He Saved Us When We Were Dying

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness…1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)

“For the Son of Man came to look for and to save people who are lost.”  Luke 19:10 (CEV)

Props: pieces of broken glass

            How many of you have ever accidentally broken something?  It’s bad enough when you break something at home, but it’s even worse when you break something at a store.  When you break something at a store, someone has to pay for it.  When I was younger, if I broke something at a store, my parents had to pay for it because I didn’t have the money.  It may not seem fair; they didn’t break it.  But someone had to pay for it.  I couldn’t do it, so they did.

The Bible says that all of us have broken God’s laws.  We’ve all done bad things.  When someone does something bad, someone has to pay.  But like little children, we aren’t able to pay for all of the bad things that we’ve done.  The price is much higher than what we have.  So Jesus paid for all of the times that we’ve broken God’s laws and done bad things.  It wasn’t Him who broke the laws, but He knew that we could never pay for what we had done.  Jesus saved us by taking our punishment.  Jesus is our Savior.