Day 12 (18 August 2018, Saturday)
Read Jonah 3:4 – 10 “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Many believers shy away from speaking about the judgment of a holy God on all who refuse to repent of their wicked ways. What is promoted is usually the benefits of salvation like peace, joy and in some cases, even of financial freedom or prosperity.
In the book of Acts, Paul preached that “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). God commands … He does not merely invite! People can and must be commanded to repent.
Repentance involves a change of heart. But it is not enough just to “repent in the heart”. Jesus says, “Bear fruits in keeping with repentance” (Luke 3:8). When Jonah warned the people of impending judgment, they repented. They expressed their repentance by serious fasting. They repented in the hope that God may relent from destroying them.
In respect of the king and people of Nineveh, Scripture tells us that, “When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it” (Jonah 3:10). God saw their works. People aren’t saved by works but by the grace of God. Yet it says that God saw their works. God saw their works of repentance. The people of Nineveh bore fruits in keeping with repentance.
My friends, command your hearers to repent and avoid God’s judgement!
Pray for the Land of Kelantan & Terengganu
Light of Christ to Remove the Darkness
Matthew 4:16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”Restoration of the Social Order
Isaiah 32:15 – 17 until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the effect or righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.Bible Reading:
Matthew 25 - 28
Jeremiah 1 – 6
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