Hi Marques
This is a very pertinent question you raise. It is vital I believe, that students of the Word of God, know how to perceive and comprehend with the due reverence and deep gratitude the fact that God has appointed some to judgment and others to wrath.
We have to evaluate the outcome for those who wave off God and persue their empty addictions to depravities with NO discernment OR regard for God.
Jesus Himself did not pray for the world and neither did He try to avert or go against the way and Plan of God who shall use wrath to the beneficial consequence on the wicked.
John 17 : 8 For I have given unto them the Words which Thou gavest Me: and they have RECEIVED THEM, and have known surely that I came out from Thee, and they have BELIEVED that Thou didst send Me; 9 I PRAY FOR THEM : I pray NOT FOR THE WORLD, but for THEM which thou hast given Me; for THEY are Thine.
We know that no one can approach the Son of God unless God drags us to Him. We know that no one can choose God or even succeed in being Godly as Godliness is Gods work not ours. We know that God is the potter and that some pots He makes to Wrath and others to Glory.
2 Peter 2 : 8 For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, VEXED his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. 9 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS, AND TO RESERVE THE unjust unto THE DAY of judgment.
Who are they who the Lord is reserving unto The Day of judgment?
10. But chiefly THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, SELF-WILLED, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, MADE to be taken and destroyed ( MADE by God for His Plan and Purpose) speak evil of the things that they understand not, and shall utterly perish in their OWN CORRUPTION.
In sumnation it is valuable to consider the Godly attitude as taught by Ray that we should have as we encounter those to whom God has appointed His Wrath.
We know it is God who frames evil around us.
O man, that’s what we have to repent of.
Whatever O man is. That’s what we are, because O man is Adam. O man came out of Adam. Where did you come from, some place else? We’re all out of Adam. And what does Adam do? Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters and on and on. Wow, this is O man out of Adam. This is what he does. And only by the grace of God, some of us didn’t have to go that route.
.......So be thankful
.....thankful that God has not appointed us to His Wrath, or to perish in our own corruption. God. Our God. Our Sovereign All Mighty All Loving God. That God gave THEM over to a reprobate mind...Rom 1:28
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