God's Perspective
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Scriptural Text: Job 10:3-7; Isa. 55:8-9(God’s point of view and Man’s)
Scriptural Text: Job 10:3-7; Isa. 55:8-9(God’s point of view and Man’s)
A Community Perspective
An ingenious soul has endeavored to reduce the world’s population into a community of one-hundred people. If this were possible, the community would look something like this:
Six persons would be from the United States; ninety-four from elsewhere.
These six would own half of the money in the world; ninety-four would share the rest.
Six would have fifteen times more material possessions than the other ninety-four put together.
These six would have 72 percent more of the food than required; two-thirds of the ninety-four would live below food standards and several would be starving.
The life span of these six Americans would be seventy years; the life span of the rest would be thirty-nine years.
Of the ninety-four, thirty-three of these people would be from countries where Christian faith is taught. Of the thirty-three, twenty-four would be Catholic, nine would be Protestant.
Less than one half of the ninety-four would have heard of the name Jesus, but the majority of them would know of Lenin.
In the community library there would be at least three Communist documents which would outsell the Bible.
And the perceptive mathematician concluded by conjecturing that by the year 2000, fifty of the one-hundred persons will be Asian.
Note (The Declaration of Independence) as an illustration, we are given unalienable rights by God, however, when people demand or support individuals or group rights irrespective of the humans right endowed by God, we create a cest pool of problems producing no true resolution other than pseudo satisfaction for these individuals or groups. The reality is, even if many don’t want to accept it, is that mankind is covered and govern by the laws of God. Would this being realized, government, law enforcement, public safety, and our court system are instituted to protect and enforce these rights-not the right of individual and group choices made outside our endow rights given by God. The consequences will be devastatingly to our culture and societies if allowed to perpetrate.
”We Make Our Bed, But Don’t Want to Sleep In It”(1 Samuel 28:3-7, also cp. Romans 1:28 -32 reprobate mind)
”We Make Our Bed, But Don’t Want to Sleep In It”(1 Samuel 28:3-7, also cp. Romans 1:28 -32 reprobate mind)
“This story is a classic example of a person who has rejected God’s guidance. When he suffers the consequences of his action, he is without resource or help. Saul had “made his bed,” but now he didn’t want to “sleep in it.” We live in a society that does not see the relationship between our decisions and what happens to us. Even the religious community seems to feel that no matter what we do with God’s instruction for our lives, at any moment we can repent and turn to God. Naturally He will not only forgive us but will relieve us of the consequences of our actions. God does forgive graciously, and grace causes our relationship to be restored, but that does not mean that we can start afresh without having to live with the results of our actions. (1 Samuel 28:3-7, cp Romans 1:26-reprobate mind)
Our passage gives us insight on human perspective, that is
PerspectiveDefined:a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view, outlook, view, view point, standpoint, position, stand, stance, angle, slant, attitude, frame of mind, frame of reference, approach, way of looking
PerspectiveDefined:a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view, outlook, view, view point, standpoint, position, stand, stance, angle, slant, attitude, frame of mind, frame of reference, approach, way of looking
Job speculates about why God was treating him in this violent manner.
Why Do You Behave Like a Man? (Job tells God he is behaving from a human perspective)[Job 10:3-7]
Why Do You Behave Like a Man? (Job tells God he is behaving from a human perspective)[Job 10:3-7]
In a series of stinging questions, Job pulls God down from His transcendent perch and accuses Him of acting like a man—enjoying oppression, despising creation, and exalting the wicked (v. 3). To add insult to injury, Job even accuses God of being a man, seeing through eyes of flesh (v. 4), living out brevity of life (v. 5), and playing games with temporal power (v. 6).
If Job’s accusations are true, God is nothing more than a man. Although Job knows better, at least he would understand why God tries to ferret out his sin and refuses to deliver him.
thus, the perspective of today is Relativism & Subjectivism
• Relativism: what is right/wrong, true/false is determined by some group. • Subjectivism: what is right/wrong, true/false is determined by each individual.
• Relativism: what is right/wrong, true/false is determined by some group. • Subjectivism: what is right/wrong, true/false is determined by each individual.
Perspectivism: is the term coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in developing the philosophical view that all ideations take place from particular perspectives.
Perspectivism: is the term coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in developing the philosophical view that all ideations take place from particular perspectives.
This means that there are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made. This is often taken to imply that no way of seeing the world can be taken as definitively "true", but does not necessarily entail that all perspectives are equally valid.
The Point: We postulate-to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing; to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
The Point: We postulate-to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing; to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
The consequences: “We live in a society where more people make decisions on the basis of self-interest than out of deep convictions. As a result every structure of society is weakened.”
There is a sense in which times of trouble can cause us to seek God’s point of view in a situation. When things are going well there is a natural tendency to depend upon ourselves and to even take credit for our well-being. But when turns of events make us helpless, we are more aware of our own mortality and of the need for a larger perspective than our circumstances reveal. It’s at these times that we often find help by turning to those “significant” others who bring a spiritual perspective to our lives.
Conclusions:
God’s wisdom is superior to human wisdom (Is 55:9)
God’s wisdom is superior to human wisdom (Is 55:9)
Isaiah 55:9(ESV) — 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) 11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 66:18 (NKJV)18“For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.
Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV)8The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)11So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
55:1 “Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you.