05/11/2024
Want some “Good News”? Try reading this from the perspective of “you have already been forgiven”!!
“If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:13-21–
Here is some minding bending stuff. When Jesus died, He died as you. The person you would have been was crucified to the cross. Anything and everything was done so that you could come to know how much God loves you.
Jesus was not crucified as a form of punishment, but as a form of extreme and total love for all of mankind. All are IN Him. No one has been excluded from the Love and Forgiveness of God. He does not hold anything against us.
What must a person do to be saved??? Simply believe in who Jesus is, because you already have been. We have been saved by God’s faith and grace alone, not by any choice or prayer we make. No sense trying to fight or deny it. The scriptures are clear when you look at them through the lenses of non-condemnation.
Jesus did NOT come to condemn the world, but to save it and He did what He set out to do. No one could stop the power of God’s love.
Have a great day. 🤩
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