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The Most High God Calls Every Person To Say They Are Sorry

God is absolutely pure devoid of even the least shade of evil in His nature.
Sovereign God is the architect of patience, love, purity, honesty, holiness and infinitely more. And that is how He made people.

The Truth Regarding Holy God

It's not a plan that God simply decided to enact, to make things difficult for people, it IS who He is. God Most High, can never become something else, or act another way. Each and every one of His governing laws are there to safeguard His character and to safeguard people.
These governing laws were built INTO the whole cosmos, which includes, formulated into humankind.
God is unable to do anything at all that contradicts His Being. One might call it the 'immutable governing laws of the whole cosmos.'
Hence, the Sovereign God of the Bible is the Grand Builder God of the complete cosmos, as well as the producer of the minutest element of an electron, which is undetectable to us. The Bible declares this of Holy God:

I am Jehovah, this is My Name, And I do not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to carved images. (Isaiah 42:8) The LORD your God is a raging fire, a God who does not tolerate rivals. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is high above the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
Yours, LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
And all the angels stood round about the throne...and fell down before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
?Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much... (Job 38:4)
And if you know when you were conceived, and the number of your days, if they are many?..... (Job 38:21)
"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
And the Lord continued, and he said to Job: "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." Then Job replied to the LORD and said, Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer Thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further... Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? Do you have power like God's? Can you thunder with a voice like his? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job replied to the LORD: I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have spoken that which I did not understand; things too wonderful for me; yea, which I did not know. Please hear, and I speak; You said, I ask you, and you cause Me to know. In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. Therefore I loathe it, And I have sighed on dust and ashes.? (Job 42:1-6)
God blesses those people who depend only on him. They belong to the kingdom of heaven! (Matthew 5:3)


Generally, humanity nowadays, have only been told about God, they are yet to really met Him.
Why then, do we conceitedly insist on explanations from the Creator God, to everything we differ with? Certainly, the significant queries we have of real justice and the blameless that suffer are valid, yet not to the magnitude where we can command the Almighty God to offer us an explanation of His so-called stupid handling of things.

When The God Of Heaven Produces A Thing, He Owns It

God Most High not only owns the whole cosmos, but He also owns us too, and all He would like is that which belongs to Him. His requirement is to love and serve Him in turn. It usually is hard to swallow, but this world is His endeavor, and He is able to make it however He chooses. If we made it, we would make the rules. However, the Most High God proclaims:

'"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I instruct to you this day, shall be in your heart.' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

If Holy God Sought After Bots He May Have Constructed You And I As Robotic Machines

The Creator God may possibly have removed all of the hazards from this life, to make our life easier, but only by building every individual as submissive robotic machines. Except that is certainly not what the Creator God wanted.
God Most High sought after beings endowed with a choice about how they lived and would voluntarily choose to be devoted to Him.
A being somewhat resembling what He is.

Free Choice Really Is A Dangerous Element

Yet, the chance you take with granting your created being their own independent choice, is that they may forsake the creator, and that is precisely what we did.
This is a problem, consider all those things we commit and think think and commit which are wrong, often referred to as wickedness in the Holy Bible, they utterly assault Holy God's order and holiness, and again, you might say an offense against the unchanging Governing laws of the very cosmos - the structured cosmos He put together. These transgressions have divorced us from God.

'"The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who perceives his unintentional sins? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Visualize it like this loathsome contrast. A fresh sterile and clean wipe removed from a brand new sealed packet to treat your badly bleeding laceration, in contrast with a previously used, unsterilized wipe having been sat and stepped upon for a few months off the patients room flooring or chairs. So how are you feeling? Yech, dirty. But, that is just a touch of how God is revolted by our actions that are wrong, and that also means the seemingly insignificant things we did wrong as well as sinnful thinking, that trample on God's perfection, and breaks the permanent laws of the whole cosmos.
And that includes the things we regard as insignificant, like: not forgiving someone that ill-treated us, blasphemy, pride, neglecting God our Creator and resentfulness, and a countless of other things.

Everyone Of These Transgressions Are A Shortfall That Have Got To Be Paid For, To A Sin-Hating God

Our sins are debts to God:
'Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

These bad things desecrate the sheer purity, honour and power of the Most High God. Every instance we act in those ways, it is slapping God in the face. In the Bible, contained in His Law, The Lord declares you are not to speak God's Name in vain or indifferently. At any time, have you ever blasphemed His Holy Name? The Lord pronounces that we show respect to our mother and father. Have you ever disrespected your father? The Lord declares that it is evil to thieve, have you on any occasion thieved anything at all ever? The Lord declares not to yearn for others belongings. Have you on any occasion coveted to possess a person's life circumstances, house, husband or belongings?

God is aware of everything. And, every wrong MUST be put right. A point in time is coming when every single wrong MUST be judged, or it could be said, finalise accounts to be in harmony with the abiding laws of the very cosmos. Or alternatively, the Holy Bible calls it; to satisfy the rage of Sovereign God. This will astonish nearly everybody, since they are told that the Sovereign God treasures everybody a great deal, that they think that Almighty God would hardly be furious with somebody over some evil they are doing.

Regularly I see people, blind to these principles, questioning ?How exactly does a all-loving God be this way? What's this extra necessity on holiness??

