Psa 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psa 119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
Psa 119:125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
sa 119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Psa 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Psa 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Psa 119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Psa 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psa 119:151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
The entrance of God's words give light.
The entrance of God's words give understanding.
When we read of light in the Bible it often does refer to gaining understanding. We need to desire light over darkness. We need to comprehend the truth. We can be told the truth all day long and lack understanding. Without comprehension of what we read we might as well be reading drivel, truthfully. People can pat themselves on the backs all day long if they want to because they read their Bible, but if they do not comprehend the truth in God's words what does it matter? We can recite the Bible over and over and yet if we don't find the love of the truth in the word of God what good does it do us? Seriously, without comprehension we could read the whole Bible a million times and it will mean nothing. God's love is in the Bible, His pure love, His amazing love.
David longs for understanding and knows that the ENTRANCE of God's words give us light, give us understanding. The entrance-
Let's look up the meaning of this word- entrance.
H6608
1. opening, unfolding, entrance, doorway
- Origin: from H6605
- TWOT entry: 1854b
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine
- Strong's: From H6605; opening (figuratively) that is disclosure: - entrance.
Total KJV Occurrences: 1
• entrance, 1
Psa_119:130
Disclosure- Opening- Unfolding- Doorway.
The disclosure of God's words.
The opening of God's words.
The unfolding of God's words.
The doorway of God's words.
The entrance of God's words.
We need the disclosure of God's words.
We need the opening of God's words.
We need the unfolding of God's words.
We need the doorway of God's words.
We NEED to understand God's words.
With that understanding comes the knowledge of God's Love.
David LOVES God's law.
David LOVES God's words.
David VALUES God's words more than GOLD!
Do we value God's words more than money?
Do we value God's words more than our possessions?
How important is God's Word to us?! How important is the comprehension of God's words to us? Do we feel as if a day should NOT go by without delving in to the amazing word of God available to readily to us? Do we TREASURE the words of God we do read? Do the words of God give us a heart understanding, a deeper, deeper love of God?
These are questions we need to ask ourselves. These are important words.
By the grace of God may we find this amazing LOVE. We are so incredibly blessed to have access to the love of God found in His words.
Psa 119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Psa 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psa 119:151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
We like David must pray- Look up on us, be merciful to us as you were to those that LOVE THY NAME!
ORDER our steps in THY WORD!
Order our steps! We need to have the blessing of God - having HIM ORDER our steps! Having HIM guide our way, our LIVES. We need GOD to help us, to NOT let ANY sin have dominion over us! This is through GOD, it must be through God and we need to realize it IS by God. ALL glory, praise and honor to GOD!
Please God, please be NEAR to us LORD.
ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE TRUTH!
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
We have to HIDE these words in our hearts and when God is in our hearts, when God is ordering our steps, when sin is not having dominion over us we are in God's love, His pure, pure love, in His truth!
Please Lord please….
In Your love!
Amen.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
His Hands Made Us
Psa 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
God made Adam-
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And David makes this claim- 'Thy hands have made me and fashioned me'
God has formed us, yes, US, each one of us. We don't want to believe this, in fact most people refuse to believe this. People will bring up those deformed at birth and ask - did God form them too? If so, why did He form them wrong? We can't know the answer to that question, God knows though and that is enough, it has to be enough because --
Deu 29:29 'The secret things belong unto the LORD our God…'
We cannot know the wisdom behind His workings. God created each one of us and man would have us believe otherwise. Man, who has taken pieces out of the bodies God has formed and manipulated them to form children in wombs otherwise barren- believe that it is they who are the author of life, they are the creators of life, they are the ones who have formed that baby in the womb- not God. They couldn't be more wrong. They DID NOT create that egg, they DID NOT create that seed. God allowed them the knowledge of joining them together but it is GOD who forms the child from those manipulated elements. All too often there are MANY manipulated elements that are supposed to take and NEVER do. God forms man- God formed the first man and God will form the very last man.
Deu 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Deu 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Isa 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isa 44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Isa 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Psa 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
The God who formed us, the God who created us, the God who willed us into being can give us understanding. We need understanding if we are to learn of God's commandments. God's wondrous commandments, His law of the purest love upon which we all are called to live. Our natural self will not want understanding, it will not want to learn of God's commandments. Satan doesn't want us to have understanding of God's commandments. Satan knows that when we truly understand God's commandments that we'll understand the amazing love He has for us and that is the last thing the evil one wants us to understand. God can give us understanding, we, like David, must desire that understanding, we must ask for that understanding. We MUST ask knowing that it is God who formed us, God who created us and only God who can open our hearts. We must choose God in spite of all the sensual fleshy ways our natural man would have us focus on ourselves and NOT God.
Psa 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Psa 119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
No one alive today, no one who lived in the past has ever seen the earth destroyed, they've never seen the sun destroyed, they've never seen the sun not set, the sun not rise, the moon not show its many phases, the seasons never change, the ocean lose it's ebb and flow, the majestic mountains fall to nothing, the stars no longer guiding. All these things, all these undeniable and set forces were created to be that way and only arrogant man has decided they just came into existence by pure chance. God created all these things and they serve God! Yet man would have them be gods, foolish, foolish man.
