God Doesn't Change...We Shouldn't Expect Him To

God Doesn't Change...We Shouldn't Expect Him To 

All throughout the generations of life since Adam and Eve mankind has, because of sin and Satan's influence, tried to get God to change His mind about sin.

All throughout the Bible you will see and find references to God saying of Himself tgat He is the same yesterday, today and forever.  

If indeed we believe the Bible in this truth then the rest of the Bible is deemed trustworthy and true.  Sin's definition in the Bible is today what it was when the Bible was written. 

The ramifications of sin are the same today as when the Bible was written. 

Our world tries to water down sin into it being something other than what the Bible says about it.  Truth be known there's billions of people in Hell who tried redefining sin.

There's those in this world today who are learning that God's views on sin haven't changed and its causing the same hard heartedness that Jesus saw when in His Earthly ministry. 

They get mad at those who stick to God's true point of view on sin. 

That same God of Genesis is the same God of Revelation.  The same God of Psalms is the same God of Job and Daniel. 

The God we read about in the letters to the Ephesians, Philippians, Galatians and Colossians is the same as in the book of Acts.

What God wrote about through the writers He chose is still true today. 

Idolatry is still Idolatry as written. 

Adultery is still Adultery as written. 

Anger is still Anger as written. 

Coveting is still Coveting as written. 

A hard heart is still a hard heart as written. 

God does not change and His stating what sin is has not changed. 

What else that has not changed is that salvation is still free. 

Works are not needed to obtain it. There's nothing required for salvation but to believe as we read of In the Bible. 

Romans 10:9-10 NASB "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." 

People today try adding works to coming to Christ.  Works are for AFTER you have come to Christ.  The new cells in a body learn their function in the body and work with the body to complete the purpose of the body. 

In the early days of the Church recent converts tried adding works to salvation and that was put down as unnecessary. 

Redefining sin in our world today will not bring people to Christ.  Making sin not be the utterly sinful thing that it is, which is willful disobedience to God's Word, will never change God.

Passing laws and instituting policies in this world will not change the truth that sin is sin as defined by God.  

Christians battle sin every day. Truth is even unbelievers battle it but do not have the Holy Spirit to use the power of Christ to defeat it. 

The God Who Stays - Matthew West

If I were You I would've given up on me by now
I would've labeled me a lost cause
'Cause I feel just like a lost cause

If I were You I would've turned around and walked away
I would've labeled me beyond repair
'Cause I feel like I'm beyond repair

Oh, but somehow You don't see me like I do
Somehow You're still here

You're the God who stays
You're the God who stays
You're the one who runs in my direction
When the whole world walks away
You're the God who stands
With wide open arms
And You tell me nothing I have ever done can separate my heart
From the God who stays

I used to hide
Every time I thought I let You down
I always thought I had to earn my way
But I'm learning You don't work that way, no

'Cause somehow You don't see me like I do
Somehow You're still here

You're the God who stays
You're the God who stays
You're the one who runs in my direction
When the whole world walks away
You're the God who stands
With wide open arms
And You tell me nothing I have ever done can separate my heart
From the God who stays

My shame can't separate
My guilt can't separate
My past can't separate
I'm Yours forever

My sin can't separate
My scars can't separate
My failures can't separate
I'm Yours forever

No enemy can separate
No power of hell can take away
Your love for me will never change
I'm Yours forever

'Cause you're the God who stays
You're the God who stays
You're the one who runs in my direction
When the whole world walks away
You're the God who stands
With wide open arms
And You tell me nothing I have ever done can separate my heart
From the God who stays
You're the God who stays
You're the one who runs in my direction
When the whole world walks away
You're the God who stands
With wide open arms
And You tell me nothing I have ever done can separate my heart
From the God who stays

My God is Still the Same - Sanctus Real 

Just ask the waves
If they are stilled at the mention of His name
They'll say my God is still the same
Ask the walls
If they still fall at the mighty sound of praise
They'll say my God is still the same

When did He break His promise?
When did His kindness fail?
Never has, never will
My God is still the same
When did He lose His power?
When did His mercy change?
Never has, never will
My God is still the same, yeah
My God is still the same

Just ask the words
You prayed in desperation if they're heard
They'll say my God is still the same
Ask the grave
If it's strong enough to keep hope in it's chains
It'll say, "God is still the same"
Yeah

When did He break His promise?
When did His kindness fail?
Never has, never will
My God is still the same
When did He lose His power?
When did His mercy change?
Never has, never will
My God is still the same, yeah

Not once did He ever stop moving
Not once has He ever let go
Not once did He ever stop proving
Our God is in control
Not once did He ever stop moving
Not once has He ever let go
Not once did He ever stop proving
Our God is in control

When did He break His promise?
When did His kindness fail?
Never has, never will
My God is still the same
When did He lose His power?
When did His mercy change?
Never has, never will
My God is still the same, yeah

Not once did He ever stop moving
Not once has He ever let go
Not once did He ever stop proving
Our God is in control
Not once did He ever stop moving
Not once has He ever let go
Never has, never will
My God is still the same
(My God is still the same)
My God is still the same

Sin is still sin. Sin as defined by God still will send an unrepentant person to Hell. 

A single sin as defined by God in the Bible.  Being born in sin will send anyone to Hell. 

The only cure for sin is salvation in Christ Jesus alone. The power to wipe sin away through the forgiveness that comes by way of salvation is only found through Christ Jesus.  Only Jesus can remove sins as far as the east is from the west.  Feedlings of remorse are not enough.  Billions in Hell feel remorse at what put them there, but they had no repentance by way of salvation in Christ. 

As the old hymn says "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus."

Those in Christ quite often also try to redefine sin. Calling sins mistakes. Calling them choices or rights in order to continue in them and encouraging, as ridiculously as that is, for others to do the same.  Gender isn't a choice. Sexuality isn't a choice. God established that upon birth. 

Abortion isn't anything but the taking of an innocent life.  Lying is still lying as defined by the Bible.  It's telling a falsehood.  Stealing is still stealing today the same as it was over 2,000 years ago. 

If we fully grasp the truth of God not changing then it points us towards His returning. 

We believe that His truth about Himself as being unchanging it means to believe that the rest of the Bible is true.  That the wages of sin is death. That Jesus is the Son of God. That Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. That no one comes to the Father but through Him.  That being transformed by the renewing of your mind brings about a real life in Christ.  That Romans 10:9-10 is true. That one day we WILL give an account for things done in the body. 

My God is Still the Same. Yesterday, today and forever. 

Salvation is found in no one else under Heaven. By no other name MUST we be saved.