0219. Another Dead Man in the Road
Another Dead Man in the Road
"Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
"Jesus, when He had cried again with a load voice, yielded up the ghost" (Mat_27:46, Mat_27:50).
1. God is always angry against sin. God is a just God. God deals without mercy when He sends forth judgment against sin.
There are many instances of the judgments of a just and holy God. From the expulsion of Adam and Eve, and the curse upon Cain, through the deluge and the destruction of Babel and God’s wrath against His own people Israel, until this day there are many, many instances of the rightful wrath of a just God.
There also remains a day of judgment for this Godless age. Our Lord is coming in flaming fire taking vengeance. God’s seals and trumpets and vials all tell stories of coming judgments for this inhabited earth. The whole world will reel to and fro like a drunken man. All joy will be darkened and the mirth of the land will be gone.
There remains beyond the judgments of the Second Coming of Christ, another day, when the dead, small and great, will stand before God; when the books shall be opened and God will judge every one whose name is not found in the Book of Life, according to the things written in the books. Then will the wicked be turned into the lake of fire and be tormented, day and night, forever.
2. If God judges sin, and Uzza is dead in the road; if God judges sin and will still judge sin, without mercy, then need we marvel that when Christ became sin for us; that when Christ bore our iniquities and our transgressions, there was, of necessity, another dead Man in the road?
God hid His face from Christ, because Christ stood there in our stead. God’s breach upon Uzza, the popular hero of the hour, the man who seemingly did the right thing, but who before God, did the wholly wicked thing of touching His Ark, is a judgment easy to comprehend, by the side of the fact that God put Christ to grief, and made His soul an offering for sin.
If God could not spare His Son, as His Son went in our place and bore our sins, then how could He spare Uzza?
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR