By: Brian A Yeager                                                         

Part III

God Will Stretch Forth His Hand Against the Wrath of Our Enemies

     “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us” ( Romans 8:31 )?  In reality I could stop on this point at this one Scripture (though that would not finish this article at the needed length, thus I shall write on).  Solomon wrote saying: “The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead” ( Proverbs 11:8 ).  The Hebrew writer assures us saying: “…The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me” ( Hebrews 13:6 ).  As Christians all who do evil will hate us for what we are. Jesus assures us of that.  In fact, Jesus said this to His disciples: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.  Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also” ( John 15:18 -20 ).

     It is never good to know that you'll have enemies.  That is of course unless your friends are bigger than your enemies.  If you are a faithful Christian you have no greater friend than our Lord who died for you ( John 15:13 ).  He is certainly bigger than any enemy we can have on this earth.  To this end, we should not fear what man will do to us.  We should fear He who is able to destroy both the body and the soul ( Matthew 10:28 ).   Furthermore, we need to remember that God will make sure that we are taken care of according to His divine will ( Romans 8:28 and I Corinthians 10:13 ).  After all, God's goal is for us to be and remain saved!

Brian A Yeager

Words of Truth                 

Vol. VI Issue VI                  Nov. 6th, 2005