People often claim to want a justice from God whereby he would repay them according to their works, and are upset by the idea that God would bestow the same grace on those who have not done as many good works, or who were great sinners who have spent the majority of their lives outside of the church. But the truth is, as Christ teaches us, that we are all absolutely dependent upon mercy if we are to be saved. 'Receiving Justice' from God would mean being sent to hell.
“I never know which to admire the more, — the love of the father in going to meet the returning prodigal, or in going out to talk with this coldhearted elder brother. He was a son, but he had not the true spirit of his father, he had fallen into a very wrong state of mind, just like certain Christians that I know, who have always been very proper, and who have little sympathy with those who have been great sinners. They seem as if they do not want to see such people as these brought to the Savior. “Why!” they exclaim, “there are …all sorts of rabble being brought into the church.” … Yet they themselves were no better than others by nature, though grace has done much in restraining them from the sin into which others have fallen; and it was wrong for them to talk as if they were sheer legalists, as this Pharisaic elder brother did..” - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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I was converted out of paganism and the occult in 1993 and while I was initially Charismatic/Arminian in my theology, I became Reformed and Presbyterian through bible study and the influence of ministries like Ligonier. After teaching in local bible studies, and taking seminary...
