There Is A Zero Tolerance Policy For Evil And Disobedience

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Now, today, we are talking about zero tolerance. As in, God has a zero tolerance policy for evil and disobedience. Zero tolerance—like we sin, God’s instantly done with us? And you’re like, “Wow, that seems a bit harsh.” Yeah, well, why does he still love us? Because Jesus paid the price.

Jesus already took care of that for us. So yes, we can still go on in our life and sin all the time, but we try not to. We try to be more like Jesus, who was without sin—he was sinless. We try to sin less.

Now, when you disobey God, God wants to kill you right then and there. Done. Over. Zero tolerance. I’m not kidding. Let’s go to the Bible for some backup on this claim.

1 Corinthians 5:13 “God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked person from among you.” That’s it—expel. Now, there are a whole bunch of other references that this verse relates to because it is, Paul is referencing old Torah, old scriptures. And so, what are they?

Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 17:7, Deuteronomy 19:19, Deuteronomy 21:21, Deuteronomy 21:24, Deuteronomy 22:21-24, Deuteronomy 24:7. Let’s go read some of those.

Deuteronomy 13:5 says, “You must purge evil from among you.” Now, it’s a really long verse, but that’s the point. Let’s read the whole thing. It’s like a whole paragraph: “That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery.

That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way of the Lord, your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.”

17:7 ( Deuteronomy 17:7) states, “The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge evil from among you.”

All right, Deuteronomy 19:19 says, “Then do to the false witness as that witness intended to do to the other party. You must purge evil from among you.”

All right, Deuteronomy 21:21. “Then all the men of this town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.” You notice a theme here?

God is telling his people, “Purge evil from among you.” How do you purge evil? Cast them out? Shun them? No. Death. You must purge evil from among you. God has zero tolerance. Let’s keep going.

Well, we have a couple more verses. 22, so Chapter 22:21-24:(Deuteronomy 22:21-24) “She shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.”

“If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge evil from Israel.”

Keeps going 23: “If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of the town and stone them to death. The young woman, because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man, because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge evil from among you.” Isn’t that something?

Purge evil. How? Death. Let’s go one more verse, 24:7. Deuteronomy 24:7 says, “If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.”

We’ve got a lot of recurring themes here: purge the evil. When God sees evil happening, instantly, he’s thinking that person must pay. What is the penalty? Death. It’s as simple as that.

The one thing—the one thing that stops God, Yahweh, from executing his judgment is the fact that Jesus has already been killed in your place. Jesus died for you. Now, it doesn’t mean he, he died for you. No. He died, so you don’t have to die.

He literally died for you in your place. Not like, “Oh, I’m going to give you—I’m going to do something for you. Oh, I cleaned the house for you.” No, no, no, no—like, “I cleaned the house for you so you can enjoy a clean house.”

No, “I cleaned the house so you don’t have to clean it.” Like, Jesus died so you don’t have to die. Now, what are we talking about, this die? Like, is it just we’re still going to die someday, because how do we get to Heaven?

We believe in Jesus and be saved, and then what? We just get taken up like Enoch? No, we die, then we go to Heaven. So what am I saying about he died, so we don’t have to die? Well, the term die there is a little bit more significant.

This is, “you must, to death, purge evil from among you.” What happens when evil dies is they are separated from God. They’re going to Hell. And so, Jesus died for you. He took that punishment, that penalty. What did he do then? He went to Hell.

We have an entire sermon series, “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.” Check it out. It’s in a playlist here. It’s an excellent series that you are going to really enjoy. But Jesus took that penalty. Now, obviously, He didn’t stay there. He conquered it.

That’s what we say when we say He conquered the grave. What did he conquer? He, He conquered Hell, the grave, the pit, Sheol, Gehenna, Tartarus, Hades, whatever you call those terms, he conquered it.

He went in there, and He ascended out of Hell. He conquered Hell, just like in the Apostles’ Creed, “He descended into Hades” or “He descended into Hell.” That—that’s literal. Jesus went to Hell. Why?

Because when we sin, our punishment is to go to Hell. Death. Purge evil from among you. And so, Jesus took that punishment for us. That doesn’t mean He just died, no. He died and went to Hell. So our punishment is to die and go to Hell. Separation from God.

But because Jesus conquered Hell, we too can do the same. We can believe in that power, in the power of Jesus, and when we believe in that, we are saved from Hell.

We don’t have to go there because we believe that the price has already been paid. Jesus has conquered Hell for us. All right, let’s keep going on. So He has been killed in your place. How do we know this?

Well, we have the Bible. 1 John 2:2, “He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” That means you and me and everybody else out there. How do we tell everybody else? You can help us by sharing this message.