Psa 119:97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Can you even begin to imagine meditating upon God's law all day? We're lucky if we can even think of God's law for a moment in a day let alone meditate upon it ALL day. The love of God's law is amazing. When we realize that it is by the law of God that we live, that we breathe, that we love how can we help but recognize the law in all we do? We've stripped the law of God's love away from our lives and put it on a pedestal or in a trash heap- either place has it's dangers because when we take the law of God out of our lives and make it inaccessible we've lost all the true meaning of God's law. When we consign the law to a trash heap and believe it no longer matters we've taken God out of life and substituted a false god for the true. God's law is love, God is love.
We lose the love of God that Jesus came to reveal to us in the flesh when we set the law aside- either making it too high to reach or too low to bother with.
Please God, you who fashioned us in the womb, you who knew us before we were born, help us to understand and learn Your amazing commandments. Help us to find the love in them that guides us every single day of our lives. You are revealed in Your law, Jesus lived Your law perfectly, let us not set aside something so incredibly important to our Savior- He did not come to destroy the law.
Open our hearts and our minds to You Lord, let the Holy Spirit come down and comfort us, teach us, help us in all ways.
All through Your grace!
Amen.
God made Adam-
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And David makes this claim- 'Thy hands have made me and fashioned me'
God has formed us, yes, US, each one of us. We don't want to believe this, in fact most people refuse to believe this. People will bring up those deformed at birth and ask - did God form them too? If so, why did He form them wrong? We can't know the answer to that question, God knows though and that is enough, it has to be enough because --
Deu 29:29 'The secret things belong unto the LORD our God…'
We cannot know the wisdom behind His workings. God created each one of us and man would have us believe otherwise. Man, who has taken pieces out of the bodies God has formed and manipulated them to form children in wombs otherwise barren- believe that it is they who are the author of life, they are the creators of life, they are the ones who have formed that baby in the womb- not God. They couldn't be more wrong. They DID NOT create that egg, they DID NOT create that seed. God allowed them the knowledge of joining them together but it is GOD who forms the child from those manipulated elements. All too often there are MANY manipulated elements that are supposed to take and NEVER do. God forms man- God formed the first man and God will form the very last man.
Deu 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Deu 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Isa 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isa 44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Isa 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Psa 119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
The God who formed us, the God who created us, the God who willed us into being can give us understanding. We need understanding if we are to learn of God's commandments. God's wondrous commandments, His law of the purest love upon which we all are called to live. Our natural self will not want understanding, it will not want to learn of God's commandments. Satan doesn't want us to have understanding of God's commandments. Satan knows that when we truly understand God's commandments that we'll understand the amazing love He has for us and that is the last thing the evil one wants us to understand. God can give us understanding, we, like David, must desire that understanding, we must ask for that understanding. We MUST ask knowing that it is God who formed us, God who created us and only God who can open our hearts. We must choose God in spite of all the sensual fleshy ways our natural man would have us focus on ourselves and NOT God.
Psa 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Psa 119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
No one alive today, no one who lived in the past has ever seen the earth destroyed, they've never seen the sun destroyed, they've never seen the sun not set, the sun not rise, the moon not show its many phases, the seasons never change, the ocean lose it's ebb and flow, the majestic mountains fall to nothing, the stars no longer guiding. All these things, all these undeniable and set forces were created to be that way and only arrogant man has decided they just came into existence by pure chance. God created all these things and they serve God! Yet man would have them be gods, foolish, foolish man.
Psa 119:97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Can you even begin to imagine meditating upon God's law all day? We're lucky if we can even think of God's law for a moment in a day let alone meditate upon it ALL day. The love of God's law is amazing. When we realize that it is by the law of God that we live, that we breathe, that we love how can we help but recognize the law in all we do? We've stripped the law of God's love away from our lives and put it on a pedestal or in a trash heap- either place has it's dangers because when we take the law of God out of our lives and make it inaccessible we've lost all the true meaning of God's law. When we consign the law to a trash heap and believe it no longer matters we've taken God out of life and substituted a false god for the true. God's law is love, God is love.
We lose the love of God that Jesus came to reveal to us in the flesh when we set the law aside- either making it too high to reach or too low to bother with.
Please God, you who fashioned us in the womb, you who knew us before we were born, help us to understand and learn Your amazing commandments. Help us to find the love in them that guides us every single day of our lives. You are revealed in Your law, Jesus lived Your law perfectly, let us not set aside something so incredibly important to our Savior- He did not come to destroy the law.
Open our hearts and our minds to You Lord, let the Holy Spirit come down and comfort us, teach us, help us in all ways.
All through Your grace!
Amen.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Man brought death into the world, not God.
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
KJV-
Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Mat 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Mat 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Young's Literal Translation-
Mat 5:21 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;
Mat 5:22 but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
Mat 5:23 `If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,
Mat 5:24 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.
International Standard Version-
Mat 5:21 "You have heard that it was said to those who lived long ago, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will be subject to punishment.'
Mat 5:22 But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother 'Raka!' will be subject to the Council. And whoever says 'You fool!' will be subject to hell fire.
