The Chronicles

As I was preaching from Romans 8 Friday night a person in a vehicle got stuck in the intersection immediately before me as the light turned red. A cop was behind her, and put on her lights and pulled the lady over.

I pointed to the scene and said that if you break the laws of Greenville, the police will arrest you. How much more if you break God's law will you surely pay the penalty for doing so. The woman police officer got out and went to the vehicle of the lady to talk to her through the window, and began writing her a ticket. I began preaching, in the hearing of the police officer, the one pulled over and others standing on the corners, that breaking God's law will not simply get you a ticket like that lady is getting now, but that the price for doing so is death, and just as we have all done what that lady has done, so we have all broken God's law. Except that God doesn't come like that police officer with justice, but God comes in mercy to you now to pardon all of your crimes against Him.

Eventually the police officer got back in her car, and both drove away. I began to preach to those standing by observing the whole scene, How can you pay back God for breaking His law? There is nothing you have that is not His, that He has not given to you. Hell is eternal because you are a penny-less debtor with nothing to pay back God in order to satisfy His justice. Your condition is completely undone. You need a substitute. Christ is willing to stand in your behalf and pay that which you cannot. He is willing now to receive you, to account to your credit His everlasting righteousness before God, that you, the criminal, might be freed from the penalty of the law. It is in Christ that His death is counted for ours, and the law's demands are fulfilled. The law has no power, has no claim, and cannot condemn anyone who believes on Christ and are acquitted by Him. Here, offered to you, is everlasting salvation.