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God Is More Tolerant than He Used to Be

God Is More Tolerant than He Used to Be. Is it Now Safer to Sin?. Is God Is More Tolerant Today?. How do we answer those who insist that God is more tolerant today than He was in the Old Testament?. Today Everything H as C hanged. No more stories of Nadab and Abihu

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God Is More Tolerant than He Used to Be

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  1. God Is More Tolerant than He Used to Be Is it Now Safer to Sin?

  2. Is God Is More Tolerant Today? • How do we answer those who insist that God is more tolerant today than He was in the Old Testament?

  3. Today Everything Has Changed • No more stories of Nadab and Abihu • No accounts of people like Uzzah • We want to know whether we are free to sin • We want to know whether it is safer for others to do wrong today

  4. God Unchanging • We can affirm that God has not changed • His standards are the same • He has chosen to interact with people differently

  5. Amazing Consistency • The attributes of God revealed in the Old Testament are affirmed in the New • In the Old Testament we see the severity of God but also His goodness • We see His strict judgments, but also His mercy • The same balance of attributes is found in both Testaments • The penalties also have not changed and His mercy also remains immutable

  6. God Unchanging • God’s nature does not change • God’s standards do not change • God has not changed and will not change in the future

  7. I the Lord do not change. Malachi 3:6 NIV

  8. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 NIV

  9. God’s Administration Has Changed

  10. Why are the Old Testament penalties not carried out? • God’s judgments abide, but His method of managing them has changed. • This change in management can be represented in three contrasts between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion (Calvary). Hebrews 12:18-29

  11. Sinai vs. Calvary • Sinai was covered with clouds; Zion is filled with light • Sinai is symbolic of judgment and death; Zion is symbolic of life and forgiveness. • The message of Sinai was “Stand back!” The message of Zion is “Come near!”

  12. The Old Covenant versus the New Covenant • Jesus is the mediator of “a new covenant” (Heb. 12:24)

  13. Under the Old Covenant • God made a covenant with the entire nation • There was no separation between religion and the state • There was no freedom of religion in the Old Testament era

  14. Under the New Covenant • Jesus taught it would be possible for His followers to live acceptably under a pagan government • First, God would no longer deal with one nation, but with individuals from all nations • Second, in our era, we are to submit, as far as possible, to worldly authorities

  15. Our Agenda As a Church • Is not to take over nations, politically speaking • It is the transformation of nations through the transformation of individuals

  16. Why do we not put people to death today as was done in the Old Testament? • We have no authority to judge those who are outside the fellowship of believers • The state is to penalize those who commit certain crimes • All the behaviors that merited the death penalty in the Old Testament are infractions for which we now discipline believers within the church

  17. It is foolish for us to think that we can sin with impunity just because Christ has come

  18. Immediate, Physical Judgment versus Future, Eternal Judgment • The greater the grace, the greater the judgment for refusing it • We should never interpret the silence of God as the indifference of God • We must come to Sinai before we come to Zion

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