What Does The Bible Say About Gaza And Israel?

As we explore what the Bible says about Gaza and Israel, we realize that peace and reconciliation are foundational themes. In our faith, we are called to seek peace with others. The scriptures remind us that true peace comes from a heart aligned with God. We are encouraged to be peacemakers and promote understanding. Through prayer, love, and compassion, we can help heal divisions and build bridges where there seem to be walls. Let’s hold on to the hope that God’s plans for peace can prevail. 

Matthew 5:9 ...  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

This verse beautifully captures the heart of God’s desire for us to be peacemakers. In a world filled with conflict, we are reminded that those who seek peace are truly blessed and recognized as God’s children. This calls us to reflect on our actions and strive to foster peace in our communities. 

Romans 12:18 ... If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

This scripture encourages us to take an active role in promoting peace. It acknowledges that while peace may not always be possible, we must do our part to maintain harmony with those around us. This powerful reminder can guide our interactions in challenging situations, especially regarding Gaza and Israel. 

Ephesians 4:3 ... Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

In this verse, unity is rooted in peace. God calls us to actively work toward maintaining unity with our fellow believers and those around us. We should strive for a spirit of cooperation and understanding, especially when faced with strife, such as the conflicts seen in Gaza and Israel. 

Isaiah 26:12 ...  Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

This verse serves as a reminder that true peace originates from God alone. In times of conflict, we can find solace knowing that God is at work, bringing peace to our hearts and the world around us. This assures us to trust in His plans for Gaza and Israel. 

James 3:18 ... And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Here, we see the rewarding nature of pursuing peace. When we choose to promote peace, we cultivate righteousness in our lives. This encourages us to make conscious choices that reflect God’s love for others, especially in the context of conflict.

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The Exclusivity of the Gospel

In an age of religious pluralism and tolerance of error, the biblical teaching on the exclusivity of the gospel is essential, even though most people find it to be offensive. Scripture leaves no room for ambiguity: there is only one way of salvation. There are not many paths to God, nor are there multiple gospels tailored to different groups. There is but one Savior, one gospel, and one way to eternal life. The way to Heaven is not left to our choice but is revealed by God. And that way is Christ alone. 

The apostle Paul, under divine inspiration, wrote with utmost clarity: "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel which is really no gospel at all!" He immediately pronounced a curse upon anyone who preached a gospel contrary to the one he had delivered. (Galatians 1:6-8) There is no allowance for alternative methods of salvation. There is no second gospel for Jews, Muslims, sincere religious people, moralists, the heathen or the young. The gospel is singular, exclusive, and absolute. Jesus Himself declared the narrowness of the way when He said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me!" (John 14:6) 

He did not say He was A way, but THE way. Faith in Jesus and His sin-atoning death is not one option among many, but the only gospel by which sinners can be reconciled to God. Peter echoed this exclusive claim when he boldly proclaimed, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under Heaven given to men by which we must be saved!" (Acts 4:12) This one way of salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast!" (Ephesians 2:8-9) 

To deny the exclusivity of the gospel, is to deny the very heart of the gospel. To suggest that sincere people in other religions can be saved apart from Jesus, is to make His sin-atoning death unnecessary, and His words untrue. It is a rejection of the only remedy for sin that God has provided. There are not fifty ways to God there is only one. The road is narrow, and it is marked with blood. Let us then stand firm, unashamed, and uncompromising in proclaiming the one true gospel the only gospel that saves. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon] 

Romans 1:16 ...  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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Pilgrims

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Hebrews 11:13 ...  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

John 15:19 ... 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.

Romans 12:2 ... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. ❤

Puritan Quotes

Do not think on the comforts you lack, but on the mercies you have. Look rather at God's end in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction! 

[Christopher Love]

The humble Christian studies his own unworthiness. He looks with one eye upon grace to keep his heart cheerful; and with the other eye upon sin to keep it humble. 

[Thomas Watson]

If Satan's darts have wounded us, then faith cools the scalding heat of sin by applying to us the precious balm of Christ's blood!  

[Christopher Love]

Sin is a leprous spot. It makes everything we touch unclean! 

[Thomas Watson]

A man with God is always in the majority! 

[John Knox]

The tongue exists to reveal our heart! 

[John Calvin]

The human heart is a factory of idols! 

[John Calvin

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does! 

[Martin Luther]

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God! 

[Martin Luther]

The bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me! 

[Martin Luther]

It is certain that a man must completely despair of himself, in order to be fit for the grace of Christ! 

[Martin Luther]

Faith is the wedding ring in which we have pledged ourselves to Christ! 

[Martin Luther]

Ministerial work is to make saints out of sinners, living souls out of the dead,
children of God, out of servants of the Devil! 

