You are subscribed as %%emailaddress%% CAN MERCY AND JUDGMENT COEXIST?
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"The Lord loves justice...
It is I (God) who judges with equity...
For the Lord is a God of justice."Psalm 37:28; 75:2; Isaiah 30:18
When I first came into my current pastorate roughly seven years ago, an otherwise kind and loving family left the church because of my unwavering commitment to the Bible as "inspired by God, inerrant and infallible as originally given" (see Psalm 19:7; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).
They readily accepted the "love and forgiveness" part of God's character, but they did not believe in His "justice." "Our God is NOT PUNITIVE!," the woman assured me, as she left the church parking lot for the final time.
To the contrary Oswald Chambers declares,
"In the teachings of Jesus Christ the element
of judgment is always brought out -
it is the sign of the loving God.-Oswald Chambers,
My Utmost for His Highest, May 5
So, what do you think? Can mercy and judgment coexist?
More tomorrow.
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