October 11
God is no respecter of persons (Colossians 3:25). We are assured that anyone who accepts Christ as his personal Savior by laying his life at Jesus’ feet will have the sins he’s done—in their entirety—put under the blood of the Lamb who was slain for us. There are no individuals excepted. There are no sins that cannot be covered.
Although great minds have studied these points and there are great theological dissertations that have been written regarding them, the bottom line of the matter is that the simple story of the gospel is for every man, and it is written in such a way that the great truths of life cannot be overlooked by the sincere seeker.
Paul, in Romans 8:38, 39, gives us what is perhaps the best and most concise basis for our confidence in the absolute reality of the Lord’s sacrifice of Himself for our sin. Here he says, “I am confident that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come…nothing…can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Paul, who persecuted the early Church was confident that he was no exception to the plan of salvation! Peter, who denied the Lord three times (Matthew 26:34) realized he did not exempt himself from salvation by his denial.
It was Jesus’ love for mankind that caused Him to bear the cruel Roman lash upon His sinless back; it was His love that took Jesus to Calvary. It was His love for His fallen creatures that nailed Him to the cross. It wasn’t the hand of a Roman soldier that inflicted His wounds or forced His weary trek to Golgotha’s Hill. It was Christ’s love, established before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8), that devised the greatest transaction in history—man’s sin for God’s righteousness—and it is His love that nailed sin to His cross and will perfect salvation in anyone who will accept it!
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