“I will instruct you in the power of God; What is with the Almighty I will not conceal. Behold, all of you have seen it; Why then do you act foolishly?”
1. We need preachers who will present God from the pulpits as He has presented Himself.
The ways of God are broad indeed. No person can put a handle on Him and simply say that God is this way or that way. God acts in love and anger. He rightfully uses kindness and wrath. He counsels and he keeps quiet. The person who lives his life acting as though God is one dimensional is very foolish.
2. God’s revelation of the destiny of those who do not honor Him.
“This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty. Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.
His survivors will be buried because of the plague, and their widows will not be able to weep.
Though he piles up silver like dust and prepares garments as plentiful as the clay, He may prepare it, but the just will wear it and the innocent will divide the silver.
He has built his house like the spider’s web, or as a hut which the watchman has made.
He lies down rich, but never again;
He opens his eyes, and it is no longer.
Terrors overtake him like a flood;
A tempest steals him away in the night.
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone, for it whirls him away from his place. For it will hurl at him without sparing; He will surely try to flee from its power.
Men will clap their hands at him and will hiss him from his place.” Job 27:1-23 (NASB)
These words are not simply a condemnation on individuals who choose to not honor God. These words speak of the predetermined result that God has designed into the fabric of creation. The wicked can appose these words and they can even laugh at those who believe in God, but in the end, the wicked will have nothing to show for all of his endeavors. Recently, a person of a prominent family committed suicide. This person came from a family who had everything that this world offers. Tracing back in that family, we see at one time they were considered royalty. They initially gained their wealth by making and selling illegal products early in the 20th century. While the rest of the country was suffering through the Great Depression, they were operating untouched by the law to supply chemically addictive products to a depressed world. One by one they have fallen, some to violence, some by personal corruption, and some to suicide. How is it you ask that people who “have it all” can end this way? It is because God said so. They did not seek anything beyond this world while they were in this world and so they were swept away unprepared into eternity to face the God they denied.
Looking into eternity,
Bill
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