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Love Never Fails, The Power Of Love  
1 Corinthians 13:8




God is not afraid to love us just the way we are,  with all our flaws and short-comings.  He is secure in who He is.  Therefore, He loves unconditionally and without regard to our failures.
He created us, not to live apart from His  love but to be partakers of His holiness. However, He knows that there will be times when we look and act very unholy. Our misguided actions do not erase or stop the love of God. Sin can separate us from His blessings but there is never a time when God with-holds His love.
In loving us, God knows that we can never give back to Him what He has given to us, but He does require us to love one another with the same love that He has demon-strated toward us.
In his book Mighty is Your Hand, David Hazard paraphrases the words of Andrew Murray, "In our life with people, the one thing on which everything depends is love.  The spirit of forgiveness is the spirit of love.  Because God is love, He forgives. Consequently, it is only as we are dwelling in the love of God that we can forgive as God forgives.
"Our love for others is the evidence of our love for God. It is our grounds for confidence before God in prayer. It is our assurance that our prayer will be heard. (1 John 4:20)" Let the love you have for God be a symbol of love and forgive-ness to all  you meet.  
   

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Ephesians 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him  who
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.

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PRONOUNCEMENT OF PEACE

 



Scripture Reading 1 Thessalonians 5:21-24


    The peace of God rendered as a benediction is possibly the sweetest sounds to the saints of God. To those of the Church which is His Body -- we who have been saved by grace through faith in this dispensation of the grace of God -- it is such words as penned by our own apostle that are thus cherished most.  For he it is that speaks directly to us the words entrusted to him for us by the risen Christ. "The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole Spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it."

   Consolation to all generations and dispen-sations has been dispensed by the God of mercy and grace. His love is eternal, His just-ice unrelenting. We cannot know the mind of God but we can know the peace of God. The conditions are always made clear. If we would have His peace we must meet His terms and conditions. If we would enjoy His peace to the uttermost, the apostle exhorts  us to "Prove all things; hold fast that which  is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil." These are conditions identified with the dispensation of grace.

   Under the dispensation of law, the Lord spoke thus to Israel: "If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them..I will give peace in the land." (Lev. 26:3,6a). God dispensed His mercy and grace in other dispensations but in our dispensa-tion of grace He does so without demanding works of the law by which to prove faith. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us" (Gal. 3:13a).

Amen and Amen

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The Way Of The World



Ephesians  2:1-3

"Broad is the way that leadeth to destruc-tion..." we are told in Matthew 7:13. The way of the world is coursing, seething stream of fallen humanity with no direction but down. The road is unblocked, unchecked and unhin-dered by the "prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience (unsaved)..." (Eph. 2:2). It is a ghastly sight!





Ruined by the fall, energized by the demo-niac influences, often unperturbed by God's voice, men rush along, mired deeper and deeper, and fettered more and more by Adam's way.  By choice men toil on and on, but by nature they are "the children of wrath even as others." (vs. 3).

Job out of faith should utter: "Neither is there any daysman (umpire) betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both" (Job 9:6), but me and women under the sentence of death appear to be unconcerned who that might be, where He is, and how we might find Him.  While the believer pleads: "More about Jesus would I  know," the unbeliever relishes his ignorance (the equivalent to our English word 'agnostic').





Ere humanity slips into eternity, without Christ, men must be pointed to the Son of God. Out of obedience (Heb. 5: comes the Head of His new creation, while Adam slipped his off-spring into sin and death. Sheer faith (Eph. 2:8-9;Titus 3:5) can lift the toiling, belea-guered sinners out fromunder condemnation. Men may receive it now! How blessed of God to open salvation doors!

