UnGodly Generation..WAKE UP!

Let not mercy and truth forsake you;

Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of your heart,

and so find favor and high esteem

in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 3:3

To be HONEST I could give a flying squirrel what "man" thinks of me,

however the point of the scripture is show "mercy and truth"…

after all I don't care who you are everyone loves "mercy"

and while it seems a lot of people don't like the TRUTH of the word of GOD,

nobody likes to be knowingly lied to. bear with me here,

I'm going to make a point at some point and time..haha get it? ok sorry…I digress

Do not be wise in your own eyes; FEAR the LORD and depart

from evil. It will be health to your flesh,

and strength to your bones.

Proverbs 3:7

My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,

Nor detest His correction; For whom the LORD

loves He corrects, just as a father the son in

whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:11-12

"The world cannot hate you,

but it hates Me because I testify

of it that its works are evil"

John 7:7

Jesus said this to His disciples, and told them to go to

Judea for the jewish feast of tabernacles for He Himself

would not go, for it wasn't His time.

Now before I continue I want to clarify

something, Jesus Christ told His disciples "The world cannot hate you"

because at that point in time the disciples were just that.. disciples of Christ,

they followed and were learning from Christ. However Christ knew when

He returned to be with the Father God Almighty, that he wold send the

Holy Spirit to be with us and guide us that when we speak of the TRUTH

of the gospel that the world would indeed hate us that is why

he warned the disciples later..

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own.

Yet because you are not of the world, but i chose you out of the world,

therefore the world hates you.

John 15:18-19

Not to mention when Christ told the disciples at the time

"The world cannot hate you", Don't you know that Christ knew the disciples heart,

Christ knew that the jews wouldn't harm the disciples at this particular feast,

because He knew the disciples themselves wouldn't proclaim the TRUTH

so hence at that point and time "the world wouldn't hate them".

Just wanted to clarify so whoever reads this wont be confused..

so now I continue ..

So the disciples went by themselves,and in secret Jesus actually went to.

Now the jews were looking for Jesus,and they were arguing amongst themselves

about Jesus, and not one of the disciples spoke openly of Jesus

because they feared the jews.

Jesus however in the middle of the feast got up and went to the temple

to teach…and said..

"My doctrine is not mine but His who sent Me.

if anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning

the doctrine, wether it is from God or wether I speak on My

own authority.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He

who seek the glory of the One who sent Him is true,

and no unrighteousness in Him.

John 7:16-18

You may be asking yourself now, "ok…and what is the point of all this?"…

Well to those of you who read my blog regularly you already know

that,..well…I've been slacking with the updates. Also if you don't already

know this then let me absolutely clarify this again...

I do not seek to be glorified with the website or this blog, I pray that

what is written is straight from GOD through the Holy Spirit and it is leading

me to post what Is posted. I'm sure that sounds insane to a lot of people,

and frankly I could careless because I am not seeking mans opinion

or approval I am seeking GODS.

Back in September I posted a blog called "Lukewarm Christians"

and needless to say ever since then, I've been running into more and more of this

very thing, and it is disheartening to say the least. This generation,

mine and the generation we are in, has become so fickle…so

unbiblical and unGodly that it is mind blowing. Don't get it twisted mind you,

there are some great young Godly men/women out there but generally

speaking mainstream Christianity is a total joke, and i'm not blind…I realize

this has been happening for a long time, and through the generations it

just gets worse and worse, and we are living in a time where the gospel

has become nothing but perverted and GOD has been turned into

some kind of universal unholy humanistic image.

I look at people like Leonard Ravenhill who has been with the Father since 1994,

who was crying out about how broken "the church" is…how unChrist like

the followers of Christ are and how unbiblical people have become, and almost

20 years later…look at us now…it's almost as if Ravenhill was before his time.

