Tag Archives: Sin

The Love of God

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People try to get around the gospel by saying that God is love.  What they obviously mean by that is that they can do as they please because, in their belief, God will not punish them.

I know they don’t know the nature of God because what they say does not align with what Jesus taught. But there is no need for ridicule. Instead there is need to understand.

God is love, yes.  But do you remember the scripture also saying that love does no wrong?  In other words there is absolutely no shadow of sin or turning away from righteousness within God.

What will happen to those who proclaim the love of God to cover their sin?  May their faith save them.  May they truly believe that God is love.

But God will not let sin enter into eternity.  And the best case I can see that they can expect, is that God will strip away from them everything that is Sin.  Only righteousness will remain.

With even that weak understanding in hand, why would someone choose to play games with the Gospel?  But man will make up their own truth for the sake of their pride and ignorance.

Perhaps I have taken license with my understanding of eternity for the sake of sinners.  But let each man consider what is true instead of what is false.  Let us chase after righteousness and not myths or opinions.  But I am not so stupid so that I don’t realize what will come of these words.

They will be ignored by the proud.  They will be laughed at by those who hate God.  I am in hope that someone will read them and take them to heart.

Yes God is love.  But God is also the master teacher.  What he offers is transformation here and now.  Who will take it?

By His Grace.

Hell is where the cool people are.

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Do you know someone who has said they aren’t concerned about hell cause all their friends are there?  Well, perhaps they’re right.   But what they don’t  consider is the following.

There are a lot of things in hell.  And there are a whole lot of things that aren’t there.  Identity is not there.  You have no name and no one cares.  No tomorrows, only regrets for what you did or failed to do in your yesterdays.

Nothing to divert your attention from your failings.  No sky.  No ground.   No sleep.  No gadgets to help you pass the time.

You will remember that you are guilty of sin.  That memory will be with you without relief forever.  You will consider your everlasting fear and desire that your loved ones don’t share the same fate.  But you will be utterly helpless to help them.  And the simple pain of your self purchased torment will never leave.

What freedoms you have now, from activity to hope, will no longer exist.  Yea your friends might be there.  But neither you or they will find the slightest solace in that fact.

Turn away from folly and pride.  What good will they do you in hell?  Humble yourself before God.  As it say, “Humble yourself before the Lord and He will lift you up.”  Or not.  The choice belongs to you.

Please share this.  Perhaps one or two will read it and come to an understanding.

License to Sin.

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When God is a shameful belief, and joyful obedience is considered a sin against humanity,  what shall we expect to see?

When it is a badge of honor to be wicked, and the more ingenious the wickedness the more accolades are cast, what shall we expect to see?

Shall we look for proper men and women to appear?  Will the well of trustworthy adults and children be a source of joy, health, godly encouragement,  and strength?

Such a people who honor wickedness will find no honor from God.  They will weep great sobs when His beauty is revealed.  They will not enter His presence, though even now their folly will disagree with those words.  No, my fellow travelers in this place of testing, you will not enter His Eternal Kingdom dressed in your insatiable lust.

God does not lie.  There are promises for those who obey by faith.  And there are promises for those who rebell by putrid flesh.  It doesn’t matter whether you agree or not.

By His Grace.

Freezing Fuzzies

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Foreigner sang, “you’re as cold as ice. . .”.  Somehow we all understand what that means.  There are a whole lot of songs about mean men and women.  How about that miner’s song about “Big John”.  Or Jim Crocie’s “don’t mess around with slim”. 

Nobody questions the meaning of those songs.  But I wonder why we haven’t heard a song about the true wickedness, meanness, and general mayhem directed at God.  The lyrics might include such things as: “Go away, I don’t need your help. . .”.  Or, “I don’t care how much you love me, I love my sins all the more”.  Then there’s that line they do all the time but never talk about,  “Wish I’d been there at the crucifixion” .

I admit it would be out of character for the world to be honest.  But at least it would make people face the truth of their relationship with Jesus.

Three Iniquities

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SIN (Photo credit: robswatski)

Three iniquities I perceive.  Three times man shall proclaim his rebellion from God.  Two have come to be.  One must appear.

The first rebellion came before the flood and was answered with death from the Lord.

The second rebellion is present and shall receive the same response from the Lord.

There is a third rebellion to come against the Lord.  This rebellion will usher in the Lordship of Jesus, the Son of the Most High God.

Three times man will state clearly that it desires none of God’s commands.  Each time more severely will man stand to proclaim.

And at the consummation of the third, the Lord will answer with finality.

Know the times in which we live.  Be wise and stand apart from those who call down death upon their heads.  Understand that the Lord is not willing for any to perrish.  But He will certainly answer their desire to die if that is what they prove before His Holy Throne.

Regret

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Regrets (Photo credit: chris.chabot)

There is hope for all who believe Jesus is the Christ of God.   This hope we own varies from one man to another.  Though the Lord would have us all own proper and full hope in our faith, it goes without saying that each of us is limited in our hope by the faith we employ.

There was a man who found himself a hindrance to everyone he touched.  No matter how he tried, he found himself full of trouble for everyone.  And the longer he lived the worse it seemed to become.

Now, there came a day when he had done damage to one soul too many.  The desire to become helpful was replaced by a simple desire to die.  “What good am I accomplishing?”  He said to himself.  “My faith is my life.  But my hope is becoming nothing.  If I cannot do good for my fellow man, what makes me think I will be received in eternity?”  With this in mind the man contrived a solution.  He thought to himself: “Sin is death.  I am not worthy of life.  So I will turn to sin so that I will kill myself.  Worthless is what worthless does.”

While in some respects this is a rather noble idea, but it did not bear the fruit he had hoped.  One day, while the sin was a distance from his mind, the Lord spoke to him.  “You will be completely forgotten.”  The meaning of this was not lost in the man’s mind.  For every word of the Lord brings with it an image of meaning.

At the gathering of God’s people on the day of judgment, this man would be gathered with the rejected.  And those rejected will be completely forgotten.  The man had thought that the Lord would recognize his sacrifice of himself.  He had in mind that the Lord would balance the scales the man could not.  The man understood the message and stopped the path he was on.  He turned toward the Lord again with a renewed effort.

On another day, after the man had turned from the sin of destruction to accept his place according to his ability, the Lord spoke again.  “You sacrifice for the sake of death.  I have sacrificed for the sake of life.  It is enough that you hope in Me.”

Many, so very many, are doing the same thing today.  They hold regret for the things they have done.  They drink themselves to death.  They do drugs until they perish from over dose.  They waste away their lives through self-debasement of every form, hoping that their self-hatred will be noticed by the Lord.  How are any of them any different from the man in this story?

Any sacrifice we make that has to do with the destruction of our lives is a sacrifice toward death.  But the Lord has already sacrificed what is Good.  He has sacrificed toward life.  Let us gather our strength, whatever is left, and turn to look at what He has done.  What have we accomplished if we are, in the end, gathered with the rejected?  We will end up rejected from man and rejected from God.  How pathetic is the end of such men?

He sees what we are and what we are able to do.  Rest in His perfect understanding and strive to trust.  There is no other release from the regret we all hold.  And let us ponder this saying:  “Regret is not in the family of repentance.  It is of a different family.  Repentance belongs to the children of the Lord.  Regret belongs to the children of this world.