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TEN REASONS I KNOW THE LOVE OF GOD

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By Ken Blue
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39.

The Bible is really a record of God’s love for mankind. In fact, all the Old Testament Law and Prophets hang on two commands. One is to love God, and the other is to love your fellow man.
No one covers it in detail as Paul does in the above passage. He says:

  • Death- Death comes to all of us. But it has no effect on God’s love for you.
  • Life-Nothing in our determination to live this life for Him will lessen the love of God for you.
  • Angels-These are no doubt evil spirits. They can do nothing to the child of God to reduce God’s love for you.
  • Principalities-This, no doubt, refers to the satanic governments of the heavens. They have no power to influence the love of God for His children.
  • Powers-These powers are also part of the Satan’s kingdom. Nothing in that realm can hinder God’s love for us.
  • Things Present-Thank God that there is not one thing at this present time that can diminish God’s love for you and me.
  • Things To Come-The child of God need not fear anything to come. God’s unchanging love for you will never change.
  • Height-Nothing in the kingdom of the heavens can separate us from the love of God. His love is higher than the heavens.
  • Depth- Nothing in the realm of Hell can hinder the love of God for us. Hell is powerless against the love of God.
  • Nor any Creature-For the comfort of the believer, God adds that in addition to the above. No created beings can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus!

There is no reason to ever question the love of God. If you want to know how much He loves you, look at the cross.

TEN REASONS GOD DOESN’T’ LOVE YOU

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By Ken Blue

• You may hear someone say, “God was lonely, and He needed someone to fellowship with.” Let me assure you, God was never lonely. He is self-sufficient, and there is nothing He needs. He doesn’t love you because of loneliness.

• God does not love you because of your goodness. “…there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Romans 3:12. If you think you are good, you don’t know God, or yourself.

• Some assume the smarter you are the more God will love you. Let me assure you, compared to God, you and I are brain dead. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9. God does not love you because of your grades or I. Q.

• Others are impressed with their beauty; God looks on your heart. How beautiful is it? “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.” Proverbs 31:30. God does not love you because you are pretty.

• I know of nothing that is as over rated as talent. Those in sports, acting, and entertainment are worshipped by our society. Most of them don’t have the character of a first grader. God is not impressed, nor does He love you because you can sing, or juggle tennis balls.

• Most people want to be thought important. They assume people will like them and envy them. Titles, degrees, rank, station, awards, and your star on Broadway my draw the admiration of the foolish, but none of these move the love meter at all. God does not love you because you are deemed important.

• Multitudes think the more religious they are; the more God will love them. Nothing could be further from the truth. “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” Isaiah 64:6.

• Some think if they love God, God will love them in return. They want to make God their debtor. Let me say with assurance, God does not love you because you think you love Him.

• It is commendable that you believe Him. That is a good place to start. But God does not love you because you believe that He is. “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” James 2:19.

• God loves me because I am sincere in what I do. Well, you are sincerely wrong. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12.

None of the above merits the love of God. God’s love resides in Himself. Notice this great verse. “…God is love.” 1 John 4:8. It does not say love is God. It says God is love. Here is my favorite Bible verse. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8. Why does a mother love her child? Aren’t you glad you don’t have to earn or merit God’s love? It is free!

LET’S STUDY REVELATION # 32

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This study gives a brief review of the first eight chapters.

 

The following two “woes” compose the contents of the sixth and seventh trumpets.*

 

“One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,  Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.  And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.  By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”  (Revelation 9:12-21).

 

The detailed description of these creatures has a symbolic significance, as does that of the Son of Man who stands amid the seven candlesticks. Read again verses 17-19 for that description. We have not found any commentator to give the significance of these details.

CHAPTER TEN

A Review of Revelation Chapter 1-8:6

 

I.          Introduction- Chapters 1. John gives the preliminaries to the Revelation. In it we discover that John was physically on the isle of Patmos. We see how he was carried forward into the Day of the Lord, and we see the Son of Man in the midst of the seven churches.

