Friday January 31st, 2025
Meditate on Hebrews 10:31NKJV
« It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God »
Read 2 Chronicles 36:15-16NKJV
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
The greatest mistake anyone can ever make in life is to provoke the Almighty God.
1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love.
He is not just a loving God, He is love personified , but Hebrews 12:29 also says He is a consuming fire.
Every coin has two sides.
On one side of God, you have love – love so great that He gave His only begotten Son for our sake.
On the other side, however, He is a consuming fire.
Thus when you hear of people who talk about God as love only, about grace 100% of the time and nothing more, stay away from them.
God is indeed kind, merciful, and loving, but don’t mess with Him because He is a consuming fire.
If He loves you specially and you fool around with Him, He will deal with you.
The word of God made it clear in Hebrews 12:6NLT
« For the LORD disciplines those He loves, and He punishes each one He accepts as His child.” »
You would think the Bible would say that whosoever the Father loves, He kisses, but that is not what it says.
If you know that what you are doing is wrong and have been corrected severally yet you refuse to yield, then you are very likely provoking Him to anger already.
You had better stop doing that thing you know He does not like. Proverbs 29:1GWT says
« A person who will not bend after many warnings will suddenly be broken beyond repair »
Nobody can tell me that because God loves you, you can go ahead and do whatever you like.
If you can do whatever you like, it is likely that He has forsaken you,
because the Bible made it clear in Hebrews 12:8NLT
« If God doesn’t discipline you as He does all of His children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really His children at all »
For those who say, “Pastor Adeboye is legalistic, he is always talking law”,
I didn’t write the Bible.
It is stated there clearly in both the Old and New Testaments that if you are doing wrong and God is not punishing you for it, then you are a bastard, and bastards will not be admitted into the kingdom of heaven Matthew 7:21-23.
Application – Do everything possible to ensure that you never ever provoke God.
Application -the more spiritual exercises you do, the faster you grow spiritually and the more power you have over the devil.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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