Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

Humans are pretty amazing.  You ask them about people who are mass murders, Hitler, the guy who burns down his house with his children in it and boy those guys are worthy of hell.  However, when it comes to asking the standard of how we’re all doing and the bar is somewhere below each one of us.  I’m not that bad many will say.  Look at such and such, they live a lot worse than I do.  On the curve, I’m actually quite good.

What’s wrong with this thinking?

Our opinion in the grand scheme of things doesn’t matter.  The devil wants you to think that the most important thing in the world is your right to be your own little god and make your decisions.  That is what he sold Eve in the garden.  You’re an adult, you have free will, you have that right.  No one including God should have a right to tell you what to do.  Is that right?  That’s the way a lot of proud people think.

Jesus said he who is the least is the greatest.

Mark 9:35 – ³⁵ Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”

He washed the feet of His disciples and died for all of us.  This was an example of God humbling Himself out of love to show us the way.

Will it always be that way?  Actually God wants us to repent and come back to be with Him forever.  He wants us to worship Him and follow Him like it was supposed to be in the beginning.

Throughout the Old Testament we see God’s judgments and wrath and we also see it coming in the book of Revelation.  God is loving and patient, not a pushover like many of those who mock Him.

The answer to the title is we are all too bad on our own.

Romans 3:9-12 –  What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. ¹⁰ As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
¹¹ there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
¹² All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”

So we all qualify.  What’s the answer?  Where’s the hope?

Romans 6:23 – ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We need to make Jesus our Lord.  If we are making Jesus our Lord then being the God of our own lives makes it too crowded.  We need to seek more Jesus and less of ourselves.

1 John  1:5-10 –⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

⁸ If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

God and Jesus are Truth and Light.

Darkness is a place further from God.  The further you get the darker it gets.  Lies are the same way.  The further you get the worse the lies get.

I really enjoy how the above verses tell us we need to walk in Light, but we are not to kid ourselves into thinking we are without sin.  Still choosing to walk in darkness is a bad ploy.  We are not to abuse the grace on purpose.  The more we tread out in the darkness, the harder it is to understand the Truth.

When Paul was standing in front of King Agrippa, he said the following:

Acts 26:29 – ²⁹ Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”

That just reminded me that we can’t give up on praying for those the Lord has put in our hearts to pray for.  There is so much power in prayer as it comes from the Spirit of the Lord.

We are impatient as humans and very often short sighted.  There is a lifetime for someone to choose and walk with the Lord.  We must continue to keep praying for each other and the lost.  How joyous it is when one turns and comes to the Lord.

The most powerful thing in the world is God’s Word.  That’s what Jesus kept referencing to Satan when being tempted.  It is written.  Amazingly to boot, Jesus is the Word.

If we don’t blind ourselves, it is easy to see Prayer working all around us.  It’s powerful.  More powerful than most of us who are Christians even know.  It’s not a genie in a bottle and is not to be used or looked at that way.  It is God’s power and needs to be done for His will and our lives in Him.  It is His will that none should parish.  The reminder today is to pray for those who are lost that he is putting on your heart and pray for those who are struggling also.