John 20:28 – “Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!'”
Colossians 1:15-17 – “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
1 Corinthians 8:6 – “Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”
Romans 10:13 – “For ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'”
1 Peter 2:6 – “For it stands in Scripture: ‘Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.'”
Ephesians 2:19-22 – “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.”
Exodus 19:5 – “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine. “
Statements
God owns everything – the air you breathe, the food you eat, the blood in your veins – he made all. He does what he wants to with his creation, we should respect and worship him. Take him seriously. I’m standing on his earth. Drinking his water.
2 Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
Paul Washer said, “the greatest problem in all the world is that if God is just, then he cannot forgive you. If God is just then how can he forgive wicked men and still be just? The answer is found in the death of his son on Calvary.”
Randy Alcorn said, “It would upset us, but would we think it unloving if a doctor told us we had a potentially fatal cancer?”
Questions
Where do you get your definition of fair?
Does a rapist deserve a just punishment?
Statements
God always judges fairly.
Those who are justified will and are being sanctified
The good and glorious character of Christ doesn’t need any bad news to magnify and highlight His pure goodness. But it makes so much more sense in our fallen state if you understand who we are in comparison to him. God is the very definition of goodness. Christ is that goodness manifest in flesh.
Charles Spurgeon said, “If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of hell. If you can go into sin and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds, if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.”
Three minutes to live example – how would i go to heaven
