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   Satan is the one who tried to prevent Christ from being killed:   
      
         “From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go   
          to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief   
          priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be   
          raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him,   
          saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to   
          you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!   
          You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on   
          the things of God, but on the things of man.”” (Matthew   
          16:21–23, ESV)   
      
   That's because Christ's death is the only means by which men's sins can   
   be atoned for.   
      
         “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you   
          may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with   
          the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation   
          for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the   
          whole world.” (1 John 2:1–2, ESV)   
      
         “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are   
          justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is   
          in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his   
          blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s   
          righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed   
          over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the   
          present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the   
          one who has faith in Jesus.” (Romans 3:23–26, ESV)   
      
   Romans 6 confirms that it is those who are baptized into Christ's death   
   and resurrection through faith, who are freed from the power of sin.   
   Since your own death does NOT atone for your sins, anyone who rejects   
   Christ's atonement for their sins will leave a just God with no   
   alternative but to impose the justice of eternal, conscious damnation in   
   the lake of fire.   
      
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   Have you heard the good news Christ died for our sins (†), and God   
   raised Him from the dead?   
      
   That Christ died for our sins shows we're sinners who deserve the death   
   penalty. That God raised Him from the dead shows Christ's death   
   satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin (Romans 3:25; 1 John   
   2:1-2). This means God can now remain just, while forgiving you of your   
   sins, and saving you from eternal damnation.   
      
   On the basis of Christ's death and resurrection for our sins, call on   
   the name of the Lord to save you: "For 'everyone who calls on the name   
   of the Lord will be saved'" (Romans 10:13, ESV).   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)