Or how about Jonathan Edwards? yeah I said it…Jonathan Edwards who people

only know as "Hellfire and brimstone preacher" but the fact is he was much

more then that, Edwards was one of the greatest theologians in American

History, but people don't like him because he talked about a nasty place called

Hell and well Hell doesn't exist in "popular/mainstream Christianity" today,

fact is the TRUTH doesn't exist in Christianity today at all.

You know how blessed we are? I mean seriously…you know how much

information is literally at our figure tips? This generation has computers/

cell phones,TV,Music,books,Internet ect ect… and everything is right in front

of us, we can research anything we want…knowledge in seconds!

We can read about GOD, we can read about great men of GOD or watch videos

or listen through ipods or Ipads or Iphones or Laptops, have thousands

of books at our finger tips with Kindle. Yet we are a generation that knows NOTHING,

while we are a generation that is blessed with so much technology

and knowledge, man perverts that. We don't use the technology to glorify

God or get to know Him more, we use it to look at porn or make money

or spend on frivolous things that wont last or talk about how awesome we are

or whatever. (by the way I'm not claiming perfectness I've struggled in these areas to,

I speak to myself just as much as you)

This generation needs to wake up! and those of us who call

ourselves "Christians" "Christ-like" better start freaking living like it!

I can't tell you how many people i've run into (in life or on Facebook)

who sit there and say "I'm a Christian" and then say and do

something totally contrary to it. Or people who claim they're "not Christian"

and then go on to tell people who are living "Christ like",

that they are not living "Christ-like" which obviously makes no sense whatsoever.

This generation above all other generations has not only a "I don't give a crap" attitude

but also an attitude of "All roads lead to GOD, and Jesus forgave us of sin

so we can continue living in it"…

The fact is…sin is justified and TRUTH is perverted, that sums everything up right

there. remember…

Let not mercy and TRUTH forsake you;

Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of your heart,

and so find favor and high esteem

in the sight of GOD and man.

Proverbs 3:3

"Mercy and truth" you see everyone wants mercy from GOD, deep down

nobody on earth has a problem with Christ dying for sins and GOD loving

them. What people have a problem with is Christ changing them, changing

the heart and everything they are, the holy spirit convicting them of sin

and them repenting and turning away from it. They want Christ's forgiveness

and love but they don't want the change and holiness that comes with it,

and it doesn't work like that. They want to still be of the world and

have GOD to, again doesn't work like that.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; FEAR the LORD and depart

from evil. It will be health to your flesh,

and strength to your bones.

Proverbs 3:7

FEAR the LORD? why? thats what this generation asks…why? it's

"I don't have to FEAR the LORD because he died for me and loves me and

he just loves me and I can do whatever I want" and depart from evil?

thats just crazy talk..Christ died so I can continue on being evil

because that makes sense doesn't it?

My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,

Nor detest His correction; For whom the LORD

loves He corrects, just as a father the son in

whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:11-12

Better believe nobody wants to hear this scripture either…

"Chastening of the LORD?" "Correction?"…no way…GOD is just love..

GOD doesn't care what I do as long as I just believe he exists.

Notice how the verse compares this correction like to the correction

of a Father to his son, spare the rod spoil the child ring any bells?

probably not to a lot of parents anymore because it's not the parents

running the household it's the Children. Kind of like how "The Children of GOD"

like to try and run the show themselves and make GOD into some wimpy

sissified universal humanistic GOD, but trust me when I say this…GOD

will not be MOCKED nor is He going to let the children run

His house hold if you catch my drift.