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You can help reach the rest of the world for Jesus with a simple click of a button. Isn’t that amazing? He died for the sins of the whole world. Don’t keep this to yourself. Share it with the whole world because He died for them too. Let’s go to Hebrews—Hebrews 10:10.

Hebrews 10:10 says, “And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.” The sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He died for everyone. God is just. He demands swift justice.

Time and time again throughout the Bible, God’s vengeance has been acted out on unrighteous people. Take a look at Noah and how that whole thing panned out. What happened? Well, well, let’s go to a brief overview of Noah, quick.

First of all, we have an entire sermon series, “The World In The Time Of Noah,” and so you can check that out in a playlist. But a brief overview and a little more insight and a little deeper than that series went—in the time of Noah, there was a whole rebellion that went on in Heaven, and these Messengers or Angels or demons or Fallen Angels came down from Heaven. Why?

Because they saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful. So they said, “We’re going down there,” and they had divided up in ranks—200 of them had children with women, 200 had children with a bunch of different animals—even donkeys, mules, this, that—they made all kinds of beasts and monsters and—and they made the Nephilim and Giants.

And so, at that time, because I don’t know, maybe a thousand Fallen Angels were procreating here on Earth, they were making evil beings. All these Giants were—were lawless and without God, and all these animals were lawless and without God—no pure spirits.

We had monsters. Now, what would that be? Well, maybe all from the myths, the dragons, and could be even maybe the dinosaurs were—were at that time from those because if they created super humans or big humans, well, if they procreated with a lizard, they maybe created a giant lizard exactly as they created a giant human.

So anyway, they did all this, and God was like, “This is outrageous. This world is filled with evil. There are… There is no one righteous, not even one.” But guess who it is? Well, we have Enoch. And Enoch, I’m taking him into Heaven, and I’m telling him, carry it on through your family.

Methuselah kept learning, and then Methuselah’s child, Lamech, was okay, and then Noah was born. And when Noah was born, they said that they, that he opened his… first of all, Lamech was scared because the child was so pure-looking, and he didn’t know.

He thought he was a demon born, and he was concerned that, “Oh my goodness, is this child even mine, or did one of these Messengers, steal my wife and impregnate her, and this kid is now born one of these Nephilim or one of the Giants or one of these crazy creatures that were trying to eliminate from the earth and trying to—to stay pure and stay with God?”

And so he’s concerned, and he goes to Methuselah, and Methuselah sees him, and when Noah opens his eyes, it’s like beams of sunlight came out, and he said, “No, this is Noah.” I’m calling him Noah, but Lamech didn’t call him Noah. He named him something else, and I don’t remember what it is, but you can find all of that in apocryphal texts—Book of Jasher, Enoch, all of those.

Now, these stories are in the Bible, but those details that I’m giving you are from extra text, not in the Bible. So the point is that Noah was continued from the righteousness.

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah—and they grew in righteousness, but everybody else was insanely wicked and evil. And so God finally said, “We’re done. Noah, build this Ark.”

First of all, Noah, we’re giving everybody 120 years. You tell people you have 120 years to turn from your wicked ways. God was cursing the ground. Thorns were growing. No, there was famine. There were all kinds of problems. They still didn’t turn.

Finally, Noah builds the ark. Rain comes down, these people still aren’t turning. They’re not getting in the ark. What was happening? God was purging the evil from the earth. Evil not from humans alone, but evil from divine beings that came here.

That’s really another reason why would God kill so many people? Because they were—they were twisted, and they were evil. They were—they weren’t even humans—they were distortions.

They were divine beings on Earth, which was not what God intended. So he got rid of them, and then Noah and his family were on the ark, saved, procreated along with all of those animals. But the punishment for sin is death. There we go—death. Let’s go to some evidence for that.

Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but what? The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” So we can believe in Jesus Christ and be saved. So God doesn’t take this lightly. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because they were wicked. Destroyed it. Let’s go to Genesis 18:20.

Genesis 18:20 says, “Then the Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin is so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.’”

It’s so bad that outcry is so terrible. What outcry? Because they’re so wicked and evil, and it’s crying out to God. The Earth is crying out to God. In the same way where Abel’s blood cried out from the grave to God. Cain slew Abel in the field with one of his instruments, thinking no one saw. Blood was spilled.

Cain dug a hole, put Abel in there, covered him over with the dust, and the dust opened up, the ground opened up and swallowed Cain–Abel’s blood and cried out to God. Sodom and Gomorrah, the outcry of the evil was so great. So God said, “I’m going to see what’s going on there.”

Genesis 19:13 says, “Because we are going to destroy this place, the outcry to the Lord against his people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.” Who is speaking? Angels. God sent down a couple of angels, Messengers, and said, “Destroy that place.”

