Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, December 24, 2023 The justice of God, many people today, and even Christians, they wonder, is God equal? Is the Lord equal with everyone? And they question Him. They are falling into a snare; the same snare Satan fell into. Don’t you ever listen to Satan for that is his trick to discourage the people and to make it look like that God is not fair to you and that God is not fair to this one and God is not fair to that nation. If you want to prosper and you want to be in good health, and you want miracles in your life, never question Him; go about your business, believe the word of God. Ezekiel 18: 23: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” The Lord Jesus has tasted “death for every man” (Hebrews 2: 9). He has given “every man the measure of faith” to believe for salvation (Romans 12: 3). He makes sure that “every man that cometh into the world” receives the light of the word of God (John 1: 9 – 10). It means each person, since the time of Adam, has an equal chance as anybody else to come by faith to the eternal God for the forgiveness of his or her sins, whether through their “conscience” (Romans 2: 14 – 15) or by hearing the “word of truth” preached to them (Ephesians 1: 13 – 14) because the Lord “lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1: 9 – 10). How many people will take the next step to come to the Lord Jesus, the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6), in their heart and ask for the forgiveness of their sins? Otherwise, you will eventually find yourself in the lake of fire, where the breath of God blows at different times and re-kindles the fire (Revelation 20: 11 – 15; Isaiah 30: 33). Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” The Lord Jesus is the everlasting Father; He is the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6). He is the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1: 20 – 25). Abraham said won’t the Judge of the whole earth do that which is right? (Genesis 18: 25). You’ll see people that’s going to make it into heaven and you’ll say, I don’t know how in the world. God sees the soul. The Lord Jesus was “slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13: 8). That is why He already knows, from billions and trillions of years ago, from eternity, all those who will accept His gift of “eternal life” (Romans 6: 23). Therefore, He has written their names “in the book of life from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 17: 8). He has “chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love” (Ephesians 1: 4) . Yes, the Lord knows you even more personally than you know yourself! In His infinite love and wisdom He has a plan for you and every person born in this world! It is a definite plan; and He is nudging you into your place! He foresees all who are to be born; He sees the coming of each one!

