ASHAMED OF GOD

 

One of my childhood friends, commenting on FB concerning Bill Maher’s diatribe in response to the NOAH film, said that he was not an atheist, but he refused to believe that God killed all those people. Do you feel the same way? Is the God who reveals Himself in the pages of the Bible, Old and New Testaments abhorrent or an embarrassment to you? Before you answer too quickly, let’s take a closer look at what GOD reveals about Himself in Scripture.

WHEN WE TAKE HEED TO THE SURE WORDS OF PROPHECY RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF GOD’S DEALINGS WITH THE CHILDREN OF ADAM; AND ESPECIALLY HIS DEALINGS WITH THE CHILDREN OF ABRHAM, ISSAC AND JACOB. WHAT DO THOSE HISTORIES TELL US ABOUT GOD?

HE SPEAKS AND THE WORLD COMES INTO BEING. Genesis 1, 2

HE REGRETS MAKING MAN, AND FLOODS THE EARTH DESTROYING EVERY LIVING THING, EXCEPTING NOAH AND HIS FAMILY. Genesis 6-9

HE RAINS DOWN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE ON THE STENCH OF SODOM AND GOMMARAH. Genesis 19

HE RAISED UP PHARAOH IN ORDER TO DESTROY HIM PUBLICALLY AS A DEMONSTRATION OF HIS POWER. Exodus 4-15; Rom. 9:17

HE ORDERS JOSHUA AND THE ISRAELITES TO UTTERLY DESTROY EVERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD AND LIVESTOCK OF THE CITY OF JERICHO. Joshua 6:21

HE DIRECTS FLOODS, HURRICANES, FAMINES, EARTHQUAKES AND DROUGHTS AS INSTRUMENTS OF HIS WRATH REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL THE UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN. 1 Kings 17; 18

HE SENT HIS ANGEL TO KILL 185,000 ASSYRIAN SOLDIERS IN ONE NIGHT. 2 Kings 19:35

HE DETERMINES THE AFFAIRS OF NATIONS AND MEN; AND WHEN HE WEIGHS THE NATIONS OF MEN IN THE BALANCE, THEY ARE AS LESS THAN NOTHING, AND VANITY-MEANINGLESS, WORTHLESS IN HIS SIGHT. Dan. 4:34-35

HE EXECUTED ANANIAS AND SYPPHIRA FOR LYING TO THE HOLY GHOST. Acts 5

HE WILL JUDGE THE EARTH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: Acts 17:30-31

So, what do you think?

Last night on “The Good Wife”, the leading character, in her grief over the court room murder of her “soul-mate lover”, delivered the classic cavil, “If God is so good, then why, etc., etc, etc. Obviously she was expressing her unbelief in the concept of a good God by holding Him accountable to her standard of what is “good”. So interesting that without the moral and ethical standards established in our culture by Christian Western Civilization over the last 1500 years the writers in Hollywood would not even have an objective standard to define what is GOOD!

But, I digress.

So, how about you? How about your Pastor? How about the folks in your church? Do you take it for granted that God is good? Do you worship the God that destroyed every living thing in the Genesis Flood except Noah and his family. And, do you worship the God that has announced that He will send His Son to do it again at some time in the future? But more to the point, are you embarrassed to tell your children, your family and the world that HE HAS, AND THAT HE WILL AGAIN, COME IN JUDGMENT?!

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead. Acts 17:30-31

This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with His powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might on the day He comes to be glorified in His holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you. 2 Thess. 1:9-10