All questions of the Church and even those sceptics the Lord will choose — questions about when God will finally look more like a King in charge of His own Kingdom creation. This post is not exhaustive of course, but it brings Scripture from the Gospel into our conversation about the Kingdom of God.
John tells us:
Jesus IS the WORD of God and even more than that which we can see or hear.
Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
WE do NOT like to be told the consequence of our SIN against the Lord. Preaching consequence of turning against God often begets more sin. Jesus was crucified on a Cross and Prophets of Israel suffered for preaching what God Commanded in the Law.
Blessing IF you obey OR Curse IF your heart turns away
We began in the New Testament Gospel, looked back to Deuteronomy and TODAY will return to the consequence of turning against the Lord.
“… whoever does not obey [apeitheō– {from G545; to disbelieve (wilfully and perversely)}]
the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 3:36b {after the ‘God so loved the world’ invitation to grace in 3:16)
“But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods, then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed.
– Deuteronomy 30:17-18a NLT – the Word of the LORD through Moses
Then the Spirit of God covered Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest like clothing; and he stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God has said, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD and do not prosper?
So they conspired against him, and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
Preaching consequence from history
IF you are anything like me you likely dozed off a time or two during history class. And when we read the historical record from Moses to Jesus we miss some preaching of consequence to which we ought to have paid attention.
So in today’s conclusion of this 3-part Summer Scriptural Rerun you may find a warning or two of consequence you never heard preached or rarely read in the Bible.
GOD SPEAKS! And who heard Him? What did the LORD God say to a man? Where can we see what the LORD said when God speaks?
“And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.
What is the ONLY BOOK where one made in the image of God can discern the TRUE words of WHAT GOD HAS SAID?
TheHOLY Bible
IF you missed Part 1 on Bible Doctrine, you may want to take a look now at some of the history of the Bible, scholarly research AND IMPORTANT Definitions.
“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 10:12
Do what the LORD commands
J.I Packer points out inKNOWING GOD, four categories of God’s direct utterances to mankind (Adam & Eve):
command,
testimony,
prohibition with sanction appended,
and promise both favorable and unfavorable (blessing or curse).
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food..
NOW where will we find the truth of good and evil?
Have we considered these truths from the Bible?
You are good and You do good; Teach me Your statutes
Psalm 119:68
OR from the hissing of those who oppose the Lord?
Keeping in mind those categories just mentioned from ‘KNOWING GOD,’may I again remind us and suggest the ONLY answer:
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
YOU may have imagined that the LORD spoke to you in Paradise or walked with you in your daily life. Before SIN, we knew what was good because God spoke to us face to face.
So how does a man know what God said now that man has been separated from the Holy Presence of the LORD?
to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Exodus 3:14 – I AM – YHWH, rendered LORD, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be; H834 matches the Hebrew אֲשֶׁר (‘ăšer), who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.:
Yᵊhōvâ (I AM THAT I AM) Y H W H the existing ONE whose NAME IS too Holy to be spoken – יְהֹוָה
Do you believe the Law of Moses?
“For if you believedMoses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Besides Eden witnessed in the first book of Moses, I could also reintroduce you to the LORD in an awesome place above the heavens and earth in a place such as that revealed to the Apostle John by the risen and victorious Christ Jesus!
Witness from the Prophets like Elijah, Ezekiel and Daniel where the God brings created beings such as us, beneath the glorious Throne of the Almighty Lord God! And the LORD confirms His Word to men of flesh, Prophets who served Him faithfully on the earth.
Now Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of his words fail. .. And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, because the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
David and others record personal conversations, leadings of the Lord and prayers and songs worshiping God.
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
God is HOLY! (Other.. Separate from HIS creation, even man.)
SO HOW does the Lord God communicate with MAN?
The Holy Spirit
THE LORD GOD IS OTHER!
(God is not a man. Unlike man He was not created — GOD IS that HE IS.
Not like man and beast, not like plant or planet, not like the heavens which were void or the earth which was not yet.
“God is not a man, that He would lie, Nor a son of man, that He would change His mind; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.”
Genesis 6:3 – Moses records God’s words – בְּרֵאשִׁית
And since the days of Moses,the Holy Spirit of God commands certain men to record God’s HOLY WORD as SCRIPTURE.
(Write it down and tell other men what GOD HAS SAID.)
Spirit-filled men
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took away some of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. Yet they did not do it again
Numbers 11:25 – the LORD gives the Holy Spirit to 70 elders of the Hebrews
Scripture records when God speaks to a Man given the Holy Spirit
Scripture reveals the words of the LORD which He spoke to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Bible. Joshua, various Judges and scribes, David and various kings, several prophets before Christ and Apostles after our Lord Jesus Christ ALL confirm the spoken and written HOLY Word of God we collectively refer to as The HOLY BIBLE.
DOCTRINE is teaching (for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness IF we choose its Truth.) Where will you find absolute truth, if not in the Holy Bible?
How much of the BIBLE must we believe?
We will begin to address this in my next post on DOCTRINE.
To be continued..
Please COMMENT or ask your question about this Doctrine.
Thank you, dear saint of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Roger
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