WE HAVE A GOD OF PEACE THAT WILL DO THIS,
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
UNDERSTANDING
BE A FRIEND OF GOD, LIVE IN PEACE WITH EVERYONE. BREAK DOWN THE BRIDGE OF HATING YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FIND PEACE AND UNITY WITH YOURSELF AND GOD. BE A FRIEND OF GOD, LIVE IN PEACE. THE WORLD IS ALREADY COMPLICATED AND CRUEL, MAKE A DIFFERENCE, LIVE IN UNITY AND PER-SUE PEACE.
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PRISONER
Love yourself regardless of tight situation. In your daily trials, thing love and forgiveness. Never be a prisoner of self. Live free by doing good and your goodness will set you free. Do not go to bed carrying someone that you dislike in your heart, forgive and move on and you will live free from hating your brother or sister.
UNITY
UNITY AMONG OURSELVES IS MORE THAN BLESSINGS. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:
Psalm 133
A song of ascents. Of David.
1 How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!
2 It is like precious oil poured on the head,
running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
down on the collar of his robe.
3 It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the Lord bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.
A clean heart brings about unity and great peace that passeth all understanding. God bless you, lets come together as one.
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Psalm 133
A song of ascents. Of David.
1 How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!
2 It is like precious oil poured on the head,
running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
down on the collar of his robe.
3 It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the Lord bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.
A clean heart brings about unity and great peace that passeth all understanding. God bless you, lets come together as one.
IT IS SUCH A BLESSING WHEN WE LIVE IN PEACE.
Friday, February 27, 2015
PRAYER AND WORSHIP
All things are possible with God!
Start the new year with prayer and worship.
We are inviting you to join us in prayer and worship every Friday night @ 9: p.m.
Starting tonight. Prayer and worship praise line- (712) 775 70 31
ID 496 786 733
Praise Leader, Shepherd Taylor- sign in and believing, leave receiving. Experience the love of God through prayer and worship. All things are possible with God!
Start the new year with prayer and worship.
We are inviting you to join us in prayer and worship every Friday night @ 9: p.m.
Starting tonight. Prayer and worship praise line- (712) 775 70 31
ID 496 786 733
Praise Leader, Shepherd Taylor- sign in and believing, leave receiving. Experience the love of God through prayer and worship. All things are possible with God!
Thursday, February 26, 2015
GOD KNOWS YOUR WORKS
LETTER TO THE CHURCHES FROM JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING
GOD- HE KNOWS YOUR WORKS AND OTHER TRICKS… PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING VERSES:
14 But I have
a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine
of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of
Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
(Revelation 2: 1-14
GOD IS OUR REFUGE
God is our refuge in time of trouble. He fights against our enemies and deliver us from them all.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
HEALING AND MERCY
GOD CAN HELP YOU TO FIGHT YOUR SICKNESS. CRIED OUT TO HIM IN MEEKNESS AND HE WILL ANSWER YOU IN MERCY. READ ABOUT JOB. SEE JOB 1 AND 42. LET ME TELL YOU ALL THIS, THERE IS A GOD THAT ANSWERS PRAYER, TRY HIM AND LET ME KNOW THAT HE IS REAL.
JOB RESTORATION BY GOD
WITH JOB OR ANYONE ELSE, GOD'S TIME IS NOT OUR TIME, HE DOES WHAT PLEASES HIM. TODAY I WOULD LIKE YOU TO READ ABOUT JOB, GOD, SATAN AND JOBS' FRIENDS; AS FOLLOWS:
Chapter 10: The God of Grace (Job 42:7-17)
An epic story needs a fitting last chapter. Conflict needs resolution. Character development calls for evaluation. Life values cry out for examination. All of these elements are included in the last chapter of Job. There are those literary critics and theological skeptics, however, who question its conclusion because God is pictured as sovereign and Job repents to enjoy a long and contented life. They say it portrays too many moral absolutes and too much unrealistic hope in this world.
If there were a film version today of Job's story it would look very different. For example, Job might be played by Jim Carey, to give it humor, or Brad Pitt, to give it box office appeal. The voice of God might be Morgan Freeman, to give God a homey feel or Nicole Kidman, to give God a warm sensitive feminine touch. The final scenes of Job would reflect Hollywood's twist on culture and religion. The visual effects of the whirlwind would overpower the message. Job would either remain alone, weeping without resolution on the trash heap as the scene fades away and the subtitles wiz by or he would become disenchanted with his faith, recover at a convent, divorce his wife, take up a homosexual lifestyle with his three friends, and pour his life into becoming rich again. The audience would decide for itself which ending it prefers.
However, the Bible offers a much different conclusion. It brings resolution to knowing God, it calls for evaluation of our values, and it cries out for further examination of Christ. It is an ending unlike stories written today. God is supreme, man is subservient, and life is hopeful. It is one of the earliest biblical books to illustrate God's redemptive plan. This epic true-life story ends with a magnificent portrait of God's grace.
A Look Back to Look Forward
A quick review of Job might be helpful. This poetic saga begins with God's announced pleasure in Job as a blameless, upright, God-fearing man. He enjoyed the blessing of God on his life. He was considered the greatest of men of the East. Not only did he have unparalleled wealth, but a godly family. As the family priest he would intercede for each of his children by offering burnt sacrifices on their birthdays in case any of them had sinned or cursed God. He was an example of faith and prosperity. All this was interrupted one day when Satan came before the Lord. Satan wagered Job would curse God if only God struck him with adversity. He reasoned that Job only loved and followed God because of what he got out of the relationship-prosperity. God consented to the challenge and permitted Satan to test Job's faith. With fiendish delight, Satan struck down all of Job's possessions by the use of evil men and natural catastrophes.
Then Satan created a great windstorm to strike down the house of Job's oldest son, causing the death of all of his ten children. When Job was informed of these catastrophes, he fell to the ground and worshipped God and said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" (Job 1:21). In spite of his grief, Job did not sin or curse God.
Once again, Satan came before the Lord, unconvinced of Job's faith. He asked to strike Job's health this time, still convinced that men believe and follow God only for what they get out of the relationship and not because they really love God. God allowed Satan to work his wiles, only he could not kill Job. Satan struck Job with a hideous and painful disease that caused puffy sores and lesions over all his body.
When Job's grief-stricken wife saw his plight, she urged him to curse God and die. Job, however, responded, "Shall we indeed accept good from God and shall we not accept adversity?" (Job 2:10). In spite of Job's suffering and pain, he did not sin or curse God throughout this whole epic saga, which continued for an undisclosed amount of time.
