20th August 2021
IGNORANT?
David Abankwah
READ: Romans 1:20
The Lord has MADE KNOWN His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
-Psalms 98:2 | NKJV
If you don’t know there are laws in the country, wait until the law is interpreted for you by the judiciary in the court of law. If you don’t know the extent of the punishment of the laws in the country, wait until you break one. Every proper citizen learns the constitution of the land so he or she can be abreast of them. In that case, he or she can know how to live his or her life in order to avoid all crimes. When you are caught for a crime committed, you can’t make an excuse that you didn’t know the constitution. The fact that you are ignorant of the law doesn’t mean that you will be spared. There is an old sage that goes that: ‘Ignorance is not an excuse.’
Until you are penalised for the crime committed, you will not go scot-free. When it comes to the constitution of this physical world, many people pay attention to it but when it comes to the nation called Christianity, many believers play around the laws of God like there is nothing at stake. Because our progenitors – Adam and Eve sinned against God by breaking the Constitution (don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – Genesis 2:17), every descendant became guilty of sin through that bloodline. Right from your mother’s womb, you are conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5). Because of this, every mortal should not be ignorant of the imminent eternal damnation.
For this reason, God also had a plan to save humanity. God made His salvation who is Jesus Christ known to us (John 3:16). As the righteousness of God, He was shown plainly to us as the Son of man. He came and lived with us for 33 years. No one can ever deny there wasn’t a man called Jesus Christ who lived among us. Even we know and believe the existence of people who had lived in history who didn’t save but came to destroy us. Notable among these tyrants is Adolf Hitler. If one can remember Hitler who was a destroyer of lives, why can’t one know Jesus Christ – the Saviour of the world? God has not hidden Himself for He has walked the earth before as flesh and bones.
Because God doesn’t want anyone to defend his or her ignorance in the day of judgement about his salvation, that was
why He gave His only begotten Son for us. This knowledge of His Son Jesus Christ – the Gospel have to be preached for all to be aware before the world will finally come to an end (Matthew 24:14). Even if the earthly court cannot take ignorance as an excuse, you can’t stand before God who is the Judge of all Judges and defend yourself with ignorance. We with bear with each other that when we were coming into this world, we didn’t come with our necessities of life. It is the Lord who provides. If we are enjoying what He had created, that is enough evidence.
•| Prayer Diary |•
Lift up prayers to take heed of the knowledge of salvation and righteousness of God very seriously so you will not be condemned in the day of judgement in the name of Jesus Christ.
Quote
“Because ignorance will be an excuse in the day of judgement for many people, the Gospel has to be preached for the evidence of all”
One-Year Bible Reading Plan
Jeremiah Chapters 49
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