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The Failings Of Man And The Triumphs With God

Lesson Five: by turtle

No doubt man fails all the time. I think there really is no question to that matter. After all scripture
says.

Romans 3:23 KJV
(23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

If our failing is sin even from the time of Adam and Eve in the garden where then is our victory. How
can we overcome. Can we overcome sin. Sin brings death.

1 Corinthians 15:56 KJV
(56) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Devil likes to point fingers. He points fingers to the point of saying look what you did. You broke
God’s law. You broke that law of love. You did not love, you did not love God, you did not love
your neighbor. You did not do as you should. Hearing of the word brings conviction to heart. It points
out sin. We have a choice to hear and listen or to ignore God’s word and hear the lies of Satan. Even
Satan speaks some truth, yet Christ has total victory. When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness
Satan used scripture against Jesus. However what he did was twist it. He twisted it to test Jesus.
However in the final temptation of Christ. Jesus tells Satan to get behind him. Personally I do not
think I even want Satan behind me, he might tap me on the shoulder. However what Jesus is saying is
Satan has to follow him as well. Satan has to yield to God’s word. Jesus is the word of God that
became flesh.
God’s word is so precious because it was at the beginning, It was what created. God spoke and it
happened. Prophecy is such that way. God speaks through someone or to individual and it will come
to pass. The only way something does not come to pass if it is destruction is repentance. Yet serving
God must continue. Jonah went to preach to Nineveh repentance. He expected that God would
destroy Nineveh and was disappointed when God did not. Yet God would destroy Nineveh, because
later Nineveh would turn away from God. Prophecy is a warning. A warning to those to repent before
destruction falls. Either way destruction or through repentance of people, God will have victory.

I got to looking at Revelations 19. The last verse is a mystery to some. Yet it is clear that first God is
going to destroy the false prophets and teachers. Then he is going to destroy all who remain.

Revelation 19:20-21 KJV
(20) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with
which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
(21) And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword
proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

What hope is there where is the saints. Are the saints the remnant spoken of here. No. Let us back up
in the chapter and see where God’s people are.

Revelation 19:9-19 KJV
(9) And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
(10) And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
(11) And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
(12) His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself.
(13) And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
(14) And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white and clean.
(15) And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall
rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God.
(16) And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD
OF LORDS.
(17) And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
(18) That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and
the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both
small and great.
(19) And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war
against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

Those who are called the marriage of the Lamb will be dinning on the enemy. Now this sounds gross.
Yet what it speaking of is not cannibalism, but victory. When one is in battle there is a since of
accomplishment. One has a tendency of retelling the story. With retelling the story one has to sit back
and realize it is like a feast. It something that feeds the soul and the spirit. It breaths life and makes
all the suffering worthwhile. What did Jesus do in your life. What did God’s word speak to your heart
about and come to pass.

Did you believe God’s word when it was spoken can you tell the story of Jesus and His love. Can
you tell how precious the word of God is to you. David in II Samuel 14 discerns that it is not God
speaking to him. Yet this woman that is sent to him by someone that knows him. Joab is angry about
the situation of Absalom and his father. We already know from the week before David longed for his
son. However no doubt his son was afraid to see the king. Often a person view of situation is
different then another. No doubt Joab had knowledge of the friction the king felt about seeing his son.
Joab was consider a general/lord in the kings army. His motives to get the king and his son back
together was not necessarily for kings benefit. Joab seen a chance to get close enough and yet stay a
safe distance while he plots to take over the throne. He seen a chance to get Absalom close by
enough that at a later date could kill him. One has to read the entire story to know Joab soldiers kill
Absalom. Yet mean time Joab sends a woman to discuss the situation with the king in disguise, almost
like a prophetess would approach, yet she comes as widow.

2 Samuel 14:1-19 KJV
(1) Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
(2) And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign
thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a
woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
(3) And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
(4) And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did
obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
(5) And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman,
and mine husband is dead.
(6) And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to
part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
(7) And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that
smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy
the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband
neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
(8) And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
(9) And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my
father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
(10) And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch
thee any more.
(11) Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not
suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the
LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
(12) Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king.
And he said, Say on.
(13) And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God?
for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his
banished.
(14) For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again;
neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled
from him.
(15) Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the
people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that
the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
(16) For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me
and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
(17) Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an
angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be
with thee.
(18) Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that
I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
(19) And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and
said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that
my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the
mouth of thine handmaid:

Joab was out to try and deceive the king with a woman, yet the king could discern this was not of the
Lord. God’s people know the difference between God and someone else. Men and women that are
false teachers and ministers like to cause deception by saying something is from the Lord and it is not.
They may even go as far as putting the words of someone else in the mouth of another. It is not of
God.

I have heard many do it and I have no respect for it. One way to test the Spirit of God is praying
silently for something specific that one would not have knowledge of. For example a friend prayed
with me. And said Lord I did not understand what this friend meant. Of course it could of been a
trick, but the person when done praying was pricked by God to ask me if I knew what they meant. I
said no. So it was explained to me. God granted my request and I spoke not allowed for the world to
hear. That how you know if something is of God or not. Ask God to show you and make you aware
of things around you. God’s word speaks truth. And His word will not come back void. Trust in
Jesus the word of God so God can breath victory into your life through His Spirit.