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Who or What Will Be Your Substitute Before God?

A man cannot stand before God on his own.

A man’s righteousness, even that of the best of men, is nothing but filthy rags before the perfectly holy God of all Creation.

So, men look for a substitute. Something or someone that will represent them before the Lord. Something, other than themselves, that they can rely upon and stand behind.

This is why the Substitutionary Atonement of Christ is so critical. Without the Lord standing in the place of a man, he has no hope whatsoever. 

Regardless of who that man is. 

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The Substitutionary Atonement of Christ

When I first trusted in Christ as my Savior, I had no doubt that He had died in my place.

I was fully persuaded that His death and suffering and blood had paid the Full Price for my sins.

I never entertained some theological charge that God was engaging in some kind of “child abuse” toward His Son! Never did I think such as thing!

And yet, there are men and women today, within the highest levels of Evangelical Christianity, that say this is the case. That God would never sacrifice His Son to pay for the sins of men.

And those same men and women are not rebuked for their heresy; but are heralded as great men of God by the mainstream Evangelical church.

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