Receiving eternal Life Part 2

God's Redemption...Let's take it one step further from our previous study.

Not only are we hopeless sinners, but God is just and demands punishment. The Words of God rumbled through the smoke and fire of Mount Sinai in Exodus 34:7, "...yet by no means leave the guilty.,," Where there is sin, there must be punishment. That is what just is. God proclaims Himself a just God. If you and I robbed a bank and both got caught, and the judge sent you to prison and let me go he, the judge, was my uncle, what kind of judge would he be? He would be immoral, dishonest and unfit for his responsibility.

God is a judge governed by His own justice. Yet the Scriptures tell me He is also merciful. He would do anything in His power to avoid the punishment that must be given. We are sinners. God's justice demands that a punishment be inflicted that fits the crime. Yet in His mercy, He does not want me to suffer.

God sent an answer to this dilemma in the living, dying, and living again of Jesus Christ. He was, He is, He will be the infinite God-man. John said, " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." He was a teacher,  a miracle, a philosopher, a healer, but the only reason He came was to save us. In Isaiah 53, Isaiah prophesied centuries before Jesus came, about how He would come to this world, where He would come, how He would live, how He would die and what He would do.  Isaiah summed it all up when he said in verse 6, "But The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." The last words Jesus spoke on the cross was to scream down Golgotha; "It is finished!" The word He spoke was actually a term used by accountants that simply means, "Paid." He was saying, "You owed it. It was your sin. You deserve to suffer, but it is paid. I, Jesus Christ, paid the price." Remember Romans 6:23, " For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

                                          Study God's Word, know His Word, Jesus Christ!