Psalm 119:132 “Turn to me and be gracious to me, ‘after Thy manner’ with those who love Thy name.” NASB
It is God’s nature that He is gracious toward those who turn to Him, toward those who love His Name. Another translation says, “as is Your way”. It is what God does; it is His nature. I think of Hosea 6:3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth”. He is the same yesterday, today and forever! His nature, His manner and His ways are as certain as the coming dawn. It is unchangeable! It is something we can count on day after day, what a wonderful blessing!
Psalm 8:17 “I love those who love me; and those who diligently seek me will find me”. It is His “manner” to respond to us and love us when we love Him and diligently seek Him. This is the way of God. He is a rewarder of those who seek Him, He can not do otherwise, it is in His nature.
John 14:21 “Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him”. These are promises that God has made to those who seek him and love His name, and when we do that, there is a reward! He will reveal Himself to us!
I am struck by that phrase, “after Thy manner”! There is a manner with the Lord that might be better understood if we think of our own manner with our children. We have a selfless love for our children, and we bask in their love and dependency on us. Jesus said we should come to Him as little children. There is a reward for us who come in such a way.
Understanding the ways of God can take a lifetime, they are vast, and we will never fully know Him until we see Him in heaven. Let us humble ourselves, love the Lord with our whole hearts and seek Him. We will get greater glimpses of His Glory and of His ways.
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Aspects of the Resurrection of the Saints, #12
03/21/2023
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28,29)
The question of the resurrection is one of doing good or doing evil. It is of the utmost importance that the Christian realize in his very bones that Paul’s doctrine of grace does not interfere with this fundamental premise of God’s dealings with men. Those who do good will be raised to life. Those who do evil will be raised to judgment. “Accepting Christ” does not change this simple, unchangeable fact.
The whole purpose of receiving Christ is that we may repent and begin to do good, thus qualifying ourselves for the resurrection of the righteous.
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. (Acts 3:26)
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance [appropriate to repentance]. (Acts 26:20)
“And do works appropriate to repentance.” “Do works”!
In the Day of Resurrection the Apostle Paul will be the first to condemn those who have wrested his doctrine of grace to mean a Christian can continue in his sins, not doing works appropriate to repentance, not turning from his iniquities, and still claim forgiveness through the blood of Jesus. It is a gross error.
It is being taught today that if I commit adultery God sees Christ instead of the adultery. If I lie God sees Christ instead of the lie. We have made Christ the excuse for our sins. Can any person, Christian or otherwise, truly believe while we are committing adultery God is seeing Christ instead of our wickedness? Is this not a satanic wresting of Paul’s doctrine of grace?
Notice (John 5:28,29 above) that all persons who have ever lived on the earth will be raised from the dead; their bodies once again will stand on the earth. It is not the fact of being raised that is significant, for all will be raised. Rather, it is what happens to our body after it is raised that is so terribly important.
Our body will be clothed with incorruptible life only if we have sown to the Holy Spirit during the years of our discipleship. But if we have not done the Lord’s will we will be beaten with lashes. If we have lived a wicked life on the earth we will be cast into the lake burning with fire and sulfur.
It is not the resurrection, it is what takes place after the resurrection that is so vital to our eternal destiny.
Paul’s teaching concerning imputation (ascribed righteousness), the attaining of righteousness by believing what God has stated, should not be interpreted to mean belief in Christ’s atonement waives the Kingdom law of sowing and reaping. No type or amount of professions of belief can alter the fact that we will receive in the resurrection the consequences of our behavior on the earth.
To be continued.