— Jeremiah 9:23-24 —————

we are born into this world in a fallen state, unrighteous. (Ro 3:23 3:9-23) While withholding punishment, GOD exercises Judgement by convicting us of sin, righteousness & judgement. (Mark 1:15 Luke 13:3 John 3:16-21 John 16:8-9 Ro 2:4-5 Ro 3:9-23) HE also graciously offers to restore us into HIS Righteousness via HIS Lovingkindness. (Isaiah 1:18 55:6-7 Matt 11:29-30 John 3:16 John 6:37. 1 John 1:9. Ro 2:4
Ro 10:13 Heb 2:3) If we reject HIS offer, we only have the sentence of HIS Judgement left to receive. (John 3:18-21 Heb 2:3 10:26-27). If we choose life by humbly submitting to HIS conviction, we can escape eternal punishment through faith, repentance & regeneration.(Isaiah 1:18 45:21-23 Matt 6:33, 2 Cor 7:10, Mark 16:16 John 3:16 John 5:24 John 6:35-40 John 12:44-45, John 14:6, Titus 3:3-8, 1 Tim 2:3-6)

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in hell chose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock, it is opened.”

Indeed, to man, it may seem that some unbelievers are more righteous, more loving, even more faithful (to their god for example), as compared to some Christians. But in God’s eyes, all men have fallen short of the glory of God, which is the very expression of God, and which is part of God’s original intention in creating Man. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he said, “Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.” (Isa 6:5) Later Isaiah also says “For we are all as an unclean one, and all our righteousness are as a filthy garment, and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, as the wind, take us away.” This is the true state of man! (Isa 64:6)

But God has provided for us more than redemption by the blood of Christ. For of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption. (1 Cor 1:30) It to me parallels what the father did for his prodigal son when he returned to his father. The father said to his servants, “Bring the foremost robe and clothe him and give a ring for his hand and sandals for the feet; and having brought the fatted calf, kill it; and having eaten, we might be merry.” We who have been clothed with the righteousness of Christ only then are justified before God. We who have been separated from the world unto Christ only then can be holy for God. We who partake of Christ as our Passover lamb, the One who has been killed, only then are saved, even ransomed from our sins.

Ultimately, unbelievers not only choose to remain at enmity with God, and therefore send themselves into the judgement reserved for the devil and his angels, but yet will declare that God is righteous in all His judgement on them. “Great and marvellous are Your works, Lord, God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! Who might never fear You, Lord, and might never glorify Your name? Because only You are holy. Because all the nations will come and will worship before You, because Your righteous judgments are manifested.” (Rev 15:3-4)

David

Did Jesus pay the full penalty for our sins? If he did not pay the full penalty for our sins, what would happen to us? We would all be lost. Here is the big question – are the wages of sin, death or eternal torment? We know the answer (Rom 6:23). but what does our fellow Christians say? Eternal torment. Very well then, if the wages of sin is eternal torment, can you show me where Jesus paid that penalty? In other words, if Jesus paid the full penalty, and if the full penalty is eternal torment, then Jesus should be suffering when? Now. But the fact is, Jesus died on a Friday. So if Jesus paid the full penalty by his death, as the cross demonstrates, and he did not suffer eternally, then either he got a major discount, or we are all lost or wages of sin is not eternal torment.

So if you believe in the cross, all we are asking is tio show us where Jesus paid that penalty that you say is the wages of sin is – eternal torment. Did Jesus suffer infinitely? Yes he did. He suffered infinitely, but he did not suffer eternally. It was without measure? Yes. But it was not without measure of time. There is a difference; it hurts infinitely, but it did not hurt eternally. Do you get the difference? Jesus suffered infinitely, it was beyond measure and we cannot even fathom. But he did not suffer eternally. In fact the bible says in Isaiah 53 that the penalty of our transgression was laid upon him. So, He suffered what the wicked will suffer in the last days and Jesus did not suffer forever. Just show us where Jesus paid eternal torment and if Jesus did not pay it, then we are all lost or that’s not the wages of sin. Did Jesus die? Oh yeah he did. He paid that. And if that is what he paid, then that’s what the wages of sin is – death.

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