Isaiah 1:18 states, ‘Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’

The stain of sin is permanent, that is permanent without Jesus Christ. This means our sins cut us off from a relationship with God. How did this happen? Remember the story of ‘Adam and Eve’, the first man and woman to be made by God, that was written about in the bible? Sometime after the angels had been created by God and before Eve was tempted, Satan was cast out of heaven because of his pride. He was an angel, but his thinking got oversized and ungodly and he ended up desiring and trying to usurp God himself! Satan tempted Eve and she ate the apple from the forbidden tree (rule from God) and then Eve got Adam to eat as well and thereby he sinned as well. So sin began in the world and this sin nature is then passed onto all people when born and was passed onto us from Adam. God never intended for us to be separated from him in any way, but in the Bible God tells us how the serpent, Satan, got Eve to leave God out of her thinking by taking her eyes off of God and what he had told her, and that was when sin was conceived and happened.

But there is an answer for our sin and it is written about in the bible in the old and new testaments. His name is Jesus Christ. The bible says because God the Father loves us so much he made a plan that provided a way for our sins, like permanent stains, to be forgiven and atoned for. Hebrews 9:22 states, ‘And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.’ In the old testament various animal sacrifices were made, only on a temporary basis, according to certain procedures stated plainly and explicitly from God. But in the new testament John 1:29 says, ‘The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’ 1 Timothy 2:5 states, ‘For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.’ We all sin and need his forgiveness. God the Father sent his son, Jesus Christ, because he loves us so much and so sent him to die for each and every one of us on the cross. He then rose again from the dead three days later to show you and I that death and sin are defeated. And if we will believe that Jesus did this for us, truly repent and desire earnestly with all our heart to turn from our sins, he will then come into us and abide with us forever, sealed by his Holy Spirit. Jesus alone is the only one who can cover our sin debt, forgive us, renew us and give us a brand new life in/with him. With Jesus our relationship is restored with God the Father.

Only an infinite sacrifice, one holy and made of blood, would suffice for the sins of the world (past, present, and future). One from a truly loving father to each one of us, by God allowing his son’s life to be lain down, to make a way for the separation to be removed between every man and God. John 3:16,17 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” Jesus Christ died, rose again, and thereby restored that broken relationship between God and man that came, because of Adam’s sin and now is ours from so long ago. Are you ready for a new life in Jesus? Repent with your whole heart of all your sins to him and ask him to help you and come into your life now and to save you. Will you truly believe that he did all of this for you, repent and desire fully to turn from your sins and ask him to help you right now? It is only by his grace that we are saved/born again and that faith is given to you to live a new life for him!

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, Jesus is coming back one day!