GUESS WHO'S BURNING IN HELL AT THIS VERY MOMENT RIGHT NOW ------- ABSOLUTELY NO ONE AT ALL !!! - PART 3

So what about the New Testament ? Doesn’t the New Testament teach that God will give eternal life to the unrighteous so they can live for billions of centuries in a fiery furnace where the devil is in charge ?

Why not ask Jesus Christ ? He seems to be an authority in the New Testament. He often stated that He was the Son of God. Wouldn’t someone who is related to God know about hell ? First let’s see what Jesus taught about death and the grave. His words are recorded in Scripture.

"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." (John 5:28,29) 

Jesus taught that the dead were in the grave and not immediately rewarded or punished after death. He said that there would be 2 future resurrections - one for those who did good and a separate one for those who did evil. Notice that Jesus said evil people were in the grave and that they would be resurrected to face damnation at some later point in time. Read the verse again.

Just to be sure we don’t misunderstand what Jesus believed about the dead, let's consider another verse where He speaks about the resurrection of those who have done good. "And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." (Luke 20:34-36)

Jesus taught that dead people were in the grave; not in heaven and not in hell. He said that there would be 2 resurrections and that dead people would be raised in either the 1st or 2nd resurrection. This would depend upon whether they were good or evil people while they were alive. What Jesus taught about death and the grave was in perfect harmony with the teaching in the Old Testament because the New Testament had not been written yet.

Would you like to know more ?  
Stay tuned for the next post in this series about Hell. 

If you haven't truly done so or ready, believer or unbeliever, please...surrender your heart to God while there is still time; surrender your thoughts and feelings to Jesus Christ the one who loves you and died in order for you and I to be able to obtain victory over all sin and selfishness in our lives...God loves you..God wants you...Not just to be forgiven...Not to play church, but to truly become Christ-like before you die so that you can be prepared to enjoy eternity with Him. A Christlike person is the only kind of person that could enjoy heaven and the only kind of person that could be trusted in heaven.

© 2014 Tyrone Keels

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GUESS WHO'S BURNING IN HELL AT THIS VERY MOMENT RIGHT NOW - ABSOLUTELY NO ONE AT ALL !!! - PART 2

The word hell in the Old Testament appears in 31 verses and is derived from the Hebrew word sheol. It is translated as grave, hell or pit throughout these verses. It means - Hades or the world of the dead. Where will you find millions of dead people assembled together in a world all their own ? In graveyards. The grave is the world of the dead. It is not a world of just bad people who are dead. It is not a world of simply good people who are dead. The grave is the world of all dead human beings. Hence, the word hell in the Old Testament means the grave.

Sometimes the word grave is referred to as the “pit”. In Isaiah 14:12-14, the Bible reveals why Lucifer fell from heaven and in Isaiah 14:15, we find out what will ultimately happen to him.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:15)

Contrary to popular belief, Lucifer (or the devil as he is also known) will not be in charge of hell. He will not even hold one pitchfork. Apparently, Lucifer, himself, will be brought down to the “sides of the pit” or hell as it called. What is really meant by "the sides of the pit" ? The Bible further explains itself...

(Ezekiel 32:22) Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

(Ezekiel 32:23) - Whose GRAVES ARE SET IN THE SIDES OF THE PIT, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

Graves are usually set in the sides of a pit so it is easy to see why graves and pit are used to mean the same thing. In the Old Testament, hell or the pit is the same thing as the grave and this is where Lucifer will be brought down to.  

The devil will not be in charge of anything; not hell, not the pit and not the grave. The grave is his final destiny; someday he too, will be among the dead.

Would you like to know more ? 

Stay tuned for the next post in this series about Hell. 

If you have not done so already or if you have backslidden toward the world and are now worldly...

please in the name of Jesus awake

 and stay alert if you are awake.

Please...surrender your heart to God while there is still time;

 Surrender your thoughts and feelings to Jesus Christ the one who

 loves you and died in order for you and I to be able to obtain victory

 over all sin and selfishness in our lives...God loves you..God wants

 you...Not just to be forgiven...Not to play church, but to truly

 become Christ-like before you die so that you can be prepared to

 enjoy eternity with Him. A Christlike person is the only kind of

 person that could enjoy heaven and the only kind of person that

 could be trusted in heaven.

