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Quotes That Keep The Church In Bondage: Pt 4
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GOD JUDGES INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS THAT COMMIT SIN!
This teaching states that when nations or people sin against God, He allows them to go so far, then draws a line in the sand and says, “Thus far and no further!”
Subsequently He releases His judgment upon them in the form of earthquakes, tsunamis, famine, terrorism and all kinds of general mishaps.
To arrive at a correct understanding of this issue we will look at God’s judgement under the Old and New Covenants.
Old Covenant: When nations and people’s turned their backs on God, He first sent a prophet to warn them of the dire consequences of continuing in their sin. If they failed to heed the warning, He would send judgement upon them in the form of catastrophe’s, foreign invasion etc.
Read Isa 14:22-32. Isa Ch 17.
Babylon: Isa 14:22-26 “For I will rise up against them,”says the Lord of hosts,“and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and offspring and posterity,” says the Lord. “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water;I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,”says the Lord of hosts. (NKJV)
Israel:Isa 17:4,10,11 “In that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob will wane, and the fatness of his flesh grow lean. Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, therefore you will plant pleasant plants and set out foreign seedlings; In the day you will make your plant to grow, and in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
New Covenant: When God sent His Son to die on the cross, He accomplished a number of things:
a) He offered His Son as a sacrifice to take the punishment of sin for the whole world, past, present and future. (Heb 7:27)
b) He forgave the sin of the whole world, past present and future. (Col 2:13)
c) He removed the sin of the whole world past, present and future. (1 Jn 3:5)
d) Because sin no longer exists (from God’s point of view), God no longer counts sin against the whole world past, present and future. (Rom 4:8)
e) Because sin no longer exists, past, present and future, God has chosen to forget man’s sin. (Heb 9:17)
2 Cor 5:19 It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favour with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favour). (AMP)
We can see through these scriptures that God judged all sin, past, present and future in His Son Jesus Christ, 2000 yrs ago!
Today, God is not judging nations and people for their sin – on the contrary He is demonstrating His love to them:
John 3:16 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.
So we see that the law covenant judges sin but the grace covenant has (past tense) forgiven all sin.
Instead of Christians holding up placards proclaiming God’s judgement against homosexuality – They should be placarding the good news that Jesus loves the homosexual!
Meditation Point: In the New Covenant God forgave all sin, past, present and future at the cross. God no longer judges the world, He loves it!
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