Society has it all wrong.
Rules are not meant to be broken and there are consequences to our actions. If rules did not matter the Father would never have given Jesus as a living sacrifice to redeem man. All things are made right with God through the blood sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross of Salvation but it does not come free. Because of HIs great love for us He will prune and fertilize those who give their lives to Him. With a great price we were brought back from death and with this comes the process of becoming just like Him who saved us.
We are chastised because He loves us.
sacrifice |ˈsakrəˌfīs|
noun
• an animal, person, or object offered in a sacrifice.
• an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy
• Christian Church Christ's offering of himself in the Crucifixion.
• Christian Church the Eucharist regarded either (in Catholic terms) as a propitiatory offering of the body and blood of Christ or (in Protestant terms) as an act of thanksgiving.
We will learn the hard way or the easy way but we will learn!
Micah 7:18-19
Who is a God like You,
Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 34:7
25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:25
20In those days and in that time,” says the Lord, m“The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; For I will pardon those whom I preserve.
Jeremiah 50:20
16 For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.
Isaiah 57:16
11 Say to them: As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Ezekiel 33:11
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