Proverbs 15:3, “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”
We often hear preachers say that God is watching us, and knows the bad things that we do. That is true! But the Bible says in Proverbs 15:3 that God also sees THE GOOD things that we do. God sees our intentions. God sees into the innermost part of our heart.
The heathen world defines a man by his mistakes, faults and sins in life. But God judges a believer (a born-again Christian) on the basis of the BAD and the GOOD. And to take it a step further, God judges all mankind on the basis of whether one has trusted Jesus Christ as Savior or not. You don't get to Heaven by your own goodness, you get to Heaven by God's goodness, through faith alone in His only begotten Son. John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
God sees all the good. There are many preachers who have sinned openly. Their name has been shamed. They brought reproach to the name of Christ. And still other are falsely accused, and people wonder if the allegations are true. But those preachers, the ones that I am familiar with, have done FRA MORE GOOD in their lifetime than wrong. And yet wicked people only focus on the bad, accusing and condemning those fallen preachers. Revelation 12:10 calls Satan, “the accuser of the brethren.” Ephesians 2:1-2 teaches that the spirit of Satan works in the children of disobedience (the unsaved).
Whether unsaved people realize it or not, their father is the Devil spiritually, and they are prone to listen to their father (John 8:44). When these secular rock bands like the Eagles, The Beatles, Ozzy Osbourne and thousands more, deny that they are helping Satan, they are being 100% sincere. They truly don't think that Satan is working through them, but he is! If you are not a born-again child of God, the only other option is that you are under Satan's dominion (the Devil's child). You may be a sweet, kind and loving person, and yet have Satan as your spiritual father. Or you may be as mean as the Devil (and there's a lot of wicked people like that in the world).
God sees THE GOOD friend. He sees the long nights and days I labor on my website ministry. God sees my continued prayers, even when I don't see God answering any of them and I feel I'm wasting my time. God sees my broken heart because Harvest Baptist Church on Guam refuses to do the right thing. They preach another gospel, promote corruptible seed, preach a misunderstanding of repentance, and bid Godspeed to evildoers like Dr. Steve Pettit and his Calvinist false gospel. When I get to Heaven, God will judge me as His redeemed child on the basis of the bad and the good that I have done (2nd Corinthians 5:9-11).
1st Timothy 5:24, “Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.” I love that Bible verse. We are all familiar with a professed Christian who has a tarnished testimony, because of known sins or crimes they have committed. But the Bible says YOU and I are just as guilty in God's sight. One of my favorite sermons by Pastor Jack Hyles is called: “If Thou Should Mark Iniquities, Who Could Stand?” That is based on Psalms 130:3, “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”
One of my favorite Bible passages is found in Romans 8:34, “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” The implied answer is that NO ONE condemneth! If you have accepted Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, your are FREE from the curse of sin and the law. You have been redeemed. I don't care if you are serving multiple life sentences behind bars in prison, if you have receive God's gift of eternal life, you have no criminal record in Heaven! In God's sight, even if you are a mass-murderer here on earth, you are as pure as the Lord Jesus Christ! That is called: “Imputed Righteousness”!!!
Romans 4:5-7, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”
I would love to point out to you dear reader, that the same Greek word logizomai is used for the words “counted” and “imputeth” in the preceding passage of Scripture. The 54 King James Bible translators intentionally used those two words interchangeably, to show us (the reader) what “imputeth” means. Imputed means that one's childlike faith in Jesus is “counted” in place of righteousness. You need righteousness to go to Heaven. But the problem is that you and I don't have any to offer God. Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
Our best is simply not good enough for God! That is why Jesus came to die on the cross to pay for our sins, to give us GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” Nearly all religious people fail to fully understand this important truth. No one who thinks that water baptism is necessary to get to Heaven understands this great doctrine of IMPUTATION. They are not saved.
JESUS PAID IT ALL!!! We are saved by faith alone (Galatians 3:26). NO ONE who requires turning away from your sins to be saved understands this great doctrine of IMPUTATION. For if they did, they'd never teach such damnable false doctrine!!! All you need is to BELIEVE the Gospel (the GOOD NEWS) that Christ died in your place on the cross, He was buried, and three days later Jesus resurrected physically from the dead for our justification (the justification of our faith in Him, which is not in vain).
God also sees THE GOOD dear friend. So many people criticize Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), my hero of the Christian faith, who've never met him as I did, nor have they ever heard him preach in person (as I did a thousand times). Dr. Hyles was the best Christian I ever knew! I do not believe the horrible allegations against him that his enemies make. But even if they are true, he is still the best Christian I have ever known! What, how can you say that? It is because of the tens of thousands of GOOD THINGS that Brother Hyles did throughout his lifetime, which his critics all choose to ignore. Millions of lost souls came to know Jesus as their personal Savior because of Dr. Hyles 55 years of incredible ministry. Dr. Hyles gave away millions of dollars throughout his lifetime, helping the down and out, loving his enemies. Anybody who smears this man's good name is a fool. Brother Hyles didn't claim to be a good Christian, but he did his best to please the Lord in all his ways, as imperfect as we all are.
I look at the verifiable GOOD, not just the alleged BAD that no one can prove. And even if his enemies could, that doesn't negate the GOOD Brother Hyles did. A man is not defined by his poor choices in life in God's Kingdom. If you are saved, God looks at the bad and the good. And if you are not saved, God doesn't look at any of the good (Ezekiel 33:13), only your sins, because you rejected His Son (John 3:36). So remember oh child of God, the Lord said in Proverbs 15:3 that He sees the bad AND THE GOOD.
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