Author: Real Christianity development

This feast, ‘the Day of Atonement’, came only once a year.  On this special day, and only on this day, the Jewish High Priest was allowed to go into the very most holy part of the Temple, the Holy of Holies.  Once in there he would …

When apostle Paul is speaking to the church leaders in Ephesus he refers to how God ‘obtained’ the church, i.e. saved it and brought it into existence, “with the blood of His own Son“.  Paul puts emphasis on the blood: Take heed to yourselves and …

And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Romans 5:11 (KJV) We could define this word, ‘atonement’, as the overall process by which Jesus Christ, through His sinless life and His …

To proud, selfish and worldly people who do not believe in Jesus, what happened on the cross seems foolish.  God has deliberately made it that way so that Christianity can only make any sense to humble and lowly people. Proud or worldly people who are “wise …

Perhaps it will help to give an analogy to try and show the way Jesus paid our penalty. Think of an extremely wealthy man, such as Bill Gates. Imagine he was to stand outside a court with a cheque book or debit card and offer …

It was Jesus Himself who decided the moment of His own death. No human being killed Him.  Indeed, nobody was capable of killing Jesus.  Nobody could take His life from Him by force.  He laid it down freely, of His own choice, just as Isaac …

Many blame the Jewish people for putting Jesus to death.  That is unfair and inaccurate.  The Jews did not do it.  The Romans were more to blame, but even they weren’t really responsible for it and did not bring it about.  They were not even …

In addition to having to suffer physical pain on the cross, Jesus also had to suffer something far worse.  All the sin of the world was, for a time, heaped on to Him.  While that was happening, God the Father and The Holy Spirit withdrew …

Just as we have seen with the long prophecy by Isaiah, much of the information we have about what Jesus had to suffer on the cross is actually set out in the Old Testament rather than the New Testament.  For example, consider Psalm 22.  This …

One of the most extraordinary things in the Bible is the fact that what Jesus did on the cross was prophesied in fine detail by Isaiah eight centuries before it happened. We have just seen two such prophecies above.  Isaiah carries on and gives a …