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How can He do this? Can He just let us off our lifetime of rebellion and let us into heaven
anyway? Not at all. He sent Jesus to the cross to pay the price the sins of His people had
deserved. Jesus suffered their hell on the cross. He died the eternal death their sins had merited.
He became the object of God's wrath. Now when God raises us spiritually from the dead, and
we put our trust in Jesus to save us, His Spirit begins to work in us rather than the spirit of the
power of the air, and we no longer have the same desires to sin and provoke God to His
face. We stumble and fall, it's true, but we don't want to sin and we fight against our lusts and
worldly desires.
See what a change the shedding of Christ's blood at Calvary has made! It has opened up the
floodgates of God's mercy, so that a vast and gracious tide might pour out upon those who turn
from sin and trust Jesus alone to save them. These things should be among our thoughts as we
come to the Table, and the message of God's mercy is proclaimed to us (assuming we are truly
believers): "I am not getting what I have deserved, but what I could never have merited, all
because Christ willingly went to the cross to save me!"
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