As soon as I heard the news today, I flipped the radio station to our local Christian teaching station, and this message from Charles Stanley was playing.
P.S. I'd rather hear about God's sovereignty today than about anything else.
Posted on 06/26/2015 7:25:49 AM PDT by fishtank
"Do you believe God is in complete control of everything - even the situation you face today? Dr. Charles Stanley reminds you in this sermon that understanding God's sovereignty - and acting on its truth - strengthens your faith and calms your fears. Take hold of God's love with My Assurance: God is in Control, Part 1."
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As soon as I heard the news today, I flipped the radio station to our local Christian teaching station, and this message from Charles Stanley was playing.
P.S. I'd rather hear about God's sovereignty today than about anything else.
It’s some consolation. What a week! Thankfully, what seems like Eternity to mortals is only a second to God. :)
Of course God is in control. He was in control when slavery was legal — didn’t mean we had no moral obligation to fight it.
Charles Stanley, God love him, really saved me with his book “Landmines in the Path of the Believer.” In addition to his book (which battled fear, for one thing), I was able to research and find out that my panic attacks and anxiety were not only spiritual, but the result of being low in several amino acids (serotonin, GABA). Together — trusting the Lord in ALL things, and restoring the amino acids I really needed — life is more peaceful, at least internally!
Normally I take issue with your creationist posts but today I really appreciate this one.
I’m waiting for the Pope’s encyclical.
See about a copy.
Scripture tells us that slavery is morally acceptable.
P.S. I'd rather hear about God's sovereignty today than about anything else.
Any strategy of resistance to tyranny will have to deal with the fact that tyranny is a curse of God. It must recognize that to rail against God's righteous judgments is merely to perpetuate and aggravate them. It must start with a humble submission to His will, a reverential fear of His judgments, and a full recognition of the righteousness of His moral government. Although we may marvel at the iniquities that men commit, at the fury of the "Commune" or the depravity of "Bolshevism," although the utter evil of God's instruments may astound us until with Habakkuk we are compelled to cry out to the Just and Holy God, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?" (Hab. 1:13); yet we must always remember that He styles Nebuchadnezzar his servant and terms Assyria the rod of His anger. It is still with Him that we have to do.Ultimately, the only solution there can be to the problem of tyranny is to solve the problem of how we can turn God's curse into blessing; how we can transmute His anger into favor. The question becomes one of how can we appease His anger and stay His wrath.
What can shield a man, or a people, or a nation from the curse of God? Ever since the fall by the sin of one man, death and curse have been universal. All have sinned and come short, there is none that doeth good, no not one, and so by both original and actual sin all men and all societies bring judgment and wrath down upon themselves. One of the forms of this wrath is that God sends tyrants as He so clearly warned in I Samuel 8. Men need a covering, an atonement, to shield them from the wrath of God. They need a Daysman, a Mediator, to intercede on their behalf with an offended and omnipotent Deity. In short, men need the blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant. They need to be Justified before God. And the Biblical, the Protestant, the Reformed answer to this need is that men need to be justified by faith in Christ Jesus. But faith is inexorably linked in the divine economy with repentance and the latter is again just as inescapably linked with reformation. The same golden chain that links election to effectual calling, regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification also links faith with good works, and the new nature with the fruits of repentance. If we would have a covering from the wrath of God and from His curse including the curse of tyrannical government, the road leads inexorably to justification by faith, repentance, and reformation. And we come to the very same conclusion whether we examine the issue in its negative or in its positive aspects. Whether we are seeking to avoid God's righteous curse or whether we are seeking to bring down His blessing, including the blessings of peace, liberty, and just government, either way the answer is reformation. For if I Samuel 8 teaches that the fruit of apostasy is tyranny and unjust, coercive government, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28:1-14 assert that God's blessing will attend a faithful, covenant keeping people. In the Abrahamic Covenant, the covenantal blessing that God will be a God and a Father to us and our seed after us is linked with the covenantal command to "walk before me and be thou perfect."
-- excerpt from the essay
"THE FUNDAMENTAL BIBLICAL TACTIC FOR RESISTING TYRANNY"
by Louis DeBoer
The tables are being set for Armageddon. ObamaCare + one world government + modern technology means you will either be forced outside the health care and banking systems or have the Mark of the Beast microchipped on your forehead or wrist so you can be controlled by the Anti-Christ who will continue to espouse good as being evil and evil as being good.
Expect more rulings like the ones from SCOTUS this week. This is the path that must be taken by those who think they are striking a blow for liberty and freedom but are actually paving the way for bondage and misery.
Yes, God is firmly in control and He is preparing the scene for the return of Jesus and the destruction of Satan and his army. Be prayerful.
Where is that?
Exactly. Of course God is in control. However, we, with our God-given free will can do a lot of evil.
You said, “Normally I take issue with your creationist posts but today I really appreciate this one.”
And your FR profile says of yourself:
“Cantankerous ex-liberal New Jerseyan transplanted to the Pacific Northwest”
Haha, good one.
My creationist posts are an educational effort.
God’s sovereignty makes sense when we accept He is the Creator.
Let’s not pretend ourselves here...
1 Corinthians 7:21 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
21 Were you called while a slave? [a]Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather [b]do that.
If God’s in control,
you have to wonder
what he’s got in mind.
This is the first verse in the last chapter.
Leviticus 25:44-46
However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.
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