"The world cannot hate you,

but it hates Me because I testify

of it that its works are evil"

John 7:7

Notice here when you testify the TRUTH of the gospel of the Almighty GOD,

and how this world and it's works are evil YOU WILL BE HATED! When you

are actually living "Christ-like" and following in His steps and Preaching the

TRUTH FROM HIS WORD…YOU WILL BE HATED! are you persecuted?

are you hated? If you are living a life of not standing up for GOD and His TRUTH

that is in the WORD, if you substitute or try to sissify GOD…you wont be persecuted

the world will love you, so the question is…

Are you living for the love of the world? or are you living for GOD?

you can't live for the world and live for GOD, it's one or the other.

and for the record in no way shape or form am I trying to support a "Works based

system" by the grace of GOD we are saved, not by works. I urge you to take

the time to watch the following video, I also urge you to really use the

technology that is at your finger tips, ask GOD to reveal things through the Holy

Spirit and seek to know GOD more and more. We are blessed to have

such technology at our disposal we should use it to glorify GOD.

Giving into Fear(King Ahaz)

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him. At that time Rezin king of Syria captured Elath for Syria, and drove the men of Judah from Elath. Then the Edomites(Israel) went to Elath, and dwell there to this day.

2 Kings 16:5-6

Assyria became a major power under Tiglath Pileser III and couldn't

be ignored, So Pekah king of Israel formed an alliance with Syria.

Now they demanded that Judah join their cause, their war against

Assyria. But King Ahaz of Judah declined, and in doing so caused

Israel and Syria to attack Judah and take the city of Elath.

Ahaz was trying to avoid war, hence his refusal to join with Israel/Syria

in their call against Assyria. However because he refused to join them

they came up against Ahaz and Judah.

The prophet Isaiah told Ahaz not to fear,to rely on God

and say to him: 'Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

Isaiah 7:4

However Ahaz gave into fear and instead of relying on God almighty..

he took matters into his own hands. Ahaz made a treaty with Assyria

(paid them to) and asked them to attack Israel, to which they gladly did..

(Fact is they were going to anyways so why not take money from Judah too)

So we see Ahaz trusted in MEN to save him and not GOD! O how often

we rely on people and things to save us and or get us out of trouble

rather then GOD. How often people ignore God, people, like Ahaz,

who claim to worship God but when STRIFE when TROUBLE

when SIN and FEAR come into play… how often we ignore God.

Fear of anything else except the LORD GOD almighty is a stumbling block for the weak, what FEAR I ask you, again besides the FEAR of the LoRD, should you have? If He is with us, who can be AGAINST us?

You don't prove your faith when everything is going right,

You prove it when everything's going all wrong!

Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:13-14

In Isaiah 7:1-10:4 Isaiah rebukes king Ahaz of Judah for not putting his faith in God, and tells of the destruction of Damascus and fall of Ephraim(Israel) under Assyrian power. However Isaiah also offers Judah it's ultimate hope (IS. 7:14) "Immanuel" meaning- "God is with us."

The foretold prophecy of the virgin birth of immanuel himself Christ Jesus(Matt. 1:23)

The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your FEAR, and let Him be your dread. (IS.8:13)

Ahaz was a fool instead of trusting in God He trusted in man(assyria)

to save him. Not only did Ahaz pay tribute but he built temple modifications that were Assyrian inspired(2 Kings 16:10-18)

Ahaz refused to listen to God who spoke through Isaiah, he gave into FEAR of the moment. Do not let worry and FEAR destroy your walk,

do not squelch the still small voice of God inside you.

If you refuse to listen, refuse to follow His word, His voice…

then just who are you following? think about it…

Follow the one from which salvation comes, and no other!

King Manasseh

Last blog I talked about King Hezekiah who did what was right

in the sight of the LORD, and who put his faith in God when

Assyria came and mocked God and came to trample upon

Jerusalem. He wasn't perfect, but what man is? King Hezekiah

did a lot of good for Judah, he tore down alters/high places that

were dedicated to other gods, He put Judah back on the right track,

and that was back to the one and ONLY God. He did a lot for the city

in general, for it's fortifications, He was the one to bring Judah's water source

from out side the city walls into the city through a massive tunnel.

When Hezekiah died his son Manasseh took over as king. Manasseh did not do right in the eyes of the Lord, in fact his reign was one of the darkest periods in Judah's history, if not the darkest, and he reigned 55 years.

