WHEN YOU MEET GOD
Someday you must meet God! God is holy. He hates sin.
LISTEN TO WHAT GOD’S WORD
SAYS ABOUT HIM
The Prophet Moses
quotes God’s own words. “I am holy” (Leviticus 11:44). The Prophet David wrote,
“Thou art holy” (Psalm 22:3).
LISTEN TO WHAT GOD
SAYS ABOUT MAN
“There is none that doeth good . . . They are
all together become filthy: There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Psalm
14:1–3).
“There
is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their
throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue” (Psalm 5:9).
The
Holy Book says, “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look
on iniquity” (Habakkuk 1:13). You must get forgiveness or meet God in your
sins!
God’s
Word declares, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked:
who can know it? I the LORD
search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his
ways” (Jeremiah 17:9-10).
How
many have sinned? Let God answer: “All
have sinned” (Romans 3:23).
All sin
is against God. Sin is breaking God’s law.
Sin is coming short of God’s standard of perfection. Sin is rebellion against God. Every wrong thought, word, and deed is sin.
Sin
will bar you from Heaven. “There shall in no wise enter into it anything that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie” (Revelation
21:27).
Sin will
send you to Hell: ”For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). “For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men” (Romans 1:18).
Note:
God’s wrath is not merely against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of
murderers, blasphemers, thieves – but “against ALL ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men.”
That
means you—your sins. Think! Before men, you may seem to be all right, but
before God, you are guilty, yes, a GUILTY, condemned sinner—lost! If you drop
dead this moment, you will be in Hell forever!
GOD WANTS TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS
How can
God, who is holy, forgive and accept lost, guilty sinners? Someone must bear
the sinner’s sins—pay the penalty for them.
The
blood of animal sacrifices could not take away their sins. “It is not possible
that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4).
The law
of Moses prescribed animal sacrifices only as a temporary covering for sins,
until the perfect Man shed His blood to take away sin.
That is
why the Word of God, Jesus Christ, came into the world—to shed His blood and
provide cleansing for sin. God’s Word says, “In whom we have redemption through
his blood, even the forgiveness of sins” (Colossians 1:14).
The Prophet
David wrote, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?… I am…despised of the
people. All they that see me laugh me to
scorn: they shoot out
