Personal Atonement

 "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."

GALATIANS 6:14

To follow Christ Jesus with passion all you seek with him will be made new. In being made new in baptism and the Holy Spirit - the old you is wasted away. Your old you remains in your mind but becomes insignificant - boring - and it fades. This is the act of atonement within yourself.

You must let the old you die and become new in Christ. This is the atonement Jesus made for us - Crucified on the cross - giving his life and spirit freely to his father in triumph. We too must freely give death to our old selves and be made eternal in Christ Jesus.

Jesus became sin to set you free from sin. Jesus is the gift. There is no freedom from sin or a way to avoid temptation for which leads to death without Christ. He is the way. The Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ provides knowledge of sin for which you otherwise would have no thought. It is his Spirit that provides both wisdom and power for life and choice.

It is the death of Christ that allows you to have life. For he came to end sin and save mankind and show that he was God in rising from the tomb. The grave did not hold the spirit of life that lives forever and ever. Jesus freely gives his Holy Spirit for you to have life in his name.