Manasseh rebuilt the abominations his father tore down, in fact

no king of Judah would ever embrace the canaanite(and probably assyrian) deities as completely as Manasseh.

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled

Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made

Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Kings 21:16

Judah indeed was in a dark time, those who protested Manasseh's ways would have been killed, and it is very possible that the prophet Isaiah(as it says in rabbinical tradition) was one of those innocent that Manasseh killed. It is said that Manasseh gave the order to have Isaiah sawn in two while he was in a log.

Assyrian sources even mention King Manasseh of Judah as one of the 22 vassal kings. Vassal states to Assyria were forced to pay tribute and take loyalty oaths, demonstrating assyrian rulership. Assyria was essentially under control of Judah but they let Judah and the other vassals they had still practice their own religion and have their kings, Manasseh maybe wanting to prove his loyalty to Assyria adopted much of their cultic practices.

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done;

and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said,

"In Jerusalem I will put My name."

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD,

to provoke Him to anger.

He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

"and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers—only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them."

But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,

"Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ( he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols), "therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 'So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies,

'because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.'"

2 Kings 21:3-15

This is where 2 kings ends talking about Manasseh. However the writer of 2 Chronicles reveals something the writer of 2 kings does not, and no not a contradiction but Chronicles just gives more detail in this certain area. the writers of 2 Chronicles and 2 Kings both agree and state the evil that Manasseh has done(Obviously not contradicting each other) both stating Manasseh did evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles says Manasseh was carried off to babylon by Assyria, and there he was tortured, and it was in this torture that he humbled himself before the Lord, in fact it says he humbled himself "Greatly before the Lord" and the Lord heard his prayers and forgave him and brought him back to Jerusalem. Obviously we see Gods forgiveness here in 2 Chronicles, we see Manasseh being in the state of repentance and God forgiving. Manasseh was not someone who made a few mistakes, Manasseh was not a man who had faith in God, Manasseh was a blasphemer a murder of innocent blood who turned a whole country away from the one true God, and still he was shown mercy when he earnestly

sought the Lord God and repented of his ways.NOTICE what repentance here is…it is not only being sorry for what you have done,

BUT A TURNING AWAY FROM THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE.

And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of the city. And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places,

[yet] unto the LORD their God only.

2 Chronicles 33:10-17

Serving God opposite of His word?

Faith today has really become belittled,

Following the word of God is really just an after

thought, or rather a "Nice thought". People claim

they are "For Christ" but their words and their actions

are directly against the very word of God.

I don't claim to know it all, but I can seriously

see how for my generation and this generation

it's hard to know solid TRUTH, because on one

hand the world won't teach you solid TRUTH, and

on the other hand "popular" mainstream Christianity

wont teach you solid TRUTH either…

I always find it sad and yet laughable when I hear people explain what a "Christian" is or what a Christian is not, specially when it is by people who are not followers of the faith themselves. Kind of like when a mormon comes up to you and says "I follow Jesus Christ and teach his word, would you like to know more?" that would be an example of laughable, laughable and yet sad mind you because they claim they are Christian, which is an example of the title of this blog "Serving God opposite of His word" which is laughable because that's not possible…YOU CAN'T serve GOD and be opposite of what His word says, and yet it is sad because far to many just don't get it.

Not to just pick on Mormons either, the same can be said of "Westboro Baptists Church" who claims to be "Christian" yet preaches/protests nothing but hate, same can be said for others who claim to be "Christian" yet don't preach a wrath of God at all. This all kind of collates with what I've been reading in 2 Kings and Isaiah about Assyria and King Hezekiah…(bare with me here..)