© 2014 Tyrone Keels

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GUESS WHO'S BURNING IN HELL AT THIS VERY MOMENT - ABSOLUTELY NO ONE AT ALL !!! - PART 1

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ?

The King James version of the Bible in Microsoft Word format has about 824,706 words. One of those words is repeated 54 times in 54 verses. That word is hell . Yes, believe it or not, the word hell accounts for only 54 of the 824,706 words in the Bible. How could a word that appears so infrequently in the Bible cause so much trouble ? You would think this would be an easy enough subject to understand and yet so few know the truth about hell. 

Many surface readers and even some well-meaning critics of the Bible think that they understand what hell is and have based their conclusions about God on misunderstandings about hell. The diligently, studious Christian, who believes that the Bible is the word of God, understands that not one person is burning in hell today. He or she has learned from the Bible that God will make no one immortal so that they can spend trillions of millenniums in burning flames. 

Would you like to know more ? 
Stay tuned for the continuation of this study in the next post.

© 2014 Tyrone Keels
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100 PREDICTIONS THAT WILL BE FULFILLED IN THE YEAR 2014

Here we are again at the beginning of a new year and last year's predictions were fulfilled to the very letter. What about this year ? Will the world end this year ? Will the mark of the beast be enforced ? Some sincerely misled individuals believe they know. Many may claim to know what is going to happen in the future and possibly what will happen within the next 12 months but there is only One who can do this with guaranteed certainty. God Himself is all-knowing and can predict the future consistently with 100% accuracy. Those who connect with Him through Jesus Christ by faith are granted the privilege of understanding those things about the future which He reveals in His word. The Bible reveals today's principles that are shaping tomorrow's events. Many of these same principles rule in the lives of human beings and makes us somewhat predictable. Listed below are 100 predictions that will come to pass this year. As these predictions are fulfilled, other things will happen too.

1. Air will still be more important than money. Air will still be needed by the lungs and air will still be taken for granted by most people until they feel they can't breathe. 

2. All of us will still be sinners. All of us will still need God’s pardoning grace for the forgiveness of sin and all of us will still need God’s enabling grace to resist sin.

