NU169273@vm1.nodak.edu (04/05/91)
GUILTY AS CHARGED! ================== If a person that is guilty of a crime goes to court, his only hope is a plea for MERCY and not justice. If he gets justice according to the law, there is no hope for anything but the maximum penalty. Friend, if you received justice for your crime, you would not be walking free on this earth. Your crime has nothing to do with the laws of the land, but with THE LAW OF GOD. THE WHOLE WORLD IS GUILTY. -------------------------- "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." Romans 3:19 God says you are guilty. You may say, "I don't FEEL guilty." God has a WRITTEN case against you. Trying to lead a good life and keep the commandments won't work. The Bible says, "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10 THE CHARGE AGAINST YOU. ----------------------- "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23 YOU are a born sinner that commits sin against God. You are guilty of "being a sinner" and "committing sins". Perhaps part of the sin in your life is ADULTRY, PREMARITAL SEX, HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, DRUGS, DRUNKENNESS, MONEY WORSHIP, COVETOUSNESS, HATRED, STEALING, LYING, ENVY, or others. You may say, "Not Me! I'm a pretty good and decent person." But God says, "There is none righteous, no, not one:" Romans 3:10. "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." Romans 3:12 THE PENALTY. ------------ You already know! It is hell. Jesus preached more on hell than He did on heaven, because He said more people are going there. Jesus said hell is a place in the heart of this earth where there is weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and the fire is not quenched! The Bible says, "The wicked shall be turned into hell..." Psalms 9:17 WAIT! YOU CAN BE JUSTIFIED. ----- --------------------- You cannot be justified, (just like you never have sinned), by the LAW of GOD. You have broken it. Its purpose is to define sin so that you see yourself a guilty sinner. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Romans 3:20 But you can be justified through Jesus. "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" Romans 3:24 SOMEONE PAID FOR YOU CRIME. --------------------------- You don't have to die and go to hell. The law and justice have been satisfied by Jesus Christ, when He died on the cross to pay the penalty that was against you. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" Galations 3:13 He then rose from the dead to show His power and victory over sin and death. He is alive in heaven and waiting for YOU to turn from your sins and cast yourself at His feet, pleading GUILTY and asking for MERCY. If you will come to Jesus in this manner, He will save you and change your life. You will have peace in your soul, because you will justified and no longer condemned. "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already," John 3:18. SEEK CHRIST TODAY! ------------------ "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 55:6-7 "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13 If you will call on God in prayer right now, and really mean business by letting go and trusting your soul to Him, He will save you. K. Paulson 222 Stockbridge Hall N. D. S. U. Fargo, ND 58105