Can We Still Believe In God?

 

The Most High God Summons Each Person To Recognise Their Wrong

God is entirely righteous without even the slightest hint of evil in His actions or thoughts.
God is the designer of love, purity, patience, holiness, honesty and much, much more. And that is just how He made people.

Exactly What Do You Know About God?

It is not something that God simply chose to do, to make life more complicated for you, it IS who He is. He cannot ever be something else, or do anything else. Each and every one of His commands are there to protect His disposition and to safeguard people.
These principles were instituted 'into' the entire universe, and imprinted into humankind.
He is unable to do something that contradicts His Integrity. One can consider it the 'fixed governing laws of the universe.'
Hence, the Sovereign God of the Holy Bible is the Great Maker God of the whole universe, as well as the architect of the littlest part of an electron, which is invisible to us. Now this is what the Bible tells us of God:

I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols. (Isaiah 42:8) for your God Jehovah is a consuming fire?a zealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is high above the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and on the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
All the angels were standing around the throne...and they fell on their faces before the throne, and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,..... (Job 38:4)
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!..... (Job 38:21)
Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
And LORD JEHOVAH answered and said to Job: Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. And Job answers Jehovah and says: Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth. Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further... Will you also annul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous? Do you have strength like God? Can you create thunder with a sound like he can?" (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: -- "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. ?Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee: Therefore I loathe it, And I have sighed on dust and ashes.? (Job 42:1-6)
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)


Most people now, have only heard about God, they have never really encountered Him.
For what reason then, do some people self-importantly expect explanations from Sovereign God, to just about everything we do not like? Certainly, the significant queries we have of the not guilty that suffer and of real justice are appropriate, but not to the level where we can command the Almighty God to give humans an account of His supposedly unsatisfactory handling of the world.

Each Constructed Man Is Legitimately Owned By The Builder

The Creator God not only owns the whole cosmos, but He also owns us too, and all He would like is what is His. His requirement is to love and serve Him in turn. It's hard to swallow, but this world is His business, and He can build it however He wishes. If you or I made it, we would set the rules. But, God Most High says:

'and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. Memorize his laws' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

Humans Haven't Been Made As Robots Or Even As Pet Dogs But Rather As Members Of The Family

God may possibly have taken every risks from this life, to grant us a better life, but only by creating absolutely everyone as dutiful robotic machines. However, that is most assuredly not what the Creator God wished for.
God Most High wanted an individual that enjoyed free choice and would voluntarily choose to be devoted to Him.
A living being something resembling His being.

The Hazard Of Granting Humans Autonomy

However, the possibility with giving your generated creature their own capability to choose how they lived, is that they may possibly reject you, and that is precisely what we do.
This is a critical issue, consider all those occasions we commit and also think think and also commit that are wrong, often called iniquity in the Holy Bible, they totally attack Holy God's nature and sanctity, and again, you can say an offense against the Changeless Governing laws of the universe - the controlled universe He formed. These trespasses have separated us from Sovereign God.

'The heart is deceitful above all things, And it is incurable?who knows it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can notice every mistake? Forgive my hidden faults.' (Psalm 19:12)

Visualize it like this sickening contrast. A fresh clean and sterile swab removed from a brand new unopened packet to deal with your bad bleeding gash, now, when compared with a previously used, unsterilized swab having been sat and walked upon for a few months from the patients area seating or flooring. How would you feel? Yucky, nauseating. Now, that is only a touch of how Almighty God feels about our behaviour that is wrong, even the so-called minor things we did wrong and sometimes think about, that offend God's righteousness, and goes against the abiding laws of the universe.
And that includes the bad things we believe are minor, for instance: being disinterested in God our Creator, pride, bitterness, blasphemies and refusing to forgive that person that provoked us, etc....

Any Wrongdoing Must Be Paid For And God Is The Debt Collector

Our sins are debts to God:
'And forgive us our debts, just as we also forgive our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

Each one of these things attack the sublime pureness, sinlessness and leadership of God Most High. Each instance we act them, it is giving God a smack in the face. In the Scriptures, contained in His Law, God states that we give honor to our father and mother. Did you ever show disrespect to your parents? God tells us you are not to speak God's Holy name in vain or indifferently. Have you ever desecrated His Holy Name? God tells us do not yearn for stuff that belong to others. Have you ever been craving to possess a person's lifestyle, home, wife or things? God tells us that it is evil to steal, have you at some time, thieved something ever?

God Most High is aware of all things. And, every evil has to be convicted and judged. A time is coming when every evil WILL be punished, or it could be said, reconciled to be compatible with the fixed laws of the universe. Or as the Holy Bible calls it; to allay the wrath of the Most High God. This may come as a shocker to most people, since they are told that God Most High treasures one and all so very much, that they believe that God Most High would not be wrathful with a person over any evil they did.

Frequently I see people, oblivious to these fundamentals, questioning ?That's not the kind of god I believe in? What is this additional command on holiness??

