1) Warmth ... millions of people around the world dont have it
2) Shelter ... millions of people around the world dont have it
3) Food & Water ... again, millions dont have either,
4) Love ... the love of Christ, which washes away all iniquity and filth of sin!
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." Gal 3:13
Spurgeon writes, "Sin is an accursed thing. God, from necessity of His holiness, must curse it; He must punish men for committing it; but the Lord's Christ, the glorious Son of the everlasting Father, became a Man, and suffered in His own proper person the curse which was due to the sons of men, that so, by a vicarious offering, God having been just in punishing sin, could extend His bounteous mercy towards those who believe in the Substitute. ... Christ in His person suffered what we ought to have suffered in our persons. The sins that were ours were made His; He stood as a sinner in God's sight; though not a sinner in Himself, He was punished as a sinner, and died as a sinner upon the tree of the curse."
He ends with this blunt, yet true benediction, "I tell the, if thou believest in Christ this morning, my hearer, though thou be the most damnable of wretches that ever polluted the earth, yet thou shalt not have a sin remaining on thee after believing. God will look at thee as pure, even Omniscience shall not detect a sin in thee, for thy sin shall be put on the scapegoat, even Christ, carried away in forgetfulness, so that if thy transgression be searched for, it shall not be found!"
Amen, and praise the Lord, the Almighty!
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