The expectation to worship the true God was not just for Israel, it was for every nation. And God pronounced doom on a pagan nation that did not worship Him. The Lord Jesus Christ – repeating Deuteronomy 6:5 – said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
There’s only one God, only one true God. All humanity is commanded to worship that one true God, and the fundamental reason, the fundamental plan of God, as far as nations are concerned, is to bless the nations that acknowledge Him as the true God. We’re not talking about person salvation, we’re talking about a national recognition of who is the true God.
And the third thing to say is this: “Failure to worship God and to worship any other god brings judgment.” It certainly brings judgment on individuals, but it also brings judgment on nations. That judgment becomes inevitable because when you turn from the one true God you therefore turn from His law; and when you turn from His law, reverence is gone, morality is gone, fear is gone, virtue is gone, and God is gone. That’s the cycle of the history of nations, Acts 14: “God has allowed all the nations to go their own way.” It’s the way of destruction.
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