Question 18
Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
Ephesians 5:5–6
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Prayer
Lord God, your Son came to earth and died on the cross. He is the hope of the guilty, the Savior of sinners. We owe him our trust, our love, and our total obedience. If Christ were not ours; you would still be righteously angry with our sins. If Christ were not ours; we would be punished for our sins ourselves. But we have been saved and Christ is ours! Amen.
Derived and adapted from Abraham Booth in “An Address at the Interment of Mr. Joseph Swain” in Works of Abraham Booth: Late Pastor of the Baptist Church, Volume 3 (London: Button, 1813), 289–290.
Is God displeased with those who do not love and obey Him?
What does every sin deserve?
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