How can I begin to talk to you about the wisdom of God when I know so little myself? I’m a little out of my depth here but I’m smart enough to know what I do know and what I don’t know. I’m smart enough to know there is a God and what his name is (Jehovah). I’m smart enough to know where the wisdom of God resides (in the Bible) and how to go about getting it (by studying God’s word). I’m on that path myself, seeking God’s wisdom but I certainly don’t know enough to brag about it. Look, I’ve been studying God’s word for a long time, almost 20 years, in order to gain the knowledge, understanding and wisdom contained in the Bible, yet I still consider any wisdom I’ve received from God to be minimal at best. You can study the Bible for 50 years and still not scratch the surface of what God knows and reveals in his word. God speaks to us through the Scriptures as revelations from the Holy Spirit.
Deuteronomy 17:19 – And it (God’s law) shall be with him (a believer), and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes.
Proverbs 23:12 – Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge.
It’s a slow incremental process to gain the wisdom of God and it will take a lifetime of daily prayer and the daily reading and studying of God’s word. The sooner you start on your walk with God the more you will learn and the quicker you’ll become a vessel that God can use for his purpose in his salvation plan for man. God created every person with the same small amount of faith inside them that it takes to be saved. No creature made by God was ever made for the express purpose of going to hell. We all get an even shot at heaven because God is good, kind, just and fair to all. The scriptures confirm that God wants all the children that he has created to go to heaven. So what happened to stop it?
Psalm 1:1-2 – Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but delights in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
Proverbs 13:13 – He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.
I’ll tell you what happened; Satan happened! Adam and Eve were immortal human beings living in bliss in the Garden of Eden until Satan came along and caused them to sin against God through their disobedience of the commandment of God not to eat the fruit from a certain tree. God had given the earth to Adam but Satan was able to wrest control of earth from Adam because Adam had sinned against God. From the moment that Adam sinned against God Adam became the slave of Satan and he became a mortal being who was destined to die a physical death and to also suffer spiritual death by going to hell forever without the forgiveness of his sins by a just God.
Lucifer, the most powerful angel, led one third of the angels in heaven in a rebellion against God. When the rebelling angels were defeated by God he threw them all out of heaven and incarcerated them on earth until judgment day. God then gave Lucifer the name Satan, which means “adversary”, and the fallen angels became known to us as demons. God is omnipotent and has no equal in heaven. God has no adversary in heaven or on earth. God wanted to point out to us that Satan is our adversary, not God’s. Satan is bent on our destruction as the book of Job clearly shows us. Satan hates God because he is jealous of God’s power and because he wants to be worshipped as God. Satan hates man because God made us just like he made the angels and Satan can’t stand that. Satan also knows God loves us and favors us above the angels by adopting us as sons and daughters of the Most High. Satan doesn’t have the power to defeat God; not even close. But Satan knows by destroying man he can cause God grief.
Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Hebrews 4:12 – For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joint and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Satan wants to hide the truth of God from man so that he can bring man down to the pit of hell with him for all eternity. If Satan had his way every human being would be destroyed from the face of the earth within thirty days. Only the hand of God stops Satan from destroying us completely. That’s why devil worshippers make me shake my head in disgust and disbelief. Can people really be that blind? The evil of this world is only held in check by the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit of God until Jesus raptures the saints at his appearing. First, Satan tried to hide the truth of God from man by telling us that God doesn’t exist. Second, when that didn’t work out as Satan had hoped he then resorted to creating fake religions and false gods throughout history to hide the truth of God from man. Satan has put blinders on the eyes of nonbelievers so that they cannot find God and his saving grace; and without the forgiveness of our sins man cannot enter heaven because God doesn’t allow sin in heaven. Sinful man is locked out of heaven and the scriptures make it very clear that the only other place our spirit can go when we die is hell. There is no third option available. It’s either heaven or hell; but luckily we have the choice.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 – All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Ephesians 1:7 – In Him we have redemption through His blood, for the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
To destroy the works of Satan and reestablish God’s fellowship with man through the forgiveness of their sins God sent his son, Jesus Christ, to earth to die on the cross so that the sins of man could be forgiven. God came down from his throne in heaven and came to earth in the incarnation of the man Jesus Christ. Jesus is both man and God; wholly God and wholly man. One of the spiritual truths of heaven is the wages of sin is death; both physical death and spiritual death in hell forever. There is no remission of sin without the shedding of sinless blood. All men have the sin of Adam in their bodies because of Adam’s fall in the Garden of Eden. Only a sinless man would qualify as a sacrifice to God for the sins of man, and since there was no man available who could qualify, God had to become a man and sacrifice himself on the cross so that our sins could be forgiven by a just and loving God. If Jesus hadn’t voluntarily died on the cross in our place all men would still abide in their sin and go straight to hell upon their death. On the other hand, after the resurrection of Christ believers now go to heaven immediately upon their death to be in the presence of Jesus. Jesus saved us “from” hell and saved us “to” heaven. That’s why Jesus Christ is our Savior and Jesus Christ is our Lord because he is God whom we have sworn to obey. Yes, God loves us enough to die for us! Praise God for his mercy and grace!
1 Timothy 4:13 – Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Romans 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek (Gentile).
Not only did God save man from an eternity in hell by having Jesus Christ die on the cross in our place, God also provided us his wisdom (the Bible) in written form so that we could first find God and then learn how we can be saved unto eternal life in heaven through faith by acknowledging that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. Even though Jesus died for the forgiveness of the sins of all men, as believers we must still claim our salvation individually by declaring it before the God who created us; otherwise we still abide in our sins and we go to hell when we die. Just knowing about God and Jesus isn’t enough to save us. Satan and his demons know that much and they aren’t saved and they certainly aren’t going to heaven. There’s no free pass to heaven. Man has to consciously choose to serve God while also choosing to repent of their sins and turn away from Satan.
John 11:25-26 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
John 14:6 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Serving God is a deliberate choice we must declared before the Lord. Not making a choice is the same as choosing to serve Satan. Everyone who doesn’t choose God retains their sins and they can’t enter heaven. It’s that simple. God purposely made salvation a simple process so anyone can do it. The only two possible destinations for our spirit after death is heaven or hell. You’d be wise to choose to serve God because eternity is a very long time. Bobbing up and down in the lake of fire in pain and anguish 24/7 for a trillion billion years is not my idea of a fun vacation. God doesn’t tell us everything he knows but God does tell us enough so we know how to avoid hell by accepting his saving grace through faith in Jesus so we’ll have our sins forgiven by a loving, just and merciful God so that our names can be entered into the book of life by the Holy Spirit. An eternity in heaven is a wonderful thing!
Exodus 20:3 – (God speaking) – You shall have no other gods before Me.
John 8:32 – (Jesus speaking) – And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
However, if we as believers want the wisdom of God, it’s all there in the Bible. Study God’s word to find the wisdom of God you seek. That’s what this blog is all about; encouraging others to study God’s word for knowledge, understanding and wisdom. First of all, there is no true happiness apart from a right relationship with the one true God, who is Jehovah. King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, tells us this in the book of Ecclesiastes. There is overwhelming evidence to support the Christian God and zero evidence to support all the fake religions and false gods in the world that Satan has sponsored to fool man. There are over 1000 prophecies in the Bible, over 500 of which have been fulfilled and documented as fact. All the other false gods throughout history have zero fulfilled prophecies between them. One of the ways you can tell who is the true God and who is false is by seeing which God can tell the future and only Jehovah has proven he can do it because he is the author of history. Only God can raise the dead and Jesus is our proof.