Later, three friends came to comfort him, but ended up discouraging and disheartening him. Job lamented his predicament because he was reminded by his friends that, "Good things happen to good people while bad things happen to bad people." They were adherents of "retribution theology," the faddish theology of the day. They maintained to the very end that Job must have committed some terrible secret sin or else he would not be in this adversity. Their focus was on God's justice against sinners and the efficaciousness of men's good works to find favor with God. Job argued for his relative innocence even though he admitted he was a sinner. He kept crying out for God to be just by giving him the chance to prove his innocence in the courts of heaven. He pleaded for an advocate to put one hand on his shoulder and the other on God's so that their differences could be worked out. He also prayed for a kinsman redeemer who would purchase his freedom from guilt and deliver him from his adversity.
After cycles of lamentations, God came to Job in a whirlwind. He did not answer Job's questions about his predicament, but rather spoke about His supremacy as "Creator God" over all things in heaven and earth. God asked Job questions only God could answer. Job's head swirled like a tornado, overwhelmed in God's presence. All he could say to God was, "Behold I am vile; I'll shut up and You speak" (Job 40:4). The Lord continued interrogating Job by explaining His mastery over the enmity of spiritual darkness.
When God completed His comments, Job was tongue-tied and spell-bound. In utter amazement of God's glory in the whirlwind responded, "I know that You can do everything, no purpose of Yours can be withheld from you" (Job 42:2). Then Job cried out to the Lord not for justice, but for mercy, "Therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:6).
What follows is the fitting conclusion to this epic story of "The God of the Whirlwind." It illustrates the theological basis for our understanding of God's grace and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God's Grace Calls
The God of grace calls sinners to repentance (Job 42:7-9). Remembering the nature of the God of the Whirlwind in this story is important. Because God is holy, His wrath is aroused against sin and sinners. And because God is holy and just, He must judge injustice and the unjust. But because God is love, He has chosen to save many by His grace.
The call of God from the whirlwind was to awaken Job to his unrighteousness (Job 42:7). Job had not sinned and cursed God, yet he still was a sinful earthling in need of God's grace. God's discourse with Job proved God was supreme over all things. Therefore, Job appropriately repented in dust and ashes. He threw a handful of dust and ashes up into the air admitting that God had created him from the dust of the earth and he was under the curse of sin deserving the fires of hell. It was a cry for God's mercy and grace.
God's pleasure in Job was His pleasure in Job's confession of his sin, and his cry for God's grace. God's pleasure, therefore, was not in anything inherently good in Job but in God's pleasure in reconciling sinners to Himself by grace. God would provide a kinsman redeemer who would reconcile and justify him before God. This was the purpose for the adversity and suffering, to bring him to realize God's grace. Satan's enmity accomplished God's good purpose for Job, demonstrating his need of God's mercy and grace. James, the brother of our Lord, realized this and said in James 5:11, "You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful." This is a fitting conclusion, says James, to the epic story of God's grace for Job and for us.
The call of God from the whirlwind was also given to Job's friends to awaken them to their unrighteousness and their need of God's grace (Job 42:7). Job had previously called them "forgers of lies" and "worthless physicians" (Job 13:10). He warned that God would surely rebuke them for their false accusations against him. As we see in this last chapter, God rebukes these false counselors and theologians, and affirmed Job to be His servant. They were experiencing, first hand, by watching and listening to God speak from the whirlwind that they too were aware His wrath was being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness towards those who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. (Romans 1:18). Their hard impenitent hearts were storing up for themselves God's wrath and God alone renders to each man according to his deeds. They had not admitted the deceitfulness of their hearts, which was thinking they had a righteousness of their own that merited favor with God (Romans 1:18; 2:5). They were sons of disobedience, and by nature, children of wrath (Ephesians 2:2-3). They were about to learn that the goodness of God leads sinners to repentance.
The well-worn path to reconciliation begins with "repentance". Christ began His earthly preaching ministry with this cry, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17). Repentance is a God-given capacity to sinners by which they desire and accept God's sovereign grace and willingly turn away from the sinful desires that corrupt and enslave. Those who admit that God formed them from the dust of the earth and they deserve the fires of hell, can and will call upon the Lord for His mercy and appropriate the sufficiency of His grace. The Spirit of God accomplishes this work in sinners. This was the end to which Job and his friends endured their days on the ash heap. This is the end to which all our trials and troubles are intended by God. God's grace, however, was not complete in Job until it resulted in forgiveness of others. We also learn about the means of God's grace that forgives sinners.
God's Grace Reconciles
The God of grace reconciles sinners by faith in His redemptive provision (Job 42:8-9). Job's friends were called to believe their reconciliation came only through faith in God's perfect sacrifice (Leviticus 23:18; Numbers 23:1). Even before Moses, burnt sacrifices were offered to the Lord for forgiveness of sin. Abel offered a blood sacrifice that pleased the Lord, as did Noah, Job, Balaam, Abraham and his sons. God commanded Job's friends to take for themselves seven bulls and rams as a sacrifice. The number seven represented God's perfect sacrifice. Their sacrifice was a type and shadow anticipating Christ's blood sacrifice on the cross.
Job's friends also were called to believe reconciliation came only through faith in God's prescribed intercessor (Job 16:19-21; cf. Isaiah 53:12; Matthew 4:44; 6:14-15; Ephesians 4:32). Irony was also at play in God's plan. Not only was Job affirmed in their eyes to be God's servant, but they were learning firsthand what Job had prayed for-the blessings of a kinsman redeemer (Job 16:19-21). Job had pleaded for an advocate to be his friend and reconciler before God. What Job and his friends did not fully understand was that Christ would be their kinsman redeemer, suffering servant, and Great High Priest.
On that day, God appointed Job to be his friends' servant and priest, to intercede for their sins as a portrait of Christ's great ministry for us. He was designated to offer intercessory prayer for them before they could be accepted. Christ's perfect blood sacrifice and His prayer still make intercession for transgressors. Not only was Job called upon to intercede for his enemies even as Christ intercedes for us, but he was also learning the power of grace (Isaiah 53:12). As a recipient of God's grace, he was called upon to forgive other sinners.
The power of grace is not compete until we learn to forgive others who have offended us. Ephesians 4:31-32 calls us to "be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave us." Those who claim to be repentant sinners who have called upon God's grace for forgiveness of their sins yet still bear grudges, harbor bitterness, and resist forgiveness, are disobedient Christians, forfeiting the power and sufficiency of God's grace. Christ put such a high priority upon forgiving others, He warned in Matthew 6:14-15, "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
Job was justified by faith alone in God's grace, but God's work of grace was not complete until he obeyed God and prayed for his enemies. Dangling bitterness and broken relationships are inconsistent with grace receivers. Jesus taught that we are to love and pray for our enemies because this is the appropriate response to being a recipient of God's grace, forgiving others. Job's friends went and did as the Lord said, for the Lord had accepted Job.
