Show 9 Ae Sa a y W CW r saes oes By REV LEO E. E RUBEL Many people mistakenly think of God as a kindly old man who winks at evil and is untouched by sin BUT THE TIlE Bible warns Be Benot Benot Benot not deceived God is not mock mock- ed Galatians 67 God is not fooled He takes sin seriously so seriously that He sent His Son to die for it The Lord is a consuming consuming consuming con con- suming fire the Bible says THIS TIllS DOES NOT sound like the god many people think they have Because God does not immediately pour out His wrath upon their sin they think He doesn't care They mistake His gracious patience for indifference But whether in this life orin or orin orin in the life to come or both the wages of sin must be paid The big question is Who will receive them IF WE GO through life liCe without without without with with- out repentance and faith in inthe inthe inthe the Savior whom God has sent then WE receive the wages of sin namely eternal separation separation separation separ separ- from Crom God and the torments torments torments tor tor- tor- tor ments of hell But if we acknowledge our sin and through the power of the Holy Spirit accept with open arms our blessed Savior Jesus Christ He blots out the theu u wages ages of sin IN FACT He has already done so in the tragic fantastic fantas fantas- tic price of the cross At the cross God accepted the brutal wages of oC sin paid by the death of His Son God is not mocked Thanks be to God who Hath Rath not appointed us to wrath but butto butto butto to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ I Thessalonians Thessalon- Thessalon ians 59 |