Redemption #14 Series

These prophets were not content to search what someone else said, or even just what these prophets themselves said. I trust you and I will have the same craving for the truth and engage in an equally intense search of the Word.

Folks, we have such a short time to learn about God’s redemption, and such a short time to live what we’ve learned. Far too many are content to just live with the knowledge they have, and some think that the little knowledge they have acquired, is all there is to know about redemption. BOTH are equally tragic!! Therefore, their advancement in Spiritual knowledge is static.., probably even regressive.

Either way, (being content with the little they know, or thinking that they have all knowledge) they find themselves in a religious "rut". Either of these conditions are a Spiritual shame! They either won’t learn more or think they can’t learn more. They live on the plane of the limited knowledge they presently have. Therefore, they live their entire Christian life in a religious "rut" formed by others, and deepened by their own actions, or lack of action.

By the way,

a rut is simply

a grave

with both ends kicked out

Too often, we want to elevate ourselves, in our knowledge, to be above God. We may not engage this degrading act deliberately, but we do so by trying make God and His actions so small and limited that we can totally comprehend them with the human mind and human logic.

If God and His actions are so small and simplistic that the human mind can totally comprehend them, THEN God must be less that mankind.

Too often, we want to put an infinite God and His actions in a "box" small enough so the limited and finite human mind can, through a human information base, not only know all about God and His actions, BUT dictate Who God is and what His actions must be.

Instead, we MUST discover and categorize what God’s actions have been, as recorded in the Bible. Obviously, the actions of God will NOT neatly fit within the scope of human actions. Nor will they parallel the human concepts of what His actions should be.

By putting God in a "box" of humanly defined actions, we humans free ourselves from continued study in order to reach further and further into the knowledge of the person and word of the infinite God. Once we have God in our "box", we think we have "all" knowledge, SO there is no more to learn.

However, IF we truly believe that God is infinite, and that He has revealed Himself in the Bible, THEN there is no way any person has or will fully deciphered His person or His ways, in this life.

EVERY time we study the Word of God, we will gain more insight into God and His work, and our understanding of God will continue to grow and mature. That does not mean that we will have a new or different doctrine, but the doctrine we do have will continue to expand into greater and greater vistas of understanding. DON’T LIMIT GOD TO YOUR "BOX"!!

Look at what the Holy Spirit through Peter said in…

2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, beloved, since you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.