People sometimes wonder if the judgment of God is still active today. It is easy to read passages from the Old Testament about the immediate judgment of God on acts of sin and rebellion and say “well, that was the Old Testimate. We live in the age of grace!” But there are also passages in the New Testimate that cause us to pause such as:

• “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…” (Romans 1:18)
  
• “…and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:27b)
  
• “Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. (2Cor 5:11)
  
• “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:31)
  
• And others…

The temptation is to think that just because we don’t experience an immediate earthquake splitting open the ground and devouring the unrighteous, the judgment of God is dormant. This attitude, if left unchecked, is what diminishes the fear of the Lord in our lives. A lack of the fear of the Lord is the fertile soil for an unrepentant heart to grow hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Scriptures make it clear that the fear of the Lord is to hate all sin of every category. Whether it’s considered a culturally big sin or a culturally small sin; the fear of the Lord is to hate all evil. (Prov 8:13).

What is your attitude towards sin? Are you tolerating sin? Have you bought into the idea that the judgment of God is dormant and inactive?

Read this article from John Piper about the recent tornado in Minneapolis, MN. Pause and ask yourself if you are tolerating sin, of any category, in your life. Turn from the approval of sin and glory in the transforming grace of the cross of Christ!!

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1965_the_tornado_the_lutherans_and_homosexuality/

Pastor Nathan