If you hold no fear of
GOD, I question whether you have ever, one time, heard GOD.
There is a willful and unholy deafness about us. 'NO FEAR'
... has become the Neo-National Anthem, and even worse,
has been added to the hymnal of the Church. The modern day
false-prophet who seeks to fashion a sin friendly savior, really
deserves the title: false-profit:
"Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the
LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their
lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded
them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith
the LORD." For their own ends, they have
intentionally diluted the gospel,
"...Making the word of GOD of none effect..."
Gospel, Biblically defined is: good news, but apart from bad
news, the entire issue is moot. Mercy is founded upon
wrath, grace is founded upon mercy, and any understanding of GOD
disturbed of this equation, produces a gutless gospel.
Wrath not only precedes mercy, it precipitates it. In
spite of much of what you hear, sin still inflames the heart of
GOD; and HIS view of the works of our flesh has not been altered
by the passing years.
"Let no man deceive you
with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of
GOD upon the children of disobedience." There can be no clearer revelation of the wrath of
GOD than the cross of CHRIST! In glorious eclipse, the SON of
GOD satisfied the wrath of GOD. Today however, men mock
the cross, scoff at the cross, deny the cross, some perhaps even
wonder at the cross, but few perceive the cross. Paul
bemoaned this same tragic phenomena in his day:
"For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness; ..."
For the perceptive
though, who rightly interpret the language of the cross, there is mercy with the
LORD. "For GOD
hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our
LORD JESUS CHRIST ... Much
more then, being now justified by HIS blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through HIM."
Habakkuk looked unto
the gathering cloud of Babylonian hoards in his day and prayed:
"O LORD, I have heard
THY speech, and was afraid:
O LORD, revive THY work in the midst of the years, in the midst
of the years make known;
in wrath remember
mercy." As the
fodder of
tribulation cannons approach in our day, pray earnestly for
revival and:
"Keep yourselves in the love of GOD, looking for the mercy of
our LORD JESUS CHRIST unto eternal life."
...assured that the gathering clouds of
wrath indicate that: "... your
redemption draweth nigh"