Friday, February 1, 2013

Avoiding Divine Justice

The Divine Justice of Almighty God causes sinful men to dread Him. Men try to set forth sin as a little thing, and ignore God's divine justice. But God is terrible in His Justice, He abhors sin, He cannot endure it, and He will by no means clear the guilty. The conscience tells every man this. God is bound by the justice and holiness of His nature to punish you for your sin. God, apart from Christ Jesus, is the object of dread to the guilty. At the Cross of Calvary, we can see what God did so His justice could be satisfied, and how His love and mercy can now flow to unworthy sinners. If you will humbly approach God by the Precious Blood of His Son, and cry to God for mercy, you can freely receive the forgiveness of sins. The pardoning love of God can only be found in the wounds of the Lamb of God (John 1:27). God doesn't want your good works (self-righteousness), He wants your bad works (sins). Jesus gave Himself for our sins, not for our goodness. For your sake, Jesus bore your sins in His own body, and suffered the wrath of infinite justice, so you could be freely forgiven.

This is the secret that the Devil and worldly religions desperately try to hide from poor, lost sinners. The main object of Satan is to becloud the Cross and puzzle sinners concerning the Atonement. The word ‘Atonement’ in the Holy Bible means ‘Satisfaction.’ Men and women all over the Earth are searching for something that will satisfy the righteous demands of Almighty God’s Law and Divine Justice. Every unsaved man and woman has apprehensions about death. They sense something terrible is going to take place. Being unsaved, they know something bad is coming, but they don't know exactly what it is. Their conscience warns them; the Holy Spirit tries to convince them.

What's coming is Divine Justice and the Wrath of God. This is why all men fear death – their conscience is troubled, and they fear the coming Judgment of God on their sins (Romans 2:5; II Peter 2:9; 3:7; Jude 1:15). But only one thing can *satisfy* God's Divine Justice - the Blood Atonement of His Son – the Lord Jesus Christ. There is merit enough in what Jesus suffered to put away all your sins (past-present-future). Jesus died in the sinner's place as a full vindication of Divine Justice, and on His Atonement you can fix all your trust. If you try to mix anything from yourself with Christ's Atonement, you will damn your soul. Your soul is completely covered with sin, it must be cleansed by the Blood of Jesus Christ (I John 1:7).

God was manifest in the flesh - He that made the heavens became a Jewish peasant; His name was Jesus of Nazareth. God incarnated Himself and suffered in the place of sinful men, so that the Divine Justice of God might be fully satisfied, and so that any sinner could find richmercythrough the Savior's Blood. The Bible says, “we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the Atonement” (Romans 5:11). The only way a sinner can joy in God and be satisfied is to ‘receive’ the Atonement as a free gift. Many roads lead to Hell, but Jesus’ Precious Blood is the only way to Heaven.

Nothing you can do could ever *satisfy* God's Divine Justice, only Christ's Finished Work can do that. Your finite efforts can never satisfy God's infinite justice. God accepteth no man's person. God will only accept what Christ accomplished for sinners. God is only "well pleased" with Jesus' obedience and suffering. Only the Holy Ghost can break down a sinner and help him understand his dangerous sinful state and the divine justice he is facing in his sins, and then to forsake his own righteousness, and to seek shelter under the finished atoning work of Jesus Christ.

God is absolutely holy, pure and good and He is angry with unregenerate sinners daily because of their sinful nature. God hates all evil, all immorality, injustice, and wrongdoing - all sin of every kind. God hates sin because He is infinitely pure and just. The LORD is thrice-holy, He cannot endure sin at all. God is a consuming fire, and the matchless purity of His nature burns against everything that is unrighteous. A pure, just and holy God must hate and punish sin. Man because of sin is unholy, depraved, and unrighteous, and he provokes God’s anger daily with his willful and deliberate sinning.

A sinner will not seek an Atonement for his sin until the Holy Spirit through Divine Grace makes him conscious of the facts that he is truly an enemy of God, unable to help himself, and is under the wrath of God. God’s anger will only be appeased when the rebel sinner meets God where God’s own Blood was shed. Jesus stepped in between the avenging justice of God and the guilty sinner, and the sinner is spared. God’s Blood was shed on the cross of Calvary by Jesus Christ and the Blood Atonement is the only way to restore the spiritual relationship between God and a sinner. Your Sins have disturbed your relationship with God, and only God’s Blood can restore it. You must rest and repose your entire confidence upon Christ’s Precious Blood. Jesus paid the dreadful debt and answered all the demands due to Divine Justice for you.

