IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ALLOWED! I am growing so weary with the mind set that insists God allows bad things to happen to us. It wearys me because those who choose to believe this lie, straight out of the pit of hell, never want to receive the scriptural proof that they are erring and missing the mark, as well as grieving my heart to think that someone could receive such garbage as truth. In doing so, all a person has done is send a message loud and clear to the orchestrater of all things evil and announce to the devil himself that they are open to receiving his killing, stealing and destroying because they believe it is God trying to teach them some sort of a lesson. Two things here, One: 2 Timothy 3:16 - Every Scripture is God-breathed-given by His inspiration-and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, and for training in righteousness [that is, in holy living, in conformity to Gods will in thought, purpose and action]. According to 2 Timothy 3:16, if God wants to correct us, He will do it with His word. This does not say anywhere in it, nor does it even imply that pain and suffering, calamity and hardship, destruction and sickness and disease is the way that God teaches us anything. It says that our training is contained in the scriptures. So what then, is contained in the scriptures to train us in Gods truth that He does not allow bad things to happen to us? Well, lets take a look shall we? Lamentations 3:33 - For He does not willingly and from His heart afflict or grieve the children of men. That should be enough right there, but lets look at some other things that God breathed in the scriptures. Psalm 103:1-6 - Bless-affectionately, gratefully praise-the Lord, O my soul, and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name! Bless-affectionately, gratefully praise-the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits, Who forgives [everyone of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each of] all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption; Who beautifies, dignifies and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies; Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age] with good; so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagles [strong, overcoming, soaring]! The Lord executes righteousness and justice [not for me only, but] for all who are oppressed. Forgives everyone of all your iniquities. Iniquity is defined: Immoral or grossly unfair behavior. Some synonyms for, Iniquity are: wrong-evil-wickedness. All such things are forgiven by God. He, Heals each of all your diseases. So then, He could not possibly be the one that brings those diseases and, according to this, is the healer of all diseases for every person. He, Redeems your life from the pit and corruption. So then, He could not possible be the one that has caused you to fall into that pit or corruption. Neither is He using it to test you. Corruption is defined: To change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions; also: The action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so. That would involve temptation and we know that cannot possibly be something that God does and the scripture tells us that He absolutely does not do such a thing. Look at James 1:13: Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted from God; for God is incapable of being tempted by [what is] evil and He Himself tempts no one. The Greek word Temptation is translated, Trials and Testings. So then, we could translate this scripture in James, Let no one say when he is in a trial or test that he is tried and tested by God; for God is incapable of being tried or tested by what is evil and he Himself tries and tests no one. Okay, this says God is incapable of being tried or tested by what is evil. So, what then is the evil? Lets look at verse 14: But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). We can then translate this scripture, But every person is tried and tested when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). Verse 14 means that any pressure that draws us away from Gods word is the beginning of a test. Now, who do you know that would do their utmost to draw you away from Gods word?? For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers minds (that they should not discern the truth), preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, the Messiah, Who is the image and likeness of God. (2 Corinthians 4:4) The devil is very good at blinding the believers eyes to the truth in the word of God as much as he is the non-believer. When a person thinks that God would send trails and testings to somehow teach you to be a better person or teach you some sort of lesson, you have just had your eyes blinded by the devil. The scripture tells us in Isaiah 53:4-5 that Jesus bore our sickness and disease and by the stripes on His back we ARE HEALED AND MADE WHOLE. Past tense, already done, already bought and paid for. But, if you believe that God somehow gets glory out of your sickness, then you have just had your mind blinded to the truth of your right to live in divine health. Now, as you walk in that sickness, receiving it as a test from God, you are a walking example that is not much of an example concerning both the power and the promises of God where healing is concerned. The devil fools you, and he detours others from God because no one wants a God that makes you sick, especially not just for the purpose of His own glory, that would make God a conceited glory hog. And just so we are clear on who the god of this world is, I will not talk with you much more, for the prince (evil genius, ruler) of the world is coming. And he has no claim on Me-he has nothing in common with Me, there is nothing in Me that belongs to him, he has no power over Me. But [Satan is coming and] I do as the Father has commanded Me. So that the world may know (be convinced) that I love the Father, and that I do only what the Father has instructed Me to do.-I act in full agreement with His orders. Rise, let us go away from here. (John 14:30-31) Jesus tells us in John 10:10 that the thief comes to kill and to steal and to destroy, and we know that the thief He is speaking of is the devil. Jesus said in that same verse, I came that they might have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance-to the full, till it overflows. The literal Greek translation for the word abundant is, super abundant in quantity and superior in quality. We are getting further and further away from any truth resting in the claim that God brings us testings and trials. Now, lets go back to James 1:16. James gives us direction and correction and tells us, Do not be misled, my beloved brethren. Dont be misled in what? In thinking that testings and trials and hard things come on us at the hand of God. To believe such a thing is to be misled according to James. James goes on to concrete his case that this is so and we find him telling us in verse 17: Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse]. This means that God is the same, He is unchanging, He says what He means and He means what He says. There are no variations in His words or His intentions. If God has said it, then it is so. God Himself says in Malachi 3:6, For I am the Lord, I do not change. Lamentations 3:25 tells us, The Lord is good to those who hopefully and expectantly wait for Him, to those who seek Him-inquire of and for Him, and require Him [by right of necessity and on the authority of Gods Word]. To make the claim that God some how brings testings and trials on us would be in direct contradiction to this scripture in Lamentations. Putting you through hard things is not being good to you, it is complicating your life and putting stumbling blocks before you. Who can believe that God would cause us to stumble? We know by the scriptures that it is not going to be God. Psalm 37:23-24 tells us: The steps of a [good] man are directed and established of the Lord, when He delights in his way [and He busies Himself with his every step]. