For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit 1 Peter 3:18

I won’t keep you long this morning, just a few words. Did you know that Jesus is dying to save you? Maybe upon first reading of that statement you thought I had the tense wrong, as in He died to save us. That is indeed true but follow my train of thought for a moment this morning.

According to my research, to be dying to do something, or for something, is to be eager to do or to have it. For example, ‘the young man was dying to receive his first wage packet’ meaning he was eager to have some of his own money rather than he received his first wage packet on his death bed! The phrase then is a hyperbole, which is ‘an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”’

However, the reality is that every time we ignore the voice of the Holy Spirit and knowingly sin, are we not just doing that, as in crucifying him again?

Food for thought.