The sins of lying, of lust, of fraud, of cruelty, of impiety, of anger, God rebukes and finds fault with, and no one is converted to innocency….. You are indignant that God is angry, as if by an evil life you were deserving any good, as if all things of that kind which happen were not infinitely less and of smaller account than your sins.

You who judge others, be for once also a judge of yourself; LOOK INTO THE HIDING-PLACES OF YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE; nay, since now there is not even any shame in your sin, and you are wicked, as if it were rather the very wickedness itself that pleased you, do you, who are seen clearly and nakedly by all other men, yourself also look upon yourself. For either you are swollen with pride, or greedy with avarice, or cruel with anger, or prodigal with gambling, or flushed with intemperance, or envious with jealousy, or unchaste with lust, or violent with cruelty; and do you wonder that God’s anger increases in punishing the human race, when the sin that is punished is daily increasing?

Cyprian of Carthage. 1886. “An Adress to Demetrianus.” In Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis, 5:460. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company.

This is why Jesus came! To save us sinners from our just condemnation by taking upon Himself that condemnation at the cross. Please turn from your sins by placing your faith in Jesus Christ. Don’t die without faith in your loving Savior! He said that He will draw all sorts of people if He be lifted up and He meant by the death He would die for all those people. Are you one of His people?

Thou shalt call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins – Matthew 1:21

Did you know that the Biblical writings from the BC (BCE) predicted a coming “Servant/Messiah” who would bring God’s word to the nations world over? Did you know that Jesus claimed to be that Messiah and claimed that His message would go to the nations world over in the Biblical writings in the AD (CE)? Did you know that Jesus predicted both good and bad players in His multicultural/cross border kingdom? Did you know Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world? And yet the gates of hell would not prevail against it.

The rest is history….

Go with Jesus the light to the nations and God’s salvation to the ends of the earth as predicted by Isaiah 49:6 with Acts 1:6,7!