Grace of the Law

If I could find the words to speak, you would be on your knees trembling before the living God. Fire goes before Him and burns up all His enemies. He is surrounded by clouds, shrouded in darkness, his lightning lights up the entire world. Mountains melt like wax before him (Psalm 97). The very voice of the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon (Psalm 29). The angre of the Lord makes the very foundations of the Earth shake (Psalm 18). The Lord struck 2 people dead "simply" for lack of reverance (Leviticus 10). They came to the altar of the Lord without reverance, and God killed them. In Acts, the New Testament, God struck 2 people dead "just" for lying.
You deserve to go to Hell. There is no blaming Adam and original sin. You made your own decisions. Sin is not allowed to get into Heaven. The moment you blatantly committed your first sin, you fell under the judgment of Romans 6:23a. You now have a room reserved for you in the place of eternal punishment and torment. If you have committed only one single solitary sin, you will have to face God on judgment day. In a court case, you only need 1 convincing piece of evidence to convict a person. Now imagine you are facing God's judgment in Heaven. Only one sin is needed to send you to Hell. In walks Satan. He holds a note card in his hand. He hands it to God, and God silently reads it. You can tell He is unhappy. "Is this all?" He asks your accuser. "No," replied Satan. "I could bring them in," he says, "but it would really be more effective for you to come into the room where they are all kept." "Very well," says God, and they walk out. You follow them into a room filled to the ceiling with shelves full of boxes full of index cards. You can see a smirk on Satan's face as he tells God, "Don't like that particular sin, Lord?" he sneers. "There are plenty to choose from." How many sins could you have committed in your life? How many times did you lust... lie... cheat... steal... what does this card say? "Stole a nickle from his roommate on..." But it was only a nickle! Still stealing, though. What's this... approaching God with irreverence? But you were tired! Wow, God takes this sin thing seriously.
And now the face of God turns towards you, and you finally understand what John Wesley meant when he said "It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God." The voice that shattered the cedars of Lebanon is now directed at you. As He speaks, your soul trembles and your spirit is broken. "Time and time again you sinned against me, knowingly! Over and over you made excuses for yourself. You have no excuses! You knew what I commanded, and yet you blatently disobeyed me! I asked you to love others as you love yourself, and instead you seeked vengence and revenge and all your selfish desires! The penalty for your sin is death, eternal death. You will thirst and not drink. You will hunger and not eat. You will seek light, but it will ever be dark." There is nothing you can say. There is nothing you can do. You have come to the end of the line, and you are now only getting what you deserve. Out of the corner of your eye, you can see Satan, giddy with glee, for he knows he has won you. Satan mouths the words you longed to hear from God: "Well done, my good and faithful servant." God is about to pour out His wrath on your soul.
Just then, in that moment, a voice cries out from behind you. "WAIT!" Everything stops, and you see a man come into the room. "Father," he says, "You cannot sentence this child like this. He is justified." Satan steps forward. "What are you talking about? Look at this room. It is bursting at the seams with his sins!" No," replies Jesus. "It isn't. Look again. Flip over any of these cards and check the name of who they belong to." The smile fades from Satan's face as he walks over to a box. He opens it, flips a card over. "No..." you hear him whisper. He flips over another card, throws it on the floor. Another, and another, and finally he begins dumping the boxes of cards all over the floor. On his hands and knees, he frantically searches. Louder and louder you hear him cry. "No. No! NO!!!!!"Every card on the floor and in the boxes bears the name of Jesus.
This is the God you serve. Terribly just, yet lovingly merciful. He is not a joke. He is not a "homeboy." He is still King, still Lord. You owe Him you life, your heart, your soul. Start living like it.