Gomorrah. It was where the five cities were to be destroyed. ( but Lot had to have a city to run to for refuge, so only four were rained on by fire of an erupting volcano which included brimestone containing sulfur) In this video two gentlemen were looking for those sulfur balls that had rained down on the wickedness of the people of that time. And as this man walked through and showed the formations of a former city that housed many people, the one thought I had was what a terrible way to die and yet they died according to how they had lived. Perversion will bring that which occurs suddenly, without any notice that death is on the pathway and God never wanted that for those He created! He continued to look for "that sulfur ball" and when found, it spoke of lighting it up. It was turning from an ash white to a yellow color instantly and then it started to expand with the gas and heat. It expanded like a black sheet over the ground. Smoke poured from the top of the mound of this stone and when finished....it was a flat black cover over the ground where it was a stone before.
I like history! I like knowing the history of our nation and the state of which we live. I loved the history of the state I was born in within this nation of America. And I know that is why I love the history God gives to us to know the greatest love ever found within the pages He presented to us to know. But there are those who want to exploit history, change it, cancel it and make something else up! But that is wrong!
The Bible reveals to us the lineage of Jesus in the book of Matthew. Matthew 1: 1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
Then it continues with the "begots"!
Matthew 1:15-17 Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. 16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ. 17 So all the generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.
The history given through the Old Testament gives detail to those of a nation that would at times love God and other times choose to do their own thing! There is even given some detail of those who knew God was with Israel and how they aligned themselves to do what God asked them to do for that nation. Hey, they wanted to live and so they did all to see God had His way in them. ( Genesis 20 Abraham lied about Sara being his sister) ( Genesis 26 Isaac lied about Rebekah being his sister),
Deuteronomy 7:7-8 — "The Lord did not set His love on
you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for
you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because
He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you
out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt."
Like Israel, God has brought us out of bondage! He has brought us into life in His Son!
John 14:31 — "But that the world may know that I love
the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do."
Jesus displayed His love for the Father by His obedience to Him.
Romans 5:5, 8 — Now hope does not disappoint, because the
love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given
to us.
We have the Holy Spirit in us. His golden scepter is always extended to us and as the believer we can rejoice in whatever circumstance nor afflictions for the Father is with us. It is God's love that assures us by the Holy Spirit ministry within our hearts!
Romans 8:35, 39 — Who shall separate us from the love of
God? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword? [Neither] height nor depth, nor any other created thing,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
We are victorious! We are victorious not by ability but because God loved us! Accusers may be many but God's verdict is the final one! Nothing separates us from Him and His love for us!
1 John 4:8,16 — He who does not love does not know God, for
God is love. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God
abides in him, and who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Not all love is of God nor has anything to do with God. Love is the attribute of God. In the relationship with Him, knowing Him and hearing Him speak appears in those who share His passions and His heart. That is God's love! It is not taking the bandwagon with a thousand others to feed people. It is hearing God's heart how those may reached for His glory and not ours!!!
Certainly the Lord has brought us out with a mighty hand. I know not of your life but I certainly had attitude that was wrong most of the time when I was growing up! And yes, my mother had me and my sister in church, Sunday School and every other kind of school as well. And I have also related there was three times my mouth got washed out with Lava soap. Yuck! And no I was not cursing, it was more like a " smart attitude" thing which is not good. In that I am thankful for a God who loved me and sent the son of His love in ransom for my life and for those of my family. He brought us out of bondage and how He did it, was that which revealed a great love that Jesus spoke about continually while He walked on earth of His father!
You and I have been given the Holy Spirit who daily reveals that love for us. Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword? [ Neither] height nor depth nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jesus told us in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father expect through Me."
We must know Jesus to know God the Father. When we know God sent His son for us then we will certainly remember that Jesus spoke of the Father as Jesus obeyed the Father. Jesus was instant in obedience and His dependence was on the Father. In John 14:7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.
Jesus spoke in John 14:10 "The words that I speak to you,I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. 12 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."
What great love displayed in the life of Jesus! What great love the Father displayed by sending His son for us that we would receive Him as Lord and Savior and become Jesus' hands to reach others. To become the born again for God's glory and display that which Jesus presented to us while He walked with His disciples is a miraculous thing indeed! Just for a moment think where you were thirty or forty years ago, and have we not changed for His glory?
Are our lives worthy of that crucified Jesus? Are we those who know the great price given for us? Do we know the love of the Father who loves us even in our sinful nature but gives grace to those who will receive it? Yet there are those who are refusing that great love! There are those revealing names and saying the 'name' but it is not the right name that should be spoken: Acts 4:11-12 This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. 12 Nor is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
You cannot get to the Father by saying many hail Mary's. You only get to the Father through Jesus Christ. It is possible that Israel might have stayed in Egypt without the oppression. Yet, the cries of the people were heard and God chose Moses, a Jew, to bring them out oppression. Moses, raised by Egyptians, became powerful in his speech and yes in his actions. God was with him. ( Exodus 3:1- Exodus 4:17; 5-12) In Acts 7, it is Stephen who presents the picture of Moses and Jesus. He gives detail to Israel rejecting Moses ( Acts 7:33-40) but it was God Himself who affirmed Moses and the same for Jesus. Jesus came in powerful ways, speaking powerfully and highly visible in the affirming the Father. Yes, What great LOVE!
This love displays wonder! It displays nothing I had ever seen before! We had never met, yet He died for me. And when I became aware of Him, yes awakened to Him and His grace, my life is forever changed. I cannot turn back to what was before. I must be about His business, what about you?
You and I have this opportunity to speak out about His great love. We have been given an open door to display His truth and will we in this hour of chaos? For I am not a professional business person, but I do have that ability within me that has come from God. It is a spiritual power and ability to present the Gospel as Jesus did. It is freedom in speech with no opinions. It is truth of the divine of God that His love can flow through us when we willingly accept His great love and even step out to further display it to others. Do we exhibit Him and His love our 'smart self'?
Jesus influenced others in that love. He called out those needing healing: like Matthew 12:13 where there was healing on the Sabbath. Matthew 12:10-14 NKJV And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"---that they might accuse Him. 11 Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?" 12 " Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." 13 The He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other. 14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him how they might destroy Him.
This reveals those who plot against "love". They plot to destroy. But Matthew continues in verses 15-21 of chapter 12 that Jesus is the fulfillment. (seen in Isaiah 42:1-4) Jesus is God's Son/ God's Servant. He is chosen and loved by God. He is obedient and He bears God's Spirit. He will rule over a universal kingdom. He is the humble. He brings the Gentiles into His redemptive plan!
Jesus carried the Cross that would lift Him high above the crowd. They saw it as "shame" and He saw it as a joy in His heart! Hebrews 12:2 ...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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become wary and discouraged in your souls.
He was delighted to regain His place with His Father in heaven. He set everything in place so that we could run this race and endure! He taught us that the Father of spirits does not discipline to harm but to bless those who follow Him, who fellowship with Him in His holiness to receive His peace and His righteousness.
In Romans 8:35-39 there are 17 things that are unable to separate us from the love of
Christ. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation
(1), or distress (2), or persecution (3), or famine (4), or nakedness (5), or
peril (6), or sword (7)? 36 Just as it is written, “For Thy sake we are being
put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38
For I am convinced that neither death (8), nor life (9), nor angels (10), nor
principalities (11), nor things present (12), nor things to come (13), nor
powers (14), 39 nor height (15), nor depth (16), nor any other created thing
(17), shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
Nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Love is the pathway to victory and victory is not even possible without the love of God. Take a look around you, are you victorious today?
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