We are accepted by God because His Servant Son, Jesus Christ, is accepted by the Father as our only means of righteousness. Faith in Christ alone and His perfect sacrifice is the only way to find acceptance with God. When we pray, we have an advocate and Great High Priest in Christ who always makes intercession for us.
But wait! This epic story about the God of the whirlwind is not quite over. Not only is there reconciliation, but there is restoration with God.
God's Grace Restores
The God of grace restores justified sinners to Himself with manifold blessings (Job 42:10-17). Only after Job repented of his sin and interceded for the sins of his friends were God's blessings restored to him. We are not told but it is implied that Job's health was restored. We have come to realize that this is not always the case for every child of God who prays for healing. But God always restores justified sinners to Himself when they call upon His name. The manifold blessings awaiting the righteous are far greater than anything Job experienced this side of the veil.
But we are told God doubly blessed the latter days of Job with prosperity (Job 42:10-15). Even though he had enjoyed many friends in prosperity, in poverty he had none. Job attributed his loss of friends and relatives to the adversity God allowed in his life. "He [God] has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. My relatives have failed [could this include his wife?] and my close friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth. My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am repulsive to the children of my own body. Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. All my close friends abhor me, and those whom I love have turned against me" (Job 19:13-19).
We are not told if Job's wife was restored to him, but it is very likely. God can restore broken relationships that can never be mended by men. Wealth can buy many fair-weather friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother; that brother for Job was God Himself (cf. Proverbs 14:20; 19:4-7; 18:24). When everyone else walked away, God came along in a whirlwind. He never forsakes or abandons His own because He cannot forsake Himself. The man or woman of faith is God's pleasure because they are identified with God's infinite pleasure, His Beloved Son.
We are also told that God restored Job's material losses two-fold. We also learn that God gave to Job ten more children. Remember poor Job's wife who tempted him to curse God was now blessed with ten children-seven sons and three beautiful daughters! Their names represent the joy and blessing of God which was restored to Job. Jemimah means the "light of day," for God had brought light out Job's darkness. Keziah means "sweet cinnamon," because God made life sweet again. Keren-happuch today would be similar to the name "Maybeline" because she put "eye shadow" on her eyes to make herself beautiful. She was a constant reminder that God had brought beauty back into Job's life.
Some have wondered why God did not give Job twenty children, fourteen sons and six daughters. I offer two answers: First, the thought of giving birth to twenty children might have been all Job's wife needed again to tempt her spouse to curse God and die! But my simplest and best answer is that God did double Job's family-ten were already alive in heaven. Our family and friends who die in Christ are separated from us for just a little while. They are with Christ and they are enjoying eternal blessings far greater than anything they have known upon this sin-sick world.
Finally, we are informed that God doubly blessed the latter days of Job with longevity of life (Job 42:16-17). He enjoyed one hundred forty years of life, doubling his age of seventy which is when he was struck by Satan. One of the many joys of his old age was seeing "his children, grandchildren for four generations." Proverbs 17:6 certainly tells it right: "Children's children are the crown of old men".
On a personal note, I concur that grandkids are the joy of our latter years. I have wondered as I read Job if he continued his priestly duties, offering sacrifices for his kids and grandkids on their birthdays in case they had sinned or cursed God? Grandparents can have such a vital part in the life of their children and grandchildren. We can hug them, spoil and pray for them and then turn them back to their parents to discipline them because our kids deserve everything they did to us!
Job's epitaph reads that he "died old and full of days" (Proverbs 17:6). Job's trials and tribulations remind us that our love for God is not to be conditioned by prosperity. We are to love and trust God even in our adversity because He first loved us and entrusted us with His grace.
Conclusion
Job's story is really the story about the God of Grace in the whirlwind. It reveals His supremacy over all things, even working the evil intent of Satan and men to accomplish His good purposes. It teaches the majestic goodness and grace of God. It prepares us to recognize Christ as our Kinsman Redeemer who reconciles us to God. It gives us an appreciation of Christ's perfect sacrifice and intercessory ministry for us. It offers us hope-not just in the next world, but in this one as well.
2 Peter 1:2-4 is a fitting conclusion to Job: "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
I AM COMPEL TO POST THIS POST BECAUSE OF HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT OTHERS WHO WERE IN THEIR GLORY AND FALL
Chapter 10: The God of Grace (Job 42:7-17)
An epic story needs a fitting last chapter. Conflict needs resolution. Character development calls for evaluation. Life values cry out for examination. All of these elements are included in the last chapter of Job. There are those literary critics and theological skeptics, however, who question its conclusion because God is pictured as sovereign and Job repents to enjoy a long and contented life. They say it portrays too many moral absolutes and too much unrealistic hope in this world.
If there were a film version today of Job's story it would look very different. For example, Job might be played by Jim Carey, to give it humor, or Brad Pitt, to give it box office appeal. The voice of God might be Morgan Freeman, to give God a homey feel or Nicole Kidman, to give God a warm sensitive feminine touch. The final scenes of Job would reflect Hollywood's twist on culture and religion. The visual effects of the whirlwind would overpower the message. Job would either remain alone, weeping without resolution on the trash heap as the scene fades away and the subtitles wiz by or he would become disenchanted with his faith, recover at a convent, divorce his wife, take up a homosexual lifestyle with his three friends, and pour his life into becoming rich again. The audience would decide for itself which ending it prefers.
However, the Bible offers a much different conclusion. It brings resolution to knowing God, it calls for evaluation of our values, and it cries out for further examination of Christ. It is an ending unlike stories written today. God is supreme, man is subservient, and life is hopeful. It is one of the earliest biblical books to illustrate God's redemptive plan. This epic true-life story ends with a magnificent portrait of God's grace.
A Look Back to Look Forward
A quick review of Job might be helpful. This poetic saga begins with God's announced pleasure in Job as a blameless, upright, God-fearing man. He enjoyed the blessing of God on his life. He was considered the greatest of men of the East. Not only did he have unparalleled wealth, but a godly family. As the family priest he would intercede for each of his children by offering burnt sacrifices on their birthdays in case any of them had sinned or cursed God. He was an example of faith and prosperity. All this was interrupted one day when Satan came before the Lord. Satan wagered Job would curse God if only God struck him with adversity. He reasoned that Job only loved and followed God because of what he got out of the relationship-prosperity. God consented to the challenge and permitted Satan to test Job's faith. With fiendish delight, Satan struck down all of Job's possessions by the use of evil men and natural catastrophes.
