Why bother praying to a God who isnt? When God desires to save someone, He raises up Christians to preach the gospel. 5:14). Things may seem impossible, and for men, they might be impossible, but nothing is impossible with God (Lk. As they plotted how to murder Jesus they had no idea they were accomplishing Gods will. One of the most remarkable things about the Scriptures is how they preserve for us what we regard as our highest dignity, which is the right to exercise our own will. He stands behind it indirectly, but He directly stands behind good. It appears that between 11 PM Thursday night and 7:30 AM Friday morning, Jesus underwent six different hearingsone before Annas, two before Caiaphas, one before the Sanhedrin, and two before Pontius Pilate. We need to remember that God uses the foolish. We see this all the way through the Bible. Philippians 3:4-7 - although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. And goes on to say, How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? Why does God allow deception Jesus waved him off by declaring, All this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled (Matthew 26:56). So through his death, he can have everlasting life on earth. God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne ( Psalm 47:8 ). God use unbelievers to accomplish his will Wisdom didnt guard him against a wandering heart. Yet He was still able to accomplish His will through them. Paul also made this clear in Romans 9-11. That leads me to ask a simple question: Are you a professor or a possessor? He stands behind it indirectly, but He directly stands behind good. This is the grace of God as revealed in His merciful covenant. God The unbelievers, become confused, not remembering ever having the opportunity to serve Jesus. God uses all those who humble themselves before the cross, boasting only in him his strength, his wisdom, his righteousness, his accomplishment. When we do that we become His instruments to accomplish His sovereign will. verses about Unbelievers No, its a mystery. God Thanks for your interest! He dealt with his doubts and confusion in the right way, he turned to God, not to his own understanding. Thats generally the way life is for all of us. Its something we can clearly see within the pages of our Bible. but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. They probably said things like, See, God isnt doing anything no body ever gets punished, it cant be very serious. They had forgotten the longsuffering of the True God who made all things, and who rules as King over all kings. Jesus Sends Out the Judas solved their problem by volunteering to betray the Lord. Were they to voluntarily all drown? shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it. During his ministry his greatest opposition came from the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes and the teachers of the Law. In the providence of God, the betrayal by Judas actually advanced Gods purpose in the world. We might be a life-hacking, productivity guru. The Lord can never be blamed for evil, but evil does not take p. God never does evil Himself. They heap judgment on themselves. So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe. 2:11). Acts 2:23 tells us that Jesus was delivered up, by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death. Rejoice that Christ is all-sufficient and always dependable. That literally means, I find no basis for any of the charges brought against this man. In modern terms, you might call it a Summary Judgment in favor of Jesus. God In Acts 13:41 he said, Behold, you despisers, Marvel and perish! Everything else in the story fits into Gods plan: The crown of thorns, the scourging, the trials, Pilates testimony, his verdict of death, a man to help carry the cross, the place of deathGolgotha, and the moment of death3 PM, the time when the Passover lambs were sacrificed at the Temple. God Works His Will In spite of our slownessand even sinGod will bless and use us to fulfill His purpose of blessing all nations through Christ, because of our relationship to the Father through the Son. The fact that God ordains both the means and the ends should surely encourage us as we face our own trials. We see the same thing after the Israelites cross the Red Sea and are attacked by the Amalekites (Ex. And He *said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. At the beginning of their sojourn, Joseph was ruler of Egypt, a son of Jacob, and watched over his own. The Prophet was told to look around him and see what was going on among the nations, observe! In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die. As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land, even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the Lord. He recognized what was evil because he believed Gods law. I cant charge an exorbitant hourly fee for my time. A) We bow in submission before the mysterious ways of God. Why would God allow his Son to suffer such indignity at the hands of one who claimed to be his friend? He uses believers and unbelievers. A man who lived in a time in which only Jews served the one true God. God uses pathetic people for his glorious purposes to show his superior power. Although Judas appears to be acting solely on his own initiative, it is clear that his betrayal fits into a larger pattern of eventsone that is orchestrated by the unseen hand of the Living God. Compared to you or me, King Solomon had it all wisdom, wealth, fame, power. verses