OUR GREAT DEFENDER - text Our text today, similarly, reveals the readiness of God to defend His own people. The text has double application, in the sense that it can be applied to the present and the end-time period when Jehovah would descend from heaven to destroy the Antichrist, and the kings of the earth for their persecution of the Jews and the saints. The passage speaks of five-fold methods of judgment: burning with fierce anger, heavy burden, lips full of indignation, tongue as a devouring fire, and breadth like an overflowing flood. Believers in Christ Jesus, however, have nothing to fear. Even today, as people persecute us, the Bible enjoins us not to fear. God Himself assures us in Isaiah 43, “fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire thou shall not be burned; neither shall the flames kindle upon thee..” God is the Great Defender of all who trust in Him. The foremost thing He requires from everyone is a total life of holiness and absolute dependence on Him, for we cannot continue in sin and hope that the grace of God will abound in our lives. Once our lives are right with Him, He will put our dread and fear in our enemies.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 06:30:17 +0000
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