Fool: ancient name of an atheist.
Fool: one ancient Hebrew word is: "eviyl" ev-eel see Strongs #191
Is this why the devil is a fool?
Could all those who do evil be a fool?
Is it when a person is a fool (doing evil), they act on their own doing their own will and not the will of God? When we evict God from our will, is this how we become a fool? And if we discount God as having no influence or power over us, isn't this in effect the same thing as being an atheist?
Strange reversal of application: now it is common for those who believe in following God to be called a fool. Isn't this the same as making good evil, and setting evil for good? Such as if I believe in God's way I am a fool to many, but if I do not follow God's way I am not a fool but very wise.
I have considered why many will not live God's way. The root of it all is rebellion. The effect of rebellion is to reject God's way for a way of man's own choosing. Those who are evil have made that choice because their rebellion rejected choosing the way of God. So then, what is the sum of this matter? It is that choice is the free agency of all. And if a person by this freedom refuses to live according to the laws of God, they will break them on purpose to show God he does not matter in their life. And when God is shoved aside and out of a person's mind and life: a fool is born.
I am sure we have all been foolish at some time in our lives. We have set God to the side and gone our own way. But we recovered. We looked into the mirror and did not like what we had become. We realized our works of sin did not do us any favors. We felt that prick of shame and we shook our head in disbelief of the mess we had become. Somewhere out of the past, in our mind, we remember God. We pray: "God please help me." While we cannot explain it, there is a certain "fear" that seems to haunt us that we cannot keep rejecting God. There must be a day of saying yes. Will this be that day?
Having been foolish and being a fool is in many cases quite different. Foolish people many times recover themselves before they become an unrepentant fool. When a person is so stubborn, so self-stuck on their evil life, and they choose to forever reject God and feel no shame or repentant: that person is an eternal fool. And it is for these kinds of people, who like the devil, make themselves eternal haters of God. This is the folly of all who refuse to acknowledge their foolishness. And it is right here, the Bible teaches us that men's hearts are hardened. And when this happens, God has chosen he does not want them. And when God chooses he does not want a person because their heart is hardened, they can never be saved: even if with bitter tears they some day realize what a fool they were. God has no obligation to forgive all fools. After all, the devil was the first fool. And he will never receive forgiveness, not in this life or in the one to come.
I chose to follow the Lord Jesus Christ because in him there is absolutely nothing of rebellion to make him a fool.
After what Jesus did on Calvary for all lost humanity, if anyone rejects him as their Savior, Lord, and King: THEY ARE FOOLS.
From among the Jews we will find the first fools for rejecting Jesus; then from among the Gentile nations will finalize those who are fools. The Lake of Fire will contain all fools. Hell is the eternal place of all fools. The world has been warned.
Jesus has shown us the way of those who are not fools. He invites all. The offer of redemption is given to everyone. Only the fools will say no.
Today the evil ones in the world think we who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are fools. How could we believe in Jesus our Savior because he died on a Cross? To them, Jesus died a fool. To believe in the death of a fool is to them stupidity. One day I thought upon this. And I realized, Jesus became a fool on the Cross to die in the place of all fools. Yes, he died even for all atheist. And I saw it. He who did not sin, became the one who died in the place of all sinners. He died on my cross. He died on your cross. We who should have died for our own sins: he took our place and died for us. I saw also, that a person does not have to accept this great act of love. They can walk up to the Cross and spit on the ground and say "away with him." I do not believe. And they can go to hell as they go behind the Cross and over the hill into their own eternity, never looking back.
What is so beautiful in all this sadness, is some who did this. Who looked back. Who went back. And who fell upon their knees, crying: "Lord Jesus me merciful to me a sinner. I have played the part of the fool." And they changed directions like Saul the Hasidic Pharisee, and became a Christian.
I know there are fools. There are temporary fools, temporary foolish people, but they are not eternal fools.
It is here I want to encourage all of you who changed from being a fool to being a Christian. Your family, your friends, the world about you: may shun you and think you are weird and crazy to choose the way of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even if you must struggle. Even if you must go through a trial or test of faith. You will overcome.
I close out my blog today with joy for the overcomers. You can sing and shout in the house of God. Let the fools mock. Let those in their eternal rebellion ridicule. Even if they call you a cult, hold your head up high as a real Christian. We will see who the fools are when we all stand before the Lord God Almighty.
Fools to the left, the overcomers to the right.
To those on the left: into the fire;
To those on the right: enter into the joys of the Lord.
No Acts 2:38 Christian is a fool unless they are drifting into rebellion and departing from the ways of God.
So, stay in the Apostolic holiness way, it is the safe way. It is God's ONLY way. No one in this way is a fool!
Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves
Fool: one ancient Hebrew word is: "eviyl" ev-eel see Strongs #191
Is this why the devil is a fool?
Could all those who do evil be a fool?
Is it when a person is a fool (doing evil), they act on their own doing their own will and not the will of God? When we evict God from our will, is this how we become a fool? And if we discount God as having no influence or power over us, isn't this in effect the same thing as being an atheist?
Strange reversal of application: now it is common for those who believe in following God to be called a fool. Isn't this the same as making good evil, and setting evil for good? Such as if I believe in God's way I am a fool to many, but if I do not follow God's way I am not a fool but very wise.
I have considered why many will not live God's way. The root of it all is rebellion. The effect of rebellion is to reject God's way for a way of man's own choosing. Those who are evil have made that choice because their rebellion rejected choosing the way of God. So then, what is the sum of this matter? It is that choice is the free agency of all. And if a person by this freedom refuses to live according to the laws of God, they will break them on purpose to show God he does not matter in their life. And when God is shoved aside and out of a person's mind and life: a fool is born.
I am sure we have all been foolish at some time in our lives. We have set God to the side and gone our own way. But we recovered. We looked into the mirror and did not like what we had become. We realized our works of sin did not do us any favors. We felt that prick of shame and we shook our head in disbelief of the mess we had become. Somewhere out of the past, in our mind, we remember God. We pray: "God please help me." While we cannot explain it, there is a certain "fear" that seems to haunt us that we cannot keep rejecting God. There must be a day of saying yes. Will this be that day?
Having been foolish and being a fool is in many cases quite different. Foolish people many times recover themselves before they become an unrepentant fool. When a person is so stubborn, so self-stuck on their evil life, and they choose to forever reject God and feel no shame or repentant: that person is an eternal fool. And it is for these kinds of people, who like the devil, make themselves eternal haters of God. This is the folly of all who refuse to acknowledge their foolishness. And it is right here, the Bible teaches us that men's hearts are hardened. And when this happens, God has chosen he does not want them. And when God chooses he does not want a person because their heart is hardened, they can never be saved: even if with bitter tears they some day realize what a fool they were. God has no obligation to forgive all fools. After all, the devil was the first fool. And he will never receive forgiveness, not in this life or in the one to come.
I chose to follow the Lord Jesus Christ because in him there is absolutely nothing of rebellion to make him a fool.
After what Jesus did on Calvary for all lost humanity, if anyone rejects him as their Savior, Lord, and King: THEY ARE FOOLS.
From among the Jews we will find the first fools for rejecting Jesus; then from among the Gentile nations will finalize those who are fools. The Lake of Fire will contain all fools. Hell is the eternal place of all fools. The world has been warned.
Jesus has shown us the way of those who are not fools. He invites all. The offer of redemption is given to everyone. Only the fools will say no.
Today the evil ones in the world think we who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are fools. How could we believe in Jesus our Savior because he died on a Cross? To them, Jesus died a fool. To believe in the death of a fool is to them stupidity. One day I thought upon this. And I realized, Jesus became a fool on the Cross to die in the place of all fools. Yes, he died even for all atheist. And I saw it. He who did not sin, became the one who died in the place of all sinners. He died on my cross. He died on your cross. We who should have died for our own sins: he took our place and died for us. I saw also, that a person does not have to accept this great act of love. They can walk up to the Cross and spit on the ground and say "away with him." I do not believe. And they can go to hell as they go behind the Cross and over the hill into their own eternity, never looking back.
What is so beautiful in all this sadness, is some who did this. Who looked back. Who went back. And who fell upon their knees, crying: "Lord Jesus me merciful to me a sinner. I have played the part of the fool." And they changed directions like Saul the Hasidic Pharisee, and became a Christian.
I know there are fools. There are temporary fools, temporary foolish people, but they are not eternal fools.
It is here I want to encourage all of you who changed from being a fool to being a Christian. Your family, your friends, the world about you: may shun you and think you are weird and crazy to choose the way of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even if you must struggle. Even if you must go through a trial or test of faith. You will overcome.
I close out my blog today with joy for the overcomers. You can sing and shout in the house of God. Let the fools mock. Let those in their eternal rebellion ridicule. Even if they call you a cult, hold your head up high as a real Christian. We will see who the fools are when we all stand before the Lord God Almighty.
Fools to the left, the overcomers to the right.
To those on the left: into the fire;
To those on the right: enter into the joys of the Lord.
No Acts 2:38 Christian is a fool unless they are drifting into rebellion and departing from the ways of God.
So, stay in the Apostolic holiness way, it is the safe way. It is God's ONLY way. No one in this way is a fool!
Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves
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