The Severity of God

(The video is in Russian.)

Bible verses from the sermon

[Rom.11:20-22]
Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

Severity [Greek apotomia, G663]: apo – off, temnō – to cut; so it means cutting off.

[Rom.11:13]
For I speak to you Gentiles…

[Gal.3:26-28]
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

[1 Jhn.2:2] And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

[Rom.11:15] For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

[2 Cor.5:18-19] Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

[2 Cor.5:14] For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died.

[Jhn.15:1-2] I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

[Luk.13:6-9]
He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.'”

[Rev.3:5-6] He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

[1 Jhn.5:4-5] For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

[Rev.13:8-9]
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

[Rev.13:3-4] …And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

[Rom.11:23] And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.