Dangerous Currents

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Eric Allenbaugh (American author, "Wake-Up Calls")

 

Hebrews 2:1-4

We must therefore pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away. For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding, and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him. At the same time, God also testified by signs and wonders, various miracles, and distributions of gifts from the Holy Spirit according to His will. (HCSB)

To pay attention to The Word of God is to prevent it from slipping away and also to keep us from drifting away from its blessings. Will this happen? Yes! Of course it will. We have to pay attention to the Word of God to stay anchored in God’s Truth, for if we are not careful the dangerous eddies of sin can put us on satan's reef.

Eric Allenbaugh was right. Every choice we make indicates a movement in our life, or a change of direction. Our choices in life either move us closer to God, or closer to the those things satan places in our path to draw us off course. God can help us avoid those worldly reefs that will tear the bottom out of the spiritual ship of our soul.

Jesus our Lord and Savior plotted a safe course for us through these dangerous waters, but we must make sure that we do not drift of course. This is what Paul is saying to us in Hebrews 2, he is saying pay even more attention now to your course and where decisions move you. In these last days we are in stormy waters, and the words of Paul speaks to our day, Jesus is coming soon, don’t let worldly currents carry you away…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

We've Got Company

The angels are the dispensers and administers of the Divine beneficence toward us; they regard our safety, undertake out defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion I

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)

Robert Burton believed that quote, “Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.” There are some that crave attention. Well, how much more attention do you want? There are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic on lookers that see and know and appreciate our every thought and feeling.

Francis Bacon believed that men should know that a man’s life is a theater, with seats reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on. Millions of spiritual creations walk the earth unseen to be revealed only at times when God may have reason to intervene in our lives. Hebrews 13:2 says that we at times may entertain angels, in meeting strangers.

You see God has not forgotten you and turned you loose until your day of accounting but has shepherds, glittering ranks of angels that report on your state of being. You are not a wild dog set free in this world to roam, but you are His and He tends closely to see what you are up to…He keeps up with the hairs on your head. The angels contest daily for your life, give them a pleasant task…God’s Blessings

Pastor William

Angels Watching Over Us

You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.

Theodore L. Cuyler (1822-1909, American pastor, 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)

Paul, speaking under the authority of the Holy Spirit of God, leaves us in this verse some wonderful insights into our daily existence here on this earth. It is here that we learn of the personal attention that God is giving His children, and we find that we are not alone, but that we have angels in our midst. God has not left his children without protection.

Many in this world walk in ignorance of God and His wonderful provision for us. They feel as if they are, so to speak, “paving their own way. They think they stand alone on their own two feet and need no one’s help, but they are in ignorance to the presence of angels sent to secure those who are God’s inheritance, receiving eternal salvation.

Angels are watching over you and I right now, I wonder how many times angels have wept over my actions? Angels minister to you and I just as angels ministered to Christ in the wilderness of temptation. All who have received salvation, and will inherit eternal presence with God forever, have ministering angels around us…wow! There is a lot more to this life that we can see…God’s Blessings

Pastor William