Let Us Not Insult the Spirit of Grace!
To think that God–who according to Psalm 7:11 feels indignation and anger everyday because of our sins against Him–to think that this righteous God has made a way to forgive us and has provided a way for us to have peace with God at the cost of His own Son. I dare not insult Him by refusing to believe His promises, receive His offer of amnesty, and trust Him to make use of the sufferings of His Son for the sake of my justification and the glory of His grace!
As it is written in Hebrews 10:28-29:
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
Do You Seek Great Things For Yourself?
Jeremiah 45:4-5
“Thus shall you say to [Baruch], Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up–that is, the whole land. And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”
The New Testament Does Not Skip A Beat
The last words of the Old Testament:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction” (Malachi 4:5-6).
The first words of the New Testament does not skip a beat in picking up where the Old Testament left off. Referring to the prophet John the Baptist, Luke 1:16-17 says:
And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.
Read Facebook and Weep
Psalm 119:136
“My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.” Read facebook for 10 minutes and weep.
The Son of God Is the Radiance of the Glory of God
Hebrews 1:3
“He [the Son of God] is the radiance of the glory of God [the Father] and the exact imprint of [the Father’s] nature, and [the Son] upholds the universe by the word of [the Father’s] power. After making purification for sins, [the Son] sat down at the right hand of the Majesty [of God the Father] on high . . .”
A New Covenant Is Promised
Jeremiah 32:40-41
“I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.”
This sounds very similar to what Jesus Christ said in Luke 12:32, “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” What good news we have received that God says He will rejoice in doing good to us, and not to harm us!