Psalms 62:10-12 (MEV)
“Do not trust in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them. God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: that power belongs to God. Also to You O Lord, belongs mercy; for Your render to each one according to his works.”
When you look at the fires in California or natural calamities worldwide, you may ask why God allowed something like that to happen. Why did God allow Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, knowing the horrific results that would follow?
God gave them exclusive authority to make decisions on earth over everything that moves, swims or flies.
However, God is the ultimate authority. One command he gave Adam was not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the penalty was death.
Reality
The moment they ate the forbidden fruit, their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they began to sew fig leaves to cover their nakedness. The consequences of their decision had not come to full harvest although they immediately recognized something happened. It took 932 years for bad decision to show up!
The reality is, people may have the power to defraud, steal, and scheme people but God is the equalizer.
Is the poor getting poorer, and the rich is getting richer? Is the pharmaceutical system killing everyone with drugs? Is the medical system all-powerful that it can deny people medical treatment based on profit?
People fail to take into consideration the God Factor
What is the God factor? As our opening text declare, ‘all power belong to God. God alone has the right to determine who gets mercy. God renders to every man according to his works!
God gives people opportunities; he always gives them a way out!
Genesis chapters 5 and 6, sums up the generations of Adam. There was great wickedness in the earth. God said,
“The LORD said, My Spirit will not always strive with man, for he is flesh, yet his days will be a hundred and twenty years.” Genesis 6:3
The God Factor in Noah’s Day: God said, “I will not keep striving with man. His days on earth shall be limited to 120 years.”
God, with one decision, reduces everybody’s life span from 900+ years to 120 years.
God still gives people opportunities to change. Noah preached for 100 years before the floods came, and not one person changed.
The God Factor: “God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” Genesis 6:13 (KJV)
“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” Genesis 7:4 (KJV)
Noah found grace in the eyes of God. As the flood was increasing upon the earth, God shut them in the Ark.
Grace
We are living in a time where judgments are being released. Just as Noah found grace in the eyes of God, he has given us the gift of grace!
“For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE GRACE and the GIFT of righteousness shall REIGN in life by one, JESUS CHRIST.” Romans 5:17 (KJV)
Why people can not receive the gift
Because they refuse to believe
“He came unto his own, and his own RECEIVED HIM NOT. But as many as RECEIVED him, to them gave he POWER to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: WHICH WERE BORN, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the WILL of man BUT OF GOD.” John 1:12-13 (KJV)
Another scripture says men rejected the light because they loved darkness more than the light, John 3:19
Next Article
The following article in this series will discuss the advantages of the system that God created for us. For example, according to Luke 10:2, the Heavenly Father has planted a new harvest. He is the Lord of the harvest. The harvest is great, but only a few will reap it because of choice.
The problem is very few people have a revelation of the scope of it. They think its only about winning souls. However, it is a new creation by which we have obtained the status as children of God, born by an act of God. There is no social class in God’ system. There are no poor, busted or broken! Why
God as made us able to be partakers of the inheritance. He delivered us from the POWER OF DARKNESS.
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