Good Morning. Sometimes as members of God’s church we find ourselves rejoicing at the calamity of our fellow brothers and sisters. Sometimes this happens among members of the same family as well. In the first Chapter of Obadiah the Lord warns the children of Esau against rejoicing during the calamities of the children of Jacob. The same way God pronounced judgment on the descendants of Esau it is the same way He is pronouncing judgment on those who continue to rejoice during the calamity of His people. The Lord said in Obadiah 1:10 “Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.” Matthew Henry in his commentary on this verse said, “Injuries to men are affronts to God, the righteous God, that loveth righteousness and hateth wickedness; and, as the Judge of all the earth, he will give redress to those that suffer wrong and take vengeance on those that do wrong. All violence, all unrighteousness, is sin; but it is a great aggravation of the violence if it be done either, 1. Against any of our own people; it is violence against thy brother, thy near relation, to whom thou shouldst be a goël-a redeemer, whom it is thy duty to right if others wronged him; how wicked is it then for thee thyself to wrong him! Thou slanderest and abusest thy own mothers son; this makes the sin exceedingly sinful, Ps. 50:20. Or, 2. Much more if it be done against any of Gods people; it is thy brother Jacob that is in covenant with God, and dear to him. Thou hatest him whom God has loved, and because God espouses and will plead with jealousy, and in whose interests God is pleased so far to interest himself that he takes the violence done to him as done to himself. Whoso touches Jacob touches the apple of the eye of Jacobs God. So that it is crimen laesae majestatis-high treason, for which, as for high treason, let Edom expect an ignominious punishment: Shame shall cover thee, and a ruining one; thou shalt be cut off for ever.” God wants us to love each other so that the world may know that we are His disciples. I pray that we will continue to surrender ever area of our lives to the total control of the Holy Spirit so that God can help us to love one another in the same way that He loves us. Love one another - youtube/watch?v=k2ZSOkHZ3jY Have a blessed and Holy Spirit-filled day.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:26:02 +0000
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