One of the most important questions for human beings should be: can a man be righteous before God, Charles Leiter, in his book?Justification and regeneration? (Faithful Editor launches in February), raises the depth and complexity of this topic:
It is at this point that we find the greatest of all the obstacles imaginable to human salvation: How can an absolutely just and honest judge in some way justify (declare fair) a criminal who is absolutely guilty and convicted?How can a human being escape the condemnation of hell?Does God Himself tell us that he who justifies the wicked and the one who condemns the abominable righteous are both for you?(Pv 17. 15).
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- Leiter and other preachers talk about the “wonder of wonders”: there is a substitute who died on our behalf.
- Paying the penalty for our sin!.
How can a man be righteous before God?We used to sing that, do I sing that with the kids?What can suppress my sins? And I said, “Nothing?Nothing?” Nothing but the blood of Christ. ” Just the blood of Christ. Our sins were attributed to Christ, everything was attributed to his account, and he paid in full. He really did! He really took your sins and mine. If you are a child of God, He truly took upon all sins in His own body on the cross. Your sins don’t fly through the air. You imagine the meanest things you’ve ever seen. Indeed, beloved, your sins do not fly through the air, Your sins fell upon Jesus Christ and He paid in full!This is the only way to be found right before God.
Consider the Lamb of God in his resurrection, risen with great power!There is no muscle strength, no mechanical strength, no electrical energy, no nuclear energy, that could have taken you out of death, and that same power is in you.
I am no longer a criminal under the wrath of God, who falls before a furious judge, I am a son who was adopted by a family, you have to take advantage that you are in a new position. a position of grace. You’re a son
Remember, the amazing thing is that you’re not really under the trial of a judge. When you sin, believer, you are not in front of a judge with an arrow pointing at your head. You’re dealing with a father. You’re dealing with a father who wants to get up and make you walk again. What a change in status, isn’t that glorious?
Forty-one years that I began to look away from the ends of the earth and look only at Jesus?And now I can face the end and I am even more grateful to be able to turn my eyes to Jesus.
When someone always tries to agree with God by keeping the law, when people try to win salvation through a form of obedience to the things they do, then they show that they really believe it is possible, that somehow they can deserve it. God.
His justification and acceptance by God is not based on his performance. How well he did yesterday. You say, “Oh, I prayed all day yesterday. “Well, you know what the Bible says? She says that our prayers are acceptable by the blood of Jesus. Paul begins with Romans, says, “First, do I thank my God for Jesus Christ for all of you?”(Romans 1: 8a). thank God with the blood of Jesus Christ. And we are called to offer pleasant spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. The best works we can do have nothing to do with it. Remorse has nothing to do with it. ” Even if my tears flow forever, or even if my zeal knows no relief, none of this could atone for my sins. You’re the one who has to save and only you. ?[Excerpt from the hymn Rocha das Eras /? Rock of Ages? Augustus M . Toplady]
You realize more and more, don’t you, brothers? That the problem of this world is not economic, it is not educational, it is not environmental, it is not political, it is not governmental. The ultimate problem of the human race is sin. And the last problem that I will always have to face is sin. It is enemy number one. It is sin, in all its forms. This is what filled our courts and our jails. This is what filled the cemeteries of all the towns and villages. This is what made today’s world a place of devastation in a war zone. All the crimes, all the sufferings, all the tears, all the deaths, all the griefs, all the accidents, all the pain and all the losses; All tragedies are due to sin. Sin has entered the world and we are under the kingdom of sin and death. It shakes the world, making the world itself suffer. The heavens and the earth that groan before sin [rf. Rom 8:22]. and what the world does not need is a philosopher, the world does not need a teacher. Not everyone necessarily needs a teacher or something like that. What this world needs is a savior. His name will be Jesus, because he will save. He must save, take away all the sins of the world. And even the heathen know it, right?
The greatest sin anyone can commit is not appreciating God and not appreciating Him. All other sins come from that. The first commandment is: “You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. “It’s the first call to every soul. This is what everything in creation calls you to do. That is the essence of the universe, is that God has to be worshipped, because he is a glorious God. And what makes the Canaanites so bad is that for four hundred years they have not fallen flat and said, “I love you, sir. You made the sun. You created the moon. You made my kids. You made this world great. Forgive me for my sins. ?
And as a child, you who grow up in a Christian home, the Word is close to you. The path to salvation is near you today, so don’t say in your heart that you have to wait a certain age because you can believe in Christ now, at this point and be saved. And look at him now.
I am accepted into the family by the blood of Jesus Christ, it is immutable. Your love is in me It’s for me, he’s with me. And I’m new. And I really like to do him justice. And I don’t have to live like I used to. And I have authority? Because I’m a son of God.
He came down from his throne; And he descended into sin and misery, and tears, and touched people who had never been touched; and spoke to people he never spoke to, and in his darkest hour he descended even more like a slave on a cross and died under the wrath of God. And with a life poured out in death, he pulled you out of the hole Just as the Lord Jesus loved you. “As he loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them to the end (John 13:1b).
Tell them, “Listen, if truly, sincerely, truly, truly, with love, entirely in this Lamb of God, you would understand that He paid his debt of sin. You will understand that He died for you, we must proclaim Him everywhere. Tell everyone the good news that a Savior is dead.
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For more information on the topic, read Charles Leiter’s text on the Ministry of Faith website.