3. Actions will still reveal the true character of a person more than a person’s words.

4. Attitudes will still need to be adjusted.

5. Anxiety will not decrease.

6. Beliefs will still have consequences.

7. Bad things will still happen to both good and bad people.

8. Birth, life and death, literally, physically and spiritually will continue.

9. Borrowers will still be servants to the lenders.

10. Banks will not admit that they have been making bad decisions that have hurt people.

11. Chance circumstances will not create living things

12. Christ-like character development will still be possible through trust in God.

13. Christ’s life, death, resurrection and intercession will still be the only hope for sinners.

14. Cancer will still be profitable for the medical industry.

15. Dead people in the graves will not begin to communicate with living people.

16. Deception about what happens after death will continue.

17. Disasters will continue to increase in intensity.

18. Diseases not helped by “orthodox” cures will still continue to be successfully treated by natural means.

19. Enthusiasm for empty things will continue.

20. Economies will not improve and become prosperous for all.

21. Equality of human beings will continue to be divided by money.

22. Exceptions to the rule will continue to weaken the rules.

23. Faith in human reason and human judgment will continue.

24. Faith in God will shine brighter through real Christians.

25. Families will still be under mental, physical, spiritual, and moral assault.

26. Failures caused by human error and human selfishness will continue.

27. God will still be good.

28. Grace will still be available to those whose earthly probation has not closed.

29. Garbage will still be published, produced, televised, advertised and accepted.

30. Good news will not become the main broadcast feature of ABC, NBC or CBS.

31. Hell will continue to be mistakenly believed to be a place of eternal torment.

32. Health will not be restored by health insurance.

33. Hope will not die.

34. Human beings will not grow more loving and patient.

35. Illness and its causes will still not be understood by many.

36. Intensity of feelings will continue to increase and rule more people.

37. Investments in vanity and vain things will continue.

38. Insight into the sequence of final events for the world will still be available.

39. Junk for the mind and the body will still cost money.

40. Jails will still have less prisoners than sin.

41. Jesus second coming will be nearer.

42. Journeys to nowhere will still be taken.

43. Killers and killing will not cease.

44. Kindness will not dramatically increase throughout the world.

45. Knowledge of God and eternal realities will not explode exponentially.

46. Kingly men with Christlike character qualities will continue to be too few.

47. Love will continue to be easily counterfeited, misunderstood and missing from many hearts.

48. Life will not result from an explosion or an accident or a big bang somewhere.

49. Luxury will still be mistakenly equated with happiness.

50. Luck will still be considered a business principle.

51. Mothers who are real mothers will still be burdened.

52. Men who choose to remain self-centered will increase in blindness.

53. Money will still rule the world behind the scenes.

54. Movies will continue to have power to influence the mind and shape character.

55. Noble thoughts and deeds will be too few.

56. Nuclear war will not destroy the entire world.

57. Nutritional value in corporate mass-produced food products will not increase.

58. Nations will not agree to love and help each other and to go to war no more.

59. Outrageous conduct will continue to be accepted as entertainment.

60. Obscene images will continue to be more and more acceptable to weak minds.

61. Out-of-touch minds will continue to have more and more influence over others.

62. Opposition to pure truth, real goodness and genuine holiness will continue.

63. Pain will increase and continue to be medicated mentally, physically and emotionally.

64. Power will still attract those with the most dangerous character deficits.

65. Promises will continue to be made by those who don’t intend to keep them and promises will be kept by those who have a wealth of personal integrity.

66. Personality will shine brighter than character in the estimation of shallow minds.

67. Questions presented to the government by many engineers, lawyers, scientists, military leaders and architects concerning the government story about September 11th 2001 will not be answered.

68. Quiet places will become more valuable.

69. Queen-like women with Christlike character qualities will continue to be too few.

70. Quantity will continue to be substituted for quality on social, medical, educational, religious and personal levels.

71. Repetition will still be used as an effective way to strengthen lies.

72. Rotting foundations will continue to destroy many of society’s institutions.

73. Rapeseed will continue to deceive people under the name “Canola” oil.

74. Reserve and modesty will not increase.

75. Selfishness will continue to strengthen in many hearts.

76. Supernatural sights and sounds including UFO's will continue to deceive

77. Satellites will still be able to track citizens anywhere on the earth.

78. Strength of character will continue to be measured superficially.

79. Truth will continue to be suppressed by those who control the publishing and media outlets

80. TSA will not abolish itself nor apologize to all airline passengers for violating their rights.

81. Television programs will not improve significantly and begin to make great contributions to moral excellence.

82. Taste will continue to battle for first place above the other senses of hearing, touch and sight.

83. Unity of minds upon platforms of error will still continue to increase.

84. Urgent appeals to the conscience by the Holy Spirit will increase.

85. Unkind words will continue to be spoken in unkind tones.

86. Unusual weather patterns will continue to develop.

87. Victories over self will continue to be obtained.

88. Violations of trust will continue to increase.

89. Values based on material possessions will continue to mislead.

90. Vampires portrayed in movies or on television will not become real.

91. Water will still be needed by the body and mind inwardly, outwardly and spiritually.

92. Wars and rumors of wars will continue.

93. Wealth or lottery tickets still won’t solve the problem of a broken heart.

94. Weeping will still endure for a night.

95. X-rays will still not produce life after causing cells to mutate.

96. Xerox machines will still make copies just like words, thoughts and deeds will continue to be copied on earth and in the record books of heaven as well.

97. Yes there will still be a world to live in.

98. You will still only have today and right now. You will not be promised tomorrow.

99. Zero will still be the tolerance level for what the majority decides is wrong.

100. Zombies will remain in the movies. They won't become real and take over the earth. 

These predictions are all established by Bible prophecies and Bible principles. While these predictions may be considered general and easier to make, there are predictions, that could only be foreseen by God, with specific details regarding the United States and the role it will play in last day events. This too, is revealed in the Bible. Would you like to know something more specific about what will happen in America in the last days ? By the grace of God, we will continue the study of America in Bible prophecy in future posts. 

