God's Relentless Pursuit of YOU!
Have you seen the sign outside The Vineyard Church in Austin? It reads, “God’s Relentless Pursuit of you.” What does this mean? Is this biblical?
God’s grace is relentless and He pursues. Another term for this is “irresistible grace.” Where do we find this in Scripture?
When I went to take a picture of the sign to post with this blog, I came at it from the opposite direction. From distance, I could see that the words were different. I thought, “I’m too late, they’ve changed the sign.” As I approached, I read, “Are You Catchable?” and realized that I was looking at the flip side.
Are you catchable?
So ARE you “catchable”? Do you want God to catch you? Or are you running away? What difference does it make? If God desires to catch you, can He? Or does it depend on our running speed and ability to avoid Him? This is the topic of Study–>See–>Savor! #8
The last two study sessions we have looked at our rebellion against God. Our natural condition without God. Our sinful nature. We have seen from Scripture that our falleness is total, everything we do in this rebellious condition is sin. We can NOT submit to God or reform ourselves. We are dead in our sin, and without God we would stay in that condition. We deserve eternal punishment.
John Piper says, “It is hard to exaggerate the importance of admitting our condition to be this bad. If we think of ourselves as basically good or even less than totally at odds with God, our grasp of the work of God in redemption will be defective.” We like to think that there is some remnant of good in us. It is humbling to admit our true condition. But without it, we can NOT truly understand God’s amazing grace! As we look more closely at God’s grace in session 8, my prayer is that you will SEE and SAVOR the wonder that God steps into our lives and makes us alive!
First we looked at passages in the Bible that speak about how we resist God, run away….
Acts 7:51: Stephen says to the Jewish leaders, “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.”
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit.
The Old Testament is one long story of God’s people resisting against Him. Time after time, God pleads with them, forgives them, disciplines them…and they keep resisting Him.
Matthew 21:33-43 The Parable of the Tenants
33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Romans 10:21 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Do you remember the first few weeks of this study when we looked at the sovereignty of God? Here is one implication of that doctrine of sovereignty. God can overcome all resistance when he wants to.
Daniel 4:35 “He does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand!”
Psalm 115:3“Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases”
When God decides to do something, nothing stops Him! No one or nothing can successfully stand against Him.
This is what Paul taught in Romans 9:14-18, open to that.
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
Paul anticipates the argument then: You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
So you see that this doctrine does not just refer to God being sovereign and doing whatever He wants in the world, it refers specifically to Him being sovereign in overcoming the rebellion of our hearts. It means He has the authority and the power to perform a heart transplant on me, making me alive and bringing me to faith in Christ so I can be saved! If our condition apart from God’s grace is really as bad as we’ve seen in Scripture, then you know that there is NO hope for our salvation unless God pursues us relentlessly, irresistibly. If we are, as Ephesians 2 states, dead in our sins, totally unable to submit to God, then we will never believe in Christ unless God overcomes our rebellious, dead hearts.
This is what is referred to by theologians as the “doctrine of irresistible grace.” This does not mean that all influences of God are irresistible. People resist God all the time! (They are running away from God.) It means that God, the Holy Spirit, can (has the power, the ability to) overcome any resistance and make His influence irresistible. (He can “catch” us!)
Ok, at this point someone is sure to argue, “Yes, the Holy Spirit must draw us to God, but we can use our freedom to resist or accept that drawing.”
What do we say to this? Look at Romans 8:7-8 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
If we can’t submit to God, we will always use our freedom to resist God. If I become humble enough to submit to God it is because God has given me a new, humble nature. Those of you who attended The Rebelution will recall an illustration that was used. I put this on my blog a few weeks ago.
Think about a WOLF…he doesn’t eat hay, and would starve to death before he would eat hay. Consider a LAMB…he wouldn’t eat a steak if his life depended on it. In the same way, we have a nature that doesn’t see righteousness as good. It all looks boring, uninteresting. The heart of a sinner CAN’T WANT the things that please God. We can’t change what we WANT without a change in our nature. The wolf is not free to choose to eat hay. We have freedom of choice-yes-like how we are going to offend God next! Without God’s grace, we don’t have any other option. Our righteousness is as filthy rags.
BUT when we are born again, God makes us a new creature. We get a new heart. The heart of a lamb.
If a person remains a “wolf”, too hard-hearted and proud to submit to God, it is because that person has not been given a new heart, a “lamb” heart, that is willing to submit to God.