And I reply, "Agreed, He actually does love the world, nonetheless people won't be able to possess the love quality of Holy God and neglect the holiness quality. It's not possible. It is definitely stated in Scripture, and you are not usually told about this. Regretfully, these days preachers mostly just talk about the pleasant things, not the whole uncomfortable teaching.
We will not know the Everlasting God by using our worldly objectives, beliefs and behaviour. He actually is ?from an alternative place? and He informs humans who He is and about how He rules in the Bible. Asking that He follow our rules, just gives us a pointless faith in an idea that is not genuine and will crash and burn sometime.
Some people wrongly find fault with God Most High for the tragedies in the world, but it is far from God?s failing. He made all things immaculately, Adam and Eve ruined everything and we continue to screw up. They assault Holy God's order and holiness; the 'immutable governing laws of the whole cosmos.' God is unable to simply come along and make all things good for everyone. The order or progression of things that He started, has to be concluded.
All sin debts have to be paid for.

Having said that, God provided a plan for all our evil to be paid in full, to pay the legal specifications of God's unchanging Law, the established law of the whole cosmos. And that stunning plan, was the punishment, dying, burial and the raising back to life of His Only Son, Jesus Christ. And, this stunning victory was carried out in public in front of the audience of all creation in the universe ? humans, angels and the Devil.
Jesus Christ was the unblemished sacrifice that is able to pay for our evil; attitudes, thoughts and behavior. No other way would pay for one's wrong.
The Bible says:

'For all alike have sinned (done bad stuff), and all consciously come short of the glory of God,' (Romans 3:23)
So, solely being a 'really good little girl or boy? and doing many 'good' things cannot spare us from the severe penalty of the bad attitudes, thoughts and behavior, just the Lord Jesus is able to. If all one does in their lives is to be a good person and maybe even going to church, that will not spare anyone and won't allow any person to enter heaven. Which means, going to hell, otherwise known as Gehenna:

'For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

It is true, it is not doing good that saves people, we must repent of all the bad things we have done, and give our lives for God Most High. I will clarify this with more detail in a moment.

This is the reason I find that attending funerals of a person that is not a Christian truly bothers me. Now this is also why my main aim in life is telling others about what God Most High is really like. To say to people who never go to church, as well as, to folks who actually do go to church but do not correctly understood what it was about. The misunderstanding of Almighty God is widespread, and is because the preaching they heard was not clear or it was affected by the false traditions of the modern world, from teachers repeatedly trying to make the Unceasing, unchanging God Most High to appear as though He is only a kindly, huggable grandfather form of god, devoid of His incredible righteousness and the punishment of evil things. Which is a pretend god of their own feelings.
Frequently I find atheists questioning ?How can God act like that, I thought He is a God of great love?? Sure, but we cannot disregard His punishment of evil things, when His Scriptures says considerably more as regards His piety and punishment of evil things, than His great love.
You cannot grasp the truth of the Eternal God by using our thinking and principles. He really is ?out of this world? and He declares to the human race who He is and that He judges in the Bible. Hoping he might follow our standards, just gives us a dangerously bad notion of Holy God.
Now don't forget, you have no way to fake it if you don't really mean it. Almighty God knows our every thought you think.

Yet, Repent And Humankind Does Not Need To Pay Off Our Debt

There is only one way to have those transgressions forgiven and be protected from the lake of fire, is to recognise how wrong we are in front of a Righteous God, and to tell God that we are heartbroken by our wickedness. And after that to utterly give up one's life to Him, and be subject to His command as our leader for the remainder of our life. Which, is the right format of humans on the earth He formed for His enjoyment:

'Then he said in the presence of everyone, He who wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day and follow me.' (Luke 9:23)

God in no way said ?Simply be a good or helpful person, perform many good stuff for other people, and then you will never be sent to hellish torment .?
Truly, this is what God stated regarding being forgiven of your sinfulness:

'And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:
?Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.?' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Teacher of the law in this anecdote is not committing the presumed ?bad' evil like terrorism, as we say, but he was not forgiven by God.
While the taxman commits ?bad' sins yet was forgiven by Sovereign God, because he truly repented.
It is a humiliating experience to say that we have been and are, sinful and to give up our life completely to Almighty God. However, devoid of it we can't be rescued from our trespasses, we have got to come to God meek and reliant on Him. Jesus Christ said :

'And Jesus calling to Him a little child, set it in the midst of them. And he said, ?Truly I say to you, unless you will be converted and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.?' (Matthew 18:2-3)

A Person's Debt Will Not Be Settled By Living As A Good Person

'For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Surrender To God And Permit God To Pay Out The Obligation Or Go Through It Yourself??

'Then he said in the presence of everyone, He who wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day and follow me.' (Luke 9:23)

This, ?Take up our cross each day? indicates, we have to serve in a self-sacrificing mode each day for God.
The Bible also says:

'I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service; (Romans 12:1)

'But hallow THE LORD JEHOVAH The Messiah in your hearts, and be ready to return a defense to everyone who requests a statement from you about the hope of your faith, in meekness and in reverence.' (1Peter 3:15)

In summary: God Most High gets to be your chief executive. For life. And as Scripture commands, we live for God, studying the Bible, communicating with God each day, telling other people who God is, and serving some others when guided to. The Creator God, is our ambition and quest for all of our lifetime.

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