The Sunday Post 5/30/2021

The Sunday Put up 5/30/2021

Articles/Illustrations of Religion, Quotes, poetry, and devotions…

“The Sunday Put up” is a non-denominational column comprised of articles of Religion, poetry, and devotions…

No Hope or Blessed Hope?

ccording to the world, hope is nothing greater than mere wishful pondering or a fleeting want. However, the Bible at all times makes use of the phrase to explain a well-founded and well-grounded expectation for the long run. It speaks of full confidence in a single’s future on this life and within the one to return, that God will preserve His guarantees. It speaks of unshakable religion in a single’s future and an everlasting dwelling in Heaven.

At this time we frequently use the phrase “hope” in a really careless type of means. We are saying we hope it doesn’t rain or we hope we’ve got a snowy winter. However the Bible by no means makes use of the phrase hope in such a means.

Psalm 31:24 Be of fine braveness, and he shall strengthen your coronary heart, all ye that hope within the Lord.

Psalm 71:5 For thou artwork my hope, O Lord God: thou artwork my belief from my youth.

1 Cor. 13:13 And now abideth religion, hope, charity, these three; however the best of those is charity.

The physician lays his finger upon the sick man’s pulse and appears on the household and says, “No hope.” Now, these are very darkish phrases within the context by which I’ve used them, however there may be even a darker sense by which God makes use of the phrase, No Hope, to explain the situation or the misplaced.

The lads right here in Ephesians 2 are Gentiles coming neither below God’s program for Israel, the circumcision, or the church being with out Christ, (the uncircumcision)

Eph 2:11-12 Wherefore keep in mind, that ye being in time previous Gentiles within the flesh, who’re known as uncircumcision by that which is known as the Circumcision within the flesh made by palms; That at the moment ye had been with out Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and with out God on the planet

Now we all know that religion cometh by listening to and listening to by the Phrase of God. The best present of God to man, second solely to His solely begotten Son, is the Bible. With out it we are able to by no means be saved for it alone reveals the plan of salvation. With out the Bible, our religion and hope can by no means develop nor prosper. At this time we live in a really darkish time spoken of by the prophet Amos.

Amos 8:11 Behold, the times come, saith the Lord GOD, that I’ll ship a famine within the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, however of listening to the phrases of the LORD:

No larger curse can come across males than for God to remove His true phrases. We live in a time by which the reality of God has been remodeled right into a lie.

Romans 1:25 Who modified the reality of God right into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature greater than the Creator, who’s blessed eternally. Amen.

Pastor Brown Sims- I urge you to rigorously learn the primary chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the present day and browse it thoughtfully and thoroughly and make your individual judgment concerning the situation the world you see round you. It’s the women and men spoken of in Romans 1 which might be with out hope on the planet, however it doesn’t must be.

Within the face of the hopelessness that grips our world, there may be one group of people who possess real hope. The believer has hope!

Salvation, full and free, is out there to all. The larger the sin the larger the grace and mercy prolonged by the Lord Jesus. This brings me to the final and the best hope of all, the return of Jesus to this very earth as He stated He would return in clouds of nice glory.

Acts 1:10-11 And whereas they seemed steadfastly towards heaven as he went up, behold, two males stood by them in white attire; which additionally stated, Ye males of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this identical Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so are available in like method as ye have seen him go into heaven.

He’s coming quickly and that’s the best expectation for the long run a person or girl can have. The return of Jesus is known as by Titus the blessed hope.

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all males, instructing us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must always stay soberly, righteously, and godly, on this current world; on the lookout for that blessed hope, and the fantastic showing of the nice God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

titanic What’s your situation in the present day? Is it one in all no hope or blessed hope? When the Titanic went down in 1912 there have been solely two lists posted within the Cunard delivery line workplace: misplaced and saved. That record is irreversible. The souls of those that misplaced their lives on the Titanic are eternally locked onto one record or the opposite. However what about you, you’re completely different in that regardless that you might be on the misplaced record, so long as you reside, you may get moved to the saved record. At this time in the event you hear the voice of the Holy Spirit calling you, harden not your coronary heart, however come to him looking for forgiveness and repentance earlier than it’s everlastingly too late.

Hebrews 3:15 Whereas it’s stated, At this time if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as within the provocation.

– Pastor Brown Sims

didyouknow

In each language on the planet two phrases are at all times the identical: Amen and Hallelujah. The Chinese language, Russians, Swedes, Japanese, everyone on earth pronounces these two phrases the identical.

Phrases Of Knowledge…

We’re making preparations for a spot we’re leaving and no preparations for a spot we’re going.

If there is no such thing as a concern in judgement, there is no such thing as a pleasure in deliverance.

Nobody who dodges the cross will ever put on the crown.

We will’t change into what we must be, “if” we stay who we’re.

