A WORD THAT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE Here is a word not found in our Bibles, but it stands for a great truth running from Genesis to Revelation. The word is 'substitution'. To substitute is to put a person or object in place of another person or object. In the Bible, we have the story of a sinless Saviour taking the place of a whole race of sinners. He paid the penalty which was really ours. This made it possible for a Holy God to reach out in mercy and save all who would come to Him in faith in the substitute. This precious truth of substitution is found in the Bible right from Eden to Calvary. As we read through the Old Testament we are constantly conscious of a shadow falling across its pages. It is the long shadow of the Cross. It is like the shadow of a light plane keeping up with us as we move along. In the book of Genesis we read about the sinning pair, Adam and Eve. We find they were covered with the skins of innocent animals. What is it telling us? There is a covering for sin when the innocent dies for the guilty. God can then maintain fellowship with the guilty one. When the Holy Spirit records how Abel built an altar and offered an acceptable sacrifice, He is really telling us about the other altar, Calvary. There the Lamb of God died so that even Abel himself might be accepted before God. The same truth is foreshadowed in so many ways in the Old Testament - Abraham's Iamb which replaced Isaac on Mt. Moriah, the Passover Iamb in Egypt, the endless procession of innocent animals on the altar. …They all pointed forward to Calvary, where Christ died in our place. That is substitution. OUR VERSE FOR TODAY: 'The Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me. '(Galatians 2:20) |
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