Key verse
1 Thessalonians 4:7 - For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 7:13-14 - “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if
my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from
heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
God's love manifests itself in different forms. If we repent and obey, he is kind and compassionate and slow to anger. But if we have heard his commands and yet disobey, He will not hesitate to punish us. Not that we have to fear fire from God every time we do something wrong, but we can't rest on our laurels thinking that God has promised only to do good to us, even if we do bad. Look at King Solomon. God told him, right after verses 13 and 14, that yes, if they repented, he would save them. But, if Solomon did not respect God's law and instead followed pagan gods, God would certainly send Israel into exile and destroy the temple Solomon had just built for Him.
Our good deeds will never save us. Only the blood of Jesus, come with the new covenant, can cover our sin and intercede for us when we go off the trail.
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