DOOM ON THE WHOLE WORLD

“The cross does not only reveal sin for what it is…it pronounces doom on the whole world…The cross of Jesus Christ makes this great proclamation.  Unless I believe in Him, unless I believe that His death…is the only thing that reconciles me to God, I remain under the wrath of God.  If I do not see that the wrath of God against my sin has been borne there by the Son of God, then the alternative is that I must experience the wrath of God.  That is the essence of the Christian Gospel.  I either believe that my sins have been punished in the body of the Son of God, or else they will be punished in me.  It is the judgment of the world.  The world apart from Him is under the wrath of God, it is doomed, it is damned, and He alone can save it…There was no other way, for God would never have allowed His Son to endure all that if there had been another way” Martyn Lloyd-Jones (ref#189, Feb 21^st).

“…the Lord Jesus Christ…gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,” (Gal 1:3-4 ESV).

FATHER, I come humbly and with amazing fear—fear of Your wrath and amazed that You consider putting in the effort to save me from it.  I cannot save myself; it is beyond my abilities.  Without Your kind input I would not desire to be what You have created me to be.  I would fall completely under Your wrath (ref#190, Sept 30^th).

“…we are all sinners. We are all in the same desperate condition.  None of us is better off than any other.  None of us is more righteous.  None of us is more deserving….We all need to be rescued from the dark rebellion of our own hearts” Paul David Tripp (ref#190, Nov 28^th).

“If you don’t understand and accept the gravity of your condition and your inability to alter it, the Bible, and particularly the work of Christ, will make no sense to you at all.  Why did God go to the history-shaping extent of sending his Son to earth?…Why was it vital for him to suffer and die?  Why did there absolutely have to be a resurrection?  Why?  The answers to these questions can be found by tracing a thread that runs throughout the Bible….We were not only hopelessly ensnared by sin and tragically guilty before God, but we were also completely unable to help ourselves” Paul David Tripp (ref#190, Sept 30^th).

FATHER, “There is only one hope for us all—the amazing, forgiving, rescuing, transforming, and delivering grace of Jesus” Paul David Tripp (ref#190, Nov 28^th).