As we move deeper into the seasons with
the sun breaching the horizon in the Southern Hemisphere a little later in the
day. As we move into autumn, in the still of the night, the birds silently asleep,
with my thought bouncing back and forth and with the help of my late brother in
Christ, Charles Spurgeon, my thoughts now settling on so many dear friends that
are yet to make a real life changing commitment to my Lord and Saviour. The
clock is ticking and the last chimes is about to sound, my prayer goes out to
them all. Lord Jesus, have mercy on their souls. Open their eyes that they may truly
see!
This then the reality of our eternal existence;
God hates sin, in fact it is so repulsive to Him that He send his Son, God in
the flesh, the One who knew no sin (lived here on earth as a man without every
sinning) and yet He paid the ultimate price for your sin and for my sin; He was
nailed to a tree, crucified! More than that it was such an offense to God the
Father that He was unable to engage with His Son whilst on the cross when the final
amalgamation of the sins of the world was place upon Him; it was such a
frightful event in the Lords life that he cried out; “And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?"
which means, "My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?"” (Mark 15:34) – It was not frightful in the sense that the Lord
Jesus had been caught off guard as it were, He knew from the outset that was what He had been commissioned to do. He came to do His Fathers bidding, to pay the
price for the sins of mankind as they could not in themselves meet Gods perfect requirement. Nevertheless, the separation from His Father was heart
wrenching, I wonder how God the Father felt having to turn from His Son until
that price, the sins of mankind, the total depravity and disregard for their
creator had been met?
It is one thing to have to deal with rejection
when we are in good spirits but quite another when we are down cast and at our
lowest. This happened to the King of kings, the Lord Jesus Christ when He was
gasping for breath! The prophet Isaiah gives us an inkling to the actual
condition of the Lord as He hung upon the cross; As the Lord Jesus hung upon
the cross gasping for air, as His weight began to weigh heavy and He began to enervate from the pain that must have almost been unbearable; nails in his hands and
feet, having to push up on them to fill his lungs with air, with his bones
showing through his broken flesh, some out of joint. I can but imagine all that
was in his mind was to achieve his Father’s wish and to accomplish what He originally
set out to do, be crucified and paid the ultimate price for sinners! It was at
this point or there about, I can barely bring myself to pen these words, but I
must drive home the point! He was smitten by God; His Father punished Him for
my sin and for your sin! I do hope the point
my friends is tugging at your conscience, because if you reject His
sacrifice, there is absolutely no other sacrifice that any man, woman or child
can bring outside of this perfect love gift from the Lord Jesus that God the
Father will ever consider good enough to escape His judgement, Absolutely
nothing else will suffice! Reject it and you will pay the ultimate price
throughout eternity, Hell, the lake of fire will be your eternal destiny!
I implore you all to seek out God’s forgiveness
with a vehement desire; do not rest until you find it!
If God has suffered so much for the sinner and
the sinner then still rejects this free gift of Salvation. Free in the sense
that it cannot be earned by our own merits. However not free outside the realm
of acknowledging one’s own sin and seeking out God’s face and graces in order to
fined forgiveness for it. It is imperative to repent! It is then not a free
gift outside of repentance! And yet it is the goodness of God that leads a man
to repentance. Why then do some find repentance and other do not? All I am
permitted to say is seek it out diligently and you shall surely find it! “And
it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved.'” (Act 2:21)
For if you do not find it… if God did not spare
His own Son because of it, what chance do you think you will have? Zero!
To all my friends I understand that my tone may
seem harsh, but I long to see you all in God’s army, those who are neutral are
not those enlisted. Please I beseech you to think long and hard on what I have
just penned. I haven’t spent time trying to place myself upon a pedestal; on
the contrary the Apostle Paul acknowledges himself as the chief of sinners, I
would beg to differ as I am certain that place has sadly been reserved for me.
And yet I have by the mercies and graces of God found forgiveness, what a great
God I serve!
Many have dark sides but there is nothing to dark
that cannot be forgiven in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, He has paid the
ultimate penalty never to be repeated; previous, present and future sins have
all been paid for. Although we are subject to time, God is not bound by a clock;
He exists outside of the realm of time! That is why He can even forgive sins in the future. All that is left now for us to do is to find forgiveness for our own sins and then trust in our God and we shall never die! This cannot be done through a priest, or ones mother or father, it is a personal endeavour that we each have to pursue individually.
Yet as for the self-righteous, the richest and
the happiest people alive who reject this perfect gift will not escape the judgment
which is just over the vista. Although God is love, do not be fooled into
believing that He does not have another side to His character and that is
righteous judgment, which with it will bring His wrath! Remember Noah and the flood, which was not a fairy tale but as real as the rising of the sun!
While you have breath you have hope, there is a
day coming when the breath of life will leave us all and who can with any
assurance say when it will come. We must be ready, therefore harden not your
hearts for today is the day of salvation!
Signing off
Tyrone
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