Then Satan created a great windstorm to strike down the house of Job's oldest son, causing the death of all of his ten children. When Job was informed of these catastrophes, he fell to the ground and worshipped God and said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" (Job 1:21). In spite of his grief, Job did not sin or curse God.
Once again, Satan came before the Lord, unconvinced of Job's faith. He asked to strike Job's health this time, still convinced that men believe and follow God only for what they get out of the relationship and not because they really love God. God allowed Satan to work his wiles, only he could not kill Job. Satan struck Job with a hideous and painful disease that caused puffy sores and lesions over all his body.
When Job's grief-stricken wife saw his plight, she urged him to curse God and die. Job, however, responded, "Shall we indeed accept good from God and shall we not accept adversity?" (Job 2:10). In spite of Job's suffering and pain, he did not sin or curse God throughout this whole epic saga, which continued for an undisclosed amount of time.
Later, three friends came to comfort him, but ended up discouraging and disheartening him. Job lamented his predicament because he was reminded by his friends that, "Good things happen to good people while bad things happen to bad people." They were adherents of "retribution theology," the faddish theology of the day. They maintained to the very end that Job must have committed some terrible secret sin or else he would not be in this adversity. Their focus was on God's justice against sinners and the efficaciousness of men's good works to find favor with God. Job argued for his relative innocence even though he admitted he was a sinner. He kept crying out for God to be just by giving him the chance to prove his innocence in the courts of heaven. He pleaded for an advocate to put one hand on his shoulder and the other on God's so that their differences could be worked out. He also prayed for a kinsman redeemer who would purchase his freedom from guilt and deliver him from his adversity.
After cycles of lamentations, God came to Job in a whirlwind. He did not answer Job's questions about his predicament, but rather spoke about His supremacy as "Creator God" over all things in heaven and earth. God asked Job questions only God could answer. Job's head swirled like a tornado, overwhelmed in God's presence. All he could say to God was, "Behold I am vile; I'll shut up and You speak" (Job 40:4). The Lord continued interrogating Job by explaining His mastery over the enmity of spiritual darkness.
When God completed His comments, Job was tongue-tied and spell-bound. In utter amazement of God's glory in the whirlwind responded, "I know that You can do everything, no purpose of Yours can be withheld from you" (Job 42:2). Then Job cried out to the Lord not for justice, but for mercy, "Therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:6).
What follows is the fitting conclusion to this epic story of "The God of the Whirlwind." It illustrates the theological basis for our understanding of God's grace and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God's Grace Calls
The God of grace calls sinners to repentance (Job 42:7-9). Remembering the nature of the God of the Whirlwind in this story is important. Because God is holy, His wrath is aroused against sin and sinners. And because God is holy and just, He must judge injustice and the unjust. But because God is love, He has chosen to save many by His grace.
The call of God from the whirlwind was to awaken Job to his unrighteousness (Job 42:7). Job had not sinned and cursed God, yet he still was a sinful earthling in need of God's grace. God's discourse with Job proved God was supreme over all things. Therefore, Job appropriately repented in dust and ashes. He threw a handful of dust and ashes up into the air admitting that God had created him from the dust of the earth and he was under the curse of sin deserving the fires of hell. It was a cry for God's mercy and grace.
God's pleasure in Job was His pleasure in Job's confession of his sin, and his cry for God's grace. God's pleasure, therefore, was not in anything inherently good in Job but in God's pleasure in reconciling sinners to Himself by grace. God would provide a kinsman redeemer who would reconcile and justify him before God. This was the purpose for the adversity and suffering, to bring him to realize God's grace. Satan's enmity accomplished God's good purpose for Job, demonstrating his need of God's mercy and grace. James, the brother of our Lord, realized this and said in James 5:11, "You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful." This is a fitting conclusion, says James, to the epic story of God's grace for Job and for us.
The call of God from the whirlwind was also given to Job's friends to awaken them to their unrighteousness and their need of God's grace (Job 42:7). Job had previously called them "forgers of lies" and "worthless physicians" (Job 13:10). He warned that God would surely rebuke them for their false accusations against him. As we see in this last chapter, God rebukes these false counselors and theologians, and affirmed Job to be His servant. They were experiencing, first hand, by watching and listening to God speak from the whirlwind that they too were aware His wrath was being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness towards those who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. (Romans 1:18). Their hard impenitent hearts were storing up for themselves God's wrath and God alone renders to each man according to his deeds. They had not admitted the deceitfulness of their hearts, which was thinking they had a righteousness of their own that merited favor with God (Romans 1:18; 2:5). They were sons of disobedience, and by nature, children of wrath (Ephesians 2:2-3). They were about to learn that the goodness of God leads sinners to repentance.
The well-worn path to reconciliation begins with "repentance". Christ began His earthly preaching ministry with this cry, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17). Repentance is a God-given capacity to sinners by which they desire and accept God's sovereign grace and willingly turn away from the sinful desires that corrupt and enslave. Those who admit that God formed them from the dust of the earth and they deserve the fires of hell, can and will call upon the Lord for His mercy and appropriate the sufficiency of His grace. The Spirit of God accomplishes this work in sinners. This was the end to which Job and his friends endured their days on the ash heap. This is the end to which all our trials and troubles are intended by God. God's grace, however, was not complete in Job until it resulted in forgiveness of others. We also learn about the means of God's grace that forgives sinners.
God's Grace Reconciles
The God of grace reconciles sinners by faith in His redemptive provision (Job 42:8-9). Job's friends were called to believe their reconciliation came only through faith in God's perfect sacrifice (Leviticus 23:18; Numbers 23:1). Even before Moses, burnt sacrifices were offered to the Lord for forgiveness of sin. Abel offered a blood sacrifice that pleased the Lord, as did Noah, Job, Balaam, Abraham and his sons. God commanded Job's friends to take for themselves seven bulls and rams as a sacrifice. The number seven represented God's perfect sacrifice. Their sacrifice was a type and shadow anticipating Christ's blood sacrifice on the cross.
Job's friends also were called to believe reconciliation came only through faith in God's prescribed intercessor (Job 16:19-21; cf. Isaiah 53:12; Matthew 4:44; 6:14-15; Ephesians 4:32). Irony was also at play in God's plan. Not only was Job affirmed in their eyes to be God's servant, but they were learning firsthand what Job had prayed for-the blessings of a kinsman redeemer (Job 16:19-21). Job had pleaded for an advocate to be his friend and reconciler before God. What Job and his friends did not fully understand was that Christ would be their kinsman redeemer, suffering servant, and Great High Priest.
