GOD FORGIVES SINNERS--PART 4

Last time we closed out, with this question;
How can the two aspects of God's Providence--God's Sustenance and Government, leave room for Human Responsibility/

LISTEN--In God's Word, both God's Sovereignty and Man's Responsibility are taught.
But Divine Revelation doesn't allow penetration, into The Mystery of The Harmony between
God's Sovereignty and Man's Responsibility.

Scripture always presents Providence-God's Invincible Power, and Man's Continued
Responsibility.
God's Enemies are portrayed as Enterprisers, unable to escape God's Supremacy.
Although God's Enemies nailed Christ, to the cross, they did what God's Disposing Power had determined--
Acts 2;23--''Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands hath crucified and slain.''

God permits Sin--but, He does not allow The Sinner, to decide, free from His Command.
If He did,God would merely be, an observer, of a contest, with a uncertain outcome.
To sin, or not to sin, would ultimately lie in Man's Power of Decision, and God could only react accordingly.

God's non-intervention is always a positive action, not helpless, or frustrated inaction.

Every Act of Sin is committed by a Individual, whose life, God sustains.
Acts 17;28A--''For him we live, and move, and have our being;''

Ananias and Sapphira were being sustained by God, when they lied to Him--Acts 5;4--[Turn].

God restrained Abimelech from sinning against Sarah, but He did not restrain King David from conspiring against Bathsheba and Uriah--
Genesis 20;6--''And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou did this in the integrity of thine heart; For I also withstood thee from sinning against me; therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.''

Adam, and many others, were unrestrained, but God did restrain Laban from harming Jacob--
Genesis 31;7--''And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages 10 times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.''

God also prevented Balaam, from cursing Israel in Numbers 23.

God allows Sin to be committed. However, Suffering is not connivance with, approbation of, or mere permission of Sin.
God not only allows men, to walk in their own ways, but He gives them up, to uncleanness and vile affections, and over to a reprobate mind.
[Continued next time]