Mat 5:23 "So if you are presenting your gift at the altar and remember there that your brother has something against you,
Mat 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and first go and be reconciled to your brother. Then come and offer your gift.
Did Jesus negate this commandment- Thou shalt not kill - ? NO.
People everywhere generally agree this is an acceptable commandment. How do you dispute it, really? Everyone knows murder is inherently wrong- right?
Purposely taking away life.
Recently we had to put our beloved cat to sleep and I'd never had to do anything like that before, and it was so heartbreaking. Did we murder our cat? This is a question that has reared its ugly little head and not for me alone, but for other members of my family. We purposely ended our cat's life. One moment he was alive and the next he was dead all because of our actions. We console ourselves over and over again with the fact it was done purely out of mercy for the cat, he had no real quality of life left and was having numerous problems as he was wasting away to nothing. It was merciful, truly merciful and it would have been selfish of us to keep him alive in the condition he was in. Was it murder though? No. We did not senselessly take the life of our precious cat.
In the above Jesus talks about how it is not only a sin to murder but it's a sin to be angry WITHOUT cause. It's a sin to be filled with rage, and to slander others, just as sinful as murder. Seriously. We've spent so much time labeling sins and degrees of sinning that we tend to overlook the very real fact that the wages of any sin- is death. Outrageous, you cry?! Unfair, you scream?! A tiny sin shouldn't warrant death, only the gravest of sins should to that. You know whose thinking that is? Man's, not God's. Man loves to excuse sin rather than confess and repent of it. Mankind loves to deem sin acceptable so they no longer have to feel the weight of their sin. That little white lie you told a few days ago, well it warrants death whether you want to face that fact or not. We can jail every single murderer we come across - we can condemn every single murderer- but we dare not choose to be deceived into thinking that our non-murderous sins are going to warrant us eternal life and the freedom that affords. While a murderer might be locked up in a cell and become labeled as being a sinner for life, we need to examine our own lives closely because we are ALL labeled sinners. We are all jailed in Satan's prison and condemned to eternal death, to be wiped out of existence forever. Only Jesus can pardon us and set us free, only Jesus can save us and remove the label 'sinner' from us.
Murder will forever be wrong and never be acceptable even is it's sanctioned by the highest court. Taking another person's life, ripping from them that which God gave to them is no one's right. Some people love to point out that God sanctioned a lot of murder, that He's a murderous hypocrite of a God. How often throughout the old testament was God fine with having His people take the lives of many? He ordered His people to destroy the godless-- those ONLY He could ever know would never be His, something WE have no way of knowing.
Never did a single person die under God's command out of murder. Never! People can try all they want to convince me otherwise, but I won't believe them. Murder goes against everything God stands for, everything. Yes, people were allowed to die but it was their own eternal decision that allowed for that result.
If we want to get technical - couldn't those people who claim God is a murderer say that every single death is a murder by God? I know my sister has had a really hard time dealing with the death of her husband and I know she's blamed God and become angry at Him on many occasion, even though she truly does understand that all death is a result of the sin brought into this world by Satan, not God. God created man to live forever- every single human being was to live forever and ever and ever- it was man who chose to sin- it was man who chose to accept the penalty of death for that sin. God NEVER wanted man to experience death. All death is a result of that sin, and NOT GOD. We are BLESSED to have God who has created a way for us NOT to have to experience the second death, the permanent death.
Man brought death into the world.
Jesus brought life into the world.
Studying our God's loving commandments, His amazing, wondrous laws we know that none of them will ever be done away with, not a single one, murder included.
By the grace of God may we keep ALL our God's commandments.
May we realize that commandments encompass much more than just our actions- but our thoughts as well. If we are guilty we must confess and we must repent, choosing by the grace of God to sin no more.
All through His amazing LOVE!
Amen.
KJV-
Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Mat 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Mat 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Young's Literal Translation-
Mat 5:21 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;
Mat 5:22 but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.
Mat 5:23 `If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,
Mat 5:24 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.
International Standard Version-
Mat 5:21 "You have heard that it was said to those who lived long ago, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will be subject to punishment.'
Mat 5:22 But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother 'Raka!' will be subject to the Council. And whoever says 'You fool!' will be subject to hell fire.
Mat 5:23 "So if you are presenting your gift at the altar and remember there that your brother has something against you,
Mat 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and first go and be reconciled to your brother. Then come and offer your gift.
Did Jesus negate this commandment- Thou shalt not kill - ? NO.
People everywhere generally agree this is an acceptable commandment. How do you dispute it, really? Everyone knows murder is inherently wrong- right?
Purposely taking away life.
Recently we had to put our beloved cat to sleep and I'd never had to do anything like that before, and it was so heartbreaking. Did we murder our cat? This is a question that has reared its ugly little head and not for me alone, but for other members of my family. We purposely ended our cat's life. One moment he was alive and the next he was dead all because of our actions. We console ourselves over and over again with the fact it was done purely out of mercy for the cat, he had no real quality of life left and was having numerous problems as he was wasting away to nothing. It was merciful, truly merciful and it would have been selfish of us to keep him alive in the condition he was in. Was it murder though? No. We did not senselessly take the life of our precious cat.
