Return to God's Righteousness

   Earlier in this series, I wrote of our need for retraining, like the Israelites.

   Clearly, from 1 Corinthians 10:11 and other passages, Sha’ul/Paul knew that we would again be enslaved under a system that is not of our God. All throughout time, His people have been in such a repetitive cycle: devotion to Him, increase and comfort, complacency and then rebellion toward God’s ways, decline, and finally desperation causing them to turn back to Him. Seeing what is happening in the world, too often mirrored in the churches, should be enough to see that we are in the end stages of that cycle once again, but this time, perhaps for the final cycle before Messiah’s return.  We learned from Isaiah that our God not only KNOWs the end from the beginning but He has DECLARED it out of the beginning. (Isaiah 46:8-10; 48: 3,5). 

   Our path to return to righteousness begins at the beginning as we examine the principles taught from the beginning in the Word. The Author and Creator of all that is has set His standards. We examine the words of our Messiah, Who said that He did nothing except what the Father told Him to do, that His teachings are the same as His Father’s teachings, that not one jot or tittle would be changed until Heaven and earth pass away.  

   Well, heaven and earth are certainly under duress but they haven’t passed away as yet.

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