On that day, God appointed Job to be his friends' servant and priest, to intercede for their sins as a portrait of Christ's great ministry for us. He was designated to offer intercessory prayer for them before they could be accepted. Christ's perfect blood sacrifice and His prayer still make intercession for transgressors. Not only was Job called upon to intercede for his enemies even as Christ intercedes for us, but he was also learning the power of grace (Isaiah 53:12). As a recipient of God's grace, he was called upon to forgive other sinners.
The power of grace is not compete until we learn to forgive others who have offended us. Ephesians 4:31-32 calls us to "be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave us." Those who claim to be repentant sinners who have called upon God's grace for forgiveness of their sins yet still bear grudges, harbor bitterness, and resist forgiveness, are disobedient Christians, forfeiting the power and sufficiency of God's grace. Christ put such a high priority upon forgiving others, He warned in Matthew 6:14-15, "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
Job was justified by faith alone in God's grace, but God's work of grace was not complete until he obeyed God and prayed for his enemies. Dangling bitterness and broken relationships are inconsistent with grace receivers. Jesus taught that we are to love and pray for our enemies because this is the appropriate response to being a recipient of God's grace, forgiving others. Job's friends went and did as the Lord said, for the Lord had accepted Job.
We are accepted by God because His Servant Son, Jesus Christ, is accepted by the Father as our only means of righteousness. Faith in Christ alone and His perfect sacrifice is the only way to find acceptance with God. When we pray, we have an advocate and Great High Priest in Christ who always makes intercession for us.
But wait! This epic story about the God of the whirlwind is not quite over. Not only is there reconciliation, but there is restoration with God.
God's Grace Restores
The God of grace restores justified sinners to Himself with manifold blessings (Job 42:10-17). Only after Job repented of his sin and interceded for the sins of his friends were God's blessings restored to him. We are not told but it is implied that Job's health was restored. We have come to realize that this is not always the case for every child of God who prays for healing. But God always restores justified sinners to Himself when they call upon His name. The manifold blessings awaiting the righteous are far greater than anything Job experienced this side of the veil.
But we are told God doubly blessed the latter days of Job with prosperity (Job 42:10-15). Even though he had enjoyed many friends in prosperity, in poverty he had none. Job attributed his loss of friends and relatives to the adversity God allowed in his life. "He [God] has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. My relatives have failed [could this include his wife?] and my close friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth. My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am repulsive to the children of my own body. Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me. All my close friends abhor me, and those whom I love have turned against me" (Job 19:13-19).
We are not told if Job's wife was restored to him, but it is very likely. God can restore broken relationships that can never be mended by men. Wealth can buy many fair-weather friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother; that brother for Job was God Himself (cf. Proverbs 14:20; 19:4-7; 18:24). When everyone else walked away, God came along in a whirlwind. He never forsakes or abandons His own because He cannot forsake Himself. The man or woman of faith is God's pleasure because they are identified with God's infinite pleasure, His Beloved Son.
We are also told that God restored Job's material losses two-fold. We also learn that God gave to Job ten more children. Remember poor Job's wife who tempted him to curse God was now blessed with ten children-seven sons and three beautiful daughters! Their names represent the joy and blessing of God which was restored to Job. Jemimah means the "light of day," for God had brought light out Job's darkness. Keziah means "sweet cinnamon," because God made life sweet again. Keren-happuch today would be similar to the name "Maybeline" because she put "eye shadow" on her eyes to make herself beautiful. She was a constant reminder that God had brought beauty back into Job's life.
Some have wondered why God did not give Job twenty children, fourteen sons and six daughters. I offer two answers: First, the thought of giving birth to twenty children might have been all Job's wife needed again to tempt her spouse to curse God and die! But my simplest and best answer is that God did double Job's family-ten were already alive in heaven. Our family and friends who die in Christ are separated from us for just a little while. They are with Christ and they are enjoying eternal blessings far greater than anything they have known upon this sin-sick world.
Finally, we are informed that God doubly blessed the latter days of Job with longevity of life (Job 42:16-17). He enjoyed one hundred forty years of life, doubling his age of seventy which is when he was struck by Satan. One of the many joys of his old age was seeing "his children, grandchildren for four generations." Proverbs 17:6 certainly tells it right: "Children's children are the crown of old men".
On a personal note, I concur that grandkids are the joy of our latter years. I have wondered as I read Job if he continued his priestly duties, offering sacrifices for his kids and grandkids on their birthdays in case they had sinned or cursed God? Grandparents can have such a vital part in the life of their children and grandchildren. We can hug them, spoil and pray for them and then turn them back to their parents to discipline them because our kids deserve everything they did to us!
Job's epitaph reads that he "died old and full of days" (Proverbs 17:6). Job's trials and tribulations remind us that our love for God is not to be conditioned by prosperity. We are to love and trust God even in our adversity because He first loved us and entrusted us with His grace.
Conclusion
Job's story is really the story about the God of Grace in the whirlwind. It reveals His supremacy over all things, even working the evil intent of Satan and men to accomplish His good purposes. It teaches the majestic goodness and grace of God. It prepares us to recognize Christ as our Kinsman Redeemer who reconciles us to God. It gives us an appreciation of Christ's perfect sacrifice and intercessory ministry for us. It offers us hope-not just in the next world, but in this one as well.
2 Peter 1:2-4 is a fitting conclusion to Job: "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
I AM COMPEL TO POST THIS POST BECAUSE OF HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT OTHERS WHO WERE IN THEIR GLORY AND FALL
Sunday, February 22, 2015
DELIVER ME LORD
DO GOOD MY FRIENDS IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. ANYTHING THAT YOU DO IS COMING BACK TO TERRORIZE YOU. READ THIS PSALM AND IF YOU ARE THE PERSON WHO LIKES TO DO EVIL, MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, TURN FOR EVIL AND DO GOOD.
PLEASE READ,
O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
8 The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. ( PSALM 7).
MAY THE ANGEL OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PROTECT YOU ALWAYS. PEOPLE OF GOD, I LOVE YOU.
PLEASE READ,
O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
8 The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. ( PSALM 7).
MAY THE ANGEL OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PROTECT YOU ALWAYS. PEOPLE OF GOD, I LOVE YOU.
CHANGE LIVES IN JAMAICA
CHANGE LIVES IN JAMAICA WEST INDIES-GIVE BACK TOUR COMMUNITY.
