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God Never Winks at Sin – He’s Very Serious
God Never Winks at Sin – He’s Very Serious
Yesterday we looked at how God is the ultimate loving Father who provides ALL of the needs of His children. We also painted a picture of how this ultimate and caring Father also demands absolute perfection from His children. Today the Lord placed it on my heart to go a little
deeper into what that unrelenting demand for perfection really looks like in the lives of His children.
God is very serious about this. We see a picture of just how serious He is in the Old Testament book of Leviticus chapter 16. Here, God goes into explicit detail about the
God is very serious about this. We see a picture of just how serious He is in the Old Testament book of Leviticus chapter 16. Here, God goes into explicit detail about the
requirements of purity and holiness on the part of the High Priest in order to enter into His presence one day every year. The result of any deviation at all from these procedures was instant death (remember what happened to Aaron’s two sons). Again, this is a picture from the
Old Testament of just how serious God is about never allowing sin (or sinners) to be in His presence. The result is always that the sin would be immediately eliminated. Remember also that God does not change.
In the New Testament, we see yet another picture of how serious God is
In the New Testament, we see yet another picture of how serious God is
about sin and how He demands perfection from His children. Throughout the entire bible, God knew that none of us were capable of living everyday lives in the manner that He had prescribed for the High Priest in Leviticus 16. Time and again, we have proven that we simple can’t do
it. But remember that God’s love is just as much a part of His essence as is His righteousness. Because of His love, He did Himself whatever it took to prevent our certain destruction. In today’s well-known scripture, He gave of Himself as that ultimate High Priest to offer a
sacrifice for the sins of His children.
But still, He never winks at sin. When Jesus was here, He hung around with sinners (like all of us). He potentially became contaminated Himself, loved on them, and looked them in the eye telling them to follow Him and to stop sinning. All
But still, He never winks at sin. When Jesus was here, He hung around with sinners (like all of us). He potentially became contaminated Himself, loved on them, and looked them in the eye telling them to follow Him and to stop sinning. All
that they had to do was simply to have faith. This meant believing Him (see today’s verse) and following Him or making Him their Lord. Finally, the half-brother of Jesus (who eventually came to believe in Him as well) tells us that the life of our faith and what we truly believe
is demonstrated by the things that we do (James 2:14-26).
Now let’s see how this is all so very simple and how it all comes together in these well-known verses from John 3:16-17:
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
Now let’s see how this is all so very simple and how it all comes together in these well-known verses from John 3:16-17:
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. - John 3:16-17
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