Pastor Harland Shriver

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LIFE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE
By Arvid Johanson
Part One




"I am crucified with Christ, no longer do I live."
The words written above are lifted out of Galatians  2:20 and are used to introduce a subject that is near and dear to the heart of God, namely, a holy walk by those who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ and born anew by the Holy Spirit. Since this is of the utmost importance to Him, it should be of the same importance to us as well.
Truly, as those who have some knowledge of the revelation of the mystery, as those who are aware of the uniqueness of this present program of grace, we certainly have a great many things to talk and sing about, and commit to the printed page. However, in all
of this it seems as though God's provision for true holiness, true spirituality, and living for God His way, has fallen by the wayside.
These days in which we live are days mark-ed by spiritual deadness and moral laxity. Perhaps it is time to review briefly some of those grand truths that God has used to produce the spiritual giants of the past. Per-haps it is time to look once again at those God-breathed truths that can conform His own to the image of His dear Son.
Beginning with Romans Chapter 6:1, we have sixty-two verses of Scripture that un-folds for us the provision of God that enables us to live as He would have us live so that we might show forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. There are a number of ways that Christians attempt to live for God; however, the only way that works is God's way. Now let us begin with a definition of the Christian life. The first step toward spiritual living is identification with the death of Jesus Christ. The second step is that we are in the risen, living, and glorified Christ Who lives through us day by day. This is the Christian life as presented on the pages of the Book.
Romans 6:1 "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?"
Paul begins  by  doing  what he  does so often and so well in the book of Romans. He anticipates a question that might be raised, asks the question himself, and then answers it  with such  force that there can be no re-buttal. Paul puts before us the central issue--sin in the life of  believer. If it were not pos-sible for  a  believer to go on living in sin. Paul would not even raise a question such as this.
Now  at the  moment, we  are not  talking about sins, plural. We are talking about the sin nature, singular, which is the root of sins, plural. If the root, singular, is dealt with then it follows that sins, plural, are also dealt with. For  all sins  have their  origin  in this  evil Adamic  nature we  received  through inher- itance from Adam.
Paul has told us in 5:20. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." So, someone might say, "O.K.. Paul, then let us go on sinning, in order that grace may continue superabounding." Paul, what do you say?  

Continued

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LIFE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE
By Arvid Johanson
Part Two





6:2 "God forbid! For how shall we who died  to sin, live any longer in it?"
Paul is most emphatic in answering the question he himself has raised. "Let it never be! Away  with such stupid and bone-headed thinking"! Paul is horrified at the thought that a believer who  has escaped the fires of hell, continue in sin.
I feel the necessity of a question here. How many believers know that they died to sin? Do they know when they died to sin, where they died to sin, and how they died to sin? If they do know these things, it is making a difference in their lives? Fortunately for us, Paul is going to spell it all out. Here on the pages of Romans, as nowhere else in the Bible, Paul touches every base as regarding a holy life. Beginning with the fact that at a point in time every believer has died to sin.
6:3 "Or are you ignorant that as many of us  as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?"
When Paul raises the question "Are you ignorant?"  you can  mark  it  down--the brethren are ignorant about something. Let  us see if we can determine just what it is that Paul  wants these  Roman believers  to comprehend.
First of all, I trust that a treatise on water baptism will not be necessary, for certainly there is no possibility of water anywhere in the sixth chapter of Romans. Rather, we have in verses 3-6 a sequence of events that took place nineteen hundred years ago outside the walls of Jerusalem. These  events happened to our Lord in a physical sense, and at the same time happened to every one who would ever be saved in this age of grace, in a spir-itual sense.
Do not let this terminology deceive  you, for in God's sight this whole sequence was as real as if I were totally physical. Now, unless someone tries to convince me that they were water baptized outside the walls   of Jerusalem ninteen-hunded years ago, we will go with the premise that it is another kind of baptism entirely.
The context here is the cross that our Lord Jesus occupied, and then unoccupied, the tomb occupied and then unoccupied. We were all involved in this whole process, we who go by the title of "Christians." There is only one way that this could happen, and  this is one of the most precious truths in the New Testament.  We are  the Body of Christ and we have been made one with the very Son of God, joined to the living Christ for time and eternity,  one in every  sense of the word (1 Cor 12:12; Eph. 5:30; Heb 2:11; Rom 6:5). Since we are one with Him, His death has become ours, and His triumph over the grave has become ours, and to what end? Newness of life for us.
If we were not baptized with water, then what kind of baptism? In Romans 6:2-11, we have the word "dead" and "death" thirteen times. This certainly gives us a clue as to   the kind of baptism that is before us in verse three. In a kingdom setting the  Lord raises the question, "Are you able to drink the cup   I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that  I am baptized with?" The Jordan River and what took place there is past tense. His question here is in the future tense as He faces the cross. Paul in a church setting speaks of the same event--the cross-death of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in add-ition, our death with Him.  So then, it was at the cross where we died to sin.
Spiritual  living begins at the cross of Jesus Christ where we are identified with Him and His death.
6:4 "We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the Glory of the Father, we too may live a new life"
We are also identified with Jesus in His burial and resurrection .
The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the answer to the question of how and where we died to sin. God identifies those who believe in Jesus with His baptism at the cross, and this is where spiritual living begins.

