Believing To The Finish Line......deno.....share freely.

            It is written for our edification that Abraham believed what God said and promised to him and God "the highest authority" accounted Abrahams faith, HIS BELIEVING, as HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Paul revealed to us in his writings that Abraham was called righteous before God (BY GOD HIMSELF) by his faith BEFORE THE LAW WAS EVER GIVEN  and before he was even circumcised, and that his  circumcision was a work of his faith that he ALREADY HAD when he was not yet circumcised. So as it is written in the scriptures that cannot fail in truth in Romans 14:23...whatsoever is done not in faith IS SIN. Abrahams heart  was believing, was already in faith before and when the foreskin of his flesh was cut.
        Believing, the believing of the heart is to God a PRIORITY THING. Even as it is written in Hebrews 11:6) Without faith (the believing of the heart) it is impossible to please God. And what is faith? Hebrews 11:1 tells us that faith is a spiritual substance. It is the substance of things hoped for and it is the assurance of things not seen. It is the assurance of the heart that what I have been told is true and I BELIEVE IT.
       Isaiah the prophet foreseeing by the Holy Ghost the gospel to come said "Who has BELIEVED our report? And to whom has the Arm of the Lord been revealed? (Isaiah 53) The arm of the Lord is Christ and His gospel. Jesus said in Mark 16:15 -16) Go into all the world to all the nations and PREACH THE ARM OF THE LORD (THE GOSPEL) to EVERY CREATURE. The ones that BELIEVE and are baptized SHALL BE SAVED.....but the ones that do not believe the good report shall be damned. (Unbelief is so powerful and that it can stop the mercy of God, the redeeming saving power of God that is in the CROSS OF RIGHT to not be able to do anything for those of unbelief, for those who do not believe. This is also confirmed in Hebrews 4:3) For unto us was the gospel (THE ARM OF THE LORD) preached, as well as unto them; but the WORD preached did not PROFIT THEM, not being MIXED WITH FAITH in them that heard it preached.
       The prophet Habakkuk also spoke of faith and unbelief in his words in Habakkuk 1:5) The Lord said...Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do a work in your days that you will not believe even though it is told you.
This was spoken of the fact that the Lord of heaven, The Son of God by whom God made the worlds (Hebrews 1:1-5), The Word Himself WAS GOING TO BECOME FLESH (John 1:14) and dwell on earth in Israel. Then at the appointed time be revealed as the Lord by the Spirit of the Lord given him without measure as seen in three years filled with miracle after miracle of signs and wonders and healing and miracles. His Word the bible says was WITH POWER.
        Yet despite all the signs and the wonders that no other man ever did, still yet most of Israel eventually turned away from Jesus in unbelief just as their forefathers did in the wilderness after seeing the MIGHTY SIGNS GOD WROUGHT when he delivered them with HIS STRONG ARM from Pharaoh and Egypt. The scriptures declare, they saw the miracles, they saw the Sea divide and they walked in the midst thereof on dry ground. Then on the other side they saw the army of Egypt pursuing them and they saw the STRONG ARM OF THE LORD LIFTED and the waters fell heavily upon their enemies. What a sight. Still yet a few weeks later their hearts lost faith and in their hearts the scriptures say they went backwards in unbelief (THE GOLDEN CALF SIN of UNBELIEF) and God became angry with that generation. In His displeasure God made all that generation die off before He allowed their children to enter into the promise land.
        Paul by the Holy Ghost wrote of a similar departure of those who once believed (THE GOSPEL) falling backwards into unbelief in the LAST DAYS. 2 Thessalonians 2:3)  As he wrote by the foreseeing eyes of the Lord in him he said of the second coming of the Lord...Let no man deceive you by any means, for THAT DAY shall not happen until their first comes a FALLING AWAY FIRST, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. In 1st Timothy 4:1) we hear these words of Paul again saying....The Spirit of the Lord speaks expressly that in the latter times some will depart from the faith (from the truth of the gospel) giving heed to truth seducing spirits and their deceiving doctrines.
       Friends let us not be partakers of this falling away (THE MOVE OF UNBELIEF) from the Lord that occurs in the last days by some. For Hebrews 3:12-14 warns and exhorts us concerning this matter. It reads, vs 12) Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF in departing from the living God (Christ Risen from the dead). 13) But exhort one another each day, while you have TODAY, lest your faith grows cold thru the effects of the deceitfulness of sin. 14) For we are MADE PARTAKERS of Christ, IF we remain fastened firmly to Christ our confidence from the beginning all the way to the finish line.
        And what do we hold firm to no matter what happens in this world. We believe and hold firm to our faith, believing that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. That Jesus is the Lord. That He is the Christ the Son of the loving and living God and that He went to the Cross and bled and died for our sins and three days later God raised Jesus from the dead and raised him back up into glory itself and sat him down at His own right hand as the STRONG SAVING ARM OF THE LORD. And that he is going to return the next time in great power and glory from the heavens with the mighty angels to deliver us with His Strong Arms Again in a greater measure than what the dividing of the Red Sea preached concerning eternal redemption. This our hearts believe and this faith is counted unto us as OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS as Abrahams was in his walk by faith in his life time (Read Romans 10:1-17).. This gospel truth we believe in our heart in all we do in the name of the Lord everyday, and in the work God has called us unto, and everywhere God sends us and everywhere we go......deno.....share freely.