Bible Ballistics: BBs #126   Be Strong In the Lord!!!

A brief reminder this morning of our need to ‘tune-up” our spirit as well as (if not more importantly than) our body!

Ephesians 6:10-11, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

We must put on the ‘armor of God’, but I want to focus on the preliminary need here, to “be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”!!! We must be strong enough to utilize this “armor of God”. Just as physical strength is required for activity, spiritual strength is also necessary and it comes from the Lord, not from food or exercise. We need to continually remember that I/we CAN ‘BE’ strong, but only “in the Lord, and in the power of His might”!

Jesus Himself reminds us in John 15:5, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

Jesus is the vine—the source of our life, strength –

We are the branches—a ‘part’ of the vine–

We are useless apart from the vine—

We must abide in the VINE, then—

He will abide in us, and—

We can bring forth much fruit!!!

Ephesians 5:8-9, “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; )”

And Galatians 5:22-23, reminds us what fruit we are to bring forth,

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

So??? Here’s our shot for today. The indwelling Holy Spirit produces in us the character of God. As we yield to His working in us, then the reflection of God will be seen in us and the world will see the one we claim to love and serve.

So??? Abide in the vine, and be strong “IN THE LORD”!! That the world may know!!!

 

 

 

 

Bible Ballistics: Light, Love or Law??? Pt. 1, Vol. 5 #09

There is a lot of discourse these days about how we are to live our Christian lives, as well as a lot of discussion and debate about what we are to do and not do; a myriad of opinions about what our Lord said, what He ‘meant’ to say, and/or what He ‘really’ meant by what He said. There is even debate over the veracity of the contents of the ‘New Testament’ scriptures and whether they are accurate, dependable and worthy of our acceptance of their content as inspired ‘holy writ’.

I have been burdened for some time regarding these issues and feel compelled by the Lord to address at least some of these issues. As usual we will go to scripture to seek the answers to these questions, but I must make a few ‘disclaimers’, in order to clarify what I’m saying. First of all I want to make clear that I accept and believe the thirty-nine books of scripture in the “Old Testament” to be God’s Word, I also accept and believe the twenty-seven books of scripture in the “New Testament”. While I have read and heard those who reject the ‘veracity’ of the recorded scriptures of the New Testament, I disagree with their conclusions. That there are those who say that the disciples and/or apostles of Jesus Christ perverted the intent of our Lord Jesus Christ is absolutely beyond comprehension to me. If the Sovereign God in the Old Testament could entrust His message to those whom He chose to record it for the original recipients as well as us, why then would we question that the very ‘Son of God’, Jesus Christ, would choose 12 men (knowing that Judas would betray Him to fulfill scripture, and that He would appear to Paul personally, much later and instruct him in the truths of the ‘gospel’), instruct, teach and prepare them for His service if He knew that they would pervert it in their life-times and mislead His future followers. I find that conclusion unacceptable and, if you will pardon my candor, ludicrous and totally derogatory in it’s inferences about my Lord Jesus choosing inept, untrustworthy, and inadequate men for the task. If you don’t accept the New Testament scriptures in whole or in part (and if in part, I wonder who discriminated between the true and false parts for you?), then you will probably see this article as totally wrong and irrelevant to you. My prayer is that God will speak through His Word to open hearts, minds and eyes to hear HIS message, not mine.

In John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

Jesus is the ‘way’—the only way to God. Jesus is the ‘truth’—not just in His personhood, but also in His very nature for He not only speaks truth, HE IS truth. Jesus is the “life”-not just a life but ‘the’ life. He is the essence of life and He imparts eternal ‘life’ to those who will believe/trust in HIM for salvation through faith by grace—God’s redeeming grace.

His very name prophesied who He was, is and ever will be:

Isaiah 7:14, “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

The Messiah wouldn’t just be a mighty leader to deliver politically, but He would be GOD WITH US, the one who would take on flesh and blood in order to take on my sin and die in my place and yours!!! Matthew declares Jesus to be the fulfillment of this scripture at His incarnation in what most call the ‘Christmas’ story.

