Life Beyond the Pardon (Lent 15, 2024)

Most of us are clueless about the death sentence we were facing as simple humans. We blissfully live our lives as though are our sins really aren’t that bad and certainly wouldn’t rise to the “death penalty level.”

Adam naïvely rejected the selfless love of God in pursuit of being his own master.  He set in motion an entire humanity under the selfish sentence of mortality.  Everyone dies.

In Christ, we have received a full pardon. 
Because Christ is God and God is love
and because the Holy Spirit of God indwells believers,
we have that powerful love in our hearts
to live now like pardoned people.

Exercise:

Imagine yourself hogtied and thrown onto a conveyor belt headed for an open furnace.  Only instead of it being an adventure movie with Indiana Jones getting out of the ropes and jumping to safety at the last moment, there is no adventure music.  There is no escape.  It’s certain death.

That is what God does all day long.  In love and gratitude, what do we do to live as pardoned people?

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