Bible Studies

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MARK 3
1And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.

2And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.

4AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, IS IT LAWFUL TO DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH DAYS, OR TO DO EVIL? TO SAVE LIFE, OR TO KILL? BUT THEY HELD THEIR PEACE.

5AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED ROUND ABOUT ON THEM WITH ANGER, BEING GRIEVED FOR THE HARDNESS OF THEIR HEARTS, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

6And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM.

Pondering on these verses of Mark 3 dawns the realization that God must be V-E-R-Y angry with today’s world!


In my mind's eye, i see the picture of how God must have felt when He decided to rain FIRE AND BRIMESTONE down on Sodom and Gomorrah because of the gross sin or even going back to the time of Noah (except for Noah, his wife, His three sons,Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives):it rained on end till the whole Earth was drowned in God’s anger because of the depravity of man.
Why is it that from the time of Adam, man, has always grieved the Almighty in his actions and inactions?


Adam, the first man created put the blame on God because of Eve’s misdeed that according to him..... made him go against God’s command; he insinuated that he did not ask for a woman: it was as if he was saying the Almighty did not ask his opinion before giving him Eve!!!


“Genesis 2:16-17,
And the Lord commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die.”


Specific instruction! He ignored this with impunity when the opportunity arose;
it seems through the ages, man has continued to be this way.


When Moses went up the mountain to get the ten commandments from God....when he returned, his people who had SEEN and EXPERIENCED raw manifestation of God’s power and might FROM THE DELIVERANCE FROM Egypt to the parting of the red sea,also the wilderness experience...... these ones still sorth another by building a golden calf to bow down to in order to fulfill their desires and low moments.


How about the story of Abraham, who knew God as a friend and he received a promise,suddenly he and Sarah his wife, decided to help God.... by having a child (before it was too late?) through Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid who later bore Ishmael.....that household never remained the same till this day.


Blatant disregard for the creator of heaven and earth and His word is commonplace in our time, it looks as if it is even worse, the magnitude is frightening: the Pride-of-life as a result of intellectualism (The scientist, evolutionists and other intellectuals who feel nothing or no one can be wiser or more intelligent than them, while down the ages they have goofed on so many different issues.


The continual struggle for the acquisition of Human knowledge, even insinuated and outright blasphemy to God Almighty.


FOR WITHOUT ME YOU ARE NOTHING!


There is a continual struggle in this world to ‘SHOW’ God that man is something without him, outright confrontation and total disobedience.


In every sphere the competetion to ‘PROVE’ and ‘CONFIRM’ THE NON-EXISTENCE OF God contrary to the infinite abilities and capabilities of man’s intelligenceis mind buggling.


The lies that has been laid down and structured, put in place over the generations in this world is only to lead man to eternal damnation by the devil and his emissaries

This is a grandiose plan that is spreading its tentacles per second.

JOHN 10

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
30 I and my Father are one.

31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand.

John 11:53

Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.


God loves us and He is merciful but no fool and not to be encountered when in wrath!

Blindly following the world and blending with societal norms and world values that, ‘everyone does ’ and....it seems right, .....will only lead to separation from God , ETERNALLY.


John 14: 15,
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.


John 15:7
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

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