Main Idea: Jesus took our place of punishment. 
Verse: “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). 
Illustration: One time there were two brothers. One brother murdered a man and came home with blood all over his clothes. The
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 21, 2009
                
                
                
                    NO SUBSTITUTIONS
We had been living in New Jersey for about three weeks and were wanting to try out different things to get the "East Coast" experience. We both grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and honestly, New Jersey was a complete mystery to us. Some friends recommended that we eat at a
                    
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                    Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
                
                
                
                    Here in the South, there are memorials in most towns to the bloodiest war fought on American soil – the Civil War.  Over 600,000 died in that conflict.  What is often not known is that both the North and the South allowed “substitute soldiers.”  A man drafted for military service could literally
                    
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                    Contributed by Ian Johnson on Dec 15, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is no substitute or shortcut to gain the measure of God you desire in your life. Time before God in His presence releases the store house of heaven that is full of blessings and opens the flood gate of revelation you desire! Intimacy with the living God is the hall mark of every great man or
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 15, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Labor is no substitute for love; neither is purity a substitute for passion.  The church must have both if
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Business destroys relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family. It cultivates a program that plows under priorities. Many a church boasts about its active program: "Something for every night
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A substitute kindergarten teacher at Forest Hills Elementary School in Coral Springs, Fla., is under fire after telling her class that there is no Santa Claus. By the time parent Melissa Shea complained to assistant principal Lisa George, Fabiola Mehu-Pelissier had already been spoken to, with
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don’t hedge! Time flies!  Cease your insults to God,
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 15, 2010
                
                
                
                    Physical death will continue until the Lord returns and takes us home to heaven.  However, the sting has been taken out of death.  A boy and his father were driving down a country road on a beautiful spring afternoon, when a bumblebee flew in the car window.  The little boy, who was allergic to bee
                    
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                    **Christ is **
Alive
He is our God
We should worship him
He should be our icon
He should be the one we weep for not man
We should buy his book
Listen to his music
Come from far and wide to worship him
We need to praise God not man
The way of life not death
With us in spirit and truth
 
Christ love
                    
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