In the above Jesus talks about how it is not only a sin to murder but it's a sin to be angry WITHOUT cause. It's a sin to be filled with rage, and to slander others, just as sinful as murder. Seriously. We've spent so much time labeling sins and degrees of sinning that we tend to overlook the very real fact that the wages of any sin- is death. Outrageous, you cry?! Unfair, you scream?! A tiny sin shouldn't warrant death, only the gravest of sins should to that. You know whose thinking that is? Man's, not God's. Man loves to excuse sin rather than confess and repent of it. Mankind loves to deem sin acceptable so they no longer have to feel the weight of their sin. That little white lie you told a few days ago, well it warrants death whether you want to face that fact or not. We can jail every single murderer we come across - we can condemn every single murderer- but we dare not choose to be deceived into thinking that our non-murderous sins are going to warrant us eternal life and the freedom that affords. While a murderer might be locked up in a cell and become labeled as being a sinner for life, we need to examine our own lives closely because we are ALL labeled sinners. We are all jailed in Satan's prison and condemned to eternal death, to be wiped out of existence forever. Only Jesus can pardon us and set us free, only Jesus can save us and remove the label 'sinner' from us.
Murder will forever be wrong and never be acceptable even is it's sanctioned by the highest court. Taking another person's life, ripping from them that which God gave to them is no one's right. Some people love to point out that God sanctioned a lot of murder, that He's a murderous hypocrite of a God. How often throughout the old testament was God fine with having His people take the lives of many? He ordered His people to destroy the godless-- those ONLY He could ever know would never be His, something WE have no way of knowing.
Never did a single person die under God's command out of murder. Never! People can try all they want to convince me otherwise, but I won't believe them. Murder goes against everything God stands for, everything. Yes, people were allowed to die but it was their own eternal decision that allowed for that result.
If we want to get technical - couldn't those people who claim God is a murderer say that every single death is a murder by God? I know my sister has had a really hard time dealing with the death of her husband and I know she's blamed God and become angry at Him on many occasion, even though she truly does understand that all death is a result of the sin brought into this world by Satan, not God. God created man to live forever- every single human being was to live forever and ever and ever- it was man who chose to sin- it was man who chose to accept the penalty of death for that sin. God NEVER wanted man to experience death. All death is a result of that sin, and NOT GOD. We are BLESSED to have God who has created a way for us NOT to have to experience the second death, the permanent death.
Man brought death into the world.
Jesus brought life into the world.
Studying our God's loving commandments, His amazing, wondrous laws we know that none of them will ever be done away with, not a single one, murder included.
By the grace of God may we keep ALL our God's commandments.
May we realize that commandments encompass much more than just our actions- but our thoughts as well. If we are guilty we must confess and we must repent, choosing by the grace of God to sin no more.
All through His amazing LOVE!
Amen.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Grace that would come
1Pe 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you
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Prophets inquired.
Prophets searched diligently.
Prophets knew of the grace that would come.
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Gen 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Dan 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Zec 6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
Zec 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both
Mat 13:17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Act 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Heb 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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We've talked about this before- how in reality from Genesis to Revelation the Bible is a book of prophecy. Too many people believe that there are only small sections of prophecy in the Bible, they don't realize the entire book is filled with prophecy. Yes, there is wonderful history in the Bible, and a lot of that history involves prophetic messages.
Grace is promised to us. A reward is promised to us. Through faith we will receive this promise and we have to realize that almost ALL of the prophets, almost all of the holy men of God, those beloved of God have NOT received the promised reward. We want to believe they have, but in truth almost all of the beloved of God are dust, they went to their sleep and their breath of life returned to God. All of them will receive their reward when Christ returns- just as we will- THIS is TRUTH.
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1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
PREACHED the GOSPEL unto you with the Holy Ghost- SENT down from heaven- Which things angels desire to look into.
Angels desire to look into these things! We are so incredibly blessed. We've been given the gospel of the kingdom and the promise of the Holy Spirit. We are so blessed.
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1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ
We need to gird up the loins of our minds.
When a loin is girded it is protected.
We have to protect our minds.
We have to be sober.
We have to HOPE to the end for GRACE that is given to us when Jesus Christ is revealed to us.
Oh, please Lord, please help us to gird up the loins of our minds as we live in such a time that minds everywhere are kept unprotected.
Please Lord bless us, help us! We need You so desperately, we need the HOPE we can only find in You. We need the FAITH You provide! Please Lord, help us, bless us as we look forward towards YOU -revealed at YOUR second coming.
Thank you for Your amazing love, love that is everlasting.
In You Lord always.
Amen.
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Prophets inquired.
Prophets searched diligently.
Prophets knew of the grace that would come.
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Gen 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Dan 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Zec 6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
Zec 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both
Mat 13:17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Act 3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
Heb 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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We've talked about this before- how in reality from Genesis to Revelation the Bible is a book of prophecy. Too many people believe that there are only small sections of prophecy in the Bible, they don't realize the entire book is filled with prophecy. Yes, there is wonderful history in the Bible, and a lot of that history involves prophetic messages.
Grace is promised to us. A reward is promised to us. Through faith we will receive this promise and we have to realize that almost ALL of the prophets, almost all of the holy men of God, those beloved of God have NOT received the promised reward. We want to believe they have, but in truth almost all of the beloved of God are dust, they went to their sleep and their breath of life returned to God. All of them will receive their reward when Christ returns- just as we will- THIS is TRUTH.