I TRULY CAN SAY MOST JAMAICANS HOLD THREE OR FOUR JOBS, GIVE ONE TO YOUR COMMUNITY. FIGURE-OUT THE ESSENTIAL THINGS THAT YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS AND FIX IT. GIVE AND IT WILL-COMES BACK TO YOU.
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU JAMAICANS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO ARE WILLING TO GIVING BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY. GOD BLESS THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO GIVE BACK, MAY HE PROVIDE FOR YOU THAT SOMEDAY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE BACK.
GOD BLESS YOU.
I TRULY CAN SAY MOST JAMAICANS HOLD THREE OR FOUR JOBS, GIVE ONE TO YOUR COMMUNITY. FIGURE-OUT THE ESSENTIAL THINGS THAT YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS AND FIX IT. GIVE AND IT WILL-COMES BACK TO YOU.
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU JAMAICANS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO ARE WILLING TO GIVING BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY. GOD BLESS THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO GIVE BACK, MAY HE PROVIDE FOR YOU THAT SOMEDAY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE BACK.
GOD BLESS YOU.
Friday, February 20, 2015
BE STRESS FREE- SING
Do you want to live stress free? sing your way out of stress, pray, read your bible and dance your way out of anything that is making you unhappy. Never allow your emotion to put you in bondage. IF YOU CANNOT SING, GET YOURSELF cds that makes you happy, play them, sing along, dance and pray. My Lord, if you follow these instructions, your whole will be changed.
In fact, there are many nice songs and hymns on my blog that you could listen to.
God bless you and live bless in the Lord, he is able to heal your broken heart.
In fact, there are many nice songs and hymns on my blog that you could listen to.
God bless you and live bless in the Lord, he is able to heal your broken heart.
OVERCOME TROUBLE WITH LAUGHTER
Laughter is better than any medicine in the world- it gives you freedom of mind, pain free, and disease free. Practice yourself to laugh and observe the sorrow that drops from your spirit. Laughter is like free running rives into the sea that never full. read, "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." (Ecclesiastes 1: 7)
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With laughter, your life will never dried up-it will be like the sea around the world.
With laughter, your life will never dried up-it will be like the sea around the world.
GOD LOVES YOU AND BLESSES YOU ALWAYS. OVERCOME YOUR TROUBLE WITH LAUGHTER. THE BEST MEDICINE.
LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
With all my traveling experiences, I must say, God bless America, my home sweet home. She may be facing some issues, but i can truly say, she stands out in the world of opportunity for everyone who are willing to work and achieve his or her goal. Opportunity is knocking at your door, take it now- America, you are abundantly blessssssssssssss.
I appreciate you.
I appreciate you.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
SATAN LOOKING FOR MOSES' BODY
Do you know that Satan is looking for Moses's body? Read the following scripture.
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.( Jude 1).
Satan wants strong spirit such as Moses to use against God's people because he knew that Mose spoke with God face to face on Mount Sinai. Now if he can get Moses' body I believe many of those who still not believe in Jesus would follow Satan, because he would use Mose as true prophet against God, in his ways of destroying souls. .This is why no one knows where Mose buried???????
People the coming of the Lord is at hand, seek a hiding place for your soul and do not be confined to this world. It has nothing to offer us, other that crimes, shame, and violence.
Read and understand, Jesus loves you.
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.( Jude 1).
Satan wants strong spirit such as Moses to use against God's people because he knew that Mose spoke with God face to face on Mount Sinai. Now if he can get Moses' body I believe many of those who still not believe in Jesus would follow Satan, because he would use Mose as true prophet against God, in his ways of destroying souls. .This is why no one knows where Mose buried???????
People the coming of the Lord is at hand, seek a hiding place for your soul and do not be confined to this world. It has nothing to offer us, other that crimes, shame, and violence.
Read and understand, Jesus loves you.
GOD TRUTH AND EVERY MAN A LIAR
My brothers and sisters, this is the word of God, feed on it. Now read your Bible verses for the morning.
Job 40:8
"Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
Psalm 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
Psalm 116:11
in my alarm I said, "Everyone is a liar."
Luke 20:16
He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!"
Romans 3:6
Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
Romans 3:7
Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
Romans 3:31
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
1 Timothy 3:16
Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.
Treasury of Scripture
God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
God forbid.
Romans 3:6,31 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world…
Romans 6:2,15 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein…
Romans 7:7,13 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not …
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 11:1,11 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also …
Luke 20:16 He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard …
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I …
Take care of your body, it is belonging to Jesus Christ. Love the Lord your God who created you with a healthy the praise.
God bless you.
Job 40:8
"Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
Psalm 51:4
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
Psalm 116:11
in my alarm I said, "Everyone is a liar."
Luke 20:16
He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!"
Romans 3:6
Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?
Romans 3:7
Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
Romans 3:31
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
1 Timothy 3:16
Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.
Treasury of Scripture
God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
God forbid.
Romans 3:6,31 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world…
Romans 6:2,15 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein…
Romans 7:7,13 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not …
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 11:1,11 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also …
Luke 20:16 He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard …
1 Corinthians 6:15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I …
Take care of your body, it is belonging to Jesus Christ. Love the Lord your God who created you with a healthy the praise.
God bless you.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
CORRUPTIONS
God is against fighting and hate.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allow content or satisfaction. Sinful desires and affections stop prayer, and the working of our desires toward God. And let us beware that we do not abuse or misuse the mercies received, by the disposition of the heart when prayers are granted When men ask of God prosperity, they often ask with wrong aims and intentions. If we thus seek the things of this world, it is just in God to deny them. Unbelieving and cold desires beg denials; and we may be sure that when prayers are rather the language of lusts than of graces, they will return empty. Here is a decided warning to avoid all criminal friendships with this world. Worldly-mindedness is enmity to God. An enemy may be reconciled, but enmity never can be reconciled. A man may have a large portion in things of this life, and yet be kept in the love of God; but he who sets his heart upon the world, who will conform to it rather than lose its friendship, is an enemy to God. So that any one who resolves at all events to be upon friendly terms with the world, must be the enemy of God. Did then the Jews, or the loose professors of Christianity, think the Scripture spake in vain against this worldly-mindedness? or does the Holy Spirit who dwells in all Christians, or the new nature which he creates, produce such fruit? Natural corruption shows itself by envying. The spirit of the world teaches us to lay up, or lay out for ourselves, according to our own fancies; God the Holy Spirit teaches us to be willing to do good to all about us, as we are able. The grace of God will correct and cure the spirit by nature in us; and where he gives grace, he gives another spirit than that of the world. The proud resist God: in their understanding they resist the truths of God; in their will they resist the laws of God; in their passions they resist the providence of God; therefore, no wonder that God resists the proud. How wretched the state of those who make God their enemy! God will give more grace to the humble, because they see their need of it, pray for it are thankful for it, and such shall have it. Submit to God, ver. 7. Submit your understanding to the truth of God; submit your wills to the will of his precept, the will of his providence. Submit yourselves to God, for he is ready to do you good. If we yield to temptations, the devil will continually follow us; but if we put on the whole armour of God, and stand out against him, he will leave us. Let sinners then submit to God, and seek his grace and favour; resisting the devil. All sin must be wept over; here, in godly sorrow, or, hereafter, in eternal misery. And the Lord will not refuse to comfort one who really mourns for sin, or to exalt one who humbles himself before him.
