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WORD FOR THE WEEK..
" OBEY DON'T DELAY."
JONAH.1:2-3. 1SAM.15:22
IT IS FAR BETTER TO OBEY, GOD, AND DON'T DELAY, GOD HAS MORE DELIGHT IN OBEDIENCE THAN IN SACRIFICES. 1SAM.15.22
GOD TOLD JONAH TO GO .. GO TO NINEVEH AND CRY AGAINST THAT CITY. AND WARN THEM THAT JUDGEMENT WAS COMING IN FORTY DAYS TIME..
BUT, JONAH DID NOT GO ALONG WITH THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND HE TOOK OFF FOR JOPPA. AND HE SAILED AWAY FROM GOD.
YOU KNOW THE STORY , A GREAT STORM AROSE AND THE BOAT WAS ABOUT TO SINK, SO, THE SAILORS THREW JONAH OVERBOARD , AND HE SANK.
IS IT KIND OF LIKE THAT IN YOUR LIFE?LIKE YOU'VE BEEN THROWN OVERBOARD?
PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE RUN AWAY FROM GOD.?
WELL, ANYWAY, JONAH IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA , WITH SEAWEED WRAPPED AROUND HIS HEAD, PROBABLY HE IS DEAD. AND HE PRAYS , TELLING GOD, FINALLY, "I WILL GO DO WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO DO." AND THE BIG FISH , SPEWED HIM OUT ON THE BEACH , ABOUT A DAYS JOURNEY FROM NINEVEH. MAYBE YOU SEEM TO BE INSIDE A BIG FISH , THAT IS HOLDING YOU IN ITS GRASP.? OBEYING GOD WILL CAUSE IT TO SPEW YOU OUT , AT A SAFE PLACE..
JONAH, WARNS THE PEOPLE IN NINEVEH, REPENT AND GOD WILL SPARE YOU. OR ELSE, IN FORTY DAYS YOU WILL ALL PERISH. THIS IS THE BEST PART OF THIS STORY , THE WHOLE CITY, FROM THE KING DOWN TO THE LOWEST SERVANT FASTS AND PUTS ON SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. AND GOD SPARES THEM FROM DESTRUCTION..
JONAH FINALLY OBEYED GOD, AND THRU HIS OBEDIENCE, 120,000 CLUELESS PEOPLE , AND MUCH LIVESTOCK AND ANIMALS WERE SAVED. AND THE REVIVAL IN NINEVEH WAS THE GREATEST REVIVAL RECORDED IN BIBLICAL HISTORY.
TO OBEY IS FAR BETTER THAN ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO BRING GOD' BLESSING ON OTHERS AND TO SET YOU FREE FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF RUNNING AWAY FROM GOD. AMEN?. REV. W.E.VERNON.
" I AM PERSUADED".
2 TIM.1:12. READ IN YOUR DEVOTIONAL TIME .V.1 TO 14. FOR MORE INSIGHT INTO WHY PAUL WROTE VERSE 12.
LOOKING AT THIS ONE VERSE IN 2ND TIMOTHY, WE CAN SEE PAUL WAS DRIVING HOME A FEW POINTS , TO THIS YOUNG MINISTER.
"FOR WHICH CAUSE I ALSO SUFFER THESE THINGS: NEVERTHELESS I AM NOT ASHAMED. FOR I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED , AND AM PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE TO KEEP THAT WHICH I HAVE COMMITTED UNTO HIM AGAINST THAT DAY". V.12.
PAUL IS A PRISONER WHEN HE WRITES THIS LETTER TO TIMOTHY. AND IF YOU READ THIS FIRST CHAPTER FROM V. 1 TO 14, IT APPEARS THAT TIMOTHY WAS NOT THE MOST BOLD , SECURE OR PERSUADED CHRISTIAN MINISTER AROUND. SO, THE APOSTLE TRIES TO GET OVER TO TIM HOW HE CAN BECOME MORE DEDICATED AND GROUNDED IN CHRIST. PAUL BECAME UNMOVABLE, AND UNAFRAID, AND ASSURED OF HIS LIFE AND HIS CALLING..
