The Wall Is Gone

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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It may have been the happiest traffic jam in history. The scene: The Brandenburg Gate between East and West Berlin on an incredible November weekend. Suddenly, after rapid, revolutionary changes in the policies of East Germany's communist government then, people could go through the wall that for 28 years had divided that city between free and communist. The cars were lined up for miles to cross that barrier that had been closed for so long, and nobody was complaining. Some people drove through the wall, some people walked through the gate, some scaled fences to get there more quickly, and the news reported that tens of thousands of people began to break into a delirious chant that the whole world could hear, "The wall is gone! The wall is gone!" So is yours.

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Wall Is Gone."

Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from Isaiah 59:2, "But your iniquities (That's your sin; your wrong doings.) have separated you from your God. Your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear." Now, when the Bible talks about iniquities here, or sin, we have to realize that we're living in a world that doesn't even know what sin is or why sin is so devastating. Seem sin is really a lifestyle that says, "My way, God, not yours. God, I believe in you, I go to your meetings, I give you money. But I'm going to basically run my own life. You run the universe; I'll give you a tip every once in a while, I'll do some things that I think You want me to do, but I'm running my life my way." In essence, "I'm god for me."

Sin is a lifestyle that pushes God to the edges instead of having Him at the center of everything where He belongs. And that decision results in thousands of little daily choices that go against the way God meant for us to live. We all have a sin problem, and here's what the Bible says the result is—separation. "Your iniquities have separated you from your God." The result is a wall far more imposing than the Berlin wall and with far more eternal consequences. And it may be that you're experiencing that separation from God right now. You can feel it, even though you're a religious person.

Right now God has the love that you've spent a lifetime looking for, but you can't get at that love. It's on the other side of the wall. He's got the strength you've needed, but He's on the other side of the wall. He's got the meaning, He's got the reason you were put here, but He's on the other side of the wall. And if we die with that wall there, it's there forever.

You say, "Ron, I knew there was something between me and God. I've known that without hearing you tell me that." Well, the great news is earlier in this same book of the Bible. Isaiah 53:6 says this, "God has laid on Him (speaking of Christ) the iniquity of us all." All of my sin was put on Jesus Christ when He died on the cross. He was separated from God the Father so I don't ever have to be, so you don't ever have to be if we'll just pin all our hopes on Jesus Christ. Not on a church, not on a religion, not on our own goodness, but on Jesus alone.

Are you tired of the wall between you and God? Are you tired of being away from the One you were made by and made for? Maybe you've tried all kinds of ways, including lots of religious ways, to get through that wall. But the wall is still there. You know it is. Only Jesus, the Savior who died for the sins that make up the wall, can take it down.

Today, right now, you could talk to Him even as we conclude and say, "Jesus, I'm pinning all my hopes for forgiveness, for heaven and a relationship with God on what You did on the cross." I want to invite you to join me at our website. I've laid out there as simply as I can a very clear way that you can know for sure that you know God; that you have the relationship with Him, and that your sins have been forgiven and erased from God's Book forever, and that you're going to heaven when you die. It's ANewStory.com. Meet me at ANewStory.com.

As soon as you open up to Jesus Christ, you can know the incomparable joy of a person who can finally say, "The wall is gone! The wall is gone!"