When a lady in our church service prayed that the day will come on which everyone will kneel down before the Lord Jesus Christ, something stirred within me.
“I must remember that, when I talk to people again about what the Lord has done for me,” (Personal Evangelism, short P.E.) I told myself.
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
Philippians 2:9-11
Intr.:
that at the name of Jesus
1. every knee should bow,
a. in heaven and
b. on earth and
c. under the earth, and
2. every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
End:
to the glory of God the Father.”
Please read also Isaiah 45:23 and Romans 14:11.
In Ephesians 3:14 the apostle Paul says that he is kneeling down before the Father and in Psalm 95:6 the Psamist says to us: “COME, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel down before the LORD our Maker; … ” Why should we do that? The Psalmist gives the answer, “For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.”
Most of the people we talk to do not bow down before the Lord and do not confess to God, but I know now afresh that the day will come that they will bow before God and will confess to God and I will tell them. Read Romans 14:11
I am thankful to the Lord that I am bowing down before him already!
I am reading that question while looking through the shop window of a book shop here in Kaitaia / NZ on this rainy and windy Christmas Day. The question is written on a cardboard box.
Kaitaia looks dead today, there are only a few shops open for business.
What is your answer to the above question?
My answer is not, “Yes, I can have too many books” or “No, I cannot have too many books.”
But my answer is, “There is one book you must have and that book is the Bible, the word of the Living God.
Why do I say that?
This is the main reason:
THE BIBLE IS NOT WRITTEN BY A HUMAN BEING, THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN BY GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Please read Second Timothy 3:16 and Second Peter 1:21.
There are other reasons as well.
The Bible is also known by the title THE WORD OF GOD.
1. We have said already, that the word of God is SUPERNATURAL in its origin – Second Timothy 3:16-17.
2. The word of God is ACCURATE in its prophecies – First Peter 1:10-12.
3. The word of God is INERRANT in its contents – Psalm 119:11.
4. The word of God is RELIABLE in its promises – Second Corinthians 1:20.
5. The word of God is FAITH-BEGETTING in its ministry – Romans 10:17.
6. The word of God is SAVEGUARDING in its warnings – Psalm 19:11.
7. The word of God is AUTHORITATIVE in its utterance – Psalm 119:11.
“Reasons to stay together,” I read on the front page, when I picked up an old Reader’s Digest. (January 2007)
I am interested. The fact is that I am very interested.
Inside the Reader’s Digest the title is “New Reasons to stay together.” Did I ever enjoy reading the article by Elizabeth Marquardt. It says there also, “With the effects so long-lasting, is there any such thing as a “good divorce” when children are involved?”
I am reading about “Reasons to stay together” and New reasons to stay together.”
But for me there is only one reason to stay together:
“I HATE DIVORCE,” says the Lord God of Israel, …” We are reading that verse in the Bible, in the Old Testament. (Malachi 2:16)
And did I not say, “I WILL, ” when the minister asked me something like this on our wedding day (we got married in Thailand) : “A——-, will you take B—— to be your wife; will you commit yourself to her happiness and her self-fulfilment as a person, and to her usefulness in God’s kingdom; and will you promise to love, honor, trust, and serve her in sickness and in health, in adversity and prosperity, and be true and loyal to her, so long as you both shall live?” (The Broadman Minister’s Manuel by Franklin M. Segler)
Please remember also that the Bible says this in Second Corinthians 6:14, 15, 16:
“DO NOT BE YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS.
Intr.:
Questions (5)
1. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?
2. Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
3. What harmony is there between Christ and Belial?
4. What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
5. What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?