 

II.         Vision on Earth-Chapters 2-3. In these chapters we see the seven churches. In them, the churches receive letters of rebuke, letters of warning, letters of admonition, letters of encouragement to overcome, and letters of commendation.

 

III.       Vision in Heaven-Chapters 4-5. Here we see the rainbow-circled throne, the seventy elders, the four living creatures, the seven-sealed book, and the Lamb that was slain who was the only one worthy to open the book.

 

IV.       Vision on Earth- Chapters 6:1-7:8. Here we have the opening of the six seals and the sealing of the 144,000. These six seals take the reader completely through the Day of the Lord. The sealing of the 144,000 takes the reader back just prior to the opening of the first seal.

 

V.        Vision in Heaven-Chapters 7:9-8:6. These chapters consist of the great multitude and the seventh seal. The great multitude consists of converts saved during the Great Tribulation. They stand before God’s throne and serve in His temple in the new heaven and new earth.

THE FINAL CHAPTER # XIII

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THE FINAL CHAPTER FOR ALCOHOLICS

 CHAPTER XIII

     drunks

By Ken Blue

“Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.” Proverbs 23:29-35.

 

This article originally had twelve chapters, but I discarded them. They explained how the drunk arrived at chapter thirteenth. I concluded, if a man or woman has reached this place in their appetite for liquor, other chapters will be of no interest or value to them. Therefore, we excluded them.

 

We find six rhetorical questions in verse 29. The answer to each one is obvious. Grief, sorrow, arguments, incoherence, physical abuse, and bloodshot eyes are just part of the payback of strong drink

 

I guess we are supposed to have reached a point of social maturity when we believe we can tell by the color, and age of the brew, its quality, and desirability. A serpent my add beauty with the addition of rings and raddles, but its bite may be more deadly. The age, color, and quality of the brew in the goblet, will protect no one from its bite of death.

 

When one follows the Bible references to alcohol, it will be seen that nudity, and immorality are the usual outcome in every passage. Men get women drunk, to break down their inhibitions in order get them to take off their clothes. Women drink to deaden any traces of guilt, and shame, if they have any. Regardless of motive, alcohol is the greatest contributor to infidelity, divorce, physical abuse, death, child neglect, and sexual abuse.

 

Relationships begin to erode first in the family; the drunk will soon discover that he cannot function well with fellow worker, or his employer. Predictably, the next to go will be his employment. There will be a place for him on the street with others who thought they could outsmart the Devil.

 

Sickness, vomit, and stench are just a few of the blessings of the drunk. Not only does one lose ability to walk, and stand, all logic, and common sense are also gone. How do we know that? We know by the stupidity in their response. “…when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”

 

Many people think the drunk is funny; those who live with them do not.

SATAN’S COMFORTERS

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By Ken  Blue

 

It was lost somewhere, a long time ago

How, and where I lost it I do not know

I retraced old paths in my mind

But emptiness is all I find.

 

A friend called Comfort keeps me warm inside

And helps me forget pain I cannot hide.

I come home; she’s waiting for me

Pressed to my lips, easing misery

 

My bed’s empty, wife, and children are gone

Comfort and I share the house all alone

She says forget; I should party and play

Soon I will forget what I lost that day

 

Country Gentleman made a fool of me

Christian Brothers; not Christian, or family

Black Velvet and Four Roses the casket doth line

Jose Cuervo was never a friend of mine

 

Comfort’s no longer comfort for me

She owns my soul, and my destiny

You’ll find many like her in liquor stores

Awaiting the fools who walk through her doors

 

Though beautifully packaged to catch your eyes

Behind each label is death in disguise

I now know what it was I lost back there

It was my childhood faith, Bible, and prayer

 

I still see Comfort everywhere I go

She beckons me come, but I must say no

By God’s grace, I must find my way back there

To my childhood faith, my Bible, and prayer.