“WHOEVER DISREGARDS!”

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8                                              (ESV)

“1 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the LORD JESUS, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please GOD, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.

2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the LORD JESUS.

3 For this is the will of GOD, your sanctification: that you ABSTAIN from sexual immorality;

4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles (unbelievers) who do not know GOD;

6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the LORD is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

7 For GOD HAS NOT CALLED US FOR IMPURITY, BUT IN HOLINESS.

8 Therefore “WHOEVER DISREGARDS” this, DISREGARDS NOT MAN but GOD, WHO gives HIS HOLY SPIRIT to you.”

There are a number of things on which people want to blame the degradation of America.  Liberals want to say that we are old-fashioned in the way we do things. Conservatives want to say that we are don’t respect the way we used to do things.   When everything is said and done, ALMIGHTY GOD has Blessed America IN SPITE of our sinful behavior and our selfish desires.  We SHOULD be thankful that HE has brought us this far, and pray that HE draw America back to HIM!

Surely mankind can’t read the focal passages today and expect to live the way we want and for ALMIGHTY GOD to overlook our iniquities?  The GOD of love that everyone wants to talk about is first and foremost HOLY! HE sent JESUS as a sacrifice for our sins, because no other sacrifice was acceptable.  “WHOEVER DISREGARDS” the ultimate sacrifice of JESUS and lives IN IMPURITY is rejecting the sacrifice of JESUS for their own fleshy desires.  

Being a Republican will not get a sinner into Heaven.  Being a Democrat will not get a sinner into Heaven. Only trusting in the finished work of JESUS CHRIST will atone for our sins and avert the WRATH of ALMIGHTY GOD for eternity.  America has ONLY ONE HOPE!  

Acknowledging the sacrifice of JESUS is the only thing any of us could have ever claimed.  Although America is more sinful now than ever, we could not have ever proclaimed our righteousness as “good enough”!  Isaiah 64:6 (KJV) says that our righteousness is but filthy rags before a HOLY GOD.   “WHOEVER DISREGARDS” what JESUS has done for mankind is damned to an eternity of THE WRATH OF GOD!  HE IS OUR ONLY HOPE!!!