Old Testament Scripture Reading: Isaiah 59:12 – 21 (KJV)
Isa 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isa 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Judgment and Redemption
Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isa 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Isa 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Isa 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Isa 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Isa 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Mathew 12:30 (KJV) Mark 16:14 – 16 (KJV)
Mat 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Mat 12:31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
Mat 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
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Mar 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Mar 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) Since the very beginning Almighty God chose to afford fallen mankind a message of His Grace, rather than immediate judgment, even though God’s status against the sin of mankind against God, was made known even before the transgression of the sin against God’s righteousness, which highlights the great LOVE God has for the pinnacle of His creation {i.e. Mankind} ; whom God Himself protected and provided for, even after mankind had willfully chosen to breach God’s Law.
2) At the conclusion of God’s set “tenure of sinful allowance” every soul will be sorted into one of two groups which have been developing since God’s creation of Adam and Eve, who by their own free will have been selecting to accept God’s Gospel or to reject God’s manifold offerings of Gospelization, which He has provided with the hope that everyone should choose and accept His Son Jesus Christ and be saved; rather than reject Jesus Christ His Son and be eternally condemned to the “Lake Of Fire” which is the second death.
3) Every human being needs to be saved and there is just one cure for the curse of sin and death, Who is Jesus Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son; Who alone rose from the dead in order to abolish death for everyone who trusts in Him by faith alone, and He alone is able to keep us from falling (into the lake of fire) and present us faultless before the presence of His Glory; He is the ONLY wise God our Savior, through His Only Begotten Son, Jesus The Christ, so as I close I ask you all, “Where do you stand?”
