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August 8, 2014 By Clint Scott 1 Comment

God’s Decrees and Commands

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Today’s Reading:  Isa 14:24–16:14, Luke 6:1–49, Job 4:12–21

Today’s Theme: God’s Decrees and Commands

Today’s theme looks at God’s decreed will and his commanded will. Each of these are quite different, the decreed will of God is that which absolutely will come to pass and no one can stop it. Whereas the commanded will of God are the things God desires but does not force, with this will our compliance is required.

Isaiah 14:24–16:14

The unstoppable God

For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? Isaiah 14:27 (ESV)

When God decides to do something no one can stop him. God is unstoppable.

When God decrees something it cannot be undone, he is the King and when he makes and official decree it stands forever.

One of the things that God has decreed is his choice of you as one of his elect, he decreed it before the creation of the world, with this mind you can be encouraged to persevere.

Thank God for his unstoppable decrees over your life today. 1 Corinthians 2:6

Luke 6:1–49

The call to ministry

And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Luke 6:13 (ESV)

Jesus spent all night praying and then chose twelve from his company of disciples to have a special ministry as Apostles.

These Apostles were unique in that they were the only ones to be closely discipled by Jesus as an incarnated man and were commissioned to be witnesses and authors of the writings of the new testament, no Apostle today is an apostle like this as Jesus is not here physically and the bible has already been written.

God’s call to the ministry is not a decree but a command that we need to respond to. Judas was chosen to be a minister too but he turned hs back on his office and was replaced.

If God has called you to ministry you need to chose to respond to the calling, do it and bring glory to God.

The manifesto of the kingdom

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Luke 6:20 (ESV)

The beatitudes contain a mixture of decree (statements of fact) and commands (things you need to chose to do).

As an exercise see if you can read through them today and identity the commands, when you do form and list and mediate on them asking God to help you obey the commands by his Holy Spirit.

For example this verse is a decree that the kingdom of god belongs to the poor where as verse 27 commands us to love our enemies.

Try to find time to hunt for these treasures today, happy hunting.

Job 4:12–21

Trust the word of God

A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. Job 4:15 (ESV)

This was a demonic encounter, perhaps the scenario is that a lying spirit was sent out to Jobs friend to feed him false perspectives and information which he would in turn regurgitate to Job which would cause Job more emotional and spiritual distress and of course disrupt Jobs purer view of God.

We must all recognise that if we have encounters like this they are mostly from demonic spirits that have an agenda to tell us lies, note the fear Eliphaz said and then the lies and blatant ill content towards both God and man (made from the dust jibe)

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  1. keijo leppioja says

    December 19, 2014 at 19:25

    God is great indeed today again and we will worship him in love and in the Holy Spirit in Christ and joy for Christmas is here soon with celebrate in life with the Holy Spirit for Jesus baby with us to help and quard and and be sent of him to share our faith in joy,thanks and bless,keijo sweden

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