Jesus shed His pure, sinless, spotless, blood on the cross at Calvary for your sins, my sins, and the sins of the world! He held His arms open wide and said: “For All You Do, My Shed Blood Is Just For You.” Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Billy Graham states: “Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation. He paid the penalty for our sin and redeemed us, meaning that he bought us back. The penalty for our sin and rebellion is death. Jesus stepped out of heaven and said: ‘I’ll take that death.’ He voluntarily laid down His life and took the penalty we deserve. That’s what the Cross is all about. The blood of Jesus Christ not only redeems us, it justifies us. Being justified means more than being forgiven. I can say that I forgive you, but I can’t justify you. God not only forgives the past, He clothes you in righteousness as though you had never committed a sin. Yet, it cost the blood of His Son on the CROSS.” Today is your date with destiny. The Holy Spirit has been drawing you to Jesus for some time now. Don’t reject Him as you have done in the past! The Rich Man had a good memory in hell. Look at verse 25. In hell you’ll be alive. You’ll be conscious, and in full exercise of both your mental and physical faculties. You’re thinking to yourself, “I Am Not a Sinner.” Many people in American culture today think that they are not a sinner! In Romans 3:10 the Apostle Paul states: “There is none righteous, no, not one.” Romans 3:23 states: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Sin is doing wrong when we know to do what is right. Sin is missing God’s standard of perfection. Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and God placed them in paradise in the Garden of Eden. Everything was perfect. God told them to never eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil for their eyes would be opened, meaning they would come to realize that they are sinners. They disobeyed their God and they realized that they are sinners! All of their descendants past, present, and future are born sinners because we have inherited their sin nature. Don’t Do It! Don’t Reject Jesus!