REFERENCES: Matthew 24, Luke 21:11/Acts 10:43/Isaiah 41:21-23, 42:9, 44:6-8, 46:9,10, 48:5,6/Jeremiah 17:9/Amos 3:7/Hosea 12:10/2 Peter 1:19/Revelation 1:3, 22:7/Proverbs 22:3, 27:12/John 13:19, 14:29/Luke 21:28/2 Timothy 3:1-5,7,13

Have you been drawing closer to Jesus Christ ? Do you even know Him ? Is He your deeply personal Lord and Savior from the penalty and power of sin ?

If you have not done so already or if you have backslidden toward the world and are now worldly...please in the name of Jesus awake and stay alert if you are awake.

Please...surrender your heart to God while there is still time; surrender your thoughts and feelings to Jesus Christ the one who loves you and died in order for you and I to be able to obtain victory over all sin and selfishness in our lives...God loves you..God wants you...Not just to be forgiven...Not to play church, but to truly become Christ-like before you die so that you can be prepared to enjoy eternity with Him. A Christlike person is the only kind of person that could enjoy heaven and the only kind of person that could be trusted in heaven.

Pray like this - Father in heaven, I am a sinner and I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay the penalty for my sins. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior right now and I ask you to give me a new heart. New motives, new desires and new purposes that will be in harmony with your law of 10 commandments. I thank you and praise you for the forgiveness of my sins and for causing me to be born again right now, In Jesus, name, amen. 

© 2014 Tyrone Keels

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THE APPEALING POWER OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST - INVITATION

What is so appealing about the love of Christ ? What are the different types of appeals that Christ makes ? What is the meaning of a final appeal  ? An appeal is an earnest or urgent request. The word appealing means making an urgent request. The word appealing also means attractive.

 

The love of Christ is an earnest and urgent request that is extremely attractive. How does the love of Christ appeal to human beings ?

INVITATIONAL APPEAL  
The love of Christ can be referred to as an invitational appeal because it invites us into a relationship. It invites us into a relationship with Someone we can trust. As human beings we have a deep need to trust someone who is trustworthy and the love of Christ satisfies this need. This is one reason why it is so appealing. Can you hear the invitational appeal of Jesus Christ in the following words:

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

(Mathew 11:28)

God is constantly appealing to the human heart, bidding it recognize His love and mercy, and accept His righteousness in the place of the principles of evil. He has pleaded with mankind in all ages. In Noah's day Christ spoke to men through a human agency and preached to those who were in bondage to sin. He came to Israel enshrouded in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. It was He who educated that vast multitude in their wilderness wandering. 

Are you responding to the invitational appeals of God speaking to your heart ? If you profess to be a Christian, are you letting Jesus Christ make invitational appeals through you that are inviting to others ? 

To be continued... 

Isaiah 55:1/John 6:35,37/Revelation 22:17/John 7:37


© 2013 Tyrone Keels
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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IN YOUR LIFE EVERYDAY

It is not necessary to search for the rest of your life to find out what the purpose of life is. Each day opens before us opportunities to understand ourselves better, to become more like Christ in character, to reflect God's image and to love Him more.

Amid the scenes of daily life, character is developed and made manifest. As we seek to bring the truth into practical life, we shall see the importance of taking heed to ourselves. The Christian is to imitate Christ. He is not to be careless of the proprieties of life; in so doing he places himself where he will reveal human attributes, and misrepresent the character of Christ. But wherever Christlike religion is manifested, it will work a blessing, and every detail of life will be made fragrant by the influence of the divine Spirit. 

The temper, the personal peculiarities, the habits from which character is developed‑‑everything practiced in the home will reveal itself in all the associations of life. 

In Christian experience, the Lord permits trials of various kinds to call men and women to a higher order of living and to a more sanctified service. Without these trials there would be a continual falling away from the likeness of Christ, and men would become imbued with a spirit of scientific, human philosophy, which would lead them to unite with those who are the misguided dupes of the devil.

                                                             

Those who are faithful to God will not be harmed by reproach or opposition. Nay, rather, virtues will thus be developed that will not flourish in the sunshine of prosperity. Faith, patience, meekness, and love will bud and blossom amid clouds and darkness.    

