The Truth That Leads to Everlasting Life - RELIEF FROM SIN AND DEATH - Continue

 On Nisan 14 of the year 33 C.E. Jesus' enemies put him to death on a torture steak. He could have resisted, but he did not. (Matthew 26:53, 54) He willingly laid down his life in sacrifice for us. As his apostle Peter tells us: "He himself bore our sins in his own body upon the stake, in order that we might be done with sins and live in righteousness. And by his stripes you were healed.' " - 1 PETER2:24; see also HEBREWS 2:9.

That was indeed a marvelous expression of God's love for mankind! The Bible helps us to appreciate it, saying: "God Loved the world so much that he gave his only- begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) If you are a parent who has a dearly loved son, no doubt you can appreciate, at least to some extent, what that meant to God, it surely could warm our hearts toward him to realize that he cares for us so much. - 1 JOHN 4:9-11. 

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