In John 6:44 Jesus says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.”
This drawing is the sovereign work of grace without which no one can be saved from their rebellion against God.
What might the argument be? “God draws all men, not just some.” If we look at the context of Jesus’ talk, we see that He is explaining why some believe and not others.
Look at John 6:64-65 “‘But there are some of you that do not believe.’ For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that should betray him. And he said, ‘This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.’”
Notice two things.
1. Coming to Jesus is granted by GOD. It is a gift. It is not just an opportunity. Coming to Jesus is “given” or “granted” to some and not to others.
2. The reason Jesus says this, is to explain why “there are some who do not believe.” John Piper explains,
“We could paraphrase it like this: Jesus knew from the beginning that Judas would not believe on him in spite of all the teaching and invitations he received. And because he knew this, he explains it with the words, No one comes to me unless it is given to him by my Father. Judas was not given to Jesus. There were many influences on his life for good. But the decisive, irresistible gift of grace was not given.”
2 Timothy 2:24-25 says, “The Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth.”
Here, as in John 6:65 repentance is called a “grant,” a gift of God. Paul is talking not about salvation being a gift here (he says that clearly in Eph 2) He is talking about one of the prerequisites of salvation. When a person hears the Gospel presented, or a pastor call for repentance, he can resist that call. But if God “gives him repentance”, he cannot resist because the wonderful gift is that God takes away the resistance! He WANTS to repent, he really wants to submit to God.
NOTE: Does this mean that God’s grace forces us to believe against our will? No, that would be a contradiction in terms. When we share the Gospel with a person, we are trying to persuade them to do what is reasonable and in their best interest, what is wonderful and amazing. The Gospel is GOOD news! When God overcomes our resistance, we WANT what we’ve never wanted before.
1 Corinthians 1:23-24 says, “We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jew and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”
There two kinds of “calls” that Paul talks about in this text. Look closely.
1. The preaching of Paul goes out to all, both Jews and Greeks. This is the general call of the gospel. It offers salvation to all who will believe on the crucified Christ. Paul says most people reject this message. They think it is “folly”—foolishness. They stumble over this Good News.
2. BUT, Paul refers to another kind of “call”. When he preaches, there are some who hear and who are “called” in such a way that they don’t think of the cross as foolishness anymore but as the wisdom and power of God. John Piper comments, “What else can this call be but the irresistible call of God out of darkness into the light of God? If ALL who are called in this sense regard the cross as the power of God, then something in the call must effect the faith. This is irresistible grace.”
2 Corinthians 4:4-6 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Since we are blinded spiritually, a miracle of sight is needed in order for us to come to see and believe. Paul compares this miracle with the first day of creation when God said, “Let there be light.” God creates in us a new heart, new eyes to see HIM! We no longer see Him as stupid and fall over Him, we see Him as wonderful. He takes away our blindness so that we can see God’s power and His wisdom, His love and His grace!
Acts 16:14 (where Lydia is listening to the preaching of Paul.) “The Lord opened her heart to give heed to what was said by Paul.” ESV says, The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. Unless God opens our hearts, we will not pay attention to the message of the gospel. This heart-opening is what is meant by “irresistible grace.”
The Bible talks about this heart-opening” in other terms. Another way to describe it is “new birth” or being born again.
Look at 1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
Look carefully at the tenses of the verbs….
Believes…..Loves……ongoing, present tense, something I do now
HAS BEEN born of God…..something that happened to me in the past
New birth is a miraculous creation of God that enables a formerly “dead” person (Eph 2) to receive Christ and so be saved. Faith is not something that a dead person conjures up out of some nook of goodness left in him somewhere. A person does not have faith and THEN get born again. Biblically, we are born again by God’s Spirit, and then faith/belief stems from that. Faith is the evidence, the fruit, of God working in our lives.
John 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right (power/ability) to become children of God, John goes on in verse 13 to say that those who do receive Christ “were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” We DO need to receive Christ in order to become a child of God, but the new birth that happens first is not orchestrated by us, but by God.
We are dead in trespasses and sins. (Eph 2) We can’t create new life in ourselves. We must be born of God. Then, with the new nature of God, (wolf heart taken out, lamb heart put in) we immediately receive Christ. Being born again and believing are so closely connected that we can’t separate the two acts. God pursues us relentlessly, regenerates us, makes us alive, gives us new birth and the first glimmer of that new life is faith–to see Him as irresistibly beautiful, desirable and believe. God runs after us, pursues us…and instead of turning away, we embrace Him, love Him, WANT Him, where previously all we wanted was to get away and hide from God. Our new birth is the effect of God’s irresistible grace, because it is an act of God’s sovereign, loving creation—”not of the will of man but of God.”
