Thursday, January 10, 2008

Salvation Foundation

It is only when we know how we have sinned that we can actually appreciate what Jesus did for us on the Cross. We learn the truth about our sins through the Law of God in the ten commandments. We need only look into two or three of them to see that we are terrible sinners and deserve to go to hell. If we have told any falsehood or even the smallest "little white lie". we are liars. If we have ever picked up a candy in the grocery store and eaten it without paying for it, we are a thief. Just the slightest glance at the opposite sex with yearning in our hearts makes us adulterers. That one slip of the tongue where we use the Lords name as a cuss word makes us blasphemers. That is only 4 of the ten commandments we have broken and each of those broken commandments carries a sentence of eternal separation from God and an eternity in hell. In James 2:10 we learn that even if we only break one of God's Laws we are guilty of breaking them all. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

The fact that God is Holy and Just means that on the day of judgment He must sentence us to an eternity in hell because we have sinned against Him.
That is the reason for Jesus and the Cross. So that we do not have to be sentenced to eternal damnation.

Jesus went through all the pain and agony of being whipped with the cat-of-nine-tails, carrying his cross, the nails through his hands and his feet, being dropped into the hole for the cross, which resulted in every bone being shaken out of place, the spear in his side. He did this for each every one of us. He never promised that we would have a wonderful life. We go through trials and troubles throughout our whole lives. That is normal. That is what is creating us to be more like Him. The only way to eternity with Him is through Jesus and the cross. We have to repent of our sins and turn from our wicked ways, and have Jesus, as the ultimate price, for our sins, acknowledge us infront of His Father(Matt. 10:32-33). And  put our full trust in Him and aks Him to teach us His ways, while we strive for humbleness by the foot of the cross. That is the ONLY way to escape the eternal fire of hell. There is no easy way to heaven. 

I pray that this blog touches each one who reads it and that God convicts them to repent or if you have already repented and invited Jesus to be your Lord and Saviour that it stirs up in you an urgency to spread the word of God's Law and His Grace towards us with others.

God Bless all who read this. May He touch you life in ways that you cannot understand.



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