He works differently…
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways…. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.’”
– Isaiah 55:7-9 KJV
No more free meals! “[Ananias] kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” – Acts 5:2
[2.Corinthians 3:18] But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
You know you’ve got a problem… “Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, ‘Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?’” – Mark 7:5
Is God punishing the children? “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” – Exodus 20:5 (KJV)
The tide is going to rise. “Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren.” – Deuteronomy 4:9 NKJV Want to get a link…
Why would you do it? “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” – Proverbs 14:12 (NKJV)