Paul declares that Christ died in the place of the
Ungodly
Romans
5:6-11 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good
man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward
us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then,
having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of
His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And
not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now received the reconciliation. NKJV
Paul now writes how this love of God operated for us
or on our behalf. The love shed or poured out into our hearts by God the Holy
Spirit is a result of God the Father loving us even while we were His enemy. Every
cursing blasphemous profane word spoken from my lips as I used God’s Name in
vain, He was right there present drawing me to the foot of the Cross of Jesus
Christ my Lord. All the while that I was morally feeble and living in gross and
vile depravity, this love of God was being shown to me by what Jesus Christ had
already done on the Cross nearly 2,000 years ago as He died then for me as if I
were the only sinner on the earth. The Lord Jesus was able to look those
hundreds of years in the future and see me in my sin and reveal His love for me
and to me by making me alive from being dead in trespasses and sins (Isaiah 53:6 & 1 Timothy 1:15-16).
Paul again declares the great truth that our Lord
Jesus first spoke in John 3:16 For God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life. NKJV Paul here tells how our
Lord Jesus Christ died for us when we were vile, vicious, and volatile sinners
in His Holy Presence. All of humanity is guilty before Him as sinners as we
learned in Romans 3:23, therefore,
He died for all sinners, but the free gift of salvation awaiting any and every
sinner must be claimed. For example, all of the major airlines every year fly
all over the world and year after year people leave luggage and it goes
unclaimed by the person or persons it belongs to. So it is with the gift of salvation
by what our Lord Jesus Christ did on the Cross. Century after Century and
decade after decade and year after year and month after month and week after
week and day after day people check out of this world by the way of death (Hebrews 9:27) that all people must
travel and they do not receive the free gift of salvation from the Lord Jesus
Christ that He purchased by His Blood on the Cross for every sinner ever born.
But praise God those of us who are drawn to our Lord
Jesus Christ (John 6:44) not only
have His Love for us poured into our hearts, but we also are saved from our
sins and the power sin has over ever soul and we are finally saved from God’s
Fiery, Forceful, and Fury or Wrath that He is going to pour out on this earth
against all ungodliness and those people who refuse, reject, or resist
salvation through the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 1:10 & Revelation 6:16). Paul declares that it
is our Lord’s death on the Cross that brings us back into fellowship or
relationship with God the Father (1
Timothy 2:5) and it is receiving His life into us that saves us from God’s
Wrath against sin and the ungodly. Like a magnet draws other like property to
itself so is God the Father drawing those who bear the Nature of our Lord Jesus
Christ to Himself. But also likewise as a magnet repels materials away from it
that does not bear the same properties so will God the Father do to those who
do not receive the life of Jesus Christ through regeneration and the new birth
(Titus 3:4-7).
Paul says that we boast and glory and rejoice in God
because our Lord Jesus Christ has set our souls into proper alignment as if a
Doctor would set a man’s broken bone so that it can heal or mend properly. This
is the work our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us and in our souls setting it
or reconciling it and bringing us into harmony with God the Father or restoring
our souls to Divine favor by the life He gives each of His redeemed sons and daughters
(1 John 3:9 & 2 Corinthians 5:18-19).
This great work of sacrifice and love done for morally depraved, ungodly, and
vile sinners such as we are when received freely produces a heart so overflowed
and filled with love and gratitude that words cannot rightly express how
grateful we are for being reconciled by His Precious Blood (Ephesians 2:13 & Hebrews 9:14).
“A creed is the road or street. It is very good as
far as it goes, but if it doesn’t take us to Christ it is worthless.” D. L.
Moody
“Non-Christians
seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence
in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit
and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed.
They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for
men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” C.
S. Lewis
“Christ died He left a will in which He
gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to
the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to
follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better - His PEACE!”
Matthew Henry
“I wonder how many believers today realize that
faith is not merely believing that Christ died for our sins. Faith is also
being confident that His way is better than sin. His will is more wise. His
help is more sure. His promises more precious. And His reward more satisfying.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward
look at the promises.” John Piper
“Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly
seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to
appreciate the great Physician.” J. C. Ryle
“Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease
He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He is the
Balm of Gilead, the Great Physician who has never yet failed to heal all the
spiritual maladies of every soul that has come unto Him in faith and prayer.” James H. Aughey
“Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in
Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I
cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been
defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, ‘in
Christ.’” Watchman Nee
If you do not
know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this from your
heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear Lord Jesus,
I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I believe You
shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead
proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn from my
sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control of my
life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...Sincerely in Christ,
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