A Biblical Age Of Accountability?

A Biblical Age Of

Accountability?

Age Of Accountability, Twenty

Years Old, Numbers Chapters 26-28

BIBLE IN FIVEPastor Dave Kooyers

Valley Bible Fellowship

Box 433

Boonville CA 95415http://www.slideshare.net/dkooyers

www.ValleyBibleFellowship.org

God bless you as you examine His Word,

Your servant in Christ, 2Cor. 4:5

These YouTube presentations are provided "for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of

Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-15). To help Christians to "to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ." So that "we are no

longer...tossed here and there...by every wind of doctrine." They may be downloaded and modified free of charge.

Matthew 10:8 …Freely you received, freely give.

Numbers 26:2, “twenty years old”

• NAU Numbers 26:2 "Take a census of all the

congregation of the sons of Israel from

twenty years old and upward, by their

fathers' households, whoever is able to go

out to war in Israel.“

The Over Twenty Year Olds

• NAU Numbers 26:2 …from twenty years old

and upward…whoever is able to go out to

war in Israel.”

• NAU Numbers 14:29 your corpses will fall in

this wilderness, even all your numbered

men, according to your complete number

from twenty years old and upward, who

have grumbled against Me.

The Under Twenty Year Olds

• NAU Numbers 26:2 …twenty years old…• NAU Numbers 14:3 "Why is the LORD bringing us

into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?“

• NAU Numbers 14:29 …who have grumbled against Me.

• NAU Numbers 14:31 'Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey-- I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

Humans Are Sons Of Adam

• NAU Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--

• NAU Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.

• NAU Romans 3:10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;…3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

We Have A Sin Nature

• Ps 51:5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful

from the time my mother conceived me.

• Ezek 18:20 The soul who sins is the one

who will die. The son will not share the

guilt of the father, nor will the father

share the guilt of the son. The

righteousness of the righteous man will be

credited to him, and the wickedness of the

wicked will be charged against him. [Jeremiah

31:29-30, Ezekiel 18:2-4]

God Is Completely Just, Fair

• Hebrews 10:26-31, … 26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins...

• NAU Hebrews 9:27And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

• [2 Corinthians 5:10, Matthew 16:27, Revelation 22:12, 2 Samuel 14:14, 1 John 4:17, Acts 17:31]

God Paid The Penalty, So;

• Rom 9:18 Therefore God has mercy on

whom he wants to have mercy, and he

hardens whom he wants to harden.

• Ps 32:2 Blessed is the man whose sin the

LORD does not count against him

The Bible On Age Of Accountability

• Matt 19:14 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

• Eccl 6:3 …I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

• 2 Sam 12:23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."

• Isa 7:15-16 He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. 16 But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right…

An Age Of Not Yet

Knowing Good From Bad

• Rom 7:9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

• Deut 1:39 And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad--they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.

• Num 14:29 In this desert your bodies will fall--every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.

• Josh 5:4 Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt-all the men of military age-died in the desert on the way after leaving Egypt.

Accountable Or Able To Understand

• NAU Nehemiah 10:28 Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding,

• Ex 30:13-15 …14 All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD… 15 “…to make atonement for yourselves….

Romans Chapter 5 Is A Must

Read• NAU Romans 5:12-13; 12 Therefore, just as

through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— 13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

God Freely Gives Justification

• NAU Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

God Freely Gives Justification

• NAU Romans 9:20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?

• Romans 14:4, James 4:12

We Are Not The Judge

• Ezek 18:23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

• 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is ….not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

• NAU Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth. [Romans 14:4, James 4:12]

God Is Gracious And Merciful

• NAU Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

• God can bestow that gift according to His righteousness, and His righteousness is not tarnished if He counts the sins, sinfulness, and sin nature of these “little ones” as paid in full by the sacrifice of His Son. If He paid the fine, who are we to say He is not being just or fair?

A Few Other Verses To Examine

• Here are some other verses I have found

in my studies. Examine them yourself

(Acts 17:11) in light of Scripture; Rom.

5:13,7:9, 9:11, Isa.7:16, 2 Sam.12:23,

Eccl.6:3, Ex.30:14, Neh.10:28, Josh.5:4,

Gen. 18:25, Jonah 4:11, Mt.18:1-6, 19:14.

• My PowerPoint on;

slideshare.net/dkooyers;

• Numbers Chapters 26-28

Where does that leave us now?

NAU Acts 17:28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.' 29 "Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. 30 "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."

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Where does that leave us now?

Matthew 28:19 …”go there for and make disciples of all the nations…” Proverbs 22:6 …give instruction to her youth about his way, even when he is old he will turneth not from it.”

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God’s “unspeakable gift”.

• 2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

• NAU John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

• NAU Galatians 4:4-6 But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

• NIV John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”

• [also Romans 3:23, 5:8, 6:23, 10:9-13, Eph 2:8-9, John 1:14, ]

Where does that leave us now?

1John 4:16 …God is love.…

Remember what Jesus said in Mark 10:14 “…Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

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THE END• May God bless

you richly as

you carefully

study His Word,

• Dave

BIBLE IN FIVEPastor Dave Kooyers

Valley Bible Fellowship

Box 433

Boonville CA 95415http://www.slideshare.net/dkooyers

www.ValleyBibleFellowship.org

God bless you as you examine His Word,

Your servant in Christ, 2Cor. 4:5

These YouTube presentations are provided "for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of

Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-15). To help Christians to "to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ." So that "we are no

longer...tossed here and there...by every wind of doctrine." They may be downloaded and modified free of charge.

Matthew 10:8 …Freely you received, freely give.

A Biblical Age Of

Accountability?

Age Of Accountability, Twenty

Years Old, Numbers Chapters 26-28