THE GOD OF SCRIPTURE

I will worship toward Thy Holy Temple, and praise Thy Name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy Truth: for Thou hast magnified Thy Word above all Thy Name... This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ (Psalm 138:2; Jeremiah 6:16, KJV)
The Truth Of God Is Living And Active
It is quite common today to hear those caught up in the fantasies of new evangelicalism say things like, “Why do you constantly quote dead men?” The answer is really quite simple: These men are more alive than the “dead” men currently being followed absolutely nowehere by so many today. The fact is that there are so many leaders within what passes for Christianity today such as Rick Warren and Brian McLaren and Rob Bell and Erwin McManus who put far more emphasis on what other men now say than on what the LORD God Almighty Himself has already said.
Not so with men such as Charles Spurgeon, who is the author of the short devotion to follow. Godly men like Spurgeon lived the absolute Truth of the texts of Scripture with which I opened this piece. God has said He has magnified His Word–the inerrant and infallible texts of the Bible–to a place equal to His glorious and majestic, great and mighty Name. Study it out and you will quickly find that God’s Name means Who He is–His matchless character, power and completely sovereign authority. Our Lord tells us to walk in the old way; the good way, but “modern” evangelicalism insists, “We will not walk in it.”
O how tragic it is that the American Christian Church would rather settle instead for these pedantic peddlers of second-rate self-help books on “leadership” and the love of man than to follow our generous and merciful Christ. But this will never change the Truth that each morning the storm clouds grow darker over this pagan nation and that God is a righteous judge, a God Who expresses His wrath every day (Psalm 7:11). And what Spurgeon said below, a hundred fifty ago, is just as true for people today as it was when he first preached it:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:7-8, KJV)
And now we delare that the God of Holy Scripture is a God of inflexible justice; He is not the god whom some of you adore. You adore a god who calls your crimes peccadilloes [small mistakes] and little faults. Some of you worship a god who does not punish sin but who is so weakly merciful, and mercilessly weak, that he passes by transgressions and iniquity and never enacts punishment.
You believe in a god who, if a man sins, does not demand punishment for his offense. You think that a few good works of your own will pacify him, that he is so weak a ruler that a few good words uttered before him in prayer will win sufficient merit to reverse the sentence if indeed you think he ever passes a sentence at all.
Your god is no God; he is as much a false god as the god of the Greeks or of ancient Nineveh. The God of Scripture is One Who is inflexibly severe in justice and will by no means clear the guilty. The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked (Nahum 1:3, KJV). The God of Scripture is a Ruler Who, when His subjects rebel, marks their crime and never forgives them until He has punished it, either upon them or upon their Substitute.