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“Let There Be Light”
“In The Beginning” The Creator(Our Father) said,
“Let There Be Light, and There Was Light”
“LIGHT Begets Light!”
“The Beginning of The Creation of GOD!”
And the revelation that The Messiah received of
The Creator and gave unto the apostle John bore
witness to The Truth that The Messiah, was
“The Beginning of the Creation of GOD(Our
Father, Creator of ALL)”! (Rev 1:1, 3:14)
And The Messiah bore witness to His Brethren
when He testified, “My GOD is your GOD and My
Father(Creator) is your Father(Creator).”(Jn 20:17)
The Messiah testified “I have sent My angel to
you with this testimony for the assemblies. I am
the root and the offspring of David. I am the bright,
Morning Star(Light)”! (Rev 22:16) ) Peter testified
“We have the more sure word of prophecy; and
you do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a
dark place, until the day dawns, and The Morning
Star(Light) arises in your hearts.”(2Pt 1:19) “But
you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, HIS own special people, that you
may proclaim the praises of HIM who called you
out of darkness into His marvelous Light.”(1Pt2:9)
And the evening(darkness) and The Morning
(Light) was the First Day.” (Gen 1:5)
“Let There Be Light”!
“The Beginning of The Creation of GOD”!
It is very important to both know and experience
The Messiah as He Is, Was and always Will Be,
and also to know the “glory He had with Our
Father” before He was born in “the likeness of
sinful flesh”. (John 17:5, Rom 8:3) For what The
Messiah Was and Is, Is that which He will always
Will Be.”The Only Begotten Son” of “Our Father”!
First, let me simply state that I do not believe the
“catholic” and “christian” theo’ry’logical doctrines
concerning “The Only True GOD, Father ALL”. For
they “image”ine a three-headed “god” they call
their “trinity”, or they declare their “christ” to be
their “god and father”, or they believe that The
Messiah was but an exalted messenger(angel)
or prophet.
John The Baptist testified, “And I saw, and bare
record that The Messiah is the Son of GOD(Our
Father).”(John 1:34) Peter testified, “You are The
Messiah, The Son of The Living GOD(Father of
ALL)”!(Matt 16:16) And the Ethiopian eunuch
testified, “I believe that The Messiah is The Son
of GOD(Our Father)”. (Acts 8:37) “Seeing then
that we have a great high priest, that is passed
into the Heavens, The Messiah, The Son of
GOD(Our Father), let us hold fast our profession.”
(Heb 4:14) “These things are written so that you
might believe that The Messiah is The Son of GOD
(Our Father)”. (John 20:31) The Messiah testified
that He was “The Son of GOD”, and that His GOD
was “The Only True GOD(Father of ALL)”.
(John 10:36,17:3)
And The Messiah also testified that He was the
“Son of man” and “The Light of the world”.
(Matt 26:64, John 8:12)
It is needful to believe that The Messiah Was, Is
and always Will Be “The Son of The Living GOD”,
and that there is but “One GOD, HE WHO is
Father of ALL”. (Mat 16:16, Eph 4:6) The Messiah
bore witness to His Brethren when He testified
after being “raised from among the dead”, “My GOD
is your GOD and My Father(Creator) is your Father
(Creator)” (John 20:17)
Is The Messiah’s GOD and Father your GOD
and Father?
Who are The Brethren of The Messiah?
“Let There Be Light”
Once again, It is very important to both know and
experience The Messiah as He Was, Is and always
Will Be. The Messiah simply testified in John 17:5
“And now O Father, glorify Me with YOUR own self
with the glory that I had with YOU before the world
began”.
Prior to that testimony The Messiah had testified,
“Yet a little while is The Light with you. Walk while
you have The Light, lest darkness comes upon
you: for he that walks in darkness does not know
where he goes. While you have Light, believe in
The Light, that you may be the children of Light.”
