Daily Bread – May 18, 2024 (The Seventh Day – Genesis 2:1-3) Psalms 90:11 – Who knows the power of Your wrath? Even according to Your fear, so is Your wrath. I am constantly amazed at the mercy and tenderness of God. His mercy and grace were exemplified both in the lives of Ahab and Manasseh (two wicked kings – one of Israel and the other of Judah). The longsuffering of God is an amazement to all who know His ways and His Holiness. What must also be understood is His wrath. God’s wrath will most certainly be poured out against all sin and ungodliness (Romans 1:18, 2:5,8; Ephesians 2:3, 5:6; Colossians 3:6). Jesus said “He that believes in the Son has everlasting life; but he that does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John 3:36. The faith of Christ Jesus made us a new creation in which the Spirit of Holiness dwells and all sin and iniquity is hated. The doctrines of Universalism that are infiltrating so much of church doctrine recoils at these truths. Although people want to sit in church and hear words that make them comfortable and that make them feel better about themselves, such words are of little profit to those who are about to incur the wrath of God because of their rebellious and persistent disobedience. The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. The day of God’s wrath burns against those who are unwilling to turn from ungodliness and persist in doing evil. The concept of fleeing from the wrath to come has lost its potency today. Many in the Church have denied there is any punishment for sin and have altogether done away with the wrath of God. Yet nonetheless, the wrath of God will come upon all those who continue in sin (Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6). During the days of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield in the “First Great Awakening”, and those like Charles Finney in the “Second Great Awakening”, being awakened to the Holiness of God and the evils of sin were possible because there was a fear of God among the people. Today is an entirely different spiritual landscape, first within the Church and among the people who name the Name of the Lord, and secondly among the world. We find ourselves in the greatest immorality that has been revealed in modern times. Many have fallen into a deep sleep of deception. The concepts of holiness are intolerable. Today, it is not just the world around us calling evil good and good evil, but many among Church leaders. Few lift up their voice and cry out as Jesus and the Apostles did in their day. Few take up the same words and Spirit that moved them to cry out with urgency against the masses on their way to a Devil’s Hell. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 5/18/2024
