Tom
Hanks says that he began to get insight into his character through
a Bible verse: He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
REAPING
AND SOWING
Galatians
6:7
Don't be misled. Remember that you can't ignore God and get away
with it. You will always reap what you sow!
Psalm
126:5
Those who plant in tears
will harvest with shouts of joy.
Matthew
6:26
Look at the birds. They don't need to plant or harvest or put
food in barns because your heavenly Father feeds them. And you
are far more valuable to him than they are.
SINS
OF THE FATHER
Exodus
34:7
I show this unfailing love to many thousands by forgiving every
kind of sin and rebellion. Even so I do not leave sin unpunished,
but I punish the children for the sins of their parents to the
third and fourth generations."
Numbers
14:18
'The Lord is slow to anger and rich in unfailing love, forgiving
every kind of sin and rebellion. Even so he does not leave sin
unpunished, but he punishes the children for the sins of their
parents to the third and fourth generations.'
Jeremiah
32:18
You are loving and kind to thousands, though children suffer for
their parents' sins. You are the great and powerful God, the Lord
Almighty.
Jeremiah
14:20
Lord, we confess our wickedness and that of our ancestors, too.
We all have sinned against you.
ROAD
TO HELL (PERDITION)
Matthew
7:13
"You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate.
The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many
who choose the easy way.
James
5:3
Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you
were counting on will eat away your flesh in hell. This treasure
you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the
day of judgment.
James
3:6
And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is full of wickedness that
can ruin your whole life. It can turn the entire course of your
life into a blazing flame of destruction, for it is set on fire
by hell itself.
Matthew
10:28
"Don't be afraid of those who want to kill you. They can
only kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God,
who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Romans
8:38
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his
love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons
can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even
the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
FURTHER
BIBLICAL STUDY ON PERDICTION
Adapted from the ISBE
Perdition
(“ruin” or “loss,” physical or eternal):
The word “perdition” occurs in the King James Bible
8 times (Jn 17:12; Phil 1:28; 2 Thess 2:3; 1 Tim 6:9; Heb 10:39;
2 Pet 3:7; Rev 17:11, 18). In each of these cases it denotes the
final state of ruin and punishment which forms the opposite to
salvation.
The
verb , from which the word is derived, has two meanings:
(1)
to lose;
(2)
to destroy.
Both
of these pass over to the noun, so that comes to signify:
(1)
loss;
(2) ruin, destruction.
The
former occurs in Mt 26:8; Mk 14:4, the latter in the passages
cited above. Both meanings had been adopted into the religious
terminology of the Scriptures as early as the Septuagint.
“To
be lost” in the religious sense may mean “to be missing”
and “to be ruined,” The former meaning attaches to
it in the teaching of Jesus, who compares the lost sinner to the
missing coin, the missing sheep, and makes him the object of a
seeking activity (Mt 10:6; 15:24; 18:11; Lk 15:4, 6, 8, 24, 32;
19:10). “To be lost” here signifies to have become
estranged from God, to miss realizing the relations which man
normally sustains toward Him. It is equivalent to what is theologically
called “spiritual death.” This conception of “loss”
enters also into the description of the eschatological fate of
the sinner as assigned in the judgment (Lk 9:24; 17:33), which
is a loss of life.
The
other meaning of “ruin” and “destruction”
describes the same thing from a different point of view. being
the opposite of , and in its technical usage denoting the reclaiming
from death unto life, also acquires the specific sense of such
ruin and destruction as involves an eternal loss of life (Phil
1:28; Heb 10:39). Perdition in this latter sense is equivalent
to what theology calls “eternal death.”
When
in Rev 17:8, 11 it is predicated of “the beast,” one
of the forms of the world-power, this must be understood on the
basis of the Old Testament prophetic representation according
to which the coming judgment deals with powers rather than persons.
The
Son of Perdition is a name given to Judas (Jn 17:12)
and to the Antichrist (2 Thess 2:3). This is the well-known Hebrew
idiom by which a person typically embodying a certain trait or
character or destiny is called the son of that thing. The name
therefore represents Judas and the Antichrist (see MAN OF SIN)
as most irrecoverably and completely devoted to the final .
