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Winners Don't Cheat
Ray Evans • February 10, 2020
Growing up, I remember my dad telling me that "Winners never cheat and cheater's never win." Imagine my surprise when I entered the work force and found that bit of fatherly advice to be untrue...cheaters did win. At least in the short-run.
Without repentance, sin will keep you separated from God. If that's what you want, just keep lying, cheating and stealing...but be forewarned; if you don't change your ways, God will eventually harden your heart...just as he did with Pharaoh. No one knows the day or hour when death comes to call. You and I could both die with our next breath. Just be warned: if you die a sinner, your name will not be written in the Book of Life...just saying.
You might think God doesn't see it when you cheat on your taxes, take advantage of people, or show favoritism to one person over another. Contrary to what you hear from the pulpit, God doesn't know what you're going to do before you do it any more than you know if your kids drive drunk or OD...he does know everything you've done.
It is not God's desire that any of his kids should perish, but that all come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). It doesn't matter what you've done...God will welcome back any of his kids; but if you don't repent and change your ways, you will perish. "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:5)
Of course, until you're reborn Spiritually...nothing else matters.
In the long-run, unless they change their ways, cheaters will end up in hell.
Cheating is dishonest...no matter how you slice it. Cheating is wrong; and choosing to do wrong willingly, is sin. All sin is forgivable (except the unforgivable sin) if one repents.
Without repentance, sin will keep you separated from God. If that's what you want, just keep lying, cheating and stealing...but be forewarned; if you don't change your ways, God will eventually harden your heart...just as he did with Pharaoh. No one knows the day or hour when death comes to call. You and I could both die with our next breath. Just be warned: if you die a sinner, your name will not be written in the Book of Life...just saying.
You might think God doesn't see it when you cheat on your taxes, take advantage of people, or show favoritism to one person over another. Contrary to what you hear from the pulpit, God doesn't know what you're going to do before you do it any more than you know if your kids drive drunk or OD...he does know everything you've done.
It is not God's desire that any of his kids should perish, but that all come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). It doesn't matter what you've done...God will welcome back any of his kids; but if you don't repent and change your ways, you will perish. "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:5)
Of course, until you're reborn Spiritually...nothing else matters.
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