{"id":41016,"date":"2026-07-22T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41016"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:17:00","slug":"26-0723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0723\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Takes Away Our Sins"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Denalyn and I had enjoyed a nice dinner at a local restaurant. As we received our bill, a church member spotted us and came over. \u00a0After we chatted a few moments, he took our bill.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll take this,\u201d he said. Guess what?\u00a0 I let him do what he wanted to do.\u00a0 I let him take it away.<\/p>\n

Someday we will stand before God.\u00a0 All of us will be present. All of us will have to give an account for our lives.\u00a0Every thought, every deed, every action.\u00a0 Were it not for the grace of Christ, I would find this to be a very terrifying thought.<\/p>\n

Yet, according to Scripture, Jesus came to \u201ctake away the sins of the world\u201d (John 1:29 Phillips). On that day, I will point to Christ.\u00a0 When my list of sins is produced, I will gesture toward him and say, \u201cHe took it.\u201d Let him take yours.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Denalyn and I had enjoyed a nice dinner at a local restaurant. As we received our bill, a church member spotted us and came over. After we chatted a few moments, he took our bill. \u201cI\u2019ll take this,\u201d he said. Guess what? I let him do what he wanted to do. I let him take it away.<\/p>\n

Someday we will stand before God. All of us will be present. All of us will have to give an account for our lives. Every thought, every deed, every action. Were it not for the grace of Christ, I would find this to be a very terrifying thought.<\/p>\n

Yet, according to Scripture, Jesus came to \u201ctake away the sins of the world\u201d (John 1:29 Phillips). On that day, I will point to Christ. When my list of sins is produced, I will gesture toward him and say, \u201cHe took it.\u201d Let him take yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41019,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41016\/revisions\/41019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}