be Jesus on the cross—Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29. That holds true for us today. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit…. 1 Peter 3:18. There is nothing we can do after we repent…to “take away” our sin. Jesus did that on the cross for us—just as it said…once for all. He was the sin offering. Thank you, Jesus.

 

Walk in the Spirit. That’s the way of life now for Christians to live…not by fleshly, worldly standards—but by God’s pure and holy standards. Choose life—pure and holy. We each have the choice—day by day, moment by moment.

 

Prayer ~ Holy Spirit, fill us with Your grace that we would choose to live lives of holiness—walking with You—praising Jesus for being our sin offering—our Lamb. Thank You, Jesus.

 

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