to be continued

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LIFE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE
By Arvid Johanson
Part Three



    We are in the midst of a section that sets forth the very basic principles of true holi-ness, true spirituality, and a life truly pleasing to God. If this is our goal, we must begin where God begins, and God begins at the cross upon which the Prince of Glory died on behalf of sinners.  He died once, He died for all, and He will never die again, for, in His one-time death, He accomplished all that would ever be necessary.

When , 1900 years ago, our Lord died for sin in a physical sense, everyone who would be saved in this age of grace was seen as dying to sin, in a spiritual sense.  In Romans 6:2, Paul says, "we died to sin." In the state-ments made thus far, we see where, when, how, and why this event became reality.

Rom 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in new-ness of life."

First of all, we focus upon the two words "with Him." This further establishes the time frame when these things took place. As we come to verse 4, death has already taken place. What follows is what one would expect to take place: burial, and then coming forth from the tomb in resurrection life. This happened to the Lord Jesus physically, and to His church, spiritually, to the end that now, some 1900 years later, children of God might "walk in newness of life."

Anyone who has attended a burial will have to agree that the occupant of the grave has been cut off from the old life. In like manner, in our burial with Christ, we can say that provision has been made to escape the bond-age of sin, to be cut off from the Adam-life, and to be enabled now to live the life He would have us live--the very life of Christ.

Death and burial having taken place, we consider the next aspect: the physical resurrection of Christ and, at the same time, the spiritual resurrection of all those who would be saved in this age of grace.  The greatest demonstration of power this universe has ever witnessed took place 1900 years ago when God raised His Son from the dead. That same power was effected in us as we were raised spiritually from the dead--that power being "to us that believe" (Eph. 1:19-20)

The greatest consideration in heaven, and among His own that dwell upon the earth, is the glory of God.  In the eternal purpose of God, which He purposed in Christ before the world began, everything He has ever said and everything He has ever done has been to the end of bringing present and future glory to Himself. In our present verse, "raised by the glory of the Father" indicates that the glory of God was in view as He brought His Son back to life, and, at the same time, the "church which is His body." It would appear that the crown jewel of the purpose of God centers in the one who is "the Head over the body" and those blessed ones who make up that body,  that single entity called "the Christ" (1 Cor. 12:12).

Paul goes on to inform us of the blessed result that comes from laying hold of the previously set forth truth by faith: "we should walk in newness of life." The life spoken of  here is not a reworked remodeled, or rehabil-itated life. Paul is speaking of something band new. Something totally unknown in times past or times future. The life here is the very resurrection life of the risen, ascended, glorified Christ, ministered to us and through us by the Holy Spirit of God day by day. As yet we have not touched every base, but we do see the purpose behind our death, burial, and resurrection together with the Lord Jesus Christ "that we should walk in newness of life."


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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT GOD?  






Scripture Reading:  I Chron. 29:10-13;  Rom 9:5b



    What do you think about God?  Is He "the man upstairs?"  Is He "the good Lord?"  Is He the One who is so high and so holy that no one can approach Him except through sev-eral mediators--Mary, the saints, and the priest?  "Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question,'What comes into your mind when you think about God?'  we might predict with certainty the spiritual future of that man."  (A.Z. Tozer)

     Who rules and regulates the affairs on this earth today--God, the Devil, or man?  This also is an important question because it re-lates vitally to what we think about God.  If either Satan is in control or man is in control, then it is obvious that God isn't God at all.  The atheist or humanist or agnostic might admit that man as well as the laws of nature are in control.  But what about those who say they are Christians?  Many, many think that while God is God, and that He "sitteth in the heavens" and is basically running things, they also think that He is in a great degree, a frustrated Deity.  So many are rejecting Christ today, so many heathen have never heard the Gospel, wickedness is so rampant, and the forces of Antichrist are more and more mili-tant, and the world is in such a terrible mess--how can it be that God is in complete control, and that He is working all things after the counsel of His own will?  (Eph. 1:11)

     What a problem this is --indeed!  Yet when we peruse the blessed "Word of truth," we are given the proper perspective:  we see all things through the sovereighty of "the living God," Who is "exalted as Head above all"--"God over all, blessed forever."  Yes, every man has a will, and everyone is morally responsible.  no man is a mere puppet.  Yet god is God, and we must reverently bow with the inspired Psalmist and say, "But our God is in the heavens:  He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased" (115:3).  

