He works in different ways sometimes
Romans 2:4
“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”
This verse says His Goodness leads men to repentance.
Sometimes He uses fear of death, fear of hell and suffering, He knows best and what it takes to reach someone.
I personally took a bad fall, was life-flighted, and had a Pastor ask me a very poimted and simple question, " If I died today, do I know for certain that I would go to heaven? " I said yes, but I really didn't know, and that question haunted me for years until I finally started asking serious questions and being serious about God. And this is what I learned
Jeremiah 29:13
“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
none of this answer the fundamental question of why i want to be associated with an entity that demands i worship it or be damned to a hell dimension upon my expiration? This is nuts.
Actually, you have no other business to attend to than to stand at the foot of the Cross and behold Jesus Christ the Son being punished by God the Father for your sin. If you were the only sinner ever born, Jesus would still have left all the Glory of Heaven to die a cruel death to save you. The Passion involved more than just physical pain, God laid all His wrath on Jesus for the sin of the World.
Isaiah 53:11
“He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”
Until you decide to care about your soul, nothing anyone can say will matter. You need rescued from your sin, rescued from an eternity of misery, yet there you sit with all the means to be rescued freely offered by Grace, and you do nothing but complain " Why should I have to do so and so to receive His Gift of Eternal Life?"
The desire to Worship God only comes after you are saved, regenerated, given a heart of flesh, and the heart of stone that you now have is removed forever. Regeneration gives you a whole new set of desires. "If any man be in Christ Jesus he is a New Creation, behold old things are passed away and all things are new"
John 3:16-18
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
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."
We have an old saying in the Christian Church " No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care " God has loved you with all His heart, He has gone all out to save you, left His home in Glory to be mocked, spit on, ridiculed and cruelly tortured, even to the point of being nailed to a tree, naked and humiliated. To save your soul from eternal ruin and damnation. This is love coming straight at you, not demands from an Ogre of a God.
He works in different ways sometimes Romans 2:4 “Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?” This verse says His Goodness leads men to repentance. Sometimes He uses fear of death, fear of hell and suffering, He knows best and what it takes to reach someone. I personally took a bad fall, was life-flighted, and had a Pastor ask me a very poimted and simple question, " If I died today, do I know for certain that I would go to heaven? " I said yes, but I really didn't know, and that question haunted me for years until I finally started asking serious questions and being serious about God. And this is what I learned Jeremiah 29:13 “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
none of this answer the fundamental question of why i want to be associated with an entity that demands i worship it or be damned to a hell dimension upon my expiration? This is nuts.
Actually, you have no other business to attend to than to stand at the foot of the Cross and behold Jesus Christ the Son being punished by God the Father for your sin. If you were the only sinner ever born, Jesus would still have left all the Glory of Heaven to die a cruel death to save you. The Passion involved more than just physical pain, God laid all His wrath on Jesus for the sin of the World. Isaiah 53:11 “He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.” Until you decide to care about your soul, nothing anyone can say will matter. You need rescued from your sin, rescued from an eternity of misery, yet there you sit with all the means to be rescued freely offered by Grace, and you do nothing but complain " Why should I have to do so and so to receive His Gift of Eternal Life?" The desire to Worship God only comes after you are saved, regenerated, given a heart of flesh, and the heart of stone that you now have is removed forever. Regeneration gives you a whole new set of desires. "If any man be in Christ Jesus he is a New Creation, behold old things are passed away and all things are new" John 3:16-18 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
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."
We have an old saying in the Christian Church " No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care " God has loved you with all His heart, He has gone all out to save you, left His home in Glory to be mocked, spit on, ridiculed and cruelly tortured, even to the point of being nailed to a tree, naked and humiliated. To save your soul from eternal ruin and damnation. This is love coming straight at you, not demands from an Ogre of a God.