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[b]Are you tired of drinking, eating and still not getting satisfied? Are you tired of the hopelessness of life? Of your endless wondering about, seeking for happiness that never lasts? Are you becoming scared everyday?

Look at the cross again. But before the cross, look at the suffering, the stress, the beatings, the spitting on the only perfect man that ever walked this earth. He was holy, righteous and did no sin and yet they crucified him and God approved it. God who declared him his beloved and only begotten approved his death, God himself struck him and turned his back on him on the cross.

The just, who did no wrong was punished by God for sins he did not commit. It was not his sins but God punished him for them. They were your sins and my sins. But God instead of punishing us for them turned and punished his only son. Has someone taken the punishment for your crime before? Imagine it. Which means you never get punished again for that crime because someone has given himself for you. If you are punished again, it would be wrong and very wicked of the prosecutor.

You see, it would be unholy of God to punish you for sins that someone has borne. It would be wicked of God to keep you thirsty, restless, stressed, sad and fearful when someone else has borne all your griefs. Jesus didn't just bear your thirst and sufferings, he gave you his righteousness.

Do you know what it means to be righteous before God? It means you are now a slave of hope. You are now set up for good for ever. It means when you do wrong, God would still be smiling at you(wait, don't jump at me yet).

Look back at Jesus life again, did he ever commit one sin? No. Was he going about doing good, blessing and healing the poor and sick? Yes.
Wasn't he the only one that kept the law? Yes. So why did God pour his wrath on him since he did no wrong. Before the cross God was very pleased with Jesus and commanded the apostles to listen to him. Even John bore witness of him.

God was angry but he wasn't angry at Jesus. He was angry at us. He would have punished us but he turned and smite his only son instead. He put our sins on Jesus, and made Jesus sin(sin offering). Now here is the catch, God exhausted all his wrath on Jesus. He punished him for all our sins in our entire lifetime. The blood of bulls could not purge us of being conscious of sins and had to be shed every year. (Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin). Jesus became the once and forever sacrifice never to be repeated again because of its efficacy to purge our conscience of sin, wipe out all our sins and speaks better things over our heads. Because of the blood of Jesus the wrath of God has passed over us. We have escaped the wrath of God because of one thing only, the blood of Jesus.

God is smiling at you, his hands are open to you. He is no longer angry at you. Come home! He will never be angry at you! Jesus has borne all his anger. There is no more wrath. Come home to your father lost sheep. When you sin, he would still hold you as tight as ever because sin has been punished in the body of Jesus. God rose Jesus from the dead, to show you all your sins are put away. Sin is a past issue child of God. Jesus rose from the dead as a proof of your new life.

Jesus, the last Adam is far greater than the first Adam. Because of Adam's disobedience, we all became sinners. Even when you do good as a sinner, you are still a sinner. Your good behaviour changes nothing. Now, through Jesus' obedience we become righteous. Even when we do wrong as righteous, we are still righteous. Do you know that what Jesus did is far greater than what Adam did? In Adam, we were enslaved to sin but in Jesus Christ we are slaves of righteousness. This is a fact that you must believe. You must believe this. If you do not believe this, even if you are saved, you will never overcome your bad habits, addictions, stress and suffering. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free!

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your house[/b]