             "O God, how wonderful Thou art
             Thy majesty how bright!
             How beautiful Thy mercy-seat
             In depths of burning light!"  (Fredrick W. Faber, 1849

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Dear Saints in Christ:

       Pastor Paul Hume who is semiretired now has been Pastor of  the Berean Church, Muskegon, Michigan, Berean Bible Church, in Seattle, Washington, and now part time Pastor  Grace Memorial Church in Denver,  Colorado.  is the author of this month's articles on an often-neglected subject, "The Sovereignty of God."  In a day when so much emphasis is placed upon man's doings, it is refreshing to join in a reverent study of the plans and purposes of God.

Pastor Hume takes us from the opening question "What Do You Think About God?"  through the believer's entire Christian experience, showing how God is working all things after the counsel of His Own Will, that we should be to the praise of His Glory."

We believe that our readers will profit spiritually from the God-honoring expositions in the Daily Inspirational all this month.

In His grace and grip,

Paristemi
Eph. 1:11  

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The miraculous, stupendous work of God in Creation


WHO'S IN COMMAND HERE?




Scripture Reading:  Rom 16:25-27; Ps  33:6-9


The story is told about General Wainwright who was taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese after the famous Bataan March in the Philippines in 1942.  For the remainder of the war he barely existed in a concentration camp in Manchuria.  But one day an Allied airplane flew into the camp, and an American officer delivered something to the Japanese officers  in charged of the camp.  It was the electric news that Japan had surrendered to the Allies.  This news was relayed to the suf-fering General.  By and By came a Japanese prision officer to order the General to his  tasks and to harass him.  But the weakened but victorious man turned to his tormentor and said.  "I am in command here now!"  

So is God!  But God never had to win the right of being "Commander-in-Chief!"  He always was, He always shall be, and He always is in command.  Did you note this in these two passages we suggest you read? "He commanded, and it stood fast"--the material creation.  The blessed "revelation of the mystery" resulted from "the command-ment of the everlasting God."  God is in command--in all things, even though to our limited and sin-stunted considerations it doesn't look like it!

This is where the subject of the Sovereignity of God comes in.  What do we mean by this term, "The sovereignity  of  God?" We reply with Dr. A.W. Tozer in his excellent book, The Knowledge of the Holy, "God's Sovereignity is the attribute by which He rules His entire creation, and to be sovereign, God must be all-knowing, all powerful, and absolutely free."  This is to further admit that God is the Almighty,  the  Possessor  of all  power  in heaven and earth, the "Governor among the nations"  (Psa. 22:28), the "only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords" (1 Tim 6:15.)  He is in command!

But the question is:  "Is God in command of my life?"  This you must answer soberly for yourself.  He may be, that is, if you're truly saved and yielded to Him up to the light He has given you in His Word.  He may seem not to be if you're not save, or even if you are but out of His will.  Yet He has a way to gently bring you to Himself and to bring your will into harmony with His.

Pastor Paul Hume

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NO FADS AND FASHIONS HERE  





Scripture Reading:  Mal 3:6, Rom 11:29, Jas. 1:17







It's really amusing to review the changes in men's and women's apparel over the years!  Remember the longer, fuller dresses which women wore just sixty years ago at the out-break of World War II?  Remember the wide flowery neckties men wore in the mid-40's?  Behold! How the hemline on feminine clothing has risen!  How narrow men's ties became just a few years ago, and how wide they have suddenly become later!  What will develop next?  You never really know!

But not so with the Person of the blessed Godhead!  Our Triune God is ever "young" and perfectly changeless.  This is what the theologians call "the immutability of God."  God is unchangeable.  He is "the same, yesterday, today, and unto the ages."  There-fore the Scriptures liken Him and His beloved Son unto "the Rock" (Deu 32.4, I Cor 10:4.)






