The consequences of bad behavior have been both the destruction of the world and the body. The consequences of true good behavior (that is, faithfulness) is the salvation of the world and the flesh.
People know how to be bad people. They often justify it by saying, "I'm not perfect". The problem with this is that they never strive for Godliness - which is only impossible because they are consumed with godlessness.
People know how to be bad people. They often justify it by saying, "I'm not perfect". The problem with this is that they never strive for Godliness - which is only impossible because they are consumed with godlessness.
They have not been covered by God's blanket of goodness and mercy, and have not realized that God's promise of compassion begins now and not on some future date after they've died. Their gospel is only of sadness, suffering, death, and heaven (to summarize).
Godlessness, which is the lack of trust in God's power, leads to people's perpetually bad behavior. It all comes full circle.
To trust in God's power is to trust in God's salvation; this has proven difficult for a wretched, unbelieving, and faithless generation. For to believe in God's salvation would be to believe in God's mercy, which is the Garden of God and salvation from death and decay.
It was never God's desire for man to perish, remember? Yeshua emphasized this as a living testimony - those who knew him personally saw God's power in his resurrection. Those who sought God's face afterwards also saw God's power in Christ's resurrection.
This is the gospel of the living God, that the righteous will live by faith both in acts and in trust in God's saving power. The church (who only knows devastation and death) cannot accept this, so how can we then expect the world to accept this?
My only true hope is for the salvation of the world, that none perish and that they seek life through the living God whom they do not know.
