The fears of a global food crisis are growing and getting worse, with close to one billion people regularly going to bed hungry, and many people living on one meal a week. Steve Matthews, Executive Director for ADRA Canada, shares what ADRA Canada is doing to dethrone hunger in Kenya and around the world. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCzKIOmA_lY
Church At Study | “Rewards of Faithfulness”
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Oakwood University Hosts Historic Evangelism Event
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Sunday: The Battle in Heaven
Revelation Chapter 12 presents a stream of dramatic episodes, snapshots of the age-long conflict between good and evil that began in heaven but will end here on earth. These episodes take us down the stream of time, from the opening scene of Satan’s rebellion in heaven to his vicious attacks on God’s people in the last days.
Read Revelation 12:7-9 that describes this cosmic conflict between good and evil. How, possibly, could something like this happen in heaven? What do these verses imply about the reality of free will, free choice?
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The freedom to choose is a fundamental principle of God’s government, both in heaven and on earth. God did not create robots, either in heaven or on earth. Created in the image of God, we as humans can make moral choices.
The power of choice is closely aligned with the ability to love. If you take away the power of choice, you destroy the ability to love, for love can never be forced or coerced. Love is an expression of free will. Every angel in heaven was faced with the choice either to respond to God’s love or to turn away in selfishness, arrogance, and pride. Just as the heavenly angels were confronted by love with an eternal choice, Revelation presents each one of us with eternal choices in earth’s final conflict.
There has never been neutrality in the great controversy (see Luke 11:23), and there will be none in earth’s final war. Just as every angel chose Jesus’ side or Lucifer’s side, all humanity will be led to their final, irrevocable choice at the end of time. Who will have our allegiance, our worship, our obedience? This has always been the issue with humanity, and it will be so, however more dramatically, in the final crisis of earth’s history.
But here is the incredibly good news: Revelation 12:1-17 describes Christ’s triumph in the conflict, and all we, using our free will, have to do is choose to be on His side, the winning side. How great to be able to choose a side in a battle that you know, beforehand, will be the winner.
| Think about how sacred free will and free choice must be to Jesus, who, though knowing that it would lead Him to the cross (see 2 Timothy 1:9), gave us free will anyway. What should this tell us about how carefully we should use this sacred, but costly, gift? |
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