[Martin Luther]

Ministers should make it their business not to set forth new notions, but to press on Christians old truths, and known duties. 

[Thomas Gouge]

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"The Love of Money!"

"The RICH man also died and was buried. In Hell, where he was in torment . . . " Luke 16:22-23

I believe that this passage is meant to teach us that riches bring special danger with them. Yes! Riches, which the vast majority of people are always seeking after riches for which they spend their lives, and of which they make an idol! Riches entail on their possessor, immense spiritual peril! The possession of them has a very hardening effect on the soul they chill; they freeze; they petrify the heart! They close the eye to spiritual realities. They insensibly produce a tendency to forget God.

What can be more obvious than the fact that the Bible has frequently spoken of money, as a most fruitful cause of sin and evil?

For money, Achan brought defeat on the armies of Israel, and death on himself.

For money, Balaam sinned against light and tried to curse God's people.

For money, Delilah betrayed Samson to the Philistines.

For money, Gehazi lied to Naaman and Elisha, and became a leper.

For money, Ananias and Sapphira became the first hypocrites in the early Church and lost their lives.

For money, Demas deserted the apostle, Paul.

For money, Judas sold Christ and was ruined eternally.

Surely these facts speak loudly!

Money, in truth, is one of the most unsatisfying of possessions. There is no doubt that it takes away some cares, but it brings with it quite as many cares as it takes away!

There is trouble in the getting of it.

there is anxiety in the keeping of it.

there are temptations in the use of it.

there is guilt in the abuse of it.

there is sorrow in the losing of it.

there is perplexity in the disposing of it!

Two-thirds of all the strife, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world, arise from one simple cause money! It seems desirable at a distance, yet it often proves a poison when in our hand!

And does not this stand in perfect harmony with all the language of Scripture on the same subject?

What does the Lord Jesus say?

"How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle--than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God!" Mark 10:23-25

"No one can serve two masters... You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew 6:24

"The deceitfulness of riches choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful." Matthew 13:22

"Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions!" Luke 12:15

What does the apostle Paul say?

"Greediness, which is idolatry!" Colossians 3:5

"Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows!" 1 Timothy 6:9–10

"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have!" Hebrews 13:5

There is nothing more deceitful, tempting, foolish, idolatrous, perilous and heart-ensnaring than the love of money!

[J. C. Ryle]

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At The Foot of The Cross ...

May we sit at the foot of the cross and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

[John Newton]

Sin ~ 

Galatians 5:19-21 ... Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Justice ~

Colossians 2:14 ... Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Love ~

Romans 5:8 ... But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Gouge Quotes

God's all-seeing presence is a preservative against sin and a means to make you watchful over all your ways and actions.

Carry all your sins with the solemnity of penitential tears, to their eternal funeral in Christ! 

It is hard to destroy sin, but will it not be harder to be damned for it?

In our folly we see the faults of others, more than to see our own. Learn the are of self-examination, which is the way to self-reformation! 

Let us offer up ourselves to the Lord as a whole-burnt-offering, in the ascending flames of purest affections! 

An idle person is the Devil's workshop. There Satan works, ever busy when men are most idle!

Ministers should make it their business not to set forth new notions, but to press on Christians old truths, and known duties.

It is hard to mortify sin, but will it not be harder to be damned for it? 

Do we not all have sins of the greatest magnitude, even though we have mercies of the highest nature? 

In our folly we see other's faults, more than to see our own. Learn the art of self-reflection, which is the way to self-reformation. 

Let us offer up ourselves to the Lord as a whole-burnt-offering, in the ascending flames of purest affections. 

What expectations God has to see a repenting, reforming, holy, obedient frame on our reception of such a wonderful salvation from him!

[Thomas Gouge]

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Indifference to Doctrine

One great danger of the church today, consists in the rise and progress of a spirit of indifference to all doctrines and opinions in religion. A wave of latitudinarianism about theology, appears to be passing over the land. The minds of many seem utterly incapable of discerning any difference between one belief and another belief, one creed and another creed, one tenet and another tenet, one opinion and another opinion, one thought and another thought, however diverse and mutually contrary they may be! 

Everything is true and nothing is false. Everything is right and nothing is wrong. Everything is good and nothing is bad if only it comes to us under the garb and name of religion. Most think that it is kind and liberal, to maintain that we have no right to think that anyone is wrong, who is earnest about his creed. We are not allowed to ask what God's truth is but what is liberal, and generous, and charitable. 

Most professing Christians make cleverness and earnestness the only tests of orthodoxy in religion. Thousands nowadays seem utterly unable to distinguish things that differ. If a preacher is only clever and eloquent and earnest they think that he must be right, however strange and heterodox his sermons may be. Popery or Protestantism, an atonement or no atonement, a personal Holy Spirit or no Holy Spirit, future punishment or no future punishment they swallow it all! 

