and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Some may wonder, does God really use sickness to make people suffer for their sins? And now we are suffering from great matters. If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The anger of the Lord burned against Uzza, so He struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark; and he died there before God. And no one will ever know how many people would have thought twice if they had known that they would have faced a swift and sure execution.

We will never be more "loving" than God is. These people kill one person and then another person, and then another person, and then another person. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty. We are to have compassion from God's point of view.

Then the one who brought the news replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.” When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. It's not a matter of him getting by with it. And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’. And when society chooses the course of non-surgery to a certain class of criminal element, it is near suicidal. But we'll always do better by doing it God's way. In Noah's day, God destroyed an entire population because of their sin. Do you mean that I'm to let that two-legged rascal get by with that? The remainder of this article will refer to “discipline” to avoid the suggestion that Christians receive “punishment” (condemnation) from God for their sin. May it never be! God is talking about a sword.

They deserve it.”, And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”. “His disciples asked him: ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, so that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered: ‘Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it was so that the works of God might be made manifest in his case.’”​—John 9:1-3.

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. What is the Christian's point of view toward evil people – people who would harm the Christian…. But that prohibition also comes with a promise. But there is yet a fourth reason for capital punishment that is usually overlooked.

Now this may sound strange, but it's not. 12:9. And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things; for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. In Kansas City, Missouri, Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death for killing a woman in Skidmore, MO, and cutting her unborn baby from the womb.[3]. God takes vengeance. https://atdcross.blogspot.com/2017/07/devotion-20-hell-all-god-needs-to-do-is.html. We could go on for some time with this sort of thing. So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the, And fire came out from the presence of the, Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the. When God is speaking about the sword, He is not speaking about jail cell. And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. And that lighthouse sends its beam back and forth; Nobody will ever know how many ships were NOT wrecked because that lighthouse was there. And Jesus Christ was executed on the cross by His Own Father.

And the death penalty is God's way of helping insure that our streets are safe and that our homes are safe, and that your children and my children are safe.

He's like a computer that has been programmed wrongly. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience. What the wicked fears will come upon him,But the desire of the righteous will be granted. “He [God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. And because of the transgression of God's law, there must  be restitution and there must be punishment. Now, beginning in verse 17 and following, he talks about. And when Jesus was here, He did not lead an insurrection against His government – and friend, He could have. Now, you say, "Wait a minute, Bro. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. When you love that which is good and you love that which is righteous and just, then you are going to hate that which is evil. Even Pilate, for example, who was the one who signed the death warrant of Jesus Christ Himself. God so loves you that God wants you to be able to live in peace and safety and tranquility. It would shock him into repentance if he's ever going to repent. God Himself abhors evil and loves that which is good. For behold, the Lord will come in fireAnd His chariots like the whirlwind,To render His anger with fury,And His rebuke with flames of fire.

“Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves. 2. Excuse me? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good.

Punishment can never fall upon the child of God in this judicial sense because his guilt was all transferred to Christ: “Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree” (1 Pet. Listen to what God says in vv.

But God is a God of righteousness, and God is a God of justice. 1. Just as some steal from God by holding on to God's tithes, so to take revenge is taking something that rightfully belongs to God.

That's better than a grand opening sale at Wal-Mart. ^ par. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.

Thus I will punish the world for its evilAnd the wicked for their iniquity;I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proudAnd abase the haughtiness of the ruthless. In fact, God Himself has practiced capital punishment down through the ages. After school, I was lying in bed, thinking about the day's events. If you had a cancer in your body, you would not think much of a doctor who tried to treat that cancer with a sun-tan lotion. And because God is a God of love, and because God's love is not a hypocritical love, God loves without dissimulation. To be punished by which the others was punished with, of crises and lessons. And God says, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.". Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

If they said it would deter them, they'd be the ones facing execution. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.". We must be thankful, and observe this favor in the way that is right. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’;read more.and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers.’ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out. Now that's just black print on white paper.

You see, sometimes people have the idea that because God is a God of love that God is not going to punish sin. That You may grant him relief from the days of adversity. And the same God who wrote about the magistrate bearing the sword not in vain in Romans 13 is the same God who wrote Genesis 9:6 and Exodus 21:12.

And the next time you see someone parading around against capital punishment, and holding up one of those signs, "Thou shalt not kill," just remember that he has not even gone to the next chapter. They terrorize people rather than be terrified. Mankind has gotten to the point where they think everyone's opinion on a matter is just as valid as someone else's. The Apostle Paul believed in capital punishment. It knows your deepest, darkest fear, and it will punish you for your actions. When God is speaking about the sword, He is not speaking about jail cell. ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; “Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol. READ. “With evil things God cannot be tried, nor does he himself try anyone.” (JAMES 1:13) Indeed, the “evil things” that have plagued mankind for centuries, including sickness, pain, and death, will soon be eliminated. And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. Now, this is the relationship that we're going to be dealing with now. God is not talking about a cat of nine tails.

Romans 13:3 says that "rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.". And God repays through human government. They deserve it.” And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”. Thus he judged Israel forty years. This may sound strange, but because God is a God of love He hates certain things. And in a strange way, if you love the criminal element, you would want capital punishment.

And from that point he went on and spoke out against capital punishment.