You will be blessed.   Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, December 24, 2023 We listened to a sermon titled “God’s Justice”, CD # 1014, preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: The justice of God, many people today, and even Christians, they wonder, is God equal? Is the Lord equal with everyone? And they question Him. They are falling into a snare; the same snare Satan fell into. They begin to question God because things happen to them. They say, but it don’t happen to them or I’m always sick and this person is not, or this one has a better job. And it’s easy to fall into the snare. So, then they say, is God equal? Why am I going through this or what does God mean by that? Is God equal? Is He fair? When it really looks like that it’s not equal, it is because He is saving your life or saving souls or saving many lives. What the nations have done in their conditions, and He forewarn thousands of years ago, to believe in Him and leave those idols alone and we see the sufferings come upon them because of their fathers’ worshipping idols, and so forth, and disbelieving in the Lord. But God is fair. Now Job’s wife thought the Lord was unfair, but she could not see the divine wisdom of the Lord. Satan fell partly because he thought that the Lord was unfair in many things that He did. See, he did not have the wisdom, and God is sovereign. It can’t be done any better, saith the Lord. But when He does something, it’s done in such a way that’ll have that little opening there to see what faith Satan has or to see what Satan thought. But Satan thought that the Lord was unfair. And just look at what the Lord did for him. And just look at the beauty and the power; he fell by his beauty, divine wisdom, and pride. But he got to thinking the Lord was unfair in certain things because He denied him certain things. Pretty soon, there was rumors, all of a sudden. The Sun of righteousness (Malachi 4: 2), he said, God is going to send a son. Why, I’m the son of the morning (Isaiah 14: 12). I am second, see, vice regent. Had he waited and watch how the Lord moved; it was since the foundation of the world, the Lamb was slain for the sinners upon the earth, the Lord Jesus Christ. But he is called in the Bible the son of the morning and Jesus is called the Sun of righteousness rising with healing in His wings. Abraham said won’t the Judge of the whole earth do that which is right? (Genesis 18: 25). You will be tested, you will be tried, but God is fair. It is Satan that makes God look like things are unequal. It is the human nature that makes it think that way that you are borned in, but by your faith, you pull yourself out of that. By the word of God, you are able to believe and you are able to trust the Lord. From the natural, it may look that way. But in the final analysis, in the final consensus, He is more than fair. How fair can you be after people sin and go against God, do everything they can, then He saves them and gives them life forever more, without question. Faith will ride anything that looks unfair. Your faith and the power of the Lord will right it. To the eye, it may look unequal, but it is not so. Ezekiel 18: 23: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” Ezekiel 18: 25: “Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?” God is not unequal. That is a lie from Satan from heaven. He is sovereign; what He says, goes. Satan said, No, I’m not going to listen to that. He said I saw him fall like lightning (Luke 10: 18). You say Jesus saw Satan fall like lightning from the throne? He was only 33 years old and He made that statement and Satan fell from the throne, maybe millions of years ago. He was there. I saw Satan fall like lightning because He told him to get out, in another form. He came in the form, He thought it not robbery either, to be equal Himself with God because He said He was (Philippians 2: 6). And Philip said show us to Him and He said you’ve been with me a long time (John 14: 8 – 9; Isaiah 9: 6). Ezekiel 18: 31 – 32: “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” God has a set of rules. There will be no order in the Universe. There will be no order upon the earth, in Christianity that really loved Him. And when He gives a set of rules, we must, better, bide by them. The justice of God, is the Lord equal? According to the Scriptures, and every part of it, even from those that suffered, even from those that had to die as martyr and the ones that had went through terrible things, some fasted for many, many, days in seeking the Lord and God’s hand. Look at how Daniel suffered, but just look at how the Lord did with him, and look what happened to him. They couldn’t kill him, do anything to him. God’s hand on the three Hebrew children. And you look at Christ. Why should He suffer and die at the hands of the people, because He knew the Holy Spirit was fair. He came Himself to prove this. And many people say, you know, He came and He suffered like He did. I don’t understand that. Why didn’t He say I will save you if you call upon me. Because He is sovereign. His way is the best way that there is to work what He created. Then it is really by faith in God. Some people will say God must be a sadist to make Him suffer like that. No, He is not because it was God Himself that come and He won’t let anybody talk that way. They’ve got all kinds of excuses, saith the Lord, but none of them will work when they see me. You’ll find out He hasn’t been unfair to you. But you’ll find out it’s the people that’s unfair to the Lord. And it is Satan that tells the people that He is unfair to them. I grant you; you’ll be tested. Your faith is no good, the Bible says, unless it’s tested. How will you know you had any at all? So, when the Lord came and did what He did as a sacrifice and so forth, He done the ultimate. You can’t go no further than that, He says in the Scriptures. So, He knows exactly the people that really love Him, the ones that believe that in their hearts, you see that means something to them. He gave one name, and one name alone, so you won’t get confused or mixed up, and that’s the Lord Jesus is my Savior. You don’t have a thousand different one to worry and go to, just one, the Lord Jesus. Nothing else will work. There is no other key that will open the door to heaven for you. Don’t question God’s providence. Don’t you ever listen to Satan for that is his trick to discourage the people and to make it look like that God is not fair to you and that God is not fair to this one and God is not fair to that nation. When is all counted in consensus, and final analysis is in, then you’ll find out why all of it happened and why God had a right to do as He wants to do. Do you think that the Lord will let the people get ahead of Him in wisdom and that the people can see more than He sees? He saw a billion years before it came; He was doing other things too. This one huge planet that you think you are talking about, that takes you so long to go across it, and so forth like that; 100,000 years to go across the milky way, at the speed of light; they are not even getting out of their backyard. And this little planet here that we have, earth, our little solar system, like a few little cosmic dust that you can’t see according to the vast Universe that He has out there. And He don’t know what He’s doing? Look at Adam and Eve, what they did to Him. It was not even fair and you’ll see both of them in heaven. You tell me if He is not fair. Look at the thief on the cross, who didn’t have a right, maybe, and people that done even worse things, and so forth, and yet, you’ll see them in heaven. He is not fair? Look at the things some of you have done in this audience, and so forth, in your life? That one thing He don’t remember, and that’s your past sins, if you love Him. He puts it out. Another thing He don’t know, and that’s another God. If you’ve got the message that I’ve got this morning, you are sitting with the Lord Jesus. It don’t matter if you are black, white, yellow, Indian or whatever you are, brown or whatever it is, it makes no difference. If you love the message of the Lord this morning, you are sitting in heavenly places with the Lord Jesus. Whosoever will, let him come to salvation, wide open to those that believe in the heart. Job saw God’s greatness. He told him of all of His creation, got his mind on God. He told Job it’s all written up here, Job, in destiny, in providence, your whole life has done been written out. This could not overpass because I’ve written it for it to come and for Satan to challenge it, for He is the Almighty. It is written Job, it must come. And it came. And it was by divine will, it was seen, foreseen by divine will from the Lord, and it came. But it is a snare to say that God is not equal. It is a snare to say that God does for this Christian what He doesn’t do for that Christian. That Christian in providence is believing or there’s an act there that they have believed or their family has prayed for them and believed even before they passed on. God goes by the prayers of the Saints. You better pray before you pass on. The Bible says that God keeps the prayers of faith in golden vials as an incense and when they pray, those prayers are stored somehow in a record (Revelation 5: 8; Revelation 8: 3 – 4). God is equal today. He’s God. He is eternal. When you are eternal with Him, He forgives your sins, you live on forever and ever. God is fair. You’ll see people that’s going to make it into heaven and you’ll say, I don’t know how in the world. God sees the soul. Every way possible and every way He can, He’s going to get the people there, but what He doesn’t like, is the people that don’t believe in Him and have unbelief in His plans and what He’s doing in His manifold wisdom and it is triple manifold wisdom what He has. If you want to prosper and you want to be in good health, and you want miracles in your life, never question Him; go about your business, believe the word of God. The justice of God is more than fair. The eyes will fool you, your feelings will fool you, your sufferings will fool you, your test will fool you, the world will fool you, Satan will fool you, all of that, you’ll fool yourself, people, deceived and being deceived, but God will not fool you, the Lord will not deceive you, but God will guide each one of you and I think the whole world ought to hear this sermon today. God is fair, even though it doesn’t look that way. In the final analysis, in the final consensus, He will come up on top. He didn’t create all of this so that you can point a finger finally at Him. But when He comes up with what you’ll call the final trumpet on it, you are going to see things, the people that love Him and serve Him, He’s going to show you things that you cannot believe even, and how He’s arranged and done all of these for His people. The reason, He is fair. You and I are here in the last generation, that’s how much He loved us. That kings and prophets have wanted to live to see, yet we are here, when He could have shorten the time thousands of years ago and we would’ve never been seen or took in what He had. He is going to come right down to the limit of this thing. It shows today that we are still alive, able to praise Him, able to worship Him, that He is more than fair.

