Midweek Review #9

These things you have done, and I have been silent. You thought that I was one like yourself, but now

I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. God has been silent, not because he doesn't see and not because he will not act.

God has been silent because he's delaying a judgment that's coming upon this world.

And each of us can escape that judgment by clinging to the cross of Jesus Christ, remaining in his love, holding on to his love, meeting him in the word, being transformed by the renewing of our mind.

These things you have done, and I have been silent. The world notices that Ananias and Sapphira is not the norm.

You thought that I was one like yourself. He's not. He's not like us.

He doesn't regard our sin the way we do. We are tolerating sin in our own lives, justifying it, because we are sons and daughters of Adam.

And that's how we think. Our sin nature justifies everything we do. God is not like us.

But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. He's willing to forgive.

Turn to Christ Jesus and cling to him for salvation, or else recognize that the wrath of God is lingering.

It's lingering. We are like spiders suspended over the flame.

And the only thing that keeps us this very minute from falling into hell is that little thread.

And yet, by grace, we are redeemed. And we're saved by the skin of our teeth.

But we are saved, as through the fire, 1 Corinthians 3. So let's close in prayer.

I'm going to ask Michael, Joe, to come on up. Take some time now to confess your sin.

Maybe you've never been saved. Maybe you've been delaying it, thinking, when

I get a little older, I'm going to deal with this. But you don't know that you would make it home today.

Ananias and Sapphira didn't have one minute to plead their case before Peter. They fell and breathed their last.