Did Jesus really die for your sins?

   

    Did Jesus die for your sins?  Perhaps not, at least not in the way you might think, if you have been fed a standard religion.   Actually, He died to satisfy the demand for justice that had existed in the heart of Almighty God since the fall of man in the garden, thousands of years gone by.  The sin of a perfect man demanded the blood of another perfect man and there was none.  And, then came Jesus!   When He said "it is finished" from the cross, this was what was in His mind.  The struggle of thousands of years was over.  The sacrifice of thousands of animals, the shedding of their blood as a temporary covering (atonement) for sin, was over.  The enmity between God and man was over.   The waiting for God once again to fellowship with His family was over.  The deadly sickness of sin was over.  The cure had come. The power of sin to separate man from God was over.  Man's terrible fall into humanism was over.   The unfilled desire within the heart of God for family and fellowship was over!  On that day, on that cross when those words echoed across the universe to the realms of God, all of heaven must have rejoiced.  It must have been party time in glory!  At last.....it was over!

     Now that those things were over, God, the Holy Ghost, could come to man - any man - any whosoever - heal him of his sin-wounds, create in him a new spirit perfect for indwelling.  Now, if that man sins, God is faithful, just and now able to forgive, any man, any sin.  Now, if that man would allow, God the Spirit, can dwell in him, saturate him and use him as a staging area from which rivers of living water can flow in and out.  Now, God the Spirit, can be worshiped in truth (reality) and in spirit (from the new spirit).  Now, that man can be baptized, completely enmeshed with, wrapped up with, endued with, overflowing with that God, the Spirit, who is now available to us because Jesus was able to endure the cross for the joy of all this that awaited Him.  

   Did He die for your sins?  No!  He died to make a way where there was no way.  He died to make a way for God to forgive you of your sins.  Had His blood not been without blemish, you would still be lost.  We would all be lost.  A just God would not have been able to forgive us, even though He would want to.  You see, it is not what the blood did for you that matters most - it is what it did for God.