Saving Sinners Judging Sin

It is a good and praiseworthy thing that when Jesus Messiah came the first time it was to conquer our sin and not to conquer the Romans. If Jesus had come to judge the world in righteousness before He came to pay the penalty for the sins we have committed, He would have had to pronounce us all guilty and conquer us all. But now, that He has come and paid the penalty for our crimes, we need to believe in Him, receive Him and profess Him as our atoning sacrifice, our Savior, to be spared from the righteous judgment of God that is to come.

As Adrian Rodgers said, “If a judge acquits a criminal than he becomes a criminal. God had to make a way to deal with sin so that He could remain just and be the justifier of those who believe in Jesus.”

“God set forth Christ as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” [1]

“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” [2]

[1] Romans 3:25-26
[2] 1 Peter 3:18