Desserts vs Grace -
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
It
is an interesting fact that in this day of godlessness and lawlessness
so much is being said about what we all deserve! Ads in the newspapers
and commercials on radio and TV ask:
“Don’t you deserve the very finest automobile?”
“Don’t your children deserve the best?”
“Doesn’t your baby deserve Pampers?”
And even, “Doesn’t your dog deserve Alpo?”
Well,
do you really deserve the finest car? Please don’t answer that! Do your
children deserve the best — always? If so you surely have model
children — not at all like their parents! And does your baby deserve
Pampers? That’s funny! And does your dog deserve Alpo? That’s
ridiculous! Dogs do not “love” or obey you from any moral consideration,
nor, for that matter, does your baby, lovable as the darling is. And as
to you and your children — including the baby, the Bible has something
to say on this subject.
The
Bible says that “by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all men for that ALL have sinned [i.e., in
Adam]” (Rom. 5:12). You and I were “in Adam” when he sinned. When he
sinned, we sinned. Deny this and you might as well agree with the
murderer who argued: “My feet and legs didn’t do it; my ears and nose
didn’t do it; only my one hand and one or two other parts of my body did
it, so the rest should go free.”
We
believers in Christ should thank God that our blessed Lord took upon
Him our just desserts when He died for our sins at Calvary. This is why
God’s Word says:
“We declare, I say, at this time, His righteousness for the remission of sins… that [God] might be just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.“Where is boasting then? It is excluded” (Rom. 3:25-27).
Les Feldick Ministries
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Kinta, OK 74552
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