God sees everything. All of us as people, all areas and places, and every activity happening in nature, and things that we take part in.
And God’s heart is always actively moving in anger against evil, and compassion for His creation. He is Spirit. The Spirit whose image we were made in, but have fallen from. Nevertheless, it roams. He roams. Love. Light. Desires for Justice. Pride. Beauty. Things we hold and taint all in one without His guidance.
God is perfect, and He restores our relations through the blood of Jesus Christ. Sin separated us from His righteous and pure nature, wanting nothing to do with liars, envious, or hateful people. But Jesus who died for our sin pleads a case on behalf of whoever puts their trust in His sacrifice. Through faith we’re reconnected to our all-knowing Creator, and we can learn from Him, and should learn to take on His view of life.
GOD IS HOLY
• Separating yourself from Evil/ Guarding You Temple
1 Corinthians 15:33 “”Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.””
God alone is holy, and His righteousness is imputed to us through faith in Christ alone. God’s word teaches us to have our entire existence in and through Christ, and that apart from Him we can do nothing. That is, nothing fruitful or of eternal merit.
When we have faith, we abide in Christ, and God supernaturally fills us with the bond and pure seal of the Holy Spirit. God’s word teaches that He justifies us completely through faith alone, but that He is also faithful and sure to begin a sanctifying work in us! In fact, we can and should examine our conscious to see if the Holy Spirit is bearing witness to Christ, in Spirit and truth and now rejecting sin and recognizing the righteouss, perfect and gracious nature of God.
By God’s gift in Christ, faith saves us, and faith fills us with the Holy Spirit. If we do not have the Holy Spirit, then we are still in our fallen state. Only those in Christ will be saved, and in Romans 9 scripture reveals that God knows who is and is not saved, also who will be and will not be.
God knows who rest in His mercies, through Christ, and who rest in His wrath, having not believed, living outside of His will of desire and only way of salvation for the earth.
There are Vessels of Mercy and Vessels of Wrath. Vessels of Mercy know Christ, and so should exhibit the fruit of Christ, and be walking in His light/truth and righteousness (not in darkness/lies and continuous harmful sin.)
The earth has a mix of people, and God wants us to remember this and be aware.
PSALMS 1
1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
• Being Gracious and Loving/ Redemptive in Your Actions
PSALM 103:6-17
The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known His ways to Moses,
His acts to the children of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
9 He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor punished us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As a father pities his children,
So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
And its place remembers it no more.
17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
On those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,
Ephesians 4:32 “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”
Even though God hates evil, and has just wrath against it, He is also a merciful God, desiring none to perish. And this is the only reason we can be graced by salvation!
If we boast, it can only be in Christ! God delights to share His redemption and grace to the world, know without His grace we fail His standard.
As Christians, we are to put off unrighteousness, and live distiguished, but apart of our new nature is forgiveness, reprove, long-suffering, and mercy just like God. We are to make disciples of all nations, looking beyond sin in someone’s life, to offer them repentance and faith in Christ, whereby we’ve also been saved.
Know that it is our adversary satan who seeks to hardnen hearts and cause people to perish. It is his temptation, deception, fears and doubt sown into people that lead them to sin. Sin is not excused, but people are not our enemies. Only satan is our enemy and people are captives to him or free in Christ. Do not take offenses personally, they are spiritual and naturally fallen in disagreement/ out of alignment with Christ.
• The Patient Hope We Have and Await/ God’s Plan.
James 1:2-8 2 “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
Escape instability by being grounded on the word of God. He is faithful to prove Himself true! Seek and you’ll find, ask for wisdom and receive it by your faith to come before your Father!
God knows life’s beginnings to ends, and if you are His, He has chosen and spared your soul. Remember this as you face trials in life. Do not be decieved to take your gaurd down.
Expect hardship, and bear it like you know Christ has sealed your fate, for paradise, not through works, but beyond your sin and by Faith. Remember Romans 8:18’s encouragement not to count times now as vastly as you weigh eternity. God looks at the earth knowing there is consequence and reward for everything. Remember the same, and view your sacrifices and pains as under God’s heart who will honor you.
Have no doubt about it, or you’ll falter. Don’t be double-minded in your beliefs in life. When you see people living in sin and claiming God’s favor, know indeed that God does not favor their actions. When you hear unbelievers reject Christ, know there is indeed a resurrected Christ, who draw near to His people dependent on His light. God is supernatural. Put on your Spiritual eyes! Learn His promises!
2nd Thessalonians 1:4-7 4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, 5 which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; 6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay withtribulation those who trouble you, 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels,”
Romans 3: 3-4 3 “For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar.”