DEATH BY LETHAL INJECTION

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. —Psalms 5:4-6

Consider the following attributes of God.

1. He hates evil and loves righteousness.
2. He can not lie.
3. He is a God of justice.
4. He is love.

How can you reconcile the truth that God hates all workers of iniquity to the assurance that God so loved the world?

At the cross of Christ: “But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God” (1 Corinthians 1:23-24. It is as there that Justice met Grace as the wrath of God was poured out upon Jesus because of our sins. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

It is essential that we understand that the God of Justice never compromised the law found in Ezekiel 18:4: “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Exodus 34:7 declares that God “will by no means clear the guilty.” Jesus the author of the New Testament never compromised concerning this principle: “And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:27).

Therefore any one who comes to Jesus must understand that as the Living Word of God, Jesus demands your death! There is no plea bargaining; there is no legal loop hole to crawl out of. You have sinned against the Almighty and as such you are an enemy of the state and as such you are herby sentenced to the death of the cross!

The justice of God demands that it be so.

His mercy commands it!

God’s unconditional acceptance of you just as you were was joined with his unconditional command of your “execution” at the cross of Christ. It was there that your sin died of lethal injection of the precious Blood of the spotless Lamb! “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin” (Romans 6:6)

God in His mercy never reconciled your old man to himself; you were reconciled to God as a new man in Christ.