What are the big benefits resulting from what Jesus Christ did when He was here? His name gives clues. Jesus means deliverance. Christ means someone who has an anointed head because he has no need of repentance and has full approval from God to take important office and fulfil a vital work. Because of this, hope is a major benefit from the sacrifice His death on a cross provided. The demolishing of guilt is now possible if you find you can hope for it. The cross death was long known to be payment for sins. This means God needed a sacrifice because of human wrong doings. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross provided this. The subsequent raising of Jesus Christ to life again after that death gives hope because it proves God was satisfied by the sacrifice and accepted it and also because it means God will raise others too, which could be you, and also because it means the work of Jesus Christ can continue - deliverance work. What is the deliverance work? Helping to free hoping believers from ongoing sins and guilt by bringing about a change of status from compulsion to do wrong to freedom to stop doing wrong and start just doing right and keep on like that all through life until purity results. The prospect is therefore very real now of being saintly and adopted by God as a potential permanent son or daughter forever and being made eternal. The hope this can produce in receptive people makes way for growth into loving members of a family of faith along with others like yourself, putting off lying and hating and speaking to eachother truthfully with willingness to admit sin and help eachother get free. To support those who are becoming part of this family God sends the Holy Spirit into their hearts.
