will you let him in?

We believe that the Atonement was a necessary sacrifice performed by Jesus Christ. During the Atonement, Christ took upon himself all of our sins so that we could return to our loving Heavenly Father one day, because none of us are perfect. In the New Testament, Acts 13:39 it reads “And by him all that believe are justified from all things...” This scripture can more easily pertain to us if we compare the Atonement that Christ suffered to any type of trial. The defendant’s attorney walks up to the jury, audience, witnesses, plaintiff, and judge and claims that the crime in which the defendant is being found guilty of has already been justified, meaning that the law has already been satisfied. The penalty for the crime has already been paid, by the attorney, so the defendant no longer has to pay the price for their own crime or crimes. In this analogy, we are the defendant. We are the ones being accused of sinning while Satan is the Plaintiff who is bringing all of us to trail against all of the sins we have committed. Christ plays the role of not only our attorney and mediator, but the witnesses, the judge, the jury, etc. Through the Atonement Christ paid for all of our sins and although we are guilty of committing many sins, he has already served our sentence for us so we don’t have to go through that pain. We just have to be willing to come unto Christ and believe. Let him be our lawyer because we can’t defend ourselves  against the law on our own. We need Christ and we need his Atonement. I believe in the Atonement of Christ, it is real and he personally paid for the price of my sins as well as everyone's inhabiting the earth. He is begging all of us to let him defend us against the forces of evil.