(John 12:35-36)
And the apostle John testified: “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and
The Word was GOD. (John did not testify that
The Word is GOD)The same was in the beginning
with GOD. All things were made by Him, and
without Him was not any thing made that was
made. In Him was Life; and The Life was The
Light of men. And The Light shined in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not. There
was a man sent from GOD, whose name was
John. The same came for a witness, to bear
witness of The Light, that all men through Him
might believe. He(John the baptist) was not that
Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the True Light, which enlightens every
man that comes into the world. He(The Messiah)
was in the world, and the world was made by
Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto
His own, and His own received Him not. But as
many as received Him, to them He gave power
to become the sons of GOD, even to them that
believe on His name: Which were born, not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of “The Only True GOD, Father of
ALL”.” (John 1:1-13)
It is needful to realize that The Messiah testified
of “The Only True GOD” in John 17:3, and so it is
that The GOD and Father of The Messiah IS,
WAS and always WILL BE “The Only True GOD”.
“The Only True GOD” is “Father of ALL”.
And “The Father of ALL” is “Our Father”, HE WHO
IS “The Only True GOD” and Father of The Messiah
and His Brethren.
And the apostle John testified in John 3:17-21:
“For Our Father sent not his Son into the world
to condemn the world; but that the world through
Him might be saved. He that believes on Him is
not condemned: but he that believes not is
condemned already, because he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of GOD(Our
Father). And this is the condemnation, that Light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that does evil hates The Light,
neither comes to The Light, lest his deeds should
be reproved. But he that does Truth comes to The
Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that
they are wrought in GOD(Our Father).”
In John 12:34 the people asked, “Who is this Son
of man? Then in John 12:35-36, “The Messiah said
unto them, yet a little while is The Light with you.
Walk while you have The Light, lest darkness come
upon you: for he that walks in darkness does not
know where he goes. While you have Light, believe
in The Light, that you may be the children of Light.
The Messiah spoke these things, and departed,
and hid Himself from them.”
Simply, “In The Beginning” The Only True GOD
spoke The Word, “Let There Be Light”, “And there
was Light”! “And there was evening(darkness) and
there was morning (Light), The First Day”. (Gen 1:5)
Certainly such “Light” was not “natural” light, for
“natural” light, the sun, moon, and stars were not
created until the “fourth day”. (Gen 1:14-19)
“In the beginning”, “The First Day”, The Father of
All created “The Light”, without which Creation and
Life, as we now know and experience it, could not
have been.
The First Day, “The Light”, The Messiah, “The
beginning of the Creation of GOD(HE WHO is
The Only True GOD and Father of ALL)”!
(Gen 1:3, Rev 3:14, John 17:3, Eph 4:6)
And “The Only True GOD” created all “things” by,
through, and for “The Light”, The Messiah, “The
Son of The Living GOD” and “Son of man”.
(Col 1:15, Eph 3:9, Mat 16:16, Mat 12:32)
LIGHT begets Light!
And “The True Light which enlightens every man
coming into the world”, was born as a child
destined to be The Messiah. (John 1:9, Mat 1:21)
The Messiah, “The Light of the world”.
(John 8:12, 9:5)
The Messiah, “The firstborn of every creature
(all creation)”. (Col 1:15)
The Messiah, “Begotten of Our Father”,
“The firstborn among many Brethren”.
(Heb 1:5) (Ps 2:7) (Rom 8:29)
The Messiah, “A servant of The Only True GOD
(Father of ALL)”. (Isa 42:1-7)
The Messiah, “The Lamb of GOD”.
(John 1:29,36)
The Messiah, “The firstborn from among the dead”.
(Col 1:18)
Once again: “In The Beginning” Our Father, “The
Only True GOD” spoke: “Let there be Light, and
there was Light”! The Messiah, “The Beginning of
the Creation of GOD”, “the firstborn of every
creature(all creation)”. (Gen 1:3, John 17:3,
Rev 3:14, Col 1:15)
Thanks Be To “Our Father”!
The Messiah, The Creation of “The Only True
GOD, Father of ALL”! (Rev 3:14)
The Messiah, “made so much better than the
angels”! (Heb 1:4)
The Messiah, “The Light of the world”!
(John 8:12, 9:5)
“The Lamb of GOD”, “The Light of The New
Heavenly Jerusalem”! (Rev 21:22-23)
Paul experienced “The Light ” on the road to
Damascus. “And it came to pass, that, as I
made my journey, and came near unto
Damascus about noontime, suddenly a great
Light from Heaven shone round about me.
