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16 “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering,”

 Genesis 22:8

 In this scripture we have the prophecy and promise that God would provide a just recompense for sin. Abraham was instructed to offer his son as a sacrifice, but he already knew that God would do a wonderful work of redemption for Isaac. God had always kept His promises to Abraham and Abraham trusted God completely. It made him the friend of God and because he believed, it was counted as righteous before God.

 God has also provided for us in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world. The second person of the godhead entered this world and lived and died that we might be reconciled to God. God provided this through the covenant He made with Himself before the world was. God knew all that would happen and how we would utterly fail Him, so He purposed a way with Himself that would allow us to be forgiven and made new.

 Jesus became the sin offering for us when He died on the cross and His perfect sacrifice is enough for us. We can know God and be counted as righteous because of what Jesus has done for us. There is nothing more that needs to be done, only that we repent and believe, as Abraham believed, and we will enter into the joy of knowing God and being free from all sin and death. Hell has no more jurisdiction over us for we belong to the Father and none can take us out of His loving hands.

“I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”  

John 10:28