How can a just God forgive sin?
How
can the Lord God be merciful and gracious, forgiving iniquity and
sin, yet by no means clear the guilty? He can only forgive sin by
punishing the guilty to the full satisfaction of His holy justice in
a perfect Substitute! God will punish your sin, either by your
everlasting torment in Hell, or by His Son's substitutionary
sacrifice in your place on the cursed tree. The Lord Jesus Christ
satisfied God's wrath against the sins of His people.
All
men outside of Christ must suffer forever in Hell, because finite men
can never satisfy an Infinite God. What a sobering thought! God is
absolutely holy. We are absolutely sinful and obnoxious to Him. We
must have a Mediator between the Holy Lord God and sinners like us.
He must plead our cause, and be heard and accepted upon the grounds
of justice satisfied. Thank God, there is ONE who pleads the merits
of His shed blood, who takes sinners and washes them clean, as white
as snow!
-Gospel report by preacher Eric Richards
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