makeyourdaycount - Oral Roberts Ministries

We hear lots of big words floating around these days that have tospiritualBUZZwordsdo with Christianity. But what do they really mean? Howcan we apply these concepts to our lives in 2013?Here are a few words that sound familiar, butwhen studied, they reveal a simplemessage of the saving, healing,and delivering work of Jesus.atonementThe righting of a wrong. The forgiving orpardoning of sin through the death of JesusChrist on the cross, which made possible thereconciliation between God and His creation.The saving work that God did through Christto bring the people of the world back intofellowship and right relationship with Himself.Now that we are set right with God by meansof this sacrificial death, the consummate bloodsacrifice, there is no longer a question of beingat odds with God in any way. If, when we wereat our worst, we were put on friendly termswith God by the sacrificial death of his Son,now that we’re at our best, just think of howour lives will expand and deepen by means ofhis resurrection life! (Romans 5:9–10 Message)resurrectionThe concept of a living being coming back tolife after death. The Christian belief that JesusChrist returned to life on the Sunday followingthe Friday on which He was put to death onthe cross. It is the central principle of theChristian faith.Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and thelife. Anyone who believes in me will live, evenafter dying.” (John 11:25 NLT)sacrificeThe offering of food, objects, or the lives ofanimals to a higher purpose or to God. A selflessgood deed done for another that may cause ashort-term loss in return for a greater gain.For Christ didn’t enter the earthly version ofthe Holy Place; he entered the Place Itself,and offered himself to God as the sacrifice forour sins. He doesn’t do this every year as thehigh priests did under the old plan with bloodthat was not their own; if that had been thecase, he would have to sacrifice himselfrepeatedly throughout the course of history.But instead he sacrificed himself once andfor all, summing up all the other sacrifices inthis sacrifice of himself, the final solution ofsin (Hebrew 9:24–26 Message).