Sin will kill you. If you practice sin, it will pay you by destroying you.
(Romans 6:23)…..For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
(1 Timothy 1:15)…..This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”…..
We know that Jesus came to save us because we are people who are bound in sin. Jesus out of His goodness offers men/women repentance and freely offers to all — regardless of their sins — the gift of forgiveness and salvation, making us alive who were dead in our trespasses and sin. This life changes one inwardly, and is a life that will last for all eternity.
It is not just because God hates sin, that sinners need to be saved. It is because sin is a killer. Sin destroys. Sin hurts people. God is against sin because it separates people from God. But God did not stop at being against sin without giving us an answer — a way of escaping sin’s clutches.
O God of unsearchable greatness, before Thee I am nothing but vanity, iniquity, perishing; Sin has forfeited Thy favor, stripped me of Thy image, banished me from Thy presence, exposed me to the curse of Thy law; I cannot deliver myself, and I am in despair. But a resource is found in Thee, for without my desert or desire Thou didst devise an everlasting plan, honorable to Thy perfections, and which angels desired to look into. And the Word which announces all the glory of this goodness is nigh me, invites me, beseeches me. May I, a convinced and self despairing sinner, find Jesus as the power unto salvation, His death the center of all relief, the source of all gospel blessings. Help me to repair to that cross, be crucified to the world by it, and in it find deepest humiliation, motives two patience and self denial, grace for active benevolence, faith to grasp eternal life, hope to lift up my head, love to bind me forever to Him who died and rose for me. May His shed blood make me more thankful for Thy mercies, more humble under correction, more zealous in Thy service, more watchful against temptation, more contented in my circumstances, more useful to others.
Unknown Puritan
Jesus died for sinners because we needed help. Sin is deadly and destroys all that is good. Sinners desperately need deliverance — even if we don’t realize it. Just because sinners don’t realize they are in bondage does not change reality. To fully realize the ramifications of sin, we need a bigger, more experienced viewpoint than the one we have.
God’s great love compelled Him to offer us a solution. That solution is found in believing the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is God’s solution to mankind’s sin problem. Jesus is the Savior (Deliverer) from that sin. Jesus is the One who sets us free from both the penalty and the bondage of sin and all its effects. No matter who you are, we were all born sinners in desperate need of salvation and need to look to Jesus for deliverance. Maybe today is the day you believe in Jesus Christ and are delivered from death. If you are already a believer in Jesus Christ, rejoice because you are free.