Carried away by an imagined liberality and charity, they seem to regard doctrine as a matter of no importance, and to think that everybody is going to be saved and nobody is going to be lost! They dislike distinctness and think that all decided views are very wrong! These people live in a kind of mist or fog! They see nothing clearly, and do not know what they believe. They have not made up their minds about any great point in the Gospel and seem content to be honorary members of all schools of thought. 

For their lives, they could not tell you what they think is truth about forgiveness of sins, or justification, or regeneration, or sanctification, or saving faith, or conversion, or inspiration, or the future state. They are eaten up with a morbid dread of doctrine. And so, they live on undecided, and too often undecided they drift down to the grave, on the broad way which leads to eternal damnation. They are content to shovel aside all disputed points as rubbish, and will tell you, "I do not pretend to understand doctrine, it is all the same in the long run." They are for a general policy of universal toleration of every doctrine. 

Every school of false teaching, however extreme, is to be tolerated. They desire the Church to be a kind of Noah's Ark, within which every kind of opinion and creed shall dwell safely and undisturbed; and the only terms of admittance are a willingness to come inside and let your neighbor alone. Nothing is too absurd to concede and allow into the church, in the present mania for complete freedom of thought, and absolute liberty of opinion. The explanation of this boneless, nerveless condition of soul, is perhaps not difficult to find. The heart of man is naturally in the dark about religion--has no intuitive sense of truth and really needs divine instruction and illumination. 

Besides this, the natural heart in most men hates exertion in religion. Above all, the natural heart generally likes the praise of others, shrinks from controversy, and loves to be thought charitable and liberal. The whole result is that a kind of broad religious anything's just suits an immense number of professors. Ignorance, I am compelled to say, is one of the grand dangers of professors of religion in the present day. Who does not know that such people swarm and abound everywhere? And who does not know that anyone who denounces this state of things and insists that we should be loyal to Scripture truth is regarded as a narrow, bigoted, intolerant person, quite unsuited to our times! When there is no standard of doctrine, there can be no church, but a Babel. 

Let me venture to advise all true Christians to never be ashamed of holding Evangelical views. Those views, I am quite aware, are not fashionable nowadays. They are ridiculed as old-fashioned, narrow-minded, and out of date and those who hold them, are regarded as closed-minded and impractical old fossils. What the final result of the present state of things will be, I do not pretend to predict. 

[J.C. Ryle] 

2 Timothy 4:2-4 ... Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

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Boat of Trust

Stay in His perfect peace. He gives peace like a river. He is the Source of LIFE and He is The Prince of Peace. Even in the worst storms of life, you will sleep in perfect peace, (if) you abide in the boat of trust. 

See your life from His viewpoint. Believe you are seated with Him in heavenly places. Know His love covers you. Know His love is with you. Do not allow Fear or Pride to become your shepherd. He is not the author of confusion. Fix your eyes on His Words and His wisdom. Is there a voice more important than his to you personally? In His presence is the fullness of Joy. Abide in Him. Abide in a state of increased wisdom, love and healthy function. 

He came to restore you to His love. Those who spend time with Him will know the fullness of Joy that He alone gives daily. Guard your heart from any and all poisonous counsel. Manage your time wisely. Never make choices out of fear or what others think. Always be led by His inspired voice. All of His Children have epic destinies (if) they look to Him. He gives the inspired details. 

Never trade His eternal voice for the counsel of those who reject His saving wisdom. To have Him as LORD is to have Him as your number one influence daily. This is ‘the one and only thing necessary’. All other ground is sinking sand and chasing the wind. He alone is worthy of your full trust, for no one has loved you like He loves you. 

[Troi Nelson Cockayne]

John 14:27 ...  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ❤

Let Them Alone!!

God sometimes leaves men to themselves their furious passions are unchained, and they are given up, without restraint, to the lusts of their own evil hearts! A more dreadful judgment than this, cannot be inflicted on this side of hell. Matthew Henry writes, "People go on in sin until the Lord says, 'Let them alone!' 

Then they receive no more warnings and feel no more convictions. Satan takes full possession of them, and they ripen for destruction! It is a sad and sore judgment for any man to be let alone in sin! Those who are not disturbed in their sin will be destroyed for their sin! 

May we be kept from this dreadful state; for the wrath of God, like a strong tempest will soon hurry all impenitent sinners into eternal ruin! 

