03/12/10 NEW TESTAMENT VIEW
Most westerners think that stoning a person for adultery or sodomy is barbaric. That is because we are so deeply influenced by N.T. concepts of God's mercy & grace. God prescribed stoning for certain O. T. sins. The Church does not Enforce God's Law, but Executes God's Will (salvation by grace through faith). God's Mercy & Grace does not lessen God's Abhorrence for Perversion and Rebellion. Repent or Perish.
DON'T MISREAD ME...
This is not a call to self improvement. This is a call to...
Trust the Savior,
Turn from Sin,
Totally Submit to God.
SIN IS STILL SINFUL...
ACTS 17:30-31
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
REPENT and BELIEVE or Be LOST...
HEBREWS 9:26-28
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
