Category: Enlightenment

How God Guides

Problem

  • Understanding doctrine?
  • No sense of direction?
  • Relations with others?
  • Irreconcilable differences?
  • Customs, rituals?
  • Directions to take?
  • Major change?

Solution

  • Unanimous agreement
  • Persistent obedience
  • Responsible concern
  • Cordial separation
  • Important principles
  • Sense of Peace*
  • Vision or call**

*God will give you a Sense of Peace when you are on His path

**A Vision or call should be clear, otherwise you bloom where you’re are planted

Old Testament (Tenach) Texts

  • Original Hebrew (“Vorlage”) text written in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.
  • Septuagint Translation (LXX) compiled from 285-270 B.C. by 72 scholars at Alexandria. It is the primary quoted text in the New Testament.
  • Masoretic Text (MT), derived from the Council of Jamnia.

Daniel Webster

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Daniel Webster

Situational awareness

As we wonder about the meaning of an incident or experience we’ve gone through, or are going through, let the Holy Spirit explain it to you:

If it is the Holy Spirit pulling on you, then it will draw you closer to the Lord.

If Satan is the author, then it will draw you away from the Lord.

God Promises Eternal Security

The Lord will freely give us all things –
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? – Romans 8:32

We are one in Jesus –
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. – John 17:23

Also – 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 10:17; Romans 12:5


So why wouldn’t He give us all things if Jesus is in us and God see us through Jesus? Minimally, like the Prodigal Son – Luke 15:11-32


ISV Translation –
The one who did not spare his own Son, but offered him as a sacrifice for all of us, surely will give us all things, along with his Son, won’t he?

I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.