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.
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
Comments