July 3, 2016
MY FRIENDS, HAVE WE RELINQUISHED OUR FREE GIFT FROM GOD?
As Christians we attempt to explain away the biblical condemnations of one sin over another. Satan would like for us to think, there are degrees of sin. Isaiah tells us in Isaiah 64:6 (KJV) “We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags….” But the question is not about the sin itself, but how, or when, do we give it all to the Master since “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 (ESV)
My friends, if we have ever been in the presence of God, we have no problem recognizing what is an abominations to God. “But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die…… So Eve believe Satan and ate of the fruit, and she also gave some to her husband………Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked…… Then they heard God walking in the garden…….So they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord……
Then God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And Adam said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I 
was naked, and I hid myself.” Gen 3:1-9 (ESV) My friends we were made in the image meaning physically and spiritual character of God, but endowed with the “free will and the self-conscious personality” to choose right from wrong. And then God gave Adam the sovereign authority over all He had created. And because of sin, Adam gave this authority over to Satan.
Both had been in the presence of God and both had relinquished The free gift God had given them. Satan; “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.” Ez. 28:14 (KJV) Adam; And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over” [all that I have created] Gen. 1:28 (ESV)
Then God’s plan required Christ to reclaim and redeem back to man all what was given to Satan through Adam. And that my friends is what Calvary and the love grace and mercy of Christ sacrifice was all about and why we will be able to live in the presence of God once again in the earth made new and why “ we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 2:2 (ESV)
My friends, we have all been in the presence of God and He has given us the free gift of salvation but are we relinquishing all claims because our focus is on the things of this world and not on our salvation and serving God. One day God will say it is finish, and “all the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world…….. “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels” Matt 25:31-42 (NKJV) And that my friends is how the story ends and “affliction shall not rise up the second time. Nah. 1:9 (KJV)
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