Christ Died for the Ungodly

The fact is clear; we have all broken the divine law of God.  Every man and woman has sinned, and God's divine justice demands the penalty be meted out for those sins on someone.  The soul that sinneth shall die; the wages of sin is death.  It is just that every sinner should be punished.  Punishment is the just result due to an offense, for God's Law and Majesty has been offended. Our own conscience condemns us, as well as our memories of our sinful past.  We have all sinned against God knowingly, deliberately, willfully and repeatedly.  We have no moral strength to help ourselves out of our dangerous and deadly sinful condition.

All men by nature are under the dominion of lust, pride, and the love of worldly ease and pleasure.  For some temporary gain or pleasure, a man will jeopardize his immortal soul.  The natural man is driven by the whims of this world; the fashions of this age control him, and he follows hastily after them.  The lost man is afraid of what men may think about him, not what God knows about him.  Nothing is too foolish or wicked for lost mankind.  Fallen mankind is altogether bad, hopeless, helpless, ruined, undone, and utterly self-condemned by their own sins.

All men by nature are "ungodly." God is not in their thoughts.  If the ungodly ever remember God, they do not love Him.  God is not in their fears; for they take God's name in vain.  God is not in their hopes; they do not long to know Him, or please Him, or be like Him.  The ungodly think lightly of Christ and neglect God daily, and refuse to acknowledge Him in all of their decisions and actions.  In the natural man's religion, he sticks to the ritual, ceremony, creed, customs, but never seeks a relationship or communion with his Maker, for he is alienated from his Creator.  We are all ungodly by nature.  There is none righteous, no, not one.  There is none that doeth good, no, not one.  We were without God, enemies to our own Creator, dead in trespasses and sins, corrupt, and bent on evil.  There was no good thing in us, but Jesus loved us anyway.

Christ didn't die for the godly, but for the ungodly.  A lost man needs a Savior; a sin-sick man needs the matchless Medicine of the Blood of Christ.  When you are helplessly lost, Jesus will come to your rescue.  Your lost condition is so terrible that God had to become a sinless man and die in your place in order for your sins to be forgiven.  Your lostness demanded that God Himself come down to Earth in human flesh and make an Atonement for human guilt by His own bloody death upon Calvary's Cross.  The pure and holy One came down to Earth to suffer, bleed and die for wretches, so that we could live through faith in Him. Christ died for the worst, not the best.  Your sins have ruined you so, that your case is beyond your aid.  Your sins are so great in God's sight that He gave His only begotten Son in order to ransom your soul from eternal damnation.  Christ died for those who are condemned; He is the Hope of the hopeless.  He is the Savior of the completely lost soul, not the partly lost.

In order to lift sinners to Heaven, the Creator stooped to become a man.  He that made the heavens lay in Bethlehem's manger as a Jewish baby.  He that hung the stars in their places laid down His glory, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.  He became a servant; He made Himself of no reputation; He had no place to lay His head.  He took the lowest place; He saved others, Himself He could not save.  He was despised and rejected of men, and He was hated without a cause.

Christ Jesus bled away His own soul in order to accomplish our Salvation.  Christ gave Himself for our sins, not for our virtues.  He died for the sick, not the whole.  Christ Jesus loved, lived, and died as the Substitute for sinners; the Just for the unjust, that He might reconcile us back to God.  Christ Jesus took upon Himself our sins and the consequences for those sins.  He was punished in the sinner's place; He was punished as if He had committed the sin, though in Him was no sin.  Jesus was perfectly innocent of all actual sin.  The divine wrath and vengeance due to human sin was poured out on His spotless soul. The Just died for the unjust; the offended Judge Himself suffers for the offenses against His own Law.

We could never justify ourselves before a holy God, but now we are justified by His Blood freely.  The Lord Jesus Christ's bloody death brings us pardon and abundantly gives us repentance and remission.  Regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit which creates life within us where there was only death before.  Conversion turns us from our sins to follow Christ.  Adoption takes us from being children of wrath and disobedience to being heirs of God, and the joint heirs of Christ.  Mercy is for the guilty; Grace is for the ungodly; Pity is for the lost.  Amazing Pity, Grace Unknown, Matchless Mercy, and Love Beyond Degree.

The Lamb of God offered Himself up as a Sinless Blood Sacrifice to bear the penalty which we ought to have suffered for our sins; He also fulfilled the Law which we had egregiously broken.  He did in our place that which we could not have accomplished.  He took our sins upon Him and suffered on account of those sins.  He offered both an Atonement for human sin as well as a perfect obedience of the Law.  Christ bore the guilt of the sinner, and He was treated as if He had committed the sins of the whole world, and now the transgressor who believes in Jesus can be treated as if he is innocent.  Christ was numbered with the transgressors.  Christ had no sin of His own, but He takes all of our sins, and is punished, and satisfies divine justice on our behalf.  Because of the Cross, God is Just and the Justifier of the ungodly.  God's Son had human sin laid upon Him, and then God smote Him.  Trust now your immortal soul into the hands of Jesus who bore your sins upon the Cross.  You have no one else to trust to; look only to Him for all your Salvation.

Christ Jesus, God over all, the Creator of heaven and earth, out of love to sinful men stooped to bleed and die in their place.  The thrice holy God in whom there was no sin undertook the cause of the ungodly.  He came down here to Earth to lay down His down life for bad people; He suffered for no-gooders, not do-gooders.  When our sins were laid upon Him, the full penalty of divine justice was inflicted upon Him.  Christ died for the ungodly (the impious, wicked, godless), not for respectable folks.  The ungodly have no fear or reverence for God.  Christ did not suffer on the Cross because men are good, or would be good, but He died for His enemies.  He came to seek and save that which was lost.

When the Holy Spirit begins to move and work in the sinner's heart, the sinner's conscience is troubled, for the Spirit of God shows that man his sin and guilt, and that there is nothing but the blood of Christ that can ever give him peace with God.  The man begins to sense his guilt and lost state, and really understand his helpless condition before God; he realizes that his sins are against God; he is awakened to his enslavement to sin; he starts to realize that death and hell are very near, that he is in extreme danger, and that there is an approaching Judgment.

In the midst of all the vain, mindless chatter of this world, don't forget this simple, scriptural fact, "Christ died for the ungodly!" This is the Glorious Gospel condensed down to five words. God manifest in the flesh bled to death to save sinful men that cared nothing about Him. These five words, Christ died for the ungodly, are all you need to understand, believe, and trust to obtain free eternal life from the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The worst hatred hates the highest love.  Some men hate God so much that they will not receive Him even if He dies for them. They refuse to be reconciled to their Creator, even as He stoops from His glory to become a man, and even Sin itself, in order to be able to have Mercy on them.  Christ didn't die for good people; He died for the ungodly.

Life is so short; Eternity is Forever; Be wise, Plan ahead.  Lay hold now on free eternal life through faith in Christ's Precious Blood. Lord Jesus, save my ungodly soul from the love of sin, for You died for the ungodly, and I am definitely one of them.  Please give me a new heart and a right spirit, save me from pride, dishonesty, dirty thoughts, filthy speech, and unclean acts. Give me Your divine nature within, so that I will desire to quit my love for sinning and glorify You with my life.