Psalms 93:1-2 ESV
“The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;
the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.”
Jesus Christ, our Lord, is the King of the whole world. He
is fully sovereign and in control over all that He has made. Nothing escapes
his notice. And nothing can thwart his purposes. His purposes will stand for he
will make them stand. Although it may appear the enemy is gaining ground, God
still is King. His will and his purpose will be accomplished. Amen!
Psalms 93:3 ESV
“The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their roaring.”
The floods represent the enemies of God. They can be
political enemies like Kings, Queens, Presidents, and Heads of Nations. And
they can be the global elite who are forming a one world government and who
are, like the beast in Revelation, conquering kingdoms and peoples, and who are
working to bring all of the people of the world under the rule of this beastly
one world government. And we can see this taking place in our day and time.
But the enemies of God are all those who oppose Jesus Christ
and his true plan of salvation from sin. They are all those who hold on to
their sinful practices, many of them out of bitterness of spirit and rebellion
against God and against his commands, and who decide for themselves what is
acceptable and what is not. They are those who are the spiritually blind, which
can and does include many who profess faith in Jesus Christ, too.
Although they may profess to be in a covenant (intimate)
relationship with Jesus Christ, by faith in Jesus, their covenant is still with
the flesh and with their idols which they serve and to which they give their
worship. But they want to give a good impression to others who profess faith in
Jesus Christ, so they will put on a façade of righteousness and will try to sell
themselves as genuine followers of Christ while in truth they are still living
immoral and impure lives, and the façade is just a coverup for their secret
sins.
Many professers of faith in Jesus Christ are addicted to
sexual immorality, and their idols are their computers where they go to get
their “fix.” The “fix” can be pornography or other types of videos or
communications which would fall under the heading of “sexual immorality,” but
may vary in kind (nature). But they are looking for some type of emotional charge
or stimulation to their sensual natures which is intoxicating and which gives
them a buzz.
But a lot of things can be gods to people which they end up
worshiping in place of God and oftentimes in direct opposition to God and to
his commands out of bitterness and rebellion because they feel like they got a
raw deal or life didn’t treat them fairly or things didn’t go the way they
expected and so they look for something else to gratify them. They are angry
with God and bitter against him and so they find another “god” to replace him.
But since they want to make a good impression to people they
usually keep their rebellion and bitterness and their other gods and their
sinful practices hidden so that others can’t know what is really going on in
their lives. And so they lie and they pretend that their sinful lifestyle is
now in the past and that they are doing well and that they are having wonderful
times of fellowship with the Lord and that they are now walking in his ways,
etc.
So, even though they profess to be the Lord’s servants, they
are truly his enemies who are taking a stand against him and who have
contaminated what is honorable, upright, virtuous, moral and decent by their
sinful practices and by their rebellious spirits. They are separated from God,
and if married, also from their spouses because of their sexual immorality.
They are, in reality, hostile to God even though they profess to be one of his.
Psalms 93:4-5 ESV
“Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the Lord on high is mighty!
Your decrees are very trustworthy;
holiness befits your house,
O Lord, forevermore.”
But God is mightier than all who would come against him and
who would stand opposed to him and who would make a display of righteousness
while they live in wickedness. He is mightier than the kings of the earth and
the elite of this world who are opposed to God and who are raising up an army
against him and against his servants. Nothing they do in secret is secret from
God, and God can stop them at any time when it is in his perfect will and
timing to do so. So, they are not outsmarting God at all!
But God allows evil to exist, and he allows evil people to
do evil deeds, and he even allows evil people to come against his beloved and
to do evil against them. For God never promised us that if we follow Jesus with
our lives that all is going to go well for us and that we will never have
trials and tribulations. He promised us that if we follow Jesus with our lives
that we will be hated and persecuted and rejected and mistreated as Jesus was.
But then he lets us know that these trials and tribulations
are for our good, not that he enjoys hurting us, but when he disciplines us it
helps us to forsake our flesh and to draw on him and on his strength, and it is
so that we will share in his holiness, becoming like him in his death. I can
attest to the fact that God’s disciplines in my life have made me stronger in
my faith and in my determination to walk in purity of devotion to my Lord.
For the Lord wants us to be holy. And that is why Jesus died
on that cross to free us from our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we would
now be slaves of God and of his righteousness and so we will live holy lives
pleasing to God. Jesus died, not just to forgive our sins, but to transform us
and to make us into new people not like we were before. He died to free us from
our bondage to sin so that we will now walk in obedience to his commands.
God is not okay with us continuing in deliberate and
habitual sin. He says if we make sin our practice and if righteousness and
obedience to him are not our practice that we will not inherit eternal life. For
he said that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will inherit the
kingdom of heaven, but only the one DOING the will of God the Father who is in
heaven. And he says we must deny self, daily die to sin, and follow him in
obedience.
And this really is the essence of the gospel, that Jesus
died that we might die with him to sin and live to him and to his
righteousness. For the truth in Christ Jesus instructs us to put off our old
self, which belongs to our former manner of life and is corrupt through
deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and to put on
the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and
holiness (1 Pet 2:24; Ephesians 4:17-24).
So, if you are still addicted to sin, still living to please
the flesh, still bitter against God and rebellious in your spirit, still faking
your Christianity, and still lying and hiding your secret life of sin, please
know that you will not inherit eternal life with God unless you humble yourself
before God and turn away from your sins and now turn to follow Jesus in
complete obedience to his commands for your life. And even though you feel you
are successful in getting away with what you keep hidden, God still sees
everything you do.
[Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn
15:1-11; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-17; Eph 4:17-24; 1 Pet 2:24; 1
Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Tit 2:11-14; Jas 1:21-25; Rom 12:1-2; Eph 2:8-10; Php 2:12-13; Col 1:21-23; Col
3:5-10; Gal 5:16-21; Eph 5:3-6; Gal 6:7-8; Rom 2:6-8; Heb 10:26-27; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn
2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Matt 7:21-23; Ac 26:18; Rev 21:8,27;
Rev 22:14-15]
Give
Me Jesus
Oh,
What Gladness!
An
Original Work / December 2, 2013
Give me Jesus. He’s my Savior.
I’ll walk with Him in His favor.
I’ll abide in His love always;
Follow His ways to the end.
Jesus is the Son of God.
He died upon a cruel cross.
He’s forgiven all my failures
By His mercy and His love.
Give me Jesus – His compassion,
And His mercy; loving kindness.
Let Him teach me how to love Him,
And to please Him. He’s my friend.
Jesus died for all our sin
So we could have eternal life.
He will free you from your bondage
If you trust Him with your life.
Give me Jesus. Let me trust Him.
May I listen to His teachings.
May I follow where He leads me
In His service. He’s my Lord.
Jesus Christ will come again
To take His bride to be with Him.
Oh, what gladness; free from sadness
When I meet Him in the air.
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