Some false teachers deny that Jesus bore our sins and was judged in our place by God.
Two events this past week brought to mind the tendency of people to rely upon half measures which will not work. Two medical incidents in which the treatments turned out to be too little to cure the patients, resulted in the need for drastic, emergency interventions.
But our Lord Jesus finished the work necessary to save His people from their sin. He was "all in" for the death that He died for us. There was no holding back in His suffering to save us.
We tend to be satisfied with "half measures" all too often. We call them "conservative measures"; we are too cheap to do what needs to be done to fix a situation; we keep thinking things are not really that bad; we are in denial about the true problems we face; we are just plain ignorant of the facts; or we are too proud to admit the depth of our sin.
We behave this way in the least of our problems, all the way to the most deadly. Some of us will cut the Christmas wrapping paper too short to try to save paper. Auto mechanics are notorious for trying the cheap repair, which escalates to a much more expensive one.
The first spiritual example of trying to cut short the necessary sacrifice for sin is seen in the example of Cain. Rather than bring an acceptable offering like his brother Abel did, Cain brought of the fruit of his labor as a farmer. God rejected Cain's offering, which made Cain angry. Soon Cain murdered his brother.
Lost men can never adequately grasp the true requirements of God's justice against their sin, so they try to whittle back the price of the offering.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
