March 29, 2013

• from the wrath of the Lamb ~ Good Friday

  Nothing can save sinners from the wrath of the Lamb...
  

  Revelation 6:12  When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13  and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14  The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15  Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16  calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17  for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

  but the precious blood of the spotless Lamb...
  

  

  “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"

  John 3:36  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

  Romans 3:21  But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22  the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24  and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25  whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26  It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
  

  Right now God is commanding you to repent and believe, so you might be saved from His just wrath by grace through faith in the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. One day the Lord Jesus Christ will return to judge the living and the dead, and if you have not believed in Him, you will not be hidden from His wrath –– His wrath will remain on you –– and you will not be able to stand before Him, and you will be cast off into eternal punishment and everlasting fire.

  
  Acts 17:29  Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30  The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31  because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

  32  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 33  So Paul went out from their midst. 34  But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

   

  Will you repent, will you cry out to Jesus, will you join the apostle Paul, Dionysius, Damaris, and myself –– and believe and be saved from the wrath of the Lamb?

  Psalm 130
  1  Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
  2  O Lord, hear my voice!
  Let your ears be attentive
  to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
  3  If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
  O Lord, who could stand?
  4  But with you there is forgiveness,
  that you may be feared.

  Hebrews 9:22 ... without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins...

  26 ... he [Christ] has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27  And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28  so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

  
  Joel 3
  12  Let the nations stir themselves up
  and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
  for there I will sit to judge
  all the surrounding nations.
  13  Put in the sickle,
  for the harvest is ripe.
  Go in, tread,
  for the winepress is full.
  The vats overflow,
  for their evil is great.

  14  Multitudes, multitudes,
  in the valley of decision!
  For the day of the LORD is near
  in the valley of decision.
  15  The sun and the moon are darkened,
  and the stars withdraw their shining.
  16  The LORD roars from Zion,
  and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
  and the heavens and the earth quake.
  But the LORD is a refuge to his people,
  a stronghold to the people of Israel.
  

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  Acts 10:42  And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. 43  To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

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  Related:

  • Resurrection Sunday: Two Responses to the Son (Psalm 2)
  • At Calvary: Can you say, "I'm with Him"?
  • Bible Reading: Lamentations 1:12-Is His Sacrifice nothing to you?

  Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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