God is patient towards sinful people but will judge them

God is patient towards sinful people but His patients has a limit and He will eventually judge them if they refuse to repent. We see many examples of this in the Bible which should serve as a warning to each of us.

In the Old Testament, we see the Lord telling Abraham about how his children would serve another people. We know this period as when Israel were slaves to Egypt. God was still working in other parts of the world as well and we can see His work if we read the Bible carefully.

Genesis 15: 13, And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

The Amorites were one of the people who occupied the land God had promised to Abraham. They were a sinful people but God was patient with them and gave them the opportunity to turn from their sinful ways. God told Abraham that during the time when his descendants would be slaves in Egypt He would give the Amorites the opportunity to repent before they were judged.

Genesis 15: 16, But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 

At the end of the time Israel was in Egypt, the people in the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants were given an additional warning of God’s impleading judgement. Rahab the harlot told the spies they had heard of all that God had done since the time He led them out of Egypt by the hand of Moses.

Joshua 2: 10,  For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

After over four-hundred years and an additional forty years when the children of Israel were wandering in the dessert the Amorites still refused to repent. It is easy to say that God gave them plenty of time.

Christians have the responsibility to warn a lost world about God’s Judgement. There is a limited amount of time given to everyone and every nation on earth. God’s Patient with a sinful person but His patients has a limit.

Turn to Him in repentance and faith before it’s to late.