Daily devotion – Saviour of Judge
Rom 1:18
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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Yesterday we saw man’s need of a Saviour because of our sin. Today we look at the holiness of God in regard to not only His love for us and sending His Son, but His character and His judgment of sin. The Gospel of Jesus Christ does not conform or shape itself to the whims of humanity but rather to the requirements of holiness from the Holy God.
God’s revelation to humanity is not just of His mercy but also His justice. For there can be no mercy unless there is justice.
Paul therefore teaches us of the “wrath of God being revealed.”
God’s judgement is revealed in the Scriptures:
The great flood of which only 8 souls were saved
The judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah
The dispersement of the Jewish nation.
The Bible declares, Gal 6:7 “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
God will judge all sin. Everything in our world as soon as it is born, because of sin, begins to die. The true nature is revealed and the very things which appear to bring growth and life in nature begin to turn against it. The sun which warned, it withers it; the air and the rain which nourished it, rot it.
The world including ourselves is in a spiral of degeneration but it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that injects the process of regeneration.
The Gospel brings a halt to the drifting process of the soul away from God. When we repent, our lives are turned around, and by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit we grow in Christ each day.
Jesus is either our Saviour or He is our judge. But knowing God’s mercy and great love, causes those of us who realise and acknowledge our sin, to run to Him and not to run away from Him. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is God’s appeal of love and not hate.
His love is the force of attraction and not repulsion. Only those who reject God’s mercy and love, will experience Christ as their judge, instead of their Saviour.
When Christ first came, He came as a sacrifice, to be offered once and for all on the Cross of Calvary, to bear the sins of humanity – He came as our Saviour, your Saviour!
But as Revelation 19 declares, at Christ’s Second Coming, as He promised He would return, this time He comes wielding His sword of judgement to those who would rather live in sin and darkness, instead of God’s light, mercy and love.
To every soul Christ is either their Saviour or He will be their judge.