Rom 2:2 "We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things."
I have heard it over and over. Disbelief! "God certainly loves everyone, doesn't He." "
A loving God will not judge severely or send anyone to eternal punishment." It is a non-argument a cry for mercy, because we all know that we deserve the judgment of God. If it would fall on us it would be right and fitting.
When we judge others harshly without mercy and the offer of gracious forgiveness, we presume upon the mercy and grace of God. All of God's patience from Eden until now is a patient offer of forgiveness in exchange for repentance, faith and obedience.
Rom 2:3-4 "Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?"
The persistence of judgment the holding onto hard hardheartedness is storing up wrath and anger for us. He is not partial. We should not assume that we have any advantage over anyone else. No matter where we are born, what church or religious observance we undertake, we all are under the same curtse, none of us is good enough to attain the standard of Absolute Love.
Rom 2:5-12 "But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law."
The law of Absolute Love written on our hearts, overflowing from a connected relationship with the Absolute Love. Overflowing with grace and mercy, displaying repentance and humility. These are the characteristics of God, they only come from God and are hardly noticed by the person who focuses on the Absolute Love of God, for they overflow through God, they are not of ourselves.
Rom 2:13-16 "For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus."
Jesus, Yeshua, Isa; He is Absolute Love. Forgiveness freely offered. Will you surrender and live the life of repentance?
I have heard it over and over. Disbelief! "God certainly loves everyone, doesn't He." "
A loving God will not judge severely or send anyone to eternal punishment." It is a non-argument a cry for mercy, because we all know that we deserve the judgment of God. If it would fall on us it would be right and fitting.
When we judge others harshly without mercy and the offer of gracious forgiveness, we presume upon the mercy and grace of God. All of God's patience from Eden until now is a patient offer of forgiveness in exchange for repentance, faith and obedience.
Rom 2:3-4 "Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?"
The persistence of judgment the holding onto hard hardheartedness is storing up wrath and anger for us. He is not partial. We should not assume that we have any advantage over anyone else. No matter where we are born, what church or religious observance we undertake, we all are under the same curtse, none of us is good enough to attain the standard of Absolute Love.
Rom 2:5-12 "But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law."
The law of Absolute Love written on our hearts, overflowing from a connected relationship with the Absolute Love. Overflowing with grace and mercy, displaying repentance and humility. These are the characteristics of God, they only come from God and are hardly noticed by the person who focuses on the Absolute Love of God, for they overflow through God, they are not of ourselves.
Rom 2:13-16 "For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus."
Jesus, Yeshua, Isa; He is Absolute Love. Forgiveness freely offered. Will you surrender and live the life of repentance?
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