The killer of joy, peace and hope

In recent times I was asked to contribute to a series of messages expounding the letter written to the people at Rome. The message begins with rather confronting statements about the human condition.

God the righteous judge calls our bad choices‘sin’. Some choose to ignore or deny God – it is sin worthy of punishment. Others hide their inner unholy attitudes by criticising others, yet it is ‘sin’. Many people use the cloak of religious observance to cover hypocrisy and greed – the Bible calls it ‘sin’.

Then I hear many say – ‘well we are all sinners, so who has the right to be judgemental’ – God has that right and He will have the final word.

On the horizontal plane, it is true that we are all without excuse, we have gone astray along with others, but on the vertical plane, we have offended the God who made us to choose right, designed us to do good, to know Him and to love Him. Our rebellion against God deserves judgement. Judgement is not the outcome of a grumpy God. It is the putting in place of justice.
Moses, who knew God face to face, wrote 
"You have set our iniquities before you, our secrets sins in the light of your presence" Ps90.8

God does not gloss over sin, but rather exposes it and deals with it justly.

Does God the judge leave us in the plight of sin and condemnation – NO.   

He is the one who steps up to remedy the situation (now that is good news),  ............................................................if we will let Him! !

I recommend that you read again the first three chapters of ‘Romans’. Be honest with God and yourself:

“My sins deserve eternal death.............................................”

Stay tuned for the next episode of what God has done .

If you do not have a Bible, let me know.

johnmckee@internode.on.net