"More Over!" - Too

 "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek." (Hebrews 6:20 KJV)

  "I am writing to you who are God's children because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus. I am writing to you who are mature in the faith because you know Christ, who existed from the beginning. I am writing to you who are young in the faith because you have won your battle with the evil one." (1 John 2:12-13 NLT)

 There really are some things that are easy to understand, one of which is the reason the cross means so much to the salvation that has been offered to anyone that is willing to receive it! How easy it is to see, but how difficult it is to share it to those who don't want to accept it, as if it takes something away from them, the things they just don't want to give up.

 We really need to know that God loves us, even in the broken life we might be in; because that is what we are, broken! There is nothing we can do to fix ourselves, only Christ Jesus can make us New and Improved! But even then, in this earthly body, we still are messed up; except now, it's a beautiful mess!

 When we accepted Christ into our hearts, we became justified, meaning, "as if we never sinned," as the blood of Jesus washed away our sins, each and every one! Now that we are new, does not mean that we will never sin again, because if we think that we won't, we make ourselves vulnerable to sin. As John says in 1 John 1:8, "If we claim we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves and not living the truth." 

 We cannot ever think we can do this on our own; we must always abide in Christ, keeping ourselves under the umbrella of God's grace... 

"So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit." (Romans 8:1-4 NLT)