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“He [God] hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man [the Lord Jesus] whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead” (Acts 17:31).
Last Lord’s day we saw that the resurrection of the Lord Jesus was the sign of God’s full approval of His work on the cross. Today we learn that it is also the assurance that God will judge this world, and that He has set the day when it will happen. When man crucified the Lord Jesus, they thought they had gotten rid of Him. But now He has risen from the dead, and is sitting at God’s right hand in heaven. All power has been given to Him, and one day He will come back to judge this world. Man is not going to get away with that awful crime of crucifying the Lord Jesus.
How happy we who are saved should be, for we know that there cannot possibly be any judgment for us. Judgment is behind us, not ahead of us, for all our sins were borne by the Lord Jesus on the cross. If we realize how terrible God’s judgment will be, we will want to tell others about the Lord Jesus.
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