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1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
PREACHED the GOSPEL unto you with the Holy Ghost- SENT down from heaven- Which things angels desire to look into.
Angels desire to look into these things! We are so incredibly blessed. We've been given the gospel of the kingdom and the promise of the Holy Spirit. We are so blessed.
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1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ
We need to gird up the loins of our minds.
When a loin is girded it is protected.
We have to protect our minds.
We have to be sober.
We have to HOPE to the end for GRACE that is given to us when Jesus Christ is revealed to us.
Oh, please Lord, please help us to gird up the loins of our minds as we live in such a time that minds everywhere are kept unprotected.
Please Lord bless us, help us! We need You so desperately, we need the HOPE we can only find in You. We need the FAITH You provide! Please Lord, help us, bless us as we look forward towards YOU -revealed at YOUR second coming.
Thank you for Your amazing love, love that is everlasting.
In You Lord always.
Amen.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Believing in the unseen is our Salvation.
1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
1Pe 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
We are KEPT by the POWER of GOD- through FAITH-unto salvation that will be revealed at Christ's second coming.
Whose power keeps us? GOD's!
How are we kept by God's power? Through FAITH!
What does being kept by God's power through faith bring- SALVATION.
We are NOT kept by our own power!
We have to BELIEVE and yet so many find it incredibly hard to believe, to have faith. They find it hard to believe in something they can't see. They find it hard to hope.
People call other people fools for believing in the unseen. They want to have that tangible proof so they aren't considered to be among the foolish. Yet we are called to have FAITH. We are called to believe in the unseen.
By faith we are to believe in God.
We are not to consider the things we see, the things we touch, the things we hear, the things we taste, the things we smell…gods. People worship the sun- something they see. People worship the moon- something they see. People worship other people- something they can see, touch, hear, and yes, taste and smell. People will worship just about anything as long as it is something they adore. People will worship- the act of worship more than God. Seriously, they will! They'll get all caught up in the motions of worship and lose sight of God's love.
God alone- our UNSEEN God- He alone is to be worshipped, He alone is the ONE we need to have FAITH in. That great leap of believing in the unseen, of having hope in the unseen is FAITH.
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1Pe 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations
In HEAVINESS through MANIFOLD TEMPTATIONS! This is the story of our lives is it not-- TEMPTATION!
And it is extreme heaviness of our spirit when we face temptation after temptation, seemingly endless temptations. We all know what it is like don't we? We who understand what sin is by seeing our sin in the light of God's law of love, can see clearly the sin in our world, in our lives and in the temptation to sin- it is so alive, so real, and so awful.
1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
The TRIAL of our FAITH! Yes, there is a TRIAL of our FAITH! Faith isn't something simple, our faith is tried as we are tempted and it's tried often and always. And yes, our FAITH is more precious than gold.
We who are found faithful will be ready for our Savior when He returns!
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory
We LOVE Him even though we can't see Him.
We have FAITH and we rejoice with JOY UNSPEAKABLE!
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
The end of our believing in the unseen is our SALVATION!
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All by the grace of God!
In His love!
Amen.
1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
1Pe 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
We are KEPT by the POWER of GOD- through FAITH-unto salvation that will be revealed at Christ's second coming.
Whose power keeps us? GOD's!
How are we kept by God's power? Through FAITH!
What does being kept by God's power through faith bring- SALVATION.
We are NOT kept by our own power!
We have to BELIEVE and yet so many find it incredibly hard to believe, to have faith. They find it hard to believe in something they can't see. They find it hard to hope.
People call other people fools for believing in the unseen. They want to have that tangible proof so they aren't considered to be among the foolish. Yet we are called to have FAITH. We are called to believe in the unseen.
By faith we are to believe in God.
We are not to consider the things we see, the things we touch, the things we hear, the things we taste, the things we smell…gods. People worship the sun- something they see. People worship the moon- something they see. People worship other people- something they can see, touch, hear, and yes, taste and smell. People will worship just about anything as long as it is something they adore. People will worship- the act of worship more than God. Seriously, they will! They'll get all caught up in the motions of worship and lose sight of God's love.
God alone- our UNSEEN God- He alone is to be worshipped, He alone is the ONE we need to have FAITH in. That great leap of believing in the unseen, of having hope in the unseen is FAITH.
*******
1Pe 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations
In HEAVINESS through MANIFOLD TEMPTATIONS! This is the story of our lives is it not-- TEMPTATION!
And it is extreme heaviness of our spirit when we face temptation after temptation, seemingly endless temptations. We all know what it is like don't we? We who understand what sin is by seeing our sin in the light of God's law of love, can see clearly the sin in our world, in our lives and in the temptation to sin- it is so alive, so real, and so awful.
1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
The TRIAL of our FAITH! Yes, there is a TRIAL of our FAITH! Faith isn't something simple, our faith is tried as we are tempted and it's tried often and always. And yes, our FAITH is more precious than gold.
We who are found faithful will be ready for our Savior when He returns!
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory
We LOVE Him even though we can't see Him.
