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 the lip, they
shake the head, saying, ‘He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him...seeing
he delighted in him’…all my bones are out of joint…they pierced my hands and my
feet. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture” (Psalm
22:1-18). “In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (Psalm 69:21).
Was the
Prophet David writing about himself? No.
Read God’s Word in Acts 2:22-34. You will see that the Prophet wrote about the
crucifixion, death, burial, and the resurrection of the Word of God, Jesus
Christ, the only One who fulfilled these words.
God’s
Word says of the Messiah, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just
for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).
The Prophet
Isaiah, in a vision from God, saw the Messiah led as a lamb to the slaughter in
sacrifice for human sin, and wrote, “But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed”
(Isaiah 53:5).
“All we
like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the
LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6).
“He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and
as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth” (Isaiah
53:7).
The
Word of God, Christ, demonstrated His eternal home in Heaven. Then God raised
Him from the grave and exalted Him “on the right hand of the Majesty on high”
(Hebrews 1:3), where He is now, in the same body of flesh and bone in which He
was crucified.
The
risen Man in the Glory is God’s appointed Saviour. “There is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). He is the
only way to Heaven. He said, “I am the
way…no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
“To him
give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him
shall receive remission of sins” (Acts 10:43).
Tell
Him you receive Him now. He wants to forgive you all your sins and give you
peace and eternal life right now. “As many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God” (John 1:12).
