February 16, 2014

From Gary... Negative>Positve


God is a positive being. He took what Satan enticed man to do and turned it into a blessing by God's sacrifice of HIMSELF.  While it is interesting to think of the things that God CAN'T DO, even discussing THOSE THINGS turns into a positive discussion.  If you want to do something negative, like find fault with HIS NATURE or attempt to trick God, you are simply wasting your time. Here are a couple of interesting Scriptures; one where some tried to do the former and another where God's attitude is emphasized.
 Matthew, Chapter 22
 23  On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,  24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.’  25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. 26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.  27 After them all, the woman died.  28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.” 

  29  But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.   30  For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.   31  But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,   32  ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’  God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” 
 
2 Corinthians, Chapter 1
15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;  16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.  17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”  18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”  19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”  20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us. 

The way of UN-regenerated man leads to sin, but the way of God leads you the correct way of being and doing (that is, righteousness).  Today, think of what GOD can do your in your life; this will ultimately result in positive results.  To attempt to think negatively about HIM is sophistry and utter foolishness.  God will always be pure and righteous and if there are ANY negatives about HIM, they only attest to the purity of HIS NATURE!!! So, with God, even negative turns to positive- GO FIGURE!!!

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