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GOD’S JUDGMENT
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27
Acts 5:5-6

Romans 6:15-23

 

“For the wages of sin is death…”

 

GOD’S JUDGMENT
 
Abraham recognised the LORD God as the Judge of all the earth (Gen 18:25). God will surely judge for He is just and righteous. This is the reason why there is a hell and an eternal Lake of Fire “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt 25:41).
 
Death: When Ananias heard the rebuke of Peter, he fell down and died. It is not known how old Ananias was but he apparently succumbed to a sudden death. The verb is a present participle, and implies that the punishment overtook him suddenly while he was yet listening. Judgment was immediate, right there and then after Peter reproved him. God showed that His intention for the early church was for it to start off pure and holy. This is always God’s desire for His church. Was God so cruel to take this couple’s lives? No, it is the expected end of all men whether young or old, “for the wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23). The Lord did not want Satan to use this couple to destroy the testimony of the early church. God Himself executed the disciplinary action.
 
Fear: Great fear came upon all them that heard about the sudden death of Ananias. God’s commandment to us is: “That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged” (Deut 6:2). The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge (Prov 1:7; 9:10). As Solomon concluded, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Eccles 12:13-14).
 
Are you fearful of God’s judgment? Do you know that God is righteous in all His ways?
 
THOUGHT: Do I fear the Lord?
PRAYER: Father in heaven, let me remember Thy justice.

 

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