WE must be careful never to conclude that God is bound to furnish material prosperity to everyone who follows these conditions. Such general principles do not absolutely guarantee prosperity, because they are subject to God’s higher choices for each of us and sometimes God allows us to undergo suffering and adversity.

God does not desire to send any of His human creation there (2Pet 3:9). Those who at the end will go to hell do so because they have resisted God's grace and rejected His provision of salvation (Rom 1:16—2:10)“…. the lake of fire. This is the second death,”(Rev 20:14).

There are two powerful pictures of soul-winning in the New Testament. One is of a “fisherman,” the other is of a “shepherd.”

The contemporary teaching that says sexual intimacy among “committed” unmarried youth and adults is acceptable as long as it stops short of full sexual union is a teaching contrary to God’s holiness and the Biblical standard of purity.

Surely the above circumstances were providentially arranged. So the Christian should ask, when attempting to discover God’s will, is the Lord showing me something through my circumstances?

Two-way communication. Making ourselves ready to receive God’s will.

“The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will and to see the Just One, and to hear the voice of His mouth. 15: For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard” (Acts 22:14,15).

Jesus counted those who did God’s will as His own family members (Matt. 12:50). They, like Jesus, will live forever (I John 2: 17).

God Wants To Be Known (Cont) (3) God’s desire that believers should be raised at the last day does not relieve them of the responsibility of obeying His voice and following Him (10:27; 14:21). Jesus acknowledged on the night of His betrayed that He protected His disciples and “while I was with them in the…

Churches will have people like Mary persevering in loving devotion to the Lord; Martha faithful in good deeds, and Lazarus suffering and dying. Families like this may cry out: “How long will thou forget me, O Lord? Forever?” (Ps 13:1).

“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: ‘I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.” (Is 38:5) I have Heard Thy Prayer. God’s statement that Hezekiah must prepare for death and Hezekiah’s prayer to God (v.2) have…

“Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone,” Rev 19:20.