Psalm 146:3-4 – 3 Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
I think the part that sticks out on this psalm is the part about saving. The Psalmist understood this back in the Old Testament. We read about it so much in the New and we see that the Jews weren’t focussing on that part when looking for the Messiah in the Old, that we tend to forget that they still had the concept. Mortal man cannot save and the elite of this world still return to the ground like everyone else.
Who can save the soul of a man? Only the Lord can save the soul of a man.
It’s not as easy of just pardoning this one and not that one. The Lord is just and there are rules. The wages of sin is death.
Romans 6:23 – 23 For the wages of sin is death, ………….
Somebody had to pay the wage. God did in the form of the Son.
Romans 6:23 –………but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Somebody had to die. God chose to take the place for sinners, who now will accept His sacrifice
in the place of their own?
Who is willing? Who is willing to make Him Lord and not themselves? Who is willing to come back from the separation that was and is still caused by pride?
If you haven’t done so, I have a page that will not only run you through on how to do that, but another page next to it explaining why we need to do it. Please don’t let another day pass if you don’t know Jesus as Lord and Savior.