Pulpit Commentary
Verses 1-12. - REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3. closed. Verse 1. - Whence wars and whence fightings among you? The second "whence" (πόθεν) is omitted in the Received Text, after K, L, Syriac, and Vulgate; but it is supported by א, A, B, C, the Coptic, and Old Latin. Wars... fightings (πόλεμοι...μάχαι). To what is the reference? Μάχαι occurs elsewhere in the New Testament only in 2 Corinthians 7:5, "Without were fightings, within were fears;" and 2 Timothy 2:23; Titus 3:9, in both of which passages it refers to disputes and questions. It is easy, therefore, to give it the same meaning here. Πόλμοι, elsewhere in the New Testament, as in the LXX., is always used of actual warfare. In behalf of its secondary meaning, "contention," Grimm ('Lexicon of New Testament Greek') appeals to Sophocles, 'Electra,' 1. 219, and Plato, 'Phaed.,' p. 66, c. But it is better justified by Clement of Rome, § 46, Ινα τί ἔρεις καὶ θυμοὶ καὶ διχοστσασίαι καὶ σχίσματα πόλεμος τε ἐν ὑῖν - a passage which has almost the nature of a commentary upon St. James's language. There is then no need to seek an explanation of the passage in the outbreaks and insurrections which were so painfully common among the Jews. Lusts (ἡδονῶν); R.V., "pleasures." "An unusual sense of ἡδοναί, hardly distinguishable from ἐπιθυμίαι, in fact taken up by ἐπιθυμεῖτε (Alford). With the expression, "that war in your members," comp. 1 Peter 2:11, "Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul." Ver. 2 gives us an insight into the terrible difficulties with which the apostles had to contend. Those to whom St. James was writing were guilty of lust, which actually led to murder. So the charge in 1 Peter 4:15 evidently presupposes the possibility of a professing Christian suffering as a murderer or thief. Ye kill. The marginal rendering "envy" supplies a remarkable instance of a false reading once widely adopted, although resting simply on conjecture
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
4:1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allow content or satisfaction. Sinful desires and affections stop prayer, and the working of our desires toward God. And let us beware that we do not abuse or misuse the mercies received, by the disposition of the heart when prayers are granted When men ask of God prosperity, they often ask with wrong aims and intentions. If we thus seek the things of this world, it is just in God to deny them. Unbelieving and cold desires beg denials; and we may be sure that when prayers are rather the language of lusts than of graces, they will return empty. Here is a decided warning to avoid all criminal friendships with this world. Worldly-mindedness is enmity to God. An enemy may be reconciled, but enmity never can be reconciled. A man may have a large portion in things of this life, and yet be kept in the love of God; but he who sets his heart upon the world, who will conform to it rather than lose its friendship, is an enemy to God. So that any one who resolves at all events to be upon friendly terms with the world, must be the enemy of God. Did then the Jews, or the loose professors of Christianity, think the Scripture spake in vain against this worldly-mindedness? or does the Holy Spirit who dwells in all Christians, or the new nature which he creates, produce such fruit? Natural corruption shows itself by envying. The spirit of the world teaches us to lay up, or lay out for ourselves, according to our own fancies; God the Holy Spirit teaches us to be willing to do good to all about us, as we are able. The grace of God will correct and cure the spirit by nature in us; and where he gives grace, he gives another spirit than that of the world. The proud resist God: in their understanding they resist the truths of God; in their will they resist the laws of God; in their passions they resist the providence of God; therefore, no wonder that God resists the proud. How wretched the state of those who make God their enemy! God will give more grace to the humble, because they see their need of it, pray for it are thankful for it, and such shall have it. Submit to God, ver. 7. Submit your understanding to the truth of God; submit your wills to the will of his precept, the will of his providence. Submit yourselves to God, for he is ready to do you good. If we yield to temptations, the devil will continually follow us; but if we put on the whole armour of God, and stand out against him, he will leave us. Let sinners then submit to God, and seek his grace and favour; resisting the devil. All sin must be wept over; here, in godly sorrow, or, hereafter, in eternal misery. And the Lord will not refuse to comfort one who really mourns for sin, or to exalt one who humbles himself before him.
Pulpit Commentary
Verses 1-12. - REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3. closed. Verse 1. - Whence wars and whence fightings among you? The second "whence" (πόθεν) is omitted in the Received Text, after K, L, Syriac, and Vulgate; but it is supported by א, A, B, C, the Coptic, and Old Latin. Wars... fightings (πόλεμοι...μάχαι). To what is the reference? Μάχαι occurs elsewhere in the New Testament only in 2 Corinthians 7:5, "Without were fightings, within were fears;" and 2 Timothy 2:23; Titus 3:9, in both of which passages it refers to disputes and questions. It is easy, therefore, to give it the same meaning here. Πόλμοι, elsewhere in the New Testament, as in the LXX., is always used of actual warfare. In behalf of its secondary meaning, "contention," Grimm ('Lexicon of New Testament Greek') appeals to Sophocles, 'Electra,' 1. 219, and Plato, 'Phaed.,' p. 66, c. But it is better justified by Clement of Rome, § 46, Ινα τί ἔρεις καὶ θυμοὶ καὶ διχοστσασίαι καὶ σχίσματα πόλεμος τε ἐν ὑῖν - a passage which has almost the nature of a commentary upon St. James's language. There is then no need to seek an explanation of the passage in the outbreaks and insurrections which were so painfully common among the Jews. Lusts (ἡδονῶν); R.V., "pleasures." "An unusual sense of ἡδοναί, hardly distinguishable from ἐπιθυμίαι, in fact taken up by ἐπιθυμεῖτε (Alford). With the expression, "that war in your members," comp. 1 Peter 2:11, "Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul." Ver. 2 gives us an insight into the terrible difficulties with which the apostles had to contend. Those to whom St. James was writing were guilty of lust, which actually led to murder. So the charge in 1 Peter 4:15 evidently presupposes the possibility of a professing Christian suffering as a murderer or thief. Ye kill. The marginal rendering "envy" supplies a remarkable instance of a false reading once widely adopted, although resting simply on conjecture
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
CHRISTIANS DUTY
THIS IS OUR DUTY AS CHRISTIANS:
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
(Matthew 28:19-20King James Version (KJV)
We were not sent into this world to be looking rich and beautiful, we were sent here to seek souls for the kingdom of God. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture, and we need to live as we are claiming to be in the Christian Rim...
