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Anthonys Corner - Sept 20th |
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Written by Anthony Melakian
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Sunday, 20 September 2009 15:59 |
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If avoiding responsibility was an Olympic sport, the world’s gold supply would be depleted from all the medals that would have to be minted. I am not kidding, that pesky little person named “not me” seems to be showing up in more and more places whenever something goes wrong and the search for the guilty party gets underway. Rationalization becomes the order of the day whenever we are confronted with our wrong doing and as a result, responsibility & accountability are avoided. Such a thing happens with our sin as we like to blame someone else for our shortcomings and as a result; we become more resistant to repentance. In the midst of all this comes God in the flesh, known to us as Jesus Christ. Though sinless Himself (Hebrews 4:15), He took on the responsibility for our sins, bearing the guilt, suffering the penalty we should have experienced. The Bible says in II Corinthians 5:21 that “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him”. In other words, Jesus said, “I’m sorry” when it came to our sin and took the pain of punishment on Himself even when He had no other reason except that to die on the cross was going to be the only thing that would get us “off the hook” when it came time for us to face God. There is the power of the story of Jesus, the fact that He decisively took on the responsibility that we would rather dodge. Having conquered sin and death by means of His death, burial, & resurrection, Jesus continues to be the focal point of our teaching and preaching (see First Corinthians 2:2). What it all comes down to is whether or not we have applied the power of His gospel to our own lives by means of faithful obedience to Him. If we ourselves have been obedient, do we then teach others to do the same?
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