Matthew 1:23, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”

God’s original purpose for man was to have fellowship with Him. When He created Adam and Eve, He gave them only one ‘law’, don’t eat of the tree, nothing else brought death:

Genesis 2:17, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

Ephesians 2:1-5, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved; )” His life for those ‘dead’ in sin=ME!

Death because of one command/law, which we broke. We (in Adam) sinned and death came on all mankind, and Jesus had to come to deliver us from ‘death’:

1 Corinthians 15:20-22, “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” My death replaced by HIS LIFE! (Slept=died)

Jesus came that we could ‘live’, that we could not only have life, but abundant life because:

John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

Satan is that thief; while Jesus came that we could have life—not law!!! God and His creation (Adam and Eve) didn’t have ‘law’; they had fellowship—perfect fellowship in the Garden. God walked with man–relationship not rules and regulations. God wanted intimacy with man—or if you would ‘oneness’. That is what Jesus came to restore!!!

Genesis 3:8, “And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.” They hid because the oneness had ‘died’!

These two apparently walked with God in the ‘cool of the day’, each day. Intimate fellowship with their creator, until sin came in and intimacy died. Jesus came to restore intimacy not to show us how to keep rules. He came to put His Spirit within us that we might know HIS law and please Him because we love HIM, not because of ‘rules’. Let’s look at several words of Jesus in John 17, His ‘high-priestly’ prayer, and consider what Jesus said:

John 17:1-3, “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal,that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

Jesus came to give ‘eternal life’, and what is that ‘life’? Verse 3, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Jesus came to give us ‘intimate’ knowledge of God. That the alienated could be reconciled to God!!!

Romans 5:9-11, “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” Atonement—HE bought us back from sin and death. We are made/accounted righteous before God and no longer come under condemnation or wrath—eternal death.

As Paul so aptly says in Romans 8:1-4, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

Now back to John 17:

6-9, “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.”

If the disciples missed what Jesus meant, then HIS prayer went unanswered. Jesus and God the Father chose these men and Jesus Himself said that He was glorified in them. When did they loose that ‘glory’? They didn’t. In fact they obeyed the Lord and waited for the Holy Spirit to come in Acts 1-2. So if they missed it, if they misrepresented our Lord, then something went terribly wrong! If Jesus Himself couldn’t pick the right men, then how, by the reasoning of men, can ‘people’ choose those who have more ‘insight’ than the very apostles and disciples of our Lord? But let’s continue with what Jesus says:

John 17:11, “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.” Oneness!!!

Jesus didn’t pray that they would keep the ‘law’ but that they would be “one, as we are.” Again God wants fellowship with us!!! Oneness=intimacy.

John 17:14-19, “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” Jesus IS TRUTH.

“Truth” gave of Himself to His followers, in teaching and later the indwelling Holy Spirit, and then by HIS power they gave the truth about Jesus, to the world. They were Jewish, Jesus was Jewish, but Jesus still gave them of HIMSELF, not of the Law. He gave them redemption and sanctification by His blood of the ‘New Covenant’ (New Covenant: see Jer. 31:31-34, and Ezk.36:25-27)– His law written in our hearts. And in John 17:20-26,

“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Go through this chapter and count the number of times that Jesus says we are to ‘be one’ with Him, with the Father, with one another—that the ‘world may know’. Our call is to be one with Jesus—to be one with the Father—to be one with each other!!! The Law condemns but Jesus redeemed us back from the curse of the law. While those who reject the writers of the New Testament are entitled to their opinion, I will stand on the Word, as I believe God has preserved and given it to us. Paul as a faithful servant of God addressed this issue in His letter to the Galatians:

Galatians 3:9-14, “So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

Jesus Himself condensed the ‘law’ down to two things, both of them equated to ‘love’—of God, and when I have God’s love, to express it to men, ‘my neighbor’:

Matthew 22:36-40, “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

And that’s about all we can cover in today’s lesson. We will take this up next Sunday, or if you would like an advance copy of Part 2 just email me, or send a message on Facebook.com/bibleballistics or our website bibleballistics.org. We’ll conclude this subject next week.

