How can a sinful man or woman be fully prepared to meet their Holy Creator with inflexible divine justice? Every man and woman has sinned against God and His divine Laws and Statutes, and every sinner must make reparations to the broken divine Law. God would not accept an angel as a Substitute for the Law had been by man, the entire human race had revolted against their Maker. For there is not a just man upon the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. God's divine Justice must be vindicated through One of the human race.
But there was a stern dilemma: The WORD dwelt with God the Father in Eternity, and The Word was God. But how could the WORD OF LIFE become the Savior of the world? Behold the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. He condescended to the manger of Bethlehem, and had to nurse from a Jewish virgin's bosom. Forasmuch then as sinners are partakers of flesh and blood, JESUS also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death, He might destroy that had the power of death, that is, the devil. And deliver sinners who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Dear sinner, behold your Incarnate Creator, The Eternal God, dwells among sinful dying men, veiled in mortal flesh, that He could save sinful men. This is the greatest message ever heard in human ears and hearts. The fullness of the Godhead and manhood in one person. God Incarnate came down from heaven to lift the ungodly from the dunghill of sin up to heavenly places with God. It is the Sin of sins to reject to King of Glory who stooped so far in order to be perfectly qualified to save sinners.
To lift us up to heaven, JESUS stooped down to rescue sinners out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay of sins and iniquities. He made the worlds and framed them by His words, yet He slept in Bethlehem's manger wrapped in swaddling clothes. He hung the stars in their places, counted them, and called them all by their names. He laid the beams of the entire universe, yet the holy child whose name was JESUS grew up here on Earth as the stepson of a carpenter. He gave up all His heavenly rank and dignity for Love's dear sake. He grew up and consented to be the Servant of servants, and made Himself of no reputation. He gave up all ease and comfort, He took the lowest place, He was despised and rejected of men. He had no where to lay His head. He bare His back to the smiters, so the chastisement of our Peace could fall upon Him.
We are utterly lost in sin, so JESUS had to die a horrible death for us. JESUS saved others, Himself could not save. He lived an obscure life as a carpenter's son. He is the Creator without Whom was not anything made that was made. He is the Preserver of all things, and by Him all things consist. He made and currently sustains the Universe by the word of His power. The Word of Life dwelt here among us, He clothed Himself in mortal flesh, the Godhead staring through human eyes, speaking with a human tongue. The winds knew Him and obeyed Him, the stormy waves knew Him, they humbled themselves before Him and kissed His feet. The angels ministered unto Him, and the devils fled from Him. He healed diseases with His gentle words and with His omnipotent touch. His Almighty Voice raised Lazarus from the dead. He was God in human flesh, but to the human eye, He was only the carpenter's stepson. He pleased the Father in all things during His obscure and public life. He was railed upon, called every name in the book, included a blasphemer and deceiver; reproach broke His heart.
Sin is such a hateful thing to God, that when the Father laid the sins of the whole world upon His dear Son by Imputation, the Father could not look upon the Son, but bruised and smote Him until He cried, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? The Father laid on the Son the iniquity of us all. The Father hath made JESUS to be Sin for us, Who knew no sin, yet it pleased the Father to bruise the Son. JESUS by the grace of God tasted death for every man. He bore the Curse that was due to sinners, because He stood in the sinner's place and suffered in the sinner's stead.
At the Cross while He was nailed and suffering for their sins, upon His vesture, sinful men cast lots, He gave up the last rag He had, He gave all esteem for sinners. He gave His All for sinners like us: He gave His body to the scourge and nails, His ears to mocking and jeering, His brow to a crown of thorns, His face to spitting and buffeting, and when He could give no more, He gave His most tender heart to a cruel spear. At the last, He offered up Himself, and at the last, He laid down His sinless life, and cried, It is Finished! They took down His mangled body from the Cross, and laid it in a borrowed grave. But on the third, God raised JESUS from the dead.
The Divine Justice of God could never be fully satisfied until One with an infinite nature became the Propitiation for human sins. JESUS offered the final eternal satisfaction to Divine Justice for all my sins: He is my Propitiation, my Atonement, my Lamb. His Soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death. His Precious Blood is the infinitely satisfying Atonement to the Father, for me. JESUS took the rap for me. Christ and the sinner changed places: Christ became SIN, and the sinner is made RIGHTEOUS by Faith in the Sin-Bearer, The Lamb of God.
Jesus died instead of sinners, He bore our sins in His own body, The Father laid on Him the iniquity of us all. The Innocent Sufferer died in the culprit's place, and the worst culprit is You. Jesus became Sin itself for us, then He suffered God's wrath on human sin instead of guilty Me. If you do not have a God to trust in, or a Savior to believe in, you may seek JESUS now. If you seek Him, you will find HIM, He will freely give you redemption, the forgiveness of sins, rest, peace with God, and eternal life, to boot. He will never cast you out. For whosoever believeth in JESUS is saved on the spot eternally, Whosoever trusts in Christ's Precious Blood is saved in an instant. Immediate Pardon and Eternal Salvation belongs to every Soul that their Hope completely upon the Finished Work (Suffering, Blood and Righteousness) of The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh.
Lord Jesus, I am willing to have your Light and Salvation wrought in me, I want You to rid of my darkness and evil deeds, I am willing to receive You into my heart, into my very inward parts. I give up myself and whatever I know, I repent of what I am, what I've done, and I trust in You only. I take You, The Bleeding Lamb of God, The Light of Heaven, to be the Light, Salvation and Comfort of my Soul. Lamb of God, I want all my sins laid on You, for only You can take them away. I have no righteousness of my own to claim or to boast of. I submit to Your Righteousness. I trust to YOU completely as suffering, bleeding and dying in my place to make Atonement for all my sins and guilt. I rely upon You to make full recompense to the injured violated Divine Justice, and the broken Laws of God. At the Cross, my Soul sees Divine Justice satisfied, the Law honored, and my guilty Soul set free, absolved and purged of all my sins. The fire of avenging Divine Justice spent itself on the Lamb of God, and the Law exhausted its rigorous demands upon the person of JESUS CHRIST who was made a Curse for us, and that I could be made the Righteousness of God in Him, and now Mercy flows from His Precious Atoning Blood to me.
