FROM THE PASTOR

Would anyone like to travel to the planet Neptune? According to NASA, it’s a 30-year, 2.8 billion mile trip. But Voyager 2 made the trip in only 12 years because it used the gravitational pull of the planet to change its trajectory and speed.

The reason why I’m asking is because on the planet Neptune, the extreme pressure and the atmosphere with high levels of helium and hydrogen cause the planet to rain giant diamonds! It is actually raining diamonds on Neptune even as we speak. Now who wants to go?
But did you know that all the diamonds in all the worlds could not begin to purchase our ransom from sin, transgression, the devil, and death. If God wanted to, He could just harvest all of the diamonds on Neptune and the giant gas planets, but He created them all so what value do diamonds have to Him?

No, there is only one substance, a human substance, that can purchase the ransom of every captive and that is the human blood of Jesus, which He shed on the Cross for our sins. Most often, individuals who were crucified were tied with rope to the Cross. But a greater torture awaited Jesus, Who was nailed to the Cross for our ransom. Isaiah 53 is filled with the idea that the Suffering Servant, Jesus, paid our ransom. In verses 4 & 5 it says, “Therefore, our sicknesses He bore and our pains, He carried them…But He was pierced for our transgression and He was crushed for our iniquities.”

“Abba Father, please give us a clue. Please help us tap into the very depths of what it cost You to send Your Son in order that He would ransom us from our sins. We couldn’t be more grateful. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.”

In Him,

Randy & Pam