Yeah, I'm saying I was exactly like them. He had to keep proving to me His faithfulness. I believed Him to save me but then grumbled and complained at everything that happened to me after that. I read that story and the whole way through I can pick out myself and say, oh yeah, I did that, oh yeah, I did that too.
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Psalms 95: 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’”
Is this you stunned, did this resemble you thge last decade? What point of God telling them they will not enter because of unbelief do you not get ?
Did you change, or did you continue in sin and continue to not trust God for 11 years. Did God come at you in his wrath because you were led astray for 11 years, and you did not know his ways?
You opened the question up. Not me..
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’”
Is this you stunned, did this resemble you thge last decade? What point of God telling them they will not enter because of unbelief do you not get ?
Did you change, or did you continue in sin and continue to not trust God for 11 years. Did God come at you in his wrath because you were led astray for 11 years, and you did not know his ways?
You opened the question up. Not me..
Yes. For 11 years I continued and carried on in the sin of unbelief and mistrust that He would actually do all He said He would. I complained when He seemed to disappear to me and it made me panic and ask, why did you save me only to let me die of thirst? And I saved more than enough for the day and worried constantly that I had to save millions of dollars for retirement.
I'm in a race to trust more and more and for longer and longer periods of time without leaving off that trust. The only way I'll make it across the finish line is to keep trusting Him and to keep trusting Him more and more. Because if it was on my shoulders to get me there safely, I'd have fainted dead a long time ago.
Israel saw a miracle so huge you almost cant believe it. They saw walls of water just standing up, suspended, as they walked through dry. No one in their right mind would walk in under that if they weren't believing God that they were to cross and He would keep them safe. But THEN, their hearts became evil and unbelieving and mistrusting.
Er...ahem...I just lost my train of thought and what point I was trying to make EG...
Er...ahem...I just lost my train of thought and what point I was trying to make EG...
1 Cor. 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Just saying :^)
I've seen God knock a few people off their ass before (or should I say high horse...lol) and yet they were still too stubborn to listen to him...
I should know because I'm one of those stubborn folks that got knocked down a few times before I chose to listen to, submit to him, and accept him into my life.
I should know because I'm one of those stubborn folks that got knocked down a few times before I chose to listen to, submit to him, and accept him into my life.
And yes Paul was kicking against the pricks...or fighting against God...It only took him getting hit back once to stop it...but that doesn't mean all people will respond that way.
I'm not really sure if Jonah ever stopped kicking against the pricks. Hopefully he did, but I don't know for sure because it ends with God still having to strike down the gourd over his head and explain to him why he did it.
Pharaoh, on the other hand, never learned. He kept right on hardening his heart and fighting against God until God finally hardened his heart to the point of no return and destroyed him.
I'm not really sure if Jonah ever stopped kicking against the pricks. Hopefully he did, but I don't know for sure because it ends with God still having to strike down the gourd over his head and explain to him why he did it.
Pharaoh, on the other hand, never learned. He kept right on hardening his heart and fighting against God until God finally hardened his heart to the point of no return and destroyed him.
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