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A Warning: Reject The Gift and Collect Your Full Wage of Death
Divine Justice demands that the worst crime should reap the severest punishment. "47 And that servant, which knew his LORD's Will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to His Will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48). That is why the LORD truly did create a place called Hell. "Let Death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into Hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them" (Psalm 55:15). For the offence of sin is against no one, more, than against God Himself-- not innocent babies nor abused children, not battered wives nor raped women, not cheated husbands nor robbed men-- NO ONE is offended more by sin than God. "For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD" (Deuteronomy 25:16). Sin of ANY kind is a complete betrayal of God and all that He has done for mankind. "8 He that committeth sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sinneth from The Beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil... 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is NOT of God, neither he that loveth not his brother" (1John 3:8,10). If you will not accept "the Gift of God [which] is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our LORD" (Romans 6:23), then you will most certainly pay your own sin debt with your own Unending Death, "for the wages of sin is Death" (6:23). "7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap Corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting" (Galatians 6:7-8). "18 For the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the Power of God... 23 But we preach Christ Crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness" (1Corinthians 1:18,23).
Do you really want to go it on your own? If so, then you have drawn the line in the sand and you stand upon the side that opposes God. "He that is not with Me is against Me" (Matthew 12:30). "Despisest thou the riches of His Goodness and Forbearance and Longsuffering; not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" (Romans 2:4).
Do you have a complaint against God? Has Almighty God not measured up to your expectations? "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why hast Thou made me thus?" (Romans 9:20).
There is NOTHING more that God the Father and Jesus Christ, His Son, can do for you! ALL has been done that can be done, "for other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1Corinthians 3:11). And no other god can help you, for they are ALL false. "As ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the Last Time" (1John 2:18). [Read "Antichrist Shall Come" ---New Window to find the Truth of what the Antichrist does for those who follow him.]
Do you really want what you deserve? You are foolish if you do. You will certainly earn what you reap if you reject the Precious Gift Jesus wanted you to have. "The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth Righteousness shall be a Sure Reward" (Proverbs 11:18).
Do you ever feel shame for the things that you do, indicating that you still have a conscience-- a chance to change? "What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is Death" (Romans 6:16, 21). Do you still have a conscience, or have you "seared" it eternally? "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having [your] conscience seared with a hot iron" (1Timothy 4:2).
You have a very limited time to make your choice, "14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away... 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do Good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin" (James 4:14,17). You do know what you OUGHT to do. "Sow to yourselves in Righteousness, reap in Mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain Righteousness upon you" (Hosea 10:12). Delay will only harden you. "Thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the Day of Wrath and revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God" (Romans 2:5). Take heed, for "the LORD said, My Spirit SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE with man... For I will NOT CONTEND FOR EVER, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls which I have made" (Genesis 6:3; Isaiah 57:16). Even to "the Great Whore" (Revelation 19:2) of the Tribulation, God said, "I gave her SPACE to repent of her fornication; and she repented not... And her smoke rose up for ever and ever" (Revelation 2:21; 19:3). [Read "Who is Mystery, Babylon the Great?" ---New Window and hear what Scripture tells us of the identity of this Whore.] Time will not stand still while men and demons play their wicked games. "For the Son of Man [most definitely] SHALL COME in the Glory of His Father with His angels; and then He SHALL REWARD every man according to his WORKS" (Matthew 16:27).
"6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality, Eternal Life: 8 but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the Truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile" (Romans 2:6-9).
The Law of God shall be upheld, even if you choose not to do so. "Who knowing the Judgment of God, that they which commit such things are WORTHY of Death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them" (Romans 1:32). You will be a partaker in the Justice of God being executed, even if you are not willingly a party to it. Why? Because the Father in Heaven is a God of His Word, and "shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25). Whether you choose to participate in the Judgment of God-- or not-- you will! There is a limit to your abuse of God. "Surely [even] the wrath of man shall praise Thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou RESTRAIN" (Psalm 76:10).
"God will be as truly honored in the damnation of those who reject, as in the salvation of those who receive Christ.
1. Because it will be known He did all the nature of the case admitted, to save those who are lost--that when they had forfeited their lives, He took not the forfeiture at their hands. But when they infinitely deserved damnation, He pitied and spared, and sent his Son to die for them--that they refused salvation either by the law or gospel--that they would neither obey the law, nor repent and be forgiven--that nothing that infinite love could do for them, could persuade them to accept salvation.
2. His sending them to hell after manifesting so great a desire to save them, will most impressively demonstrate and illustrate his holiness and justice. So great was his pity and love for them, that He would sooner die Himself, in their behalf, than send them to hell, and yet so great is his holiness and justice, that when they refuse salvation upon the only principles that can reconcile justice and mercy, he does not hesitate to send them to the depths of hell. If an earthly sovereign should order his own children to execution, for rebellion against the laws, would not this be an impressive exhibition of his regard to public order, and of attachment to the principles of his government? What an amazing reluctance did God manifest in the Atonement, to sending sinners to hell. And after such an exhibition of bleeding mercy, if He is obliged to send them to hell, how infinitely honorable to Him, will be such an exhibition of his Holiness and Justice.
3. The damnation of the finally impenitent, will greatly increase public confidence in God. What a glorious magistrate is this, how infinitely desirous to avoid public execution, and yet so attached to the principles of his government, so in love with order, so high and holy in his regard to the public interests as to sentence his own children to an eternal hell, if they persist in rebellion, and those very children for whom his love is so great as to have laid down his own life for them! What must the universe think of a sovereign that could do this! What an infinitely holy and glorious king is this! And how must such an exhibition as this establish forever the confidence of all holy beings in Him and his government.
4. The damnation of the wicked, as rejecters of the gospel, will give to the law of God great power. The death of Christ has magnified the law, and made it honorable, has manifested God's great regard for it, and demonstrated that, sooner than repeal it, or suffer it to be trampled under foot, he would have his own Son to die, that a way might be opened for setting aside its penalty in consistency with the honor of its precept. The damnation of the wicked, will greatly strengthen the power of his law, by showing that so high is God's regard for it, that when so costly an expedient for setting aside its penalty had failed to subdue the sinner, he would execute his penalty upon him notwithstanding his love and compassion for him, were infinitely great." --from "The Gospel the Savor of Life or of Death" ---New Window by C. G. Finney Lecture XV I. That God has great delight in the Atonement of Christ. II. That a full exhibition of Christ must do great good, whether men are saved or lost. III. That such an exhibition of Christ will produce great and manifest changes in the character of those who hear. IV. That God will be as truly honored in the damnation of those who reject, as in the salvation of those who receive Christ.
But if you repent, "being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye [shall] have your fruit unto Holiness, and the end Everlasting Life" (Romans 6:22).
"Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep Mercy and Judgment, and wait on thy God continually" (Hosea 12:6). [PLEASE see our "Topical Links On Salvation" ---New Window.]