Our deeds have consequences.
We know this in a very real way through experience, right?
Some people who seem to have 'all the luck' as we call it, don't seem to reap the just rewards of their actions- they get away with things they really never should. And it isn't lucky at all for people to get away with doing bad things because that doesn't alleviate any of the guilt they've acquired through their deeds. Getting away with bad things is never good, not in any way.
Our good actions don't always receive accolades but they shouldn't, right? If we do good in order to get rewards from others it turns those good deeds into selfish deeds and therefore they automatically become evil deeds. So doing good things doesn't necessarily make you good either.
We will get the reward of our deeds so to think that your actions have no eternal consequences would make these verses of the Bible lies and NO verse of the Bible is a lie.
God-
Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Rom 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Rom 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile
(Evil doers-Contentious-Disobeying the truth-Obeying unrighteousness)
Their reward- indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish.
(Patient continuance in well doing-seeking for glory and honor and immortality- eternal life-working good)
Their reward- glory, honor, and peace.
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How can we ever imagine the choices we make in our lives do not matter.
The way we live our lives matters!
The choices we make matter eternally.
Evil doers- are contentious.
Evil doers- disobey the truth.
Evil doers- obey Unrighteousness.
con·ten·tious
/k?n'tenCH?s/
Adjective
1. Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial.
2. Involving heated argument.
And this ties in with my own personal upset this past week and how bad it is to be contentious, how our tongues are truly evil.
We know that disobeying the truth is bad.
We know that obeying Unrighteousness is bad.
But how many people truly comprehend to be contentious is evil?
We shrug off those who are contentious. We wave it away in ourselves and label it part of who we are and if others don't like it, tough. We say it's us and that's all there is to it. We've allowed being contentious to be acceptable. We expect our spouses to deal with it, and by that we mean just accept it and be quiet. We expect our children to put up with it, we are the parents after all. We want our friends to like us and understand we're allowed to have really bad days and who cares if they are more often than not. Being contentious has become an art form for some. People have made television shows all around contention, the more contention the better. In society today a lot of contention is expected if you want to stand up for yourself and be heard. We pat people on the back and reward them for their contention. We say controversy is good, heated arguments necessary to work through things. Often we don't care if others are being contentious as long as it's not us, but even as we don't care we are accepting it in others and not truly understanding that it is a real evil.
Satan has duped so many into accepting sin as being normal, as being fine and all part of who we are. Because so many are sinful and accepting of sin the world has HAD to deem is normal or else they'd be admitting to their own sinfulness and they'd much rather not do that.
We live in a world fill with sin so do we really expect the world to confess, repent, and seek forgiveness? It won't. The world will ONLY get worse and as it gets worse more and more sins will be labeled normal and acceptable and more and more people who CHOOSE to follow Christ and HIS ways will be labeled strange and abnormal.
Contention-a sin, not acceptable!
Contention-evil, punishable by eternal death.
Our deeds do matter! Our deeds often reveal our sins.
No, being good will NOT save you. Being Christ's WILL save you.
Through Christ we must be-
Patient continuing in well doing-seeking for glory and honor and immortality- eternal life-working good.
If we see in ourselves our evilness we MUST repent, we MUST confess, and we MUST seek forgiveness, and we MUST choose Christ and His ways over and over again, never accept sin as normal no matter how familiar it is to us and acceptable to the world.
HELP US LORD, SAVE US, KEEP US IN YOU, THROUGH YOU, FOR YOU!
ALL IN YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!
We know this in a very real way through experience, right?
Some people who seem to have 'all the luck' as we call it, don't seem to reap the just rewards of their actions- they get away with things they really never should. And it isn't lucky at all for people to get away with doing bad things because that doesn't alleviate any of the guilt they've acquired through their deeds. Getting away with bad things is never good, not in any way.
Our good actions don't always receive accolades but they shouldn't, right? If we do good in order to get rewards from others it turns those good deeds into selfish deeds and therefore they automatically become evil deeds. So doing good things doesn't necessarily make you good either.
We will get the reward of our deeds so to think that your actions have no eternal consequences would make these verses of the Bible lies and NO verse of the Bible is a lie.
God-
Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Rom 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Rom 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile
(Evil doers-Contentious-Disobeying the truth-Obeying unrighteousness)
Their reward- indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish.
(Patient continuance in well doing-seeking for glory and honor and immortality- eternal life-working good)
Their reward- glory, honor, and peace.
*
How can we ever imagine the choices we make in our lives do not matter.
The way we live our lives matters!
The choices we make matter eternally.
Evil doers- are contentious.
Evil doers- disobey the truth.
Evil doers- obey Unrighteousness.
con·ten·tious
/k?n'tenCH?s/
Adjective
1. Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial.
2. Involving heated argument.
And this ties in with my own personal upset this past week and how bad it is to be contentious, how our tongues are truly evil.
We know that disobeying the truth is bad.
We know that obeying Unrighteousness is bad.
But how many people truly comprehend to be contentious is evil?
We shrug off those who are contentious. We wave it away in ourselves and label it part of who we are and if others don't like it, tough. We say it's us and that's all there is to it. We've allowed being contentious to be acceptable. We expect our spouses to deal with it, and by that we mean just accept it and be quiet. We expect our children to put up with it, we are the parents after all. We want our friends to like us and understand we're allowed to have really bad days and who cares if they are more often than not. Being contentious has become an art form for some. People have made television shows all around contention, the more contention the better. In society today a lot of contention is expected if you want to stand up for yourself and be heard. We pat people on the back and reward them for their contention. We say controversy is good, heated arguments necessary to work through things. Often we don't care if others are being contentious as long as it's not us, but even as we don't care we are accepting it in others and not truly understanding that it is a real evil.
Satan has duped so many into accepting sin as being normal, as being fine and all part of who we are. Because so many are sinful and accepting of sin the world has HAD to deem is normal or else they'd be admitting to their own sinfulness and they'd much rather not do that.
We live in a world fill with sin so do we really expect the world to confess, repent, and seek forgiveness? It won't. The world will ONLY get worse and as it gets worse more and more sins will be labeled normal and acceptable and more and more people who CHOOSE to follow Christ and HIS ways will be labeled strange and abnormal.
Contention-a sin, not acceptable!
Contention-evil, punishable by eternal death.
Our deeds do matter! Our deeds often reveal our sins.
No, being good will NOT save you. Being Christ's WILL save you.
Through Christ we must be-
Patient continuing in well doing-seeking for glory and honor and immortality- eternal life-working good.
If we see in ourselves our evilness we MUST repent, we MUST confess, and we MUST seek forgiveness, and we MUST choose Christ and His ways over and over again, never accept sin as normal no matter how familiar it is to us and acceptable to the world.
HELP US LORD, SAVE US, KEEP US IN YOU, THROUGH YOU, FOR YOU!
ALL IN YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!
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