God is not mad at you. Not even a little bit. If he's not mad at you, he's not mad at your neighbor. If he's not mad at you, he's not angry at that person that hurt you. God is not even mad at your enemy. You might be, but he isn't.

Why isn't he mad? Because Jesus bore all of God's wrath on the cross. All of it!!

That leaves us in a good place with him. But it also leaves us in an exciting position with the world. We have been reconciled to God through Christ, but many of your friends and family members don't know that yet. So it's good news for people to hear that God is not mad at them. Who can you think of that would benefit from hearing that message?

Even though you are in this world, your spirit is joined to God forever. You were dead in your sin but now you are alive in Christ. This is your true spiritual identity. In this sermon, I walk you through several passages to help you rest in the power of your union with God.

Jesus is praying for you. That’s part of his role as the High Priest over the new and better covenant. At this very moment, he is at the Father's right hand, interceding for you. What do you think he is praying?

We know this, he is not perpetually making offerings and sacrifices for your sin as the priests did under the former covenant. He doesn’t have to because his body and blood were a sufficient one-time offering for all sin. You can rest assured that you are forgiven in Christ.

The author of Hebrews does a masterful job of describing Christ’s role as the High Priest of Heaven. Hebrews is multi-faceted, but one of the major themes is the priesthood of Jesus. Walk with me through the passages in Hebrews that cover this fascinating topic. Hebrews covers a lot of ground, I am going to address the passages related to Christ’s new high priest position.

What happened once Jesus died on the cross? Some say he went straight to the Father. Some say he went into Hades as a conquering king to defeat the devil. But there’s a much more profound truth. Jesus passed into the grave to suffer your death. His faith eventually overcame death, hades, and the enemy as God prepared to rescue him from the pit.

God didn’t unjustly punish Jesus instead of us, something much deeper happened. God performed the opposite transaction in Jesus that he does in us.

In him, we die to sin and are made alive, but when Jesus was made like us, he died as us. He was a man in all ways like we are, yet without sin (Hebrews 4:15), but God changed that on the cross. He made Jesus a sinner by nature. Jesus never sinned, but God made him to be sin. If he didn’t, God would be unjust in punishing our sin in Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

God didn’t symbolically place our sin on Jesus like an Old Covenant lamb. He quite literally made Jesus to BE sin to the core.