Don't Die In Your Sins

How many sins did Jesus Christ pay for for you?  Think about it this way: suppose you thought you were really, really good and only sinned three times a day, that would still be over a thousand sins a year.  Now multiply a thousand times your age.  That is still a pretty heavy load. And that’s if you think you’re really good. Do remember, it only takes one sin to sin your soul into death and hell.  All of your unkind thoughts, lustful imaginations, selfish acts, the things you did but shouldn’t do, the things you didn’t do but should’ve done, these are all sins.

Think about it, you can commit three sins just on the way to work:  you’re late, so you speed (uh oh, that’s a trangression); then you see a car go by and you wish you had it more than your own (oops, that’s lust), then someone cuts you off and you curse them in thought or word (that selfishness and impatience).  There is no human way for you to atone (pay God back) for all your sins, because you’ve always sinned, and you will always sin till the day you die.  Let’s face it, on your very best day, you’re only a guilty sinner in God’s sight.  Please don't die in your sins when there is an available way out of your sins through the Blood of Jesus Christ.

But imagine if you had a black and filthy book in your hand that was a complete record of your life. The first page of the book is your birth certificate and last past page is your death certificate.  And all the pages in between are all the sins of your entire life.  In the book there are chapters for each part of your life: My Childhood, My Teenage Years, My 20’s, My 30’s, and so on.  This is the record book of all your bad thoughts, selfish deeds, wicked ideas, and every unkind gesture.  In it is recorded every thought, word, and deed you’ve ever done in private or in public. Included in this book are all the things that you hope nobody ever finds out about, this volume is the entire weight of your iniquity.  If you die with this sinful black book in your hands, it will condemn you at the judgment.

Then imagine that Christ approaches you and in His right hand He holds a snow-white book, and in it is the entire record of His holy, sinless life on earth.  Christ lived a perfectly sinless life to answer the divine justice of God for you.  He died a lonely death to suffer the wrath of God for you, He shed God’s blood for your very sins, He rose from the dead for you, and is living and reigning in glory now.

Christ Jesus looks you in the face and says, “Will you let Me take your sin-filled book in exchange for My sinless book?  I want to take your sins and guilt away forever, and then give you my perfect Righteousness as a Free Gift.  Friend, you will need My Righteousness when you stand before God’s judgment bar in Eternity.  If you will only trust Me, all the deeds in My perfect book will become yours, and all the sinful deeds in your black book will become Mine.  I will freely pay for all your sins with my Blood, and I will appear as a sinner in your place, and you can go to Heaven freely and appear in the sight of God as if you had never sinned, and you will be eternally righteous, because of what I have done for you.  Only trust and rely on what I did for you.”  The choice is yours, trust Christ only now and live forever, give Him your black book (all your sins), and take His white book (absolute perfect righteousness) as a free gift, and you are saved in an instant.

Christ Jesus owned and ruled the entire universe, but He was born in a cattle-shed in Bethlehem-Judah 2,000 years ago.  In the stable that night, it was cold, dark, and damp, they were surrounded by the stench of animals and manure. The inn was overcrowded that night; there was no room for Jesus.  The hearts of men are overcrowded today; there is still no room for Jesus. Jesus’ first crib was a borrowed feed trough.  The animals there that night loaned it to their Creator.  Jesus stooped very low to die for despicable sinners like us.  Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.  He humbled Himself and put on the rags of humanity. He lived a life of abject poverty, submission, subjection, perfect obedience, and selfless love. He was born to be the final sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the whole world. Don't be stupid, avoid the wrath of God, get out of your sins, come to Jesus, hide in Him by Faith. Take your sins seriously: sin will damn your soul if you die in your sins without letting Jesus Christ take your sins away with His Precious Blood.

Christ Jesus, the King of Heaven, left glory and His royal throne on purpose. He was born to die so that sinners could be saved from God’s wrath and have eternal life.  He came from Heaven to earth, so we could go from earth to Heaven. He was born of a Jewish peasant, a virgin named Mary; He was born so low and destitute.  He went from riches to rags, so we could go from rags to riches. He borrowed everything He had through life.  The holy child Jesus was nursed by Mary, and baby Jesus learned to walk and talk just like we did.  God Himself became a poor man.  The Infinite became an infant, The Holy One of Israel became a human, the Most High God became a man, and the Creator became a creature.  Immanuel, God with us, came to this sin-cursed earth to die so we could be with God in Heaven.

