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The Reckoning Of God
Contributed by Jeff Taylor on Nov 10, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: God's Word is absolute. The Word of God is final. And His Word is binding, and it is truth! There is a reckoning at hand. It's the reckoning of God. And it is a reckoning of the sinful ways of this world and how we have literally pushed God out of our lives and our countries.
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God's Word is absolute. The Word of God is final. And His Word is binding, and it is truth! Malachi 3:6 says, "For I am the Lord, I change not;" Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." John 14:9, "...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father." The Father and the Son are One! And they do not change! And if the Lord does not change, neither does His Word and His Word says God hates hands that shed innocent blood! That for a man to lie with a man as he would with a woman is an abomination! Simply put, God hates abortion! God hates the hands that commit abortion! And God abhors homosexuality!
The bible says that homosexuality is an abomination. What exactly is an abomination? An abomination runs deeper than sin. To sin means to break God's Law. Which can be done without even knowing it or accidentally. Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;". So, for an act to be an abomination, it must be far worse than sin. And it is! An abomination is an act of defiance. When you commit an abomination, you are not only sinning against God, you are defying Him out right!
It's like iniquity. To sin simply means you have broken God's Law. And like I said, you might not even realize that you have done that. But iniquity is when you know what you are doing is sin, you know what God says about sin, and you do it anyway. When Jesus said He would tell the many on that Day to depart from Me you workers of iniquity, He was saying these people had sin in their lives, they knew that sin was there, they knew what God's Word says about sin, and they stayed in their sins unrepented.
The good news is all of this can be forgiven by God. You can repent, which means to turn away from anything that is considered sin in the eyes of God and be saved by the Blood of Jesus Christ. Iniquity can be forgiven, sin can be forgiven, and abominations can be forgiven. But you must repent of them! You must turn away from the things in your life that the Bible clearly forbids and condemns! You must turn away from the homosexual lifestyle. You must repent of shedding innocent blood through abortion. You must seek God's forgiveness and be washed in the Blood of His Son Who died on Calvary's Cross to pay the sin penalty for you and for me. Hebrews 9:22 says, "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." There is no remission of our sins without the Blood of Christ that was shed on the Cross for our sins. Without the Blood of Jesus Christ, your sins will never be washed away, and you will never be redeemed by the curse of the law which says, "the wages of sin is death!" You must repent! You must be washed in the Blood! And you must renounce your sin filled lifestyle!
There is a reckoning at hand. It's the reckoning of God. And it is a reckoning of the sinful ways of this world and how we have literally pushed God out of our lives and our countries. God is about to unleash a reckoning that will render judgment on the sinners and the haters of God's people. And at the same time, God will unleash an overflow of blessings on those who have remained faithful and steadfast to His Word and His Will.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."
Look at the list of those Paul says will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Look at this list of those who will die and go to hell if they do not repent of their abominable, sinful ways. Fornicators, those who have sex outside of marriage, including adultery! Idolaters, those who worship images and statues like Buddah, the Virgin Mary, Allah, and other images like these, even a cross. It's idolatry to wear a cross around your neck if Christ is not in your heart and is your Lord and Savior! Adulterers, that's pretty self-explanatory, I think. But just in case it's not for some of you, that means those who have sex with people they are not married to and are married themselves. However, adultery goes much, much deeper than that! Matthew 5:28, Jesus says, "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Just looking at a woman with lust in your eyes is adultery in the eyes of God. And there are many out there who do just that! Men, if you watch pornography, if you look at pornographic magazines, or visit strip joints or "Gentlemen's Clubs", as they call it, even if you don't lay a hand on the women you lust after, you have committed adultery WITH that woman in your heart!