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Let's say one day your child comes to you and says, “Daddy daddy, may I have a puppy dog?”
You think about it for a minute, and then you decide, “OK, you can have a puppy dog.”
So, you get the child a puppy dog and one day you go next door to chat with the neighbor and when you come back you find the puppy dog is dead.
The poor thing is hacked to pieces...blood all over the walls...the kid is standing their covered in blood.
After getting over the initial shock, you finally scream, “WHAT HAPPENED???!!!”
“Well, daddy, I told the dog to bark and he wouldn't listen, so I hit him with a stick and he bit me, so I killed him and took a knife and chopped him up in little pieces.”
What would you do? Would you not completely lose your mind? Your whole world would just about fall apart.
So, after several months of intense therapy and treatment, the child finally returns to normal.
Then, one day he comes to you and asks, “Daddy daddy, may I have another puppy dog?”
You think about it for a minute, and finally you say, “All right, you can have another puppy dog....but let me tell you something and you better listen good –
“Thou shalt not kill the puppy dog.”
“Thou shalt not chop it up in little pieces.”
“Thou shalt not smear its blood all over the walls.”
God's law has ALWAYS existed, it just was not codified until after sin entered the world. It was then that the "ground rules" had to be laid out for a fallen race that had corrupted ourselves through disobedience. It was, is, and always will be a sin to have other gods before God, worship idols, blaspheme His name, break the Sabbath, etc.
God's grace is Him giving us what we DON'T deserve which is eternal life.
God's mercy is Him not giving us what we DO deserve, which is eternal death. Grace does not exempt us from our responsibility to live according to the law and mercy will not cover what David called the "great transgression" of Presumption: the claim that grace is a continual cover for deliberate, known sin from which we refuse to repent. Praise God and thank Him for His grace and mercy!
You think about it for a minute, and then you decide, “OK, you can have a puppy dog.”
So, you get the child a puppy dog and one day you go next door to chat with the neighbor and when you come back you find the puppy dog is dead.
The poor thing is hacked to pieces...blood all over the walls...the kid is standing their covered in blood.
After getting over the initial shock, you finally scream, “WHAT HAPPENED???!!!”
“Well, daddy, I told the dog to bark and he wouldn't listen, so I hit him with a stick and he bit me, so I killed him and took a knife and chopped him up in little pieces.”
What would you do? Would you not completely lose your mind? Your whole world would just about fall apart.
So, after several months of intense therapy and treatment, the child finally returns to normal.
Then, one day he comes to you and asks, “Daddy daddy, may I have another puppy dog?”
You think about it for a minute, and finally you say, “All right, you can have another puppy dog....but let me tell you something and you better listen good –
“Thou shalt not kill the puppy dog.”
“Thou shalt not chop it up in little pieces.”
“Thou shalt not smear its blood all over the walls.”
God's law has ALWAYS existed, it just was not codified until after sin entered the world. It was then that the "ground rules" had to be laid out for a fallen race that had corrupted ourselves through disobedience. It was, is, and always will be a sin to have other gods before God, worship idols, blaspheme His name, break the Sabbath, etc.
God's grace is Him giving us what we DON'T deserve which is eternal life.
God's mercy is Him not giving us what we DO deserve, which is eternal death. Grace does not exempt us from our responsibility to live according to the law and mercy will not cover what David called the "great transgression" of Presumption: the claim that grace is a continual cover for deliberate, known sin from which we refuse to repent. Praise God and thank Him for His grace and mercy!
