Psalm 90:2 – “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
Isaiah 40:28 – “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”
Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
1 Timothy 1:17 – “To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.”
Romans 16:26 – “But has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith.”
Deuteronomy 33:27 – “The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.”
Isaiah 43:10 – “Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.”
Isaiah 44:6,8 – “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.’ // ‘Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.'”
Isaiah 45:22 – “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.”
Sir/ma’am do you know that you’ve sinned against God?
We are sinners living in a sin-cursed world – but a new day is coming!
Come to God – this coming implies a leaving of something else – sin and self righteousness and idols; but come the right way – through Jesus Christ alone – and no other way
Mankind is separated from God because of sin
One sin cast the devil out of heaven. One sin cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. One sin will cast you from the presence of God, too.
Quotes
Jonty Rhodes – “Men (and women too) are pulled away to sin through three main areas: ‘Guns, Gold and Girls.'” – playing off of the 1 John 2:16 (see scripture below).
Scripture
1 John 2:16 – “For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.”
Hebrews 9:27-28 – “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”
2 Peter 2:4-10 – “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.”
Quotes
Paul Washer says, “God does not throw sin into hell. He throws sinners into hell. And hell is not hell because God is not there. Hell is hell because God is there in the fullness of His wrath. This is the God of the scripture.”
God is good. This very truth is what so many are hoping will free them when in fact it is the one thing that will condemn them. God is good and we are not. He is just and cannot simply let your sin go.
Paul Washer said – “What do I have to do to go to heaven? ‘Oh that’s easy, you have to be absolutely perfect from the moment of your birth to the moment of your death. In order to go to heaven you must be morally perfect without spit or blemish in any shape form or fashion to any degree. You must be morally perfect from the moment of birth to the moment of death.’”
“Who here believes they are a good enough person and doesn’t need Jesus as a crutch to get into heaven?”
Exodus 19:5 – “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine. “
Statements
God owns everything – the air you breathe, the food you eat, the blood in your veins – he made all. He does what he wants to with his creation, we should respect and worship him. Take him seriously. I’m standing on his earth. Drinking his water.
2 Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
Paul Washer said, “the greatest problem in all the world is that if God is just, then he cannot forgive you. If God is just then how can he forgive wicked men and still be just? The answer is found in the death of his son on Calvary.”
Randy Alcorn said, “It would upset us, but would we think it unloving if a doctor told us we had a potentially fatal cancer?”
Questions
Where do you get your definition of fair?
Does a rapist deserve a just punishment?
Statements
God always judges fairly.
Those who are justified will and are being sanctified
The good and glorious character of Christ doesn’t need any bad news to magnify and highlight His pure goodness. But it makes so much more sense in our fallen state if you understand who we are in comparison to him. God is the very definition of goodness. Christ is that goodness manifest in flesh.
