About three posts back, I shared this C.S. Lewis quote:<\/p>\n
Maybe the most horrifying aspect of God’s judgment is when, after all of our demands that God let us go to live our lives, he does just that.<\/p>\n
And we are free to roam about the darkness.<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is part of my text from last week’s message:<\/p>\n 26<\/sup> <\/span>For this reason God gave them up to …<\/span><\/p>\n 28<\/sup> <\/span>And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to …\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n This week my wife pointed out a Scripture in Proverbs that came to her mind as she thought through these things.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Please note the progression. God extends his hand and is consistently rejected.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, it is only you and the storm …\u00a0<\/strong> So God reveals what will then happen …\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Now possibly some will call out to God, but they will not come in reverence, so …\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n We refuse to listen to God because we believe that we can handle life as we see it. But there is the catch. We have such a limited view apart from the knowledge of God. So when reality explodes the myth of our lives, we are left without hope, without help, without God.<\/p>\n Alone to face eternity and the terror that will come.<\/p>\n Or we can receive God’s gracious gift of eternal life and know we will be in his care forever, no matter the storm.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About three posts back, I shared this C.S. Lewis quote: I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the\u00a0inside. Maybe the most horrifying aspect of God’s judgment is when, after all of our demands that God let us go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n24<\/sup> <\/span>Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, <\/span>25<\/sup> <\/span>because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, <\/span>26<\/sup> <\/span>I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, <\/span>27<\/sup> <\/span>when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. <\/span>28<\/sup> <\/span>Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. <\/span>29<\/sup> <\/span>Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the <\/span>Lord<\/span>, <\/span>30<\/sup> <\/span>would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, <\/span>31<\/sup> <\/span>therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. <\/span>32<\/sup> <\/span>For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; <\/span>33<\/sup> <\/span>but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nWhen the calamity, terror and storm come like a whirlwind, no God because you successfully rebelled and refused his love and grace. The fool said in his heart “no God” and that is where he now stands – no God!<\/p>\n\n
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