All Power Belongs to God, All Power.

Psalms 62:11 “God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.”

God is eternal and everlasting and beside Him there is none else. He and He alone is the creator and giver of all things, and all things are subject unto His power and authority. The world was created by the voice of God, man was created from the dust of the ground, woman was created from a rib taken from the man that God created from the dust of the ground. Everything that exist, the sun, moon, stars, galaxy, the birds, trees, fish, everything was created by God. “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:” Colossians 1:16 God has preeminence over everything that exist, and nothing exist our side or without the power of God, NOTHING. “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep” There was nothing until, “…the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Man was nothing but a lump of dirt until, “…breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Nothing created itself, nothing powered itself, man did not cause himself to become a living soul, the sun gets all it’s power from God, the moon and stars all give as much energy as God has created them too. God also created Satan, and we ask why did God create Satan to be so evil? “The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” Proverbs 16:4 God gets glory from Satan, just as He received glory through Job, Noah, Jonah, Israel, and just as He will through the failures of all mankind. God will never fail to receive glory from all His creation, just as He does from evil world leaders. Some bring good things and some evil, but no one brings anything outside of the ordained will to God’s glory. Everything on this earth, everything through time, everything that lives will bring glory to God in some fashion. When Adam sinned and the population died, God sent Jesus Christ to bring glory to Him and give Him a name higher than any other name. Every saved person brings glory to God, some more than other and other less, but all brings the glory to God because He ordained. “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” Romans 11:36 God said, “Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Luke 15:10 Why is there rejoicing in heaven every time a lost sinner is saved, because God saved every sinner that has been saved. Therefore, all glory belongs to Him who has earned it, because no sinner can bring glory to God. We would do well not to listen to people, they are wrong on everything and lie about everything. “… let God be true, but every man a liar…” Rom. 3:4 God has a plan and he controls the outcome of that plan and man can do nothing to alter God’s ordained plan. Some will as about “global warming also known as climate change” God is in control of that also, because man can not alter anything much less the climate. Whatever God’s ordained plan is, is what is happening, therefore, if the climate is changing it is because of God’s ordained plan and power and not man. The truth to everything is man can control nothing, man can change nothing unless God does it for him. All man can do on their own is to fail God and sin.       

God’s Warning to the World.

Isaiah 1:4 “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”

From the time Adam eat of the forbidden fruit the world has been sinful and an abomination to God. No matter how much people believe they are morally good, God sees this entire world as wicked and every imagination of every human heart as evil continually. Gen. 6:5 “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” To the eyes of God, no human ever born (outside of Jesus) ever had one single second of goodness, not one single good deed about them. Every person was born speaking lies as soon as they were born, conceived in iniquity. Today, people are no different than they were before the flood, people are all born with evil and wicked hearts. They are born hating God; they love sin and drink it like water. Job 15:16 “How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?” and Job 34:7 “What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?” Not one place in the entire bible does God ever speak highly of any person except those that are His people, not one. However, it is not unusual for people to believe in their own mind that they are good in many ways, while failing to see it only took the sin of Adam to condemn us to eternal hell. Our nation, your nation, the entire world is just as bad as Judah was when Isaiah wrote this to them. God says of this entire world, “…There is none righteous, no, not one:” Rom. 3:10. It does not matter what we see in ourselves, it only matters to what God sees in us. He only see’s evil and wickedness. If we look into a mirror and see how beautiful we are, we can look into the mirror of the bible and see how wicked we are. Let us all look at Romans 3 and then determine wickedness as a person. The bible is a warning to us all, Israel ignored it, and the rest of the world ignores it. People will ignore the scriptures to justify their sins, allowing themselves to sin and believe it is ok. God said, “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,” Hebrews 10:26 God sent His own Beloved Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to redeem us from our sin and wicked nature. God did not perform this act of mercy and grace as an excuse for sinfulness. People sometimes wonder why there is so much destruction in in our lives, we need to look and see if that destruction is God’s rebuke. The only happiness a redeemed sinner will ever have in life is if they are living godly. “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” John 13:17 But the Christian must separate themselves from the world because this evil, wicked, and sinful world will only drag you back into the miry pit of evil that God pulled you out of to begin with. The Psalmist wrote these words “Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.” Psalms 19:11 As Christians our reward in not in this earth, it is not being rewarded by an evil and sinful people that is at enmity with the very Saviour who died at the wicked hands of this world to redeem us. God said, “Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.” Psalms 19:11 The closer we walk in God’s word, the closer we walk in the book that was inspired by the Holy Spirit, the greater our reward will be in heaven. God warned us many times in His word about the evil in this world, how that there are NONE that seek Him, listen to Him, none that desires His leadership, why would any Christian ever want what evil souls have? Jesus warned us, “But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.” Mark 13:23 The question is, are we listening to our Lord? “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” Revelation 2:7 Do you have a spiritual ear, do you hear the Holy Spirit through the scriptures, are you following God or the world? These are the questions we all need to ask ourselves.

Justified By Works?

Romans 4:2 – 3 “For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”

Matthew Poole, a biblical commentator in the 1600’s had this truth to say, “The argument of the apostle might be thus formed: If Abraham had obtained justification by works, he should have had somewhat whereof he might glory before God: but he had nothing whereof to glory before God; therefore he was not justified by works.” It is true that the greatest majority of those who identifies as Christin’s and even churches believes that works are a necessity to be saved but are they correct. Works in themselves are glory to the person doing them, however, if one believes works were in any part necessary to be saved then he “…hath whereof to glory; but not before God.” God does not count the works of a non-believer in Jesus Christ as to have any value to Him. The Apostle Paul wrote this about his beloved Nation of Israel about their unbelief. “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” Romans 10:2. Having “a zeal of God” is not enough to get you to heaven, because it is “not according to knowledge.” of God’s word. When God is telling us about His salvation and He says, “Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:9 If salvation is of grace, then there is not room for works, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” Rom 11:6 Abraham had a lot of works in his life but not for his salvation, but because of his salvation. Abrahams works were because he “believed God” and that believing of the record of God is where his righteousness was accounted. Righteousness in the Lord is believing God and not by things we do. God very clearly explained people’s unrighteousness and depravity in Romans 3:9 – 20 without question or doubt. The problem with most people is that they do not believe God. Paul wrote of works again in Romans 3:26 - 27 “To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” Boasting, which defines our works is excluded from salvation by Jesus Christ because He is our Saviour, our righteousness, our justification, therefore we must believe God when He says, if we believe in Him then we have eternal life. God went on to say, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22 If people proclaim that Jesus Christ is not God’s salvation gift to us then they not only deny the gift of God’s Saviour but call God a liar because they have not believed God. “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.” 1 John 5:10 Anyone who believes that salvation includes personal works then they make God a liar and count the work of His Son Jesus worthless. Man cannot be his own savior no more than they can be their own doctor. We must be like Abraham and believe God, however, people will never believe God unless God quickens their dead spirit. People cannot quicken their spirit, they are incapable of repenting from their evil heart, and are incapable of coming to Christ on their own. Unless the Holy Spirit does all these things for them, they will never believe God and will die believing Satan’s lie. “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:10 – 12  Do you believe Satan’s lie or God’s truth, because if you are not believing God as Abraham then you are not righteous. “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.” 1 John 5:10 Believing in His Son and not of our works.