Get It Settled

Unpaid bills, credit card debt, overdue taxes, and rising interest rates can sometimes worry us to death.  Some think by ignoring their bills, they will just go away.  But, we must settle up with our debtors, or they will haunt us through our credit ratings.  But a guilty conscience and the fear of dying troubles the heart of man worse than anything until his sin debt is settled with God.  Your sin debt cannot be ignored.

Every time we sin (lies, thefts, gossip, lusts, cursing, laziness, fornication, dishonoring of our parents) we create a debt with God we cannot pay.  Lustful thoughts lead to sinful acts.  Envy leads to strife and hatred.  Sin begins in your thoughts, and then spreads to your eyes, ears, tongue, hands, and feet.  The Bible says, “the wages of sin is death.”  Sin brings death to our souls and our human bodies.  We cannot escape death – it is inevitable.  Everybody is guilty of sin, there are no exceptions.  Are you a bonafide sinner?

You may have some ‘good works’ to boast of, but they can ‘never’ take away your sins.  The Bible says our righteousnesses (good works) are as filthy rags. (Isaiah 64:6)  You cannot work your way to God's Heaven.  Jesus didn’t die for good people that are self-righteous; He died for His enemies.  It great Love to save a great sinner like you. *Ephesians 2:4*  Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.  Your sin and rejection of Christ has stirred up God’s wrath toward you.  If you’ve never trusted Christ alone to pay your full sin debt, the wrath of God now abides on you. (See John 3:36, Romans 2:5)

God provided a Perfect Substitute to pay for your sins freely.  Christ died for the ungodly.  God became a Jewish man 2,000 years ago, and suffered the punishment and penalty due to your sins - the Just for the unjust.  God knew you couldn’t pay your sin debt, and that you couldn’t live the sinless life He requires for you to enter Heaven.   So God sent His only begotten Son to live a sinless life, start to finish (perfect Righteousness), suffer, bleed and die in your place (perfect Atonement), and then rise again the third day from the dead (perfect Justification).

The Blood of God ran through Jesus’ heart and veins; He loved you and gave Himself for you.  *Galatians 2:20*  Jesus' name was also Immanuel - that means, God with us.  He poured out His life’s blood, so you would not perish.  His sin-bearing work on Calvary’s Cross is your only hope.  Jesus stepped in between you and the wrath of God, and took the eternal blows and strokes from God’s vengeance and justice in your stead.  Christ paid your sin debt in full.  But your debt is not paid until you believe on Christ Jesus Himself (trust in Christ’s perfect righteousness and shed blood):  then your sin debt is paid – paid once for all, once and forever, but not until then. You must receive His payment freely as a gift.  Get it settled today.

When it comes to Bible Salvation, all your bragging and boasting is out.  Hear the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God - Salvation and Eternal Life is free through God’s own blood!  I know this may sound too easy.  It is easy for a sinner to be saved, but it was not easy for the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross; He loved you to death, even the death of the Cross.  Christ Jesus suffered reproach all of His life, and then in death, He suffered bitter agony, torture and shame to rescue you from your sins.  How can you brag about what you've done, when you must depend 'completely' on Christ for Salvation?  You can only brag about Him.  Flee from the wrath to come at the foot of Cross under Jesus' blood.

You need Christ's Righteousness to do for you what cannot do for yourself.  If you are counting on 'any kind of good work' that you have done to get you to Heaven, then Christ's Righteousness cannot be counted (imputed) to you.  You must place your entire trust in a Sinless Man who kept every jot and tittle of the Law of God perfectly, and then He bled and died for you.  Jesus satisfied all the demands of the Law and Divine Justice for you.

Your death bed is coming soon, Eternity is forever, Hell is real.  Your sins are the reason you are condemned. please don’t die without Christ Jesus as your Sin-Bearer and Savior.  Without Christ you are 'condemned already' (John 3:18), and presently the 'wrath of God abideth' on you. (John 3:36) If you don't care what God thinks of you when you die, then just keep trying to 'do your best' and try to pay for your sins yourself. You will surely fail.

Look away from your self-efforts and religion and look only to Jesus and His innocent, redeeming blood. Jesus Christ satisfied the demands of God's law and took God’s wrath for you.  Do you want God to be pleased with you?  This is the only way - trust to Christ and His shed blood only.  Get your sin debt settled with God today.  Jesus is longing to save you; the Holy Spirit is tenderly calling you to the Cross where you can obtain God's mercy.  Get it all settled today with God at the Cross.  Plead and trust Jesus' sinless, Atoning Blood at once!