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Yep. . .33 years He was here! "Why?" Here's how God put it in the Bible: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16).
Now there's a question I can't answer or understand, but He does! Why don't you read what God said about His love again? Go on, take another minute to think that one through. Sure, He left His throne in heaven, was born as a babe in a lowly manger, and died on a rugged cross; but why? Just so you and I wouldn't have to pay the price for our own sins! "Pay for our own sins?" That's what it says in Romans 6:23, "The 'wages' of sin is death but the gift He took that death and now wants to give to us LIFE eternal. You see, He had no sin; He was the only one who could take our place. We could never pay for our own sin. What punishment will there be for those who 'won't' take that gift of Life? Revelation 20:15 says, "And whosoever was not found written in the Hell! A place of eternal punishment. The sinless Son of God, God Himself, suffered those wages, for us on the cross: "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteous of God in him ." God put all our sin on Christ. On the cross, He paid the price that God asked. Sin separates us from a Holy God. So, God had to turn his back on his own son, as he bore our sin, in our place. If that doesn't fill you with awe and sorrow for what our sin put him through, maybe you'd rather go back down to your 'puter and play' , (while you wait to go to the other place). Wait up a sec, though . . . I don't want you to go without seeing one more thing . . .Might as well know it all, and this is the best yet...
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