Herein is Love

Christ Jesus has cared for me all of my days, He laid down His life for me, and He has saved me from my sins and eternal death. For many years you have been indifferent to God. He has tried many times and many ways to draw you to Himself, but you did not want to see Him, or hear about Him. You chose rather to sow your wild oats. You've sinned against God incessantly, compulsively, and indiscriminately. You've lived for years up to your neck in sin, a careless life full of opposition to God. You have not cared what God would have you do, you have been defiant to His claims on your life. The life you have lived has been insulting to God. You have used God and His Son's name as a cuss word.

There is nothing in you that is lovable. There is not a spot of merit in your soul where a pin's point could rest. You have kicked and struggled against the thought of submitting to Christ as your Righteousness. You don't like to think of God at all, the thought of God terrifies you. If there were no God at all, it would make no difference to you. For the unbelieving Christ rejecter, his existence in this world is a breathing death and a horrible slavery to his own depravity.

But God who is rich in mercy still loved you even when you have tried your hardest to get rid of Him. You are at enmity against God, and will not listen to the Gospel of His grace. Yet He loved you even in your rebellious condition. God loves the ungodly who have nothing in them that is lovable. God loved those who slander and despise Him daily. Jesus loved wicked, ungrateful, ungodly, deceiving sinners.

Bleeding love was displayed to thankless sinners at Calvary's Cross by the Lamb of God. All your sins are offenses against God. Sin shocks and disgusts God; sin is the abominable thing which God hates. Men love sin and are calloused and hardened by the deceitfulness of their sin. God sent His only begotten Son into this sinful world to deliver men from their sins. Mercy to the sinful is only available in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Divine justice was fully satisfied by the bloody death of God manifest in the flesh - Jesus of Nazareth.

God devised and provided a perfect Atonement for human sin with the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. He that is God was also a Jewish man - His name was JESUS. Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on tree. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us. You have committed sin, but God Himself bore that sin and its punishment in your place. Jesus stooped to poverty, to hunger, to thirst, to death, to becoming Sin for all of us. Jesus had to endure shame, agony, and a bloody death if sinners were to be freely pardoned. God in human flesh did actually lay down His life for our sins. *I John 3:16* In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.