Judgement From Brother Heward-mills

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JUDGEMENT
Dag Heward-Mills
READ: 1 Corinthians 4:1-7
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secretthing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
I have heard Christians say that God will never punish them.They quote, "For God so loved theworld..." They argue that sinceGod loves the world so much He willnot destroy them. They say, "I know God will forgive me." Because of this they add sin to sin without batting an eyelid.
God's nature is like two sides of a coin. One side of the coin shows the head, and the other side showsthe tail. One side of God's character shows His great love, and the other side shows His judgement.
When God shows you one side of His character you will see love, forgiveness and mercy of the highest order. God will forgive and forget your sins. But a time will come when God will show you the other side of His nature; which is judgement, justice, fairness, equity and jurisprudence. These are the two sides of God's nature. We are now in the dispensation of grace. God is showing you mercy and love.
Think about all the wicked sins you have committed, but still receive His forgiveness. At a certain point, the Spirit of the Lord will not strive with man anymore. God has to judge you, otherwise there will be chaos in the Kingdom. "The king by judgment establisheth the land..." (Proverbs 29:4).
God loves you so much that He will punish you when He has to.
 
4You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
5and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,
NORFAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;
6FOR THOSEWHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,
AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”
7It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?8But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.9Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.11All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Most people want the milk-toast Christianity that produces "nice people", nice, fat, dumb, useless people.
God wants Saints, and He makes Saints the way men make swords, take the raw metal, stick it in the fire for a while then beat the ever-living-daylights out of it.
 
AMEN....
Ephesians 5:11

New Living Translation (NLT)
11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.
 
God is looking for a holy people.
It is so scary to know that judgement will begin in the house of God. Thank God for His perfect love that covers all our sins.
 
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