We have FAITH and we rejoice with JOY UNSPEAKABLE!
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
The end of our believing in the unseen is our SALVATION!
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All by the grace of God!
In His love!
Amen.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Open my eyes!
Psa 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Wondrous things.
When we think of wondrous things rarely do we think of finding anything wondrous in the law, right? Seriously, how often do people equate wondrous things with the law? In my limited experience, not often.
When we talk of having our eye opened what are we REALLY asking for? Understanding, comprehension, the ability to learn, to know all that we need to know.
People think it's as simple as reading- comprehending, but how often do we read something without fully understanding what it is saying?
Why would David want his eyes opened to understand a law that was plain to understand? A lot of Do's and Don't's, right. Do this, don't do that, what's so hard to understand? Yet David wanted to have his understanding opened even further, David wanted to behold all that the law had to reveal. He wanted to understand the AMAZING things the law was saying. He wanted to understand more than the simple do's and don't's. Why? Because there is so much more to understand.
If we, by the grace of God, by the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit are blessed with full comprehension of God's law what a miracle that is. Understanding the wonder of the law, understanding the love of the law.
If we can find even one of the ten great commandments that is no longer valid then we are ripping apart the fabric of God's love. We've already talked about how Jesus kept the law perfectly not transgressing in a single point and this gave Him the right to be our Savior, to save us from our sins, to save us from our transgressions against the law of God. Without that law of God's to keep there is no sin.
Remember, Adam and Eve were commanded NOT to eat of that one tree. They broke that command and the result was sin.
The law of God is wondrous and we NEED our understanding open so we can see this wonder, so we can see the amazing love in the law. We aren't to make up our own laws and call them good, yet many people do that, they create their own versions of God's law and they believe as long as they live up to their own set standards everything will be just fine. The very unfortunate thing about creating our own standards is we base them on our sinful nature, not God's pure perfect nature.
We have to understand that we are CREATURES! I'll say it time and time again, over and over and over because it is so true and it's as if we turn our minds from God a few moments from now after reading this and we quickly forget- WE ARE CREATURES! We were CREATED. We will FOREVER be created beings, owing our very existence to our Creator. Just as we are to honor our mother and father- those who have given us life by their joining - two becoming one so that we could be created, we are to honor our heavenly Father who gave life to us all by giving life to our first parents. Life givers- life from created beings, there is an honor due to those who create life- though nowadays you would scarcely know it. We so easily get abortions - scraping newly created life from our bodies as if that life that was created meant absolutely nothing at all. The fact you yourself are alive and able to create life is the only miracle you need to fully comprehend in order to realize how truly amazing it is to be able to create life. People just don't want to understand, Satan has blinded them into believing they are their own person in need of NO god, in fact they themselves have become gods because they now know what good and evil are. In being gods themselves they have the right to deny life, to destroy life. Too many people are completely caught up in believing they have the RIGHT to be their own gods. They live their lives under that assumption and have NO need of God or His laws.
Once again I'm going to refer to the book- 'Mere Christianity', the book starts out explaining HOW it is that there is a natural law in existence and it leads into how there had to be a Creator of what we call a natural law. It's so worth reading if you haven't read it yet.
More tomorrow on the commandments of God. May our eyes be opened just as David prayed that His eyes be opened, may we pray the same and by the grace of God may it be so that we behold wondrous things out of His law!
All to the glory of God!
Amen.
Wondrous things.
When we think of wondrous things rarely do we think of finding anything wondrous in the law, right? Seriously, how often do people equate wondrous things with the law? In my limited experience, not often.
When we talk of having our eye opened what are we REALLY asking for? Understanding, comprehension, the ability to learn, to know all that we need to know.
People think it's as simple as reading- comprehending, but how often do we read something without fully understanding what it is saying?
Why would David want his eyes opened to understand a law that was plain to understand? A lot of Do's and Don't's, right. Do this, don't do that, what's so hard to understand? Yet David wanted to have his understanding opened even further, David wanted to behold all that the law had to reveal. He wanted to understand the AMAZING things the law was saying. He wanted to understand more than the simple do's and don't's. Why? Because there is so much more to understand.
If we, by the grace of God, by the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit are blessed with full comprehension of God's law what a miracle that is. Understanding the wonder of the law, understanding the love of the law.
If we can find even one of the ten great commandments that is no longer valid then we are ripping apart the fabric of God's love. We've already talked about how Jesus kept the law perfectly not transgressing in a single point and this gave Him the right to be our Savior, to save us from our sins, to save us from our transgressions against the law of God. Without that law of God's to keep there is no sin.
Remember, Adam and Eve were commanded NOT to eat of that one tree. They broke that command and the result was sin.
The law of God is wondrous and we NEED our understanding open so we can see this wonder, so we can see the amazing love in the law. We aren't to make up our own laws and call them good, yet many people do that, they create their own versions of God's law and they believe as long as they live up to their own set standards everything will be just fine. The very unfortunate thing about creating our own standards is we base them on our sinful nature, not God's pure perfect nature.
