This Week
Livestream
Midweek Lent 6
3:30 PM
Palm Sunday
8:00 AM
Reflections on Repentance: Removing Our Guilt
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Guilt means bearing responsibility for wrongdoing. It means we have to answer for what we've done. Guilt brings shame. Guilt brings punishment.
With the sins we have committed we have incurred guilt. We can't escape the fact that we've disobeyed God. We're guilty as charged.
For us to get to heaven, we've got to get rid of our guilt. For us to enjoy peace and joy on earth, we need relief from our guilt.
God has just the solution we need! He transferred our sin onto his only-begotten Son Jesus and declared Jesus guilty for our sin. God hid his face from our guilt and turned his justice upon Jesus. God spilled Jesus' blood as the sacrifice for our sin and blotted out our wickedness.
Because of Jesus, God has declared you "Not guilty!" "There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1).
Dead and Buried: Surrender buries seizure
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​As we begin Holy Week, we see Jesus bury humanity’s endless attempts at seizing power.
In our world, power dynamics are almost always in play. Those who don’t have power want it, often more than anything else. Those who have power are willing to do anything to keep it.
In contrast, Jesus—who possesses all power as the Son of God—willingly surrendered his power and placed himself in the hands of his enemies. Why? Because what he wanted more than anything else was not power.
He wanted you!
So Jesus begins this Holy Week riding into Jerusalem on a donkey colt, knowing full well that he is riding to the cross. He will surrender himself to the punishment that our sins deserve, so that through Spirit-worked faith we can seize the glory and heaven that only he deserves.
