The Psalms show us that the war between vanity and obedience continues to be fought. In the Old Testament, the Chosen People often turned from God and proper worship of Him. Today, people ignore The Only Church Jesus Founded for the same, self-indulgent reasons.
Today’s, reading, PS 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17, lets us see the similarities between then and now:
“My people heard not my voice, and Israel obeyed me not; (When “Israel obeyed me not”, they became early kinds of Protestants, preferring self-indulgence to obeying God. The results:)
So I gave them up to the hardness of their hearts; they walked according to their own counsels.” (Their “hardness of heart” began with thinking they are too important to have to obey God and His Temple. Today, it is clear that most Protestants no longer want pastors who will firmly instruct congregations to avoid fornication, artificial birth control, divorce, abortion, etc. Vanity hardened the hearts of Hebrews who chose to do they wanted instead of following God’s instructions. It is the same in schisms today. Then, hearts were so hardened that they could not see the agony of child sacrifice. Today, the same, vain semi-believers are, similarly, too hard-hearted to see the horrors of abortion, today. In the Temple, then and The Church, today; God saves the obedient.)
What should we who obey do? R. “Sing with joy to God our help.”
God’s promise for help become clearer. “IF only my people would hear me, and Israel walk in my ways, Quickly would I humble their enemies; against their foes I would turn my hand.”
That is the biggest “IF” in history. Just as God often saved a repentant, obedient Israel from Syrian and Egyptian invaders, IF we return to The Church Jesus Founded, God will save us from Moslem invasion. IF we return, we will be saved from the horrors of abortion, the sadness of broken families, and the other manifestations of sin and we will: R. Sing with joy to God our help.
“Those who hated the LORD would cringe, but their fate would endure forever, While Israel I would feed with the best of wheat, and with honey from the rock I would fill them.”
IF we are obedient, our enemies will be destroyed and we will prosper. If we return to The Only Church Founded by He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies, we will be blessed, and we will “Sing with joy to God our help.”
IF we do not return to obeying the teachings of The Church Church Jesus Founded, our children will be reduced to poverty, slavery, and death. The vain among us prefer that to cleansing themselves of competing, confusing theological delusions.
The biggest IF in history is centered around “Both history and The Bible are clear. IF we believe and obey, we are saved. Once, salvation came from The Temple. Today, it comes from obeying The Only Church Jesus Founded. In every age, some would prefer that all be destroyed rather than that they, themselves, would obey God’s instructions.
