Archive for July, 2014

THE ATTRIBUTES OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER

Friday, July 11th, 2014

AttributesWhen we look at the attributes of an earthly father (from Part 1), it is obvious that God ordained parents (and dads especially) to represent Him to His creation. There is a reason the first commandment with a promise – “Honor Your Father and Your Mother, your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you”. This commandment appears as the transition from the Commandments which are vertical and dealing solely with our relationship with Holy God, to the horizontal – re: our relationships with our fellow human beings.

The plan and purpose of God is for His created ones to obey their parents in reverence, so that we will reverence our Heavenly Father, in the same way. We know this has never been the case for most of humanity, even though it has been commanded. This does not change “conditions on the ground”, so to speak. The self-existent always alive Creator of the Universe is the same today, yesterday and tomorrow!

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DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Thursday, July 10th, 2014
psalm91_1-4The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen… (2 Timothy 4:18 ESV).
The popular cultural and societal notion is “there really is no evil” in this world. Even those in the liberal mainlines churches  refuse to come to terms that there is a devil – Satan – who is the accuser of the saints seeks to kill, steal and destroy. The atheist and the liberal deny the existence of evil for a simple reason. That reason is, to accept the existence of evil, one has to accept the existence of Good….and Who is Good? God is good!Those who are under the oppression of evil know it exists. They know it in the Christian towns of the Islamic Middle Eastern Countries, in Pakistan, throughout Africa where hordes are rampaging through Christian countries. The persecuted know that evil is not just those who suffered under Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Mao and Pol Pot.

To deny the existence of evil, and blame “society, or capitalism or democracy”, is easier than recognizing that our own sin opens us up to be brought down and put in spiritual bondage by evil.  This sort of thinking prevents many from coming to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and it remains an obstacle to most professing Christians, who accept the defeat of the devil. Both sets of people are outside of the Victory which God, through Christ, provides in the following:

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