Verse of the Day 5/7

Through the Bible - 1 Kings 17-18, John 2

Good morning,
I had intended to take a few days to consider the "glory" of God but came across today's verse and passage in Isaiah 8 which called the tribes of Israel and us to "fear God and heed His word".
So often then as today, God's people had strayed from His commands, His Word, and His way. Usually it starts with something simple, soon it seems, they are going wholeheartedly after other things and seeking answers everywhere but from God. In today's passage the people were seeking spiritual advice from "wizards and spiritists".
Where do people turn for answers today? Horoscopes, astrology, and other gods?
The call then was the same as it is today.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. NKJV

The call is to return to God's commands and the testimony of the true prophets. And how do you know the true prophets? How they align with His Word. And how do you know His Word but to hear is spoken and to be in it yourself.
1 John 4:1-3 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, NKJV
Read the following from Grace Gems:
Let us be on our guard against the "insidiousness" of false doctrine. Like the fruit of which Eve and Adam ate--at first sight it looks pleasant and good, and a thing to be desired. "Poison" is not written upon it, and so people are not afraid. Like counterfeit coin, it is not stamped "bad." It passes for the real thing, because of the very likeness it bears to the truth.

Let us be on our guard against the "very small beginnings" of false doctrine. Every heresy began at one time, with some little departure from the truth. There is only "a little seed of error" needed to create "a great tree of heresy!" It is the little stones, which make up the mighty building. It is the little leaven, which infiltrated the whole lump. It is the little flaw in one link of the chain cable, which wrecks the gallant ship, and drowns the crew. It is the omission or addition of one little item in the doctor's prescription, which spoils the whole medicine, and turns it into poison!

Let us never allow a little false doctrine to ruin us, by thinking it is "but a little one," and can do us no harm.

There are three things which we never ought to trifle with:
a little poison,
a little sin, and
a little false doctrine.

Let us read the Bible regularly, daily, and with fervent prayer. Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing--which is not in the Bible. Let our rule of faith, our touchstone of all teaching--be the written Word of God.

If you have questions about life, faith, and God, the answers are still in the same place "turn to the Law and the Testimonies, the Bible.
Read the passage from Isaiah 8
Isa 8:13 The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow;
Let Him be your fear,
And let Him be your dread.
14 He will be as a sanctuary, NKJV

In Christ,
Mike
mikevw@bellsouth.net
Isa 8:11-9:1

Fear God, Heed His Word
11 For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 "Do not say, 'A conspiracy,'Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy,Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled. 13 The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow;Let Him be your fear,And let Him be your dread. 14 He will be as a sanctuary,But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offenseTo both the houses of Israel,As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble;They shall fall and be broken,Be snared and taken."
16 Bind up the testimony,Seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait on the Lord,Who hides His face from the house of Jacob;And I will hope in Him. 18 Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!We are for signs and wonders in IsraelFrom the Lord of hosts,Who dwells in Mount Zion.
19 And when they say to you,"Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward. 22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.

NKJV