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“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Several days ago we mentioned that while we could learn the power of God in creation, we could not learn His heart. Yesterday we learned that God is a God of judgment, and will judge those who have sinned. But here in today’s verse we see the heart of God. If God is a God of judgment, He is also a God of love. His love did not want to see man judged for His sin, and sent to hell. For this reason God sent His beloved Son into this world as a man, to die for us, so that we could be saved from the awful judgment of God.
We read in 1 John 1:7 that “the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” Do you think the blood of Christ could wash away the sin of stealing 17 million dollars? Yes, it could. There are men in history who have been guilty of murdering millions of innocent people. That sin is worse than stealing, for murder is a most serious sin before God. Can the blood of Christ wash away that kind of sin? Yes, it can.
Perhaps none of you have been guilty of stealing in the ways that I have mentioned, and likely you have not been guilty of murder, but we know that we have all sinned. It is only the blood of Christ that can wash those sins away.
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