How do you and I become reconciled to God, free to have new life forever with him?

There's something profound that stands behind the business of forgiveness: God is unchangeably just. God is true and just as well as gracious and merciful. If your sins and mine are to be washed away, they must be obliterated on the basis of God's unchanging standard of what's right. To be forgiven, we must deal with our sins. How? Only by covering them with blood. The blood of Jesus washes away all our sins.

How does that happen? Jesus, who is perfect, satisfies the demands of God's justice, God's righteousness. Giving himself as the perfect sacrifice, he satisfies the anger of God against sin on behalf of every sinner. We can't do that, but Christ did it for us on the cross.

This is the mystery of God's love! God never ignores sin by setting aside his justice. Instead God accepts the sacrifice of his only Son for the cleansing of sins.

In this way God has forever blotted out every sin of everyone who believes. Christian believers are declared not guilty of their sins because of Jesus' death for their sake. Their sins are no more. Christ's blood makes those sins disappear forever.

We marvel at the mystery of our redemption. O God, receive our worship and adoration!