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Ezekiel 33: 11 (NIV)
“Say to them, ‘As surely
as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the
wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from
your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?’”
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| He chose to be with sinners because he wanted them to have hope.* |
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Don’t we love it when the bad guy gets what’s coming to him? It’s
only a movie but we cheer when the villain bites the dust, don’t we? In real life,
it seems that the good guys are always the losers and that doesn’t seem right,
does it?
God told Ezekiel to inform the Israelites that he did not find
pleasure in the death of the wicked. Their death ends their chances to repent.
John tells us in chapter 3, verse 17, that God sent his Son to save the world,
not to condemn it. As unnatural as it might seem, we should be cheering for the
bad guys to get what we got – not
what we deserve but what Jesus freely gives us.
So it’s only a movie and we know the difference between fantasy
and reality but let’s not become desensitized to the horror of dying without
the hope of heaven. Pray for those bad guys in your life. Share the gospel with
those villains. Let’s face it: without the cross, we’re all bad guys.
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| He came “to seek and to save the lost” – not to “search out and destroy” them* |
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