All In The Name Of Tolerance

We live in a world where the supreme virtue is tolerance. The unwritten code is that if you are not tolerant, then you're not "Christian". The gospel has become watered down, all in the name of tolerance, to the point that it no longer holds any power. Hell is no longer preached on. Sin is treated as a normality in the Christian experience. The born again experience has become a man made, step by step program that is not biblical. Most significantly, in the name of tolerance we have reduced God to an image we have created in our own minds.

Rather than getting a picture of who God is from the bible, we get our image of who God is from society. The image of God that we get from society is one of a sweet old grandpa who just has great, oozing feelings of love for everyone. He looks down at a man molesting an infant or at a man murdering his mother, or the drug dealer selling drugs to kids, and He is overwhelmed with feelings of compassion and love. He looks at a man with the door closed to his office, looking at pornography on the web, and God has wonderful feelings of love for him. This is not the God of the bible. This is the god of tolerance. The truth is, the one true God hates that man and His wrath and anger burn against him. The only reason this man is still breathing and God has not thrown this man into hell, is because of His goodness and longsuffering, waiting and hoping this man will repent.

Ps 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Ps 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

This is the God of the bible. He hates all those that live in sin. He hates those that live in a state of disobedience and rebellion. He will destroy the people that speak lies, and He abhors the bloody and deceitful person. The next passage is God speaking...

Ps 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Ps 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Ps 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Ps 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Ps 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

God says that you consented with the thief and partook with adulterers. You allowed your mouth to speak evil and deceit. The whole time God was silent and so you thought that God was like you. But He will reprove, He will set things right. Consider this what He has said, you that forget God, lest He tear you in pieces. This isn't the tolerant God that I heard about on "Christian" radio. This is not the God I heard about from society. Most everyone is ignorant of who God is, so they go on living in their sin because they adopted their image of God, from the world. They don't know that He is their enemy and that He hates them and His wrath burns. They don't know that He will not forget a single sinful thought or deed, and is longing for the day when He will throw them into hell and punish them for ever. In fact, it will be a sweet savour to Him.

2Co 2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
2Co 2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life.

How do we get out from under the wrath of Almighty God? To get into the love of God, we must get into Christ. If we are not under the blood of Christ, then we are under His wrath and hatred. I am so glad that I know my sins are forgiven and that I am in Christ. I do not fear losing my salvation, because my life is hid in Christ, but I do fear God. I fear Him enough to know that I won't get away with disobedience. He will chasten me whom He loves, I have no doubt, seeing I am not a bastard but a son.

If you can live in sin, not fearing God, then you don't know the same God I know. If God is not in your thoughts and in the decisions you make, then you don't know God. If you can retreat into darkness, turn the computer on, do a little search on the internet and come up with pornographic images, and you don't fear God... You don't know God. You are an enemy of God and the only way to get into His love, is to turn to Him and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart. You must be born again. The only salvation is found in Him.