Jesus........
I was sitting and thinking and reflecting the other day, it was kind of a quiet time, I just hadn't intended for it to be one. So I was just entranced with Jesus dying on the cross, and how difficult a step it must have been for Him to take to actually go through with it. He prayed in the Garden at Gethsemane the night before that if there was another way.... God should use it. I'm thinking I might have had a similar response, except I'm sure mine would have seemed more like begging than I simple request. I know we all love to think of how much Jesus loves us, and that He expressed that love by going to the cross. Now I don't discount that Jesus loves us, but there was more to it than the Love that my Savior has for us. God's entire plan for saving the souls of this world was to be fulfilled through this one act. This was God's plan. And God is first and foremost about God, and second about our lives and His love for us. If we were first (above His righteousness and Holiness) His Character would not matter, and therefore He would not be any higher than us. So God is all about His plan.
Well I began to realize that since God was all about His plan, Jesus had to be as well. His own life depended on it. Jesus had lived a perfectly sinless life. He taught those He came into contact with all about righteousness and purity while being faced with the same temptations I am faced with, plus countless others. Yet He never faltered to those temptations. If He had not been tempted as we were, He would not have been worthy to be a sacrifice for us. So Jesus was sinless, because He had never gone against His Fathers desires. So if He had not gone to the cross and died for all of us, He in turn would have been committing a sin, because He was making a willful act, apart from God, on His own power. That means if Jesus had not gone to the cross, he would not have been on His way to Heaven and would have been cut off from fellowship with God. That is why I say Jesus died for everyone....EVERYONE..... even himself
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Okay. Jesus had to die on the cross for the sake of fulfilling God's will so I can see your point. Now I have one question: Did Judas have to commit suicide? Could he have just as well repented and turned as Peter did? Would he have been saved and reinstated like Peter?
Now a question not involved with this subject: Are you looking for a Youth Pastor job or are you involved already?
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