Gods Penalty

God’s penalty of wrath comes upon them. In Romans chapter 1, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. In other words, the wrath of God is going to come on sin. And it talks about, verse 21, the people it’s going to fall on are those whose foolish heart was darkened, those who are the fools, you see, those who exchanged the truth for a lie, those who didn’t want to retain God in their knowledge and went over to ignorance, and who did all kinds of evil things. Those are the ones.

In John chapter 12, verse 35, our Lord had just presented Himself as the light, and He said, you’d better respond to the light while you have the light, because a little while you won’t have the light and darkness will come upon you, and you won’t know where to go. While you have the light, He says in verse 36 of John 12, believe in the light that you may be the sons of light. He gave them a message, but they didn’t believe. It says in the next verse, they believed not. And then He said, well, then this is what Isaiah says, He’s blinded their eyes, hardened their heart, they should not see with their eyes or understand with their heart, be converted, and I should heal them.

In other words, where you say to yourself, I will not believe, God then says judicially, you cannot believe. You come under divine judgment, which finally leads to the fact that people who do the deeds of Satan, under the dominion of Satan, come under the wrath of God, which, forth and finally, leads to an eternal place of darkness. That’s the fourth characteristic of these people. The ultimate end is darkness. Matthew 8, 12 says they will be cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Well, that’s the story of the darkness.

They do the deeds of darkness under the dominion of the prince of darkness. It results in coming under God’s judgment on darkness, which is an eternal hell, which is outer darkness. You want darkness? You can have it forever. And we were once that. We were once that. But look at verse 8. Now we’re light, you see. This is the point. He’s making this tremendous contrast. And by the way, this is Germain to his whole thought here. He is trying to show you the absolute contrast. That’s why he picks light and darkness. They are the absolute opposites.

We were that, but now we’re light. And there’s we don’t do the works of Satan. We do the works of God, right? We are his workmanship created by Christ Jesus unto good works. We are not under the rule of Satan. We are under the lordship of Jesus Christ. We are not under God’s wrath. We are under the promise of being participants in the kingdom of light. We will not go into a place of darkness. We will go to a place of light. And the Bible says there is no lamp there for the lamb is the light of it.

See, the history is absolutely the opposite. Those who are darkness do the works of Satan under the power of Satan fall under the judgment of God and end up in eternal darkness. Those who are the light do the deeds of light under the prince of light, the Lord Jesus Christ. And they become inheritors of the kingdom of light. And finally, an eternal heaven of light. See the difference? He’s showing you how opposite these are. And he’s saying, look, if you’re a Christian, beloved, and you’re here in the kingdom of light, then live as a child of light.

Do you see the point? What would you have to do with that whole dominion over there? That realm is gone. It’s past. It’s over. So live like children of light, not children of wrath, not children of disobedience, not children of the devil. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of God’s penalty, wrath. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way.