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Jesus Saves YOU!

Colossians 1:21&22
"21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled
22 In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight:"

But, Wait! There's more!
Not only was Jesus BOTH the priest and the sacrifice!  "the LAMB of GOD, which taketh AWAY the SIN of the WORLD." as John the Baptizer introduced  Him, also Jesus preformed reconciliation. We all fall away from God's teaching and we insist on doing our own thing. Which is sin. This is a deep disagreement between God and all people. This disagreement the Son settled once and for all on the cross. The Lamb of God, the priceless sacrifice. And, as Paul points out in the verse not merely all humanity, but “all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven.” This is, indeed, only a fuller exposition of the truth that God was in Christ reconciling the world, or as the Greeks would express it; the KOSMOS! That's everything!!

And, we can deceive ourselves and trick our heart and mind to think that Jesus did not save me. But, you would be wrong, today's verses; "And YOU, that were sometime ALIENATED and ENEMIES in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled In the body of His flesh through death, to present YOU holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight:" That's YOU that think God didn't mean to save you. That's YOU that think you messed up too many times for GOD to still care. That's YOU that thinks you can never be good enough for God. That's YOU that GOD wants to save... YOU. Look in the mirror, God died on the cross for YOU.
I know it's unbelievable, but it's TRUE! 
JESUS SAVES YOU.

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