The Price of Forgetting God
The Price of Forgetting God
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Mathew 24: 36
“But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son [in His humanity], but the Father alone.
37 For the coming of the Son of Man (the Messiah) will be just like the days of Noah.
38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah entered the ark,
39 and they did not know or understand until the flood came and swept them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be [unexpected judgment].
40 At that time two men will be in the field; one will be [h]taken [for judgment] and one will be left.
41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken [for judgment] and one will be left.
What happens when we forget God ? Man has never lived Godless he always has a god, when you forget God almighty, the God of the cross, the remembrance of the cross brings you to Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
When you forget the God of heaven the other Gods will come. I ask do you know God, if you know God you know Jesus, Jesus is the only way to know God. The rejection of Jesus is deep in the church. Belief and behavior go together.
We are living in a time where we want God but we don’t want repentance, when you repent of sin, your behavior changes, and when you don’t know God you find a unrepentant people.
Your salvation cost Jesus his life, and our bible tells us we must be born again, you must be born of the spirit of God.
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Being saved is easy ask God to forgive you of your sin, repent of your sin, turn from the God you have been serving, ask God to forgive you of your sins. Then the HolySpirit will come into your heart.
The Bible is the power of the Spirit alive in you.
As long as Moses was alive Israel knew who God was, Joshua ch 2 Moses dies and hands the nation into another Godly man Joshua, he had been Gods pick and God was with Joshua, then when you come to judges chapter one Joshua dies and the elders. There is no other successor they received the land God had promised them. But they forgot God.
Judges 2: 6
And when Joshua had sent the people away, the [tribes of the] Israelites went each to his inheritance, to take possession of the land.
7 The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.
8 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten.
9 And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10 Also, all [the people of] that generation were gathered to their fathers [in death]; and another generation arose after them who did not know (recognize, understand) the Lord, nor even the work which He had done for Israel.
The children of Israel turned to the gods of the surrounding nation
Judges 2:11
11 Then the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord and worshiped and served the Baals,
12 and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them, and offended and provoked the Lord to anger.
13 So they abandoned the Lord and served Baal [the pagan god of the Canaanites] and the [c]Ashtaroth.
Baal is translated owner, master, ruler, or lord. He wants to control mankind if possible. Interestingly, God Himself calls Himself Baal Perizim — God of the breakthrough.
Baal was chief of the Canaanite gods. As such he tries to counterfeit the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is said that Baal was the son of a god called el. To Christians this is a false god. Interestingly, one of the names for our God is El Shaddai.
Supposedly Baal was killed at one point in time and raised from the dead. Isn’t that interesting? He is the son of el who was killed and raised from the dead. Remind you of Jesus? That’s the Baal counterfeit.
One of the meanings of Baal is husband. He deals with marriage and covenant. In the Bible, God’s children are considered married to God. In the Old Testament, Israel is called the wife of God (Hosea 2: 2, 8).
In the New Testament Christians are called the bride of Christ, Jesus being the bridegroom. Baal seeks to get God’s children to spiritually divorce themselves from God and enter in covenant with, that is, “marry” him. He want us to pull away from God to bow down to him.
I wonder if this covenant-breaking spirit could be the spirit behind divorce in the USA? Today more than half of the marriages, Christians included, end in divorce.
Could this covenant-breaking spirit be behind all the church splits where covenanted Christian brothers and sisters break covenant with each other? Something to think about?
Baal was also a fertility god. People would make sacrifices to him so they could have rich soil, much rain, good weather, etc. This would hopefully bring them great crop harvests. They believed Baal controlled such things as rain. He was also considered to be a sun god. That was likely what was being challenged when Elijah the prophet declared to Ahab, the Baal-worshiping king, that there would be no rain in the land until he (Elijah), on behalf of God, said so. It was a showdown to see just who was the God who controlled rain.
Baal being a fertility god had worship that involved sex orgies. They worshiped an idol which was in the shape of an enlarged male sex organ, an asherah. Temple prostitutes supported the temple worship of Baal. Its worship was filled with perversion, homosexuality, immorality and sexual promiscuity. Could this possibly be the spirit behind much promiscuity, perversion, homosexuality and pornography in America today?
Baal goes after children. Child sacrifice was part of his deal. Children were sacrificed to a god called Molech in the Old Testament. However, they were also sacrificed to Baal. Could this possibly be the spirit behind abortions and child abuse that runs rampant in the USA?
Something to think about!
Baal and Ashtaroth
Judges 2:13
2:13 Baal and Ashtaroth. Baal and Ashtaroth were the principal god and goddess, respectively, of the Canaanite nations (Baalim and Ashtaroth were the plural forms of these names, referring to the many shrines and images in their honor). Baal was essentially associated with the sun and storms, Ashtaroth with sex and fertility. As nature gods, energized by demonic spirits, they claimed to have “evolved” out of the primeval watery chaos. The worship of both was both grossly licentious and extremely cruel. They were essentially equivalent to similar gods in other countries, all having originated at the first Babylon under Nimrod and then spread throughout the ancient world with the dispersion.
Baal and Ashtaroth
In this text are together, the reemergence of god and principalities.
As a husband and wife they would appear but baal or Ashtaroth have no devotion to each other. They are not lovers, but there union is perversion. They pervert societies.
Why has this church faced hell, because we have put our focus towards our youth. Teaching them who God is And who he ain’t.
This past Wednesday night Neeley Scarlett’s granddaughter was filled with the HolySpirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.
God became real to her.
Moses lived 120 years. He was an old man of God. Joshua lived 110 years. He was an old man of God. I only wish to live to be as old as they were so that I can lead you, and never forget God.
Listen to me, I cannot help you if you serve the gods made by hand or the corrupted imagery of the mind. But if you serve Jehovah God, the Father of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who died on the cross for your sins, then I can help you.
Those who reject Jesus cannot be helped by me. They reject the Jesus that I serve.
Do not reject repentance. Repent of your sins.
I am not backing down. You may reject me, but rejecting Jesus will come at a terrible price. It will not only cost you your soul, but also the souls of your own children.
Mathew 16: 24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me].
25 For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake will find it [that is, life with Me for all eternity].
26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?