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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Bible Questions Answered: Seek Ye The Lord

Bible Questions Answered:
“It says seek the Lord while he may be found, when is that and when will it be that he cannot be found?”
Pat/ New York, New York U.S.A.

Bible Answer:

Text: Isaiah 55:6 KJV
Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near:

This is not some mystical time of appearance or disappearance of the Saviour, rather these words speak of the spiritual condition of the heart.

II Corinthians 6:2 KJV
(For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured (helped) thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Many a person has heard the call of the Saviour, but delayed in their reaction to Him. Not today, they say, or after I graduate from school, after my business is a success, when I am older, etc. etc.

But delay, Is to refuse and the refusal of a day, becomes the refusal of a week, a month, a year. And before one realizes it, the refusal of a life time. And the heart that once could have turned to the Lord, has now become old and hardened to the ways of the world, and no longer desires to turn to the Lord.
This is the unpardonable sin, the total rejection of the calling of the Spirit of God.

Psalm 95:6-11 NLT
6 Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker,
7 for He is our God. We are the people He watches over, the flock under His care. If only you would listen to His voice today!
8 The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
9 For there your ancestors tested and tried My patience, even though they saw everything I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from Me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11 So in My anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter My place of rest.’”

Hebrew 4:7 KJV
"...To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

Hebrews 12:14-17 KJV
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Revelation 3:20 KJV
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.

Genesis 71,13,14,16,17 KJV
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

Righteous Noah and his family were shut in the ark, while others to whom Noah had preached warning for 120 years, and refused, were shut out.

Zechariah 7:11-13 NLT
11 “Your ancestors refused to listen to this message. They stubbornly turned away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
12 They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had sent them by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the Lord of Heaven’s Armies was so angry with them.
13 “Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to Me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Brother to rejection, i.e. repentance and surrender postponed, is that of presumption.

Matthew 25:1-13 KJV
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the Bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the Bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the Bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with Him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But He answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh.

The virgins are the bride of Christ, while the Bridegroom is Christ.

Matthew 7:16-23 KJV
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.

Workers of iniquity, because though their garments are white, and their hands filled with lamps, yet they are without oil, and blind leaders, “of the dark,” blind.

Matthew 7:21 KJV
Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.

To refuse to be surrendered to the Lord, as Master, is to rely upon fleshly works that perish. All the rituals, creeds, pomp and circumstance, degrees of great learning all will be as an empty lamp in the dark, on that secret day of the Bridegrooms coming.

Ephesians 2:8,9 KJV
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

I Samuel 15:22 KJV
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

Hebrews 12:14 KJV
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

The hour is late, the night far spent, each one must decide for himself, whether “poor in spirit,” or “full and self satisfied.”

Once the Bridegroom comes and takes His bride to heavens marriage feast, the doors will be shut.

Hebrew 4:7 KJV
"...To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

Deuteronomy 4:29 KJV
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

I Chronicles 16:11 KJV
Seek the LORD and His strength, seek His face continually.

Isaiah 31:1 KJV
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

Hosea 10:12 NLT
I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you.’