Long ago in Greece such wise men as Socrates and Plato argued one day as to the forgiveness of sin. Socrates turned to Plato saying...

“It may be that God can forgive sin but I do not see how.”

What Socrates was struggling with was the fact that if God was to remain righteous... He MUST first punish all sin, how then can a ‘Righteous God’ forgive sin yet remain righteous... do you see the dilemma?

For even here on Earth, do we not fully acknowledge that if a court judge is to remain righteous, he must punish all law breakers? Much more then the living God!

And having all sinned... ‘Righteousness’ requires that we must all be punished, that is if a ‘Righteous God’ is to remain righteous. But what is the punishment that God has declared for sin, is it not ‘Eternal Death’? Required to keep the author of sin, Satan... forever bound from God's presence. And without exception we are all guilty and without excuse.

And in such a death without God’s ‘life giving spirit’ to bind the triune nature of life together (body, soul and spirit)... our guilty eternal souls shall remain, though conscious... forever imprisoned... far away from the presence of the living God. Having no covering for sin the accused wait patiently in Hades... waiting for the day when all sin shall be judged (Rev 20:11-13) and due sentenced given. And so sentenced cast into an eternal prison... a prison that was never made to hold man, but made to hold Satan and his angels.

The Good News! 

What hope then for us sinners, how can a righteous God possibly forgive sin, and so save the unrighteous?

At an unimaginable cost... a cost that far exceeds the scope of this blog, our merciful God found a way... a way not only to satisfy His ‘Righteousness’ and thus remain righteous, but to extend His mercy to the ‘Unrighteous’, who Socrates would have declared... “To The Unforgivable”.

Because of the faith God has given to me in His Son Jesus... God no longer sees any of my sins... but the just and righteous punishment for ‘my sins’ laid upon another at the Cross. Jesus, having suffered the righteous wrath of God ‘in my stead’... I today in believing stand clean, righteous and justified before the mighty and living God. Guiltless of any crime and so free from all punishment. For once sin has been atoned for... what need is there of punishment.

So... although I, as do many Christians... still fall so very far below the standard God has set...

• Jesus the Righteous
  • Paying for my sins fulfilled God’s righteousness
  • Being guiltless in life death had no legal authority to hold Him
• The repentant Sinner
  • Now with no outstanding dept... inherits eternal life
• The unrepentant Sinner
  • Will himself satisfy God’s righteous law in death.
  • Guilty... will never raise to life ever again.

Jesus has done ‘ALL’ that is required to atone for my sin, there is nothing I can add to it... nothing at all.
For there is but one price for sin, just one... the death of the sinner. Either you will satisfy the price of sin yourself, or as I... accept Christ’s free gift for your sin

There is no salvation outside of Christ... no not any. God knows your state and every secret deed... yet still, sent His Son to save you. His Son who terrified at the price to pay, cried out in fear...

The Father knowing no other way to save us sent His Son. And His Son... who could have walked away from us at any moment... obedient to His Father’s will and stayed by His love for you and I remained to suffer the horror, shame and pain of the Cross.

How then shall the Father, having seen the terrors suffered by His guiltless Son despised, show mercy to those who standing before Him at the judgement, beg for mercy? No... only in life and only now is this gracious gift offered, now is the day of your salvation... grasp it while you still may.

I was three quarters of the way through finishing the second part of ‘The Olivet Discourse’ when I realised that there ‘maybe’ a slight error in the structure of ‘part 1’. Not wanting to build the rest of the videos on a ‘possible’ minor error I am now investigating if it needs changing or not.

Basically, in my ‘Chronological’ Webpage which can be found here, the question the disciples are asking in Luke 21:7 is clearly relating to the destruction of the temple Jesus mentioned in Luke 21:6, Matthew and Mark verse 2.

However, once they reached the Mount of Olives, the question they ask in Matthew 24:4 and Mark 13:3B regarding something Jesus spoke of on His return to the Mount of Olives, I had always regarded as being Luke 21:9-11 which I suggested in the first video, especially as He repeats it in Matthew 24:7-8 and Mark 13:6-8... and this may well be correct. Although, it may make much more sense if He had included Luke 21:25-36 or at least Luke 21:25-28 on His return to the Mount of Olives from the Temple.

If you should take the time and imagine that Jesus included Luke 21:25-28 on His return to the Mount of Olives and that they may have been the last words He spoke just as they had arrived, their question recorded in Matthew 24:4 and Mark 13:3B becomes even more powerful.

If Jesus had spoken these Words just before He and His Disciples had reached the Mount of Olives...

Then these questions asked, when they then sat on the Mount of Olives make even more sense...

However, I am yet to be convinced, that Jesus repeats almost word for word....

...in Matt 24:7-8 and Mark 13:6-8 is a powerful argument to leave things as the are in my original video (Part 1) located here.

‘God Willing’ I will soon either feel comfortable on building on what I already have started or I’ll make the adjustments and build on those. If any wish to comment, please feel free to email me via the email address at the bottom of the page I will value your opinion.

I have a small website to build this month, for my brother and his friends who are going to ride around the UK on the model of 50cc mopeds they first ever rode, last year they rode from Scotland to Wymondham in Norfolk.

This year I think it is around the south coast of England and Wales, all for a Cancer charity and of cause... for a laugh. I’ll post a link to the site here when I get it up.
Sorry, I forgot. Here’s the link: Wrong Way Down