It\u2019s the way: not pay. \u00a0The best leader you can have is the one that will take his edicts and demonstrate them for you in the leader\u2019s life. \u00a0Hear me out so you can understand what I mean\u2014the cross is not a payment for sins but a demonstration of God\u2019s way of life. \u00a0It is the direction of all governmental solutions in the kingdom of God. \u00a0When Jesus said, \u201cWhoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me,\u201d he was describing the citizens of his kingdom. \u00a0Don\u2019t let people say this demonstrates some masochistic life; they are ridiculously missing the point. \u00a0The question comes: what ends will you personally reach to make your life and the life of others successful?<\/p>\n
Yet, with this explanation of the cross of Jesus, we talk about something more than a mere leader. \u00a0Think about the Supreme Being we worship? \u00a0How much would his example reflect his edicts? \u00a0Love your neighbor as yourself. \u00a0The example would go clear to the end to the depths of its possibilities, death! \u00a0How much further can you go than that! \u00a0Although humans give their lives for the cause of good, no sacrifice comes even close to Jesus on the cross.<\/p>\n
When it comes to paying some evil banker for our salvation, that evil banker will end up being The Father, demanding such a payment.\u00a0 What kind of sovereign God would spew out that demand? \u00a0What kind of love would you get from this, to set up such a requirement merely to artificially impress us\u2014to supposedly pay for something we did? \u00a0No, the truth goes in a different direction. \u00a0Our leader, the king, leads the way. \u00a0He says pick up your cross and follow me. \u00a0He blazes the trail and takes the major beating, and we follow him imitating him to maintain what it takes for life to be of heaven. \u00a0It is the measure of a true leader, the one worthy of leading the universe unto salvation minute by minute, forever.<\/p>\n
Nobody can stand in for you to take your punishment; that\u2019s a stupid idea, entirely made up. \u00a0This stand-in idea is a deception to create an economic system of rightful and sinful transactions, a fallacious system\u2014which draws a beautiful love on a nonexistent foundation. \u00a0How incredible and shocking is the civil war hero that stands in for a man with a family to take the man\u2019s bullet in a firing squad. \u00a0In reality, the accommodation releases the man to his family, but it will never free the man from his guilt. \u00a0This accommodation, enabling such transaction, is arbitrary and ineffective to replace the power of simple forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Forgiveness is the key to salvation for all the hosts of the universe. \u00a0Jesus showed it freely given when on the cross he said, \u201cFather, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d This demonstration occurred while Jesus, the son of God, showed the way contradicting Satan\u2019s way\u2014that contrary direction\u2014claiming to make us like God. \u00a0Jesus\u2019 way is the way Satan detests, the way that will spare no sacrifice to maintain the perfect atmosphere of the kingdom of heaven forever and ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ransom does not deal in Rightful and sinful transactions, but a denial of one\u2019s self for the sake of what you know is right. Continue reading