He is immutable in His essence.  "I am the Lord, I change not."  Why?  Simply because He is the only One in all the universe who can ever state, "I am that I am"  (Ex 3:14).  "He is altogether, uninfluenced  by  the  flight  of time.  There is no wrinkle upon the brow of eternity." (AW Pink)

He is immutable in His Attributes.  Semper idem--always the same--is written over every attribute of our blessed God  and Savior:  His righteousness, holiness, His truth, His mercy, and His love.  Therefore, His blessed written Word is "forever settled in heaven" (Psa 119:89)  Think of that:  "forever SETTLED..."!!
His purpose is immutable.  "The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying...as I have purpos-ed, so shall it stand...For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it?"  (Isa 14:24, 27).  Praise the Lord!  May we echo with Fredrick Faber:
     Oh Lord! my heart is sick,
     Sick of this everlasting change:
     And life runs tediously quick
     Through its unresting race and varied    range;
     Change finds no likeness to itself in Thee,
     And wakes no echo in Thy mute Eternity.

Are you linked, by faith through the Holy Spirit, to this unchangeable One?

Pastor Paul Hume

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THE THRONE WHICH IS NEVER ABDICATED  




Scripture Reading:  Rev 4:1-11, Heb 4:16


What a glorious and great scene is this!  John, by the Spirit, is caught away into "the Lordly day" (Rev 1:10) to behold events which will certainly transpire in the heavens and on the earth.  This is the scene of "the Majesty on High" in Rev 4.  Notice the throne and the One who sits upon it!  How awful is this glorious scene!  All the  celestial beings who behold this sight can do no less than fall before Him on His throne and "Worship Him that liveth forever and ever."  

Oh!  Friend!  Stop right now!  Let this blessed scene flood your soul--that of the Sovereign God of the universe--our Father!  Then bow low in spiritual worship!  
              "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty,
               Early in the morning our song shall          
               rise to Thee;
               Holy, Holy, Holy!  Merciful and Mighty!
               God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!"
                                  (Reginald Heber)

Here is the Throne which has never been abdicated!  Earthly monarchs are sometimes deposed.  Some of them reign for a score or two of years, and they must finally yield the throne to their successors.  All must die sooner or later.  But not the one who occu-pies "the Throne of grace!"   In the Person of the Lord Jesus, in Whom all the fulness of the Godhead has been pleased to take up its permanent home (Col 1:19), our blessed God is still ordering our lives in His matchless mercy, grace, and love from that eternal throne.  Furthermore, in the wider sense, He is still ordering the varied affairs of this old world--be they malignantly evil, or be they magnificently good--from that same throne!  Little wonder we can sing from our hearts:

       "God is still on the throne,
        And He will remember His own,
         Though trials may press us and      
         burdens  distress us,
         He never will leave us alone--
        God is still on the throne,
       He never forsaketh His own;
       His promise is true,
       He will not forget you,
       God is still on the throne."  (Mrs. F.W.     Suffield)

Is HE still on the throne of YOUR heart today?

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THE MIGHTY CREATOR!!  


 


Scripture Reading"  Gen 1:1; Rev 4:11; Col 1:16-17


A small girl who lived in a remote section of the country  was receiving her first Bible instruction at the hands of her elderly grand-mother, and the old lady was reading the story of the creation.  After the story had been finished, the little girl seemed lost in thought.  "Well, dear," said the grandmother,  "what do you think of it?"  "Oh, I love it.  It's so exciting," exclaimed the youngster.  "You never know what God is going to do next!"





How thrilling it is to know that the visible and invisible elements of this universe and world of ours is the product of the perfect and only Creator:  God the Father in the Person of His Son by the agency of the Holy Spirit!  How sodden and sterile is the popular so-called "scientific" hypothesis that this universe and our world is simply the product of evolving matter with energy to motivate it!  Nay!  It is refresing to be anchored to the "old land-marks" of the Truth and declare, "Thou are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honor, and power:  for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created"  (Rev 4:11)  View the Sovereign Creator:



"The great God was all alone amid the awful silence of His own vast universe.  But even at that time, if time it could be called, God was sovereign.  He might create one world or one million worlds, and who was there to resist His will?  He might call into existence a million different creatures each differing from the others, and possessing nothing in com-mon save their creaturehood, and who was there  to  challenge His  right?   If He  so pleased, He might call into existence a world so immense that its dimensions were utterly beyond finite computation; and were He so disposed, He might create an organism so small that nothing but the most powerful microscope would reveal its existence to human eyes."  (A.W. Pink).  Are you part of His new creation?

