Seeking the Lord – Dr. Charles Stanley

working. It would be a shame if you left here today. It would be a shame if you heard this message and left it aside. It would be worse than a shame, because remember this. You and I are responsible for all the truth we hear. And all you've done is listen to the truth. And all I've really told you is: listen, seek the Lord. Talk to Him, listen to Him, build a relationship. Observe how He works, observe His work in a way that you can benefit from it, that you can become closer to Him, more intimate with Him.

So that He can use you to the fullest, your potential. You don't want to waste your life. You get nothing but a ride. And that is my prayer for you. If you have never trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, here is what you can do. Realize that you have sinned against God and that your sins, the Bible says and God says, have separated you; In other words, between you and God is that sin. And that sin blocks his blessing. It hinders what He wants to do in your life. He will radically change your life forever. Listen, you will be eternally grateful that He endured you and was patient with you until the moment you trusted Him as your Savior.

If you ask Him to forgive you your sins, not because of how good you have been, you have no kindness, but because of the fact that He went to the cross, He laid down His life and paid the price. You say, "What is this price?" God is a just God. Look at this carefully. God is a just God, which means that he only does what is right. This is what he said. "The day you eat from the tree of this garden, in this garden, you will suffer." What He was saying is simply this. When he said, "The soul that sins, it shall die." "The punishment of the sin is the death".

Well, how can God forgive you when he says that the soul that sins will die spiritually, eternally? That's how he did it. When God the Father, who gave the Law, sent his Son to die on the cross, He was his perfect Son, the perfect sacrifice. He killed His Son on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for your sins, the only sacrifice that could possibly have been acceptable because He was perfect. And it is his death and God's acceptance of his death as payment for the sin of the world, so that anyone who comes to Him based on the fact that he is accepting Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, be forgiven of his sins.

Your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. You are forever a child of God. That's what can happen to you right now, if you let Him do it. By giving your life to Him, and from this moment on make Him the priority of your life, everything changes. And Father, how grateful we are, we don't have to beg. We don't have to beg. We don't have to wonder. We don't have to doubt. We simply know that everything you have said is absolutely the truth. And may everyone who is willing to ask You to forgive their sin and surrender their life to Your Lordship, Your path and Your will, change everything for all eternity.

And we are grateful beyond our ability to express thanks, in the name of Jesus, amen.