Good morning. For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. I have said several times that everything happened at just the right time; everything had to be in place for Jesus to come. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. We do see today where people give their lives trying to protect others in shooting situations. In a lot of cases, they don’t even know whether the people they are saving are good or bad. But God knew that we were bad. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Thankfully we did not have to get good enough for Him to die for us - we couldn’t. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. This is what I was talking about before: notice that it says we were justified by His blood; not through His resurrection. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. The blood of an animal sprinkled on the mercy seat turned away the wrath of God in the Old Testament times. Even so, the sprinkling of Jesus’ blood saves us from the wrath of God and reconciles us to Him. But much more: because Jesus was raised from the dead and now lives, we shall be saved totally. If He had just died for us and not risen from the dead, we could not live the Christian life. Father thank You that You loved us even before we were born. Thank You that not only did Jesus die for us, He was also raised for us that we might live through Him.

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