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January 12
OVERCOMING EVIL WITH GOOD
-Romans 12:21 states, …Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good … This all-important scripture,
which speaks of the triumph of all that is good over all that is evil, gives us insight into the method of Almighty God. This
method must also become our method. God must ultimately triumph over evil, or it must be said that evil has triumphed over
God. PLEASE THINK ABOUT THIS! Here is a quote from Christ Triumphant ( by Thomas Allin ) to further establish this
great point … “The question of universalism is usually argued on a basis altogether misleading, as though the
point involved was chiefly, or wholly, man’s endless suffering. Odious and repulsive to every moral instinct, as is
that dogma, it is not the turning point of this controversy. The vital question is this, that the popular creed by teaching
the perpetuity of evil, points to a victorious Devil, and to sin as finally triumphant over God. It makes the corrupt, nay,
the bestial in our fallen nature to be eternal. It represents what is foulest and most loathsome in man, the most obstinate
sin as being enduring as God Himself. It confers the dignity of immortal life on what is morally abominable. It teaches perpetual
anarchy and a final chaos. It enthrones pandemonium as an eternal fact side by side with Paradise; and, gazing over its fetid
and obscene abysses, it is not afraid to call this the triumph of Jesus Christ, this the realization of the promise that God
shall be ALL IN ALL.” (Thomas Allin)
-If God is willing to cure all the evils of mankind, but is not able, this is an indictment against the power of God, and
surely makes the thought of overcoming evil with good only wishful thinking at best. If God is able to cure all the evils
of mankind, but is not willing, this is an indictment against the love of God, and surely makes Him out to be a cruel Creator
and a hypocrite as well, FOR HE TOLD US TO LOVE OUR ENEMIES, BUT WILL TORTURE HIS ENEMIES FOREVER.
-Let us shout from the mountaintops that GOD IS ABLE AND WILLING TO OVERCOME ALL EVIL WITH GOOD. To proclaim anything less
than a salvation of all men, every man in his own order, is to declare Satan ( the adversary ) as King of Kings and Lord of
Lords, making the cross ( the atonement ) of Jesus Christ a failed attempt to reconcile a lost world back to the Father
again.
-OUR GOD IS ABLE!-
-OUR GOD IS WILLING!-
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