Posted on 09/18/2021 10:44:00 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand” (Proverbs 19:21).
These devices are schemes, plans, gimmicks, and tricks. They are wily and subtle, like the devil is subtle and tricky, “nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.”
It doesn’t matter what man’s schemes are, God’s counsels are going to stand. Satan has been planning to overthrow God’s kingdom for millennia, but God is going to win in the end—and we that are saved are on the winning team. As one fellow said, “I saw the back of the Book, and we win!”
Man’s schemes about equal rights, and a secular society that is productive without God, will not stand: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Psalm 9:17).
It doesn’t matter about all the plans of evolution, and all the charts, and all the plastic models they make at the museum—God’s counsels still stand.
Men in a human council meeting thought they could stop Christianity: “But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done” (Acts 4:17-21), but they passed away, and the Word of God is still living, active, and powerful.
Herod of Acts 12 took up against the church, killed James, and intended to kill Peter, but before the chapter was ended, he was dead, and in contrast to him, “But the word of God grew and multiplied” (verse 24).
Man’s devices of trying the correct the Bible, to change the Bible so that it agrees with man, instead of man aligning themselves with the Bible—man is trying to find or create new manuscripts—God’s counsels still stand. God’s Word is still perfect. God’s Word is still preserved unto all generations. God’s Word is still pure.
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