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord grasps his hand in support and upholds him. To think that God would order your steps into any type of pain and suffering or hardship or lack or want or depression or calamity, to think that He would order destructive things to come on you, is the most dull-minded expression of faithlessness I have ever seen. That would make God a sadist. A sadist is defined: Someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others. Psalm 37:24 tells us that God most certainly is not this way. He orders your steps aright, He leads you right, if you fall, He reaches down for your hand to grab you up and support and uphold you. Makes absolutely no sense to say that He is the orchestrater of the fall, that would be confusion and disorder. It causes confusion and disorder in a life when a person teaches such things. It leaves people wondering, If God is such a good God, then why does He let bad things happen. If God is so all powerful, why then are people suffering. Two Bible truths that speak directly into this: 1. For He is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order. (1Corinthians 14:33) 2. He (the devil) was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him; for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false. (John 8:44) God does not disrupt our lives with difficult things just to see what we are made of. The devil, however, is the enemy of all man-kind and takes every promise of God and distorts and corrupts and perverts it, feeding those who will listen the lies against the truth of Gods word. Isaiah 53:4-5 tells us Jesus bore our sickness and disease. Actually, if you read it from and Amplified Bible you will see that it is not just sickness in our bodies, it is complete and absolute healing, spirit, soul and body. Verse 5 tells us by His stripes we are healed and made whole. That is it, cut and dry, plain and simple. No room for misinterpretation in Isaiah 53:4-5. Yet, you have those that will say, Healing has passed away, God does not heal every person, If it is Gods will then you might be healed. First of all, again, God is not a sadist, and secondly, I challenge any person to show me scripture that backs that up. Show me where in the Bible it says any of that. We, in verse 5 means, every person. Are, in verse 5 means, already done, finished, bought and paid for, accomplished. To tell someone anything other then the truth contained in Isaiah 53:4-5 is to lie against the truth. Here is something that you have to understand. In Dueteronomy 28:15-68 you will find the curses outlined. Before the redemptive work of Jesus was done on the cross, every person that was born was born under the curse. The earth belonged to Satan, the curse was in the earth. There were multitudes for Jesus to heal and restore because they had been in the earth, born under the curse and living in all kinds of terrible states. Sickness, disease, malformaties, sin, lack and want, oppression and possession were the order of the day, through the curse that came when Adam and Eve sinned against God in the garden, committing high treason and handing everything that God had given to them, over to the devil. Jesus came to set it all back right again and Luke 4:18-19 finds Jesus Himself revealing the mission in the synagogue as He stands up to teach on the Sabbath: The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to send forth delivered those who are oppressed-who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed and broken down by calamity; To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord-the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound. That covers all, that is completeness in every sense of the word. Jesus was a Jew. He used the word salvation in the context of its Hebrew meaning, Shalom, which means, nothing missing, nothing broken, wholeness in every area of ones life. He came to set us free from the curse, (Galatians 3:13) to redeem us back to God, (Romans 5:17-21). God always causes us to triumph in Christ, (2 Corinthians 2:14). Lets look at the rest of that scripture in 2 Corinthians 2:14: And through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere. Verse 15, For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. Your pain and suffering is not a sweet fragrance of the presence of God in your life to any person, but a foul order. To say that God is the cause of the emission of that foul order, again, not only lies against the truth of this word right here in 2 Corinthians, but is a lie orchestrated by the father of all lies himself. We could continue on and on through the word of God to prove that this kind of thinking and believing has no faith in it what so ever, it is nothing more then blindness to the truth of the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:4) Which, by the way, is called the good news. It is not good news to tell someone that God will bring pain and suffering and sickness and calamity on their lives, in fact, Jesus said in Luke chapter 4 that He had specifically come to set us free from all such things. He did not say that we would not have the hardships, the trials and tribulations and frustrations. We have an enemy in this world and you are on his radar. He did say though to be of good cheer, He has overcome the world and deprived it of its power to harm you. (John 16:33) No, it is absolutely not allowed! God does not allow His children to suffer in any way, shape, or form. If He has provided the way out of it all, (1 Corinthians 10:13) then He most assuredly is not the cause of it, and to believe anything else only leaves you wide open for the devil to attack in your life because he knows you will receive it and somehow think that you are the dutiful servant allowing God to have His glory. RUBBISH! MEDITATE THE WORD: Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain the surpassing victory through Him Who loved Us. Romans 8:37 TRUTH IN THE WORD: Victory - attaining the mastery over A. Of Christ: Promises................................................Psalm 110-1-7 Accompanied by suffering....................Isaiah 53:10-12 By resurrection......................................Acts 2:29-36 By His return.........................................Revelation 19:11-21 B. Of Christians Through Christ......................................Philippians 4:13 By the Holy Spirit.................................Galatians 5:16, 17, 22, 25 Over: Flesh......................................................Galatians 5:16-21 World.....................................................1 John 5:4 Satan.......................................................James 4:7 *All scripture taken from the Amplified Bible unless otherwise noted. besetfree-jennifer.blogspot
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:20:45 +0000