The_Mistakes_Sinners_Make_Part_VI[1]

Introduction:  Sinners and Christian make the mistake of rejecting Christ, they make the mistake of doubting Christ, they make the mistake of not hearing the Gospel, and they make the mistake of not understanding the need of the Preacher.   Sinners Make the Mistake of not Accepting the Good News.

VI. SINNERS MAKE THE MISTAKE OF UNDERESTIMATING GOD

                A. The Cause of God’s Judgment

                                1. God’s Judgment is caused by Disobedience

2 Chronicles 7:19-22

19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them,

20 then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

21 “And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?’

22 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.’ ”

                                2. God’s Judgment is caused by Men Rejecting His                                           warnings

2 Chronicles 36:16-17

16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

17 Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

                B. The penalty of Rejecting God’s word

                                1. We underestimate God’s view on Evil

Exodus 20:5

5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.

                                                                                                                                                                                2. We underestimate God’s  Discipline

2 Samuel 7:14-15

14 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

15 But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

                                Manifest God’s righteousness

 Exodus 9:14-16

14 for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

15 Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

                                Warn others

Luke 13:3-5

3 I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?

5 I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”