God Overlooke People's Ignorance
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30 “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him.
31 For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”
How do we understand the above scripture, I begin by saying, when God created the heaven and the earth, he created man and a woman of whom, He named Adam and Eve. God gave the a commandment not to eat of a fruit from the garden He has placed them.
I will pulse here to say that when God gives a command He meant every word of it. The commandment of God are not to be taken lightly.
I must say Adam and Eve became careless and treated God’s word as nothing, and went against God word and from that moment they were judge to die, for God had warned them “If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die”
15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—
17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
Now we all came out of Adam and Eve, therefore the bible teaches we all have inherited the sinful nature of our first parents, for this reason David said “And In sin my mother conceive me”
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
5 For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Yet there are people who argue that, I wasn’t there when Adam and Eve sinned, how come their sin affect me, Okey let put Adam and Eve aside and look at yourself, are you clean, are there no sin in life that you have commited personally? besides what Adam and Eve did, we in our personal lives are not clean, looking to your self are you clean.
Looking at me personally, without considering what Adam and Eve did, I have commited many sins in my life, there are many sins I have commited that am guilty.
No one is clean, no one is righteous,“for all have sin and fall short of the glory of God”
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
The fact remains that, when you sin or have sin in your life, you are judge the die, the bible is clear on that, that “The Soul Who Sins Shall Die”
20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
THE GOOD NEWS
But God did something so amazing, for He decided to overlook our ignorance, God decided to overlook our sin, that why when you sin God did not kill you, may you are involved in sinful acts like fornication, armed robbery, prostitution etc but you will notice that God did not kill you.
God decided not to kill us instantly because of His marcy and love He wanted to redeem mankind from the sentence of DEATH to LIFE
What He did was to send His son Jesus Christ to come and die for us, in that He paid the penalty of our sins so instead of dying we live, Hallelujah.
BUT NOW HE COMMANDS EVERYONE EVERYWHERE TO REPENT OF THEER SINS AND TURN TO HIM - Now because of what God has done, by waiting or delaying judgement so that Jesus will come and pay the penalty of our sins and also if we didn’t know that, we can live instead of dying because what God did through His son Jesus Christ, then now we know, therefore God is calling us all the repent of our sins.
REPENTANCE - Repentance means turning around, it means when am going in a certain direction and then I turn 180 degrees and face the other direction. You know the bible says “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
12 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
So now it about time to turn from all ways of death to the ways of life. I say “we don’t have to die when we can live”
FOR HE HAS SET A DAY FOR JUDGING THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE BY THE MAN HE HAS APPOINTED - Jesus is coming again but this time to judge the world the bible says He is coming to give to every man what he deserve, There we need not wait for him to come and reward us with death, there is something we can do.
Before he comes, we can prepare ourselves and make ourself ready, we do this by accepting Him as our lord and savior. We have all head that the world is coming to an end, yes that is true “ the world is coming to an end and Jesus is coming” is the same thing. Yet there id one thing I want to draw our attention to.
May be you may be dead before Jesus comes, when one dies the world has come to an end for such a one, now therefore when you die without Jesus before the world comes to and end or Jesus comes what testimony are you going to give because the bible has said “ And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,”
27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,
Now if you should stand before the judgment seat of God how are going to defend yourself.
I like the story of Noah so much, when we read that portion of scripture, the bible says God said at the time that he was going to destroy every thing He ever created, so whiles God thought of that as he sat up, looking down He notice the man Noah, He could not destroy because the bible says “He is a righteous man” .
In the same manner, we have head Jesus is coming to judge the world and that the world is coming to an end yet God has noticed some people he cannot destroy with the world because they have accepted Jesus as their Lord and saviour.
AND HE HAS PROVED TO EVERYONE WHO THIS IS BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD - You know when Jesus die and was resurrected The bible say and when the disciple meet him, he was taken to heaven by a cloud, and while the disciple stirred in the heaven’s to see Jesus being taking up, suddenly two angle stood among them and said
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in the same way you saw him go!”
Now we know that Jesus is coming back to judge every man but just as i have said we don’t need to wait for him to come and reword us with death because we fail to accept him as our Lord and saviour, we can make ourselves ready by accepting him as our lord and saviour for the bible have said when he come he shall appear in the skies and we all those who have accepted him as our lord and saviour shall meet him in the skies and be taken to heaven hallelujah.