And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. Then the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What confidence is this in which you trust? "You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? "Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem'?"' "Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them! "How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land, and destroy it.'" Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?" Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! "Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; 'nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."' Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 'until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us." 'Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 'Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'" But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him." Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh. 2 Kings 18:18-37 A "Rabshakeh" back then was a high-ranking officer in the Assyrian army, and he was trying to get Jerusalem to just give up and surrender to Assyria, even claiming that God himself has given him the authority to take the city. Saying that God was displeased with King Hezekiah for earlier purging the alters and High places(2 Kings 18:15). The Rabshakeh was playing on the near eastern belief at the time, that "gods" owned the land and could give it to whomever they wish. So we can see that "The Rabshakeh" claiming God has given him authority to take Jerusalem is ludicrous, "The Rabshakeh" was treating the situation as if God the one true GOD, was just another god of some land he was about to conquer and control and would fall to his god just like all the "other gods" did. So on some level we can see how "The Rabshakeh" story is much like those who claim they serve God but are opposite of His word, "The Rabshakeh" wasn't serving anything but blasphemy. Wether "The Rabshakeh" and Assyria knew it or not they only existed at the command of THE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. "Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."' 2 Kings 19:5-7 The story of The king of Assyria "Sennacherib" and "The Rabshakeh" is also in Isaiah 36:2. Now we know that Assyria was feared, Assyria destroyed many nations and had much power but when it all comes down to it God will not be mocked , Assyria mocked many gods and got away with it, because simply put they were not gods at all they were false gods made by the hands of men, just as King Hezekiah put it in his prayer to God.. Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth."Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. "Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,"and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 2 Kings 19:15-18 God didn't take blasphemy and mocking lightly back then and the King of Assyria paid the price for it, just as those who do it now will also. If you truly serve God, then you will live according to His word it's as simple as that. You can't serve God and then be opposed to His word, it doesn't work like that. Either you are born again or you are not, Christ does a work in you and a change comes and the old passes away and you are "born again" made new through Jesus Christ OR YOU ARE NOT. There is no… "I believe in Jesus Christ, and I'm saved from sin so now I can continue in it" umm no…that would mean you don't know Christ at all, and a change never did come. Because if you really "know Christ" and a change did come, that change would have come from Him(not yourself) and you will no longer want to LIVE IN SIN…it's really that simple.. Those who try to justify their sins and say it's "ok I'm saved" are slapping God in the face, and are not saved at all. Same goes with those that stand there like they are Gods gift to the world and spew hatred like they themselves are perfect. Those living in sin ANY sin and trying to "justify" it are living for themselves and don't want that change to come, for the one thousandth time Selfishness is not Christ(Christian) at all. Serving God opposite of His word, wether that means living opposite of it or opposed to it or if it means picking and choosing what suits your needs from it….The fact is you are not serving at all unless you are wholly committed to God and His word.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good

to those who love God, to those who are the called according

to His purpose. - Romans 8:28

Loyalty pretty much sums up Romans 8:28,

does this verse mean that because we love God that only good will come?

no, not at all...

the verse means those who love God are loyal to God,

and they realize that all things work out in the end for good.

When trouble and sufferings come, and they will come,

those who love God understand that no matter the circumstance,

no matter what happens, trusting and putting their faith in God

is most important. Our Loyalty should be unshakable, all things we know

are possible through God, what is more important then your relationship with Christ? Why, how rather, could you let any trouble come between it?
When bad circumstances come it’s not ‘Why me?’ it’s should be more

like ‘Why not me?’. Put your trust in God, have unshakable faith

that everything happens for a reason and nothing can detour Gods will.

We will be loyal to work, to service, to anything,

but do not ask us to be loyal to Jesus Christ.

Many Christians are intensely impatient of

talking about loyalty to Jesus.

Our Lord is dethroned more emphatically by Christian workers

than by the world. God is made a machine for blessing men,

and Jesus Christ is made a Worker among workers.

The idea is not that we do work for God,

but that we are so loyal to Him that He can do His work through us -

"I reckon on you for extreme service, with no complaining on your part and no explanation on Mine."

God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

December 18th My Utmost for His highest

It's easy to get into the mode of

"I'm so loyal to Christ, look at what I do for him."

