“The Avenger of Sin”

 “The Avenger of Sin”

 

You who love the LORD, hate evil! He protects the lives of His Godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked.  Psalm 97:10

 

Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout His Praise!  Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy!  Let the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD for He is COMING!  He is coming to JUDGE the earth, and the nations with His Truth.   Psalm 96:11-13.

 

So, why should we offer Him PRAISE?  We should PRAISE Him because, He is the PROTECTOR of His Godly Ones and RESCUES them from the POWER of the WICKED.  He will also JUDGE ALL people with FAIRNESS. 

 

 He is KING of the UNIVERSE, and RIGHTEOUSNESS and JUSTICE are the FOUNDATION of His Throne. (V 2)  And we, who are His GODLY ONES SHOULD HATE EVIL, because we TRUST HIM to PROTECT US from the POWER of the WICKED.  He also SHOWS MERCY to those who belong to Him, this act of MERCY is that: He does NOT give them what they deserve, because of their SINS.

 

In order for someone to receive this MERCY, they MUST ADMIT that they are a SINNER that is in NEED of the SAVIOR, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the ONE, who in His MERCY and GRACE, did NOT give them what they deserved, BUT gave them what they did NOT DESERVE.  He was able to do this because He is the PERFECT, LAMB and SON of the LIVING GOD, who SUFFERED, BLED and DIED for the SINS of ALL MANKIND.  So, they might be able to have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with the ALMIGHTY GOD. 

 

They MUST BELIEVE with ALL their HEART that JESUS DIED for THEM, PERSONALLY, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for them before God. They MUST CONFESS their SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  They MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM their SINFUL LIFESTYLE, and TURN TO GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  They MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and an ETERNITY in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS and to ESCAPE an ETERNITY in HELL with ALL its HORRORS.  And NO WAY to ESCAPE, once they are there. 

 

So, this is WHY we SHOULD PRAISE our AVENGER of SIN.  If you have NOT GIVEN your HEART and LIFE to God through the SHED BLOOD of His Son, JESUS, you NEED TO FOLLOW the steps ABOVE and do it NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!! We KNOW NOT the TIME of HIS RETURN, so be READY NOW,  and DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND!!!

 

 

“God’s Divine Plans”

 “God’s Divine Plans”

 

You saw me before I was born.  Every day of my life was recorded in Your Book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Ps. 139:16

The enormity of these intimate thoughts, which King David expressed in this Psalm, must have been OVERWHELMING to Him. Nevertheless, he KNEW and BELIEVED with ALL his HEART, that GOD had CREATED him and DEFINITELY had a PLAN for his life. David not ONLY BELIEVED, but he CONFESSED that God had those DIVINE PLANS for him, from the womb to the END of his LIFE.

Each of David’s days were PLANNED BY GOD.  And who BETTER could make those PLANS, but the ONE who CREATED David. In this PSALM, we see the DIVINE ATTRIBUTES of the ALMIGHTY GOD, which are:  His Omniscience—ALL KNOWING, His Omnipresence—He’s EVERYWHERE at the SAME TIME, and Omnipotent—-ALL POWERFUL.

David TRUSTED in God to carry out His DIVINE PLANS.  And even though, David SINNED GRIEVOUSLY.  He REPENTED of those sins with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  And has the reputation of being, a MAN after GOD’S own HEART.  David KNEW GOD PERSONALLY and wasn’t AFRAID to CALL on Him whenever the GOING got ROUGH.  And that TRUST was brought about because he KNEW his GOD and was not AFRAID to put HIS LIFE into the MIGHTY HANDS of his CREATOR.  “NO FEAR!”

So, as we embark upon a NEW YEAR, let us, with COMPLETE ABANDONMENT, give our CREATOR GOD, COMPLETE CONTROL of our EVERYDAY LIVES.  He KNOWS what is BEST for us, because He has PLANNED ALL OUR DAYS, and He KNOWS the NUMBER of DAYS we have til the END of this life. 

If you have NOT come to the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the ONE who SUFFERED, BLED, DIED, and was RESURRECTED so that you might have ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS, then your DESTINY is at GREAT RISK of spending an ETERNITY in HELL with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there. 

In order to have this ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN, you MUST COME to JESUS and ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER, in NEED of the SAVIOR.  Then BELIEVE with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your sins to Him and ASK Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST BE WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFE-STYLE, and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART. And you MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and be WILLING to WHOLE-HEARTEDLY COMMIT YOURSELF to GOD’S DIVINE PLANS.

What does 2025, hold for us, I do not know, but I MUST FAITHFULLY and FULLY TRUST the ONE, Who has ALL MY DAYS PLANNED.  And YOU SHOULD DO the SAME, because your ETERNAL DESTINY DEPENDS on IT!!   And He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!