Hath God said?

Rev 4:10,11 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Hath God said? This is officially the first and oldest trick in the book.

Our adversary uses a slightly different one today. He will let us acknowledge what God has said and then add…. “Hath God said that it still applies?”

My wife pointed out this verse to me tonight…….

Exo 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Exo 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Exo 34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

This is God describing himself. He is the author of the only perfect and just system of Law that man on this planet has ever, can ever,be seen, or lived under.

…merciful

and gracious,

longsuffering,

and abundant in goodness

and truth,

Keeping mercy for thousands,

forgiving iniquity

and transgression

and sin,

and that will by no means clear the guilty;…

Just incredible, what love is this from the author of Love….Grace to us…. and we have done nothing to deserve it………..

Psalm119:165-168 Great peace have those who love your law,
And nothing causes them to stumble.

Many a modern believer will stumble in the days ahead because we have not loved his Law.