I love you, live bless.
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
(Matthew 28:19-20King James Version (KJV)
We were not sent into this world to be looking rich and beautiful, we were sent here to seek souls for the kingdom of God. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture, and we need to live as we are claiming to be in the Christian Rim...
I love you, live bless.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
SEX
Sex is emotion but Jesus is salvation. Sex is for a moment, but Jesus is everlasting. Chose today, sex or salvation that will bring you to life everlasting.?
EVERLASTING LIFE
JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE;FEED ON HIM AND YOU WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
THE WORD OF THE LORD AS FOLLOWS:
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.(John 6: 33-38
In everything Jesus is our role model. He told us he is the only bread of life that is able to lead us to heaven and gives us everlasting life.
God bless you, feed on this bread.
THE WORD OF THE LORD AS FOLLOWS:
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.(John 6: 33-38
In everything Jesus is our role model. He told us he is the only bread of life that is able to lead us to heaven and gives us everlasting life.
God bless you, feed on this bread.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
LOVE GOD OR HATE HIM
GOD SAID, " IF YOU ARE NOT WITH HIM, YOU ARE AGAINST HIM"
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
11:14-26 Christ's thus casting out the devils, was really the destroying of their power. The heart of every unconverted sinner is the devil's palace, where he dwells, and where he rules. There is a kind of peace in the heart of an unconverted soul, while the devil, as a strong man armed, keeps it. The sinner is secure, has no doubt concerning the goodness of his state, nor any dread of the judgment to come. But observe the wonderful change made in conversion. The conversion of a soul to God, is Christ's victory over the devil and his power in that soul, restoring the soul to its liberty, and recovering his own interest in it and power over it. All the endowments of mind of body are now employed for Christ. Here is the condition of a hypocrite. The house is swept from common sins, by a forced confession, as Pharaoh's; by a feigned contrition, as Ahab's; or by a partial reformation, as Herod's. The house is swept, but it is not washed; the heart is not made holy. Sweeping takes off only the loose dirt, while the sin that besets the sinner, the beloved sin, is untouched. The house is garnished with common gifts and graces. It is not furnished with any true grace; it is all paint and varnish, not real nor lasting. It was never given up to Christ, nor dwelt in by the Spirit. Let us take heed of resting in that which a man may have, and yet come short of heaven. The wicked spirits enter in without any difficulty; they are welcomed, and they dwell there; there they work, there they rule. From such an awful state let all earnestly pray to be delivered.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 23. - He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. Our Lord here is referring to the exorcists, and contrasting their imperfect work with his, showing how hopeless a task it was to attempt to combat the evil one and his satellites apart from him - Christ. It is particularly to be noticed that Jesus neither here nor elsewhere charges these with imposture. Pretence and ridiculous spells and incantations were doubtless constantly mixed up with their attempts to exorcise; indeed, the term used to describe them in Acts 19:13 is one of contempt; but Jesus assumes in his argument here, what was no doubt the fact, that in these cases there was often, in the person of the physician-exorcist, earnestness and prayer mingled with the deepest pity for the unhappy sufferer, and before these there is no doubt that, in the less severe cases of possession, the evil influence or spirit yielded, and for a time at least let go his victim. "See," said the Master, "he that is not with me is against me in this dire conflict against evil;" for these would-be exorcists were utterly unable, even in those instances where they expelled the devil, to render him powerless to do mischief for the future. "My power sent these dread beings to the abyss, there to wait. The would-be exorcists were unable to replace the hellish tenant which they expelled by another and a holier influence. I bring back the once-tormented soul to its old relations with its God-Friend, and replace the unclean spirit by the Holy Spirit." He goes on to say -
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
He that is not with me, is against me,.... Our Lord does not mean one, that was not personally with him; for there might be some, and doubtless were many, who were not in person with him, and yet were not against him, but friends to him, and to his interest; nor one that was not a professed disciple of his, or not a follower of him, and his apostles; for there were some who called themselves John's disciples, and did not attend on Christ, and yet were not against him, but cast out devils in his name; and such an one perhaps was he, that is made mention of in Mark 9:38 on occasion of whom, Christ there says some words, which may seem at first view, not so well to accord with these: but such are intended, who acted a neutral part between him and the Pharisees; who could bear to hear them accuse him of casting out devils by the prince of devils, and be easy at it: and such persons are condemned, who can hear all manner of blasphemy against the deity, sonship, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ, and express no indignation at it; these, as they cannot be said to be with Christ, may be truly ranked among those that are against him:
and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth; whoever did not encourage persons to attend on the ministry of Christ, which was confirmed by such miracles the Pharisees spoke so reproachfully and contemptuously of, were reckoned by Christ as such, who were the means of hindering persons gathering unto him; as well as those who menaced and excommunicated them for so doing: the allusion is either to the gathering of the sheep into the fold, and the scattering of them by the wolf; or to the gathering of the wheat, and binding it in sheaves, and bringing it home in harvest; and to the scattering of the wheat loose in the field, whereby it is lost, and comes to nothing; See Gill on Matthew 12:30.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
23. gathereth … scattereth—referring probably to gleaners. The meaning seems to be, Whatever in religion is disconnected from Christ comes to nothing.
Luke 11:23 Additional Commentaries
EVERLASTING COVENANT
20 Now
the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting
covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13: 20-21
TRUST IN THE LORD AND FEAR NO ONE. BE BOLD LIKE A LION IN EVERYTHING YOU DO. GOD ALONE SHALL YOU FEAR...
Read the following,
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. ( Hebrews 13: 6-13
My brothers and sisters,please live peaceful and comfortable with everyone.
God bless you.
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13: 20-21
TRUST IN THE LORD AND FEAR NO ONE. BE BOLD LIKE A LION IN EVERYTHING YOU DO. GOD ALONE SHALL YOU FEAR...
Read the following,
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. ( Hebrews 13: 6-13
My brothers and sisters,please live peaceful and comfortable with everyone.
God bless you.
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