There are some things God won't ever do. Here's just a few of them. You can probably think of more.
1. God will never contradict Himself, act out of character or quit being the sovereign Creator and absolute Owner of everything.
Numbers 23:19; James 1:17; Isaiah 40:25; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 45:5; Matthew 28:18; Revelation 1:5.
2. He won't leave you the way He finds you now.
If you've given your life to Jesus, He will work to shape and polish you just as a diamond cutter shapes and polishes a raw diamond.
3. God won't let evil continue forever.
- He is patient, waiting for a greater harvest, but His patience has an expiration date. Isaiah 30:18; 2 Peter 3:9
- About that expiration date: you'd better believe it’s real. Judgement Day is coming. Romans 14:10; Revelation20:11-15
- If Jesus hadn't died for our sins and given us a chance to repent, no one could survive that day.
Psalm 2:5-6; Psalm 37:10; Psalm 145:20; Matthew 25:31-32; Matthew 25:46; Hebrews 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
4. He won't override the free will He gave you. He'll try to draw you to Jesus, but He won't force you.
Always remember this about your free will. He gave it to you, but He'll also judge you for what you’ve done with it.
The biggest question: What did you do with Jesus?
Joshua 24:15; Matthew 11:27; John 14:6; Acts 4:12
5. He won't allow any of our efforts, no matter how good we consider them, to be mixed with the single full payment Jesus made for all sin, for all humanity, for all time.
Jesus' payment is the only thing that gives us the possibility of right standing with God.
- If you're counting on Your goodness to get you over the top, you've already lost.
- If you think you need to add your goodness to what Jesus paid, you're saying He didn't pay enough.
- Every Believer's trust must be in Jesus' payment and nothing else.
Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:8-9; Acts 10:43
Jesus' payment is applied to your account when you accept it and turn your life over to Him. As I see it, that's another way of describing repentance and faith.
Mark 1:15; Hebrews 9:11-12; John 14:6; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 4:12; Acts 10:42; 1 Peter 4:5
6. God won't ever be in anyone's debt.
If you could earn something from God the way an employee earns a paycheck, He would then owe you. But the fact is God won't ever be in debt. Whatever blessing we get from Him is always by grace; nothing is ever earned.
7. God won't judge New Testament Believers by Old Testament law.
God's Old Testament laws are perfect, but they won't save anyone because they require imperfect people to follow them perfectly. That's never gonna happen. That’s why the Old Covenant was replaced by the New Covenant, one that Jesus bought and paid for with His life.
Jesus is the only one who followed the Old Covenant perfectly. That's why He was able to pay our sin debt.
8. In judgement, He won't in any way ever be unfair or unjust. Not once, not even close. There won't ever be even a shadow of Injustice.
Job 34:12; Psalm 9:7-8; Psalm 89:14; Deuteronomy 32:4; Romans 9:14; Hebrews 10:30
9. He cannot set aside His basic character trait of love and the accompanying boundary of His perfect holiness. Love and holiness are both woven into His unchanging essence.
His unchanging love means He can never love you more or never love you less. His love is what it is. You can’t change it, but you can effect how He’s able to make it work in your life.
There's a boundary around His love. That boundary is the holiness and purity of heaven. It's a boundary that requires total harmony with Jesus' purity.
Revelation 21:27; Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8; Revelation 21:27
His love wants you with Him in heaven, but the boundary of His perfect holiness means you can be there only if you're in Jesus. That won't ever change.
10. He won't ever leave any of His words unfulfilled.
Matthew 5:17-18; Matthew 24:35
11. God will never bring His wrath upon those who belong to Jesus. Jesus bore all of God's wrath on our behalf.
Romans 8:1; Ephesians 2:3-4; 1 Thessalonians 1:10
That doesn't mean things will always be easy.
Here’s what I mean: Because He’s a good Father, God definitely disciplines His children. When He does, it's in loving correction, never wrath. He always deals with us in His mercy and grace. In fact, if you’re without God’s correction, Scripture says that means you’re not one of His born again children.
Job 5:17; Psalm 94:12; Proverbs 3:12; John 15:2; Hebrews 12:5-11; Revelation 3:19
We get His loving correction, not His wrath. But that doesn’t mean our lives here are free from wrath. God's children do sometimes suffer from wrath that isn't from Him. When that happens, where does it come from?
Here's where: Satan's demons work with godless people to inflict all the wrath on God's children that they can get away with. Historical examples abound in the ample stories of Christian martyrs.
Matthew 10:22; John 15:19-20; Revelation 12:12
God's well-deserved wrath is reserved for fallen angels, demons and people who have rejected Jesus’ rescue.
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