The visible creation and the inner consciousness of man sufficiently declare that there is a Creator God, and that He is just, and that God was in Christ. How can I get out of this deadly dilemma called Sin? Man will believe in a god who is giving, but they cannot believe a God who takes away. Sin is lifting up your heel against your kindly heavenly Helper - this is base ingratitude, high treason, causeless hate, spite against holiness, a pretense that is filthy and unclean. Why do you treat so gracious a God in such a disgraceful manner? Your sins have offended God's majesty and grieved His holiness. Only the Blood of God's Son can redeem you from the avenging justice of God.
The lost man is only waiting to die and face Judgment, fiery indignation, and the Lake of Fire; the saved and forgiven man is waiting to see Jesus and enter into Glory. Jesus Christ bore our sins in His own body on the tree, and by the merit of His bloody death, He has forever rendered compensation to the injured honor of God's divine justice. Christ Jesus died and paid to the Law all that divine justice could ever demand. Think of that truth! Through the Blood of Jesus, I am redeemed from sin, death, hell, and all the claims of unbending justice. If you are a Christ rejector, you are this day in extreme danger. On account of your ill treatment of God, and your remaining an enemy to Him, God will surely visit you in justice and punish you for your transgressions.
God is a just God, and every sin you've committed is noted in His book. You will receive the just reward of your sins if you die in your natural state with being born again. Immediate pardon is available now for all your sins if you will simply believe in Jesus. The Lord Jesus took upon Himself my sins and suffered the penalty due to my sins. Don't refuse this great Salvation so dearly purchased and so freely offered to you today. My sins were laid upon Jesus Christ, He bore them for me, and the penalty due to me on account of my sins, has been endured by Jesus Christ my Substitute, and now the divine justice of God has no anger toward me. The High Priest offered a perfect Sacrifice to make full Atonement and vindicate eternal justice. Willful wrong, wanton sin, foul rebellion, and ingratitude must be punished. I was lost and utterly undone before the eternal bar of divine justice, but full recompense has been made to divine justice for me by the Lamb of God. Have simple faith in the Atonement.
Jesus Christ offered such a great Atonement, that God can be Just, and yet the Justifier of him that believeth. God can now have mercy upon the vilest, and justify the ungodly, and accept the worst of sinners through His dear Son. The Atonement made by the personal sacrifice of Jesus is infinitely precious. Flee to the Atonement, cling and cleave to the Cross of Christ by faith - this is your safety. Jesus' bloody death was penal, inflicted upon Him by divine justice for my sake. God laid on Jesus our sins and the suffering due to them. Pure holiness and unswerving justice must be answered. Jesus' suffering made full recompense to the justice of God for me. The avenging justice of God spent itself on the Lamb of God. Make Jesus' atoning blood your trust and confidence. Justice is only satisfied through the atoning blood. Mercy and justice, love and holiness, grace and truth, tenderness and power was displayed at the Cross. My sins were laid upon Jesus and the divine vengeance which was due on account of my sins.
The breach of God's law was caused by man, and by man it must be repaired, so God became a man. Man has transgressed, and man must be punished. So the matchless man stepped in and suffered what was due to me. Jesus made full amends to God's injured justice, and His sufferings set me free. Glory be unto His blessed holy name! Jesus satisfied the Father's infinite vengeance. Terrors of justice, threats of vengeance and drawing cords of love are found in the Gospel. You must cower down beneath the blood-red Propitiation.
Idolaters are devoted followers of a deity of their own making. They fashion their god out of their own thoughts, delusions and misconceptions. They believe in a god such as they 'think' God ought to be according to them. The god that men invent for themselves nowadays is a strange being entirely devoid of justice. They say the God of the Bible is too vindictive, because He severely punishes rebellion against His law, because He will not suffer His law to be trampled upon with impunity, and will by no means spare the guilty. The God of the Bible executes vengeance, and terrible rewards to the proud doers. The true and living God of the Holy Bible cannot be endured by modern religiosity. Men want a deity far less stringent, a god like unto themselves who cares nothing about the evil of sin, and that will allow some sinners to go unpunished. A god who does their bidding, that doesn't send people to Hell, a god that gives them liberty to think and do as they like, and treat His words as a piece of clothe they can trim according to their own liking. The god of modern thought is not the God of the Bible.
The true God is the God who is revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and He has manifested Himself in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Men try to save themselves, and pull down God off His throne down to their standard. Every man is a self-saver, he lowers God in some manner. He imagines that God will accept something short of perfection. Each man has a different standard, but God has one Standard - the Lord Jesus Christ. The man who is saved by the grace of God says, "My God is infinitely just and nothing will content Him but a perfect Righteousness from the Lord Jesus Christ." As the moral Lawgiver, God will not put away sin till He has laid punishment upon the Innocent One, JESUS, who stood in the sinner's place. God is so loving that He gave His Son; He is so Just that He slew His Son on my behalf.