We have to understand that we are CREATURES! I'll say it time and time again, over and over and over because it is so true and it's as if we turn our minds from God a few moments from now after reading this and we quickly forget- WE ARE CREATURES! We were CREATED. We will FOREVER be created beings, owing our very existence to our Creator. Just as we are to honor our mother and father- those who have given us life by their joining - two becoming one so that we could be created, we are to honor our heavenly Father who gave life to us all by giving life to our first parents. Life givers- life from created beings, there is an honor due to those who create life- though nowadays you would scarcely know it. We so easily get abortions - scraping newly created life from our bodies as if that life that was created meant absolutely nothing at all. The fact you yourself are alive and able to create life is the only miracle you need to fully comprehend in order to realize how truly amazing it is to be able to create life. People just don't want to understand, Satan has blinded them into believing they are their own person in need of NO god, in fact they themselves have become gods because they now know what good and evil are. In being gods themselves they have the right to deny life, to destroy life. Too many people are completely caught up in believing they have the RIGHT to be their own gods. They live their lives under that assumption and have NO need of God or His laws.
Once again I'm going to refer to the book- 'Mere Christianity', the book starts out explaining HOW it is that there is a natural law in existence and it leads into how there had to be a Creator of what we call a natural law. It's so worth reading if you haven't read it yet.
More tomorrow on the commandments of God. May our eyes be opened just as David prayed that His eyes be opened, may we pray the same and by the grace of God may it be so that we behold wondrous things out of His law!
All to the glory of God!
Amen.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Hide God's Word in Your Heart
Psa 119:4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
We are COMMANDED to keep God's precepts.
Psa 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psa 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
We will NOT be ashamed when we have RESPECT unto ALL God's COMMANDMENTS.
Psa 119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
There is RIGHTEOUSNESS in God's judgments.
Psa 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
We MUST keep God's statutes.
Psa 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
How do we cleanse our ways? Yes, this verse says 'young man' but in truth don’t we ALL need to cleanse our ways?
We cleanse our ways by TAKING HEED to God's word.
Psa 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Seeking God with our whole heart, not half heartedly, but with our whole heart. By NOT wandering from God's commandments!
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Hiding God's word in our HEARTS keeps us from SINNING against God.
Psa 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
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So many people want to be God's but they do not want to listen to God at all. They want to make up a fantasy God, someone they can worship on their own terms, not God's terms. It's true, all too true and people give that fantasy God of theirs just enough of the real God's attributes that they convince themselves He's the real thing. In truth Satan loves when we worship gods of our own creation. He loves when we piece our own God together using bits and pieces of what we deem acceptable. As long as we don't take it too far everything is okay we assume, when that is far from the truth. Yes, the God of our own making might not want us to steal, but he's okay with a little harmless taking where we are quick to assume that the other person won't mind at all- besides everyone does it don't they? And our god might not mind if we covet a little bit because hey, everyone does that too it's in our natures and why should we repent of our nature it's not our fault we were born this way, right? And think about it, a touch of lying isn't so wrong, right? Harmless stuff that hurts no one that is perfectly fine, in fact it might be quite helpful for us and for others to sometimes lie to them, for them, about them. We tell ourselves God understands, and we have to believe it don’t we or how else could we live with our corrupt lives? When we hold our lives up to the light of God's righteousness, when we allow ourselves to believe in God, the REAL God, we truly see how unrighteous we are and how much we need to repent. We see the filth of our sins in the light and purity of God's righteousness and we can't help but be appalled with ourselves. We'd much rather make up a god who accepts our sinning than believe in a God who calls us to account for our sins as plentiful as they are, as horrific as they are. When we understand our sinning we are called to - GO and SIN NO MORE. And the problem with that is we want to sin more so we try to hide from God's commandments, we try to lessen those commandments, to bend them, to mold them, to shape them into something we like and when we do that we are sinning grievously.
We have to HIDE God's words in our HEARTS, not change God's words!
We have to believe that by keeping God's words in our hearts that we are protected by God, because we ARE!
When we sin we need to repent.
When we sin we need to feel the remorse for that sin, not an acceptance.
When we sin we need to understand the gravity of the sin NOT ignore it, NOT accept it, NOT try to make it something it isn't.
Sin is the transgression of the law. GOD'S LAW!
Sin is worthy of death.
We are worthy of death.
Jesus Christ our Savior did NOT transgress God's law! This is where Jesus is WORTHY of life everlasting.
To say Jesus was sinless is to say that Jesus kept God's law perfectly.
Why do people forget that? Why do they ignore that part? Why? Because they do NOT want to believe there even is a law to keep. They'd rather believe there no longer exists a law as if Jesus did away with it by keeping it perfectly. As if that law were the sword in the stone and He alone could pull it out leaving a sword there no longer. God's law remains and will remain until heaven and earth are GONE! If God's law remains then we live in the light of that law and that light reveals our sinfulness.
Before ANYONE begins to believe I think that our keeping the law perfectly will save us, I don't. I believe only our Savior was capable of keeping the law perfectly. We however through Him, by His grace, by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS can keep the law. By clinging to HIM and allowing the Holy Spirit to live within us, we can live as He lived. Only HE saves us! We have to stand in the light of the law and do so without any excuses for our failings. We need to let our filthiness be revealed so that we can REPENT, so that we can ask for forgiveness, so that we can cling to Christ our Savior! If we for even a moment believe we are clean of sin by some act of our own we are heaping filth upon ourselves. Only Christ can clean us, but we must stand in all our filthiness before God and NOT hide as sin often makes us want to do.