about Unbelievers What does it mean that the righteous will live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4)? Grace be with you. Nothing is ever left to chance with God. But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it. Remember my imprisonment. God commissions the invalid retiree to uphold dozens, even hundreds of missionaries on the field. So through his death, he can have everlasting life on earth. But what a privilege it is to be used by God! 14:11). I dont speak on any circuits, have given no TED talks, and have been the keynote speaker less than once. Click here. He could have rained fire and brimstone down on them. God has the amazing ability to do things that simply do not make sense to mankind. WebWhat if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. Peter told the early Christians that the Scripture had to be fulfilled. He meant that the betrayal had to happen the way it did. WebGod Can Use Unbelievers part 1: Cyrus 1. Habakkuk 1:5, Look among the nations and watch Be utterly astounded! All of these people are unlikely choices to be used by God since they didnt truly know or believe in Him. WebGod will never set man's will aside and use him for a good purpose without his being willing to be used. As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land. They move ahead as a determined army spreading violence. It was their God, or at least the God of Moses, that just killed all the first born of Egypt. 1:15-16), later to be thrown in the Nile (Ex. Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.. An unlikely person to be used by God. Does God Accomplish His Purpose in Our Bible Hub Do not begrudge your weakness. No buildings, streets, or hospitals have been named in honor of me. Though used by God for his purposes, the ungodly are still evil. Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad? Judas didnt know itand doesnt get any credit for itbut his dastardly deed actually fulfilled predictions given by the Holy Spirit hundreds of years before he was born. In their very act of oppression, they unknowingly serve the glory of the Creator. The coming of Messiah was unexpected. WebGod will never set man's will aside and use him for a good purpose without his being willing to be used. God will use it even if you do not understand how. God is not the author of sin, but He can use sinful men to attain an objective. Do not begrudge your weakness. I might preach to 100 people on Sunday morning in my own little church, but I preach to thousands over the internet. For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? It was all the Lord. Lest he misunderstand, I also told him that going to Calvary Memorial Church cannot save anyoneor help save anyone. (Bible quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.). He uses believers and unbelievers. The people of Jacob were trapped. Habakkuk learned that the material success of the ungodly is not a reliable measure of their true success. Judas didnt know it, and neither did the disciples, but Gods fingerprints were all over his act of betrayal. God could by-pass us and do everything himself, but He does not. But God gave the command, Moses obeyed the command, and in a sense Moses divided the Sea, as the Lord commanded, and in a more ultimate sense God did the miracle and divided the Red Sea. Your children, however, whom you said would become a preyI will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. Will we show forth Gods glory in our obedience and in our receiving of His covenant blessing? But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.. They make a joke out of those who dare to not submit to them. This New-Babylon marched through Canaan and took hostages (one of them was Daniel). If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience sake. The unbeliever has made an exchangethe truth for a lieand the devil is happy to facilitate the swap by presenting the sinner with a wide array of lies from which to choose. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brethren. WebGod also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will. I have received no honorary doctorates. 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. The very first verse my daughter ever memorized was Isaiah 40:8, The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. It seemed like an odd one to begin with, but now in retrospect it might have been the best one. Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation., Truth Of God Is denied by Unbelievers, the Truth of God Is denied by Unbelievers, Unbelievers Are blinded by the God of this world, Unbelievers Will be classed with outbreaking sinners in eternity, Unbelievers Their lifetime spent in vanity, Unbelievers Shall be judged by God's word in the last day, Will be classed with outbreaking sinners in eternity, Shall be judged by God's word in the last day. WebJohn 3:16. Thats where the judgment will come from. God Will Use Even You Eternity will reveal how your faithful service was used by the Lord in amazing ways. Until that man turns from his sinwhich in his case means acknowledging his behavior as sinand runs to the Cross of Christ he cannot be saved. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. There is no better example of Gods providence at work through the actions of a sinful man. If so, did he have a choice? 