Skull Hill
Have you ever been
To the place called Calvary?
Come and see…it's darkness,
It’s joy, it’s shame, it’s love
It’s timelessness.
‘Tis upon this mount
The crooked are made straight,
The lame rise and walk,
The blind, for the first time, see.
‘Tis up there between two,
Hung one…
Who purchased me,
Who purchased you.
According to the message of the Bible, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."1 We’ve missed God’s mark! We are all members of the fallen human race, and the marks of sin are upon the face of all society, both small and great. The rich, the poor, the ignorant, the educated, the bad, the good, and all the in-betweens: all of us have sinned.
According to the message of the Bible, “the wages (penalty) of sin is death.”2 All men die because we are all under sin’s penalty – death. When someone breaks a law of the land in which he lives, there is a penalty that awaits him when he is convicted. The penalty that awaits us for having transgressed God’s Law is death. According to the message of the Bible, God Himself fully met the demand of the law when He became our substitute and died in our place. He did this nearly 2,000 years ago, when He visited the earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”3
According to the message of the Bible, after Christ died for our sins, “He was buried and rose again the third day.”4 And because He lives we too may have the hope, as well as the blessed assurance, of the living eternally beyond life as we presently know it.
How can we have this life? By faith, it’s ours for the asking. Believe the message of the Bible. Believe that Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection paid in full the sin debt, that we, in and of ourselves, could never pay.
He that believeth on him (Jesus Christ) is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.5
To reject this message would be like a convicted man standing before the judge. The judge offers to pardon the defendant, to have mercy on him, the man, however, replies to the judge: “No thanks, I don’t really believe you. I don’t want it.” Thus the man receives his due punishment for his crime.
If you reject Jesus Christ, you reject God’s mercy for you as a guilty sinner. To go out into eternity without the Lord Jesus Christ would be a disastrous tragedy that could never be changed.
By Jim Ollis
1.Romans 3:23
2.Romans 6:23
3.Romans 5:8
4.I Corinthians 15:3-5
5.John 3:18
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