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The Wrath of God.

 If we forsake God, He will forsake us. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.


The bible goes on to say that although they could know God, they chose not to know Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. God pours his wrath upon humanity when He clearly says that He can be known, but we choose to suppress that knowledge and truth, and live our lives like He doesn’t exist. God gave us life, and we will never be happy until we choose to believe in the Lord. People think they are smarter than God, and we feel that we don’t need our Creator. We put our needs above the needs of others, and pretend like God doesn’t exist. But the problem is that God does exist, and by choosing to act like He doesn’t we are breaking one of the Ten Commandments that says; “You shall have no other gods before me.”


When we fail to acknowledge that God exists, we are also in fact saying that “sin” doesn’t exist. If sin doesn’t exist then Jesus Christ didn’t have to die for us because there was nothing for him to die for. We are also saying that we do not need a Saviour, that we are fine on our own, and we don’t need Jesus Christ or his Church! Yes it is a choice to accept that Jesus Christ died for your sins, but you actually have to believe in the reality of sin, that you are a sinner in need of a Saviour! No wonder the bible says; “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:32) If we fail to admit we are sinners we will never repent, and if we never repent we will never acknowledge God. 


We will go to our graves unforgiven, outside the free grace of God. Not knowing or experiencing the grace that Jesus died for us to have, so that we could live. We will never understand or experience the love of God. We will think that God’s love is like human love, and we will never fear the Lord. We will fail to teach our children about the Bible, so they too can be saved! They will grow up not knowing the Lord and His wonderful amazing grace. No wonder the Bible says; “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” (Psalm 9:17) The bible teaches us to acknowledge God; “In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:6) so we should really consider doing this. This is Mike.


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