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This is Kevin D. Young, and I'm reading this article that just came out.

I wrote on the World Opinions page. Be sure to check world opinions for articles that I write about every other week and a lot of other good stuff there as well. This is a piece, especially for this Holy Week, entitled The Story of Us All. We are sinners in need of a Savior.

The story of Holy Week reminds us of the story of us all. We are sinners in need of a Savior. The story of Holy Week reminds us of the story of the world. And as the passion of Christ tells the story of the world, it reminds us of our story as well.

We are sinners in need of a Savior. Not theoretical sinners, not nobody's perfect sinners, not we all make mistakes,

sinners, real sinners, inside and out, dead in our sins and trespasses, desperately sick,

enslaved by passions and pleasures, being hated and hating one another, that kind of sinner.

In need of a real Savior, not a myth or a metaphor, not a better version of ourselves,

not a hero of our own making, we need a man like us, and we need a God utterly unlike us.

We need a genuinely historical person who transcends history.

An eternal son born in the fullness of time, a dying sacrifice who does not stay dead.

That's the story of Holy Week. That's the story of the world. That's our story, yours and mine. At bottom, the gospel is a simple story, which is why so many simply reject it.

We like the hope and joy of the resurrection, but before we get there, we have to look squarely at the betrayal, the denial, the abandonment, the jealousy, the hatred, the jeering, and the

unbelief that culminated in the crucifixion of Jesus, the Christ.

Behind the veil of our self-aggrandizement and our self-regard, we are sinners, capable of

inventing a thousand academic ideas and a million personal excuses,

so as not to admit we are sinners in need of a Savior.

Ye who think of sin but lightly, nor suppose the evil great, here may view its nature rightly,

here its guilt may estimate, mark the sacrifice appointed, see who bears the awful load.

Tis the word, the Lord's anointed, son of man and son of God.

If we want to make much of the cross, we must never make light of our sin.

You may proudly wave the rainbow flag.

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