CAN YOU PAY THE PENALTY?

SAY YOU'RE CAUGHT SPEEDING. COP GIVES YOU A TICKET. YOU GO DOWN TO
THE COURT HOUSE OR WHERE EVER, PAY THE FINE AND YOU GO ON WITH YOUR
LIFE.
SAY YOU'RE BUSTED FOR SHOPLIFTING. YOU'RE ARRESTED, GET OUT ON BAIL,
GO TO TRIAL. YOUR PUNISHMENT IS A FINE OR JAIL TIME DEPENDING ON YOUR
RECORD. SO YOU PAY THE FINE OR DO THE TIME AND YOU GO ON WITH YOUR
LIFE.
WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED (DISOBEYED GOD) IN THE GARDEN, THE FINE,
THE PENALTY WAS DEATH....DEATH!!
YOU CAN'T PAY THE FINE AND GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE.
SEE, GOD INTENDED FOR ADAM (US) TO LIVE FOR ETERNITY....
WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, THEIR ETERNAL LIVES WERE OVER. THERE WAS NO GOING ON WITH THEIR LIVES. LIFE WAS GOING TO END IN ORDER TO FULFILL
THE PUNISHMENT.....
HOWEVER, OUR LOVING CREATOR, ALMIGHTY GOD DID NOT WANT ADAM (US) TO
BE LOST FOREVER. HE FOUND SOMEONE, SOMEONE WHO WAS INNOCENT OF ANY
CRIME TO PAY THE PENALTY THAT ADAM (WE) DESERVED. THAT SOMEONE
HAD TO BE INNOCENT IN ORDER FOR THE SACRIFICE, THE SUBSTITUTION TO BE
VALID; TO CARRY WEIGHT WITH GOD; BECAUSE IF THAT SUBSTITUTE WERE GUILTY
OF SOME OFFENCE OR OTHER,. THEN HE'D BE JUST GETTING WHAT HE DESERVED.....
THAT SOMEONE WAS JESUS CHRIST. HE WAS THE ONE, THE SINLESS ONE WHO
WAS PREPARED BY GOD FOR THE MISSION TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM ETERNAL
DEATH AND SEPARATION FROM GOD.
JESUS' INNOCENT BLOOD WAS SHED TO REDEEM US BACK TO HIM, OUR CREATOR.
IN ADDITION, JESUS WILL TEACH US HOW TO LIVE SINLESS LIVES FOR GODS
GLORY, FOR THAT WAS OUR PURPOSE FROM THE BEGINNING.
YOU CAN GIVE YOUR LIFE BACK TO GOD THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST,
THE SAVIOR. HE'S ALREADY PAID THE PENALTY. SEE ROMANS 10: 9-11

                                                                      RONALD J LAMB