GOD HATES A FALSE BALANCE

“A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.” (Proverbs 11:1)

When Christ died on Calvary’s tree, God did not punish an innocent man by punishing Christ for the sins of someone else. That would have been a false balance of justice and a false balance is an abomination to God. Christ died in absolute justice. He received a just weight that is the delight of His Father. The Father made Christ sin for His people (II Cor. 5:23) and then put Him to death in justice. Now God’s justice is satisfied for all of the sin of His elect. The salvation of those people is sure and certain. God will never let anyone for whom Christ died perish. It would be unjust to damn someone if Christ already died for their sin. That would be a false balance that God hates. The Lord will bring all of His elect to repentance and faith. Their salvation does not depend on them making a decision. God will give them eternal life because Christ earned it for them. The salvation of God’s elect is sure and certain because God is a just God who delights in a just weight.

“He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.” (Proverbs 17:15)

How this can be, I do not know, but it is so…. when Christ was made sin on Calvary’s tree, He never ceased to be the sinless One. Even when He was made sin, He Himself remained impeccable. He never sinned! It is equally true that when He who knew no sin was made sin, it became His sin. He owned it, felt all the shame, guilt, and defilement of it, and was forsaken by God on account of it. He experienced everything about sin with the exception of the commission of it. Here is the glory of this - just as my sin literally became His sin, His righteousness literally became my righteousness. With His righteousness, I the sinner am really one who has never sinned.

Pastor Todd Nibert

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

Our Lord Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make God love His people. Christ came into the world BECAUSE God loved these chosen ones. Our Lord did not come into this world so that God would forgive the sins of His elect. Christ came into the world to pay for their sin and appease God’s holy justice against sin by the shedding of His own blood. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John 4:10) Child of God, always remember that God sending His Son and giving His Son was the result of His love, not the cause of it. If God enables us to truly see these wondrous truths, we will gladly claim that, “We love Him, because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)

Pastor David Eddmenson

A faulty message will produce faulty methods, and a man-centered message will produce man-pleasing methods. If God’s glory is not our aim, then man’s approval will be. For these reasons and more, we preach the Gospel, which is the power of God, and keep our methods in line with that Gospel.