Sin's Penalty

   Sin’s penalty is death, and only LIFE can pay that penalty.  “For the wages of sin is death...” (Romans 6:23).  And everyone is guilty.  “All have sinned...” (Romans 3:23).

   From the beginning of time, people have tried to pursue everything but LIFE to pay the wages of sin’s penalty.

   Many today are bringing an “offering of Cain,” from the labor of their hands.  The labor of one’s hand has no life in it, and does not serve to pay sin’s penalty.  Labor is like indulgence.  One cannot pay sin’s wages, only LIFE can do that.  

   Like Cain, men try to bypass the lamb with the labor of their hands.  They try to purchase atonement, and ignore the death penalty — that takes LIFE.  Today is no different.  Money has become their offering, and they bypass the Lamb of God, Jesus.

   The person in the Old Testament who brought the lamb for a sacrifice, put his hand on its head that it should be accepted by God for it to make atonement for him.  In doing this, it was to signify that he, the sinner, deserved to die as the lamb was to die.  The sinner begged God to accept his offering, the lamb  — the LIFE of the lamb — instead of his life, and God did.  The same principle ...

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