{"id":203,"date":"2012-11-01T08:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:17:36","slug":"no-profit-in-gods-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/no-profit-in-gods-law\/","title":{"rendered":"No Profit in God’s Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the book ‘Whole Bible Christianity’
\nOn the flip side of the punish coin is reward. Or lack of it. Some just don\u2019t see the profit in following God\u2019s laws. In fact, it looks like many who follow seem to have more problems than those who don\u2019t. There doesn\u2019t appear to be any big payoff for obedience.<\/p>\n

13 \u201cYour words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, \u2018How have we spoken against you?\u2019 14 You have said, \u2018It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts? 15 And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.\u2019 \u201d (Malachi 3:13-15<\/a> ESV)<\/p>\n

Malachi was written a long time ago, but the problem is still with us. Many think that “keeping his charge” (following His commands) is not profitable. But pay is not the issue. Of course we will have problems in this world. It isn\u2019t our world. It\u2019s filled with perverse people who hate God and do everything in their power to subvert and besmirch every aspect of His kingdom. They murdered the Son of God, so how much more will they revile, slander, attack, and murder us?<\/p>\n

There are blessings that accrue to believers, some of which we get now, like peace, and some we will get later, like a new body. The pay is good, and there is lots of it, but it\u2019s not measured in gold. It\u2019s not even measured in time. It\u2019s measured in love, which has no limit when you are joined together with the source of love.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the book ‘Whole Bible Christianity’ On the flip side of the punish coin is reward. Or lack of it. Some just don\u2019t see the profit in following God\u2019s laws. In fact, it looks like many who follow seem to … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,142,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-living","category-punishment","category-whole-bible-christianity-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}