F.A.T. Christians = trustworthy, Obtainable, teachable

The place you sit in Heaven depends upon the place you stand down right here.

Nothing is profitable that leads to Hell.

Backsliding: is just not a lot the place you’re going as once you left, Not a lot doing what you ought NOT to do…. BUT NOT DOING what try to be doing.

Human efforts won’t ever produce fruits of the spirit, solely the spirit produces fruit

Don’t neglect within the darkness what you might have realized within the mild. God stays the identical, even at the hours of darkness.

A lil’ Bible Trivia……

teacher riddle

The reply could also be discovered on the finish of this put up.

Extra Than Phrases…

Hebrews 4:12 – For the phrase of God is fast, and highly effective, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the ideas and intents of the center.

A few years in the past in a Moscow theater, matinee idol Alexander Rostovzev was transformed whereas enjoying the function of Jesus in a sacrilegious play entitled Christ in a Tuxedo. He was alleged to learn two verses from the Sermon on the Mount, take away his robe, and cry out, “Give me my tuxedo and prime hat!” However as he learn the phrases, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the dominion of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted,” he started to tremble. As a substitute of following the script, he stored studying from Matthew 5, ignoring the coughs, calls, and foot-stamping of his fellow actors. Lastly, recalling a verse he had realized in his childhood in a Russian Orthodox church, he cried, “Lord, keep in mind me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom!” (Luke 23:42). Earlier than the curtain could possibly be lowered, Rostovzev had trusted Jesus Christ as his private Savior.

– J.Ok. Johnston, Why Christians Sin, Discovery Home, 1992, p. 121

Isaiah 55:11 – So shall my phrase be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, however it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper within the factor whereto I despatched it.

“The best enemy of starvation for God is just not poison however apple pie…

It’s not the banquet of the depraved that dulls our urge for food for heaven, however countless nibbling on the desk of the world. It’s not the R-rated video, however the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in each evening. For all of the unwell that Devil can do, when God describes what retains us from the banquet desk of his love, it’s a piece of land, a yoke of oxen, and a spouse (Luke 14:18-20). The best adversary of affection to God is just not his enemies however his items. And essentially the most lethal appetites should not for the poison of evil, however for the straightforward pleasures of earth. For when these substitute an urge for food for God himself, the idolatry is scarcely recognizable and virtually incurable.”

Lord God, please direct our steps and present us tips on how to love you greater than our personal regular, busy lives. Please present us tips on how to stay for you above all else this 12 months.

– Biblical Homemaking

Scott Hamilton – American determine skater and Olympic gold medalist resides right here in center Tennessee and tells his private testimony in “I’m Second”

Sheep can’t assist one another again on their toes. Solely the shepherd will help!

Sheep need the Shepherd 511a

Our best want

If our best want had been info,

God would have despatched us an educator;

If our best want had been know-how,

God would have despatched us a scientist; If our best want had been cash,

God would have despatched us an economist;

If our best want had been pleasure, God would have despatched us an entertainer;

However our best want was forgiveness, so God despatched us a Savior.

— Supply Unknown

And the Phrase was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the one begotten of the Father,) filled with grace and reality. (John 1:14)

Jesus stated unto her (Martha – after her brother’s loss of life – Lazarus), I’m the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, although he had been lifeless, but shall he stay: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall by no means die. Believest thou this? (John 11:25-26)

“You both imagine God (that’s revelation), otherwise you imagine hypothesis. Religion have to be anchored in one thing.”

– Dr. McGee

Parable of the Satan & The Wealthy Man

A really rich man lived on an enormous property with many pure treasures. He possessed rivers and lakes. He owned untold acres of woodlands with bushes a thousand years outdated. The mountains in view had been his and so had been the plains that stretched out earlier than the hills. However the bushes had been maybe his most prized possessions.

Now this man had a neighbor (who performs the a part of the satan) who was simply crammed with jealousy and hatred for the wealthy man and all that he owned.

Many plans are in a person’s coronary heart, However the counsel of the Lord will stand. Proverbs 19:21

He spent his days and nights plotting what he may do to injure and harm his rich neighbor.

Lastly, he come across it. He would exit yonder below the duvet of darkness and lower down one of many wealthy man’s magnificent bushes. He went on the primary moonless and cloud lined evening together with his ax, his noticed, and his wedges. He labored feverishly via the darkish evening. His palms had been quickly blistered and bloody however he labored on. Lastly, it started to get mild and he heard the sound of a wagon with the voices of two males approaching.

axe in log

Rapidly he drove in his final wedge and the towering tree started to fall and he ran for all he was price, however a big department caught and pierced him and pinned him to the bottom.

