The phrase “God is not mocked” is found in Galatians 6: 7, “Do not be deceived: God does not mock, because whatever one sows, that will also reap.” Mocking God means disrespecting, dishonoring, denying, ignoring his existence but above all thinking that we can do things without his realizing it, and then come to him without repentance. It’s a felony committed by those David describes as evil because “there is no fear of God in their eyes.
What is mockery?
In the Bible, mockery is a behavior and attitude displayed by the fool (Psalm 74:22), the wicked (Psalm 1:1), the enemy (Psalm 74:10), the one who hates knowledge (Proverbs 1: 22; 13:1), the proud (Psalm 119:51; Isaiah 37:17), and the unteachable (Proverbs 15:12).
The heart of the scoffer is cold and, in his foolishness and wickedness, he makes a conscious decision to turn his back on God and pursue evil. Scoffers lack humility, wisdom, and goodness in spiritual matters.
How do scoffers work?
Scoffers do not limit their disdain to God alone, but extend it to God’s people as well. And remember that God says in the Bible, “what you have done to one of my little ones, you have done to me”
In the Old Testament, God’s prophets suffered the same humiliation as believers throughout history. The prophet Jeremiah became “the laughing stock of all the peoples” and was “the object of their ridicule all day long” (Lamentations 3:14).
God is not mocked
Nehemiah was mocked by his enemies (Nehemiah 2:19). Elisha was mocked by the youth of Bethel (2 Kings 2:23). But do you really think you can make fun of God by being an omniscient being?
I think it would be very difficult, right? Because even if you hide under the rocks, he’s watching you the same way. God can’t be fooled and you can verify it by looking in your bible (Hebrews 4: 12-13), where it tells you that everything, absolutely everything you do is an open book in the eyes of God.
If you still aren’t convinced, you may remember, and if not, you can look up these characteristic stories of people who thought they could cheat God and failed to do so, they went through many tests to realize that God cannot be cheated.
Some of these examples are the sin of Achan (Joshua 7) and the flight of Jonah (Jonah 1), which were shown to be not unknown to God. Jesus’ repeated words to each church in Revelation 2-3 were: “I know your works.”
We cannot fool God by being false Christians
Many times, we go to church, we accept Christ as our lord and savior, we cry, we kneel and we do a whole theater perhaps to be admired by people, by someone we like, but actually in our hearts it says something very different from what we are externalizing.
After we leave the church, everything returns to what we might call normal; being with our friends, drinking, maybe taking a little drugs, countless things. Maybe the leaders are not seeing us, are they not? But what about God? He is Omnipresent.
Those who want a more graphic explanation and a little more current than the stories of antiquity can watch a movie called “Cristiano a la secreta”, perhaps when you see it it will seem a little funny, but that is actually what What do some Christians do?
Or perhaps I could say we do, or we did because I also behaved like this on many occasions, “I am speaking from my own testimony”, but who escapes God’s gaze? no one, no person can be far from being seen by the eyes of God.
Galatians 6:7-9 touches on some common delusions among those who profess to be Christians. Unfortunately, those who try to deceive themselves and others with these things somehow think that God will be deceived by them as well and this is not the case.
Consequence of wanting to mock God
Charles G. Finney, a preacher in the 19th century, wrote about the effects of mocking God: “To mock God is to pretend to love and serve him when we do not; to act falsely, to be false and hypocritical in our professions, pretending to obey him, love him, serve him and adore him, when it is not so.
Hoping to mock God grieves the Holy Spirit, and pains the conscience, and so the bands of sin grow stronger and stronger. The heart gradually hardens by such a process.”
God warns that the mockery of what is holy will be punished. Zephaniah predicted the fall of Moab and Ammon, saying, “This is what they will get for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the Lord Almighty” (Zephaniah 2:10).
Examples of characters who wanted to deceive God
Many in the past and many today continue to disobey the Word of God. They do this thinking that all is well in their spiritual lives.
Example 1: King Saul
King Saul, in 1 Samuel 15, was told by God to go and destroy the Amalekites. But, contrary to God’s command, Saul decided to spare the king, Agag, and the best of the sheep and oxen.
When confronted by the prophet Samuel, Saul blamed the people. Because of this disobedience, God rejected Saul as king: and considered him a rebel (verse 23).
Example 2: Nadab and Abihu
In Leviticus 10, God commanded Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron the High Priest, to use a certain fire in their duties as priests. But they decided to use the fire that he had not authorized (verse 1). They were consumed by the fire of the Lord.
Example 3: Ananias and Sapphira
You can read about the deception of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5. They sold a certain possession to help the poor in Jerusalem. They decided to retain part of the sale price. This was not a sin in and of itself, but then they lied to God about the sale price. This cost them their lives (verses 5, 10).
In all three examples above, people were trying to fool god. Incidents like these are exactly what Paul was referring to when he wrote to Titus: To the pure all things are pure: but to those who are defiled and believe not, nothing is pure; but both his mind and his conscience are polluted.
Falsehood in religions is a mockery of God
Many people today are religious. However, they are involved in religions not authorized by Jehovah God. Many are members of denominations (see 1 Corinthians 1:10) that do not fully follow God’s Word, but in their work and worship of God do the things they consider to be good and right.
They follow the traditions of men. But how does this differ from previous cases? Saul, Nadab, and Abihu, and Ananias and Sapphira did what they thought was good and right. As Jehovah showed his wrath to these, so he will show his wrath to all who are disobedient in the day to come. God knows all our thoughts.
We all need to realize that God cannot be mocked, neither in this life nor in eternity. He is not fooled by our actions, because he knows our hearts, and always remember that he “sees everything”, I invite you to fear God (respect) which is not the same as fear.