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Is God the Executioner?

firstly let a list be made of what some would call counter-statements. In reality they are not and cannot be counter-statements for there is...

Saturday, May 19, 2012

The Functions of the Moral Law

The law points out sin and convicts of sin. (romans 3:20; 7:7; 1 John 3:4)

The law is the schoolmaster to drive the sinner to Christ (Galatians 3:24)

The law witnesses that the righteousness a believer has in Christ Jesus is the genuine article (romans 3:21,22)

The law of God cannot make a person righteous because it is weak through the flesh. (romans 8:2) Our Lord came in the likeness
or sameness of sinful flesh (nature) and for sin condemned sin in the flesh. The 10 commandments cannot make a person
righteous that is the work of God based on the merits of Jesus.

The book of Job

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:2

It was generally believed by the Jews that sin is punished in this life. Every affliction was regarded as the penalty of some wrongdoing,
 either of the sufferer himself or of his parents. It is true that all suffering results from the transgression of God's law, 
but this truth had become perverted. Satan, the author of sin and all its results, had led men to look upon disease and death as proceeding from God,
--as punishment arbitrarily inflicted on account of sin. Hence one upon whom some great affliction or calamity had fallen had the additional burden 
of being regarded as a great sinner. {DA 471.1}

Thus the way was prepared for the Jews to reject Jesus. He who "hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows" 
was looked upon by the Jews as "stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted;" and they hid their faces from Him. Isa. 53:4, 3. {DA 471.2}

God had given a lesson designed to prevent this. The history of Job had shown that suffering is inflicted by Satan,
 and is overruled by God for purposes of mercy. But Israel did not understand the lesson. 
The same error for which God had reproved the friends of Job was repeated by the Jews in their rejection of Christ. {DA 471.3}


Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Man's Ways

For man's anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires]. (James 1:20 AMP)

8 And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand and go meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover from this disease? 9 So Hazael went to meet Elisha and took a present with him of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel loads, and came and stood before him and said, Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, asking, Shall I recover from this disease? 10 And Elisha said, Go, say to him, You shall certainly recover; but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die. 11 Elisha stared steadily at him until Hazael was embarrassed. And the man of God wept. 12 And Hazael said, Why do you weep, my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the Israelites.  You will burn their strongholds, slay their young men with the sword, dash their infants in pieces, and rip up their pregnant women. 13 And Hazael said, What is your servant, only a dog, that he should do this monstrous thing? And Elisha answered,
The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Syria. 14 Then [Hazael] departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And he answered, He told me you would surely recover. 15 But the next day Hazael took the bedspread and dipped it in water and spread it on [the Syrian king's] face, so that he died. And Hazael reigned in his stead. 16 In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel,  Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. (2 Kings 8:8 AMP)



The patience of God has an object, but you are defeating it. He is allowing a state of things to come that you would fain see counteracted by and by,but it will be too late. God commanded Elijah to anoint the cruel and deceitful Hazael king over Syria, that he might be a scourge to idolatrous Israel. Who knows whether God will not give you up to the deceptions you love? Who knows but that the preachers who are faithful, firm,
and true may be the last who shall offer the gospel of peace to our unthankful churches? It may be that the destroyers are already training under the hand of Satan and only wait the departure of a few more standard-bearers to take their places, and with the voice of the false prophet cry, Peace, peace," when the Lord hath not spoken peace. I seldom weep, but now I find my eyes blinded with tears; they are falling upon my paper as I write. It may be that erelong all prophesyings among us will be at an end, and the voice which has stirred the people may no longer disturb their carnal slumbers. {5T 77.1}

When God shall work His strange work on the earth, when holy hands bear the ark no longer, woe will be upon the people. Oh, that thou hadst known, even thou, in this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace!
Oh, that our [BEGIN P.78] people may, as did Nineveh, repent with all their might and believe with all their heart, that God may turn away His fierce anger from them. {5T 77.2}

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Character of God Books for Reading

These books go through the Character of God.

Feel free to read and share this important message for God's people.