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice
saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute Me? And I answered, “Who are
You, Master”? And He said unto me, I am
Yehowshuwa’(Yeshua, Jeshua) of Nazareth,
Whom you persecute. And they that were
with me saw The Light, and were afraid; but
they did not hear the voice of Him that spoke
to me. And I said, “What shall I do, Master”?
And He said unto me, arise and go into
Damascus, and there you shall be told all
things which are appointed for you to do.
And when I could not see for the glory of
that Light, I was led by the hand into
Damascus.” (Acts 22:6-11)
Paul also testified, “At midday I saw in the
way a Light from Heaven, ABOVE THE
BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN, shining round
about me and those who journeyed with me.
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I
heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying
in the HEBREW tongue, Saul, Saul, why do
you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick
against the pricks.” (The Messiah could not
have told Paul, “I am jesus” for He spoke in
the “HEBREW tongue”) (Acts 26:13-14)
Paul saw “The Light” that was The Messiah
and he was blinded(naturally, not Spiritually)
for a time. Now when The Messiah was in
the “likeness of sinful flesh”, born as “the
Son of man”, He could only reflect “The
Light”, liken unto the moon which but reflects
the light of the natural sun.
“Let There Be Light”
The Messiah, “The Light of the world”!
And consider the natural light provided by the
sun, which was Created on the fourth day.
Does not the natural light of the sun reveal
outwardly, all the earthly, natural things?
Consider what happens when that which you
thought was clean is exposed to the light of
the sun? Is not the least outward particle of
uncleanness readily seen in the light of the
sun? And so it is with “The Light” that is The
Messiah. For His Life, “The Life”, reveals
and exposes all the uncleanness in “our”
life, the life that is of “our” own creation,
which is the “I(ego, id)” in all of us, the
product of “our” own vain “imag”inations!
So it needs be that “The Light” penetrates
deeply, even into the innermost recesses
of the heart, “rightly dividing the soul and
spirit”, exposing all the darkness that the
“I” in all of us did not want to “see”!
Yet for such a cleansing to begin one must
“experience The Messiah(The Light) and
The Power that raised Him from among the
dead”!(Php 3:10) Oh, there are many who
know of a “messiah”, yet who has
experienced “The Light”? For “The Light”
was “The Beginning of Creation” both the
old, which was natural and earthly and The
New, which is of The Spirit and Heavenly.
Those who “love this world and it’s things”
yet desire that which “decayed, waxed
old and vanished away” (Heb 8:13) They
are of those “whose ‘god’ is their belly,
and whose glory is in their shame, for
they mind earthly things”. (Phlp 3:19)
Sadly, those who “love this world and it’s
things” yet love darkness more than The
Light and they will abide in the darkness
they loved forever ;-( (1Jn2:15,Jn3:19-20)
Sadder yet, systems of religion that are of
this world, such as “catholicism”, “christianity”,
“judaism”, “islam”, etc., have so perverted
The Testimonies, that today, as in the two
thousand or so, years gone by, “The Way
of Truth is evil spoken of”! All because of
the theo’ry’logical, heretical doctrines that
are of men! And especially those
theo’ry’logical doctrines which seek to
define “The Only True GOD, Father of All”.
(2Peter 2:1-2)
All such doctrines are but the product of
mankind’s “imag”ination and mankind’s
“imag”ination is destroying and perverting
Creation(land, air, water, creatures, Light,
Truth, Love, Peace, Joy, Hope, .etc.)
Yes, sadly ;-( Creation is being destroyed
by self-willed men who could care less
about that which is of The Truth(What Is,
Was, and always Will Be), and care even
less about those things which they can
not comprehend apart from their
“natural” senses and mental processes ;-(
And The Truth testifies, The Creator “will
destroy those who destroy the earth(HIS
Creation)”(Rev 11:18).
Sadly, in this wicked world, those who
seek profit will naturally overcome those
who do not ;-(
Yet, There Is Hope!
For The Life is of The Spirit!
And Miracles do happen!
And Faith rejoices against profit(greed)
and theo’ry’logy(logic)!
Hope is there would be those who experience
The Miracle that is receiving “a love of The
Truth” for they will “see” “The Light”.
(2Thes 2:10, John 8:12, 9:5)
And they will receive peace, in spite of the
dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this world, for
they will clearly “see” that “The WHOLE
world is under the control of the evil one”.
(1John 5:19) And they will clearly “see”
things as they are and not as “imag”inative,
world-loving humans would have others
believe them to be, for they will “see” The
Light that is The Messiah……. francisco