Judgement and Mercy, Both

Judgement and Mercy, Both

Judgement and Mercy, Both

The Church, as we see in the Epistles, did not conform to the culture of the times.  It did not worry about whether it hurt people's feelings when it preached the Gospel.  They, as Jesus did, even when he lectured for hours before feeding the crowd, taught them the laws of God, that those laws might be written on their hearts and they might "sin no more", which is the command Jesus gave the woman who was to be stoned for adultery.  When people talk of Jesus as if he is this fluffy teddy bear, I have wonder what Bible they are reading, as he had one heck of a temper, even lost patience when his disciples shown little faith, told the leaders of the synagogue they and all those who professed to be of God but lived in lawlessness and sin that he didn't know them, that they were vipers and would suffer eternal damnation.  He also made it clear that if they fully accepted him as the Messiah, begotten Son of God, then with the aid of the Holy Spirit the commandments would engraved on their hearts, and they would have the strength to overcome Luciferian influences, something he gave to Paul in much greater detail in that vision and intimate conversation on the road to Damascus.  Our actions, behaviors and motives will be judged and if we have not accepted Christ, then our judgement will be the judgement of unbelievers and lawbreakers that we receive.  

Also those who profess to be of Christ and deliberately live in sin will also, if they die in that state of flagrant disregard for God's concepts, precepts and fixed moral law, will also face the judgment as law breakers.  The Holy Spirit can't work in and with us if we refuse to obey God's laws, if we openly thumb our nose at God, and I know this.  My life changed only when I came to full terms with the Biblical truth as a Christian, as a creation of Elohim, and what that meant. When I stopped wanting life my way, by my pleasures, wow everything that was dark, was turned around for good and it made a huge difference.

Shalom and Amen.