Bible Ballistics: BBs #125 Happy New DAY!!!

As we think about a new year coming in, my thoughts question, how do we use our time? How do we realize the import of living in today? It is only when we look at the Lord Jesus Christ and His Father and ours, The Lord God Almighty. It is only by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, which Christ gave to us through His accomplishment of the ‘new covenant’: the promise that God would put His Spirit within us. But only the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus could bring that to fulfillment and reality.

Just before His ascension Jesus instructed His apostles and disciples:

“And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” Acts 1:4-5

Jesus instructed His apostles to ‘wait for the promise’!!! What promise? The promise of the Holy Ghost/Spirit! The ‘new covenant’ which God had promised in Ezekiel 36:26-27+ and Jeremiah 31:31-34+. I won’t take time or space to print those here but look them up and you’ll find the promise of the indwelling Holy Spirit—the NEW COVENANT! The covenant which Jesus established before His death, accomplished with His death, and works now, after His resurrection, in the death-conquering power of the blood. We have HIS Spirit within us, if we are born again, and we walk in HIS power, not in the externals. His Very Spirit is within us (see John 14-16) to teach, to reprove of sin, righteousness and judgment, to bring His word to our remembrance (after we’ve put it in), and therefore we can have victory over the flesh.

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”  Galatians 5:16

Notice that we aren’t told to walk in the ‘law’, or to walk in the ‘knowledge’, or to walk in ‘doctrine or theology’ but to “Walk in the Spirit”. We are to be yielded to God as we walk where, when, how, why, being what HE wants us to be and then doing!!! It’s not about regimen it’s about possession and relationship. Even as the Psalmist reminds us:

Psalm 90:12-17, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”

Can we get it? The Psalmist reminds us to number our ‘days’—to live one day at a time. I don’t know that I’ll have tomorrow, yet, when we ‘walk in the Spirit’ God is leading and directing our steps continually, something that the Psalmist could only look forward to. That “promise of the Father” of what was to come. Enablement to “BE” all that God wants us to be: Not by rules, regulations or restrictions but by the indwelling Holy Spirit guiding and directing our every step, every moment, every day. To know that God is ever in control and that HE truly will “establish thou the work of our hands”!!!

So??? Here’s our shot for today. Make this year 2015 a year of ‘days’!

‘Days’ that we ask God to order.

 ‘Days’ that we seek God’s face first in all things.

‘Days’ that will leave

the smell of,

the reminder of,

the flavor of

the desire for,

 God

everywhere we go.

Let’s ‘number our days’ well!!!

Bible Ballistics: BBs #124 Prince of PEACE!!!

“For unto us

a child is born,

unto us

a son is given:

and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

and his name shall be called

Wonderful, Counsellor,

The mighty God,

The everlasting Father,

The Prince of Peace.” Is. 9:6

As we wrap up this Christmas Fortnight and 2014 we’ll look at the last of the four names of Jesus here in Isaiah. “The Prince of PEACE”. The Son of the Monarch!!! Our God Almighty’s SON, and His name is ‘THE Prince of Peace”. What kind of peace? ALL peace, but most importantly, ‘Peace with GOD’!!!

Romans 5:1-2, “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

Jesus brings  reconciling peace with God, so much so that:

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Romans 5:8-9,

Jesus’ substitutionary death at Calvary makes us right with God; at PEACE with God; just before God. Not because of our righteousness but HIS!!

Titus 3:4-6, “But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;” It’s all God!!! Our sin, our lostness, our need—JESUS’ cross!!!

Romans 5:10, “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” Why? How?

2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

Jesus gives us peace with God through His death for our sin. He credits us with HIS righteousness and because of His power and His Spirit, which He places within us, He empowers us to live in HIS righteousness.

May God grant you eyes to see His truth, and conviction in your hearts to come to Jesus, if you don’t know Him? May God also grant those of us who belong to Him eyes to see and dig into His Word—HIS truth—and HE will:

“Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.” Psalm 119:133.

