In today’s world, one religion is fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month, another is fasting from meats other than seafood on Fridays for 40 days, and another is fasting from all meat and dairy products for seven weeks. More than a billion people trying to curry favor with God with their paltry sacrifices.

But our sins are so bad that the price required to pay for them was the lifeblood of God’s own Son. The message of the cross is both that any sacrifice we make, even if it were every day of the year, would fall infinitely short of enough, and that the sacrifice God, in love, provided for us, is infinitely more than enough to pay the price in full forever.

Follow our ongoing message series from Hebrews 6 through 10 (second half of chapter 9 coming this week) on the davebunnell channel on youtube for faith-building meditation from the scriptures on these topics. Give up self-righteousness and self-sacrifice for lent or ramadan. Receive in full everything Christ bought for you. You will celebrate Jesus more fully than ever before this coming holiday season.