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For You and Me
At the Soldiers' Cemetery in Nashville,
Tennessee, a stranger was once seen planting a flower
upon a grave. When asked if some relative was buried
there, he replied: "No.
When the war broke out, I was too poor to
enlist, as I had a wife and seven children to support.
I was drafted, but had no money to hire a substitute,
and made up my mind to go. After I was all ready to
start, a young man came to me." "You have a large family," he said, "which your
wife cannot take care of……. I will go for you!"
"He did go in my place, and at the battle
of Chickamauga he was wounded and taken to Nashville,
where he died. Ever since, I have wished to come and
see his grave. So I have saved up all the spare money
I could, and came and found my friend's grave."
He then took the headboard and fixed it into the
ground at the head of the grave. It bore the soldier's
name, and underneath were the words, "HE DIED
FOR ME."
You and I can say the SAME thing!
Jesus died for YOU and ME!
"For when we
were still without strength, in due time Christ died
for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will
one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even
dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were STILL sinners, Christ died
for us."
(Romans 5:6-8).
Due to our sin, WE are the ones who deserve the
wages of sin: DEATH (Romans 6:23).
However, because of His great love for us,
Jesus went to the cross on our behalf.
He "Himself bore our sins in His own body
on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live
for righteousness—by whose stripes you were
healed" (1 Peter 2:24).
To accept the benefits of His voluntary
sacrifice, one must: place his trust in God (Hebrews 11:6), repent of sin (2 Corinthians
7:9-10), confess Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), be baptized (immersed) in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin
(Acts 2:38). Then,
as one CONTINUES to walk in the light of God’s Word,
the blood of Jesus CONTINUES to cleanse him of sin (1
John 1:7).
"Greater love has no one than this, than
to lay down one’s life for his friends"
(John 15:13). Jesus
demonstrated this GREAT LOVE for you when He gave His
life for you!
How will YOU respond?
God bless
you!
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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