We are all condemned

Posted : 24 Sep, 2012 12:20 PM

We are all condemned, that the true role of the Word of God is to remonstrate with everyone for their sins.This is necessary that we might recognise our sins to the end that we become humble before God, in order to ask God for forgiveness and to show remorse for our sins. Now many are content to come before God in a spirit of meekness and humility accepting whatever condemnation God deems. For the most part they anticipate their condemnation and demonstrate such a displeasure of their sins as only to ask God to change their life. They offer themselves as a sacrifice that God might put to death their perverse nature, in order that they might be renewed in righteousness and in equity and in God�s justice. Other�s however, neither wish to receive nor hear this sort of teaching, but defy and dispute against God and remain hardened in their sins. Nonetheless, our Lord continues to pursue them. And those who return to Him willingly, become happy indeed. It is a beneficial and profitable death, for when the Sword of God�s Word passes into the depth of the heart, it sounds thoughts and evil affections, that all that is from us might be destroyed. Thus, when we come before God in that manner, we experience a happy death. But those who hope to exclude themselves, who do not want to be struck down in this life will be condemned in spite of themselves. Therefore, let us come before God and present ourselves to God in true repentance. May God�s Word be more than a source of fables and pleasantries, but may it so enter our thoughts as to reform them, that nothing within us might ever impede God�s Word.

�John Calvin �Sermons on Micah

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