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Handwriting on the wall |
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our culture today you will hear people say, “I saw the handwriting |
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When
King Belshazzar saw the fingers of a hand write on the plaster wall, he
called for the prophet Daniel to interpret the meaning of the words. Daniel
gave the king the bad news….. “This is what these words mean: Mene:
God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 27Tekel:
You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. 28Peres:
Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians (Daniel
5:26-28).” This is exactly the situation that all human beings are
in with God. God, in his sovereignty and providence, has numbered the exact
time that we have on earth (Acts 17:26). All human beings are
found wanting when God measures our lives and deeds on his scales (Romans
3:10). No matter how much success, fame, wealth, and possessions
humans may have acquired, it will all be divided and transferred to someone
else when death comes. The wealthiest person alive will not take anything
more from this world than the most poverty stricken person on the planet.
However, there is good news for both the rich and the poor. There has been
one who has been weighed on the scales and not found wanting. Jesus Christ
is He and He has provided a way that all sinners can be weighed and not be
found wanting. By trusting through faith in his atonement and perfect
righteousness, sinners can climb up on those scales, clothed in his
righteousness, and be found not wanting. This verdict of not guilty is one
hundred percent due to what Jesus Christ did for sinners and zero percent
for what sinners accomplished. Just as King Belshazzar reached the time when
he had to face the handwriting on the wall, there is a day appointed for all
human beings to face the handwriting on the wall. Human beings can either
face that day alone and be found wanting or cling to the cross of Jesus,
secure for all eternity. |
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