John 3:18 – (Jesus speaking) – He who believes in Him (the Son) is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:36 – (Jesus speaking) – He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
So all you nonbelievers out there beware. The wrath of God is a terrible thing to behold for those who reject God’s saving grace; for those who decide to abide in their sins. You’ve all been brainwashed by Satan and the humanist world he has created to keep you from the true God of creation. Use your brain to look at the evidence available while there is still time and you’ll find the true God you seek. There is not one shred of evidence that supports any of these fake religions and false gods. That’s why they try so hard to keep you from looking past their false doctrines, rituals and dogma. They’re running a spiritual shell game on you. It’s all a big scam to steal your soul for Satan. Be wise!
If you’ll notice it’s not Christians who are killing the followers of other faiths but vice versa because fake religions want to stoke religious hatred to distract their adherents and make them think they’re doing the work of their god. In a way they are, because Satan is the god they serve and they won’t even know it in most cases until they stand before Jesus at the Great White Throne judgment. Then nonbelievers will know they’ve been duped by Satan but by then it’ll be too late for them. All nonbelievers will be condemned by Jesus Christ on the last day and be sentenced to the lake of fire for all eternity. It doesn’t have to end this way! Use your brain and find the true God while there is still time to avoid hell through faith in Jesus Christ.
John 6:47 – (Jesus speaking) – Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
Luke 13:3,5 – (Jesus speaking) – Unless you repent you will all likewise perish.
God made us all so we’re all children of God; which makes us all brothers and sisters. I have no hatred of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or anyone else just because their religious beliefs are not the same as mine. I think they’re all wrong. I feel sorry for them. I also want to help them, which is why I give my testimony about my God in my Christian blog. If I didn’t care about all the millions of lost souls going to hell every day when they die I wouldn’t waste my time and energy giving my witness about my God. However, I do care deeply about people going to hell for all eternity for the lack of a witness on behalf of Christ. Therefore, I share the gospel message of Jesus Christ with all nonbelievers as I work in God’s harvest field in the hope of saving one more soul for Jesus. My mindset as a believer is that I love what God loves and I hate what God hates. God loves every creature he has made and God hates it when Satan steals a soul he has made for the kingdom of hell. I work for God as a witness for Christ in God’s harvest field and so should you. It’s our Great Commission.
Isaiah 43:11 – (God speaking) – I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.
Hebrews 10:31 – It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
I am commanded by God to share the gospel message of Christ with the nonbelievers in all nations so that some might see the light of the one true God and accept his saving grace through faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I feel sorry for the nonbeliever but hate doesn’t enter into it; love enters into it. I’m not happy with just my salvation. I want to help save others. After our salvation we are guaranteed to go to heaven but God leaves us here on this earth to do his work; to witness the gospel message of Christ to nonbelievers in order to save lost souls for the kingdom of God. This is the Great Commission that Jesus gave to his disciples before he ascended back to heaven. All believers are also disciples of Christ and the Great Commission applies to us too. As a nonbeliever you might see it a little differently but out of the goodness of my heart I’m trying to do a good work by my witness for Christ. How can someone hate me for wanting to help them?
I can respect the fact that nonbelievers may disagree with me but why do you feel you must hate me and try to keep me from speaking what I know to be true? It’s okay for you to disagree with me but please don’t hate me for trying to do a good thing. How can someone want to harm me for considering their welfare? How can someone want to kill me for trying to save their immortal soul from hell? It makes no sense to me. Don’t kill the messenger just because you don’t like the message. Instead, go verify the message! Go investigate for yourself to see if I speak the truth. My words can’t harm you but they can save you! Send me an email if I’m wrong. I have my big boy pants on so I can take rejection. I don’t expect that I’ll ever hear from you. The fate of your immortal soul hangs in the balance so you need to choose wisely. You need to be absolutely sure that you know the truth of God. I know I do. See, I have told you. That’s all I can do. You must save yourself so go do it right now!
Isaiah 45:22 – (God speaking) – Look to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God and there is no other.
1 Peter 5:8 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Galatians 4:16 – Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Galatians 4:19 – My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 – Whose minds the god of this age (Satan) has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
2 Corinthians 5:21 – For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (Jesus).