{"id":581,"date":"2014-08-28T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redeemedman.org\/?p=581"},"modified":"2014-08-28T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:32:07","slug":"fear-the-lord-your-god-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeemedman.org\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Fear the Lord your God, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Scripture\">Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes round their chests. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels<strong> seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God<\/strong>, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.<br \/>\n<span class=\"passage\">Revelation 15:6-8<\/span><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-583\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"httP:\/\/redeemedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/7-Bowls-of-Gods-Wrath.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-583 size-thumbnail\" src=\"httP:\/\/redeemedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/7-Bowls-of-Gods-Wrath-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"7 Bowls of Gods Wrath\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">7 Bowls of God&#8217;s Wrath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Continuing my mini series on &#8220;What is my Purpose&#8221;, I must first look at the wrath of God, and in my next months Blog I will look at how this purposes us.<\/p>\n<p>By definition God is love (1 John 4:8), and God loves us, in fact God loves us so much that he sacrificed his only son that we could be with him, again (John 3:16), But what is thing called Love! Is it how I feel about my Fianc\u00e9e, or is it how I feel about my daughters, or even my dog? Well only in part, the love that we are capable of is nothing compared to the love God has for us, which is so much greater than anything we are capable of we have to give it a special name, &#8220;Agape&#8221;. So does this mean we can get away with anything! Proverbs 3:12 tells us that God disciplines those he loves.<\/p>\n<p>As we can see, though God is love, God also is a wrathful God, pouring His wrath out on those that stubbornly refused to obey Him, those who wear the &#8220;Mark of the Beast&#8221; (<span class=\"passage\">Revelation 16:2<\/span>) on their hands and\/or foreheads (<span class=\"passage\">Revelation 13:16<\/span>) in fact\u00a0the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practise magic arts, the idolaters and all liars \u2013 they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death. (<span class=\"passage\">Revelation 21:8<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Then in Noah&#8217;s time, The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, \u2018I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created \u2013 and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground \u2013 for I regret that I have made them.\u2019 But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.(<span class=\"passage\">Genesis 6:5-8<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Later on, still, in the time Abraham God shows his wrath, because the &#8220;Outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah was so great and the their sin so grievous&#8221; He wipes these two cities from the face of the Earth.(<span class=\"passage\">Genesis 18:16 &#8211; 19:29<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>These are just three passages demonstrating God&#8217;s wrath. So yes Indeed fear the Lord your God, He [does these things] so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord\u00a0is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord\u00a0your God. (<span class=\"passage\">Joshua 4:24<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>However, the book of Proverbs tempers this with, &#8220;My son, do not despise the Lord\u2019s discipline,\u00a0and do not resent his rebuke,\u00a0because the Lord disciplines those he loves,\u00a0as a father the son he delights in.&#8221; (<span class=\"passage\">Proverbs 3:11-12<\/span>). And also &#8220;The death he [Jesus] died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.&#8221; (Romans<span class=\"passage\">\u00a06:10<\/span>) Let us explore this next month and see what this means in regard to who I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes round their chests. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. 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