WHY MANKIND NEEDS A HELPER

Conclusion of Why a Helper Is Needed

Since animals are inferior to man, however, it was "not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take sins away [completely]."  (Hebrews 10:1-4) For a sacrifice to have sufficient value to atone for, or remove, sins permanently, it would have to be equal in value to what Adam forfeited.  The scales of justice required a perfect man (Jesus Christ) to counterbalance what another perfect  man (Adam) had lost.  Only a perfect human life could  pay the ransom price to redeem Adam's offspring from the enslavement into which their first father had sold them.  A 'soul for a soul' would meet the demands of true justice. -Exodus 21:23-25.

When Adam sinned and was sentenced to death, his as yet unborn offspring were still in his loins and therefore died with him.  The perfect man Jesus, "the last Adam," willingly did not produce a family.  (1 Corinthians 15:45)  He had  unborn offspring in his loins when he died as a perfect human sacrifice.  Therefore, it might be said that the potential human race within his loins died with him.  Jesus took Adam's sinful, dying family as his own. He gave up the right to have a family of his own.  By sacrificing his perfect human life.  Jesus repurchased all mankind descended from Adam so that they could become His family, making Him their "Eternal Father." -Isaiah 9:6, 7.

Jesus' ransom sacrifice opened the way for obedient mankind to receive God's mercy and obtain everlasting life.  Consequently, the apostle Paul wrote:   "The wages  sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord."  (Romans 6:23) We cannot help but praise Jehovah for the love and compassion associated with the ransom, provided at tremendous cost to himself and his dearly beloved Son.  (John 3:16) And Jesus surely  proved to be "a helper with the Father"  when he was resurrected to heavenly life and God in the heavens.  (Hebrews 9:11. 12, 24; 1 Peter 3:18) But how is Jesus Christ now proving to be our helper in heaven? 

Next time: HOW JESUS CHRIST CAN HELP US

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