DAILY TRUTH - America’s Collapse | Judgment For The Wicked, Or Discipline For The Church?

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In Psalm 81:12, God responds to Israel’s disobedience by saying, “So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices.” Once again, when a nation abandons God, God eventually abandons them. However, this “handing over” of a society to sin can actually represent both God’s righteous judgment on the wicked and his fatherly discipline toward his covenant children and those he has ordained to save. Remember, the father of the prodigal son did something similar when his beloved son wickedly demanded to receive his share of the inheritance before his father died. Instead of chastising his son, the father chose to give him exactly what he wanted and allowed him squander it all on “loose living” (Luke 15:11-32). Also, in Psalm 106:15, in response to Israel’s demand for meat in the wilderness, the Scripture expressly says, “So [God] gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.” Truly, sin is its own punishment. So does the current rebellion in America represent the righteous judgment of God or the loving discipline of the Heavenly Father? The answer is both.

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0:31.6	Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
0:38.3	You're listening to Daily Truth. So the question is this. So does the current rebellion in our nation in America
0:47.3	represent the righteous judgment of God towards the wicked or the loving discipline of the Heavenly
0:54.0	Father towards the church? the loving discipline of the Heavenly Father towards the church.
0:56.9	And I believe that the answer is both.
1:00.8	The two things can be simultaneously true.
1:03.8	That's the beauty of the manifold wisdom of God,
1:06.9	his sovereignty in the ends that he brings about,
1:10.1	but also the means by which he brings those ends about.
1:13.7	That God is meticulously sovereign over all things, and he is infinitely powerful and infinitely wise.
1:20.3	And as such, God can be doing two things at once.
1:24.3	With one rod, with one act, as it were, God can be judging the wicked and disciplining
1:33.5	the righteous. I believe that right now, God is judging the wicked in our nation by handing
1:42.1	us over further and further to higher degrees of a further progression of sin,
1:48.0	from wrong belief to wrong worship, that is idolatry, to perversion attached to that
1:53.6	idolatry and to the societal approval of that perversion.
1:57.4	And to the wicked, that is those who are not in Christ, to the unbeliever,
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