The severity of the past, present and future eternal divine judgement. Psalms 9:16. 03-09-17.
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Considering the damages wrought by sin and the reparation and restorative work which was arduously and perfectly carried out by God for our redemption through the painful sufferings, rejection, loneliness, betrayal, humiliation and the death of Christ our Saviour in exchange for eternal life that we might at last go to heaven through the eternal salvation he had obtained for us, there is therefore no excuse to fall again into the hands of the living God, if we fail to ponder the paths of our feet and neglect so great a salvation. Let it be known to us that our ways and doings will determine where we are going when all is said and done on earth or where we shall be to spend eternity after death. We should be wise unto salvation by learning wisdom from the severity of the past divine judgement against any loosed, worldly minded and carnal lifestyles of the Israelites after their salvation from Egyptian bondage and were all baptism under the cloud and in the sea. But with many of them, God were not pleased as he overthrew and destroyed them in the wilderness. Can a present day believer who is baptised with water and Holy Ghost with tongue speaking and signs following at the end go to hell if he fails to strive for the lawfully for the mastery? The answer is capital YES! Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. The wilderness sin should be as deterrence scale to standardise our comportments in our new life in Christ Jesus. Those bad and awkward experiences happened to them that we might learn from their mistakes and be helped to walk wisely and circumspectly in all holiness and in accordance to all biblical standard in spirit, soul and body before God, lest we accommodate vain thoughts and deeds to incite the unbearable wrath of God Almighty upon us as ungrateful and faithless children- it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. We need not to be reminded of the importance of repentance from dead works and of the benefits of been buried together in the likeness of Christ death, that we might also be conformed to him in the likeness of his resurrection. We know the fact that God has not called us to death or wrath, but to salvation and eternal life, therefore we should set our focus toward the end of the race when we shall meet with the judge of dead and living who will judge everyman without respect of person according to their works to spend the little time here on earth in his mindedness and mindfulness of eternal judgement. Conducts and motives behind the believer’s works shall be scrutinised by fire and some of them will be saved as of passing through fire. If the righteous barely make it to heaven, where shall the sinners and ungodly appear? It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  The evil spirit of overzealousness should be restrained with the fruit of the Spirit that lives in us-temperance and self-control. We dare not bring carnal sentiments and reasoning into the house of God to intrude into any office or ministry we are not gifted or have been called upon to minister, lest we fall under the same wrath of Uzzah who thought to support the stumbling and shaking ark of God but was smote and died on the spot for his spiritual error. 2 Samuel 6: 6-10. Let every man abide in his calling, whereby he is called. We are called to represent Christ as an ambassador, light of the world and salt of the earth. Morality should not be mistakenly taken for spirituality, while the lack of respect and mannerism to all and sundry should not be atrociously expressed for spiritual power and authority, lest we misrepresent God to our own damage and loss in a bitter experience of rejection and unpleasant chastening from him as it were with Moses in the wilderness at the water of strife-Meribah. Numbers 20:7-12. We should learn and exercise to grow in behaviour in all holiness, righteousness without spot among the believers and the onlookers, lest we become like a ground that soaks up the rain and then produces weeds and thistles, instead of carrots and corn for its gardener, but is cussed out and fields like that are cursed and burned, not harvested.
 
Presently, some are already under the severity of divine eternal judgement because of their self-willed, even after they were being circumcised by Christ, they chose to defy the word of God and will not be renewed in the spirit of their minds but chose to walk in the wide gate and broad way, choosing to themselves teachers having itching ears. God has also judged and condemned them by leaving them to a reprobate mind with strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved; and that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Though they are called to this salvation, but they refused to live by God’s word and to obey him; therefore, they stumbled at that which ought to hold them firm and keep them strong-Christ. They are sons and daughters of perdition as their sins, not only following them, but are also awaiting them at the judgment seat. Of such, the scriptures reveal that a sorer punishment awaits them and blackness of darkness is reserved for them in hell. Their eternal misery and pain will be doubled in comparison to them which refused to accept Christ love and sacrifice for sin. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 2 Thessalonians 2:5-12. 2 Timothy 4:1-4.
 
More also, the severity of divine judgement is presently seen as some believers are laying sick without healing and are dying prematurely for not discerning the Lord’s body, but have taken the body and blood of Christ unworthily in sin, not discerning the Lord’s body. The hypocrites shall not come before him and their joy and triumphs are for a while. None should approach the Lord’s Table who has not cleansed their hands from sins and their hearts from double-mindedness. None should partake in the Lord’s Table who is harbouring malice and guile in his heart against his neighbour and has not sincerely gotten over the matter to forgive and move forward with God. Some will believers will certainly make heaven but will not live to the fullness of their expected life spam on earth because they are judged and are chastened of the Lord, that they should not be condemned with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:27-32. Jeremiah 30:11. Some servants of God will be cut off from the church because of their wickedness and evil practices before God against the flocks of his pastures and shall be replaced by another. Many of such men and so-called women of God are servants of corruption and they shall inherit eternal corruption, while some will die by the good hand and counsel of the Lord (the righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness) that they might not be slain by the evil hand of the enemy. ‘Thus says the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all. Isaiah 65:3. Isaiah 57:1-2.  
 
Finally, there is the severe future eternal judgement awaiting all the ungodly and unrighteous worshippers whom the Lord called as the workers of iniquity, the sinners in Zion or the sinners of my people. All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘disaster will not overtake or meet us. Amos 9:10. They are clergyman, church workers or the layman-ordinary church member. While they lived on earth, they suffered themselves from spiritual delusional disorder in hope of eternal life and the Lord’s acceptance and admission to heaven in their unholy, sinful and lustful lifestyles. They preached flattering and corrupt words and doctrines to gain men’s admiration and for filthy lucre’s sake. They are known by the Lord as unrighteous preachers, guilty of gross and men’s sins and blood. Matthew 7:21-23. Some servants of God will be saved but their ministerial works and blessings shall be a loss and a waste because they have not used original materials of gold, silver and precious stones to build for the Lord, but instead have built on wood, hay and stubble on the solid foundation by the excellence of man’s wisdom and not in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 3:11-15.