Jesus died on Calvary's Cross to satisfy the wrath of God the Father. You and I live in a corrupt and sinful world where almost everyone is a victim, and no one's a villain. We all demand justice; that is, except for God's justice. We tend to pour out our wrath on people and situations that frustrate us, but God's not allowed to pour out His wrath? There's a word in Biblical studies called, "propitiation." The idea is this: your sin triggers the wrath of God. God is holy and you are unholy. It would be unholy for Him not to respond in a holy way toward your sin. The Lord's wrath comes in two forms. First, there is passive wrath where God lets you do whatever you want. However, eventually, it culminates in active wrath, the second kind, where God makes you pay for all you've done. Some of you reading this right now are living in the path of the wrath of God.
The Bible describes a cup in the presence of God with your name on it, and every time you sin, that transgression is accounted for in that cup. You are storing up everything for judgment day. When Jesus said, "Take this cup from Me," He knew that He was going to take a cup with your name on it and He would drink every drop of God's wrath in your place for your sins...and He remained awake all night before His passion and death. "Abba Father, if there's another way, yet not My will, but Your will be done." Dear one, either you keep on filling up that cup so that when you die, you'll drink every last drop of God's wrath, or Jesus drank your cup and emptied it, enduring the wrath of God on the Cross in your place for your sins. The choice is yours.
Will you receive Jesus as your Savior, Lord, and Friend today?
"What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
"O precious is the flow
that makes me white as snow;
no other fount I know;
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
"For my pardon this I see:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this my plea:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
"Nothing can for sin atone:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Naught of good that I have done:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
"This is all my hope and peace:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness:
nothing but the blood of Jesus."
(Robert Lowry)
