44 How can you trust? You’re busy collecting praise from each other, instead of seeking praise from God only. source
The LORD said this to lost people, religious people, but lost all the same.
I am thinking it helps me to judge myself with this verse, not as a lost one, but as an indicator, a guide of conduct as His Disciple.
To watch myself and see if I am seeking to please people or perhaps eyeing the praise of people and if I am, then I know I am not trusting GOD properly for affirmation, and guidance.
So, with this I can only say, Thank You, LORD, for this Word, and please forgive me and help me to remember this passage, always seeking You only in all things.
The following are just some notes I made subsequent to a sermon I heard on Sunday.
Is it okay to share them here with you?
Good.
In the shadow of Mt. Sinai is where sinners live.
It is where GOD gave the law. His perfect law; the law that says we MUST keep it perfectly.
At Mt. Sinai GOD Is angry.
Don’t miss that.
He is Righteously furious with sinners butHE does not fly off the handle with His anger.
Instead, He points us to Calvary.
And there at Calvary, we can see what our sins did and what repentance will do – forgive us and transform us.
For sinners to be transformed into Saints we MUST preach both Mountains: Siani AND Calvary.
Without Siani, no one will ever Honestly turn to Calvary.
GOD knew that, and that is why HE gave us BOTH.
We cannot, we must not disregard either.
If we disregard either one of them people will be eternally damned to the devil’s hell.
Trace His Steps that night and day, all the way to Calvary.
9 After saying this, he was taken up before their eyes; and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 As they were staring into the sky after him, suddenly they saw two men dressed in white standing next to them. 11 The men said, “You Galileans! Why are you standing, staring into space? This Yeshua, who has been taken away from you into heaven, will come back to you in just the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” Acts 1 source
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