For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
2 Chronicles 15:3-4
They sought Him because He was true, He delivered.
That’s who we should be looking for, looking towards and who we should be looking forward to spending eternity with.
Be discerning brethren. Don’t be easily deceived by those twisting scripture, in order to pacify their sin and debauchery.
They sought something different from the true gospel message, hoping to eliminate the consequences of their evil desires.
“Be not deceived; God will not be mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Galatians 6:7
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
The closer we get to the end of time, the more we recognize this prophesy coming to pass.
“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own; A God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity.
Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him.
He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”
-J.C. Ryle
God is merciful, but he’s also just. Without this justice, sin would run rampant, evil would win.
There would be no reward for obedience. We could not respect a God who wasn’t just.
Unfortunately, sometimes certain groups manufacture this “fake god.” This is done in order to either, blatantly disobey him or because they figured if they create their own form of what God should be, they can then sin and live anyway they see fit. Without repercussions.
But, God will administer justice in accordance with His standards.
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Micah 6:8
For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he”
Deuteronomy 32:3-4
Many Blessing’s,
Connie
