Genesis 6:5
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Now
does that tell you something? Evil and unrighteous things were all they
could think about, and we're not too far from that in today's world.
Now verse 6.
Genesis 6:6
"And it repented the LORD (or made Him sorry) that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." Now drop on down to verse 11 and 12 of this same chapter.
Genesis 6:11-13
"The
earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto
Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled
with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the
earth."
Well that's what led up to
Noah's flood, but we're also approaching the same kind of a judgment
when God will pour out His wrath and vexation on Christ-rejecting men,
in what we call the final seven years of Tribulation. Now another place
where Paul lists all these deeds of the ungodly is in Romans chapter 3.
Now we hate to deal with negatives, and it's almost depressing we know,
but on the other hand we have to realize what we are seeing in the world
around us. And listen, it's not limited to just America. We've always
given America credit, we're still better than most places in the world.
But this whole idea of wickedness and unrighteousness is not limited to
the western hemisphere whatsoever.
Romans 3:12
"They are all (the whole human race outside of salvation) gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; (that is to God) there is none that doeth good, no, not one."
Now look at the picture, and remember before redemption which is to bring us to salvation this is where we were in God's eyes.
Romans 3:13-18
"Their throat is an open sepulchre (remember John the Baptist said a similar thing to the priest's who came to him to check him out);
with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under
their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet
are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And
the way of peace have they not known: (now look at verse 18, and doesn't that say it all?) There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Now that's the world in general. Matthew chapter 22 verse 5 says they
make light of Christ and His Gospel which we share. They don't even give
God five minutes of their time. Now let's come back to our text. And
let's look at verse 21 again.
Galatians 5:21
"Envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do
such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
Such
wickedness we have today, and we're so busy. Let us look at Matthew
chapter 24:37-39. And here Jesus is speaking, He was God, He was the
Creator, He knows the end from the beginning. He knew exactly what was
coming on the earth. So He says explicitly -
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