NO TRESPASSING
The owner of a property, has a legal right to protect himself and his property, and he has a moral responsibility to protect others from any dangers they may encounter on his property, such as lakes, swimming pools, quarry's, swampy areas, poisonous plants, ledges and wild animals.
This is why owners post, "NO TRESPASSING" signs.
No one has a right to come onto the property without permission.
No on has a right to use the property for his own personal activities, without permission.
No one has a right to claim the produce of the property, without permission.
To violate any of these restrictions is to TRESPASS on that property.
God is the Owner of this world, and all that is in it.
God has placed, "NO TRESPASSING" signs and "WARNINGS" concerning His property.
God has a legal right to protect His property.
God is morally driven to warn people about the dangers on His property.
God posted His boundaries and His warnings in the Holy Bible.
The fact is, we have all trespassed, violated God's authority. As a result, we are law breakers and we have fallen victim to the dangers in His world.
We need God's forgiveness or we will face His judgment.
We need to be rescued from the hidden dangers.
We need to be guided through this world.
God's word not only sets His boundaries and warns us of the dangers, and gives us guidance, it offers us God's provision for forgiveness and deliverance.
But God is consistent.
He did not force anyone to violate His authority.
God does not violate His own authority by simply ignoring our sins.
God's mercy observes Divine order and human accountability.
We can only receive His kind offer of grace if we accept His terms of surrender, humble ourselves, acknowledge and turn from our sins, trust in the sacrificial death and physical resurrection of Christ from the dead and follow Jesus.
Matthew 16:24-26
(24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
(25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
(26) For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