The Word was made flesh; the eternal God was confined in time.  (John 1:14) Christ was more than just a baby in a manger that people think about in December, He was fully God and fully man.  Christ is both God and man, and He is only One able to reconcile sinners to God.  Christ represents us as a man and redeems us as God.  (See Matthew 1:18,23; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:31-35; I Timothy 3:16).  The Redeemer had to be a man so He represent man the human race in His sinless obedience to the law of God.  The Messiah has to be a real man so could become the Substitute for the human race through His sinless, atoning blood sacrifice.

Someone had to bear the wrath of God for human sin and rise victoriously from the dead. Jesus Christ was born sinless and lived a sinless life, and then He suffered the death penalty for the whole world through His bloody death, and He came back to life and gloriously resurrected.  Christ was God and He bore the sins of the whole world.  Our sins are against an infinite God and it  would take an infinite amount of time to pay the penalty, so God became a man to bear the weight of your sin against an infinite God.  Only God could pay this infinite penalty - Christ was fully God and fully man.

Christ Jesus came to earth to bear the sins of the whole world, it pleased the Father to bruise Christ, God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all, you sins were placed upon Him, Christ bore in His human body on the Cross your weight of sin.  He was wounded for your transgressions; He bruised for your iniquities.  Eternal Death was the wages due for your sin, and He paid the death penalty that your sins deserved, He bled and died for you personally.  Because Christ is God, He was able to pay the penalty for all your guilt, and then He rose from the dead, and now He offers to you to the forgiveness of sins and eternal freely.  Jesus offers salvation freely only to ungodly sinners, to all hopeless wretches that stop trusting themselves and what they are doing, and trust completely in His penalty-paying sinless, blood sacrifice to save their soul.

Christ came to bleed for your sins and die the death you deserved for sinning against a holy God.  The Lawgiver came to die for the lawbreakers.  For God so loved the world of sinful men that He gave His only Son on Calvary.  He came to bring God’s bleeding love and the new birth to fallen man.  Jesus was born to die on Calvary’s Cross for us vile and rebellious sinners, He born to set sinners free, Jesus was God Himself in human form with God’s blood flowing through His veins. The death of Christ the Lord was for your immortal soul.  It took God’s divine love to save helpless and ungodly sinners like us.

Jesus carried the rugged Cross from Pilate’s judgment hall through the streets of Jerusalem as the cruel mob hooted at Him.  He was brutally nailed to the Cross; the soldiers nailed Him there in your place, so you could be saved by God’s redeeming grace.  There on the dark hill called Calvary, Jesus willingly bled and died for dying sinners. No greater love for mortal man has ever been known. He suffered the wrath of God on the Cross for hours and hours and then at the last, He cried, “It is finished.”  Christ on the Cross was the bleeding God dying in the place of sinful man.

Jesus had satisfied the justice of God and paid your sin debt in full.  Then they took down His broken body from the tree and carried Him away and placed Him in a lonely, stone-cold tomb.  The Jewish and Roman authorities thought they done away with Jesus once and for all.  But three days later, on the most glorious Sunday morning ever, the stone was rolled away and the Lord Jesus Christ arose victoriously over death and hell.  Then forty days later, Jesus ascended into Heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.  Now, Jesus will save all sinners to the uttermost that come unto God through Him.  We deserve to be damned; we have willfully and wickedly offended and sinned against God.  We cannot help save ourselves.  We can only ruin and imprison our souls, but we could never rescue and redeem our souls.

Your sins cannot escape unpunished, so let Christ answer for your sins. Christ Jesus is living right now and is seeking to save you.  Most sinners today either hate Christ or ignore Him, but few trust *Him*. The very wisest thing you can do is seek mercy from Jesus Christ in prayer. “Great God, save me for Jesus' sake, I'm a self-ruined sinner! Save me, forgive me, have mercy upon me!  I renounce all my merits for I have none; I deserve to be lost and damned; but Lord, I trust to your Precious Blood alone, please save me now for Christ’s sake.”