1. God judges his people. ADon’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of God’s judgment. Three aspects of God’s judgment shown in this passage 1active 1active 2threatened 2threatened 3administered 3administered

2. God judges his people. ADon’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of God’s judgment. Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel! Isaiah 30:10-11 (NIV) The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son. Hebrews 12:6 (NIV)

3. God judges his people. ADon’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of God’s judgment. Will not the judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18:25 (NIV) you (God) are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Psalm 51:4 (NIV) God is a righteous judge. Psalm 7:11 (NIV) Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments. Revelation 16:7 (NIV) Revelation 16:7 (NIV)

4. God judges his people. ADon’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of God’s judgment. BDon’t take sin lightly The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23 (NIV)

5. God judges his people. BDon’t take sin lightly Surely you (God) desire truth in the inner parts. Psalm 51:6 (NIV) The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV) For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. Matthew 15:19 (NIV) Matthew 15:19 (NIV) The LORD looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)

6. God judges his people. BDon’t take sin lightly The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. J. John J. John

7. God judges his people. BDon’t take sin lightly Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. 1 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV)

8. God judges his people. ADon’t be tempted to downplay the seriousness of God’s judgment. BDon’t take sin lightly CDon’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness.

9. God will forgive me; that’s his business. Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine

10. God judges his people. CDon’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness. Four seeming impossibilities required of God for forgiveness: 1 Be human!

11. Our God, contracted to a span, incomprehensibly made man. John Wesley John Wesley

12. God judges his people. CDon’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness. Four seeming impossibilities required of God for forgiveness: 1Be human! 2Be perfect!

13. [He] was tempted in every way, just as we are - yet was without sin. Hebrews 4:15 (NIV) Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? John 8:46 (NIV) John 8:46 (NIV)

14. God judges his people. CDon’t take a casual view of God’s forgiveness. Four seeming impossibilities required of God for forgiveness: 1Be human! 2Be perfect! 3Die! 4Rise!

15. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive forever and ever! Revelation 1:18 (NIV) Revelation 1:18 (NIV)

16. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10 Jesus Christ loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 Galatians 2:20