Ohhh What a King we have!

What a King we have! He was born, He died, and what separates him from everyone else... He rose from the grave and He is Alive! He has had victory over sin and thats why we celebrate Easter!

Notes from; Love Worth Finding/ Adrian Rogers lwf.org

Why did Jesus die on the cross? Why did Jesus have to die ? The purpose of his passion (suffering)? The substitutionary purpose of the cross, was that He took our place. Everything we deserve, for our sin, our wickedness was thrust onto Him, and He did nothing.He died so that we might have life. Jesus died as a substitute. our substitute, in our place. For those who believe.
God's Holiness burns against sin. God is Holy, He is just, He cannot and will not overlook sin. What's wrong with the world........... SIN. Our condition is SIN. You will never understand the cross, until you understand the principle of the substitution. Jesus is not an example, Jesus is The Savior.
Salvation doesn't come from learning lessons from Jesus. or from the life of Jesus, it comes by receiving life, from the death of Christ. Jesus who lived a spotless life. was the spotless lamb.He was the blood of the NEW Covenant. John 1:29 "Behold the lamb of GOd who takes away the sin of the world. The Old Testament (the blood sacrifices of lambs/ rams etc.) was God conditioning His people for calvary.
Jesus Christ is the fullfillment!

The cross is not an accident
the cross is not an incident
the cross is not an afterthought, the Bible teaches that the cross was in the heart and mind of GOd before the world was ever framed. God saw the cross.
Genesis 3- Adam and Eve sinned, and through the world into SIN, by their disobedience, seperating us all from God. There is only one way to be united with God and that is through, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He did everything .

You will not find life or "happiness"in a job, in your spouse, in your kids, in your grandchildren, in a drug, in money,cars, trips etc, the list goes on and on. You were not made to be filled up with any of these things.
You were meant to be filled up with God. To KNOW HIM. and through Knowing Him , To Love ,to be loving, to have compassion, to be filled with JOY,to have forgiveness, to be kind, to be gentle, to be patient,to be faithful, to be self-controlled, to not be boastful, not self-seeking, not envious, not rude. not provokeing ,not anything evil. LOVE , Rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all these things, and endures all these things.

Commentary (Life App Study Bible, NKJV)
on 1st Corin 13:4-7 "Our society confuses love and lust. Unlike lust, God's kind of love is directed outward toward others, not inward toward ourselves. It is utterly UNselfish. This kind of love goes against our natural inclinations.(Genes 3 the fall of man) It is possible to practice this love only if God helps us set aside our own desires and instincts, so that we can give love while expecting nothing in return. Thuse the more we become like Christ, the more love we will show to others."

The Knowledge of what is to come.......

God is just and He will punish sin, God has mercy on who he has mercy and hardens who he hardens. I have not been saved because of who I am , but in spite of who I am. He either opens your eyes to His truth or He doesn't. I can't make someone believe anything, I can show you His truths, but only HE can open your eyes and ears to the Truth. if you do not know Him, I would do everything in my power to Seek Him and Know Him. Jeremiah 29: 11-15 , Epeshians, Hebrews . Gospel of John 14,15,16,17-20

God saves us ! It's not now just about our destination, which has been changed from hell to heaven , but our lives have been changed here and now so we can live our lives to the best of our ability, full of Joy and Love.(1st Corin 13) regardless of our circumstances.
We understand God is never changing, God is Soverign , not just when times are good, and kids aren't sick, or when mates die, or when people die tragically. God is God , God is All-Knowing, God is Omnipresent. God is God and we are not. We know He is in full control of our lives. And we have submitted our lives to Him. We have layed down our lives and picked up our crosses to follow HIM.

Coloss 2:8 "See to it that no one takes you captive through holllow and deceptive philosophy , that is based on the human traditions and the basic principals of this world rather than on Christ."

There is nothing you can do, nothing "man" can do ,to appease a Holy God. God saves sinners. From start to finish salvation is a work of God.