10 people that God used to accomplish his purposes I. Paul: The one with a shameful past and challenging present (4:18) Colossians 4:18 - I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. The evil ones believe pridefully that their own imagined gods have blessed them. 21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man. God sovereignly saves sinners, yet, He often uses sinners to accomplish His sovereign will. The Lord can never be blamed for evil, but evil does not take p. God never does evil Himself. Though absolutely sovereign, all knowing, all wise, and everywhere present, God uses sinners to accomplish His will. God asks us to do things we cant do, because it makes us trust IN HIM, not ourselves. But all of them come from the hand of the Lord. 1 And Saul approved of his execution. God uses the overwhelmed and disheveled mother to nurture her children into spiritual giants. 16 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. Jesus, in the Olivet Discourse, gave the parable of the sheep and the goats. Causing him to not let the people go. For I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, Though one were to declare it to you., Jeremiah also spoke of the same thing about which God warned Habakkuk. Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and took an oath, saying, Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers. Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. I am a preacher and Bible teacher. God doesnt need men, but God chooses to use men at times to accomplish His sovereign will. Because they did not believe in GodAnd did not trust in His salvation. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. Nothing that happened to Jesus that night or later on Good Friday made sense when it happened. In Acts 1:16 Peter declared that the Scripture had to be fulfilled. He meant that the Old Testament predictions (he cites Psalm 69:25 and Psalm 109:8) regarding Judas were bound to come true. 10:17 Paul writes, So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ. When we preach the gospel to someone and they come to saving faith, we dont boast that we have saved them but that God has saved them, though we were the instruments of Gods saving work. The Bible says, God was well pleased through the message preached to save those who believe (I Cor. The thing he values the most is dragging him down to eternal damnation. Moses didnt have any power to bring the ten plagues upon Egypt either. This brings us face to face with the doctrine of Gods providence, which means, A) God has a plan that includes everything that happens in the universe, and, B) Gods plan extends to the tiniest details of life, and. How does this truth apply to Judas? We when we dont know if something is Gods will, we pray, Yet not my will but yours be done (Mt. 1 John 5:14. Zechariah 11:13Judas would give the money back. You truly never know God could be doing something right that we wouldnt understand even if He told us. The fact that God ordains both the means and the ends should surely encourage us as we face our own trials. A third reason God had Moses raise his staff and hands before dividing the Red Sea is that God delights to use sinners to accomplish His sovereign will. (see Matthew 27:5). The total number of prophecies is well over 100. As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land, even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the. They were afraid. This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask Before the Apostle Paul wrote his letter he was known as Saul. Our accomplishments do not justify our existence. Egypt and the Neo-Babylonians were competing for world dominance. God uses all those who humble themselves before the cross, boasting only in him his strength, his wisdom, his righteousness, his accomplishment. God will surely judge all rebellion, secret and open. But what they do is not going to bring them true blessing. God can use even you even me. Philippians 3:4-7 - although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. But now, the grief of the Egyptians had subsided and was replaced with anger and regret. And did not believe in His wonderful works. And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. so that they might escape from the devil's snare, even though they've been held captive by him to do his will. But now, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now., but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the. International Standard Version. 55:8-9). We need to be reminded again and again that we are like grass disposable, temporary, fleeting, momentary. Gods plan even extended to having Jesus buried in a borrowed tomb (see Isaiah 53:9). Zechariah 11:1230 pieces of silver (see Matthew 26:15). Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. Solomon was given a mind like no one before and like none even after him (1 Kings 3:12). It even included the price Judas would receive for his act of treachery30 pieces of silver. Here we see that when believers are doing the will of God, obeying the Word of God, and serving even the least of the Saints, they are Gods instruments, doing Jesus will, ministering to Jesus people, His body, His bride. I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me. Moses was a by-product of the Egyptians attempts to hinder Gods blessing upon them, was placed in pitch covered basket and set adrift in the Nile, but rescued, weened by his own mother, adopted into Pharaohs house, and educated in all the learning of Egypt (Acts 7:22). God Uses

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