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  • A Temporary Throne – 20

    A Temporary Throne – 20

    Previously…

    I WILL TELL THEM ONCE MORE.

     Genesis 9:7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”

    … I paused to consider God’s covenant with Noah and the few survivors for a cleansed creation.

    CHAPTER 20

    God had once again given man a blessing. God had once again given man a command, Go into all the world (to rephrase from a later Word) … be fruitful and multiply… and whatever you do, DON’T kill each other.

    Simple enough, Right? I had no better commands for Noah. Like in Eden, it was all dependent on obedience.

    And as for Abel’s murder after Eden, God had also warned Cain about jealousy over blessing:

    Genesis 4:7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

    All Noah’s sons and their wives and offspring had to do was to ‘do well’ by obeying the LORD God who had saved them.

    As God reminded me of Genesis 9:11, the LORD showed me a building.

    Genesis 11: “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

    The people were NOT in many places, but crowded together into one city.

    Disobedience! Just like in Eden. And furthermore, man in gathering together had set their hearts against God; for they had proclaimed:

    Genesis 11:4 “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

    We returned to THE THRONE of Heaven. It seemed I couldn’t command obedience from mankind; men and women wanting to ‘make a name for ourselves.’

     To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 15

    A Temporary Throne – 15

    Previously:

    “Should the LORD plant the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?” I asked myself.
    I had never thought of the connection of my sins to this (really) or of any alternative.

    CHAPTER 15

    I knew that sin had its beginning from the very beginnings of man and there was nothing that I could do about it.

    The lies would begin. Satan’s influence would spread throughout God’s Creation and eventually draw in my own loved ones. (Of course I had been drawn into sin as well, except the Lord Himself came down and saved me.)

    Oh no!

    I just realized that had I NOT allowed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to be placed in the middle of the garden, Christ would not have had to die on the Cross!

    Did I mess up already?

    I DID NOT WANT YOU TO LOVE ME, UNLESS YOU WANTED TO BE CLOSE IN LOVE WITH ME.

    THOSE WHO CHOOSE MY LOVE TRULY LOVE ME, AS I TRULY LOVE YOU – FREELY.

    1 John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

    I LOVE this MAN!

    “Why do we disobey HIM?” I thought.

    GOOD AND EVIL ARE CLEAR CHOICES.

    “But because we do not have knowledge of everything,” I continued, “we sometimes choose evil.”

    YOU CHOOSE EVIL, BECAUSE THE FRUIT IS PLEASANT TO YOUR FLESH.

    “… AND I ignore your command and your will,” I thought.

    (But I knew the LORD knew my every thought.)  And I looked away in shame…

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

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  • A Temporary Throne – 11

    A Temporary Throne – 11

     CHAPTER 11

    DO YOU LOVE THESE MORE THAN ME?

    I knew the answer…

    YOUR SIN IS COVERED BY MY SACRIFICE. YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS MY OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.

    “Thank You LORD!” I thought from my heart; yet surly the LORD heard my thoughts, as I was now aware that the LORD had heard my prayers.

    YET SIN CANNOT BE UNPUNISHED.

    Once again, in my thoughts (as I did not speak, but knew the LORD did hear):

    “My sin? No. Her sin! … And his sins… and his and hers…”

    As I thought, their faces came clearly to my mind. (The Lord would not have me reveal these to you by name.)

    THEIR SINS AND WICKEDNESS REMAIN NAKED BEFORE ME.

    Yes… For none had come to conviction or repentance for their separation from God. None would hear of Jesus Christ and the cross as reason to change their day to day lives. None would have anything to do with church or Christians or talk of righteousness through the Blood of Christ.

    All, though they are beloved family members, live for the day, while denying the Day of their Judgment.  It is true of dear of dear friends as well. These remain unbelievers by choice – rebellion against God and more so against Jesus Christ.

    Yes, I am a sinner, a terrible sinner; yet I lay my filthy sin before Christ’s cross.

    I need His love now more than ever. I need Christ’s love for ever.

    GOD SMILED, HIS EYES PIERCING ME WITH LOVE.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.