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The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. -Moses, after God delivered Israel from the Egyptians. I'm part of something bigger than myself because my Father in heaven has united me to Christ Jesus, the only Savior and King of the nations, who dwells in me by His Spirit, and in that union I am part of Christ's Body, the Church.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

The Beauty of the King, Part Two

Mfriend asked me this beauty: If all sinners of all religions go to hell, then why don't I?If the Holy God rightly punishes those who hate Him, how can I escape?

What do sinners do in hell? They eternally suffer God's righteous, holy anger against sin AND sinners who all their lives showed themselves to be His enemies. They are in the terrible presence of His wrath. Forever.

Why can any sinner escape hell? Because Jesus went for me. Jesus suffered an eternity of hell, an infinity of hell, on the cross. What I mean is that the cross demonstrates God's wrath most clearly. He could never clear the guilty. Therefore the Just One took on the guilt of the nations. When God first judged the world through a flood, Noah and his family were saved in the ark (a big boat). In the coming judgment, so are we are saved in the Christ. Jesus is all there is, and He is good, true, glorious! I have so much more to say about Him. Flee from God's wrath!

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