HOW GOD REVEALS HIMSELF & HIS PURPOSE
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And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Illustration: Many years ago I witness the dead of a young man and a pregnant woman cut down by a hit and run driver.
HOW GOD REVEALS HIMSELF & HIS PURPOSE
God said unto Noah,
“The end of all flesh is come before Me; * * I will destroy them with the earth.”
1. God led Noah into the innermost secrets of His plan.
It is not to every one that God will thus reveal the blueprints which mark out the structure of His designs.
To a man, however, who is perfect and just, and who walks with God—to such an one God will reveal Himself.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
2. God delights in telling His bondslaves of the things to come.
Why was it not reveal to anyone else?
If God told Noah, will He not also tell us?
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Perhaps the expression, “As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man,” again may be applied.
People have no more concern about spiritual things and the commandment of God, even as those in Noah generation.
Unbelief the root of sin
Eating and Drinking and Marrying....
God told Noah that the flood was coming: But the carnal minded paid him no attention.
Their daily priorities was morally twisted.
He tells us that the rapture & tribulation is coming.
But how many of us are truly ready, have you made any preparation?
Are you saved (Noah was justified)
Do you have the baptism of the Holy Ghost
Have you separated yourself from the world. (Noah was perfect)
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
“To shew unto his SERVANTS things which must shortly come to pass.”
How else could we warn men of the coming of certain destruction, if we, ourselves, knew not of it?
Individual with no concerns whatsoever to the point of warning others, shows the absent of His revelation.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Its because something has been revealed to us....
Reveal - make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others:
Told - communicate information, facts, or news to someone in spoken or written words:
God has revealed to us, that we may tell to others that which is about to come to pass.
God has to make this real to every individual.
How else could we prepare ourselves unto the hour of His Coming, if we knew it not?
God loves His own, and He wants them to be robed, and ready when He comes.
3. How may we discover God’s will, and what He is about to do?
If we would know from God, Himself, His secrets, we must dwell in the secret place.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
A little boy was so intent on selling his newspapers, and so carried away with the rush of traffic that he failed to hear the warning siren of the auto, and was trampled down.
We stood on the streets of Philadelphia and observed the throngs rushing hither and thither oblivious to the fact that above their very heads the church chimes we’re playing, “Nearer, my God, to Thee.” If we would know God’s plans and purposes we must go apart and walk with Him.