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Blessing: A Life with God

Blessing in the ancient world was the highest form of well-being possible for human beings.

The Greeks referred to the blissful existence of the gods as “blessed.”

For Israel, blessing included not just gifts from God but especially life with God.

Blessing would include all areas of Abram’s life: his family, his finances, his work, and his heart.

That meant he wasn’t just to receive a blessing; he was to be a blessing.

In fact, it is impossible to be blessed in the highest sense apart from becoming a blessing.

Taken from John Ortberg, All the Places to Go . . .

How Will You Know?: God Has Placed before You an Open Door.

What Will You Do?, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

We always look at what the Bible says and try to Sneeze America ways and the way people live into what the Bible is saying ( It never works out right)

Pitiful: well compassioned, i.e. sympathetic:—pitiful, tender-hearted

Strong, J. (2009).

In A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible (Vol. 1, p. 34).

Logos Bible Software.

eschew:

to deviate, i.e. (absol.) to shun (lit.

or fig.), or (rel.) to decline (from piety):—avoid, eschew, go out of the way.

absol.

absolute, absolutely

ensue:

to pursue (lit.

or fig.); by impl. to persecute:—ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute (-ion), press forward.

railing:

slander or vituperation:—railing, reproach [-fully].

3060.

λοίδορος lŏidŏrŏs, loy´-dor-os; from λοιδός lŏidŏs (mischief); abusive, i.e. a blackguard;—railer, reviler.

WEEPING FOR THE LOST

D.L. Moody told the story of his conversion this way: “When I was in Boston I used to attend a Sunday school class, and one day I recollect my teacher came around behind the counter of the shop I was at work in, and put his hand upon my shoulder, and talked to me about Christ and my soul.

I had not felt that I had a soul till then.

I said to myself, ‘This is a very strange thing.

Here is a man who never saw me till lately, and he is weeping over my sins, and I never shed a tear about them.’

But I understand it now, and know what it is to have a passion for men’s souls and weep over their sins.

I don’t remember what he said, but I can still feel the power of that man’s hand on my shoulder tonight.”

The concern and tears of a godly teacher resulted in the conversion of a man who saw a million souls saved in his evangelistic campaigns.

Hell

Why is hell so awful?

One, it was created for satan and his demons.

Secondly, because people don’t realize that hell is the absence of God.

There’s no air in hell...because God is a breath of life.

There is no peace in hell...because God is the prince of peace.

There is no comfort in hell...because God is the comforter.

There is no love in hell...because God is love.

Hell is darkness...because God is the light.

You don't have to go there!

But there is only one way to escape it, and that is through salvation in the name of Jesus Christ.