Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (03-05AUG18)

Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in
"SO GREAT SALVATION" by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -God's unmerited favor- from their sins and from Hell.

THE AWFULNESS OF SIN

Judge the awfulness of sin by the punishment required to remove it. We know that a just God would never require an unfair payment for sin. His justice would not demand more, nor settle for less, than the price required to remove it. Behold the cross of Calvary. See who is fastened to the cursed tree. It is the Lord's Anointed, the holy, spotless, eternal Son of God. Why does He hang there? Why does He suffer so? Why does He cry out, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Why does He die? It is because He bore the sins of His own people on the cross, and since a holy God demands satisfaction for crimes against Him, Christ must suffer, bleed and die as the Substitute for sinners. "God spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all" (Romans 8:32). Learn the awfulness of sin by the payment required to put it away. "Christ died for our sins" (I Corinthians 15:3). Let me weep over my sin that caused His grief and let me rejoice in Him who bore it for me and whose death removed it from me "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12).


-Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd


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