Remember Adam and Eve after sinning, their first act was to hide from God. We cannot HIDE from God! We cannot put up a false God in place of God because when we do that we are lost, completely lost.
Let's NOT create a false god whose commandments are changeable as the wind blowing every which way. Let's NOT hide from the truth. Let's NOT throw away God's Commandments.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Let us HIDE God's word in our hearts so that we might NOT sin against Him!
All through His grace, all through His righteousness, all through His amazing LOVE!
Amen.
We are COMMANDED to keep God's precepts.
Psa 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psa 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
We will NOT be ashamed when we have RESPECT unto ALL God's COMMANDMENTS.
Psa 119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
There is RIGHTEOUSNESS in God's judgments.
Psa 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
We MUST keep God's statutes.
Psa 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
How do we cleanse our ways? Yes, this verse says 'young man' but in truth don’t we ALL need to cleanse our ways?
We cleanse our ways by TAKING HEED to God's word.
Psa 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Seeking God with our whole heart, not half heartedly, but with our whole heart. By NOT wandering from God's commandments!
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Hiding God's word in our HEARTS keeps us from SINNING against God.
Psa 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
*******
So many people want to be God's but they do not want to listen to God at all. They want to make up a fantasy God, someone they can worship on their own terms, not God's terms. It's true, all too true and people give that fantasy God of theirs just enough of the real God's attributes that they convince themselves He's the real thing. In truth Satan loves when we worship gods of our own creation. He loves when we piece our own God together using bits and pieces of what we deem acceptable. As long as we don't take it too far everything is okay we assume, when that is far from the truth. Yes, the God of our own making might not want us to steal, but he's okay with a little harmless taking where we are quick to assume that the other person won't mind at all- besides everyone does it don't they? And our god might not mind if we covet a little bit because hey, everyone does that too it's in our natures and why should we repent of our nature it's not our fault we were born this way, right? And think about it, a touch of lying isn't so wrong, right? Harmless stuff that hurts no one that is perfectly fine, in fact it might be quite helpful for us and for others to sometimes lie to them, for them, about them. We tell ourselves God understands, and we have to believe it don’t we or how else could we live with our corrupt lives? When we hold our lives up to the light of God's righteousness, when we allow ourselves to believe in God, the REAL God, we truly see how unrighteous we are and how much we need to repent. We see the filth of our sins in the light and purity of God's righteousness and we can't help but be appalled with ourselves. We'd much rather make up a god who accepts our sinning than believe in a God who calls us to account for our sins as plentiful as they are, as horrific as they are. When we understand our sinning we are called to - GO and SIN NO MORE. And the problem with that is we want to sin more so we try to hide from God's commandments, we try to lessen those commandments, to bend them, to mold them, to shape them into something we like and when we do that we are sinning grievously.
We have to HIDE God's words in our HEARTS, not change God's words!
We have to believe that by keeping God's words in our hearts that we are protected by God, because we ARE!
When we sin we need to repent.
When we sin we need to feel the remorse for that sin, not an acceptance.
When we sin we need to understand the gravity of the sin NOT ignore it, NOT accept it, NOT try to make it something it isn't.
Sin is the transgression of the law. GOD'S LAW!
Sin is worthy of death.
We are worthy of death.
Jesus Christ our Savior did NOT transgress God's law! This is where Jesus is WORTHY of life everlasting.
To say Jesus was sinless is to say that Jesus kept God's law perfectly.
Why do people forget that? Why do they ignore that part? Why? Because they do NOT want to believe there even is a law to keep. They'd rather believe there no longer exists a law as if Jesus did away with it by keeping it perfectly. As if that law were the sword in the stone and He alone could pull it out leaving a sword there no longer. God's law remains and will remain until heaven and earth are GONE! If God's law remains then we live in the light of that law and that light reveals our sinfulness.
Before ANYONE begins to believe I think that our keeping the law perfectly will save us, I don't. I believe only our Savior was capable of keeping the law perfectly. We however through Him, by His grace, by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS can keep the law. By clinging to HIM and allowing the Holy Spirit to live within us, we can live as He lived. Only HE saves us! We have to stand in the light of the law and do so without any excuses for our failings. We need to let our filthiness be revealed so that we can REPENT, so that we can ask for forgiveness, so that we can cling to Christ our Savior! If we for even a moment believe we are clean of sin by some act of our own we are heaping filth upon ourselves. Only Christ can clean us, but we must stand in all our filthiness before God and NOT hide as sin often makes us want to do.
Remember Adam and Eve after sinning, their first act was to hide from God. We cannot HIDE from God! We cannot put up a false God in place of God because when we do that we are lost, completely lost.
Let's NOT create a false god whose commandments are changeable as the wind blowing every which way. Let's NOT hide from the truth. Let's NOT throw away God's Commandments.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Let us HIDE God's word in our hearts so that we might NOT sin against Him!
All through His grace, all through His righteousness, all through His amazing LOVE!
Amen.
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