Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible. If you truly believe and trust this in your heart, receiving Jesus ...
"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." (1 Peter 3:18a) Though it is difficult for us to understand, the Bible teaches that Jesus served as a substitute or stand-in for us. Jesus did not bear his own sins -- he was sin...
For the love of Christ constrains us (to constrain means to invite again and again – it doesn’t just happen once); because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; And that he died for all, that they who live should not from now on live unto themselves, but...
But Jesus served obediently His righteous Father God, and so He rightly offered Himself up as the Pure and Perfect Lamb of God, as the unblemished sacrifice Who died for the sins of ALL humanity upon the holy altar of His cross! Abraham could not really bear to see his own son Isaac of...
Acts 1:8 Verse Concepts but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Bible Theasaurus ...
To God, man and angels, as these all witness it. The proclamation of the Lord’s death means to remember and annunciate why He died on the cross, and what His death accomplished for us. We are to remember how much He suffered for us. Jesus said, Do this in remembrance of me. It...
They tell us that the body of Jesus was not permitted to hang on the cross overnight (Deuteronomy 21:23) and that he was buried the same day he died in accordance with Jewish law. 1 of 2 What do eggs have to do with Easter?How did a Christian holiday get scrambled up with colored...
What does the Bible say about the deity of Christ? For centuries, as affirmed at the Council of Nicea, Christians have used a wonderful list of verses to demonstrate from God's Word the deity of Jesus Christ. Here is another very different approach to show the same truth. (This is ...
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Mark 9:42 Verse Concepts “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble...
There is no special knowledge that we must attain to in order to mature in Christ. Instead, we must all grasp the simple yet glorious message that Jesus Christ stepped off His throne to become flesh, and willingly died for the sins of the world, cold, naked, and rejected on a cross. ...