TRADE BY BARTER

John 3:14-18

“For God so love the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. (Verse 16)

I created a story of about a man name Adio and his uncle Aremo who lived a reckless live from his early days and at mid age he could not live up to expectation and had to join a group of gang stars who lived on extortion, but as time went by their extortion could not sustain their life style of riotous living, so they went into stealing from stealing to robbery but while Adio was involved in all these his uncle kept encouraging him how he can make something meaningful out of his live but he would not listen to advice. One afternoon Aremo called Adio and told him he will give him half of his estate but they must go into contract, Adio jumped at the offer but was disappointed at the terms of his uncle which was “drop your riotous life and be like me”. Adio left in anger but kept pondering on the wealth he walked out on. Three days later he walked up to his uncle Aremo and told him he was ready to abide by the terms with the aim of conning his uncle, but his uncle took him through series of tests and training that changed his life and three years later his uncle gave him the whole estate when he sincerely dropped his bad habit. But to his greatest surprise his uncle told him the wealth belongs to Adio while he is only a care taker of the wealth.

       At creation God’s plan for man was to live and praise God and ultimately rein for eternity, but sin caused man’s eternity to be to be limited years (Job 14:1a), and without  the shedding of blood there can’t be remission of sin. From the third chapter of Genesis God’s plan and purpose for man was altered by sin, so man had to shed blood of animals for his sins. The law of sin states “the soul that sin shall die” but a meeting was held in heaven to nullify this law and the only way to achieve this is to pay the price of man’s sin by a sacrificial ransom and the son of God volunteered himself for the pain no mortal and heavenly being was willing to pay.

    The death of Jesus Christ paid all the debt owed due to sin, thereby setting aside the law of sin and its rein on man. The most precious blood was shed as an atonement for mans to be at peace with God, for man to be free from sin there must be an exchange with something of greater value which was the death of Jesus as the ransom for man’s soul and freedom. Friends no matter how deep you have gotten yourself into sin, thinking there is no way out, I have good news for you according to the 17th verse of our text “For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him”.

Call the Lord today and confess your sins ask him to forgive you your entire misdeed and renounce any cultism you might have been involved in. He is a true father that loves the return of his children

PRAYER:  Thank you Lord for giving your only son for my ransom, I appreciate your gift of salvation (AMEN).