Judgement Day

Many Christians believe that one day they will stand before the Lord and give an account of their lives. If they have been good enough, the Lord may have mercy on them and let them into Heaven. If not… Well, we don’t want to talk about that.

I believed that for a long time, and I lived in fear of rejection and condemnation most of my life. But I was wrong. Dead wrong. If you have asked Jesus to save you, forgive you, and give you His life to live because you were dead in your sins, then Jesus was judged FOR you when He died on the cross. The cross became your Judgment Day when Jesus was judged for your sins. When you by faith asked Jesus to save you, he forgave ALL YOUR SINS.

“When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and He forgave all our sins” (Colossians 2:13 NCV).

Sin has to be paid for. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Someone has to pay the bill. Someone has to die. Either you let Jesus die FOR you, or else you die… become eternally separated from life (death). Jesus became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21). God poured His wrath out on the sin that Jesus became and took away the sins of all those who asked Jesus by faith to save them. That was your Judgment Day. There will never be another for you because when Jesus died He said, “It is finished!”

So, you ask, “What about the times I commit sin after salvation?” Those sins are already forgiven. Covered by the blood of Jesus. When you sin, you simply confess it. Confess means, “to agree with what God says about it.” You agree with God that you have kicked Him off the stool of your life and started living independently which is the essence of sin. Then you STOP sinning. The sin is already forgiven. Jesus took away ALL your sins… even those you have not yet committed. Because when Jesus died on the cross, ALL your sins were in the future, were they not?

​You think about that…

Blessings,

Kenny