The Guilty Sinner's Due

We live in a society today, friends, where people break laws and get away with it. It seems the richer you are and the more famous you are, the more crimes you can commit and not pay any penalty whatsoever. It's a crime-infested society and a lawless generation that believes it can get away with just about anything.

My Bible even speaks about this very thing in Ecclesiastes 8.11, which declares, Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Yes, friends, we have a lawless bunch today that breaks the law with impunity and dares anybody to do anything about it. Kids smoke marijuana in broad daylight and dare you to do anything about it.

People walk around in their underwear or less and dare you to say anything about it. There are laws against indecent exposure, but they're not enforced. But whether sinful man knows his guilt or not, there is a settling day for all the guilty lawbreakers.

My Bible says so in Exodus 34.7, and that by no means should clear the guilty. And that is my text today, friends. And the title of my message today is The Guilty Sinner and His Due.

I must warn you and I must warn men that because of the strict justice of God, every sin is worthy of death. The guilty sinner must be told of his due penalty that awaits him, that hangs over him like a sword of Damocles, dripping with blood, and the blood is his own blood. The condition of man is bad.

A man in his natural state drinks iniquity like water, so says Job. People think they are okay in their own eyes, for they reckon they're not as bad as some others. But right after you're born and old enough to talk, to go about, you start speaking lies, your feet are swift to evil.

The Word of God has this to say about sinful man. There is none that doeth good. No, not one.

There is none righteous, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Listen to me, dear sinner friend. If you get what's come to you, if you get your due, you'll be sent to hell.

Hell is a prison for all eternity. And every person who dies outside of Christ's blood for the forgiveness of sins will bust hell wide open when they die. Every sin is worthy of death, and God is a God who must punish sin.

God is a God of justice, and the sentencing of the law must be carried out upon all guilty lawbreakers. Men must hear the preached Word of God and be brought to a verdict about themselves. They must be made to see they are guilty, guilty, guilty, and a holy and righteous God will by no means clear the guilty.

Men need mercy today, and bless God, it's a day of mercy still. God's got plenty of mercy for any and every sinner, the sight of hell. But a man must get lost before he can be saved.

There must be a verdict on his life. He must be made to see his just due for his crimes committed against the sovereign, that he is not only broken the law of God by sin time and time again, numerous times since he's been able to walk or talk. And those sins add up to treason against the holy sovereign.

There must be a hanging, or a guillotine, or a sword must fall, or a firing squad must be called to order to point their rifles. Head is guilty, head. God's penalty for sin is death, and he will by no means clear the guilty.

Men must be brought to a verdict about themselves, to see their guilt, and that they're not only on their way to hell, but that they deserve to go there. Once a guilty sinner gets to that place of a verdict, he will then feel his need of a pardon for sin in the person of Jesus Christ who, in their stead, God's almighty son died on Calvary's cross for sinners. We used to sing a hymn in our churches of old about the blood, that there was power in the blood, that there is wonder, work, and power in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, to cleanse a man's heart, to get his sins under the blood, and get entrance into the kingdom of God.

Listen, friends, I know I am a sinner, and I need a substitute for sin in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and so do you. So do you, friend. You are not a sinner because you sin, but rather you sin because you are a big sinner, and if you're ever going to be saved, you need saving faith, and God must give it to you.

We live in a day of apostate church and a watered-down gospel that has been diluted of all its saving power. Us politically correct preachers have gotten out a pair of pliers and pulled all the teeth out of the gospel, and men fill our churches today by making a decision, and then they go on to hell. But men must be first brought to a verdict to see their guilt, to admit their crimes of high treason that are worthy of death.

The Bible declares, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Men must be arraigned by the evidence against them, which is their sins, and they must be made to tremble beneath God's unyielding and unchanging strict law in all its severity, and they must be brought to a verdict about themselves before they will see any need of a savior from sin. Isaiah speaks of their dreadful danger.

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Fearlessness hath surprised the hypocrites who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire, who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings. And if you read in Isaiah a few verses down from that, friends, it talks about the judge of all the earth, for the Lord is our judge.

The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us.

Oh dear sinner friend, this is a day of mercy. Through the sinner's substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the friend of sinners. You could be the biggest sinner in your town tonight and find mercy that is great and free.

Listen to me. Jesus came into this world doing good. He healed the sick.

He gave sight to the blind. He healed the leper's spots. He made the deaf to hear and the dead he raised to life.

He can take a dead man today who is dead and give him life, life I tell you, everlasting life. He can wash the leper's stain of sin from you and make you as white as snow. Jesus came from heaven down to earth doing good, feeding the hungry and bringing joy to the weary and sad.

Yet what happened? Men refused to come to a verdict about themselves and instead they cried out away with him. And after they beat him and mocked him and spit on him, they stripped him, then nailed him to a cross. The cross is the place where wicked men sought to get rid of him.

But by his death, the cross becomes a place where his saving power flows out to all guilty sinners who come to a verdict about themselves and feel their need and come in repentance, confessing they are sinners and own them as their savior and lord. If you have not trusted this blessed savior friend, receive him now before it's too late. Oh while it's still a day of mercy, soon he will come in judgment on the world and mete out the sinner's due in justice.

Oh when his anger shall burn as an oven and you shall meet him as your judge, he will by no means clear the guilty. The gavel of justice will fall on your guilty head as the sentencing of the law is carried out to the fullest punishment which is to be bound hand and foot and cast into devil's hell. Repent, repent before it's too late and trust him.