Guilt Over Sin, and Sin’s Penalty
or
"Handling Your Conscience's Cry"

Because God is eternal, He cannot die or cease to exist.  By the Father putting up his son Jesus against the penalty that must be paid for mankind’s sin (justice—one of God’s characteristics), that which is eternal (The Son) more than met the equivalency of God’s own demand for justice (punishment of sinners).  For, sin is an act against God Himself; He feels this as a pinprick insult to His honor.  We are made in the likeness of His image, yet we have, through Adam’s fallen nature, rejected God’s shining ways of love and all the virtues.  We are ragtag, and each—unless taught in the Scriptures—is making up his or her own moral code and description of ethical conduct.  Some people are “good” only because of their fear of breaking the law.  Some are good—like children—only because others want them so.  Some are pure in heart, but these number in the few.

When it came to Christ on the cross enduring or sin-and-death winning out, Christ was the greater, for God has raised him from the grave.  This was the resurrection, and this was the victory we all have through faith and adoption or adherence in and to the life which Christ now leads at the side of our Father.

“Our Father which art in heaven,” Jesus prayed long before as his instruction to us, and this relationship he spoke of—Father to child—was where he, Jesus, was to take all the followers of him.  The cross is your having new life and release from the penalty burden of your past sins all at one and the same time.

God is eternal.  Christ is eternal.  We, in Christ—that having of the propitiation of the meritorious sacrifice he made—are become eternal.  When Jesus’ blood dropped to the earth, it was the long-sought answer or reply to the blood that has cried out from the earth in the manner of the Genesis 4 account:  God speaks to Cain, “What have you done?  Listen, Your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground, and now you are cursed from the ground that has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.  When you till the soil, it shall no longer yield its full produce for you.  You will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”  Cain is a farmer, and because of this horrendous sin of murder, he learns that he no longer will be a successful farmer.  His life is changed; he will go about with the burden of his sin.  Cain did not have to wait for death, and afterwards, the final judgment; no, he was being slammed already with a hard penalty.

Feeling the burden of one’s sins—guilt—is the desire of the heart for forgiveness and reinstatement into God’s acceptance.  It might also simultaneously be indicator of what you and I have caused God to feel as insult to His honor.When it is that you carry your personal guilt around with you, and get no relief, you are living out in real life the book character "Christian" that John Bunyan wrote about in his famous and once-popular—second only in its sales to the Bible—"Pilgrim's Progress". Why is this self-assault useless? Because you (and I) cannot atone for our sin. Jesus carried his cross, but it was our cross individually he was carrying. Only Christ's blood takes away sin and guilt. It is only a belief in Christ that sets you free! (John 8:36)

We all are in need of a savior.  We can’t get to Heaven on our own.  The gulf is too wide.  But one came—and he still lives—to usher us in, clean, to God’s presence.  And that one is Jesus.  He is our go-between, our mediator, our advocate—Jesus will represent you to the Father in a favorable way.

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