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NASB | Revelation 22:18 ¶ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 22:18 ¶ I testify and warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book [its predictions, consolations, and admonitions]: if anyone adds [anything] to them, God will add to him the plagues (afflictions, calamities) which are written in this book; [Deut 4:2] |
Subject: Release and Faith Question |
Bible Note: Dear John: Quoting a fine line from your post: "I believe that God is at the center." And so do I, so do I! ...... God-centered theology, how sweet it is! ..... Hardly a day passes that one doesn't see ample evidence of how far so many professing Christians have strayed from the precept that God and God alone is the potter and we are the clay. Faith in faith is futile; faith in God is the only faith worth having. "Speak it and it will come to pass" is a ridiculous statement coming from human lips. Only God can do that! Multitudes today possess a 'name-it-and-claim-it' mentality, as though God actually owed them a debt. Through grace alone, not through any merit or claim that man possesses or will ever possess, and not because He owed us anything, Jesus Christ has already paid the debt for man's sin by His suffering and death on the cross! He does not owe man the guarantee of physcial health and financial prosperity in this life! Has the church lost track of who is the potter and who is the clay? How sad it is to see questions being posed here and elsewhere that ask, Why did God do this or that, or why didn't God do this or that? "But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, 'Why have you made me like this?' Does not the potter have power over the clay?" Will man never learn to stop trying to create God in his own image? Will he never learn who's the boss? --Hank |