I asked a policeman the other day, "If you saw a man in the act of stealing, would you let him off?"
"No, I would try my best to take him," he replied.
"Well," I said, "You have done many things you ought not, which only God has seen. Can He let you off?"
"Yes," he said, if I ask Him,."
"No, He cannot! If a thief asked you to let him off, could you?"
The policeman did not like standing in the same position with God as a detected thief would be with him. Finally he said he might let the man off, but admitted that, if found out, he would lose his character.
Can God let you off?
I have good news for you―God loves you. He is love. Love is His very nature. He has revealed Himself in two characters: light and love. The law has only one character; it is righteous, and lets off no offender against it. It does not and cannot love.
He came to seek and to save the lost, and so yielded Himself up into the hands of wicked men and allowed them to lift Him up from the earth on a cross of wood, and pierce His hands and feet with nails.
If the price of pardon is so great, how awful must the character of sin be in God's thoughts. Yet men make light of it, going on in danger of death, forgetting their sins, passing the Savior by, and thinking that at any time it suits their convenience God will let them off if they ask Him.
God giving His Son to die is not letting you off, and unless you come to Christ as a guilty sinner, disowning yourself and your ways, and believe on Him unto life everlasting, you will have to bear your own judgment forever in the lake of fire, where God will never let you off.