Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Sin is substitution.
Man sets aside his God and crafts for himself another one. That is why when you break the first commandment, you always break the second and no one breaks the second without first having broken the first. Man substitutes himself for God in creating a world to his liking, but because man cannot shake off the compulsion to worship, he also creates a substitute to worship.
Salvation is substitution.
Salvation is substitution.
God sent His Son in the form of a man as a substitute. Jesus took our place in living the life we owed God and in dying the death that our sins had earned. Jesus rose from the grave in our place so that we might also rise to newness of life. This is called penal substitutionary atonement. A penalty (for sin) was placed on someone else (substitution) in order to pay what was owed (atonement).
Man plunged the world into sin and error through substitution.
Man plunged the world into sin and error through substitution.
God restored the world to righteousness through substitution.
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