The Operation Of God

THE OPERATION OF GOD COL.2:12

Most of us know of people who have had some type of a heart operation and it usually helps these folks live a better life, in fact my dad; Paul Brown had a triple bypass operation and he was no longer short of breath, it helped him greatly. But later on his kidneys failed him.

So once again we’re reminded that these old bodies are not going to last forever. But I’m happy that I can say and know with out a doubt that God had performed a heart operation on him that allowed my dad to be assured of a brand new body and have life everlasting, it because of what the Lord Jesus Christ did for all man kind in that He paid our sin debt as our substitute when He died on the cross, if mankind will only except Jesus as his personal Lord & Savior.

The Lord Jesus death on the cross was not an accident, it was the very reason He came to earth.

1st pet.18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20Who verily* was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

The only purpose He come to earth was so we could be saved from the wages of sin.

Lk. 19: 10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

All men and women the world over need to receive this heart operation of God.

Col.2: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Let me say that the operation of God covers a vast amount of many different subjects and people, places and things, He has a Great Master Plan that we can view as the operation of God, only God ALMIGHTY could have worked such an Operation as to make a way for man to be saved.

Gen. 8:21- for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth;

God the father has made the only provision that works for you and I to have a brand new heart.

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life

Ezekiel 36:25-27 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, -{Necessary, ordinance} and ye shall keep my judgments,

{His determined decisions} and do them.

It is not enough to be exposed to Christianity. Man is in desperate need of a heart transplant.

. Without Christ actively working within, man’s heart is hard.

Man may look good on the outside but it is not what is on the outside that counts. It’s what’s inside.

Jeremiah 17:9 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

People are some time sort of like an old watch. It looks like any other watch. It has a case, hands and a face. It has all the parts that are necessary for it to carry out its function as a timepiece.

It looks good on the out side, but there’s something wrong on the inside. It just doesn’t run. Well, why not? It won’t run because it has a problem with its heart.

There are people in the church and in religious circles who are just like a watch that don’t run; on the outside they look fine. They appear to be religious and they do good things, but they have a heart problem.

I Samuel 16:7 for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Man’s heart is hardened by sin.

Hebrews 13:3 Ss 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

• Psalm 95:8 –10 8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart,