TWO GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE COEXISTING TODAY – Part 1

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for Wednesday, 24th AUGUST, 2022.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE - General Overseer

Topic: TWO GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE COEXISTING TODAY – Part 1

MEMORIZE: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Ps 9:17.

SCRIPTURE READING: Jeremiah 6:15-17.

“Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD. Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'"

EXPOSITION:

Why did God create man in His image? Or what is the essence of our existence as human being? In the OT, it was to be like him and to show forth his praises and have dominion over all He had created – “Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over… all the earth…" So God created man in His own image; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Gen. 1:26-28. In the OT, the primary purpose of our redemption is to show forth the praises of Christ our Saviour – “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; THAT YE SHOULD SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HATH CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LIGHT:” 1 Peter 2:9. People living under the heaven are categorized into two generations, base on our relationship with out Maker. In a word, we are created to have FELLOWSHIP with Him. But are we having fellowship with Him as He desires?

Let’s look at the reactions of people toward this. The generation of the rebellion are those who refused to leave the life of sin. They found pleasure in wickedness and sometimes in secret sins. They cannot do anything that will not profit them. They have no pleasure in the will of God if it will not give them material profit. They are full of themselves to extent they have no regards for God. God keeps calling them to come back to Him and be saved, but they keep turning him down. It is written, “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD. Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'" Jeremiah 6:15-17.

Therefore, God’s judgment was pronounced in Proverbs 1:24-31 “Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” 

Can you bear this consequence? If not, then turn to God today in genuine repentance before it is too late. Don’t end like Judas Iscariot who repented too late and died of guilty conscience. "Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!" Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself." Matthew 27:3-5.

PRAYER POINT: Lord JESUS CHRIST, help all sinners to see you and acknowledge and accept you as their Lord and personal Saviour in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Jeremiah 8-10.

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