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God’s judgment on sin

God is the judge of sin

Isaiah 26:21 ESV

For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.

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God’s judgment is certain

Romans 2:12 ESV

For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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God’s judgment is in proportion to the seriousness of the sin

Jeremiah 21:14 ESV

I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the Lord; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.”

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God’s judgment under the Sinaitic covenant

The Sinaitic covenant makes references to the judgment of future generations for the sins of their parents but, as a principle, this is abolished by later prophets.

Curses for disobedience formed part of God’s covenant with Israel:

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John the Baptist and Jesus Christ warn of judgment

Matthew 3:10 ESV

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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Ways in which God judges sin

God causes sin to bring evil to the sinner

2 Chronicles 6:23 ESV

then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

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God abandons people

Isaiah 64:7 ESV

There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.

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Unrepentant sinners to be expelled from the church

Matthew 18:17 ESV

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

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God exercises judgment through a country’s legal system

1 Peter 2:14 ESV

or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.

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Untimely death is God’s judgment on all sin

Genesis 2:17 ESV

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

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Sinners are excluded from the kingdom of God

Revelation 22:15 ESV

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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Occasions of God’s judgment on sin

OT examples

expulsion from Eden; the flood; Sodom and Gomorrah; The Canaanites (the Anakites were earlier inhabitants of Canaan).

The exile of Israel and Judah:

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The destruction of Jerusalem

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God’s final judgment of the world

Revelation 21:8 ESV

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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