God Speaks
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Matters 461 God Speaks
James 5:20 – Let him know, that he which
converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death,
and shall hide a multitude of sins.
In this life, you will choose either light or
darkness. God tells you this in the
first four verses of the book of Genesis. Light is the things of God and is
good. Darkness is of the devil.
Genesis 1:1-4 – In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth. And the earth
was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there
was light. And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
God measures your attitude by the things that
you love from the heart. God requires
you to make a decision to love of the things of the flesh or of the
spirit. God will challenge you and it is
up to you to put your trust in him. When
you believe in the one true God, then God will seek to use your services. God tested Abraham with a request to offer his
son. Abraham did as God directed and God
saw that his heart was pure. God then
presented Abraham a ram for a burnt offering.
When God speaks, you listen.
Genesis 22:1-3,7-8,10-13,15-16,18 – And it
came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him,
Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,
and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and
clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him. And Isaac spake
unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son.
And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering? [8] And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a
burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And Abraham stretched forth
his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said,
Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing
unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son from me. And
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a
thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for
a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second
time, And said, By myself have I sworn,
saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son: And in thy seed
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my
voice.
When you walk in the light, the devil will put
temptation of sin in your way daily.
When you partake of this temptation, you enter into darkness. You can’t live in the light, while walking in
darkness. When you understand God’s
word, you know exactly what you are to do to please God. Do not be deceived. After God created Adam, he told Adam not to
dwell in darkness by eating of the tree of knowledge. God then created Eve and she ate of the tree
of knowledge. When Adam saw that Eve
didn’t die, he too ate of the tree of knowledge. The devil will tell you that this one beer
won’t hurt! When God gives you a
command, then you listen. Never doubt
the power of God’s word.
Genesis 2:15-17,23 – And the LORD God took the
man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die. And Adam said, This is
now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man.
When God shows you his power, he is preparing
you to do great things for him. After
God called out Moses from the burning bush, God made it clear that Moses was to
deliver his people out of the hands of the Egyptians.
Exodus 3:2-4,6,8 – And the angel of the LORD
appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked,
and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and
see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to
see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.
And he said, Here am I. Moreover he
said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. And I am come down to deliver them out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites
God speaks to you when you least expect
it. The Lord God spoke to Mose in a
cloud. All Moses could do is to bow his
head and worship.
Exodus 34:5-8 – And the LORD descended in the
cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that
will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the
fourth generation. And Moses made haste,
and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
God no longer found pleasure in the sinful
life of his people and sin sacrifice by burnt offerings. He needed to turn them away from the
sacrifice of animals for the remission of sins.
To love from the heart is more that the total sum of all burnt offerings
and sacrifices. Burnt offerings can
never take away sin.
Mark 12:33 – And
to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all
the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is
more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Hebrews 10:11 – And every priest standeth
daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins:
At thirty years old. Jesus had no clue as to
what was about to happen in his life.
Jesus was sent by God. John the
Baptist was sent by God to baptize for the remission of sins. God gave Jesus an introduction to the job at
hand like no other. God spoke from
heaven, telling all that Jesus was his beloved Son in a monumental fashion. (Matthew 3:16,17; Mark 1:8-11; Luke
3:22)
Luke 3:22 – And the Holy Ghost descended in a
bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said,
Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
As a prophet, Jesus experienced little honor
amongst his own.
Mark 6:4-6 – But Jesus said unto them, A
prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin,
and in his own house. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid
his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of
their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
When God spoke, Jesus listened. God knew that Jesus needed followers to carry
God’s word to the ends of the earth. God
spoke from a cloud. God told his
disciples to hear Jesus. (Matthew
17:1-5; Mark 9:2,7)
Mark 9:2,7 – And after six days Jesus taketh
with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain
apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. And there was a cloud
that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my
beloved Son: hear him.
Jesus knew that his followers must do the will
of God the Father. (Matthew 12:50; Mark 3:35)
Matthew 12:50 – For
whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my
brother, and sister, and mother.
When God texted me “Ecclesiastes” and then “Romans 8:28”, I
listened. When God sent me the jail
ministry, I listened. When God sent me
verses after verse and witness after witness to document the truth in his word,
I listened. When God sent me “Ecclesiastes
4:12-15”, I knew my witness to the fifty plus
churches was completed. God’s gospel of
Love shown forth from the truth in God’s word out of the mouth of two or three
witnesses. So simple and so pure. A doctrine for all of mankind to live by with
lessons presented in the OneWorldChurch.net
All that matters in this life is to be walking
in the light and living God’s gospel of Love.
Refrain from sin and drunkenness.
Live a life unto righteousness by doing the will of God unto good works. When God speaks, you listen.
To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.