
If you think the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti was a
consequence of its national allegiance to Voodoo (it is after all, the official
religion of the nation), consider the words of Christ found in Luke
13:1-5
1
At that time, some people came and reported to Him [Jesus] about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
2 And He responded to them,
"Do you think that these
Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these
things?
3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you
will all perish as well!
4 Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell
on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in
Jerusalem?
5 No, I tell you; but unless you
repent, you will all perish as well!"
Sin is sin in the eyes of God. Whether its voodoo,
murder, lieing or adultery, the wages of our sin is death (Romans
6:23).
Are the Haitian people greater sinners than the rest
of humanity?
And to paraphrase the words of Christ: unless
all of us repent, turn from our sins and put our faith in him, we will suffer
the fate of eternal death and separation from our only source of eternal life,
joy and happiness - God.
"For the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord."
Roman
6:23
Because of sin, the entire world is suffering
under the weight of calamity and death.
The judgment to come is going to be infinitely
worse for unrepentant sinners than the greatest of natural tragedies and earthly
calamities.
But God does offer lost humanity a way of
escape.
Will you admit you are a sinner? Will you admit
you desperately need God?
I implore you to place your faith in Christ
Jesus.
Unlike us, Jesus Christ lived a sinless life. He was the perfect
and eternal Son of God.
In John chapter 1 verses 1-5 we read this of
Christ:
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
2He was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing
made that was made.
4In him was life,
and the life was the light of men.
Since he was
perfect - without sin - he was able to die in our place and thus pay the wages
we owed God for our sin.
He died horrifically by crucifiction.
He
was punished so we could be set free from the judgement and wrath of God against
us.
"For Christ also suffered for sins once for
all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after
being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual
realm."
1 Peter
3:18
And after God accepted his sacrifice for us on the cross, God
raised him from the dead.
"Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a
new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead..."
1 Peter 1:3
Christ not only made the way
possible for you and I to be forgiven of every sin we have ever committed, but
he made the way possible for you and I to be adopted as sons and daughters of
God.
"But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the
right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name..."
John
1:12
And if we receive him (by putting our faith in him), we
not only are we adopted into God's own family and all of our sins are forgiven,
but Christ said he would grant us God's gift of eternal life:
"For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son
and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last
day."
John 6:40
Will you believe in Him
today?
If you are now seeing Jesus as you've never seen him before - as
the eternal Son of God who died to pay the price for your sin and who rose again
to give you the hope of eternal life - then you are being born again right now
in the spirit by God.
If that's the case, then you are now free to
confess Jesus as Lord of your life.
"if you
confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
With the heart one believes,
resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in
salvation."
Romans 8:9-10
Will you
believe?
"The one who believes in the Son has
eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life;
instead, the wrath of God remains on him."
John 3:36