The Recompence of the Reward - Part I

I was sitting in a classroom the other day co-teaching with a teacher who mentioned one of the students' vocabulary words was recompense. She said she didn't know anything about it, but I knew it was from the Bible. I thought about it and looked it up in a concordance and the next day when I saw her again, I told her about it. She said some of her students had told her that it was in the Bible too.

When I looked it up, I noticed there were many references to this word in God's Word. Here is one reference I particularily liked and felt the Lord wanted me to write about it: "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation..?"(Hebrews 2:2-3)

This interesting passage in Hebrews emphasizes the need for salvation. Every sin and every folly of mankind has a consequence or "recompense of reward" which also means payment. The reward here the author of Hebrews is talking about is the "wages of sin". (Romans 3:23).

Think of all the sins of our society and culture today; all the violations of God's law which are myriad and increasing every day. Without a revival soon, we aren't going to have a great future especially as a country. Marxism and Feminism are being promoted in our schools every day - I've seen it first-hand - and Christianity is being trashed. What will be the consequences? If things don't change, it will be the payment of sin. Yep, that's it. Economic hardship, loss of jobs, loss of homes, more taxes and regulation and more social decay will be our future.

Just read Isaiah chapters 1-4 and you can see the same pattern. Its a society that has rejected God over and over again. The only salvation is not in politics or in philosophy. These have always proven to be a dead end... I've seen the same falsehoods rehashed over and over again over the last 40 years and they've never worked. They just get repackaged and recycled for each new generation.

Next week, I will talk about the positive side of the "recompense of reward" so stay tuned...to be continued...

Lord, we thank you for your mercy and dying on the cross for our sins. We will never forget your love and grace and how much you did for us. We're glad we can avoid the "recompense of reward" and be able to have all those sin debts canceled by your Blood! In Jesus Name, Love, Laura