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Friday 8 |
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Reprieve
The death penalty operates for wrong behaviour. No reprieves, no mitigating circumstances, no getting off because of a past good record. ‘You break, you pay,’ as the advertisement says. Saying sorry does not ‘pay’!
God has not changed the criteria, the Law must be obeyed. God cannot acquit me unless someone else takes my place under the Royal Law and gets the punishment I deserve.
God acquits me because someone else takes the blame.
“It is through him that everyone who has faith is acquitted of everything for which there was no acquittal under the law of Moses.” Acts 13:39
In acquitting me, God does not break His own law; He puts all the guilt and punishment on someone else - Jesus. And He whispers to me in the depths of my despair,
“There is now no condemnation for those
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So
under the Law, all my best efforts do not get me off for good behaviour. On
the scale of eternity, I am still under the penalty of the Law.