King James Bible Daily Devotion –
Learning Scripture One
Day At A Time
Date:
Saturday,
September 04, 2015
Chapters:
Ezekiel 26-28
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Message
Title: Attack
On True Christianity
Hello
My Friend,
There is no doubt that there is an attack on
true Christianity, I am talking about those who choose the Word of
God as their authority over any laws and regulations made by man.
Here is a question, if discrimination of any other race, religion, or
lifestyle can get a person fined and even jailed for breaking the
law, why are Christians being persecuted to the fullest extent of the
law? The reason, the living Word, Christ. Of all the things that are
in the world, nothing is more powerful than God's Word, it is life,
it is truth, and it is convicting, it exposes sin at its core, the
pride of the heart. “For the word of God is
quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.” - Hebrews 4:12.
Scattered all over the
world is a nation, a nation of people who love the Lord Jesus Christ
and are not ashamed to say it. This nation is not perfect, in fact,
it is full of people who were murderers, cheats, adulterers, and
liars, but they are now new creatures. Does that mean they never sin?
No. Does that mean they never get in trouble for sin? No. Does that
mean God wants the world to mock, condemn, and disgrace them? No. God
is our judge, not man, and yes He uses the judicial system to convict
and chasten His children when needed, but make fun of them and see
what happens. Through Ezekiel, God points to out all the nations who
were gloating over Israel being judge that their time was coming. The
nation of Tyrus was very powerful and
prosperous, God warns
them of the
judgment they faced for mocking Jerusalem.
“Son
of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is
broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I
shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: For thus saith the Lord
GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are
not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great
waters shall cover thee; When I shall bring thee down with them that
descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee
in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them
that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set
glory in the land of the living; I will make thee a terror, and thou
shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be
found again, saith the Lord GOD.” - Ezekiel 26:2,19-21.
God
loves His people too much not to use just judgment on them, and yes,
if He has to He will expose their sins to the world, but they are
His, He will defend us if the world makes a mockery out of us. No one
is without sin, sooner or later we all pay the price for it, at least
with Christ that price is not being cast into the pit of hell, never
to be found again. “As it is written, There
is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the
way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth
good, no, not one. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;”
- Romans 3:10-12,23-25.
Good, complete or sufficiently
perfect in its kind. No one, except the Lord Jesus Christ is perfect,
no matter how much we try, we all fall short of being perfect, and
that is why we need Jesus. God is not just the God of the Jews, He is
the God of all, and if there are any other gods before Him in any
nation, judgment will come one day, including man made gods created
in the image of God through false religion. God continues upbraiding
Tyrus for their gods, wealth and power, they thought they were
invincible, especially since they were still around while Jerusalem
fell. God tells Ezekiel to take up a lamentation for them, not for
any sorrow they felt, but for their pride.
“Now,
thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; And say unto Tyrus,
O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant
of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou
hast said, I am of perfect beauty. Thy borders are in the midst of
the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. In the time when
thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy
merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.”
- Ezekiel 27:2-4,34.
Sometimes it's not
by death that people are destroyed, but by taking their possessions
or wealth away from them. The biggest reason so many people are quick
to persecute Christians is because they do not want to lose their
fame or fortune by supporting them. How many celebrities are mocked
who stand up and say they are a Christian? Oh, but tell the world
that you are gay or transgender and you get praised. God will allow
them their time, but one day they are the ones who will be persecuted
to the fullest extend of His law. “To
execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among
them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having
men's persons in admiration because of advantage.”
- Jude 1:15,16.
This
time, God singles out the prince of Tyrus. Why? Because he thought
himself to be a god. “Son of man, say
unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine
heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat
of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of
thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring
thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are
slain in the midst of the seas.” - Ezekiel 28:2,6-8.
Of
all the sins one can commit, the one that gets God's blood boiling is
a person making themselves a god. The devil, Lucifer, himself, once
one of God's archangels, he thought himself to be god, he exalted
himself above God, and because of that he was cast out of heaven.
Just like the prince of Tyrus was killed, so will the devil, he will
be cast into the lake of fire, along with anyone else who was too
proud to admit their sin and receive Christ. “But
these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak
evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish
in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of
unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day
time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their
own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of
adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls:
an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
children:” - 2 Peter 2:12-14.
Today's
Prayer: God, You love us so much, You want to see us
prosper and give us everything we want and need, all You ask in
return is that we worship only You. Lord, with the world constantly
trying to scare us into going against Your Word it can be difficult
to live by faith and walk by sight, but we can do all things by Your
power. Lead us and guide us, give us Your power to stand up to the
world when You tell us it's time to fight, give us the strength to
endure the persecution we face, and put Your hedge of protection
around us to keep us from getting caught up in the middle of this
battle. In Jesus' name. Amen.
God Bless You, I am praying
for you,
Christina
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