Bull’s-eye!

Robin Hood may be able to split an arrow with an arrow but I can’t. Somehow I always seem to miss the mark. And it’s the same way in life for those trying to earn salvation. One definition of sin is simply “to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize) (Vines) The prize is eternal fellowship with The Father on earth and eternally in heaven but the mark is perfection. To qualify we must keep the whole law of God and never break it even with one “little” transgression. The bible says, “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.” (James 2:10) So it's an all or nothing proposition, either keep it all or be guilty of all. Well bummer! The Almighty and Just Judge knows that we did not and can not keep it so that leaves us on the outside of the castle, poor, destitute with no hope of heaven. But thank God He sent Jesus to be our Robin Hood. He came to be our Savior. He perfectly kept the law and won the prize splitting the Old Covenant right down the middle with the New.

Now He shares His riches with us and invites us to come into His kingdom. He did not just come to rob from the rich and give to the poor but “He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. (2 Cor 8:9) He actually became the sacrifice for our “mark missing/sin” not just by shooting an arrow but He was actually split open and bled and died to win the prize of eternal salvation for “whosoever shall call.” He hit the impossible bulls-eye and now He allows His victory of righteousness to be accounted to us for righteousness. He hit the mark but then took the penalty for missing the mark which is eternal death and then and gave us the prize - everlasting life! And not only that but also rose from the dead to rule and reign forever and make sure we get it. To all those who receive Him He gives the right and authority to become children of God. And now we are His children, abiding in the Kings court and He is alive forever and still making intercession for us.

2 Cor 5:21
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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1 Cor 15:3-5
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
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Rom 5:8-11
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
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Heb 7:25
Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
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John 1:12-13
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
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Rom 10:5-13
5 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them." 6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
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Col 1:9-14
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
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1 John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
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John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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