Simply then the wagon pulled as much as this bloody scene and it was the person who owned the property and one other man the tree cutter didn’t acknowledge. The tree cutter, even in his ache, shook his fist on the proprietor and stated: “I hate you with an ideal hatred and I’ve lower down one in all your treasured bushes. WHAT do you consider that?”

The proprietor of the homestead stated this man with me is my architect and we’re right here to look over the sight of a brand new mansion I intend to construct. Our plans require that solely one in all my nice bushes want be lower with a view to construct my new dwelling. And the tree you simply misplaced your life in slicing is the one. Thanks on your companies.”

You could be positive the satan has by no means lower one in all God’s bushes besides it was by His design and by His permission. The satan is barely a puppet actually, and it’s God who pulls the strings.

By Donald G. Barnhouse

And we all know that God causes all issues to work collectively for good to those that love God, to those that are known as in keeping with His goal. Romans 8:28

“The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings all the way down to Sheol and raises up. “The Lord makes poor and wealthy; He brings low, He additionally exalts.1 Samuel 2:6-7

The Lord is gradual to anger and nice in energy, And the Lord will certainly not depart the responsible unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His means, And clouds are the mud beneath His toes. 4 He rebukes the ocean and makes it dry; He dries up all of the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither; The blossoms of Lebanon wither. 5 Mountains quake due to Him And the hills dissolve; Certainly the earth is upheaved by His presence, The world and all of the inhabitants in it. 6 Who can stand earlier than His indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fireplace And the rocks are damaged up by Him. Nahum 1:3-6

God whispers to you in your prosperity

God Speaks to you in your want

God shouts at you in your affliction

No matter trials you’re going through search God and His knowledge and energy. Pray with out ceasing! He’s trustworthy!

Be troubled for nothing, however in every little thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made identified to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

Belief within the Lord with all of your coronary heart, and don’t lean by yourself understanding. In all of your methods acknowledge him, and he’ll make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

The Starting & The Finish

The Bible is all one story. The final a part of the final Guide within the Bible reads just like the near the primary a part of the primary Guide of the Bible.

The primary Phrases in Genesis: 1:1
Within the Starting God created the heavens and the earth.

Virtually the final phrases in Revelation: 21:1
I noticed a brand new heaven and a brand new earth.

The gathering collectively of the waters he known as the ocean. (Genesis 1:10)
And the ocean isn’t any extra. (Rev. 21:1)

The darkness he known as the evening. (Genesis 1:5)
There shall be no evening there. (Rev. 21:25)

Within the day you eat thereof you shall absolutely die. (Gen. 2:17)
Demise shall be no extra. (Rev. 21:4)

Genesis 3:14 the solar seems for the primary time.
There isn’t a extra solar nor moon for the Lamb is the sunshine of it. Rev. 21:23 and Rev. 22:5

I’ll drastically multiply your ache. (Gen. 3:16)
Neither shall there be ache anymore. (Rev. 21:4)

Cursed is the bottom on your sake. (Gen. 3:17)
There shall be no extra curse. (Rev. 22:3)

Devil seems because the deceiver of mankind. (Gen. 3:1, 4)
Devil disappears eternally. (Rev. 20:10)

Man is pushed from the Tree of Life. (Gen. 3:22-24)
The Tree of Life reappears. (Rev. 22:2)

Man is pushed from God’s presence. (Gen. 3:24)
We will see His face. (Rev. 22:4)

Man’s primeval dwelling was beside a river. (Genesis 2:10)
Man’s everlasting dwelling can also be beside a river. (Rev. 21:1)

There isn’t a satan within the first two chapters of Genesis
There isn’t a satan within the final two chapters of Revelation!

(Supply: Halley’s Bible Handbook)

Saved!, How?

All have sinned—“For all have sinned and are available wanting the glory of God” – Romans 3:23

Sin have to be paid for—“For the wages of sin is loss of life however the present of God is everlasting life” – Romans 6:23

Jesus Christ paid for our sins—“However God commendeth His love towards us, in that whereas we had been but sinners, Christ died for us” – Romans 5:8

What we should do—“For whosoever shall name upon the identify of the Lord shall be saved” – Romans 10:13

How we are able to know we’re on our approach to Heaven—“He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life…” – John 3:36

How To be Certain We’re Saved—“However as many as acquired him, to them gave he energy to change into the sons of God, even to them that imagine on his identify” – John 1:12

Prayer is our strongest useful resource and our direct line with Heaven! You’ll be able to name on the Lord any hour of the day or evening regardless of the place you’re. Pray actually and overtly with the Lord in your individual phrases from the center. Richard Sibbes As soon as stated, “God can decide sense out of a confused prayer!” And The angel fetched Peter out of jail, however it was prayer that fetched the angel in keeping with Thomas Watson. So pray!!!, God is listening, he is aware of you, He knew you earlier than you had been born in keeping with Jeremiah 1:5.

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