Pop Christian Songs Aren't Always Theologically Precise, Or Even Close When It Comes To The Gospel

I was listening to a Christian radio station earlier today and heard something that got me thinking.

The song, to paraphrase, said that mercy doesn't care what you've done. Obviously, this was intended to say the normal synergistic, "Come as you are to Jesus."

While it is true that we are sinners, and we do not wait until we are perfectly holy to repent and believe, the phrase "mercy doesn't care what you've done," I believe, is not just imprecise, but thoroughly unbiblical.

Why?

First, Jesus, the Son of God, died to pay the penalty for what we've done. So, I'd say he would beg to differ. It does matter what we've done.

Second, we wouldn't need the "mercy" had we not done what we've done. The "mercy" exists, because God loved His people so much that He provided the mercy and payment for the sins they've committed. He gave them that which they did not deserve.

Third, I think the above phrase demonstrates that the writer doesn't understand the wickedness of sin. Ps. 5:5 and Ps. 11:5- Need I say more?

Fourth, God most definitely "cares," because we must REPENT in order to come. What are we repenting of, but that which we've done? What is it that we confess, but that which God has already said about our sin? We confess that we are sinners and rightly condemned for so being.

Finally, what will men be judged for, in the end, but the works done in the flesh?

Please, make no mistake, God does care what we have done and what we do. As Ps. 51 notes, it does matter what is on the inside, but what we do on the outside, comes from within.

You cannot truly come to God without REPENTING for your sins.

Repent, believe and flee the wrath to come.