The Bible teaches that God will
judge all mankind for even the most seemingly insignificant things.
Romans 14:10-12, “But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set
at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of
Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow
to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then
every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
Men, women and youth will be required by God to give account for every word, every thought, every deed, every penny they've earned or obtained immorally, how they spent every penny, every person they hurt, every feeling they hurt, every second they wasted, every keyboard keystroke, every mouse click, et cetera. God will hold us all accountable for everything! It's not a theory, but a Biblical fact. Jesus warned in Matthew 12:36, “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” God will hold each individual accountable for every word spoken, even wasted idle words that could have been seasoned with grace to the edification (building up spiritually) of the hearer. Every word must be accounted for. God has lent to us our life. We are responsible for our body, our actions, our time and money, our attitude and how we spend each minute of our short earthly existence. We are all living on borrowed time from God.
And again in Proverbs 24:12, “If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?” I love that last Scripture! You cannot fool God! That is exactly what Proverbs 24:12 means. There are no juries in Heaven, because you don't need them, for God knows everything about everyone at all times. It is typical of our sinful human nature to be deceitful, play dumb, claim we were misunderstood, didn't know about a situation, had pure motives for a malicious deed and so forth. Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
People love to play games. Men are good at this. A man will subtly place his hand on another married woman's shoulder. If she says, “Excuse me, I'm married, please do not touch me.” Then he'll say, “Mame, you got the wrong idea.” This is why the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 7:1, “...It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” That's how an adulterous man tests the waters, by touching a woman. If she doesn't object, then he knows she is ok with it and you can be assured that he has every intention of touching her again and again and again! By sinful nature all men are sex pigs! Every man, if he is normal, has to struggle with a dirty mind. 1st Peter 2:11, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” God calls fleshly lusts “a war”!
Praise God for every virtuous Christian who, like the innocent Shulamite girl in Song of Solomon, tells the Devil's crowd, “No, you cannot have me, I am betrothed to my true love, Jesus Christ!” That's what Song of Solomon portrays, that is, the Devil (Solomon) trying to seduce the pure Christian (the Shulamite girl). But she refuses Solomon's advances and says that she is betrothed (engaged) to her shepherd boy (Jesus Christ). Solomon had 1,000 lovers, but probably never had one true love! You can spend your life living (surviving) in the pleasures of sin, but you'll never know the sweet peace, security and joy of walking in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, our one true love! Whew! God is good!
God cares about little things. I cannot stress enough the importance of little things, because little things influence big things. That one bit of bad advice you give to someone could end their marriage, or cause them to stop coming to church or get killed. I remember a woman in church who told another woman, who was having a hard time in her marriage, to call the police on her husband. That couple never came back to that church again. One woman's meddling mouth drove a couple out of church. What kind of mouth do you have? Do you have a gossiping mouth? Do you have a big mouth? Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
God is going to hold us all accountable for every word that leaves our mouth. Actor Bill Cosby is correct when he says that words are like bullets, that is, you cannot take them back! We are all guilty of speaking words that we wish we could take back. God never remembers anything, because He never forgets. Some Christians errantly think they wont have to give account to God for the BAD THINGS done in their body, but the Bible says we will. 2nd Corinthians 5:10, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”
Proverbs 15:3,
“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”
Notice that God sees THE GOOD as much as the bad. Most people only think
that God monitors the bad things that they do, but God keeps track of the
good just as much. Of course, if you're not a born-again Christian, then God
rejects any good works you do, because God hates self-righteousness.
Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all
our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” There
is nothing hidden from God. Psalms 44:20-21, “If we have forgotten the
name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God
search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes
of him with whom we have to do.”
We all have to give account in eternity for every thought, every unkind word, every slander, every gossiping word (whether spoken or typed), every second wasted, every dirty show watched, every lustful thought, every hateful thought, every grudge, every deed. No one is going to get away with anything. Has anyone ever hurt your feeling and you were so hurt that you wanted to teach them a lesson and fix them real good? That's a normal human feeling. But the Bible commands us to leave vengeance to God (Romans 12:19). Do you mean Brother Dave that God will avenge me even if someone hurts my feelings? Oh yes! God must avenge all wrong doing. If you were so angry that you thought to harm someone because they hurt your feelings, but then you let it go because you're trusting God to avenge you, then God absolutely must address the matter in eternity, because His honor and integrity are at stake. God doesn't dismiss seemingly insignificant things as men do. God sees all, remembers all and will judge all.
So rest
assure in the little things that people do which may bother or irritate you
from day-to-day, because God sees even the smallest of infractions, insults,
people games, gossip, deceit, hypocrisy and malicious activities that people
do. If you knew that another child was doing something seemingly subtle, but
it was really bothering your child, would you let it go or not take the
matter seriously? I'd make it my top priority! You'd have a fight on your
hands! That's my child! Do you think a holy God is less righteous to watch
over His children and defend their honor and feelings than we who are unholy
sinners? Let's see what God thinks about anyone who messes with His child...
Matthew 18:6, “But
whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were
better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were
drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Does Matthew 25:24-30 Apply To The Saved Or Unsaved?
