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Repentance!! By Charles Spurgeon

You Cover Me

God's Verdict over Mankind.

God has built a case against mankind in His supreme court. Romans 3:9-18 lays out His charges against us.

No One Is Righteous - [Because, no one seeks God and no one fears and reveres Him]

[9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

10 as it is written: 

"None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 

12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, 

not even one." 

13 "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." 

"The venom of asps is under their lips." 14 "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." 

15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, 

17 and the way of peace they have not known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."]

Faced with these charges, every honest human being must plead - Guilty!!

Christ is our only hope! (John 3:16, Acts 4:12) Call upon the name of the Lord now and be saved.

On our own we can never satisfy and meet the standards of Christ. He said it Himself, without me you can do nothing. John 14:6 "6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Come running, all of you into the mercy seat.

ASK ME HOW!!!

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.1.14.ESV

Biblically Defining Sin and the Sinner.

What is sin?
It is anything we do, say, think which offends God and go against His will, person, authority, word, moral standard. Whether this offense is done consciously or unconsciously, does not matter. When it happens, we have sinned.

The Bible has several terms to express the range of our offense to God. Sin is therefore missing the mark, going astray, transgressing, rebelling and being in a godlessness state (i.e: utterly wicked).
The result is total death and eternal separation from God.

The sinner therefore is whosoever that has that natural inbuilt capacity and ability to sin. 

Hence the Bible declares that this is the condition of every single human beings.
Rom. 3:10-12, 23. Bad news!

Rom. 3:24-26. Good news!

The discourse that expound on the two above mentioned realities (Bad news and Good news) is what we refer to as the Gospel Message. This message is destined for every single human being on the face of the earth.

It is therefore imperative that we understand and recognize that man is not a sinner because he sins but he sins because he is a sinner. 

In other words it is not our bad deeds that turn us into sinners deserving God's wrath but rather our fallen nature and total depravity which compel us to carry out bad deeds and dishonor God, that is what earn us the qualification of Sinners.

We are born this way... Fallen creatures! One may as well say that it is over for us even before we could start. True! But thank be to God for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! He is our open door to mercy and grace.


Kiss the Son and Live!!!

Amen.

James 1:2-3

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1:2‭-‬3 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/jas.1.2-3.ESV