The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. (Ps. 19:7-9)
Those who have a citizenship in heaven are those who have been washed, (washed from their sins by the blood of Christ shed on the cross) ,those who have been sanctified (set apart for God) and those have been justified (as having never sinned against God by Faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross) in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)
One Way, One truth, One life. God sent His Son to save His people from their sins. "Who have been born again, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13)
Those who have not confessed, repented of their sin, and have trusted in the only name under heaven by which anyone is saved. They are then ones who have denied God's gift to the world: The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves. (Isaiah 3:9)
Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. (Jeremiah 23:14)
And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”(Mark 6:11)
but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:29)
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; (2 Peter 2:6)
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 1:7)
Psalm 9:17, which states: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." This verse emphasizes the fate of the wicked and serves as a warning about the consequences of ignoring God and His righteousness. It highlights the importance of maintaining a relationship with God and the potential dire consequences of turning away from Him.
His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in the cords of his sin. (Proverbs 5:22)
“Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” – James 1:15 (sin progressively leads from physical death to spiritual death and to eternal death. An eternity absent from the presence of God and glory of His power in Hell. the abode of the wicked. Where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. (Jesus warning of the fate of the wicked who do not believe. "where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’(Mark 9:48) Those in hell, being completely cut off from God, exist with a nagging, guilty conscience that, like a persistent worm, gnaws away at its victim with a remorse that can never be mitigated. (lessen the gravity of the offense). God sends out His call to his people. Jesus Christ is the One who gives us rest, from the wearinessd and hopelessness of a lost and dieing world. A world drowning in the unfathomable of corruptible sin. God subjected the entire creation to futility (vainty, worthlessness, uselessness,) No matter what the word worm refers to, the most important thing to be gained from these words of Christ is that we should do everything in our power to escape the horrors of hell, and there is only one thing to that end—confessing with our mouth Jesus is Lord and believing in our heart that God raised Him from the dead...repenting of our sins, regenerated and born again, born from above by God's mercy and grace through faith and not of ourselves. It is God's gift. God calls us from darkness to light. From death to life. (In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (atoning sacrifice) for our sins. John 4:10)
The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God. (Ps. 9:17)
This is to be understood either of the corruption of nature, which he found by experience to be in him; and which, because of its force, power, and prevalence it sometimes had in him, he calls "a law"; it forcibly demanding compliance with its lusts; and is the same with what he calls "evil", and which the Jews so frequently style "the evil imagination", by which they mean the corruption of nature; the very name it goes by here, and which they say God calls it, ( Genesis 6:5 ) ; and well may it be so called, since it is originally, naturally, and continually evil; it is evil in its nature and consequences; it is the source and spring of all evil: (John Gill)
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners, we are born that way. (Ps. 51:5) For God has subjected all things (the entire Universe in fact) to corruption. Best said that the secret things belong to God. He is beyond our scope of reasoning and thought. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. (1 Cor. 2:11) Want to truly know God, get into and study God's word for: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (1 Timothy 3:16-17)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)
That wisdom and knowledge has been imparted to us in His Word. Which has come to us by His Word. Jesus the Christ. The Word who was in the beginning with God and is God. The Word that became flesh and dwelt among us.
God's eternal love for mankind spans the scope of all time. When He created he saw that everything (including man) was good. The disobedience of God's first created made in His image in believing a lie rather than God's warning to them caused them to be cast from God and became subject to death. yet even in this transgression God had a plan of salvation,
And I will put enmity
Between you(the serpent, the devil, satan) and the woman,
And between your seed (humanity) and her Seed; (the Messiah, Yahshua, Jesus Christ)
He shall bruise your head, (here of the Messiah, the eminent seed of the woman, should bruise the head of the old serpent the devil, that is, destroy him and all his principalities and powers, break and confound all his schemes, and ruin all his works, crush his whole empire, strip him of his authority and sovereignty, and particularly of his power over death, and his tyranny over the bodies and souls of men; all which was done by Christ, when he became incarnate and suffered and died, ( Hebrews 2:14 Hebrews 2:15 ) ( Colossians 2:15 ) ( 1 John 3:8 John Gill)
And you shall bruise His heel.”( by the heel of Christ is meant his human nature, which is his inferior and lowest nature, and who was in it frequently exposed to the insults, temptations, and persecutions of Satan, and was at last brought to a painful and accursed death; though by dying he got an entire victory over him and all his enemies, and obtained salvation for his people. (John Gill)
There is Hope, A Blessed Hope of deliverance from the hold of our sinful human nature. God gave His only Son, to become one of His own creation--man--to accomplish what any man of the flesh could do, tainted as they are through and though with a disobedient, corruptible, rebellious nature, at enmity with God. Jesus became what all those blood sacrifices in the Old Testament were alluding too. He is indeed the passover lamb that saved Israel from the death angel. He is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
“Christ is the Morning Light, the rising Sun, Mal. 4:2 (Matthew Henry) Jesus is “The true light that enlightens every man that came into the world." (John 1:9)
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (John 8:12) Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. (Matthew 17:1-2) As it was in Matthew, the face of Christ as the sun is likewise revealed at Revelation 1:16:“…"in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.”
That brighness reveals His absolute Glory and holiness. Pure, unstained by sin, perfect in all He says and does. Perfect man for he is perfect God. The Word who was with gods and the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us. The apostle John tells us "we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14) In Malachi 4:2 the prophet says "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;" The One described as the “sun of righteousness” can be no other than Jesus Christ Himself. The Lord is called “the LORD your righteousness” in Jeremiah 23:6. And the coming of the Messiah is pictured as a sunrise in several passages. “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you” (Isaiah 60:1). See also 2 Samuel 23:4; Habakkuk 3:4; and Luke 1:78-79. ans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.(Romans 15:3)
Hope, Biblical Hope, came down from heaven in the person of God's Son. "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." Scrpture tells us God is love. The world used here for love and the word used in john 3:16 are the same. Agape....This is loving someone
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