PAUL HAD SUFFERED MANY AFFLICTIONS FOR THE GOSPELS SAKE , BUT THAT WAS HIS HOLY CALLING. AND HE WENT THRU' SO MUCH BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS, AND OF HIS CALLING TO PREACH. AND HE WANTED TIMOTHY TO ALSO BE SUCH AS HE WAS, BUT WITHOUT THE CHAINS .
"FOR I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED."...PAUL KNEW THE LORD JESUS , AND HE BELIEVED JESUS' TEACHINGS. AND HE WANTED TIMID TIM TO BE LIKE HIM AND BELIEVE JESUS PERIOD. TODAY MANY IN THE CHURCH, DON'T SEEM TO KNOW WHAT OR WHOM THEY HAVE BELIEVED.. WE NEED TO KNOW WHOM WE HAVE BELIEVED, SO THAT WE WON'T BE ASHAMED .
" AND AM PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE TO KEEP." I KNOW WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED , PAUL SAYS, AND NOW I AM PERSUADED , THAT HE IS ABLE TO KEEP , TO HOLD ONTO ME,
AND TO DO ALL THAT I HAVE NEED OF IN MY CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR LIFE.
STARTING NOW, WE NEED TO BE FULLY CONVINCED , AND PERSUADED, THAT JESUS HAS THE ABILITY AND THE POWER TO KEEP US FROM FALLING , AND TO BRING US THRU' TO ETERNITY , AND THAT NONE OF US WHO KNOW AND BELIEVE JESUS WILL BE LOST.
AS CHRISTIANS , OR AS SPIRITUAL SEEKERS OF THE TRUTH THAT WILL BRING PEACE , WE HAVE TO KNOW FOR SURE WHOM WE ARE GOING TO BELIEVE . AND IF YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO BELIEVE JESUS , THEN YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT ROAD THAT LEADS TO ETERNITY IN THE LORD'S KEEPING. PERSONALLY I BELIEVE IN JESUS , AND IN NO ONE ELSE.
AND WE NEED TO BE FULLY PERSUADED, WE CAN NOT BE WISHY WASHY, DOUBLE MINDED , AND ADRIFT IN A CHURNING SEA OF DOUBT.
AND WE NEED TO BE CONVINCED THAT JESUS HAS THE ABILITY TO KEEP A HOLD OF US, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.
TIMOTHY THO' A GOOD MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL , HAD TIMIDITY, AND WAS UNSETTLED IN A LOT OF AREAS, BUT PAUL GAVE HIM , HERE IN VERSE 12 THE WAY TO BOLD AS A LION AND HARMLESS AS A DOVE.
"HOLD FAST THE FORM OF SOUND WORDS, WHICH YOU HAVE HEARD OF ME, IN FAITH AND LOVE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS." V.14..
MAY THE LORD QUICKEN THESE WORDS TO YOUR SPIRIT, AND THAT YOU INDEED WILL BE SUCH A ONE AS PAUL THE APOSTLE, SAVE FOR THE CHAINS." AMEN. W.E.VERNON
VIEWPOINT. MATT.20:28
"THE SON OF MAN CAME NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO,BUT TO MINISTER"
THE MAINSPRING OF PAUL'S SERVICE IS NOT THE LOVE OF MEN,BUT LOVE FOR JESUS CHRIST.IF WE ARE DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY,WE SHALL SOON BE CRUSHED AND BROKENHEARTED, FOR WE SHALL OFTEN MEET WITH MORE INGRATITUDE FROM MEN THAN WE WOULD FROM A DOG;BUT IF OUR MOTIVE IS LOVE TO GOD, NO INGRATITUDE CAN HINDER US FROM SERVING OUR FELLOW MAN.
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