The Mercy Seat

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<p><br>In Romans 3:25&amp;26 (TPT), the Bible says “Jesus' God-given destiny was to be the sacrifice to take away sins, and now he is our mercy seat because of his death on the cross." Remember that in the Tabernacle you have the mercy seat between two Cherubim. It's on the mercy seat that the blood will be sprinkled. Jesus is actually that mercy seat under the New Covenant. It is to him that we come. Typically, it's like Jesus took his own blood and sprinkled it upon himself, and the wrath of God was satisfied once and forever. The hand of justice has done its bit. We cannot be accused, we cannot be condemned for something that has been paid for. God can be trusted to keep his own side of the bargain. Don't listen to people that are putting any other message trying to put fear in your heart. The purpose of this is for you to draw closer to God. Don't run away from him. When you find yourself in error, come back to your Daddy. As you come back to him, he will clean you up, make you right and set you back on a pathway. Just think about it this way. If your own son makes a mistake, you know mistakes happen in life, right? Are you going to disown your child? Are you going to say, okay, that child of mine, you know what? I'm just going to put cancer on this child so that this child will learn the lesson. You will not do that. No sane parent will ever put sickness or poverty or challenges upon his own child to prove a point. But we think that God would do that. We think we are better than God. We think I'm more righteous and holy than God. I'm more just than God because I won't treat my child that way. But God can treat me that way. No. In John 17:23 the Bible says God loves us the same way he loves Jesus.</p>

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<p><br>Christ paid the price for us so that we can be reckoned as God's children. That's what God wanted. Now, because we are God's children, we should relate to God like his children. We should believe what he has said about us, about what Christ has done for us in the Bible. Let's not second guess it.</p>

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