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Truth Doesn’t Change – Part 3

06 Oct

We’re going to finish up on the truth doesn’t change.

Who is the truth?  God and Jesus are the truth as we have read the last couple of days.

I want to write on one of the most important promises that God has made that hasn’t changed and yet many in the church want to think He has.

Psalm 33:11- 11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

God doesn’t believe in replacement theology.  God didn’t make a plan to Israel only to change His mind.  He is faithful and we can count on Him to keep His word.

Malachi 3:6 – 6 “I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

In the last days God told Ezekiel that His promise would be fulfilled to Israel.

Ezekiel 37:21-23 – 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. 23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

God doesn’t change.  Man tries to change God.  God’s promises are truth and truth doesn’t change.

 
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Truth Doesn’t Change – Part 2

05 Oct

We’re sticking with a theme of Truth doesn’t change.

Who is the Truth?

John 14:6- 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

So now the question is does the Truth change?

Hebrews 13:8 – 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Jesus according to scripture doesn’t change.  We read yesterday that God doesn’t change, so not surprisingly that Jesus doesn’t change either.

John 10:30- 30 I and the Father are one.”

Political correctness is always changing.  What’s acceptable today won’t be tomorrow.  Why?  Because man is always changing his mind on what’s right or wrong.

Tomorrow we will finish up on the fact God and Truth do not change.

 
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Truth Doesn’t Change – Part 1

04 Oct

I’m going to do a few short posts using scripture that our God does not change when it comes to truth.  If someone repents such as Nineveh did he will hold off His wrath, but that was a condition of the warning from Jonah in the first place.

However God is not like man that he is wishy-washy or changes His mind or His truth.

Numbers 23:19 – 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.  Does he speak and then not act?  Does he promise and not fulfill?

One of the reasons I say this is because there are certain religions that will change their so called truths as time goes on.  If something isn’t viewed as politically correct a modern day prophet suddenly has a revelation and it changes it all.  However, does God say in His Word that it works that way?

1 Samuel 15:29 – 29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind.”

Pretty much another identical verse.  God doesn’t change His mind on His promises.  That’s one of the reasons we can trust Him.  We can take Him at His Word.

If God changed things around 180 degrees and something meant the opposite of what it did before, how would you know He wasn’t going to do it again?  Yet that happens today in the name of convenience for people.

Tomorrow we’ll carry on with this theme.

 
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Earthly Tent Will Soon Be Destroyed

30 Sep

2 Corinthians 5:1-5 – 1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

The truth is inevitable.  Our bodies are going to grow old and pass away.  Nobody has taken worldly goods with them.  They are still here. 

These are scientific facts, not faith.  Yet man still tries to find the fountain of youth and obtain riches in this temporary life. 

Why?

What’s neat about the Bible is it explains why.  It explains who we are as fallen creatures.  It explains what God expects and wants from us and that it takes His strength and spirit working through us to get it done.

The Bible is full of the words of life.  It is full of how to live and warnings of how not to live.  

Growing up in High School, many people strived for good grades.  They weren’t happy for just barely passing.  In the spiritual realm concerning their relationship with the one true God, just barely passing or getting a D- works just fine for them.

 We need to seek our Lord and all that He wants in our lives.  If we do our best we have a tendency to fall way short.  Just think how bad it is when we don’t try at all?

 
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Don’t Be Enticed

29 Sep

Proverbs 1:10-10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.

One thing we have to remember is we are all sinners and we can’t allow friends and family to sway us either from what’s right concerning the Word of God.  We always look at people we don’t know and hang around with, but they really aren’t going to entice you anyway.

Stand true to the One True God.  Nobody loves you more! 

 
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Quote – Dwight L Moody

25 Sep

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe.
Dwight L. Moody

 

Proverbs 2:6- 6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

The reason for spiritual blindness is no relationship with God.  When people don’t have God they don’t
have sound Wisdom.  Wisdom comes from the Lord.

 
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You Are God’s Temple

23 Sep

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 – 16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

God cares about His loved ones.  The Holy Spirit lives in us.  We need to keep the house as clean as we can.

He also cares when we are harmed.  The verse has strong words that state God will destroy those who destroy His temple.

Vengeance is the Lords to handle.

Romans 12:19- 19Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.  KJV

 
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The Sacrificial Lamb Of God

22 Sep

Genesis 22:6-8 – 6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

I’ve got to be honest.  The first few times I read over these passages I didn’t catch on to even 20 percent of the real meaning or understanding of them.

The first time I read these passages I thought, really?  God would even ask Abraham to sacrifice his son?  Give me a break this was after the first time I read it.  Then I realized and focused on the commitment of Abraham.  Then after a few more times and studies one realizes God would have never gone to the trouble to give a 90 year old woman and a 99 year old man a son only to have him slain.

The thing that took quite awhile to realize was that God had and always has a plan from the very beginning.

Let’s read verse eight again.

Genesis 22:8 – 8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

God indeed did offer His son for the sacrifice.  Amazingly a little further along in the chapter we read this:

Genesis 22:10-12 – 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the
LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

The Angel of the Lord?  That’s one of the terms for Jesus in the Old Testament before he came into the world in the virgin birth.  Jesus is actually speaking to Abraham not to hurt Isaac.  Pretty neat.

Who’s the Lamb of God?

John 1:29 – 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

That He did.  Jesus is the only way we are saved.  That closed mindedness is not popular in the world today.
The ones who don’t like to hear it are the same ones who want to do things their own way in the first place.
That’s how we got away from God originally.

God provided the way back.  In the form of the Son, He died on the cross.  What could man possibly do, or what is he thinking, that he can get back to God on his own?  He can’t.

Accept Jesus as your Savior and Lord and be saved for eternity with your King.

Revelation 19:9 –   9 Then the angel said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”

 
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Quote – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

18 Sep

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

Another reminder that actions speak louder than words.  If you keep telling someone you’ll do something and don’t you’re liar.  If you don’t do anything for someone you love, how much do you love them?  If you do everything for the benefit of yourself, who do you care about more?

When you stop doing things contradictary to God’s Word you are telling the Lord, I am going against my sinful natural nature because I love you.  

Love and obey because there is no other way to know the Lord. 

 
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A Lamp And A Light

04 Sep

Proverbs 6:23 – 23 For these commands are a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and the corrections of discipline
are the way to life,

 

Psalm 119:105 – 105 Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light for my path.

 

2 Peter 1:19 – 19 And we have the word of the
prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to
a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises
in your hearts.

Walk towards the Light, which is provided from our Lord in God’s Word.

 
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