Posted on 03/15/2022 9:41:52 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished” (Proverbs 16:4-5).
“The LORD hath made all things for himself,” Jesus Christ did all the making.
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him” (Colossians 1:16).
“The LORD hath made all things for himself,” the Lord has made you for His pleasure. Now, if a man rejects Him, He will have pleasure in destroying him. Isn’t that peculiar? Remember in Proverbs chapter 1 what He would do when calamity came upon the wicked? He would laugh: “Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me” (Proverbs 1:24-28). God is pleased with justice. God is pleased with judgment. And if a man prefers justice and judgment to mercy and grace, God is pleased to give him judgment.
God is a whole lot different than the way that the modernists looks at him. They put Him forth as a God of love, but the Bible clearly shows Him to be equal part love and equal part justice. God will execute fiery judgment upon the Christ-rejector.
Now, if a man will come to God as a needy beggar and a wicked sinner, and he is pleading for God’s mercy on the basis of Christ’s sacrifice, it is God’s pleasure to forgive.
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