Covered by the Blood: Good Friday Bonus Page
Theme of the Week: Paid in Full
Friday, April 6, 2007
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Bible Verse for Bonus Day: And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's judgment (Romans 5:9).
Minister Henry Ironside recalled a time when he preached in a small town in Washington. While there, he was the guest of friends who raised sheep. It was lambing season. One morning he watched the new lambs play in the meadow. One lamb especially caught his attention. It appeared to have six legs and its fleece hung loosely from its body. When the preacher mentioned this curiosity, one of the herders caught the lamb and brought it to him. Then the mystery was revealed. Draped across the lamb was the fleece of another lamb that had died from a rattlesnake bite. The odd-looking lamb was an orphan, and although the herders had tried to convince the dead lamb's mother to take care of the orphan, the old ewe refused because she didn't recognize the lamb's smell. It wasn't until the herders skinned her own lamb and draped the fleece over the living lamb that she adopted the orphaned lamb as her own.
Jesus sacrificed His life and covered us with His blood so we could be forgiven of our sins. When God looks at us, He sees the righteousness of His perfect, beloved Son. Because of Christ, God is willing to adopt us as His own.
—Bill Bright in The Joy of Total Forgiveness
Thought for Bonus Day: [Christ] loves us so much that He would rather die than live without us.—MICHAEL CARD (singer, songwriter)
Adapted from The Joy of Total Forgiveness (Victor, 2005) by permission.
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Thank you, Father, that You accepted the Son's sacrifice as payment in full for all our sins.
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