Read : 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
[Jesus] bore our sins.. that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. 1 Peter 2:24
Charles Colson tells of a frustrated prison psychiatrist who exclaimed, "I can cure a person's madness, but not his badness." The only way to make bad people good is to expose them to the gospel. Even Charles Darwin, the man who contributed so much to evolutionistic thinking, admitted this. He wrote to a minister: "Your service has done more for our village in a few months than all our efforts for many years. We have never been able to reclaim a single drunkard, but through your services I do not know that there is a drunkard left in the village!"
Later Darwin visited Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America. What he found was horrifying - savagery almost beyond description. But when he returned there after a missionary had worked among the people, he was amazed at the change, and acknowledged that the gospel transforms lives. He was so moved by what he saw that he contributed money to the mission until his death.
First Peter 2 says that Christ's sacrifice on the cross not only paid sin's penalty but also broke its power. The apostle Paul, after listing terrible sins, wrote to Christians in Corinth, "Such were some of you. But you were washed" (v.11). Praise God. Jesus does make bad people good. - Herb Vander Lugt.
God Formed Us;Sin Deformed Us; Christ Transforms Us.
[Jesus] bore our sins.. that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. 1 Peter 2:24
Charles Colson tells of a frustrated prison psychiatrist who exclaimed, "I can cure a person's madness, but not his badness." The only way to make bad people good is to expose them to the gospel. Even Charles Darwin, the man who contributed so much to evolutionistic thinking, admitted this. He wrote to a minister: "Your service has done more for our village in a few months than all our efforts for many years. We have never been able to reclaim a single drunkard, but through your services I do not know that there is a drunkard left in the village!"
Later Darwin visited Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America. What he found was horrifying - savagery almost beyond description. But when he returned there after a missionary had worked among the people, he was amazed at the change, and acknowledged that the gospel transforms lives. He was so moved by what he saw that he contributed money to the mission until his death.
First Peter 2 says that Christ's sacrifice on the cross not only paid sin's penalty but also broke its power. The apostle Paul, after listing terrible sins, wrote to Christians in Corinth, "Such were some of you. But you were washed" (v.11). Praise God. Jesus does make bad people good. - Herb Vander Lugt.
Heavy is the load of guilt
That sinners have to bear;
Light and easy is the yolk
That Jesus wants to share. - D. De Haan
God Formed Us;Sin Deformed Us; Christ Transforms Us.
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