Stay tuned for the next post in this study..

Isaiah 13:13/1 Peter 1:7, 4:12,13/James 1:12/Revelation 3:18/2 Timothy 2:3/

Romans 5:3/Mark 13:20,21/1 Peter 5:10

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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE - FRUIT SHOULD BE GROWING ON YOUR TREE - CHRIST-LIKE CHARACTER TRAITS

Very few people have to endure mental strain in order to determine what kind of tree produces apples. If a man were to notice a particular tree in the park or in the forest or woods and there were maple leaves growing from the branches of the tree, it would seem almost absurd to label that man as being judgmental for calling the tree a maple tree. A tree that produces apples is an apple tree. A tree with maple leaves is called a maple tree. That's not being judgmental. That's just observation and reasoning at work. The absence or presence of fruit helps in determining the type of tree. So it is with a Christian tree, the absence or presence of certain fruit makes clear whether or not he or she is a Christian.

Through conflict the spiritual life is strengthened. Trials well borne will develop steadfastness of character and precious spiritual graces. The perfect fruit of faith, meekness, and love often matures best amid storm clouds and darkness.

Patience under trials will keep us from saying and doing those things which will injure our own souls and injure those with whom we associate. 

The opposition we meet may prove a benefit to us in many ways. If it is well borne, it will develop virtues which would never have appeared if the Christian had nothing to endure. And faith, patience, forbearance, heavenly mindedness, trust in Providence, and genuine sympathy with the erring, are the results of trial well borne. These are the graces of the Spirit, which bud, blossom, and bear fruit amid trials and adversity. Meekness, humility, and love always grow on the Christian tree. If the word is received into good and honest hearts, the obdurate soul will be subdued, and faith, grasping the promises, and relying upon Jesus, will prove triumphant. 

Trials patiently borne, blessings gratefully received, meekness, kindness, mercy, and love, habitually exhibited, are the lights that shine forth in the character before the world, revealing the contrast with the darkness that comes of the selfishness of the natural heart.  

This world is God's workshop, where He fashions us for the courts of heaven. He uses the planing knife upon our quivering hearts until the roughness and irregularities are removed and we are fitted for our proper places in the heavenly building. Through tribulation and distress the Christian becomes purified and strengthened, and develops a character after the model that Christ has given. 

Stay tuned for the next post in this study..

Isaiah 13:13/1 Peter 1:7, 4:12,13/James 1:12/Revelation 3:18/2 Timothy 2:3/

Romans 5:3/Mark 13:20,21/1 Peter 5:10

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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE - COOPERATE WITH GOD IN THE FIRE

Are you someone who enjoys wasting money ? Do you like to spend lots of time doing things that amount to nothing ? More than likely, you will answer no. There are not many people who could truly find pleasure in devoting 100% of their resources, energy and time to investments with a potential gain of zero. The same thing can be said for God. His efforts for our salvation are not part of a fruitless adventure.

The fact that we are called upon to endure trial shows that the Lord Jesus sees in us something precious which He desires to develop. If He saw in us nothing whereby He might glorify His name, He would not spend time in refining us. He does not cast worthless stones into His furnace. It is valuable ore that He refines. The blacksmith puts the iron and steel into the fire that he may know what manner of metal they are. The Lord allows His chosen ones to be placed in the furnace of affliction to prove what temper they are of and whether they can be fashioned for His work.  

This world is the scene of our trials, our griefs, our sorrows. We are here to bear the test of God. The fire of the furnace is to kindle till our dross is consumed and we come forth as gold purified in the furnace of affliction

So long as we are in the world, we shall meet with adverse influences. There will be provocations to test the temper; and it is by meeting these in a right spirit that the Christian graces are developed. If Christ dwells in us, we shall be patient, kind, and forbearing, cheerful amid frets and irritations. Day by day and year by year we shall conquer self, and grow into a noble heroism. This is our allotted task; but it cannot be accomplished without help from Jesus, resolute decision, unwavering purpose, continual watchfulness, and unceasing prayer. Each one has a personal battle to fight. Not even God can make our characters noble or our lives useful, unless we become co‑workers with Him. Those who decline the struggle lose the strength and joy of victory.   

