Do I Have To Come Down There?

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.

 

2Ch 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy. 17 Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.

 

Why did He do that?

Because, they mocked.

They despised

They scoffed

At the words of God’s prophets.

 

They had reached the point of no return, no other remedy, but the perfect justice in all its finality delivered by God.

 

I remember all too well growing up in a house where the kids bedrooms were upstairs and the parent downstairs,

We would get a little raucous in our behavior, and my dad would come to the bottom of the stairs and with a loud threatening voice, “Do I have to come up there?”

 

If he did come up we paid for it with a little butt warming.

 

Well it’s the same principle in play here, except we are downstairs and God is upstairs and when we get a little too raucous and careless with His Word, He says, “Do I have to come down there?

 

It’s what He did with Sodom and Gomorrah, and more than butts were warmed as He rained down on those cities with fire and brimstone, a picture of what will happen when Jesus returns to the earth on the Last Day.

 

But the Good News is right now we are in a place of grace. God’s remedy was sent to the world through Jesus. He took the wrath that we all deserved and died on the cross to pay for our sins.

 

The remedy is right before our eyes. Grab it!

It is faith in Jesus and His Word, and as many as received to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (Jn 1:12)

 

Time is running out! Stop your mocking, stop your scoffing stop despising God and His Word! All of it!

Repent, believe the gospel and be spared!

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Todays Living Word.