Genesis 13:13
"But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly."
Where would we have to look if we really wanted to have a good idea of how a Holy, Just God looks upon sin? You know, there are some that would say Sodom and Gomorrah was the ultimate picture of the wrath of a Holy God against sinners, in how He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone, "But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all." (Luke 17:29)
Others would go back to the days of Noah, how the LORD destroyed the whole world sparing only eight people, as the ultimate indication of the wrath of God seen in 2 Peter 2:5, "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of Righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly." Certainly that is a chilling picture of His wrath.
But, my friends, if we want to have the most vivid picture, the clearest view of how holy and just God is and how sinful we are, we must consider that He spared not His own Son, "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all." (Romans 8:32)
Our LORD Jesus Christ suffered beyond what any can imagine physically, "As many were astonied at Thee; His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men." (Isaiah 52:14) But more so spiritually, "And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly: and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." (Luke 22:44)
Christ willingly sacrificed Himself in the place of His chosen ones, suffering their agony, for their sins without one complaint, "He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth." (Isaiah 53:7)
May the Spirit keep these blessed Words in our hearts, and when we think we can't go one step further in this evil world, may He cause us to sing to Him: "Hallelujah! What a Savior!"
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