The Connection A Magazine by Connect Global - May 2022 - Issue 4

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Very often we think that things are NOISSIMBUS RENTRAP

going to turn out as we thought or as we planned, but suddenly we realize that God has intervened in

Carried Our Guilt

the course of our lives, and he has

By Pastor Nahun Flores

done so because he wants to perfect us, he wants to show us

In the book of Isaiah in chapter 53 and verses

that adversity is part of our

5 and 6 it says: "But he was wounded for our

formation, God wants to forge our

transgressions, crushed for our sins. For giving

character to take us to the

us peace punishment fell on him, and by his

measure of the stature of his

stripes we are healed. All of us Like sheep we

beloved son Jesus.

have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him the

Our Lord Jesus has left us his most valuable legacy,

iniquity of us all."

he himself was perfected through harsh trials, and has given us to understand that the brief tribulation

The Word of God affirms in the context prior

that we go through on this earth is nothing

to these verses that on that day all those who

compared to the eternal weight of glory that awaits

were kings of the earth will close their mouths

us in His presence.

in amazement, since they will see for themselves what was never told to them and

The story narrated by the prophet Isaiah apparently

understand what they had never heard. But,

begins in a tragic way, what's more, it says that the

what will they see and what will they

holy face of Jesus was disfigured by so much so that

understand...? They will see and understand

the people of his time thought and affirmed that

that Jesus Christ the son of the Almighty God

God himself had forsaken him. As the Prophet says:

stripped himself of his glory, became a servant

he was wounded for our rebellions, he was crushed

and came to this world of perverse people to

for our sins, the punishment of our peace was upon

serve because we preferred to be served, to

him, and by those wounds that he had to endure, all

teach us humility because we lack it, he came

of us have been healed, he has borne our sins on

to teach us the correct way to us closer to God

himself before a holy and pure God, he has paid the

because we were astray, he came to save everything that had been lost and above all he came to teach us that in this life it does not matter what we are or what we have, our personal achievements do not matter if they are not aligned with the purpose and the God's plans for our lives, because here in our earthly dwelling what matters most and what should challenge us the most, is to be under the perfect will of the Lord, Jesus said in the book of John: "Because I have not come to make my own will but the will of the Father who sent me, but in order to learn to do the will of the Father it is necessary that we die, it is necessary to die to all our desires, dreams and ambitions, knowing that we will change them. The Father's gods are higher than our paths and that his thoughts are more sublime than ours.

price for us to be free from all curses, free from all guilt and eternal damnation.

At the end we read that everything that Jesus had to endure was worth it, we see today that he defeated death and that his victory is ours, and not only that but that he has been given all authority in heaven and on earth. land and that will distribute the spoils of their enemies and they will see the one they pierced and all will be silent, because they will see what was never told them, and they will understand what they had never heard. Jesus took our faults upon himself and that is why we are now free for eternity.


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