Opposites Detract
12-Jul-10 (updated 4-Oct-11)
One thing you can be sure of: If God defines something in His Word, you can bank on the world promoting the exact opposite.
Not only so, but it is displayed loud & proud. You can see such things in many bumper stickers these days.
However, God will not be mocked.
As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."
"Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways,
and the way of peace they do not know."
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law,
so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Romans 3.10-19
Not only so, but it is displayed loud & proud. You can see such things in many bumper stickers these days.
However, God will not be mocked.
As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."
"Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways,
and the way of peace they do not know."
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law,
so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Romans 3.10-19
God's Way
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Gen 1.1 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. - Jn 14.6 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. - Rom 1.25 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? - Mt 19.4-5 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes. - Ps 118.8-9 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. - Ps 139.13-16 Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel. This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations... For the customs of the peoples are worthless... Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.” No one is like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. Who should not revere you, O King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.- Jer 10.1-3, 5-7 |
The World's Way
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There is a way that seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death
- Proverbs 16.25
but in the end it leads to death
- Proverbs 16.25