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Title: What Will Your Day Be Like In God's Court
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Blog Entry: Malachi 2:17 The Message 17 You make GOD tired with all your talk. "How do we tire him out?" you ask. By saying, "GOD loves sinners and sin alike. GOD loves all." And also by saying, "Judgment? God's too nice to judge ." I was born in the U.S.A. and without my consent or opinion became a citizen at birth and subject to all the laws of the nation. If I decide I do not believe in the speeding laws I can break them until a police officer catches me and stops me. He will ticket me and order me to go to court and face the judge! If I ignore him and do not show up eventually another officer will come and arrest me and forcible take me to jail. I will face the judge again! I will be punished as a criminal. In the same manner you have been born into this world that God created. Whether we like it or not, we all are under the universal laws of God. We all will face the real eternal, just Judge, and be tried by His holy laws. Sin is the religious term for crime. Sinners are spiritual criminals! If you decide you do not like God’s laws you can continue to break them and live a life of crime. But, your day in court will come. Revelation, the last book of the Bible says... “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. [Revelation 20:11-15 KJV] Our “works” will condemn us because our works are our deeds. The only way out of everlasting punishment is to have our names listed in a book called “The Book of Life.” Jesus spoke clearly of this event while he ministered in Israel two thousand years ago. He taught, "Don't act so surprised at all this. The time is coming when everyone dead and buried will hear his voice. Those who have lived the right way will walk out into a resurrection Life; those who have lived the wrong way, into a resurrection Judgment” [John 5:28-29 TM]. Although our culture likes to use the term, “laid to rest” when someone dies, this is far from the truth. It does not matter whether you believe this or not, God’s Word declares: “Eventually, we're all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God. Your critical and condescending ways aren't going to improve your position there one bit. Read it for yourself in Scripture: ‘As I live and breathe,’ God says, ‘every knee will bow before me; Every tongue will tell the honest truth that I and only I am God’" [Romans 14:10-11 TM]. There are no exceptions! So let’s see if your works are good before God, or if your choices have made you a criminal. Let’s start with God’s ten commandments. [Exodus 20] 1. No other gods, only me. [Some people serve Allah, others serve Hindu deities, others serve Mary the mother of Jesus, etc. Some serve themselves, just like Satan does. If you do not serve Jesus Christ as your sovereign Ruler you have broken this law.] 2. No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. [Even if you create a god in your mind, your imagination, you have broken this law. Do you think something like this, “My God would never create a hell or demand I face on a Judgment Day, he is too nice.”] Don't bow down to them and don't serve them because I am GOD, your God, and I'm a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I'm unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments. 3. No using the name of GOD, your God, in curses or silly banter; GOD won't put up with the irreverent use of his name. 4. Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to GOD, your God. Don't do any work — not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days GOD made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore GOD blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day. 5. Honor your father and mother so that you'll live a long time in the land that GOD, your God, is giving you. 6. No murder. [If you hate you are guilty—1 John 3:15] 7. No adultery. [Jesus warned if you even look at a person to lust after them you have already broke this law in your heart.] 8. No stealing. [cheat on your taxes, not work as you should] 9. No lies about your neighbor. [all deception] 10. No lusting after your neighbor's house — or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's. <bold>Remember you do not have to break every law in our country to be a criminal, just one.</bold> That alone makes you a criminal and the police will be after you to bring you to justice. Well, you do not have to break every one of God’s laws, one is sufficient to make you a criminal, yes, an evil sinful person. Our holy judge will punish the “fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” [Revelation 21:8]. As you see liars are in the same list as murderers. Have you ever told a lie? The Bible declares Jesus Christ will come to this earth again, but with a different purpose! “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword , that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” [Revelation 19:11-16] Please understand this final judgment will be by Jesus Christ! He is the Judge of judges and this tribunal will offer no appeals. The verdict is final! God knows every thought you think, every word you speak, and every act you take. Jesus already warned, “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” [Matthew 12:36]. “God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day” [Psalm 7:11 KJV]. You are misinformed if you think God is too nice to judge you, like any normal person, He is outraged at rapists, murderers, tyrants, thieves, and kidnappers. He hates the hurt and pain that is poured out of mankind toward Him and the human race. He is so just He will judge liars, those who have immoral sex, those who murder their children and change the name to abortion, those who cheat on their taxes, disobey their parents, etc. In the first book of the Bible God reacted to our ancestors of many years ago… “GOD saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil — evil, evil, evil from morning to night. GOD was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. GOD said, ‘I'll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds — the works. I'm sorry I made them.’ But Noah was different. GOD liked what he saw in Noah” [Genesis 6:5-8]. Please think this through, God decides what is evil and what is good, not you or I. The Great Flood was the result of God’s judgment for the same sins you and the others of our world are committing. In Acts 17 Paul preaches to the community: "The God who made the world and everything in it, this Master of sky and land, doesn't live in custom-made shrines or need the human race to run errands for him, as if he couldn't take care of himself. He makes the creatures; the creatures don't make him. Starting from scratch, he made the entire human race and made the earth hospitable, with plenty of time and space for living so we could seek after God, and not just grope around in the dark but actually find him. He doesn't play hide-and-seek with us. He's not remote; he's near. We live and move in him, can't get away from him! One of your poets said it well: 'We're the God-created.' Well, if we are the God-created, it doesn't make a lot of sense to think we could hire a sculptor to chisel a god out of stone for us, does it? "God overlooks it as long as you don't know any better — but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he's calling for a radical life-change. He has set a day when the entire human race will be judged and everything set right. And he has already appointed the judge, confirming him before everyone by raising him from the dead." Again I repeat, the Judge is Jesus Christ and His commands are the standard of His judgment; not your feelings, your own opinion that you are a good person, or personal excuses will save you from His wrath. His delay is not because it is just a religious myth. He delays His final tribunal giving you time to get your name in His book. “Don't overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn't late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn't want anyone lost. He's giving everyone space and time to change. But when the Day of God's Judgment does come, it will be unannounced, like a thief. The sky will collapse with a thunderous bang, everything disintegrating in a huge conflagration, earth and all its works exposed to the scrutiny of Judgment.” [2 Peter 3:8-10] Your only hope is to get your name in His Book of Life. You see the first visit that God made to this earth as a man was 2000 years ago when God miraculously impregnated Mary, a teen from Israel. You can read about it in Matthew and Luke. She gave birth to a son, God’s promised answer to our judgment. You know you have broken God’s law, right? You know you are guilty, right? You know He is coming to give you what you deserve, right? But, God sent His only begotten son, Jesus, to take the death penalty in your place. That was His passion, to die on the cruel, torturous cross of the Roman Empire and fully satisfy God’s fair judgment aimed at you. He sacrificed His life by taking your place. So how do you get your name in His book? John an eyewitness and follower of Jesus wrote: "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is... whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever! And that is also why the person who avoids and distrusts the Son is in the dark and doesn't see life. All he experiences of God is darkness, and an angry darkness at that." Get real! Turn from your crimes and accept God’s gift of life through Jesus. Pray like this, “I am a criminal because I have broken your law [name them]. Please forgive me, I am sorry and now give my life to You. Jesus I surrender to your control.” Now read the Bible and obey it! Start in John. Read it until you understand it. Then study Matthew 5-7. Get into a church that believes and obeys the Bible. Be careful, there are false preachers and deceivers all around to confuse you.