[John Newton]

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Hosea 4:17 ... Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Matthew 7:23 ... And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 18:8 ... Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. ❤

"A Love Stroke"

Dear Madam,

You thought right that I should pity you, when I knew the cause of the lameness of your hands. For whom that loves can forbear the greatest pity to a worthy friend who was used most cruelly? Cruel treatment was this from the creature but a love-stroke of God your Father! You have hereby seen the wonders of His infinite goodness which He has wrought for you in that support under and deliverance from those many and great distresses which at present are to your wonder, joy and praise, and shall be to the advance of your felicity in eternal glory and to God's honor, unto endless ages!

I think my afflictions are nothing if compared with those which you have passed through. Afflicted in body, from head to foot severely terrified in soul so exceedingly brought to the very brink of death and the grave in the former, and, as it were, into the belly of hell in the latter; and yet, everlasting arms underneath you in all this, the consolations of God given to your heart, and great deliverance to your body from its sore distress as an answer to social prayer—how great, how wondrous was the grace! And when a little raised up yourself, to be so soon plunged into distress by the awful affliction of your dear sister, and ever since to be exercised with such various scenes of distresses through which you have been called to pass, and yet maintained in life—in the life of nature and in the life of grace, and favored with the use of your natural and spiritual senses, how bright towards you have been the displays of the Lord's excellent loving-kindness! You may well say, "in deaths often; troubled on every side."

But when you shall have come up at last out of all great tribulations having washed your robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb and are presented faultless before the throne of God how sweet, how ineffably sweet, will be your eternal glory-rest! Then you will reflect with the highest pleasure upon all your past sorrows, and in unknown transports of joy and praise forever adore that wise grace which conducted you safely and advantageously through all the terrors and dangers of the wilderness. Most surely, your joy and glory, and God's joy and glory in yours, is to be exceeding great, or you would not have met with such great miseries and griefs in the present state.

I am glad that you long, dear Madam, to devote yourself and your-all unto God, and to be of special service to His praise, who has shown towards you such wonders of grace. And let the Lord's past appearances for you, in your great and sore troubles, encourage you to trust in Him for delivering grace, even to the last of your distresses. For He who said unto you, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God" is still the same. And so, He will be through all your earthly-necessities, and to an endless eternity. It is His covenant with you to "work marvels."

And think, O woman of sorrows, think, and think again Christ, the tree of life, is cast into all your deaths, and will not He well sweeten these bitter waters. Oh, what is Christ, your Christ? "In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily!" He is God in your nature, a Father, a brother, a Husband, a Friend, that ever lives and ever loves! For love, in all relations, His is immense and endless; for life, He is the Lord of it an immensity, an eternity of life dwells in Him for you, to perpetuate and perfect your life of grace, and to ripen it into the life of glory! Yes, to maintain your unknown felicity to a boundless eternity. And having Him, who is love, who is life, your love and life with you in all your deaths will not He make every bittersweet, and swallow up all your deaths in the infinity of His love and life? Yes, verily, He will for you, both in soul and body, swallow up death in victory, in state and maintain you in a glorious immortality to a blessed eternity. And so wondrously will He work for you, that He will bring life, and an increase of it, out of every death that passes over you.

Is it not better, infinitely better to have Christ with you as your own Lord Jesus, amid ten thousand deaths, for this small moment of time, who will swallow them all up in perfect victory and eternal glory in the world to come than to be surrounded with all the outward felicity of the present state, with all the splendors of a worldling's honors and pleasures those ‘glow-worm glories’ which will suddenly be no more and sent away from Christ at last, with a "Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire?" May you be enabled to rejoice then in your portion, your soul-sustaining, your soul-satisfying, your life-giving portion, and walk worthy of your portion, by a constant dependence on Him, and a joyful expectance from Him, until you are fully blessed with the complete possession of Him who fills all in all, and will fill you brimful of light and life, of joy and glory, endless and unknown!

Oh, dear Madam, you are straitened in me, a little babe, a little child, who cannot speak; but you are not straitened for immense and eternal bliss in your Jesus. The tongues of angels and archangels, in all their innumerable armies, can never, never tell a thousandth part of His infinite fullness, beauties, and glories! What then can an earthworm, the least, think or speak of that infinitely glorious Lord? When all is said that can be uttered by the greatest of men, it may be fitly said of their most comprehensive speeches concerning Him, "There was the hiding of His glory!" Yes, when the Lord Himself is set forth in the bright display of His power, it is said, "And there was the hiding of His glory!" What, in the display of it? Yes, with regard to the infinity of it in His own immense and unsearchable essence!

But it is enough, Madam, to make you inconceivably blessed, that in Him, this infinite Him, you have an entire and eternal interest. God grant you the joy of this ineffable felicity. I mourn that I can say no more of this vast and endless storehouse of blessings. Confusion covers me that I have thus veiled Him, when I would gladly have given you a glimpse of His glory. God grant you "the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him" to your unspeakable joy!

[Anne Dutton]

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