Acts 17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Can you remember being a child, doing something wrong, and your parent absolutely cracking up with laughter instead of shouting at you for doing wrong?

As a parent and a grandparent, I have lived through both sides and think I have the right to laugh at things now.

God may not be human, but I’m pretty sure He has laughed at many of the things we have done wrong… and yet He still loves us and continues to support us in everything we do!

John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

It is not because your friend told you about your sin that you are guilty – we do not have the right to judge or blame each other for doing stuff against someone else, never mind God!

Jesus came to make sure we understood how the scriptures are in fact the truth. He came to show us to depend on them. He came to show us they do tell us where we go wrong!

We don’t really have the excuse of saying we were not sure anymore either. We know and the writing is plainly on the wall for us to realise our sin is sin!

John 9:41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

Imagine you were walking along and stepped in some paint; when you continued to walk, you would be spreading the paint where you walked and you would know to stop and clean up.

But, if you were blind, you may not know you have stepped in paint, and you would not know you were spreading it everywhere!

God has allowed us to hear the gospel so we can know what is right and wrong – we don’t have the excuse of “we didn’t know it” anymore!