Savior: Jesus Takes Our Place. March 9, 2025

God became human to save us, but what was God saving us from? On this first Sunday of Lent, Pastor Mia takes on that question.God's covenant with the Israelites included rules intended to help the people live their lives with order and decency. The Israelites, however, disobeyed God's commandments by continually worshipping idols and neglecting to keep the Sabbath. Because of the people's failures, the covenent was broken.You'd likely expect punishment for the Isralites when they broke God's covenvent, but punishment wasn't God's remedy. After all, God is love and a loving God wouldn't create people just to send them to hell.When we see Jesus dying on the cross, we see God, because everything God did to save us was about relationships. God wants our freely given love and connection more than anything else. The death and resurrection of Jesus was so saving, because God ultimately paid the price for our sins by becoming human to take our place.