Dave spoke tonight from Romans 5:6-11, reminding us of the fundamental gospel truth that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. People may sometimes be willing to die for a cause or even for a good person (bodyguards often put their lives on the line to protect someone; a parent will often be willing to die to save their child), but to die for an enemy is very unlikely. Yet we were enemies of God because of our disobedience and He could easily have given up on us. Instead, He chose to send His Son, Jesus, to die for us, because God wanted us to be restored to the place and condition He had first created.
Adam was created perfect and lived in perfect relationship with God, but he chose to disobey God and we now all have inherited that sinful tendency. All of us have sinned, but God has paid the wages of death which sin demands (see Rom 3:23, Rom 6:23). Christmas and Easter are rightly the high points of the Christian calendar because they show us God’s plan of salvation in sending a sinless man to be our Sviour. The selfless sacrifice of Jesus at Golgotha was sufficient to pay the price for sin, a fact we know because God demonstrated His acceptance through the resurrection of Jesus.
We must decide what to do with this good news. God wants us to accept that we are sinners, repent of our sin and recognised we need the salvation He offers us through Christ. When we do this and turn our lives over to Jesus, then we are born again and restored to a relationship with God.