The outcry is so great. Destroy it. Abraham pleaded with God on their behalf. We can go back and read that—18:22-23. Abra… 22 to 33, (Genesis 18:22-33) Abraham is pleading with God.

Now, I’m going to summarize this cause we’re short on time, but Abraham is saying, “Are you really going to destroy that place? Can I be bold? What if there are 50 righteous people?” God says, “I’ll spare it.” “How about 45?” “Spare it.” “How about this many?”

And he’s—he’s weaning down. “God, please, how about I be so bold? What if there are 10?” And God’s with Abraham—for 10 righteous people, I’ll spare it.

And—and it’s going on, and he’s like, “But—but God, really destroy a whole city?” “Yes, I’m destroying it.” And so finally, God says, “I’ll get your nephew Lot and his family out.”

So the messengers are going in, getting them out, and in that—that’s a whole debacle, all this evil and depravity going on. Even Lot had a moment of weakness and was about to offer up his daughters to the mob, and they’re like, “No! Shut the door! Get in here. We’re leaving right now. Get out! We’re destroying this place.”

And Abraham and God in form, were on the mountain watching as Sodom and Gomorrah got destroyed. And Lot and his family were fleeing with the messengers or with the angels, and what happens?

Lot’s wife looks back—disobeyed God—boom—instant pillar of salt. Or really, we might say pillar of salt, thinking like it’s a literal pillar, but she just vaporized, turned into dust. Because why? Disobedience.

God found righteous people, got them out of there, but Lot’s wife… Killed instantly. How do we know this? 19:26, so Genesis 19:26. Let’s read that because that’s kind of an interesting verse. Genesis 19:26 I know we’re—we’re getting close on time, but bear with me a few minutes longer.

Genesis 19:26, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” When the Israelites disobeyed God by worshiping a golden calf, He wanted to destroy them and keep only Moses, but Moses, of course, pleaded with God and said, “No, please do not destroy them. This is your people. What will the other people say?

You brought them out of Egypt into the desert only to destroy them?” Let’s go to Genesis 32:1. “Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them, and then I will make you into a great nation.”

That’s what God said when He said—He said, “Moses, leave me alone. I’m going to destroy these people.” Why? Because they’re evil and wicked. Later on, when they disobeyed him, God sentenced them to 40 years of wandering in the desert. 40 years!

Numbers 32:13 says, “The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness 40 years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.”

How about Uzzah? When Uzzah touched the Ark of the Covenant, he died instantly. 2 Samuel 6:7. 2 Samuel 6:7 says, “The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act. Therefore, God struck him down, and he died there beside the Ark of God.”

We have a sermon series called Why… A Sermon “Why Did Uzzah Die?” It’s a single sermon. Check it out—card up there or go to our website, type in Uzzah—U-Z-Z-A-H—why did Uzzah die?

Because he did an irreverent act. The Lord’s anger burned against him. What’s the point here? The point is, God does not tolerate disobedience. He has a zero tolerance policy. So do not disobey God. What does that mean?

It means you need to strive and work hard to obey God in everything and through everything. Fortunately for you, fortunately for me, Jesus already died. Otherwise, we would have been struck dead long ago.

Let’s pray.

Father, thank you so much for this powerful message. I pray that each and every person would truly understand how righteous you are and—and the high standard that you demand.

In this lawless society, it’s easy for us to get confused and think that, “Oh, this might be okay,” or “or this is okay,” or “a white lie isn’t really a lie,” but it is, and you don’t tolerate any disobedience, any evil. Purge evil from among you.

Your anger burns against us. Fortunately, Lord, thank you so much for sending Jesus to die in our place, to take our punishment. And Lord, we are sorry.

I pray that each and every person really feels that on their heart. That they are sorry for what they have done because every time they sin, they know Jesus took that punishment. Jesus took that torment and torture and went to Hell and was tortured for our sins, but He conquered Hell.

Thank you so much for that, God. Thank you that we can have eternal life through your son Jesus Christ. We believe by faith, but when we die, we don’t have to take that punishment, that when we get there, we say, “Thank you, Jesus died for me. Let me in. I’m ready to go to Heaven. I’m excited to be with you forever.”

And so, God, help us to live a more reverent life on Earth—your people, the believers, the body of Christ, the Christians.

Lord, I pray that we would stand up and that we would be different, that when we die, if—if the world is still around later—that they would remember us and how we were different, how we were reverent, like how they remember Noah and Enoch and—and Abraham, their righteousness.

Lord, have us be that example for the future generations to raise up Godly generations, to do what we can to share the word of you, the word of God, with the whole world so that they too can be saved. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

I really urge you, do your best to be as obedient to God as possible, sin less, to be more like Jesus who was sinless. Have a great week, and God bless.