Question 18: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to occur unpunished?
No, all sin is against God’s sovereignty, holiness, and goodness, and against His righteous law, and God is justly angry when we commit sins and punish them by His righteous judgment in this life and in the life to come.
- For you well know that no libertine.
- Filthy or miserable.
- Idylatra.
- Has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- No one deceives you with hollow words; for these things.
- God’s wrath descends upon the children of disobedience.
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Not punishing the guilty would be to demand punishment for the suffering of the innocent. Imagine how many wounds and injustices would be inflicted on all honest men in London if thieves were never punished for their misdeeds. If we allowed the culprits to escape unscathed, it would cause suffering to the innocent. God, therefore, not by arbitrary choice, but by need of justice, must punish us for our mistakes.
ALISTAIR BEGG
When Paul preached to Felix and Drusila, he essentially had three points: justice, self-control, and trial to come (Acts 24). The fact that the relationship between Felix and Drusila was a relationship of adultery did not prevent Paul from speaking clearly about God. justice That was the mark of his preaching. At the end of his speech in Athens, he said the same thing: “[God] has determined the day when he will rightly judge the world, through the man he intended?(AT 17. 31). The Bible says very clearly that we will not escape being identified, condemned or condemned forever. There will be a payday.
The idea that God is too kind to condemn sin and that everyone, in the end, will go to heaven, is really not based on the Bible. Paul’s warning in Ephesians 5 is for those who profess to have faith in Jesus, that you may ignore those who suggest more than what he teaches them, that is, will this day come?, on a given day, a day that will be totally correct, a day when the judgment that is given will be absolutely definitive.
Beautiful Lord, if we think we are good, we are wrong, we deserve your anger. We have broken your commandments and have not loved you with all our hearts, spirits, and strengths, we can only ask for the righteousness of Christ and ask that our punishment come upon him, amen.
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