Sin Reveals Grace.

We can not grasp the wonderful love, mercy, and grace of God until we realize how bad we are. Until we see that we have so wronged the Perfect Creator, and see that He is the only one to forgive us, then we are lost in our blindness. All sin is what we do against God and the things we do that break His law. You can’t hurt your best friend, and ask another friend to forgive you for the wrong you did to someone else. It also does not work to pretend that you never wronged your friend. The only way is to ask forgiveness; The same applies to God through Christ.

Romans 3:23

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Romans 3:10

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”

Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

John 14:6

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

2 Corinthians 5:21

“For he(Father God) hath made him(Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

Ephesians 2:8-10 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

I once heard a comedian do a piece on Christ. This ignorant person compared what Christ did with someone who shot their own foot for their neighbor’s mortgage. This is not a true comparison for several reasons; First of all, the debt we owe was paid for by the one we owe it to. In this comic piece, it is someone unrelated causing him self harm for a debt between two separate parties. Romans 6:23 (see above) says that the wages (cost) of sin is death, Christ came to pay that debt, to die in our place.

Secondly, the pain Christ went through was not pointless as the comparison implies. His death on the cross was only a small portion of the pain he endured, but it was the most important and most remembered. Thankfully He did not stay dead, but conquered death. Because He rose again, we have everlasting life through Him because death is conquered; The debt has been paid.

Mark 10:34

“And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.”

1 Thessalonians 4:14

“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”

The gift of Salvation waits to be claimed.

Romans 10:9

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

I would love to tell you that once you have claimed this gift that everything will be easy, but it wont. It will be harder, but more wonderful than all the ease the world could provide. We are warned and comforted of the trials to come.

Philippians 1:29

“For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;”

John 16:33 “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

Romans 8:33-36 “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”

John 14:26-28 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.”

2 Corinthians 1:4

“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”