Monday, December 7, 2009

Satan Trembles

James 2:19 of the Holy Bible says ,"Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble."

And they should!

Question....If some of the fallen angels were to ask for forgiveness, would God forgive them if they were truly repentant?

Answer...NO!

Follow up question.....But since an attribute of God is love, would not His love demand that He show grace to all repentant hearts?

Answer...NO!

Explanation.....True, one of God's attributes is love, and another is justice. His justice is what allows us to see his love....and grace.

God became a man so that man could trust God. Jesus died for man to satisfy the justice, and the wrath that was bearing down on us. Justice demands satisfaction...and it was satisfied in the wrath of God placed on Jesus in our place. God did not became an angel to satisfy his wrath against their rebelling against him. They will recieve the just wrath of their rebellion in due time and they do NOT have a way of escape, as we do.

1st Corinthians 10:13 of our Holy Bible states, "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

Many people wrongfully use this verse to say that God will not place anymore on us than we can bear. Read it....it does not say that. It says that when we are tempted to sin God has made a way of escape, that you would be able to bear and overcome that temptation..and that way is Jesus.

Fallen angels don't have that.

Their doom is set in place and cannot be rescinded.

And something else to think about. We are born with the predisposition to sin.
Angels were created and made conscience decisions to follow in the great rebellion.

Yes the fallen angels Do tremble, and there is nothing they can do about it.
That is why they are so jealous of us, and therefore do EVERYTHING they can to take us down.

1st Peter 5:8 of our Holy Bible states, " Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:"

Yes....the devil has an attitude problem, his doom is ever before him.
If YOU have not taken Jesus up on his offer of escape, then your doom is also ever before you, but it does not have to be that way.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

The Core of my Testimony

The core of my testimony is this.

I was raised among outlaws, bikers and saints.
I ran from God until I ran into Jesus.
I was a poor example of a father, and a poor example of a husband.
Due the prayers of a praying Dad…and a praying Grandmother, that just went to be with the Lord a couple of weeks ago.

I fell under conviction for years. It was the invitation of one of my old drinking buddies that brought me to church.

When was the last time you invited someone to church...let alone seriously talked to them about the wrath they face if they don't accept the freely offered rescue.

Look, they say about 150,000 people die daily. My question is not, how many are going to face the wrath of a justifiably angry god, but how many have even been told that they are law breakers?

Jesus commanded that we go forth and make disciples. Are you sitting there fat, dumb and happy in your padded pews while everybody else suffers?

If God is love…where is the love in that sort of thinking?

"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one GO there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for." Charles Spurgeon

You may say, you are not your brother’s keeper. I would say that your name is Cain. You are your brother’s murderer; for every professing Christian, who is not his brother’s keeper, is his brother’s killer; and you can be sure of that! You may kill by neglect quite as surely as you may kill by a gun.


"We cannot be fishers of men if we remain among men in the same element with them. Fish will not be fishers. The sinner will not convert the sinner. The ungodly man will not convert the ungodly man; and, what is more to the point, the worldly Christian will not convert the world." Charles Spurgeon