BELIEVE GOD’S WORD, NOT SATAN’S The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”  “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” —Genesis 3:2-5 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?  But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching…

WHAT GOD SAYS AND DOES IS GOOD, VERY GOOD!  God said… God saw… it was good, very good —Genesis 1:3-4, 6, 9-10, 11-12, 14 & 18, 20-21, 24-25, 26, 29, 31, 2:18, Matthew 1:20              Is want God says important to you?  How important is what He says to you?  Are you listening to what He says to you?  Are you observing what He says to you?  What is He saying to you?  Will you be/do what He is saying to you?             What God says, He will do.  What God does is not hidden from His sight (Hebrews 4:13).  What God does is good.  It is very good!  So…

 PRAISE HIM!  Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! —Psalm 150:1-6              Praising our Lord needs to be our focus.  A life without praising Him will be a life without peace because we are not praising the One who gives peace.  We are to praise Him on earth and in…

King of kings and Lord of lords!  Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God…”   On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. —Revelation 19:10, 16   Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm! God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne. —Psalm 47:6-8              Jesus is King…

INDICATION OF CULTURAL DECLINE  …sexual immorality. –Revelation 2:14; 2:20; 2:21; 9:21; 14:8; 17:2; 18:3; 18:9;    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah —Psalm 46:1-3  Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah —Psalm 46:10-11  Therefore God gave them over in the sinful…

WORSHIP!  Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.” —Revelation 14:7              Who is it that we are to worship?  We are to worship God alone (Revelation 22:9-9).  We are to worship the One who created all things.  Who did that?  Well God’s Word tells us very clearly: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. —John 1:1-3 The Son is the…

BEWARE OF DICTATORS  Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. —Revelation 13:11-12  Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. —Revelation 13:16-17             …

DAY OF RECKONING  “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” —Revelation 11-17-18              People can think and believe what they want, but a reckoning is coming.  People can blaspheme God, deny God, disbelieve in God, but in the end He will have the last say.  This should be obvious with the…

FABULOUS FUTURE FOR FOLLOWERS OF JESUS  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” —Revelation 7:16-17  Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard…

THOUGH HE DIE, YET SHALL HE LIVE (John 11:25-26)  The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health. —Psalm 41:3  All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.  They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies.” —Psalm 41:7-8              Are you afraid to die?  Then you cannot really live.  If the fear of death has closed you in, has crippled you, they you have not known or applied Hebrews 2:14-15— “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his…