The Gospel

Want a picture of God's Justice? Read Deuteronomy 28. God lays down what will happen to His people, Israel, if they disobey or obey His commandments. How great are the blessings and how horrible the curses. You have to read the entire chapter to fully realize the immense gap between these two actions. How serious God is about righteousness. Remember when you read that Jesus paid the price, He took that punishment. Because of our awesome Savior we are saved from the wrath of God. It is impossible for us to achieve God's law; Romans 8:6-8 says that "The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, NOR CAN IT DO SO. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God". All humanity is destined to God's righteous wrath. Yet, as the hymn says, the wrath of God was satisfied. It is satisfied by the perfect blood of Jesus Christ. He took all that wrath upon Him; all He asks in return is for you to give Him your life. You will lose it anyway. That's what Jesus means when He says in Matthew 16:25 you must deny your life to gain it. For if you keep your life for yourself you will run into God's wrath. Read the second half of Dut. 28; the wrath of God is not a good place to be. Yet if you lose your life to Christ, your whole life, having faith that He will save you, you will gain life. He gave his life as your ransom: "the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mark 10:45). Doesn't it make sense now. So many people are confused with what Christianity is. Martin Luther calls it the Great Exchange: “This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace to sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange our sins are no longer ours but Christ’s, and the righteousness of Christ not Christ’s but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us with it and fill us with it; and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them.” (Matin Luther). Not only to do you gain the life you would have lost, but it is a far better life than you would have had. John 10:10 says "...I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." We call this the Gospel. How is there any reason left to not have faith in Jesus? I beg you to come to Him, save yourself from the wrath of God, for it is just. Have faith in Jesus. Links are below for more information.

Deuteronomy 28
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