Matthew 23:33 KJV
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
This chapter is filled with the accusations of Christ against the scribes and Pharisees. When the devil accuses it is nothing for the brethren because our Saviour advocates for us. But when God points his finger at our sin, how miserable must be our case!
And the question Christ brings is one every man must ask himself. When confronted with such sin, "how can we possibly escape damnation?" It is the work of the Holy Ghost to bring us to see our miserable and helpless condition. It is impossible for us to escape the judgment for our sins.
It would not be difficult for us to say, based upon this passage that it would be impossible for these Pharisees to escape. And we would not be far off. But with God nothing is impossible.
We have proof in the account of Saul. This Pharisee of the Pharisees this persecutor of the saints not only escaped the damnation of hell himself but has accounted for the saving of countless numbers through two millennium.
It is God.
That is how a soul escapes damnation.
In the middle of sin; in the heat of his own way Christ confronted Saul of Tarsus, called him and converted Him.
That is how any soul escapes the damnation of hell.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
This chapter is filled with the accusations of Christ against the scribes and Pharisees. When the devil accuses it is nothing for the brethren because our Saviour advocates for us. But when God points his finger at our sin, how miserable must be our case!
And the question Christ brings is one every man must ask himself. When confronted with such sin, "how can we possibly escape damnation?" It is the work of the Holy Ghost to bring us to see our miserable and helpless condition. It is impossible for us to escape the judgment for our sins.
It would not be difficult for us to say, based upon this passage that it would be impossible for these Pharisees to escape. And we would not be far off. But with God nothing is impossible.
We have proof in the account of Saul. This Pharisee of the Pharisees this persecutor of the saints not only escaped the damnation of hell himself but has accounted for the saving of countless numbers through two millennium.
It is God.
That is how a soul escapes damnation.
In the middle of sin; in the heat of his own way Christ confronted Saul of Tarsus, called him and converted Him.
That is how any soul escapes the damnation of hell.
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