"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 55:20
This is how much God hates sin (evil):
"On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against...
...His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is still stretched." Isaiah 5:26
God is a merciful God, mighty to save. That is why He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on our account thereby atoning for the sins of any that believe in Him and turn away from evil.
There is a day of reckoning with God for every human being that has ever lived.
Either Christ paid the penalty on the cross for your evil, or you will pay for your sin for eternity as God pours out His wrath on you in Hell.
Every breathe an unbeliever takes is a precious gift from God that is keeping you from judgment. If you die without Christ as your...
...Savior, it is too late. Don't wait because you are not promised tomorrow.
*stretched out
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"Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are." 1 Cor 3:16-17
The context is about factions. 'I follow Paul...
'...or I follow Apollos'. Paul says in chp. 3 that Christians have a foundation laid by Christ and the Lord uses others to build on it.
Paul then gives a stern warning in v11 that no man can lay another foundation other than Christ. He then goes onto say that those...
...who build on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, straw, and hay will each have their work tested by fire. Those things that survive the fire are true teachings from Scripture. Those that are not Biblical teachings will be burned up. This then leads into...
Reading through Romans 7 and 8 this morning. What many miss in context is that Paul in Romans 7:13-25 is that Paul is showing that the Law is spiritual. It is a reflection of God's character. Paul is showing us the war that goes on in every regenerate believer. 1/
2/ The Law points out his evil nature. There is nothing good in him. There is a battle going on in him because he wants to do good and uphold God's Law, but his flesh doesn't because it is opposed to God.
Paul finds himself lamenting that the good he wants to do, he doesn't do.
3/ Instead, Paul practices the very evil he doesn't want to do proving that sin is dwelling in him.
Two things here:
-Paul recognized God's Law as good and desires to do it. It is proof of regeneration. It is the Law that helps Paul to see his wickedness & long not to do it.
I just don't understand those who advocate for CRT, maybe because I am regenerated in Christ. Over 700k Greeks were slaughtered by the Ottoman Empire caliphate. They murdered almost everyone on my mom's side, yet I don't hate the Turkish people. I wasn't even alive when...
...the genocide of Greeks and Armenians took place. My dad and most Greeks try to pass the hatred down.
I remember years ago as a bellman helping some Turkish people with their bags. When they found out I was Greek they became uncomfortable, but I told them...
...that I had no animosity towards them like other Greeks do because I was a Christian. I treated them with dignity and respect. They didn't kill my family, and even if they did Scripture commands me to not repay evil for evil to anyone.
1/ I am going to put my Screwtape hat on for a second regarding using Christian as an adjective to modify a sin (i.e. Christian Nationalism).
If I wanted to disgrace Christ I would use His name to identify a sin. There will be those who are ignorant, but they aren't the one's...
2/...coining the term. It is coming from leaders within Christendom. Why would a leader call things that are clearly sin "Christian"?
They are trying to not only disgrace Christ, but erode the good associated with Him. Wolves are notorious for such things, not sheep or shepherds
3/ By eroding the good associated with Christ you can change people's perceptions of Christianity. He wants to make Christianity into a threat. If Satan can make it into a perceived threat then it is something that the people would turn against and want eradicated.
1/ "He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
2/ This verse has become one of the most maligned verses in Scripture over the last decade, comparable to "Do not judge." (Matthew 7:1).
In Micah 6:6-7, Micah is showing us that the people of the southern kingdom have outwardly worshipped God, but inwardly they were...
3/...spiritually dead. Micah is asking rhetorical questions in v6-7. God had been faithful to the Jewish people since he made His covenant with Abraham and in return His people made sacrifices for their sin, but their hearts were not contrite. They loved their sin and...
1/ Just reading through John 15 this morning. There is so much packed into that passage.
Christ makes a distinction between His children and those who conform to the world who are children of Satan. He makes it clear that He is the true vine and like any vine...
2/...the branches on it cannot bear fruit apart from Him. "Fruit" denoting those who have been saved by His grace and made into a new creation and it is God who bears the fruit through them. The Christian is a vessel that He uses to show His grace & all the credit belongs to Him.
3/ Christ also shows that there will be apostates among us. He says in v2, "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away;"
Note "in Me". This is talking about those who profess to follow Christ but are really unbelievers. Christ is saying that God will cut those...