Stay tuned for the next post in this study..

Isaiah 13:13/1 Peter 1:7, 4:12,13/James 1:12/Revelation 3:18/2 Timothy 2:3/

Romans 5:3/Mark 13:20,21/1 Peter 5:10

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WHY ME ? - THE PURPOSE OF LIFE - CRISIS REVEALS CHARACTER

Why me ? Why did this happen to me ? Have you ever asked that question or heard someone ask that question ? Sometimes there are circumstances that are beyond our control and we feel helpless because of it. It's even easy to forget that we are not the first nor are we the only ones to ever pass through whatever the experience is that we are going through. A Christian has the privilege of understanding why God allows trials in his or her life.

  It is because God is leading them that these things come upon them. Trials and obstacles are the Lord's chosen methods of discipline and His appointed conditions of success. He who reads the hearts of men knows their characters better than they themselves know them. He sees that some have powers and susceptibilities which, rightly directed, might be used in the advancement of His work. In His providence He brings these persons into different positions and varied circumstances that they may discover in their character the defects which have been concealed from their own knowledge. He gives them opportunity to correct these defects and to fit themselves for His service. Often He permits the fires of affliction to assail them that they may be purified. 

Trials come to us all to lead us to investigate our hearts, to see if they are purified from all that defiles. 

It is in mercy that the Lord reveals to men their hidden defects. He would have them critically examine the complicated emotions and motives of their own hearts, and detect that which is wrong, and modify their dispositions and refine their manners. God would have His servants become acquainted with their own hearts. In order to bring to them a true knowledge of their condition, He permits the fire of affliction to assail them, so that they may be purified. The trials of life are God's workmen to remove the impurities, infirmities, and roughness from our characters, and fit them for the society of pure, heavenly angels in glory. 

Stay tuned for the next post in this study..

1 Peter 1:7, 4:12,13/James 1:12/Revelation 3:18/2 Timothy 2:3/Romans 5:3/Mark 13:20,21/1 Peter 5:10

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THE PURPOSE OF LIFE - DIFFICULTIES - OBSTACLES - TRIALS AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

It has been said that 90% of the trials and perplexities that so many worry over are either imaginary or brought upon themselves by their own wrong course of action. That's a stunning percentage. It suggests that human beings are mostly responsible for much of their own suffering. The bright side of this means that we can also do much towards our own relief from these things. Well what about the other 10% of the trials and perplexities that many worry over ? What is the source of these difficulties ? For those who are not in the habit of trusting God, praying to Him and relying upon Him for strength, the answer is unclear but for those live according to God's will, we know that our heavenly Father allows trials to come to us. He allows us to face setbacks, reversals and challenges as part of the life long process of Christlike character development. 

Many who sincerely consecrate their lives to God's service are surprised and disappointed to find themselves, as never before, confronted by obstacles and beset by trials and perplexities. They pray for Christlikeness of character, for a fitness for the Lord's work, and they are placed in circumstances that seem to call forth all the evil of their nature. Faults are revealed of which they did not even suspect the existence. Like Israel of old they question, "If God is leading us, why do all these things come upon us?"  

Many know very little of God's dealings with His people, but the most hopeless part of their experience is that they do not try to understand His dealings in these precious hours of probation. It is their privilege to know that His afflictions come for the object of purifying them from all evil. The Lord permits trials to come in order that we may look to Him as the source of our strength, and be cleansed from earthliness, from selfishness, from harshness, from sharp unchristlike traits of character. He suffers the deep waters of affliction to go over our souls in order that we may know Him and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent, in order that we may have deep heart‑longings to be cleansed from defilement, and to come forth from the trial purer, holier, and happier. We enter the furnace of trial with our souls darkened with selfishness, and if patient under the crucial test, we shall come forth reflecting the divine character. The Lord is able to deliver the godly out of temptation.

Stay tuned for the next post in this study..

1 Peter 1:7, 4:12,13/James 1:12/Revelation 3:18/2 Timothy 2:3/Romans 5:3/Mark 13:20,21/1 Peter 5:10

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