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The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)

Why did Jesus Christ come into the world? Why did He have to die? What was the cross all about? What happened there?

Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. On the cross, He became the sin bearer: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree” (1 Pet. 2:24).

“He… bore our sins” means that Jesus came under all the consequences that sin brings. On the cross, He absorbed the Divine wrath. He entered into all that hell is, so that those who come to Him should never know what it is like. Jesus absorbed the wrath of God for us, so that we could know the love of God through Him.

Have you taken this truth seriously? This is a truth that should make us tremble. If it were not for the grace and mercy of God to us, personally, in Jesus Christ, we all would endure a future in which we were against God and God was against us forever, a future in which we have no place for God and God has no place for us.

People who reject Jesus will endure the gnawing of an activated conscience in which they see the full extent of their own sin. They will have clear knowledge that there is a God of love and that they could have been reconciled to Him, but now He is beyond their reach because they chose to live without Him. They will live with unending regret and a loathing of self because of their own wretched choices and the miserable consequences. They will experience an ongoing rebellion against God that keeps foaming up from within, from which there is no deliverance.

Like the addict who keeps going back to what he knows is destroying his life, apart from Christ we would all spend an eternity in the company of those who are in rebellion against God, with no one to blame but ourselves.

Have you considered what Jesus has saved you from?