God judges his people.
A
Don’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of
God’s judgment.
Three aspects of God’s judgment shown in this passage
1 active
2 threatened
3 administered
God judges his people.
A
Don’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of
God’s judgment.
Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way,
get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One
of Israel!
Isaiah 30:10-11 (NIV)
The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes
everyone he accepts as a son.
Hebrews 12:6 (NIV)
God judges his people.
A
Don’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of
God’s judgment.
Will not the judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18:25
(NIV)
you (God) are proved right when you speak and justified
when you judge.
Psalm 51:4 (NIV)
God is a righteous judge.
Psalm 7:11 (NIV)
Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.
Revelation 16:7 (NIV)
God judges his people.
A
B
Don’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of
God’s judgment.
Don’t take sin lightly
The wages of sin is death.
Romans 6:23 (NIV)
God judges his people.
B
Don’t take sin lightly
Surely you (God) desire truth in the inner parts.
Psalm 51:6 (NIV)
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV)
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,
sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matthew 15:19 (NIV)
The LORD looks at the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)
God judges his people.
B
Don’t take sin lightly
The heart of the human problem
is
the problem of the human heart.
J. John
God judges his people.
B
Don’t take sin lightly
Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole
batch of dough.
1 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV)
God judges his people.
A
Don’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of
God’s judgment.
B
Don’t take sin lightly
C
Don’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness.
God will forgive me; that’s his business.
Heinrich Heine
God judges his people.
C
Don’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness.
Four seeming impossibilities required of God for forgiveness:
1
Be human!
Our God, contracted to a span,
incomprehensibly made man.
John Wesley
God judges his people.
C
Don’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness.
Four seeming impossibilities required of God for forgiveness:
1
Be human!
2
Be perfect!
[He] was tempted in every way, just as we are yet was without sin.
Hebrews 4:15 (NIV)
Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?
John 8:46 (NIV)
God judges his people.
C
Don’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness.
Four seeming impossibilities required of God for forgiveness:
1
Be human!
2
Be perfect!
3
Die!
4
Rise!
I am the Living One; I was dead, and
behold I am alive forever and ever!
Revelation 1:18 (NIV)
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved
us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
sins.
1 John 4:10
Jesus Christ loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20