Pastor Paul Hume

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THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE  





Scripture Reading:  Psa. 135:6, 147:7-18; Heb 1:1-3


A friend of the President of a large manufacturing plant was being conducted through the various departments.  He was quite bewil-dered at the enormity of it all.  He inquired, "Where do you get your power to operate all of this equip--ment?"  The President replied, "Follow me and I will show you."  After a short walk, they were both in a smaller building which hous-ed the generators which made the power possible.  "Here is the se-cret of our out-put,"  he proudly declared.

What is the secret behind the operations of this vast universe and our little planet Earth?  Is it mere "Natural laws?"  Is it merely matter in  motion?   Is  it  solar energy?  All of these things may be true, but they are by no means the "power" behind this universe!  The Word  of Truth  has the an-swer!   It  is "the  Word  of  His power" (Heb 1:3).  What  power there is, in  both the  Living  and Spoken Word of God!  We read:  "For He spoke and it was done;  He commanded, and it stood fast" (Psa. 33:9).  "That by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water" (2 Peter 3:5).

The invisible atom is held togeth-er by a mysterious "force."  We know from Colossians 1:17 that this "force" is none other than our Creator,  the Lord  Jesus Christ:  "For by Him all things consist (hold together)." Someday, after the "Day of jehovah" has run its course, this earth and our stellar heavens will be "disolved." How?  By His release of the atoms which compose all material things. This in turn will create a gigantic dis-solution of the present sin-cursed heavens and earth.  What a day that will be!  (Read 2 Peter 3:10-12 and Revelation 20:11; 21:1)

In the face of the Sovereign God Who is very much in control of this universe, shall we continue to complain about the climate, the weather today, the bugs, and other often disagreeable things?  It's human to do so, but when we remember that God in Christ Jesus is behind the weather, the winds, the climate of the earth, and even the insects which pester us, we then can turn grumbling into  glorying  in the  One  who       created all  things  for  His  own pleasure!  Worship ye Him!

Pastor Paul Hume

[Brother Love]

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WHY DID HE DO IT?  



Scripture Reading"  Prov 16:4; Gen 1:1-2:7



Why is the universe made up of many galaxias along with millions of stars and several planets including the Moon?  Why is there a planet--Earth-- which alone is habit-able? (See Psa 115:15-16).  Why is there an atmosphere about six to seven miles deep surrounding our planet composed of 21% Oxygen, 78% Nitrogen, and 1% inert gases?  Without this perfect balance in the atmo-sphere  or should the slightest change take place to upset that balance, death would come swiftly to all who live on Earth.  Why the faithful cycle of evaporation, clouds and finally precipitation?  Why should two-thirds of the surface of this planet be covered by oceans?  Why are some places vitually unihabitable and unproductive--like the Sahara Desert--which seem like a terrible waste of valuable land?  Why man?  Why not something better than man?  We could go on and on asking "Why?"

The answer is not given by merely citing certain scientific laws.  The answer is found in the Word of God which makes it clear that all things which God made and the way He has made them function are simply for His pleasure!  Look again at the statements in Genesis 1  where   God said  "and  it  was good."  Why was it good?  Because "The Lord hath made all things for Himself."  This amplified in Colossions 1:16:  "For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:  all things were created by Him and for Him."  Thus Paul states in Romans 11:36;  "For of Him and through Him, and to Him are all things: to whom be glory forever Amen."  Even the wicked, says Proverbs 16:4, have been made by Him "for the day of evil."  Yes even sin, wickedness and its attendant miseries, while not having been created by God Himself, neverthless, he has sovereignly purposed that it should serve His purpose to the praise of His glory!  "Since God is God, who dare challenge His prerogative?  To murmur against Him is rank rebellion."  Worship ye Him!

Pastor Paul  Hume