Today being the 3rd Sunday of the month, we had our afternoon communion service at church. Being that it is a service of remembering Christ and His work on our behalf, it was fascinating to hear the different passages that were read today:
Colossians 2: Describing how Christ saved us from sin.
Isaiah 6: Coming face to face with God in His glory, Isaiah becomes profoundly aware of God's holiness and His own sin. As He acknowledges this, God cleanses him. This points to the need of a Savior to die for our sins, because God cannot be just and simply forgive sins. There must be an atonement for sins.
Hebrews 2: The latter half of the chapter pointing, again, explicitly to Christ's substitutionary death for sins in our place.
Daniel 4: Is Nebuchadnezzar's account of being humbled by God. When God brings him to himself, Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges the sovereignty of God and worships Him.
Finally, Luke 23 describes the actual crucifixion of Jesus. During the course of this chapter, one of the robbers being crucified with Jesus pleads to be remembered, to which Jesus responds: "Today, you will be with me in Paradise".
I was encouraged by the diverse area of passages in Scripture that point either explicitly or implictly to the Gospel and Christ's atonement.
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