ADDING REGRET TO INSULT TO INJURY
*Messing up is bad enough.
*Messing up and suffering the consequences is worse.*But messing up and suffering the consequences AND knowing that you had the opportunity to not mess up to begin with, not only adds insult to injury, it adds regret to regret to regret.
We have all messed up, and we have all messed up our relationship with God. This brings us great regret.
BUT GOD, in His great love, with which He loved us, takes us to Himself because of the loving sacrifice that Jesus made for us on the cross, thus reconciling us to Himself and giving us victory over our sinfulness and our regrets.
But what happens when people do not believe on Christ, do not receive Christ into their lives, do not surrender to His Lordship?
* There will be more messing up (sin), and
* Eternal consequences (the wrath, punishment and vengeance of God) and
* The eternal realization that the wrong choice did not need to be made. The eternal nagging of regret upon regret upon regret, along with the eternal judgment of God.
This does not include the eternal suffering added because of the fact that the lost person actually led loved ones away from God, when they could have led them into a right relationship with God.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THOSE WHO TRUST AND FOLLOW JESUS.
Revelation 21:1-5 (LITV)
(1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea no longer is.
(2) And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride, having been adorned for her Husband.
(3) And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God with men! And He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
(4) And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no longer, nor mourning, nor outcry, nor will there be pain any more; for the first things passed away.
(5) And the One sitting on the throne said, Behold! I make all things new. And He says to me, Write, because these Words are faithful and true.
This does not include the eternal suffering added because of the fact that the lost person actually led loved ones away from God, when they could have led them into a right relationship with God.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THOSE WHO TRUST AND FOLLOW JESUS.
Revelation 21:1-5 (LITV)
(1) And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea no longer is.
(2) And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride, having been adorned for her Husband.
(3) And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God with men! And He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
(4) And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no longer, nor mourning, nor outcry, nor will there be pain any more; for the first things passed away.
(5) And the One sitting on the throne said, Behold! I make all things new. And He says to me, Write, because these Words are faithful and true.