I started the sermon: The justice of God, many people today, and even Christians, they wonder, is God equal? Is the Lord equal with everyone? And they question Him. They are falling into a snare; the same snare Satan fell into. Don’t you ever listen to Satan for that is his trick to discourage the people and to make it look like that God is not fair to you and that God is not fair to this one and God is not fair to that nation. But it is a snare to say that God is not equal. It is a snare to say that God does for this Christian what He doesn’t do for that Christian. He’s God. He is eternal. When you are eternal with Him, He forgives your sins, you live on forever and ever. God is fair. You’ll find out He hasn’t been unfair to you. If you want to prosper and you want to be in good health, and you want miracles in your life, never question Him; go about your business, believe the word of God. To the eye, it may look unequal, but it is not so. The eyes will fool you, your feelings will fool you, your sufferings will fool you, your test will fool you, the world will fool you, Satan will fool you, all of that, you’ll fool yourself, people, deceived and being deceived, but God will not fool you, the Lord will not deceive you, but God will guide each one of you and I think the whole world ought to hear this sermon today. Ezekiel 18: 23: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” And you look at Christ. Why should He suffer and die at the hands of the people, because He knew the Holy Spirit was fair. He came Himself to prove this. And many people say, you know, He came and He suffered like He did. I don’t understand that. Why didn’t He say I will save you if you call upon me. Because He is sovereign. His way is the best way that there is to work what He created. Then it is really by faith in God. The Lord Jesus has tasted “death for every man” (Hebrews 2: 9). He has given “every man the measure of faith” to believe for salvation (Romans 12: 3). He makes sure that “every man that cometh into the world” receives the light of the word of God (John 1: 9 – 10). Hebrews 2: 9: “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” Romans 12: 3: “according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith”. John 1: 9 – 10: “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” It means each person, since the time of Adam, has an equal chance as anybody else to come by faith to the eternal God for the forgiveness of his or her sins, whether through their “conscience” (Romans 2: 14 – 15) or by hearing the “word of truth” preached to them (Ephesians 1: 13 – 14). Romans 2: 14 – 15: “For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another”. Ephesians 1: 13 – 14: “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” How many people will take the next step to come to the Lord Jesus, the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6), in their heart and ask for the forgiveness of their sins? Otherwise, you will eventually find yourself in the lake of fire, where the breath of God blows at different times and re-kindles the fire (Revelation 20: 11 – 15; Isaiah 30: 33). Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” The Lord Jesus is the everlasting Father; He is the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6). He is the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1: 20 – 25). Revelation 20: 11 – 15: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Isaiah 30: 33: “For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.” Abraham said won’t the Judge of the whole earth do that which is right? (Genesis 18: 25). You’ll see people that’s going to make it into heaven and you’ll say, I don’t know how in the world. God sees the soul. Whosoever will, let him come to salvation, wide open to those that believe in the heart. John 3: 15: “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” The Lord Jesus was “slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13: 8). That is why He already knows, from billions and trillions of years ago, from eternity, all those who will accept His gift of “eternal life” (Romans 6: 23). Therefore, He has written their names “in the book of life from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 17: 8). He has “chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love” (Ephesians 1: 4) . Revelation 13: 8: “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Romans 6: 23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Revelation 17: 8: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” Ephesians 1: 4: “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”. From the natural, it may look that way. But in the final analysis, in the final consensus, He is more than fair. Job saw God’s greatness. He told him of all of His creation, got his mind on God. He told Job it’s all written up here, Job, in destiny, in providence, your whole life has done been written out. This could not overpass because I’ve written it for it to come and for Satan to challenge it, for He is the Almighty.

It is written Job, it must come. And it came. And it was by divine will, it was seen, foreseen by divine will from the Lord, and it came.

I read from Special Writing # 036: “THE WILL OF GOD IN ONE’S LIFE” My letter of encouragement this time concerns the will of God in one’s life! Yes, the Lord knows you even more personally than you know yourself! In His infinite love and wisdom He has a plan for you and every person born in this world! It is a definite plan; and He is nudging you into your place! He foresees all who are to be born; He sees the coming of each one!

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