The Bottom Line: You need the Blood Atonement, because you are guilty and facing God's Divine Justice and Eternal Wrath. Death is certain for you, there is no escape (Hebrews 9:27). There is a quarrel and conflict between God and you. You sin and break God’s Law many times daily just in your thought life. You have an unrighteous and wicked opposition to God because His word and ways – God’s Laws – are too pure, too just, and too holy for you. You have lied, stolen, cheated, rejected Christ, lusted, and cursed. Your guilty conscience condemns you.

The wrath of God abides on you now. But Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners just like you. Jesus lived a sinless life in perfect obedience to God’s Law. He knew you couldn’t live the law perfectly, so He did it for you. Then, Jesus died for your sins on the cross. He endured the divine vengeance and justice of God that was due to your sins. He *satisfied* the demands of the Law and Divine Justice of God by suffering the wrath of God in your place, and then He rose from the dead the third day. You must simply put your trust in what *JESUS DID FOR YOU*, and stop trusting in yourself or your religion. Jesus gave Himself 'for you'. You can beat-one with God today.

Your good works are absolutely no good. The very best you can do will land you in hell. Your sin or your religion is not worth going to hell over. Flee the wrath of God to come on sin. God is ready to pardon you today if you will meet Him at the Cross. Just look unto Jesus, only His Precious Blood (The Atonement) can wash your sins away. Don’t try to save yourself. Ask Jesus to personally save you by His grace today. Jesus only saves lost sinners that realize they are hopeless and hell-bound. Christ Jesus invites you to "Come" to Him today.

You must freely Receive Christ’s Precious Blood Atonement. You cannot buy it, make it, earn it, complete it, or add anything to it, you must receive it. “It is finished.” Jesus Christ gave Himself for your sins, not your goodness. Christ died for the ungodly, not for good people. Bad people don’t go to hell, and good people don’t go to heaven. Self-righteous Christ rejecters go to Hell, and ungodly sinners that look to Jesus Christ alone for their Atonement go to Heaven. You cannot make ‘Atonement’ for your sins by your own goodness, merits, morality, or religious efforts. Life is short, death is sure, sin the curse, Christ the cure. Choose Christ, not sin. Take Him, not self. Receive Him into your heart.

Come to Jesus sinner, you that are laboring and heavy laden. Leave your religious labors. Leave your self-reliant efforts. Your offenses have really provoked God to wrath, and He is very angry with you every day. Leave your sins behind. Leave your presumptions and guesses. Leave your superstition and religious nonsense. Leave all in which up to now you have trusted, and come on to Jesus! Don't look back; come to the Cross as a lost sinner. Rely solely upon the Savior. Look unto Him and His Precious Blood to cleanse your heart from sin. Come to Him who bore the load of your past, present, and future sins upon the Cross of Calvary, where He was made to be Sin for you. Come to Jesus, God's divinely appointed Substitute and Sacrifice for guilty sinners like you. Trust in Him as having suffered in your place. Look to Him for the full payment of your sin debt which is due from you to the wrath of God. This is the only way to *satisfy* God – the only way. No wrath from God remains for the sinner who trusts in the Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ. Jesus has risen from the dead and is alive right now.

Salvation is contained in one word: "Come!" Repentance takes place when you leave the place where you now stand. As a lost sinner you are standing underneath a spiritual ton of bricks called sin and the wrath of God. Come to the cross, kneel there as an empty sinner and be saved. Faith comes when you put your trust and reliance upon the Lord Jesus Christ as your Blood Sacrifice (The Atonement) for sin. Come now - not tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Your delay will only make your sin burden heavier and more dangerous. Flee to the cross now, fall down flat at Jesus feet, and let Him lift off your sin load. Weary sinner, rest and recline upon His promise now, and let your soul rest in Him. Come now! By an instantaneous act of faith you will obtain instantaneous grace and peace. Come and rely upon Jesus, and He will give you rest. Here's a thought - Little children are blind to the danger of a hot stove, and lost men are blind to the danger of Hell Fire. We are so quick to warn little children that the stove will burn their *flesh* here in time, but we are so slow to warn the lost sinner that Hell Fire will burn their *soul* in Eternity.

Complete Satisfaction will immediately follow your unfeigned faith in the Blood of the Crucified God. Leave off doubting Christ, begin to believe in HIM at once. Don't dare try to bring your works before God, own up to your thousands upon thousands of sins, which all accuse you before God. Loathe the very thought of self-righteousness, for the only thing a sinner can merit is eternal damnation. Believe Christ Jesus to be God in the flesh; trust Him because He suffered in your place; believe that Divine Justice is satisfied by the bloody death of Christ; rely upon that Satisfaction which Christ has rendered to God on your behalf. Trust Him now with the burden of all your sin. Remember now - the only thing that can *satisfy* God's Divine Justice is Christ Jesus Himself - His Blood and Righteousness. Trust to Him on the spot, and your sins are gone forever.