Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-11 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 11 |بیشتر

Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-11 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 11 God means Evil , not just permits it. God created the possible of evil when He created free beings. # 1--Isa. 45:7 That men may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is none other. I form the light and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil, I am the Lord, who do all these things. God doesn’t do the evil, He can only do good (James 1:13). The devil is the doer of evil, not God. However, the scripture says that, “God created evil” (Isa. 45:7). and to agree with the scriptures, we must say, “Amen.” Yet in what sense did He create evil? God created freedom with the possibility of His creatures going the evil way of unbelief, so in an indirect since, He created evil by creating us free beings. So now let us see how He uses the devil’s evil for His higher eternal purposes, yet still reins sovereign over His creation—(Daniel 2:19-22; 4:32): The greatest evil in all history was when Satan put Jesus on the Cross, yet God meant it for our greatest good. Acts 4:10—You crucified Jesus—they were responsible Acts 4:26-28—“For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.” Isaiah 53:10-11 “Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.” Gen. 50:20—“You thought evil against me, but God meant it for good.” This is Joseph’s statement of faith after being treated unfairly by his brothers. Genesis 50:20 “As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Isa. 10:5—“Assyria, the rod of MY anger.” God chastises His disobedient sons by using the Assyrian who were Israel’s enemy, yet they are the rod of God’s anger. Isaiah 10:5 “O, Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff of my fury! And the staff in their hand is my indignation.” Isa. 45:3—“I will give you the treasures of darkness.” God will take us through deep valleys to cause us to discover great treasures. Isaiah 45:3 “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches in secret places, that you may know that it is I, The Lord , the God of Israel, who call you by your name.” Ex. 4:11--“Who made the dumb, or the deaf, or seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Job 12:16—“The deceived and the deceiver are His.” Seeing God only—This is seeing through evil to God Only Jer. 25:9-12&14-- Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them. and this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years, and it shall come to pass when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation saith the Lord for their iniquity…I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.” Nothing can be against us, everything is created for our greatest good. Isaiah 54:16 “Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;” God meant the consequences of the fall to drive us to childlike trust. Exodus 4:11”Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?” Mercy sent Satan to Job for Job to know that he was only complete in God, and not in himself. Job 2:3 “And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still hold hast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without a cause.” Job, himself never saw his evil circumstances coming from Satan, but from God. We see through evil to God only. Job 2:10 ”But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Can the creation be wiser than God, and does God not control all things. Job 12:16 “With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His”. Job keep his eyes on God alone, even in the negative. Job 16:12 “I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; He seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; He set me up as his

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