surety

Never cosign for a loan, instead, just give the person the money. That's Dave Ramsey's advice. The borrower is slave to the lender until the debt is paid.

Mankind finds itself in debt to holiness both in the sin were have done and the sin that we are. This causes the Lord God to turn His back on us because in his holiness he cannot behold the result of our sinfulness. We cannot behold Him either, or we should instantly die in our Fallen nature.

The gulf created at the Fall was terminal for man. God continued to reach out to man, made agreements, promises, covenants, gave the Law for direction. But still there was a failure in the system because no one person or action fulfilled man's side of the ritual. There was none righteous, none clean, none who could fulfill the dictates of the sacrifice.

And that is all it would take, just one pure sacrifice.

Millions of animals, from the beginning of life outside Eden, have been sacrificed. Not one of them were truly perfect or sufficient. They were tainted from the beginning of their earthly existence. Likewise human sacrifice is insufficient in most regards because of the sin factor. And without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins. It is impossible that, by the shedding of the blood of bulls and goats, to be made clean from sin. Mankind needed someone to pay our debt, to cosign the warrant demanding our death and separation from a holy God.

This is where the necessity of the cross factors into the plan. God did not string us along giving us tidbits of hope in the sacrifices, the family, the Law, the Judges, the Temple, the kingdoms, the return, or any other supernatural intervention. Those were meant to teach us that mankind is unable to satisfy the demands of a holy covenant made with a holy God. It was always in the plan of the Trinity that there needed to be One of them that needed to fulfill the dictates of the prophecy in Eden "you shall strike his heel, he shall crush your head" (to the serpent). One of the Trinity had to be our bondsman to pay the bail price and hold our presentation to the court. This is the prime meaning of the word "surety". The debt will be paid, if not by the one who incurred the debt then by the surety who will "for sure" pay it out of their own pocket. This was always the hope of the Patriarchs and the prophecies. Oh, who will free me from this burden of sin and the debt that suffocates my thoughts, my goals and my will? Thanks be to God, who in

Jesus paid Our infinite debt in one lump sum - at the cross.

The perfect sacrifice, the high place of mounded dirt, the uncut altar, the blood shed after death and spilt on the altar, the final declaration of resolution and atonement all conform to the dictates of ancient sacrifice.

Jesus

paid

it

all.

Have you signed on with the ultimate bondsman of all time?