Laura Mae

Contiued comment on Question #6 Holiness Holiness is our ultimate goal, to become perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect. Though we will never obtain this prefection we are to strive to be holy as we press on toward the goal to one day be united with God forever in Heaven on the day of redemption! "Oh what a day of rejoicing that will be, when we all see Jesus we'll sing and shout the Victory"! God's Nature God is loving, compassionate, forgiving, our provider in all that we need. He values us! Our relatinship with Him is so precious that it comes at a high price but with an extreme and awesome reward. John 3:16

God's Teachings: Sin That it is very serious, costly and can not be overlooked. Sin carries consequences that require payment. That a person must give up something of value in payment for the disobedience that was done. Today we are required to die to self. A task that is not easily done with our sinful nature and how hard it is at times to seperate ourselves from worldly pleasures and values. In ancient times people gave up a valuable possesion to atone for their sins. They laid it on the alter and gave over their sin to God for forgiveness. Today we lay down our sins on the alter by giving over our sins to Jesus, laying them at His feet in repentence for our disobedience. Instantly we are forgiven and brought into right relationship with God. What a gracious gift, one that is so easily taken for granted, but one that should remind us of just how AWESOME our God is and how much he loves us. He is totally undescribable, to beautiful for words!

God from the beginning did not require that man give up his life for his sin. He provided a way for him to bypass the ultimate sacrafice in the form of an animal. This process was not only costly, but man was shown a grafic picture of just what his sin cost and what it took to completely blot out his sin and bring him back to a right relationship with God.