Now is the time!
It is only the wisest of men who truly fear GOD. I am speaking of reverence and honor. Only when disasters come does the average man have a reality check of his position in the universe. This should not be.
After the apostle Paul spent about fourteen years in preparation to preach the Gospel and empowered by the Holy Spirit, he and Barnabas went to Antioch. He was empowered to speak boldly the words given to him by the Holy Spirit. Notice the first thing he says:
Acts 13:16 Then Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen:
It was needful for the listener to pay attention. Paul was about to make some very important points.
:17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He brought them out of it.
:18 Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.
You will notice Paul’s understanding of the problem in the wilderness. Our Heavenly Father had also "put up" with Paul when he was Saul persecuting Christians. Our Heavenly Father had delivered the children of Israel from Egypt only to endure their unbelief for forty long years. HE then sent them on to the Promised Land where HE delivered all seven nations unto them:
:19 And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment.
Seven happens to represent spiritual perfection or maturity and the seven nations could be seen as the seven continents of the earth. Ultimately, the whole world is to be the Promised Land when the Stone Kingdom consumes all of the other kingdoms.
:20 “After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
:21 And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
The time of the Pentecostal age was represented by King Saul and Our Heavenly Father takes credit for removing him from the throne.
:22 And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’
What a critical statement! David was said to do all the will of Our Heavenly Father. Moreover Paul states how Our Heavenly Father describes David, "A man after My own heart". There was only one aspect of David that qualified him to do "all My will".
1Samuel 13:14 "But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."
Because of that one attribute, a covenant was made:
Psalm 89:3 "I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David:
:4 ‘Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations.’ " Selah
Man goes about his daily business trying to make ends meet in his world of scarcity while a Kingdom of peace and abundance is so close. If you are not focusing on Our Heavenly Father’s heart you are missing an opportunity to be a blessing to mankind. What is at the center of Our Heavenly Father’s heart? Love.
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