{"id":32246,"date":"2018-01-17T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=32246"},"modified":"2018-01-17T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:11:56","slug":"distinction-between-those-who-serve-god-and-those-who-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/17\/distinction-between-those-who-serve-god-and-those-who-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"distinction between those who serve God and those who do not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalms 89:5<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! \u00a0For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, \u00a0a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him? O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you? \u00a0You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them. \u00a0You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. \u00a0The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.<\/p>\n

Daniel 7:10<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.<\/p>\n

Psalms 96:11<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;\u00a0\u00a0let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy\u00a0\u00a0before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.<\/p>\n

Malachi 3:16<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThey shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.\u00a0\u00a0Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revelation 20:11<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.\u00a0\u00a0And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.\u00a0\u00a0And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.\u00a0\u00a0Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.\u00a0\u00a0And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 30:27<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;<\/p>\n

Isaiah 66:15<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cFor behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.\u00a0\u00a0For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.<\/p>\n

Nahum 1:5<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.\u00a0\u00a0Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.<\/p>\n

John 3:18<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.\u00a0And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.<\/p>\n

There are times we just don’t feel good enough to be considered worthy, fruitful, or for that matter saved. For some reason the redemptive work of Christ does not seem real and effective for our life. \u00a0We believe but do not have a victorious heart and mind. Why is that? \u00a0We are in battle(s) – the battle with our conscious where we are self convicted – the battle with what others tell us and we are convicted by others – the battle where satan convicts us by telling us we are worthless and not good enough for God – the battle where we do think we are good enough on our own – the battle our sinful nature has with the Holy Spirit when we are convicted on our actions and thoughts in light of God’s word. \u00a0Our conscious and others conviction may or may not be true. \u00a0 Satan is the father of all lies and will continually convict us with these lies and half truths. \u00a0However, the Holy Spirit will convict us with absolute truth. \u00a0It is easy to fall into the trap of unworthiness or good enough and end up ineffectual in our Christian walk. \u00a0Both of these end in either complacency or neglect. \u00a0When we catch of glimpse of God’s Holiness and our sinfulness it is easy to feel unworthy and you are right. \u00a0We are unworthy. \u00a0That is all the more reason to shout for joy and give thanks to Jesus Christ who, though we were sinners and have a sinful nature, went to the cross and died for our sins. \u00a0He did this to redeem us and make our sin as white as snow to all who believe in Him. \u00a0At the moment of believe and trust in Jesus Christ our sins were no more. \u00a0Some may feel they are not worthy of this redemption, believing they are not good enough or they are too bad to be forgiven. \u00a0God’s word is true!<\/p>\n

\u201cFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.<\/span><\/span>For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We are never good enough to be saved. \u00a0Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners. \u00a0He takes us as we are, right where we are at in life – full of guilt and shame. Are we sinless, no but they are forgiven. \u00a0Do we stop sinning, no but if we confess our sin He is faithful and just to forgive our sin. \u00a0God is truth and His word is true. \u00a0If our sins are forgiven they are no more before God’s eyes. \u00a0We can be certain of His word of truth. \u00a0We can be victorious. \u00a0We can have joy and peace. \u00a0Satan would have us believe it is a lie. \u00a0It is not a lie. \u00a0How can we know? \u00a0Stay in His word and live to honor, glorify, serve and obey Him. \u00a0You are whiter than snow, confessed sin to God is forgiven.\u00a0Stop living defeated, complacent, and neglectful. \u00a0You can live victorious for God through His word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalms 89:5\u00a0\u00a0Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! \u00a0For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, \u00a0a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all … Continue reading “distinction between those who serve God and those who do not”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2240,3314,6106,6110,2238,4230,640,6107,2548,3733,3234,777,444,324,1511,6105,2243,602,6103,164,3091,612,782,304,6100,807,1788,3662,2237,6098,4222,6099,1638,479,2055,187,6109,1512,3536,3943,59,6108,65,6102,4226,1783,5857,6059,6104,3305,2614,6101,2396,637,322,4444],"class_list":["post-32246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-according-to-what-they-had-done","tag-awesome","tag-before-the-thone","tag-believes-in-him","tag-book-of-life","tag-books-were-opened","tag-broken","tag-burning-with-anger","tag-condemned","tag-council","tag-crushed","tag-darkness","tag-day","tag-dead","tag-devouring-fire","tag-distinction-between","tag-earth","tag-enemies","tag-esteemed","tag-evil","tag-exult","tag-faithfulness","tag-fire","tag-flesh","tag-founded-them","tag-fury","tag-glad","tag-great-and-small","tag-great-white-throne","tag-greatly-feared","tag-heard-them","tag-heavenly-beings","tag-in-its-season","tag-judge","tag-lake-of-fire","tag-light","tag-melt","tag-mighty","tag-mine","tag-paid-attention","tag-praise","tag-quake","tag-rejoice","tag-roar","tag-serves-god","tag-sing-for-joy","tag-sky","tag-slain","tag-spare-them","tag-spoke","tag-sword","tag-thousands","tag-treasured-possession","tag-wonders","tag-world","tag-written"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32248,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions\/32248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}