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22,
2014</span><br>
<span style="color:#092C70; font: 32px Verdana,
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Derision
and Wrath</span><br>
<span class="body" style="color:#000000; font:
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line-height:125%;"> <em>“He that sitteth in the
heavens shall laugh: the
LORD shall have them in derision. Then shall he
speak unto
them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore
displeasure.” (<a style="color: #092C70;
text-decoration:none;" class="bible"
href="http://www.icr.org/bible/Psalm/2/4-5">Psalm
2:4-5</a>)
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What does an individual gain by opposing God and
His plan?
Can human opposition succeed against the Almighty
One who
created the universe? Obviously, no rebellion has
a chance
to succeed. God’s sovereign control will certainly
overpower man’s feeble attempts to wrest command
from
Him. He will simply laugh in derision.
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However difficult it is for us to imagine God
laughing in
this manner, we can surely understand His derision
at the
futility of created beings confronting their
Creator and His
right to rule over their lives. The name used for
God is
Lord, meaning Master. As Creator He has the
authority to set
the rules for His creation and the power to exact
the
penalty for breaking the rules.
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Note that His response exceeds mere derision. It
extends to
“wrath.” At the appointed time, the sovereign
Judge will address all those who have rebelled
against and
opposed Him.
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Man has no right to question God’s authority or
goodness in exercising it. Indeed, “the Lord is
not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that
any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance” (<a
style="color: #092C70; text-decoration:none;"
class="bible"
href="http://www.icr.org/bible/2Peter/3/9">2
Peter 3:9</a>).
He even sacrificed His only begotten Son to pay
the just
penalty for sin. What more could He do?
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With our sin penalty fully paid, our sin is
forgiven, and
we gratefully acknowledge His kingship over our
lives. Once
submitted to Him, we face everlasting fellowship
with Him.
With sin banished, believers need never fear His
derision or
wrath. JDM
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
"For so long as a hundred of us remain alive, we will yield in no
least way to English dominion. For we fight, not for glory nor
for riches nor for honour, but only and alone for Freedom, which
no good man surrenders but with his life".
The Arbroath Declaration -
Noble Scots to Pope John XXII in 1320</pre>
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