Forgiveness has an End

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)

Hebrews 1:13-2:1

Now to which of the angels has He ever said: Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation? (HCSB)

In Joshua 10:24-25 we see the results of a day where God held the sun in its place until Israel caught their enemies. “When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks. Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Be strong and courageous, for the Lord will do this to all the enemies you fight.”

In Psalm 110:1 we hear the promise as God speaks to His Son. He promises Him that His enemies will be His Footstool, and Paul reminds us in Hebrews 10: 11 that Jesus still awaits the day that His enemies will be under His feet. To us this sounds a cruel and harsh punishment, but it is one that the enemies choose for themselves, not our Father.

This needs to be highlighted more in our communication with the lost world, for they still think that God will not be mean to them, or that He will pardon their sentence. It will not be so… for those that spurn the Son of God no sacrifice remains for their sin, they have rejected the Savior and will fall into the hands of an Angry God who will place their necks under the feet of His Son…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

The Cloak Maker

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-, British author)

Hebrews 1:8-12 but about the Son:

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; this is why God, Your God, has anointed You, rather than Your companions, with the oil of joy. And: In the beginning, Lord, You established the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands; they will perish, but You remain. They will all wear out like clothing; You will roll them up like a cloak, and they will be changed like a robe. But You are the same, and Your years will never end. (HCSB)

I’m kind of in a state of awe right now…hey! Maybe you can be here with me and feel what I am feeling right now. Our God who created all of this that we see; a righteous and loving God who hates lawlessness, collects the heavens in a roll and changes them as you and I would put on or take of a coat that needs washing.

Scientists play around the skirts of this coat trying to understand what God has created. In their attempts they look at what our God has made, they worship the cloak rather than the cloak maker. They will never grasp it all, and if they do come close, it will not be before God wraps up the old one and puts on the new…as if changing His cloak.

The one thing that I can take comfort in is that I know the Creator, even if I don’t know all about His creation. I think man still hasn’t found enough about who is, yet man is already looking at the creation explaining to all the nature of God’s Cloak. Now if you don’t know the cloak maker then you don’t know his craft. Take comfort in the fact that you know the cloak maker today, and you will watch him roll up the heavens forever…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

Putting Together God's Puzzle

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist

Hebrews 1:5-7

For to which of the angels did He ever say, You are My Son; today I have become Your Father, or again, I will be His Father, and He will be My Son? When He again brings His firstborn into the world, He says, and all God’s angels must worship Him. And about the angels He says: He makes His angels’ winds and His servants a fiery flame; (HCSB)

Psalm 104:1-4, says this about God our Creator and Lord, “My soul, praise the Lord! Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with majesty and splendor. He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy, laying the beams of His palace on the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind, and making the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

You know I think I can find my place in God’s creation here, and you can also find your place as well. It seems that things begin to make sense when you put things in order. God who designed all of creation through Jesus Christ made a thing for everyplace and for everyplace a thing. The pieces of the puzzle fit when put together God’s way.

If we take our place as His servants we will also begin to see the structure of rightness and peace which God placed in the world and in us. We will hear,and feel the winds of angels wings brush our face, and the warmth of the Light of God in our bones. When we come as His servants a fire is lit in each of us that turns us into a fiery flame of witness to the Glory of our God… Oh’ the Glory of His Presence, that we miss when we are out of place…God’s Blessings

Pastor William