Jesus Did Not Die For Good People

Romans 5:6-8 (ESV)
"For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Jesus died for ungodly sinners. Let us never forget that fact lest our love grow cold for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or we grow prideful in our judgment of those who are without God's grace. Paul exhorts us in Ephesians 2:11 not to forget what we were before we were saved by the grace of Almighty God. We were dead in our sins, we were controlled by Satan, we were driven by our evil thoughts and passions, and we were by nature the objects of God's wrath. But God being rich in mercy poured out His holy wrath on Jesus who in turn poured out His grace upon us. Let us never forget that Jesus saved us from our sins and if we were to live a thousand lifetimes we would never be able to earn what God freely gave us through His Son Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:11-16 (ESV)
"Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility."

We who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. What an honored place we have been given to occupy. We, who deserved to not only be the objects of God's wrath, but to have it poured out on us in all of it's severity, have instead been brought near to God by the blood of Jesus Christ. May we never presume upon His grace, but live lives dependent upon it and be ever aware of it's presence in our hearts. Never forget that God died for ungodly sinners when He died for you and me.

Chris Connally
Romans 8:28