To that I respond, "Without a doubt, Sovereign God actually does love humanity, but still humans are unable to receive the love element of Holy God and neglect the righteousness element. It's unfeasible. It is clearly proclaimed in the Bible, and you are almost never told of this key fact. Sadly, in this era people just talk about the nice teachings, not the entire disagreeable truth.
Humans are unable to know the Everlasting God by means of our worldly values, anticipations and conduct. He really is ?from another place and time? and He shows humans who He really is and the ways He rules in the Word of God. Insisting that He abide by our rules, just gives us a useless faith in an idea that is not true and shall crash and burn one day soon.
Humans incorrectly fault Sovereign God for the troubles in the world, but it is not God?s doing. He produced the whole thing perfectly, The first humans botch it and we continue to screw up. They attack Holy God's nature and sanctity; the 'fixed governing laws of the universe.' God cannot simply come in and make all things good for humans. The sequence or course of this life that He started, has to be completed.
All debts of sinfulness must be paid for.

But, God provided a strategy for all our wickedness to be punished, to pay the spiritually legal obligations of God's immutable Law, the fixed law of the universe. And that remarkable strategy, was the punishing, death, burial and being raised back to life of His Son, Jesus Christ. And, this remarkable agenda was carried out in the open before all creation ? humans, angelic beings and demons.
Jesus Christ was the pure sacrificial Lamb that can pay the bill for our wrong; attitudes, conduct and thinking. Nothing else could pay for one's evil.
The Bible says:

'All of us have sinned (done bad stuff) and fallen short of God's glory.' (Romans 3:23)
So, living 'an unbelievably good' life and doing much good can't protect humans from the awful consequence of the bad attitudes, conduct and thinking, just Jesus Christ can. If all we do every day is to be a very good person and even goes to church, that won't protect anyone and cannot permit anybody to get into heaven. That means, going away to the Lake of Fire, that is hell:

'For the wages of sin is death, but the free grace-gift of God- life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

No, it is not doing good that will save people, you must repent of all of the bad things you have done, and be a servant of God. I shall describe this further in just a moment.

That is why I find that going to funerals of a person that is not a follower of Jesus Christ pains me greatly. This is also the reason my main ambition in life is sharing with others about what God Most High is really like. To inform others who do not go to church, and more than that, to folks that also do go to church but still still haven't effectively grasped the real truths. The misconception of Almighty God is widespread, and is mainly because the message they listened to was unclear or it was compromised by the false ideas of the modern world, from teachers relentlessly trying to make the Timeless, Changeless God to seem as though He is simply a charming, warm grandaddy sort of god, lacking His intense purity and the judgment of bad things. That is definitely a fake god a creation of their own imagination.
Repeatedly I hear people assert ?So how can God be like that, I thought He is a God of love?? That is true, but you cannot disregard His judgment of bad things, when His Holy Bible says far, far more on the subject of His holiness and judgment of bad things, than His love.
It is not possible to appreciate the Creator God by using our perceptions and our life. He is absolutely is ?out of this world? and He tells human beings who He really is and the manner in which He judges in the Holy book. Hoping he will comply with our principles, just gives us a perilously incorrect picture of Sovereign God.
And remember, you have no way to hide it from God when you are not authentic. God knows your every single thought on your mind.

However, Surrender To God And Humans Do Not Need To Pay This Deficit

In order to have your own personal trespasses acquitted and get a pass to heaven, is to realize how vile we truly are before a Righteous God, and also to tell God that we are so very sorry for all our wickedness. And also to fully surrender our being to God, and become an apprentice of His ruling as boss for the remainder of our lives. Which, is the true framework of our existence in the world He made for His pleasure:

'And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.' (Luke 9:23)

God in no way declared ?Now be a good or kindly person, fulfill many good works for other individuals, and you will be with me in paradise .?
Truly, this is what God Most High declared as regards being forgiven of your trespasses:

'Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else.
?Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed with himself in this manner: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men-- extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers--or even as this tax collector. ?I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.? But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, 'God, have pity on me, a sinner!'
I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself, shall be humbled; but he that humbles himself, shall be exalted.' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Pharisee in this message is not doing the seemingly ?really bad' evil like rape, as we like to say, yet he was not forgiven by God.
But the taxman does do ?really bad' evils but was forgiven by God, because he really repented.
It is a humiliating exercise to declare we are and have been, bad and to yield our life completely to Almighty God. Yet lacking it we will not be saved from our wrongdoings, we have to come to Sovereign God submissive and incapable. Jesus Christ said :

'So He called a young child to Him, and, bidding him stand in the midst of them. and said, I declare to you, except ye lay aside your ambition, and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the Messias.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

Only By Doing Grand Things For God Most High Cannot Spare Humans

'For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Surrender To God And Permit The Lord Jesus To Pay For All Your Sin Or Not??

'And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.' (Luke 9:23)

This, ?Carry your cross daily? signifies, we have to obey in a self-giving mode day by day for His Purpose.
The Bible also says:

'I entreat you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing, which is your reasonable sacred service. (Romans 12:1)

'But hallow THE LORD JEHOVAH The Messiah in your hearts, and be ready to return a defense to everyone who requests a statement from you about the hope of your faith, in meekness and in reverence.' (1Peter 3:15)

Put in a nutshell: Almighty God becomes your managing director. Always. And as Scripture commands, we live for Jesus Christ, reading the Scriptures, talking with God daily, telling other people about God, and serving others as we are guided to. God Most High, is our crusade and mission for the remainder of our existence.

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