Righteous judgment of God:
Romans 2:5-10
5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up
wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment
of God,
6 who will render to each person according to his deeds:
7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and
immortality, eternal life;
8 but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does
evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,
10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek.
Revelation 22:12
12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to
every man according to what he has done.
More verses confirming
God’s judgment for wrong doing. He is going to render to us according to our
deeds, whether done in righteousness or unrighteousness. Sometimes when God doesn’t
zap us instantaneously after we do something wrong, we think He doesn’t see or
doesn’t care. We tend to get lax in our obedience, thinking, we’ll just repent
later. We don’t know how long He will be patient with us. We should always
strive to do His will. We should do good to please Him, not to avoid judgment.
If you could hear God speak, I believe this is
what He would say:
"Do
not think that I am come to put My seal of approval on all that you say and do.
I am come that you might walk in the newness of My light; so that you may be a
light to your generation. You should be such that those who see you would want
to have Me as their Father. I discipline you, not to hurt you, but in order to
bring you into the fullness of My life. You have My life within you, and you
must bring others unto Me. I will not do it without you. You are My only means
for others to see what I desire from My people. You are what will draw them
unto Me. It is not signs and wonders, but rather the holiness of My people. If
I let you go and do not bring you into My paths of righteousness, then they
will think that I do not care about them. It is like a child. If the parent
disciplines the child the way he should, the child will not resent the parent.
The child will embrace the discipline of the parent; for the child knows within
himself that the parent loves him and only wants the best for him. Such it is
with Me … I discipline you so that you may walk in My path without fail. Then
others will want to come unto Me so that they may walk in My holiness.”
We are accountable
for all that we say, think, or do. We need to be careful to follow the leading
of His Spirit. He doesn’t want a bunch of “loose cannons” running around “doing
their own thing”. People will judge us many times wrongly for what we say and
do. We don’t need to give them any ammunition by doing or saying things that
are contrary to the Word of God. Some of them will turn their backs on God
because of what some Christians show in their lives. We don’t want to aid the
enemy in turning unbelievers away from God.
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