When heard and responded to, His word meets deep needs in the human heart and provides love, peace, joy, satisfaction, and confident direction which can be achieved in no other manner. God's word has the power to penetrate all pretense and discern "the thoughts and intents of the heart."
I tell you solemnly, before this generation has passed away all these things will have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away. - Matt. 24:34-35 -
Consecrate them in the truth;
Your word is truth. - John 17:7 -
The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely: it can slip through the place where the soul is divided from the spirit, or joints from the marrow; it can judge the secret emotions and thoughts. No created things can hide from Him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the One whom we must give account of ourselves. - Heb. 4:12-13 -
And then you must accept salvation from God to be your helmet and receive the word of God from the Spirit to use as a sword. - Eph. 6:17
You have been obedient to the truth and purified your souls until you can love like brothers and sisters, in sincerity; let your love for each other be real and from the heart - your new birth was not from any mortal seed but from the everlasting word of the living and eternal God. All fresh is grass and its glory like the wild flower's. The grass withers, the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains for ever. What is this word? It is the Good News that has been brought to you. - 1 Peter 1:22-25 - James 1:9-11; Is. 40:6-8 -
God's speaking of His word reaches a culmination in the sending of His Son (The Lord Jesus Christ) All that is true of God's earlier word is supremely truth of Jesus. The gospel of Jesus Christ is, in a special and profound way, the word of God as it makes known and brings into operation the reconciliation with God which is His purpose for mankind. So central is the Gospel to the purpose of God in this world that the successful spread of the gospel is the growth of the word of God.
The word of God continued to spread and to gain followers. - Acts 12:24 -
It is all God's work. It was God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ Jesus and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation. In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself, not holding men's faults against them, and He has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. - 2 Cor. 5:18-19 -
Therefore, it is not only Jesus's message but also all that, He communicates God to us. He Himself is described as the word of God. Indeed, Jesus brings the presence of God to a new level - the personal presence of God in the world in a human life.
By calling the Lord Jesus Christ the Alpha and the Omega, the writer of the Book of Revelation acknowledged that He is both the Creator and the Redeemer and the Final Judge of all things. Alpha and Omega - the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. This title is given to God the Father and God the Son.
Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man and woman according to what he/she deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. - Rev. 22:12-13 -
The Book of Genesis - the first book of the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible. Placed at the opening of the Hebrew Scriptures, Genesis is the first of the five books of Moses, known as the 'Pentateuch.'
Genesis is the book of beginnings. The word Genesis means "The Origin, Source, Creation, and coming into being of something." The Hebrew name for the book is bereshith, the first word in the Hebrew text which is translated as "in the beginning." Genesis describes such important beginnings as 'The Creation', 'The Fall Of Man', and the early years of 'The nation Of Israel/Jacob.'
The beginning of salvation history - the story of God and human beings, sin and grace, wrath and mercy, covenant and redemption - also begins in the Book of Genesis.These theme are repeated often throughout the rest of the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible.
As the Book of Revelation is the climax and conclusion of the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible, so the Book of Genesis is the beginning and essential seed-plot of the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible. Thus, Genesis is an important book for comprehending the meaning of the entire Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible.
The Book of Genesis presents the creation of man as male and female in the image of God, man's fall and ruin, his/her judgement, and his/her possible triumph in God's grace. In the context of man's judgement came the first whisper of the Gospel message of the final triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ over Satan:
I will make you enemies of each other:
you and the woman,
your offspring and her offspring,
It will crush your head
and you will strike its heel. - Gen. 3:15 -
This prophecy was fulfilled by the death of Jesus on the Cross, a sacrifice that destroyed the works of evil and the devil.
My children, do not let anyone lead you astray:
to live a holy life
is to be holy just as God is holy;
to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil,
since the devil was a sinner from the beginning.
It was to undo all that the devil has done
that the Son of God appeared. - 1 John 3:7-8 -
The anger of God is being revealed from heaven against all the impiety and depravity of men/women who keep truth imprisoned in their wickedness. For what can be known about God is perfectly plain to them since God Himself has made it plain.
Ever since God created the world His everlasting power and deity - however invisible - have been there for the mind to see in the things He has made. That is why such people are without excuse: they knew God and yet refused to honour Him as God or to thank Him; instead, they made nonsense out of logic and their empty minds were darkened.
The more they called themselves philosophers, the more stupid they grew, until they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for a worthless imitation, for the image of a mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds and reptiles. That is why God left them to their filthy enjoyments and the practices with which they dishonor their own bodies, since they have given up divine truth for a lie and have worshipped and served creatures instead of the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen!
That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions: why their women have turned from natural intercourse to unnatural practices and why their menfolk have given up natural intercourse to be consumed with passion for each other, men/women doing shameless things with men/women and getting an appropriate reward for their perversion.
In other words, since they refused to see it was rational to acknowledge God, God has left them to their own irrational ideas and to their monstrous behaviour.
And so they are steeped in all sorts of depravity, rottenness, greed and malice, and addicted to envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and spite. Libellers, slanderers, enemies of God, rude, arrogant and boastful, enterprising in sin, rebellious to parents, without brains, without honors, without love and without pity.
THEY KNOW WHAT GOD VERDICT IS: THAT THOSE WHO BEHAVE LIKE THIS DESERVE TO DIE - AND YET THEY DO IT; AND WHAT IS WORSE, ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME. - Rom. 1:18-32 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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