How many of you have ever felt overwhelmed in every day affairs of life? Who many have been overcome by GOD with His revelation that HE wonts to get through the eye of the needle of your heart to your brain? That is the place that I am in at this moment, there is just so much that we as humans can absorb like a sponge. For years an I mean years I held onto what was told me as a youngster in Sunday school by a teacher and then our pastor, that we cannot understand or comprehend the things of GOD. Today I know this to be a fallacy an a fallacious error because those people did not have the Spirit by faith. Today I wont to look into Knowledge with held for a moment or to. But first Pastor Hoekstra and his teaching on Grace and then with the LORD's direct I will use the ESV translation for my study.
"Another "Unpopular" Promise of Sin's Consequences"
"So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:49-50)
"Here are some more "unpopular" promises from Jesus. This series of promises intensifies the warning He gave in our previous meditation concerning the consequences of sin. "If you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your (satan sin nature of) sins" (John 8:24). Our present verses reveal by promise the absolute certainty of, and dreadful extent of, sin's consequences. Yes man when he remains tied, held back by satan's sin nature while in this world and wants to ignore eternity and deny accountability, these are for them unpopular promises. They remain in fear of death, a supper station of having no knowledge of the LORD. For man with His Spirit is blind and yes even stupid in heart and mind being left to his own devices being lost in darkness of soul.
All who die in the guilt of sin will definitely be judged one day. This is an absolute certainty. A day of accountability is coming. "So it will be at the end of the Age (a dispensation). The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just." Those who die before this day will also face judgment. "It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). The place of final judgment for the unsaved will be the great white throne. "Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it... And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God... And the dead (the unredeemed dead) were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books... they were judged, each one according to his works... Anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:11-15).
This absolutely certain judgment also has a dreadful extent. It is eternal. Sin is a spiritual crime against GOD. The true and living GOD is eternal. He is the great "I AM" (Exodus 3:14 and John 8:58). Therefore, the consequences of sin are also eternal. Thus, all unbelievers are as those who are lost will be "cast into the lake of fire and brimstone... And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever" (Revelation 20:10). The ultimate torment of hell will be separation from GOD's presence for eternity. "These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord" (2Thessalonians 1:9). Why because they refused the Son of man, Who was GOD incarnate.
The absolute certainty of, and the dreadful extent of, the consequences of sins denial make earlier promises we have examined all the more critical. "For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of GOD is Eternal Life in Christ Jesus our LORD... And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish" (Romans 6:23 and John 10:28).
Knowledge withheld from man:
Because Perilous,
Genesis 2:15-17 and Deuteronomy 29:29 "The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely (acquire spiritual darkness of soul or) die."
Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of His law."
Inability to Apprehend Truth,
John 13:1-11 "Before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from GOD and was going back to GOD, rose from supper. He laid aside His outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around His waist. Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around Him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?" Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand." Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with Me." Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed (receives His words as truth) does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you." For He knew who was to betray Him; that was why He said, "Not all of you are clean."
Human Weakness Necessitates,
John 16:12-15 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of Truth comes, He Will guide you into all the truth, for He Will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He Will speak, and He Will declare to you the things that are to come. He Will glorify Me, for He Will take what is Mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is Mine; therefore I said that He Will take what is Mine and declare it to you."
Earthy Limitations Fetter,
1Corinthians 13:8-13 "Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Gradual Revelation, the Divine Plan,
Ephesians 3:1-13 "For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of GOD's Grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery (Deuteronomy 29:29, in the secret things of GOD) was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promises in Christ Jesus through His Gospel. Of this Gospel I was made a minister according to the Gift of GOD's Grace, which was given me by the working of His power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this Grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in GOD, Who created all things, so that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that He has realized in Christ Jesus our LORD, in Whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in Him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory."
To give Opportunity for Faith,
1John 3:1-3 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it does not know Him. Beloved, we are GOD's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when HE appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as HE is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as HE is pure."
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