Faith In God's Word 6/19/2022
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisGalatians 4:1-7 KJV
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
God's ability to create man, is beyond the first man who was made of the dust of the ground and first woman who was made from Adam Rib. God is able to raise up children out of stone unto Abraham, according to John the Baptist in Matthew 3:9. Jesus was created not by man, but by the word of God within Mary. The faith to believe in the virgin birth, means one has ability to believe woman was taken from Adam's rib. Yet to believe all this and we can not believe God can raise up believers among stones or tribe of Israel.
There are cultic groups out there that do not believe God can still raise up believers out of the Jewish tribe of Israel. Because they refuse to teach the Jewish nation instead they seek to kill the Jewish nation. To teach all mankind about Jesus is about teaching even the stones of Israel which there are twelve stones that represent each tribe of Israel to form the ring around the altar. The exactness of something is often regard as a tight ship, meaning one of constant order. God is able to raise or create out of tribe of Israel believers, do not forget twelve of apostle were all Israelites. God the Father of all creation, the children of God receive God has their Father. Receive him as their God. The rest of the world is created beings by God or the natural act created by God for woman to bare children, except for Jesus.
If the gospel of Jesus has touch your life, he will touch other people the same way at the heart. People are often afraid to share the gospel, but one should not be, because He is the same God that convicted your heart. You learn about Jesus in your Christian home and church, and the world is hearing all sort of things about the love of the world on the outside, with and without the knowledge of God. Yet they are in need of a Savior to save them for eternity. Our ability to received because of being taught still came with a choice for Jesus. The world can can make the same choice to believe in Jesus, so share your faith in Jesus.
John the Baptist facing ritualism of faith in his ministry, and yet ritualism and legalism does not make one a believer. God wants people to be sons and daughters of Abraham, meaning people of faith and God counts that as righteousness. God sent Jesus to redeem the people of the world not just one tribe of people called Israel. He came first to his own and his own receive him not, but all that believed he gave them the right to be children of God.
When we are born into a family, we do not chose our parents. Our parents did not chose us. We either receive our parents as our parents or find a new set. No we can not find a new set. Biology they are still our parents. By blood they are still our parents, and by obedience we are their children? By obedience we are in tuned to our father and mother's wishes and wants for our life. Do you ever stop being their child? Some people will say they stop the day they were born, the day the graduated, the day they were abused. Responsibility of a Father is for the Father and even mother is to continue to love a child despite his errors. The responsibility of a child is to one day return to their father and mother in love that was given to them? In truth it does not always happen, and so it does not always happen for the children of the world who refuse to love God back or obey him, but to do what they want their way.
God cast Adam and Eve out of the garden, but he did not forsake them. He punished them for sin, but he did not abandon them. Whose child are you, it is the parent/parents that did not abandon a child even in times of trouble. Is their times when a parent has to say no more, but continue to desire to protect the child? Ask God why he said no to Adam and Eve because the tree of life existed and in Adam and Eve sinfulness to receive that fruit of life, would allow them to be exactly like the devil, who is a created being cast out of heaven and one day into the eternal lake of fire for eternity.
God wanted better things for Adam and Eve. God did not abandon Satan, God even walked in hell, and God even talked to him on the earth. Truth true abandonment would be a place without one's parents or even contact with parents if because of sin. Yet contact means what they, they are still with you, even in the distant through a friend. They still love you. God is like that with the children of the world. He there for anyone that will just reach up, until your death you still have the power to reach up.
Yet in truth you have to believe to be a child of God. Devil believes in trembles, and yet he does not have eternity with God. To believe Christ redeemed us, is the same as obeying the word of God and being saved from the flood in Noah day, Lot's day and even now. Salvation must come with faith that God is able to perform the very thing he claims, to save us from our sin for all eternity through his Son Jesus, if we will only believe. Righteousness comes through faith alone, but our works tell us who child we are. Where we spend our eternity is up to each individual based on if one believe to acknowledge there is God, or to believe the word that obedience to it will get you walking the streets of gold, or not doing the will God putting your belief in the likeness of Satan, with one's eternity destine not for the beach, but a place far hot then the beach and is a lake of fire.
God does not forsake the world, until man forsake him. Giving up their righteousness by faith in choosing the pathway of the Satan. There is hope with faith. God knows man is not perfect. Though we are to strive to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. Stive to be like Christ to live in obedience to God's will for our life.
As Solomon discovered as he judge two woman fighting over a baby. One woman had killed her baby in the night, because she smoother him when she accidently lay on him in her sleep. She woke to find her baby was dead. The other woman who lived with her baby was alive. The woman stole the baby from the other woman because her baby was dead. Solomon in his wisdom told his soldier to divide him, the woman that loved the baby told them let the other woman have him. This proved that the woman who loved the baby was his mother. Now this being Father's Day, many father's have been fathers of not necessarily their own children, but they loved them non the less. The real father is the one that wants what is best for the child and will nuture the child.
God the Father loves and desires us to be his child, but he gives us that choice to be his child. We are forsaking sometimes our earthly parents authority when receiving Christ, it depends on if the parents want the child to do the will of God for their life. Not all parents are of God, but it does not make you with the enablity to receive Christ as Lord and Savior. He wants to be your Father. He also gave you a choice to receive the gift of his Son his very word that came in the flesh to warn, to protect, to aid on earth and for eternity. We heed God's warning our home for eternity is in sight, but it must come with faith first in what God says is true, to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for our earthly fathers that raised us and for those that carried that role of father even if not the father. Help the father's of the world to be nutures of their children, and to teach them your ways and your truth, through your Son Jesus, who came in the flesh to die for our sin debt. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: Matthew 3:9 KJV
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
John 1:11-13 KJV
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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