Bible Prophecy and Inspiration

1 Timothy 2:3-4 – ³ This is good, and pleases God our Savior, ⁴ who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Do you know how powerful your will is?

It’s so powerful that no one can make you decide how you are going to think.

Oh they can be convincing, even persuade you to think a certain way, but ultimately you have to go along with it.  You have a free will.  Choices in your mind are made by you.  People can physically be controlled, but not their minds (unless their foolish enough hypnotically and then they still have a conscience). 

God wants us to choose Him.  He can’t make us.  We have to seek Truth.  It’s right there in front of each and every one of us because we are programmed by the Creator.  We have a conscience when were born.  How bad we dull the senses or get further away from God is determined by choices that are made. 

No one can tell me that any teenager can walk up to a homeless person and start beating up just because they feel like it, doesn’t know it’s bad.  They know it’s bad, they just don’t care.  Their thinking is far away from God.  And the farther away from God the worse the thinking continues.

God doesn’t want any to perish.  He wants all of us to come back to Him.

2 Peter 3:9 – ⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

He is the Ruler of the entire universe.  Satan wanted to be that and not controlled by God at all.  Everyone who feels the same way has the same fate awaiting.

Revelation 20:10 – ¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Revelation 20:14-15- ¹⁴ Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. ¹⁵ If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

It’s the same fate for those who rebel and don’t choose God as that of Satan.  Do I personally think that those who are more wicked will be punished more?  I personally do.  I think it’s like rewards in the reverse order.  Never-the-less Hell was created for those who REJECT God.  The most serious of all crimes and people on earth today don’t even give it a second thought.

The Lord doesn’t want any of us to perish.  Please seek the God who loves you and gave you life.  Ask for forgiveness and accept Jesus as Lord who died for you so you don’t have to.  Also it should be our goal that none of our loved ones suffer this fate either, without us putting our best effort forward.

Colossians 3:5-11 –   ⁵ Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. ⁷ You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. ⁸ But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. ⁹ Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices ¹⁰ and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. ¹¹ Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

That says change.  Repent means change.  Change takes dedication and love for the Lord.  It says He first not me first.

That’s really it.  Life is full of decisions and all the excuses the world provides for us in social sciences, isn’t going to hold water.  Change is hard.  Breaking sinful habits isn’t easy.  However, a decision is made either by choosing God or choosing whatever it is you want to.  The strength of the Holy Spirit is there waiting.

What’s the old saying?  It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission? 

This is not good in our relationship with the Lord.  It’s good to ask for forgiveness, but it’s not good to abuse it. 

If you have someone that comes up and slaps you in the face and asks for forgiveness, eventually if they keep coming up and slapping and never stop it’s going to get old.  If they keep apologizing after they do it, it’s going to come off insincere quick.  We are told to repent and sin no more.  Obviously we know that is impossible for man, but it is the goal.

John 8:10-11- ¹⁰When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?  ¹¹She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.   KJV

For one we need to stop our known sin and it takes effort.  God is worth that effort.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you.  Demons and bad spirits don’t like a clean spiritual house, it’s boring and uncomfortable for them.

You used to walk that way, but as a new creation in God and Jesus, you don’t no more.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 – ⁷ For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

Once we accepted Christ as Savior, we have been called.

The Lord has shared the Holy Spirit with us, but the Holy Spirit isn’t comfortable in living in a corrupt house.

We are called to live a holy life.  What does that mean?

The problem is we know deep down what that means.  It means not living in sin.  It means not living like the world lives.  It means dying to our own selfish wants and living for the Creator who loves us and died for us.

The Bible is full of reminders of how to live holy.  Funny that when were not living right, we don’t seem to have time to crack it open.

When someone cleans up their house they do it one room at a time, one job at a time.  However, if you never make an effort to clean it up, you have a disaster.

Grace is what saves and without we are lost in our sins.  It is not by works.  However, too many of us sin and use grace as a tool to keep on doing what were not supposed to be doing.

We’re called to do our best to live a holy life for the Lord.  He knows if we are trying or not.