From The Heart
From the Heart
In the movie “Apollo 13” the key phrase in the movie was “Houston we have a problem!” The oxygen tanks on the Apolla command module erupted and the oxygen was escaping into space. Without oxygen, the crew would suffocate to death. Acting quickly, they moved to the lunar space capsule and used it to go around the moon and return to Earth. The lunar space capsule was the means of their being saved.
For us today, we have a problem and the problem is sin. We know from scripture that sin entered the world when Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge and God has stated that to eat of the tree of knowledge would lead to death. God had said in Genesis 3:3b “you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, you shall die.” This action caused a separation of fellowship with God and that fellowship continues to this day.
God’s love for his creation leads God to provide a way for man to have fellowship with Him again. The penalty of sin had to be paid for by the death of a perfect sacrifice. Since we are sinners, we are not perfect therefore we cannot come to God in our own power. God required a perfect sacrifice, and Jesus was that perfect sacrifice. II Corinthians 5:21 “For He made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Jesus died to pay the penalty of sin for us, Jesus died on the cross to provide forgiveness of our sins, and Jesus arose from the grave that we would spend eternity in heaven with Almighty God.
Bro. Kyle
