Elder Brother's letter:

Tomorrow, dressed in your clothes, I will die in your place. And you, dressed in my clothes, will live a righteous and holy life, in my memory, from now on.

Now Younger Brother was so upset that he hardly knew what to do. He thought that just possibly his brother had not yet been executed. He rushed out to see the judge. He showed him the letter and confessed to his crimes, to the killing, and to his cowardice. But the judge told him that his brother had already died in his place. Seeing how the law had been satisfied by such a sacrifice of love, the judge declined to press any further charges against Younger Brother.

Younger Brother was free! But at what a price! How do you suppose his brother's sacrifice affected him? I will tell you:

Younger Brother saw his guilt as never before. He turned to God, and he discovered that God's greater love and power, through Jesus Christ, could deliver him from what he had been and would enable him to live as Elder Brother had lived. His old friends found it difficult to believe that he had become so different. When invited to go with them where he and they had gone before, he said, "In my brother's clothes I cannot go there. He would never go there."

After a life of service to God and man, he was buried as he had requested— in Elder Brother's clothes. Now, Elder Brother and Younger Brother live together again.

That is a great true story, but God wrote a better one. God sent His son to die in your place. Jesus died to give you life— and He lives to live His life in those who trust in Him. Please carefully consider what God says in His Word, the Bible:

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).

"He [God] hath made Him [Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21).

"Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree(cross), that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21).

"If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life" (Romans 5:10).

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23). New life in the risen Christ who died for you! Do you have it, and do you live it?

The End

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For all of you people out there, if you have not accepted Jesus as your Saviour, I hope that you will now because God is yearning for you to have eternal life through him. It is a wonderful thing to know Christ because He has changed my life personally and I can tell you from experience.