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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Second Resurrection, #13
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. (Romans 2:12-16)
We see in the above passage the importance of conscience. We see also the heartless Christian formula that emphasizes that all who have not received Jesus during their lifetime on the earth, whether or not they have heard the Gospel, are doomed to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire, runs counter to the Kingdom principle that God judges by the Law only those who have been given the Law. The remainder are judged in terms of how they responded to their conscience.
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. (Romans 5:13)
"Sin is not imputed [ascribed] when there is no law."
God does not judge people on the basis of what they do not know but what they do know.
The eternal moral law of God is a light that reveals our sins. Until that light shines, sin is dead and we are alive. But when God's light appears, sin comes to life and we die.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. (Romans 7:8,9)
God is strict but never unreasonable. He holds no man guilty of rejecting Christ until Christ has been presented to him. To teach otherwise is to go beyond the Scripture and to accuse God of manifest unrighteousness.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:14)
"How will they believe in him of whom they have not heard?"
Those who choose not to believe in Jesus are under condemnation. But they cannot choose to believe or disbelieve until they hear!
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)
When the light of the Lord Jesus comes, people must choose that Light. But they cannot choose the light until they behold it.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19)
To be continued.