“Present your case,” the Lord says.
“Bring forward your strong arguments,”
The King of Jacob says.
Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;
Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.” (Isaiah 41:21-24 NASB1995)
This is in reference to false gods, to the idols of human
flesh, to people who might today claim to be Christians, and to be followers of
Christ, but who may do so in order to deceive and to turn people away from
Christ and from his gospel. And these people may be pastors of what are called “churches,”
many of which are businesses incorporated (merged with, partnered with) the
world and with the government, which are being marketed to the world just like
any other business. So they dilute the gospel to not offend flesh.
And so they teach a gospel message which leads many people
to remain dead in their sin, still under bondage to sin, and not freed from
their slavery to sin by genuine God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not
of our own doing. For so many of them are teaching that all we have to do is to
claim faith in Jesus and now all our sins are forgiven, and heaven is secured
us, but regardless of how we live, in practice. But Jesus taught that we must
deny self, die to sin, and follow him in obedience, if we want to see God.
So they are predicting a future for people which does not
exist, in reality. They are promising them forgiveness of all sins and heaven
as their eternal destiny, but based in a lie, and not in the truth. And they
are not teaching the gospel as Jesus and as his New Testament apostles taught
it, but they are denying that truth in favor of a lie. For they are not
teaching that Jesus died to free us from our addiction to sin so we might now
live holy lives, pleasing to God, in his service, and as his servants and
witnesses.
Instead they are giving their listeners carte blanche to
continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God with no hope of change;
with no hope of heart transformation of the Spirit of God out of bondage to sin
so that they can now walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands (New
Covenant). They are giving a false image of what it means to be a Christian and
a follower of Christ by convincing so many people that being a Christian does
not require that they put their sins to death and that they now obey God.
So, they have it all wrong. They don’t know why Jesus gave
his life up for us on that cross, or if they do, they are living in denial. For
he put our sins to death with him on that cross that we might now die to sin
and live for God in walks of obedience to his commands, and in surrender to his
will and purpose for our lives. We must be those who have (past) and who are presently
continuing to put sin to death, by the Spirit, and who are walking in obedience
to our Lord, in practice, in the power of God at work within us.
For if we continue living in sin, and not in walks of
obedience to our Lord, contrary to what many of these false “gods” are
teaching, we will not inherit eternal life with God, even if we have professed
faith in Jesus Christ. And if we are following Jesus in obedience, and if sin
is no longer our practice, our past no longer defines us, regardless of what we
may have done. What defines who we are, and what our relationship with God
looks like, is how we are now living in the present, either in obedience, or in
disobedience to God.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny
self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if
we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity.
But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience
to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with
God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew
7:21-23).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John
6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32;
Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2;
1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
Seek the Lord
Based off Isaiah 55
Musical Instrumentation by Mark
Bradley
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“Come to Me all you
who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and
eat what’s good today,
And your soul will
delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and
you will live.
I have made an
eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of
the Lamb.”
Seek the Lord while
He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked
forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the
Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons
him.
“For My thoughts are
not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My
ways,”
declares the Lord,
our God.
“My word that goes
out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return
to Me unfulfilled.
My word will
accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal
I intend.
You will go in joy
and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will
burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees
clap their hands.”
False gods of No Account
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