What do you suppose would happen to you if, when you came to the judge and seat of God,

God gave you a piece of chalk?

And asked you to write a circle on a heavenly blackboard.

And with that chalk, he gave you, he would say,

now I want you to fill in every time you've ever sinned,

every time you've sinned in thought, word, or deed.

Any time you fall in short of my commandments,

I want you to put a mark in your circle.

How much chalk would you need?

I don't think there's enough chalk in heaven that would enable me to give a perfect account of my imperfection.

And all I would be doing would be writing down the demerits of RC Sproul.

And no wonder that the New Testament uses the metaphor of the last days of Christ coming in judgment,

for those who are not ready, those who have not had their sins covered,

that they will cry out for the mountains to fall upon them and the hills to cover them,

because what we need more than anything else when we stand before God is a cover-up.

We need a covering. We need something that will blot out our transgressions.

And that's something that the gospel promises to all who believe is the covering of the righteousness of Christ.

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