FROM DELIVERANCE TO DEDICATION

FROM DELIVERANCE TO DEDICATION?

Friday, July 17, 2020

  John [MKJV] 3:15-17 … whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

  Romans 5:6-11 For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one. But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

  Hebrews 7:24-25 … He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them. (Note Jn.14:6)

  2Peter 3:9-10 The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up.

  God is absolutely able, willing and wanting to save us as individuals or nation, and His Word records this caring and that He has done so, and promises continuance. At times deliverance is obvious, an out of Egypt et al event testified of from one or a multitude of witnesses. Other times deliverance is provided and we don’t even know it happened. (I personally believe we all experience this latter.)

  God loves everyone. The ultimate proof of His love for is Jesus.

  Indeed so, but what is the proof of our professed and sung love for Him?

  Let there be no doubt as to the answer to this life question. Jesus said “If ye love me, keep my commandments. . . . If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. . . . If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.” (KJV Jn.14:15, 23; 15:10)

  The Apostle John reiterated this truth in his first letter. “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” (KJV 1Jn.5:2-3)

  God’s love for us is absolute, because it depends on Him.

  Our love for Him is not consistent, because it depends on us, and believers are fickle easily distracted John 1:12 family members.

  God does not however leave us blowing in the wind. He and His provision are always at hand. This is not our problem. Our problem is between His deliverance and our dedication.

EBB4