Always the Fish is about helping people to live in the power of the gospel of Christ. Jesus Christ has given the most wonderful gift we could ever receive - his life. Now as Christians we must learn to walk in this newness of life living out what the Lord is doing in ours hearts depending on the Holy Spirit's help.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
The Kindness of God
What
happens to that person who judges another person and practices the same sin? Let’s read and find out what happens: “We know that God’s judgment on those who do
such things is based on the truth. Do you really think—anyone of you who judges
those who do such things yet do the same —that you will escape God’s judgment?
Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not
recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? But
because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for
yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.” (Romans
2:1-5 HCSB) God’s judgment is based on truth. Jesus said, “I am the way the
truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father but through me.” (John 14:6) We
think that we will escape the judgment of God when we judge others and are practicing
the same sin. It is possible for a
person to go to church, go through baptismal water’s, tithe, do good works and
bust hell wide open because they have never been born again. What happens is the person looks down on the
goodness, forbearance and longsuffering of God that he exhibits toward others. When God shows his goodness--kind acts toward
you he does so because he loves you.
When he shows his forbearance- his patience, enduring with you through
the difficulty of being changed, it is because he loves you. When he is showing his longsuffering toward
you-- the emotional calmness that normally would cause someone’s anger to flare
up toward you, he does so because he loves you.
His kindness toward you is designed to bring about repentance, a change
of heart toward our sin. True repentance
has visible out working’s that others will see.
This is a spiritual issue that must be dealt with! Yes, some people have
a hard and impenitent heart toward God and others while sitting in church every
Sunday. This hard heart is stubborn,
prideful! It knows the truth but will not change their mind, unless God brings
conviction. An impenitent heart is
unrepentant, refusing to turn to God. This
results in a compounding interest as God’s wrath multiplies for the day of
wrath and revelation of Jesus Christ toward such a person. Hell is waiting to
receive all who are hard and impenitent of heart toward God and Jesus Christ! I beg you in the name of Jesus Christ to
repent of your sin, stubborn and pride turning to Jesus Christ alone for
salvation. I invite you to come to First
Baptist Church or any of the local churches here in Columbia County where the
Bible is taught so that you can grow in a relationship with Jesus that will
save and change your life today so that you will not be the recipient of God’s
compounded wrath on Judgment Day.
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