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Hope
There is hope, though, because God is
still God. I will talk to you for a minute
about hope, but do not dare ask what you
must do to find it or to receive it. For
now, you must stay motionless in your
bed of despair. Your efforts to rise will
only cause you to lose sight of the hope
that you may yet find.
There was once a sinner like you and me
on a cross beside the Lord Jesus. Sin had
caught up with him, and he was dying.
He understood that the nails that held his
hands and feet to the cross were the
sharp, bitter claws of justice. He
knew he belonged on that cross,
that this was the end he deserved.
But there was a Man on the middle
cross who did not belong there. The
sins that held the Man Jesus on the
cross were not His own. In his
dying
moments,
the
sinner
understood an eternal truth that is
still ringing down through the ages
and now reaches you in your
despair: the just was dying for the
unjust. The sins of billions of
lifetimes of sinners were being paid
for as the perfect Son of God bled
away His life on a cruel and bloody
Roman cross. With one shuddering sigh,
He yielded His spirit to the hungry claws
of death—the same claws that have been
reaching for you and me. In that instant,
the awful deed was done. Sin’s sacrifice
was made. Guilt and condemnation could
not stand in the face of innocence
crucified. Justice could find no fault with
the death of this good Man, and it was
forced to agree to the terms of
forgiveness that grace now offers to you,
the sinner, for the contract was signed in
blood. On that mountain outside of
Jerusalem, beneath the cross of Jesus, a
holy and eternal agreement took place:
sin, death, and hell had met their match,
and they could no longer hold claim to
that miserable sinner lying in his bed of
despair.
Do you see it now, my friend? Will you
now rise and shake off the weight of sins
that are no longer yours to bear? Will you
take a look at that bloody cross, and will
you sign your own name in agreement
that, yes, it is indeed true, that justice has
indeed been served, and you are free?
Can you, dare you, look at the Lord Jesus
hanging on the cross, and say, “No, I dare
not believe that it is enough”? Do you
understand that this is your final hope,
that apart from it, there is no other? If
you will not have this righteous Man as
your sin-bearer, then you are forever left
to your own devices and you dare not
expect any help from God, because God
has invested all His help in the Lord
Jesus and has offered Him to you. All
that God wants for you, and what you
have been looking for to make you
perfect, is found in Jesus. You may take
Him or leave Him; you will not make
God richer or poorer by your decision.
The choice is yours.
Don’t take my word for it. Consider these
words from the Bible, from the book of
Romans:
Romans 3:24
Being justified (made
right) freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus:
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Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation (substitute in my place)
through faith in his blood, to
declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God;
26
To declare, I say, at this time his
righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus.
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Where is boasting then? It is
excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Therefore we conclude that a man
is justified by faith without the deeds
of the law.
Do you see that God can remain just
and make you just at the same time? Do
you understand that God is able to
exercise the full force of His
righteousness and find you innocent? Do
you know that you can now look the law
square in the face and say to it, “Justice
has been served, and you can find no
fault in me”? Do you, my friend, believe
that the righteousness of the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself has been given to you, for
you to take shelter in from the piercing
eyes of the law? If you believe these