Solutions for Life
June 20, 2009
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When will we learn that the world’s offerings are garbage – that only Jesus
satisfies?
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When will we learn that the world’s offerings are garbage – that only Jesus
satisfies?
Paul, writing to the Ephesian Christians, wrote: “Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:17)
Christ has commanded us to love one another as He loved us, and God’s Word has already told us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.
Mat 22:37 Jesus said to him, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
To love God supremely means to put Him first in everything.
If you read motivational books, no doubt you have heard of the importance of setting goals. Without setting goals we tend to drift and we don’t achieve great results. Without strong goals all we tend to do is “get by”.
Some motivational books encourage us to choose any goal we like. Could be a large house in a good neighborhood paid off, or a certain kind of car, or holiday. It might be a career achievement. The books then go on to give you some principles through which you can achieve your stated goals.
One of the most unsuccessful years of my life financially was 2006. By not returning to Australia, and instead trying to set up business deals through certain people in Dubai, I lost many hundreds of thousands of dollars I would have had otherwise. I should have kept my investment properties in Australia and worked in Australia instead of wasting lots of time in Dubai. But I didn’t know at the time. I thought I could move on to bigger and better things.
Ultimately no one is to blame for this more than me.
The Warnings of the Book of Proverbs
Don’t join with violent men to rob people – if you do it will kill you.
(Proverbs 1:8-19)
If you keep refusing to listen to Wisdom, one day you will have calamity, terror will come upon you, and then it will be too late – Wisdom will just laugh at you and mock you. (Proverbs 1:24-28)
Turn away from Wisdom, and it will kill you. (Proverb 1:32).
Be complacent in your rebellion against God, and it will destroy you.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Who are God’s Children and what will God do for them?
“But as many as received Him, He gave them the authority to become children of God, to those who believe in His name;” (John 1:12)
If you have truly received Jesus, truly believed in His name, you have the authority to become a child of God. It does not say you automatically ARE a child of God, by believing in His name and receiving Him, but you ARE able to become one. The effective use of that authority comes as you walk with God in trust and obedience.
“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” Proverb 9:10
Jesus Christ did not die simply that we may have knowledge of the Bible. Jesus Christ died that we may know God.
The Hebrew concept is knowing is different to the Greek concept. Greek style knowledge is scientific, academic, reasoned knowledge. It can be totally detached from emotion.
Jesus warned us about the seriousness of sin when He said:
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. (Matthew 5:29,30)
The Hebraic way of emphasizing something was not to use CAPS or bold text, but to repeat it
When I speak about all the great things and miracles of God happening in India, Eastern Europe, Africa and other developing nations, people sometimes ask: “Why don’t these things seem to happen here in Australia?” I am sure people are asking the same questions in America and Western Europe also.
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