In April this year, on Good Friday, I was at St. Thomas Mount Marthoma Church. Okay, I know this blog should have been made 4 months back. But for some reason it was left as an ofline draft.
We had a nice sermon on what is the importance of the death of Jesus on the cross and how sin came in to this world. It was well said by the preacher with the below 2 stories.
Why sin came into this world?
A boy was advised by his father not to take the road to the market that crosses through a river side. But he disobeyed and took this road which was a short cut. On his way he fell into the river and began to cry for help. His father heard it, jumped into the river and saved him.
The father had advised him not to use that road, but the son disobeyed. Out of his (father's) sheer love for his son, he still went ahead risking his life and saved his son. This is the same case with Adam and Eve. God asked them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of life but they disobeyed God and sinned. God being merciful did not destroy them, but sin came into the world. God gave humanity a way out of it. Believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Now why did Jesus have to die on the cross? Why did'nt God just forgive?
God could have. But sin is not so trivial to be just forgiven. God is merciful but even more, righteous. Sin must be punished. To prevent us humans from being punished, he sent HIS only begotten son Jesus Christ into the world. Jesus died on the cross and rose again from the dead so that whoever believes in HIM will be saved and will have eternal life. That is the significance of the Crucifixion of Christ.
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