Jesus Died So That All of Us Can Live

"Some of us have to die so the rest of us can live."

This phrase gets bandied about in AA meetings.

Suicide is all too common in the meeting rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, along with a lot of lies which suggest that the program works, this "simple" program, if you work it.

BS!

"Blamethenile" set up a series of videos about the dangers of this evil cult, and he shared that the above comment is one of the most offensive statements he heard in the meetings following a suicide, even though yes indeed all the comments are patently offensive.

Now I want to share the blessed truth and wisdom of something so much better.

No one on this earth has to do die so that we can live.

Someone already died, so that not only we can live, but we can reign in life:

Jesus!

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" (1 Peter 3: 18)

and

"8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6: 8-11)

The fact that people die in AA meetings proves well enough that the program is anything but a death-march, sometimes very slow, and sometimes so fast that the high suicide rate cannot be ignored.

Jesus died, becoming sin itself, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

When He died on the Cross, He died for our sins, and also for the sin in our flesh, too.

Even when we feel sinful emotions or tendencies, we do not have to do anything about them, for they have all been condemned. All!

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1: 7)

The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin -- present tense, people! His death gave way for His blood to be shed and cleanse us at all times. Nothing better can top that!

Jesus died so that we can all live! He lives, and we live too, through Him!