Secondly, God saves the ungodly. This is very important to understand. Because we are all ungodly and have sinned at some time in our lives. Nevertheless, the Bible tells us that there are good men to whom people may even sacrifice their own lives in an attempt to rescue or live, but God recognizes that humans have no hope of being truly righteous. Therefore every human is ungodly and does not measure up to overcoming sin and death. This is because of our moral weaknesses. From the Bible we learn:
- While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man—though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
- Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation. (Romans 5:9-11)
- “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.” Luke 10:16
- He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day. John 12:48
- “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers."Job 8:20
- For God shows no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. (Romans 2:11-16)
While it may appear outrageous in your eyes that Lot's daughters would get their father drunk and then lie with him; your charge against him with incest is false. In this instance, Lot might be considered blameless. For you charge Lot with incest, and accuse the Righteous One with injustice, but look what really happened:
And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”
So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”God delivers the ungodly and the blameless who have faith in Him. Everybody is judged according to what they knew to be right and did not do. Those who repent of their evil deeds and exercise faith in Lord Jesus Christ are saved. Those who reject the salvation of God have to give an account of themselves. If their name is in the book of Life they are safe, because they have not rejected their Savior.
So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. (Genesis 19:31-36)
The reason Enoch did not see death was because he exercised faith towards God:
- By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God. (Hebrews 11:5)
- For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “He who through faith is righteous shall live.” (Romans 1:17)
- And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, based on law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.(Philippians 3:9)
- Now it is evident that no man is justified before God by the law; for “He who through faith is righteous shall live.” (Galatians 3:11)
- The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. (Romans 4:13)
Understanding Virtue Is Important, For Without It, There Would Be No Salvation
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