Series: Sin

Prayer centers our heart in submission to God by bringing Him the fullness of our desires and knowing that God is greater than all those things.

Prayer centers our heart in submission to God by bringing Him the fullness of our desires and knowing that God is greater than all those things.

Sin has been woven into our nature and into our DNA, leaving us guilty of sinful nature and turning our hearts away from the King. Rebellion against the King should always be treated as a full on insurrection and an attack on the rule of the holy King of the Universe. Sin, then, any amount of sin, must be punished with death. There can be no alternative that would be sufficient to satisfy the righteous requirements from a Holy and perfect god.

The work of Jesus Christ on the cross paid the penalty of our sin. Where sin required a punishment of death, Jesus Christ came to bear the weight of that punishment on Himself, a punishment we could not sufficiently pay. In our rebellion against God, God made the first move to save and rescue mankind from the eternal consequences of our sin. The Old Testament paved the path for this substitutional atonement, but only the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross would be fully sufficient to meet the righteous requirements of holiness to return to the presence of God forever.