Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

Why is It That Thou Hast Sent Me? - Exodus 5:22
Jan 24th, 2020
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Meditation;Inspirational;Book Study

BEFORE God can use us, He must bring us to an end of ourselves. When Paul was summoned to the greatest epistles and labors of his life, his strength was drained to utter weakness, and he despaired even of life. So in the case of Moses and Israel.

Moses, for forty years, had been undergoing the emptying process; but perhaps when God called him to this great enterprise, there may have been a slight revival of confidence in himself, in his mission, his miracles, the eloquence of Aaron's speech. So in the rebuff he received from Pharaoh, in the bitter remonstrances of the elders of his people, in the sad consciousness that his efforts had aggravated their condition, the lesson was still further taught him - that of himself he could do absolutely nothing.
Israel also had begun to hope something from his mission. Through the brickfields the story ran of his early years, his uncompromising speech to Pharaoh, of his miracles; and the wretched slaves cherished faith in him and Aaron as their heaven-sent deliverers. They had, however, to learn that all such hopes were vain, and to see that the brothers, at the best, were as weak as themselves. Then the way was prepared to lean only on God.

Ourselves. - By repeated failures all along our life-course God is teaching us the same lesson. We fail to justify and then to sanctify ourselves. Our efforts to serve and please Him only end in increasing perplexity. The tale of bricks is doubled; the burdens augment; the strength of our purpose is broken; we are utterly discouraged; and then, when the soul is utterly desolate, the heavenly Bridegroom draws near and says, "I will do all; I am Alpha and Omega; I am thy salvation."

The Great Sin - to Forget God
Jan 24th, 2020
CommentaryArt Sadlier
Categories: Warning

If it were possible to describe our society in a few words those words would be, they have "forgotten God". That is not something that God takes lightly! In Pslam 9:17 we read "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God". The Lord equates wickedness with just plain old forgetting God! Hell is for those who forget God.

Today the Word of God is both foregotten and rejected. Everything the Bible teaches is today rejected by our society, from marriage to immorality to homosexuality and to gender identity. What the Bible teaches about creation is laughed at and what the Bible teaches about sin and salvation is scorned. 

The scripture pronounces judgment on sensuality and lust, today we live in a society totally given over to sensuality. It jumps out at you on the TV set, the internet is drowning in pornography, our women have forgotten cover themselves, even some who claim to be Christians.

We as a society have not only forgotten God, we have made our own gods to take the place of the true God. Our society is busy worshipping the gods of gold and silver, the gods of pleasure, entertainment and lust and perhaps most predominatley of all, the gods of materialism. Things - things - things - the lives of those who have forgotten God are bound up and wrapped around things. Sometimes good things, but things that replace our time for God, that replace our dependancy upon God, things replace our affection for God.

This is the mark of unregenerate people, it is the mark of Laodicea, the mark of the last days evangelical church. We read about this last days apostate evangelical church in Matthew 7:20-23. "Wherefore by their fruits (not their profession) ye shall know them. Not everyone that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many shall say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

We also read about this same Church in Revelation 3:14-17, "And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:".

I think about Paul's exhortation to the Corinthians where he said to them, "Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith..."  Evangelical, listen to this exhortation from Paul! Don't be among the multitudes of todays evangelicals who are deceived about their salvation.