God and His time of grace

God and His time of grace
The entire gospel is a great story and a great promise. It is a book of hope in our 'hopeless  society' . It is not only because people like to hold on to things that  are giving  them hope but because  the gospel it is true!
If it contains God's word we can be sure it is true. Sooner or later God will fulfill his promises;  like He has already done  about coming of Christ.   In Ephesians Paul says; that God's secret plan has now been revealed  to us, it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to His good pleasure. And this is His plan; at the right time He will bring everything  together under the authority of Christ, everything in heaven and on earth. You would ask how?
 Everything by the forgiveness in  Jesus. That was God's secret plan from the beginning of times. Let's look at that.
God used the fact that religious leaders couldn't stand  Jesus'  words. They didn't believe He came from God.  For them leading  their religious life was more important than what Jesus was saying so they thought they would  kill Him.   First they tried to do everything to humiliate Him . The soldiers beat Jesus and crowned Him with a crown of thorns. They were following  the evil orders  of their superiors. The rabble  in front of the cross ridiculed Jesus as He was dying . Their purpose  was to make Him look weak and insignificant. Then the government assigned  soldiers to  guard  Jesus' tomb to thwart  any claims that He had risen from the dead .
But nothing could stop Jesus from rising again. In  John 10;17-18  Jesus says; " Therefore my Father loves me because I lay down my life  that I may take it again.  No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of  Myself, I have power to lay it down  and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from my Father."  So, God's plan succeeded as Jesus became  a prefect sacrifice for our sin. His given life became a ransom for many.
Since then ( for the last 2000 years ) there is no other sacrifice needed in order to come to the living God. Jesus is enough, that is why He says that He is the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Him.  John 14;6
Throughout the ages people needed sacrifice in order to come to God. Jesus' death changed everything, now He is your only way to God.
  
 Imagine yourself in the court accused about something that you need to be punished about. The judge  says the final verdict; death penalty. That sounds terrifying but we all are like that in God's eyes- because of our sinful nature we are to die one day. But God  gives us the way out. Somebody  is coming  to  the court  to say he  is taking  all your  guilt upon himself and takes the death punishment for you and you are declared not guilty . This is what  exactly  Jesus did for  you on the cross  so that you can be free of guilt before God.
He  is the main person in your life that can change your final course. 
No matter who we are  or what we have done, we all need to come to Him.  While you come to Jesus you are  in His hands.. He says; " I give them eternal life  and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand." John 10;28   "Paul wrote to Titus that now we  live "in the faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time."    Paul knew that  way back in eternity God had promised the salvation for those who believe in Him. That promise became reality in Paul's   life   as it will for all of us  who accept the message of  Jesus' death on  the cross for sin.

Although God's mercy toward  His own people extends throughout eternity, His mercy toward the unrepentant, ignorant people does not last forever. The time of grace will come to the end one day. God does not want us to be destroyed  by our sinfulness, so He offers  us mercy, but we must be willing to accept it before we run out of time. Those who feel they can wait  until later  to receive God's offer of mercy can  never be sure  that they will have the time and opportunity to do that.
"The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands. He who believes in the Son  has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son, shall  not see life, but the wrath of God abides on  him. John 3;35-36