THE PERFECT JUDGE, THE PERFECT INTERCESSOR

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.

And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”

Ecclesiastes 3:15-17

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

You never get away with anything.

Maybe you have heard that expression used before.

Do you believe it? Do you really believe that a person can go unpunished for a wrong they committed?

You might but you had better not if you proclaim yourself a believer in the Lord, the perfect Judge.

Look at today’s scripture from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3:

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.

And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.” Ecclesiastes 3:15-17

Sin has been around almost as long as man and woman themselves. One need only go back to the Book of Genesis and read the account of the fall to know that (Genesis 3). Since then, human beings have been afflicted with the propensity for wickedness. What God made to be perfectly good in every way was now infected and tainted, able to do wrong as well as right. And despite God’s best efforts to warn His people about the consequences for disobedience and transgression, still mankind has ignored His warnings and continued to violate His commandments and expectations.

Nothing has changed today. What is has already been and what’s ahead will be as it has been before, that is until Jesus returns and hits the reset button on creation, a day when we will all be held accountable by the perfect Judge.

Until then, God sees His people insert wickedness where judgment and justice and righteousness should be. He sees everything under the heavens (Job 28:24) and thus no sin will go unnoticed, no wrong then will go unpunished. For in today’s word, we read where God will call the past into account and a day is going to come when not only the wicked but the righteous as well will be called into judgment.

We had best remember that. No one will go unjudged and no one will be able to stand before the Lord, the perfect Judge, in innocence. All will be found guilty. All will deserve to be condemned and experience the deepest measure of God’s wrath.  

Sounds pretty bleak, doesn’t it, and it is. It should be a stark reminder that no one can save themselves before the perfect Judge. In order to survive, one needs a Savior.

Enter the perfect Intercessor, Jesus.

For when all looks hopeless for us before God, those who placed their hope and trust in Jesus Christ will find themselves justified in and through Him. In other words, they will stand before God just as if they had never sinned with their penalty already paid, paid by the blood Jesus shed on Calvary’s cross as He bore the sins of all mankind during His crucifixion. He took the punishment we all deserved and He did it out of love to save us.

Yes, when God is about to declare a Christian guilty, Jesus steps in and tells His Father to pardon us for He has already paid the price.

Friends, that is the fundamental essence of salvation in its purest sense. That is the good news of the Gospel we’re to share with others.

There is a time to come when all will be judged for every deed they committed. They will be judged by a perfect Judge in God and the only thing that will save them is the intervention of the perfect Intercessor Jesus.

Have you accepted Jesus as your Savior today so that you might be pardoned when the day of perfect judgment comes?

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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