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    Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-4 NASB
    The core of our Christian faith is this: That Jesus Christ, Son of God and equal part of the God head, became a human man, lived a perfect life according to the law passed down by God as a judgment of our rebellion of sin, died on the cross to forever cast away those sins from us, and rose again that we might have eternal life before our God in Heaven.
    Why is such an emphatic statement so important? Few doubt that there were Hebrew priests, who for thousands of years offered sacrifices in tabernacles and temples. Most do not doubt that this Jesus walked the earth as a man. Yet, most do doubt that this same Jesus was God and our brother, sent to us for the redemption we could never achieve on our own. Because of this doubt, most are lost from the Grace of Salvation freely awaiting their stubborn hearts.
    There is no doubt that ours is a strange teaching, yet there equally can be no doubt that this teaching is one of truth, testified to by ages of men before Christ came and ages of men since Christ has come. Our strange teaching is the teaching of truth, which always sounds wrong to our sinful ears. It is the teaching of redemption freely bought by the sacrifice of another that requires nothing on our part to achieve.
    Therefore, the priesthood of Jesus is indeed the perfect priesthood, because His sacrifice was once for all sins. In Jesus we have perfect redemption and the promise of a future glory. What works can achieve that grace? Who promises us eternity because of what we do? No one, for it is by grace that we have been saved through faith. In this faith we have placed our hope, and this is a hope that will not disappoint us.
DLH
