7. Sinners transgress against their holy Creator. Many expect to receive mercy. They think God is obligated to extend His mercy to wicked creatures. To think that God is obligated to display His mercy according to His divine character is the way of the sinful nature. Sinners also demand mercy from God. We ought to never demand mercy from God nor presume upon His mercy because mercy is free through the sacrificial cost of the very Cross of Jesus. God could bring upon sinners just consequences for their sins. We all have offended a holy Creator through the doctrine of original sin and being actual transgressors. The Bible teaches about the nature of man that he sins continually. That is, we sin at will against our holy Creator. Sinners also boast of their sin. I suggest to you that the flesh loves to boast of sin. We violate God's holy law through the "pleasure" of sin. Sinners are also perplexed that a holy God will hold everyone accountable for their unholy iniquity. God sometimes visits the wicked with holy consequences for their abominable transgressions. Sinners also abuse God's divine wisdom through His longsuffering. Sinners hate God's divine authority and despise God's holy Word by nature. Some say that we tend toward the truth by nature. The Bible calls us spiritually stupid. We do not tend towards the divine truth of our holy Creator. Sinners also trample under foot the law of God. Sinners also continue in sin and abound in great iniquity. Sinners also presume on God's mercy. Sinners commit diabolical sin and transgress against God's mercy. Sinners do evil that good may come. The Bible says their condemnation is worthy in Romans 3:8.
8. We ought to never shape the divine character of God in our image. We ought to accept God in honor, love, worship and service according to His holy Word. The greatest reward we will receive in heaven is to worship God in love. We must follow God as He is revealed in holy Scripture. We need to see the total wickedness, corruption and thorough depravity of our natures before we spiritually comprehend God's mercy through His only dear Son. We will only be thankful for God's mercy through the spiritual awakening of our souls through the Spirit and Word. According to general benevolence, God allows according to His mercy for sinners to take a breath, eat and have homes. However, according to God's redemptive mercy is only for those chosen by God through the Cross of the Father's Son. The Bible says that we merit hell by our willful disobedience. Some say we merit "heaven" by our goodness. I suggest to you that no one can merit God's favor except Jesus Christ who lived perfectly. That is, sinners deserve hell because we have transgressed against a holy God. The question is, why? why? why? Why do sinners break God's law? The Bible says the heart of man is desperately corrupt, how can understand it? There is a sense where the sinful nature of man is spiritually incomprehensible because of the spiritual darkness in man. We see that God saves sinners through His divine Son at His Cross. If we only had the Cross it would mean we were forgiven through the sin offering of God the Son, but what about divine righteousness? That is, we also need in the divine righteousness of the eternal Son of God through His all-sinless living in His perfect life. We possess both the life and death of Christ alone through faith alone. Do you possess God's mercy in God's divine righteousness and His forgiveness through His divine Son by faith?
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