From the Pulpit...

Jesus Christ has addressed all of humanity, both living and dead, with His work. Those alive at the time of His death and those who come thereafter, like ourselves, know what He has done and can respond to it. Those who died during the wicked time of Noah know their judgment is sealed, like all others of unbelief during the Old Testament times. To those who rejected God during the time of Noah, Christ’s message was a message of judgment. But to those who are alive right now today, it is a message of the provision of salvation—and, if rejected, of certain future judgment. Christ died for sinners just like us all, the perfect Lamb for sinful people, in order to bring us to God. He died and then rose again from the dead. In between His death and resurrection, He made a proclamation of his victory over sin and death, that victory which we can share with Him if we turn from sin and acknowledge Him as Lord and Savior. Christ’s work and message is a message to you as an individual, and to the world of individuals who wonder what Good Friday is all about. Simple question: what are you going to do with it? Are you so happy with your life apart from Jesus that you will await the Lord’s proclamation of judgment to you too? Or will you believe in Him now so that your sins can be placed into Him and judged back on that day when He once died for sins, the just for the unjust, with the purpose of bringing us to God?