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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 angel9, I sympatize with your frustration. It does seem as if the church in America is hung up on "self-gratification". As proof, all I have to do is look at my own attitude and performance! Have I lived up to the same standard I expect from others? I hate to say it, but I must confess, I fall far short of what I believe a christian soldier should be like. Perhaps there are many in my own congregation who feel the same as I do. We want to do good, but we find that we are powerless to change ourselves. I wonder if God is not doing a work. It may be He is allowing us to come to the end of our own supposed sufficency, so that when we have come to the end of our own rope, we will cry out to Him to give us the grace to change. 2 Chr 34:27 "Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you," declares the LORD. In the book "Pilgrims Progress" by John Bunyan, the main character "Christian" falls in to a miry swamp called the Slough of Despond. He struggles to free himself, but the burden of sin on his back prevents his escape. God mercifully sends a Helper to pull him out. The helper tells Christian that God had placed a set of steps in the swamp and that he could have gotten out if he had availed himself of them. Those steps, Helper tells him, are the "Promises of God". Your Thoughts? John Reformed |