NAKED AND CONDEMNED
09.17.09
J.A. Matteson
Now if anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any
of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and becomes guilty….
Leviticus 4:27
As Scripture testifies, God is holy, and consequently by necessity in accordance to His own character a future time of reckoning will come to pass when the wickedness of men will be judged by Him who is altogether righteous. The sons of Adam walk about on the face of the earth and their existence is feeble before the eyes of Him with whom they must give an account.
Spiritually blind and deaf, and unbeknownst to them, their daily wanderings are chronicled perfectly; indeed, every dark thought entertained in the inner recesses of the mind is known and captured, each careless word spoken in haste recorded and preserved, all their wicked deeds motivated by pride, greed, and avarice will by laid bare before the Lord of Glory, before the eyes of Him with Whom all must give an account. Blissfully ignorant of immanent peril the sinner stands naked and condemned before His judge (Jn. 3:18), vulnerable, and his moment-by-moment existence is by the mercy of the Lord, “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger? How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?” (Job 21:17-18).
Sinner, you have suppressed the reality of your plight, denying any awareness of the certain doom and destruction which awaits you (Rom. 1:18). You know in your heart—your conscience bearing witness—you are guilty of transgressing the righteousness of God—your defiled mind is still able to convict you of wrong, but you muse to yourself that all appears to be going well, you continue to prosper in every way and even enjoy good health, and your past acts of wickedness have not been exposed by others or met with divine retribution, you have convinced yourself that your deeds have gone unnoticed. Foolishness! Be reconciled to God today.
Do you not know that with every breath you are storing up for yourself divine wrath, for the day of divine retribution is near where the fury of the Lord of Hosts will be unleashed against you? Hear the Apostle, “because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when His righteous judgment will be revealed’ (Rom. 2:5). As an ant in the path of a tornado or a gnat at ground zero of a nuclear blast you will be obliterated in an instant, mercy will be withheld, your pleas will be unheard, and your eternal demise sealed, “But since you rejected Me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out My hand, since you ignored all My advice and would not accept My rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. Then they will call to Me but I will not answer; they will look for Me but will not find Me. Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord….” (Pr. 1:26-29).
In your ignorance you have repeatedly transgressed the Law of God throughout your life, and on judgment day claiming ignorance of the Law will not be an adequate defense as the righteousness of the Lord demands that justice be metered out in order to preserve His holiness. By grace the Lord sent forth His Son, Jesus Christ, in the likeness of sinful flesh, Who suffered and died for sinners as their substitute with the wrath of God poured out on Him, as a result all who look to Him in faith as their sin bearer will be passed over when the fury of the wrath of God is revealed, “It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners….” (1 Tim. 1:15).
On judgment day you can either stand before God and attempt to defend yourself—in which case you will be judged guilty and consigned to hell; or, you can fall at the foot of the cross and have the Advocate, the Lord Jesus Christ, plead your defense before the Father, in which case you will be acquitted of your transgressions and spend eternity in heaven. The time is near and the choice is yours, choose wisely dear friend, be saved from this perverse generation, cry out to the Lord Jesus Christ this day and your sins will be removed from you as far as the east is from the west. And turning to Christ in faith the grace and peace of God fill your heart to overflowing.
Copyright (c) 2009 Immutable Word Ministries (”…the word of our God stands forever….” Isa. 40:8).
Recent Comments