By Reverend Alex Titus
Pastor, Fedha Church KAG
The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.
✓Having peace doesn't mean you are free from problems. No, it simply means you are contented with God.
✓You can have peace yet the philistine of poverty is surrounding you.
Philistine of:
1. Poverty
2. Sickness
✓There are enemies that God allows to live with us in order when we disobey they arise but when we obey they live with us in peace.
✓You are surrounded by enemies.
✓The reason why God allows these enemies to live within us is to test if we will obey we will obey Him
Judges 2:21-23,
21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. 22 I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the Lord and walk in it as their ancestors did.”
Judges 3:1,7,8,9 and 12
1. These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
8 The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,[a] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
9 But when they cried out to the Lord, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.
12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel.
Judges 6:1-6
1 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2 Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. 4 They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. 5 They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. 6 Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the Lord for help.
✓Dis-obedience causes even the creation not to serve you.Whatever God created was purely made to serve Him.
Psalms 119:19
19 I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
✓When we obey God He gives us peace and rest and we start doing our Projects e.g. they began to build.
✓Your dis-obedience can cost you your family in very big way (2nd Chronicles 21:12-16)
12 Jehoram received a letter from Elijah the prophet, which said:
“This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah. 13 But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you. 14 So now the Lord is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives and everything that is yours, with a heavy blow. 15 You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.’”
16 The Lord aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
✓Your dis-obedience will raise God's hostility.
✓The reason why people keep on sinning is because God is a long-suffering God.
✓I have come to tell you there are enemies. Just obey God for the Bible says the Son of man was manifested to destroy the work of the enemy.
2 Chronicles 17:17
17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
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