Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Īmerican King James Version ×). Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.Īmerican King James Version ×) and cares deeply about His people ( Romans 8:38-39 Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, He fashions their hearts alike he considers all their works.Īmerican King James Version ×), never-sleeping ( Psalms 121:3-4 Psalms 121:3-4 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber. From the place of his habitation he looks on all the inhabitants of the earth. God is all-seeing ( Psalms 33:13-15 Psalms 33:13-15 The LORD looks from heaven he beholds all the sons of men. That's like calling the Almighty either incompetent or apathetic. It means one of two things: either God wasn't paying attention or didn't care. Think about the implications of something happening without any reason. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.Īmerican King James Version ×), to allow anything to happen without a reason. But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. But it would be completely out of character for the same God who does not forget so much as a sparrow, and who assures us that "you are of more value than many sparrows" ( Luke 12:6-7 Luke 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But is that true?īad things certainly happen. Some interpret this to mean that, sometimes, bad things happen for no real reason. The Targum understands it of the wicked ``and they have no good part with the righteous in the world to come and they have no profit of all that is done in this world under the sun.''į26 ( Mtanq) "aemulatio ipsorum", Cocceius, Gejerus "aelus eorum", Drusius, Amana, Rambachius.The author of Ecclesiastes made a puzzling statement when he wrote that "time and chance happen to them all" ( Ecclesiastes 9:11 Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill but time and chance happens to them all.Īmerican King James Version ×). The worldly man's portion is only in this life, and when he dies, he carries nothing of it with him whose ever his possessions will be at death, they are no more his, nor will he ever return to enjoy them any more his houses, his lands, his estates, his gold and silver, and whatever of worth and value he had, he has no more lot and part in them: but the good man has a portion above the sun God is his portion, heaven is his inheritance for ever and ever. Not that the separate spirits of the dead are without their affections, or these unexercised the spirits of just men made perfect will love God and Christ, and angels, and good men, and all that is good, more intensely love will continue after this life, and be in its height, and therefore said to be the greatest grace, ( 1 Corinthians 13:13 ) they will hate sin, Satan, and all the enemies of Christ, and be filled with zeal for his glory so the word F26 for envy may be rendered see ( Revelation 6:9 Revelation 6:10 ) and the spirits of the wicked dead will still continue to love sin, and hate the Lord, and envy the happiness of the saints and will rise again with the same spite and malice against them see ( Ezekiel 32:27 ) ( Revelation 20:8 Revelation 20:9 ) but this respects persons and things in this world they no more love persons and things here, nor are loved by any death parts the best friends, and the most endearing and loving relations, and puts an end to all their mutual friendship and affection they hate their enemies no more, nor are hated by them they no more envy the prosperity of others, nor are envied by others all such kind of love and hatred, enmity and envy, active or passive, cease at death out of the world, as the Targum adds neither have they any more a portion for ever in any that is Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
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