Man’s predicament is especially serious because of the nature of the one who will judge us –GOD

The following scripture reveal God’s nature.

 I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.  (Jeremiah 31:3)

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(1 John 4:8)

The lord is full of compassion and mercy.(James 5:11)

Even the hairs of your head are numbered.( Matt 10:30)

You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.(Jonah 4:2)

You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.(Micah 7:18)

But God is full of justice and must punish sin.

Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished : he punishes….(Exodus 34:7)

Knowing therefore the terror of the lord, we persuade men. (2 Cor 5:11 KJV)

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Lord. (Heb 10:31)

Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. (Psalm 89:32)

The judge and his son

Suppose there was a RIGTEOUS judge with a great reputation for justice and his own son was brought before him on a misdemeanor. His heart would go out to his son but if evidence and guilty – he’d have to pronounce his own son guilty and sentence him.

How could the judge satisfy both his love and his justice?

Perhaps the judge could fine the boy $1,000 and then give him the $1000 to pay the fine with. Our heavenly father, the one who is the judge of all the earth (Gen 18:25) faced a worse problem. We – the objects of his love, his most special creation – sinned. The evidence abounds to convict us, and the PENALTY IS DEATH. Death has two stages: the death of the body and the second death which is eternity in the lake of fire.

 THE SOUL THAT SINS, IT SHALL DIE (Ezek 18:4) 

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God’s answer – Jesus christ