Not Just Fire Insurance
“I poured out My life unto death, even the death of the cross: all so that you would be delivered from the way of life that you now chose to live.” (from Tears from a Lonely God – Chapter Fifteen: Armor of Light.)
I believe that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross was much more than just deliverance from hell. I believe it wasn’t just freedom from sin, but also, freedom from sins. That is, freedom from specific sins, and specific vices – whatever they may be in your life.
Jesus’ atonement for our sins wasn’t just fire insurance against hell, it was also the way for man to be reconciled to God, and thereby receive His Holy Spirit, and be empowered to live a holy life.
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.” -Ezekiel 36:26-27
Was not mankind in need of a savior because we had fallen into sin? And if Jesus has paid this price with His very own blood, don’t you think we ought to further conduct our lives very soberly, realizing the great sacrifice that was required to pay for our sins? Don’t you think we ought to refrain, as much as we can, from any and all evils in our life, seeing that it has cost God so dearly to give us this marvelous grace in the first place?
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” -Romans 6:1-4
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