Acts 7:25 (KJV) Just Supposing

Acts 7:25 (KJV)

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

Moses supposed a thing that was not true and spent the next forty years in hiding from God’s call on his life. 

He tried to do the will of God in the power of the flesh
How could he have ever supposed God would want him to take human life like that?

He focused on the wrong Israelite when he broke up their fight
The passage says it was the one who did wrong who accused him. I wonder what the other man thought?

He supposed the deliverance of Israel must be in his time
He became burdened at age forty. God used him at age eighty. I wonder how often we get in the flesh supposing God wants to hurry things along?

He was not disqualified because of his error
He got in the flesh, he rushed the plan of God, he focused on the wrong persons. Still, when it was God’s time, God picked him up and used him. 

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Acts 7:25 (KJV) Just Supposing

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Ezekiel 23:39 (KJV) Profaning the Sanctuary

Ezekiel 23:39 (KJV)

For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Sometimes the parallels between the Old Testament and our day are obscured by our own preferences and practices. That which we do seems palatable, even when it is wrong. We can accept that those things God calls wicked in the Old Testament were terrible because we don’t do them. Those things that we do just couldn’t, in our eyes, compare. 

The gist of this passage is this, Israel would do abominable things in their own time and then come to the house of God as if they were the children of God. This duplicity was, in God’s eyes, profanity. In the particular example, they sacrificed their children to idols and then came into the sanctuary as if to worship God. 

The parallel has to do with how we raise our children. For as many decades as I have been a Christian, we have heard preachers warn against the public school system. Too many kept their kids in those schools, all the while smugly attending some form of worship. Today it has come to bite us in that so many of those children have grown up to believe things that are openly anti-Christian. The current election proves the point. Even some who are pastors have openly encouraged Christians to vote in a candidate who is pro-abortion, pro-alternative lifestyles, and pro-socialist. They can’t see past their disregard for the other candidate’s reputation to recognize that he is the only one who will stand for Christian values. 

We have, for generations, failed to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. (Eph 6:4). Now we are not even sure what that is.[1]

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[1] I wrote this on October 30th but I am posting it on November 4th. At this time it has been confirmed that the state of Washington has voted in a bill for comprehensive sex education beginning in kindergarten. This must be an abomination in the eyes of God.

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Ezekiel 23:39 (KJV) Profaning the Sanctuary

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Acts 5:11 (KJV) Great Fear

Acts 5:11 (KJV)

And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

 

Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, had presumed upon the Holy Ghost and upon the local church. They believed they could take liberties within the church. They did not expect God to care if they “tweaked” what was right in order to get gain. They were slain for it and great fear came upon all the church because of it. 

 

I believe we lack this fear in most churches today. Leaders within those churches presume upon the Holy Ghost and expect, so long as gain is made through it, they can tweak things in the church to their preferences. 

 

I understand that certain things in the church must not be held too rigidly. My objection is not with a modicum of change. My objection, or rather, caution, has more to do with the attitude of leadership when implementing changes. 

 

We, who are members of a local New Testament Baptist Church, are a part of something awesome, holy, and fearful. We ought to sense the blessing of being a part of a church. We ought also to tread fearfully within it. 

 

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Ezekiel 20:12 (KJV) Such a Sweet Testimony

Ezekiel 20:12 (KJV)

Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

The sabbaths would have been holy days; days of rest, just as God rested from His creation on the seventh day. The observation of these sabbath days was a sign of their relationship with God and meant to remind them that they had been set apart as uniquely special to God.

The New Testament provides us with a different day. Christians have the first day of the week. It is a different sort of rest as, because of Christ, the work of righteousness is finished. We rest in that we rely solely upon Him for our righteousness and or relationship with God. We observe the day, not by resting from our labors, but by worshiping Him and testifying in His name. Our participation in services, whenever or church hosts services, is a reminder of what Christ accomplished for us. It is a testimony to others that we have been set apart to Him. 

Oh, don’t rebel from such a sweet testimony.

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Ezekiel 18:22 (KJV) Made Right In Jesus Christ

Ezekiel 18:22 (KJV)

All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

The burden of righteousness is heavy. I choose not to recount the list – it is given at least twice in this chapter of Ezekiel. Instead, I would point out that the New Testament standard of righteousness is Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV)
He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him

I’m not keeping a checklist. I have a personal relationship with Jesus. 

Those who know Christ as Saviour might come to know him at a young age. They might come to know him however as they get up in years and have many sins for which to give account. It’s all made right in Jesus Christ.

Those who profess this righteousness and, somewhere down the line, turn from it into worldliness and sin simply prove they never knew Jesus. Any man can commit sin. He might even go astray for a time. If he has a saving relationship with the Lord, he will return to Him at some point. If he doesn’t, despite his protests otherwise, he never was saved.[1]

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[1] I have actually had this absurd conversation with a man who used to be an Independent Fundamental Baptist pastor but now claims to be an atheist. He is adamant that, when he was a Christian, he was saved. Yet he claims now to believe there is no God.

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Acts 2:33 (KJV) What You See and Hear

Acts 2:33 (KJV)

Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

In Acts 1:8 Jesus said, “after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” they would be witnesses unto Him. In this verse, Peter affirmed that the day of Pentecost was a fulfillment of that promise. 

• We know that there were people from every nation there and
• We know that they were able to hear in their own tongue

The conclusion is that the promise of the Holy Ghost is the ability to witness boldly about Jesus. 

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Acts 1:2 (KJV) Be Witnesses for Jesus

Acts 1:2 (KJV)

Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Later on in this chapter, Peter will make an issue of Judas; a matter that provokes some disagreement among students of the Bible. Perhaps Peter would have been best to leave the subject alone. We know God had a twelfth man already in the making. What I notice is that Jesus moved on in His ministry without flinching over Iscariot. Even minus the betrayer, the eleven were, “the apostles whom He had chosen.”

We likely do a great deal of damage when we focus on those who: 

• aren’t what we wish them to be or 
• aren’t with us anymore or 
• are making trouble among us 

It would be best if we simply focused on what we are called and enabled to do – be witnesses for Jesus.

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John 21:11 (KJV) Our Work, Without Jesus

John 21:11 (KJV)

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

Some things I noticed: 
Jesus had fish the disciples had not caught
We need to remember we are not the only ones out there. The Lord can get and is getting His work done without us. 

He enabled them to catch the fish they caught

They had toiled all night and had caught nothing. Our work, without Jesus’ enablement, is nothing; even if we think it looks like something. (Peter had influenced the disciples to go with him. He could have argued his influence was “something.”)

The 153 fishes didn’t break the net
When it is the Lord’s catch, none of them are lost. 

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John 21:11 (KJV) Our Work, Without Jesus

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John 20:20 (KJV) They Were Glad

John 20:20 (KJV)

And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.

It’s not like it was “a natural” for them to see Him:

The two who went to the grave missed Him 
As yet they knew not the scripture that He must rise again from the grave. They just went home.

Mary nearly missed Him
She supposed Him to be the gardener. 

Thomas missed Him the first week

He wasn’t assembled with the disciples that first, first day of the week. 

Wow, it’s easy to miss Jesus! The natural man just isn’t in tune with the things of God. 

But those who see Him, when they see Him, are glad. 

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