{"id":808,"date":"2015-08-13T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=808"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:47:32","slug":"who-will-god-spare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/who-will-god-spare\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO WILL GOD SPARE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-808-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/070515WhoWillGodSparePM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/070515WhoWillGodSparePM.mp3\">https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/070515WhoWillGodSparePM.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/070515WhoWillGodSparePM.mp3\" target=\"_self\" class=\"emd_dl_blue_four\" download>Download<\/a>\r\n        <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four {\r\n        -moz-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #3d94f6), color-stop(1, #1e62d0) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #3d94f6 5%, #1e62d0 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#3d94f6', endColorstr='#1e62d0');\r\n        background-color:#3d94f6;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topleft:0px;\r\n        border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topright:0px;\r\n        border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomright:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        text-indent:0;\r\n        border:1px solid #337fed;\r\n        display:inline-block;\r\n        color:#ffffff !important;\r\n        font-family:Georgia;\r\n        font-size:15px;\r\n        font-weight:bold;\r\n        font-style:normal;\r\n        height:25px;\r\n        line-height:25px;\r\n        width:90px;\r\n        text-decoration:none;\r\n        text-align:center;\r\n        text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #1570cd;\r\n    }\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four:hover {\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #1e62d0), color-stop(1, #3d94f6) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #1e62d0 5%, #3d94f6 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#1e62d0', endColorstr='#3d94f6');\r\n        background-color:#1e62d0;\r\n    }.emd_dl_blue_four:active {\r\n        position:relative;\r\n        top:1px;\r\n    }\r\n    <\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">We can be confident that God will spare those who are faithful to Him. \u00a0God spared Moses when the Egyptians, then the Jews wanted to kill him. \u00a0God spared Noah when the earth was destroyed by the Flood. \u00a0God spared Lot &#8211; although barely, because of Abraham&#8217;s prayers. \u00a0God spared Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego in the fiery furnace. \u00a0God spared Daniel when he was sentenced to the lion&#8217;s den for praying to God, even though it was against the law. \u00a0God saved the Apostle Peter from the swords of Herod, and many other times as different people tried to kill him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">All these people DID eventually die, but God spared them long enough for them to fulfill the mission that HE assigned to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Don&#8217;t forget that God is so great, kind, loving !\u00a0\u00a0 BUT\u00a0 He is God !\u00a0 And, God is Holy, and has a right to judge people who oppose Him being God.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalms 145:8 <\/b><i>The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>1. GOD DOES NOT SPARE THOSE WILL GO ALONG WITH EVIL<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. GOD DID NOT SPARE THE SOULS OF THE PEOPLE IN EGYPT WHO WENT ALONG WITH AN EVIL PHARAOH.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Psalm 78:43-51\u00a0 <\/b><i>How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:\u00a0 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.\u00a0 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.\u00a0 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.\u00a0 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.\u00a0 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;\u00a0 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. GOD DOES NOT SPARE THOSE WHO DISOBEY HIS WORD.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">The early Church given a commandment to spread the Good News of Jesus to all the world.\u00a0 Instead, they stayed in one place to bask in the wonder of their own salvation.\u00a0 So, God allowed them to be persecuted for their disobedience.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Acts 11:19 <\/b><i>Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">This chastening for a sin of <em><strong>omission<\/strong>\u00a0(when you were supposed to do something and you didn&#8217;t)\u00a0<\/em>may not be as severe as outright judgement for deliberate sins of <em><strong>commission <\/strong>(when you knew something was wrong and did it anyway)<\/em>, but it comes anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">&#8211;PERSECUTION WILL COME AND WE NEED TO ENDURE IT.\u00a0 HOW ?\u00a0 GET ROOTS !\u00a0\u00a0 ROOTS DON&#8217;T MOVE AROUND.\u00a0 ROOTS ARE CONSISTENT.\u00a0 IF A ROOT IS NOT NOURISHED CONTINUALLY, IT DIES.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Mark 4:17 <\/b><i>And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word\u2019s sake, immediately they are offended<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>2. GOD DOES NOT SPARE THOSE WHO FLAUNT THEMSELVES WITH DISRESPECT AND REBELLION BEFORE HIM<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. GOD DID NOT SPARE THE ANGELS.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>2 Peter 2:4 <\/b><i>For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment<\/i>;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. GOD DID NOT SPARE THE WORLD OF NOAH&#8217;S TIME.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>2 Peter 2:5 <\/b><i>And spared not the old\u00a0<\/i><i>world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly<\/i>;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. GOD DOES NOT SPARE THOSE WHO KNOW THE TRUTH AND REJECT IT. HE DIDN&#8217;T SPARE ISRAEL IN HIS ANGER.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Romans 11:21 <\/b><i>For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>3. GOD DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON. HE DIED FOR US. NO ONE ELSE COULD ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A. GOD DID NOT SPARE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON SO THAT WE MIGHT HAVE LIFE THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Romans 8:32 <\/b><i>He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things<\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u201dWho Will God Spare\u00a0?\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A Bible Study with Dr. Ed J. MacWilliams<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">070515<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 We can be confident that God will spare those who are faithful to Him. \u00a0God spared Moses when the Egyptians, then the Jews wanted to kill him. \u00a0God spared Noah when the earth was destroyed by the Flood. \u00a0God spared Lot &#8211; although barely, because of Abraham&#8217;s prayers. \u00a0God spared Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego in the fiery furnace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[43,56,63,59,44,17,55,30,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}