R. C. Sprole is famous for saying sin is cosmic treason. Every person under fallen nature is not only estranged from God, but at war with Him. But thanks be to God, he has made a way for us to be reconciled back to him. Today I'm sharing what an acceptable sacrifice was under the Old Covenant, how Christ atones for our sins, and how to prove faithful in our

devotion to Christ.

Welcome to the Sheproos Faithful Podcast, episode number 180.

Truth and Encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host,

Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Lauren, and I'm so thankful you're here with me today.

I'm really excited to talk about being devoted to Christ and what cosmic treason means,

atonement. We've been looking at atonement in the Old

Testament at my church, so I have a couple things to say about that, and I'm really excited to

share that. But before I get started, I wanted to give a huge thank you to my Patreon supporters

for making this podcast possible. Thank you so much for your gifts and your generosity.

We are just very, very thankful.

So thank you. And before I get into the episode, I want to talk about a life hack.

Now, Easter is coming up, regardless of if you're listening to this right before Easter or

right after or it's October in the future and you're here. This is still a great activity

because we are about to celebrate Easter. Maybe you are doing a devotion right now about

leading up to the crucifixion of Christ and then we are going to celebrate his resurrection.

But have you ever done a study with your kids or you personally, have you

ever done a study or a reading plan about after the resurrection? Because that was so important.

Jesus did a lot of things here on earth after he was resurrected. There were a lot of

eyewitnesses and proofs of his resurrection. And we can study that in God's word.

And so keep Easter learning going. In order to keep it going,

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