How? Hebrews 12:1-2 tell us how:

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,” HOW? “2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

How??? By ‘looking unto Jesus’, by keeping my eyes on the prize—Jesus is the goal and the prize!!! He is all we need and if we’ll but keep ‘fixing our eyes’ on Jesus—He will ‘direct our paths’. (See Proverbs 3:5-6) Because–

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.” Psalm 37:23.

May God grant you to receive HIS PEACE—Jesus– in the coming New Year and may you allow HIM to order your steps in HIS Word. He is so faithful and He’s waiting for YOU!!!

Bible Ballistics: Everlasting Father?? Vol. 5 #08

“For unto us a child is born,

unto us a son is given:

and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

and his name shall be called

Wonderful, Counsellor,

The mighty God,

The everlasting Father,

The Prince of Peace.”

As we continue our look at the names of Jesus mentioned in this prophecy of Isaiah, we’ll focus today on the third of these four names, or titles of our Lord Jesus Christ. As we’ve already seen, He is the ‘wonderful counselor’, He is the ‘mighty God’ and we will dig into the word and search out its depths regarding ‘the everlasting Father’.

Matthew 1:23, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”  Referring back to the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14:

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

God foretold that “HE” would come in flesh. Not a representative, but God Himself would come and take on flesh. Hebrews 2 describes this very act of love and ‘redemption’.

Hebrews 2:14-18, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”

Praise God, Jesus loved us enough to come in the flesh. He became incarnate in Mary’s womb, to be born a natural, human birth. To live a life in the flesh: as a baby, a toddler, a young child, a teenager, a young man and finally revealed HIMSELF to mankind as the Savior of the World. As John so simply states the very words of our Lord in John 3:

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”

And more of Jesus’ own words

“I and my Father are one.” John 10:30. Jesus IS one with the Father.

And Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” He was the same Jesus in Genesis 1:1 that He is in Revelation 22:13:

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” The only Redeemer!

Jesus is God, and while many wrestle with His ‘deity’, Peter addresses this in his first letter.

1 Peter 1:18-21, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.”

Jesus Christ was ordained by God to be the sacrifice for man’s redemption before the foundation of the world. It has always amazed me that God not only created man, but that he created man knowing we would fall, that we would need a “Redeemer” to buy us back from sin, yet knowing all of that, HE created us anyway. Jesus was there, Jesus knew from the ‘beginning’ what price He would pay for these feeble, sinful creatures called ‘man’.

God loved us so much that He prepared for our failure “before the foundation of the world”!!! God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit knew what we would cost and created us, loved us and provided for us anyway!!!

Even in the apocalyptic scripture we see this indication of the eternal deity of Jesus.

Revelation 13:8, “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

Jesus is the ‘Everlasting Father’, the one who was there at creation in Genesis 1:26-27:

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” One with His Father.

He, who was ‘us’, still is ‘one’ with the Father as He always was. Our ‘Everlasting Father’—our ‘Redeemer’—our ‘sacrifice’–our ‘Redemption’!!! This one who is the same ‘yesterday, today and forever’—died for you and me. He is still here for you. He is waiting for you today. He will save you if you don’t know Him! He will comfort and lead you if you are His. Just look up my friend. Just look up!!

Luke 21:28, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

Specifically this is referring to the ‘end times’, but we can apply it to each and every day. No matter what ‘things’ are happening around you, remember to look up, YOUR REDEMPTION is near to YOU!!! This ‘Wonderful Counselor’, this ‘Mighty God’, this ‘Everlasting Father’ is ever here for you. But don’t wait too long!!! Today may be your only chance …because….

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” Hebrews 9:27

“And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,…” Genesis 6:3a

“To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” Hebrews 4:7b

If you hear the voice of the Lord, please respond while you have an opportunity. Don’t wait!!! Come to HIM today while you hear His voice. He may not call again, this “Everlasting Father” may not pass your way again. Don’t be lost when you have one who is seeking to save you.