Belief

God conscientiously prepared the sacrifice of Jesus to provide for our freedom from His rage and our expansion in His love. To redeem something means to provide payment for it – Jesus liberated us thru His sacrifice. He paid the penalty for all our sins, for all time, for all of humanity.At the cross, our guilt burden and our punishment were borne by Jesus Christ.

Our sinful nature makes us enemies of a Holy God, but because Jesus’ sacrifice brings us reason, we are reconciled to our Lord. As the Lord God in us works to “reprogram” our fleshly patterns of thinking, we become free from the presence of sin in our life. God polishes our jagged edges till we each become a shining jewel.

Before Jesus, only the High Clergyman could enter God’s presence in the Holy of Holies. But the Savior’s death tore the veil shielding the Holy of Holies in the church. With that symbolic gesture, God commented we are all free to enter His presence due to Jesus’ sacrifice. The more we understand about what was concerned in Christ’s sacrifice and the gift of deliverance, the more thankful we deserve to be.