Read Romans 4-6
Romans 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." We can understand when parents make sacrifices for their children or when people make sacrifices for their friends. That kind of love makes sense.
But if someone were to make a sacrifice for a guilty stranger, we would declare that person crazy. Imagine someone pleading guilty to a crime they didn’t commit so that the stranger they saw commit the crime wouldn’t have to take the punishment. How would the stranger ever learn not to do wrong if there were no consequences for what he did? Or how safe would society be if all criminals were let off the hook by strangers taking their consequences for them?
It doesn’t work in society, but that’s the plan God set up for us. We are guilty. We deserve to die in our sins, but Jesus died in our stead, so we can have eternal life. We don’t deserve it and we don’t have to wait until we feel we’ve earned it. All we have to do is receive it.
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