ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 77

                                             ONE HEARTBEAT             AWAY

       
        PART 77

(copied from Mark Cahill's Book)

Charles Spurgeon said;

"The heart of Christ became like a reservoir 
in the midst of the mountains. All the tributary
streams of iniquity and every drop of the sins
of His people, ran down and gathered into one
vast lake, deep as hell and shoreless as eternity.
All these met, as it were in Christ's heart, and
He endured them all."

He was the only One who could wipe out the
sin of all mankind, and He did just that for us.

Spurgeon said this about this selfless act of 
God's Son:  "the marvel of heaven and earth,
of time and eternity, is the atoning death of
Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings
more glory to God than all creation."

There is nothing we could do to save ourselves.
Any current good deed would be the right thing
only for that moment, and it wouldn't pay for
anything past. We were spiritually bankrupt;
only a sinless person could pay our debt:

"For when we were yet without strength, in
due time Christ died for the ungodly."

For scarcely for a righteous man will one
die: yet peradventure for a good man some
would even dare to die. 

But God commendeth  His love toward us,
in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us. 

Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

For if, when we were enemies, we were 
reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled we shall be saved by His life."
(Romans 5: 6-10)


I was talking to a guy 
in the mall one day, 
trying to make him
understand what the    
blood of Jesus had 
done for him. As we
were talking the alarm
buzzer went off because
the salesperson had
forgotten to remove the security tag from an 
item. 

I asked the guy "if someone left the security
tag on your jeans and you walked out of a department store, what would happen?" He
replied that the alarm would go off.  I said, 
"Here is a word picture for you, imagine 
that the gates of heaven have sensors and you walk through, only one thing will set the alarm
 off, what would that be?"  

His answer was  "My sin."

I said  "exactly, but if all of your sins have
 been  forgiven and washed away, can you 
walk through those gates once you walk off
planet earth forever?"

His eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Yes!"
Just like none of us wants that alarm to go off
when we walk out of a store , we most definitely don't want that alarm to go off when we try to enter heaven.
The blood of Jesus, when you trust in it, will 
wipe away all of your sins. Period.  No alarm
will be going off as you approach the throne
of God.

next post  tomorrow 3rd February