Title: God's Patience with Sinners
Text:
Romans 9:22-23 (ESV)
22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
Observation:
"How wondrous is God's patience with the world today. On every side people are sinning with a high hand. The Divine law is trampled under foot and God Himself openly despised. It is truly amazing that he does not instantly strike dead those who so brazenly defy Him.
Why does not the righteous wrath of Heaven make an end of such abominations? Only one answer is possible: because God bears with "much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." (Romans 9:22)
God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sins, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?"
~ Arthur Pink, "The Long Suffering of God"
It is fruitless for man to contend with His creator. Consider what the prophet Isaiah wrote.
Isaiah 45:9 (ESV)
9 "Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
I am so grateful for the long-suffering of the Lord; for the wicked and the righteous.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Thy most holy and righteous name. Father, I am so grateful for the love, forgiveness, grace, and mercy that You give so freely, and so abundantly to undeserving sinners like me.
Father, I am so grateful for the gift of faith that You planted in me that enabled me to receive the gift of personal salvation. Father, I am so thankful that the door of salvation is still open. I pray that many will hear and respond to the invitation to receive Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen .
John 1:12-13 (ESV)
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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