when GOD stood in the WITNESS BOX.
It sure sounds funny.God in aWITNESS BOX? What!. To see the Judge of the earth(Gen 18:25) take the witness stand and swear to an oath,to imagine that the Gorvenor(Psalm 22:28) among the Nations will take an oath. Why will God have to swear? Was just speaking his Word not enough? Did he not just speak the world into existence? An oath implies that the person taking it will not lie.Then,Why will God want to lie?
However God took the witness stand to speak the language of men.The scriptures tell us (Heb6:16) that "Men swear by a greater and an Oath of confirmation to them is an end to all strive" the Message translation puts it thus, "When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. 17 When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee - 18 God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. 19 It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God" while in the complete Jewish Bible it says Heb 6:16-19 "16 Now people swear oaths by someone greater than themselves, and confirmation by an oath puts an end to all dispute. 17 Therefore, when God wanted to demonstrate still more convincingly the unchangeable character of his intentions to those who were to receive what he had promised, he added an oath to the promise; 18 so that through two unchangeable things, in neither of which God could lie, we, who have fled to take a firm hold on the hope set before us, would be strongly encouraged. 19 We have this hope as a sure and safe anchor for ourselves, a hope that goes right on through to what is inside the parokhet,.Speaking to Abraham God said " I will make you a great Nation,through you the Kingdoms of the world will be blessed.I will cause your seed to be more than the sand on the sea shore.In other words the sand on the sea shore will be fewer than your seed.God began to speak about the posterity of a childless man.He began to speak with all certainty about the future of a man that was still waiting for him. He said." know surely that your seed shall be enslaved until the cup of the Amorites is full".Have you noticed that trend in God? He has a habit of leaving your burning issues and talking about your future. He will seem to overlook what is worrying you now and start to talk about his purpose and your role in it.This got Abraham worried ,how shall a childless man father a nation?God does have a sense of humour,he went ahead and changed his name to father of nations ,he changed his wife's name too and their situation worsened.Tongues began to wag. Haaa!Abram has lost it.He has changed his name though he is childless and every time he was called that name a knife went through his heart.The name made his situation more pitiful,it pointed to his reproach. HE asked God shall this Eleazar of Damascus be the man over my house? latter he asked again oh that Ishmael may live before you. Apostle Paul makes us understand that Abraham's body was dead as was Sarah's womb.But praise God his word is alive and active.So when God saw the faith of Abraham and the deadness of his body,the jeers of those who loooked at his hopeless situation,he swore to an oath saying literarily that,by all that makes me God i will certainly honour my word.Since an oath of confirmation is the end to all strife,dispute,questions and doubt among men. God took the witness box and swore "that i will certainly perform my word".The judge of the whole earth decided to help the faith of one man and sopke his word backing it with an unchangeable oath ,he gave a guarantee that the voice that spoke the world into existence could not fail in the issue of one man.When God decides to commit himself to ensure that what he has said about you will come to pass. When he is going ahead contrary to all physical manifestation of your present circumstance to show that he is still at work; working in you and working inspite of you to make sure his word comes to pass.Be assured of his love.He watches over his word to perform it.He broods over his word like a mother hen over her chicken.God is not slack as men consider slackness.He is working on your case and mine.He is busy on our account. We have hope and this hope is an anchor from the tempest of life.We have an Anchor in him and this hope is what we can hold on to.If he carried the weight of the world on his shoulder he can carry you.please study Gen:15 -18 and Hebrews 6
It sure sounds funny.God in aWITNESS BOX? What!. To see the Judge of the earth(Gen 18:25) take the witness stand and swear to an oath,to imagine that the Gorvenor(Psalm 22:28) among the Nations will take an oath. Why will God have to swear? Was just speaking his Word not enough? Did he not just speak the world into existence? An oath implies that the person taking it will not lie.Then,Why will God want to lie?
However God took the witness stand to speak the language of men.The scriptures tell us (Heb6:16) that "Men swear by a greater and an Oath of confirmation to them is an end to all strive" the Message translation puts it thus, "When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they'll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. 17 When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee - 18 God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. 19 It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God" while in the complete Jewish Bible it says Heb 6:16-19 "16 Now people swear oaths by someone greater than themselves, and confirmation by an oath puts an end to all dispute. 17 Therefore, when God wanted to demonstrate still more convincingly the unchangeable character of his intentions to those who were to receive what he had promised, he added an oath to the promise; 18 so that through two unchangeable things, in neither of which God could lie, we, who have fled to take a firm hold on the hope set before us, would be strongly encouraged. 19 We have this hope as a sure and safe anchor for ourselves, a hope that goes right on through to what is inside the parokhet,.Speaking to Abraham God said " I will make you a great Nation,through you the Kingdoms of the world will be blessed.I will cause your seed to be more than the sand on the sea shore.In other words the sand on the sea shore will be fewer than your seed.God began to speak about the posterity of a childless man.He began to speak with all certainty about the future of a man that was still waiting for him. He said." know surely that your seed shall be enslaved until the cup of the Amorites is full".Have you noticed that trend in God? He has a habit of leaving your burning issues and talking about your future. He will seem to overlook what is worrying you now and start to talk about his purpose and your role in it.This got Abraham worried ,how shall a childless man father a nation?God does have a sense of humour,he went ahead and changed his name to father of nations ,he changed his wife's name too and their situation worsened.Tongues began to wag. Haaa!Abram has lost it.He has changed his name though he is childless and every time he was called that name a knife went through his heart.The name made his situation more pitiful,it pointed to his reproach. HE asked God shall this Eleazar of Damascus be the man over my house? latter he asked again oh that Ishmael may live before you. Apostle Paul makes us understand that Abraham's body was dead as was Sarah's womb.But praise God his word is alive and active.So when God saw the faith of Abraham and the deadness of his body,the jeers of those who loooked at his hopeless situation,he swore to an oath saying literarily that,by all that makes me God i will certainly honour my word.Since an oath of confirmation is the end to all strife,dispute,questions and doubt among men. God took the witness box and swore "that i will certainly perform my word".The judge of the whole earth decided to help the faith of one man and sopke his word backing it with an unchangeable oath ,he gave a guarantee that the voice that spoke the world into existence could not fail in the issue of one man.When God decides to commit himself to ensure that what he has said about you will come to pass. When he is going ahead contrary to all physical manifestation of your present circumstance to show that he is still at work; working in you and working inspite of you to make sure his word comes to pass.Be assured of his love.He watches over his word to perform it.He broods over his word like a mother hen over her chicken.God is not slack as men consider slackness.He is working on your case and mine.He is busy on our account. We have hope and this hope is an anchor from the tempest of life.We have an Anchor in him and this hope is what we can hold on to.If he carried the weight of the world on his shoulder he can carry you.please study Gen:15 -18 and Hebrews 6
I like what you mentioned about physical manifestations, the truth is sometimes, our focus is on the things we feel and see, and at that point, we begin to doubt the word of God. Indeed, if he can carry the weight of the world on his shoulder, I need not worry at all but be rest assured that he can carry me too, through it all..
ReplyDeleteThanks it is encouraging to hear from you. I am grateful.
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