02/05/25 HEED THE "GOD STOPS"

02/05/25 HEED THE "GOD STOPS"

WE NEED TO HEED THE "GOD STOPS" IN LIFE
(I added this short video to underline my message in this article)

Individuals, societies, and nations have plunged into eternal torment by ignoring the STOPS, which God has placed in the road.

As folks chase after worldly and sinful pleasures, God warns them to STOP, while offering them the ability through His miraculous gift of deliverance.

But men choose to follow their own desires instead. They cling to and pursue wealth, promiscuity, deception, hatred, jealousy, pride, greed, idolatry, self-satisfaction, and self-promotion. They choose not to STOP, but rather to continue in their rebellion.

The depths of degradation are far worse than we comprehend.
The depravity of man during the days of Noah are stated to have been, "all of the thoughts of man were evil continuously."
Concerning man's capacity for evil in the early days of Babel, God said that the people had become unified in their evil imaginings, and their evil actions would be unbounded. There have been exceptionally evil societies that God has destroyed through"natural phenomena" and also through the violence of other evil men. Sometimes the evil is displayed in the grossest of sexual perversion, the vilest abuse and violation of children, sometimes it is the trafficking of women and children, sometimes it is the enslavement and debauchery of addictions, sometimes it is unfettered violence, sometimes it is heartless oppression, sometimes it is government gone awry.

Wickedness and the consequences of wickedness happen because people do not yield, submit to the STOPS that God sets before them. America, as a nation and as small communities, has been rushing over the STOPS and mocking God and His people for such "old fashioned" ideas.

America may have a moment of seeming remorse, but it is going to go back to the pigsty, sooner than later. However, we as individuals, can still heed the STOPS before we have lost everything.

BTW, God not only gives us the STOPS, He provides the option and the ability to obey. It is called salvation and it is miraculous. We can't get anyone else to turn to God, but we must make certain that we turn to God and turn our entire life over to God.

Seek out a preacher that tells you that there are DO's and DON'T's in the Christian life and there are STOPS and GO's. God will enable you to keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

Colossians 1:9-14
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Hebrews 13:20-21
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.