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
then 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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