But that is not of Christ at all,What good is in us really?

the only good in us is Christ himself through the Holy Spirit.

Any credit, any thanks for work that you say you do for God

should go to God not your self.

Stop trying to be pious and Holy and BE pious and Holy...

The more you try to be pious and Holy the more you will fail...

the only way to be pious and Holy is through Christ,

so stop trying to be something and let Christ Be it through you!

Stop trying to mold the clay and let God be the molder without

any interference on your part!

Be what you were always meant to be, we were not Created to

live as we have lived since Adam, we were created to be Holy

and in Gods presence, yet we are far from it because of Sin...

but if you deny that you can be changed, if you deny that you can be made Holy,

then you deny the power of God, you deny what was done for you

on the cross and through the Son.

Jeremiah 7:8-10

"Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely,

burn incense to Ba'al, and walk after other gods

whom you do not know,

and then come and stand before Me in this house which

is called by My name, and say,

'We are delivered to do all these abominations'?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

Jeremiah was warning Judah, telling them they were

'trusting in lying words'. Lying words from the priests

and false prophets, believing that they could do whatever

they wanted, believing they could worship other gods...

that they could murder and steal and break every commandment

the LORD God gave them and God wouldn't care. To the people

of Jeremiah's time all that mattered was that the "Temple of the LORD" stood. They put there trust in the Temple, and essentially

they believed as long as the temple was standing and they could go

and get "Forgiveness of sins" they could intern just simply wash

their hands clean and go and continue doing whatever they wanted, they could even have other gods.

"Do not trust in these lying words, saying, 'The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.'

Jeremiah 7:4

I've said it before and I'll say it some more, I'm sure a lot of people

are thinking...

"Oh...those stupid...stupid..people of the old Testament"

Really? are a good majority of us "Christians" not exactly

the same today? those who claim Christ has made them new,

and grafted them into the tree, yet remain exactly as they were before? While the jews of Jeremiah's time put their trust

in the temple and thought they could please God and themselves

at the same time, thinking they could go off and do whatever they wanted because

"hey it doesn't matter.. we can just go to the temple and sacrifice an animal and be forgiven, God will protect us, we can live like our heathen neighbors, we can sin all we want, but just make sure we go once a month and sacrifice an animal."

It really hasn't changed today from Jeremiah's time,

in fact it's probably even worse, now it's..

"Hey it doesn't matter, I accepted Jesus in my Heart I'm saved!

He died on the cross for my sins, so I can be oblivious now to

my sins, I can live however I want and you can't judge me or

my life style because I am saved."

I touched on it a little bit a couple blogs ago, about how

a good amount of "christians" don't even know the ten commandments,they don't think they even matter at all.

They think that the Old Testament is a bunch of old

scribbles and mumbo jumbo and it doesn't mean jack...

Really? I guess people completely ignore that Christ

did nothing but QUOTE FROM IT....what do you think

Christ and the disciples studied? what did they revolve their

ministry and teaching around? God didn't change from the

Old Testament to the NEW, He's the same as He ever was, and

He will always be the same. In fact I don't even like the term

"Old Testament" and "New Testament" for you wouldn't have

the New if you didn't have the "old", and just as Paul said he wouldn't of known what sin was if it wasn't for the Law.

Christ Himself said..

"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets."

Matthew 5:17

If the "Old Testament" doesn't matter, If the Commandments

don't mean anything, then why did Christ quote

so much from the "old",why did he speak on the commandments/law in his sermon on the mount? why did he tell a man to follow them in Matthew 19:18? and probably most of all If the commandments

and the Old testament don't matter then why did Christ have

to be Sacrificed for us?

Just like the jews in Jeremiah's time, We claim to be for God

and yet refuse to stand by His word.

My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to

return. Day after day, year after year, I taught them right from

wrong, but they would not listen or obey.

Jeremiah 32:33