Bible Study Bible Verse Help!!!

[rachr04]

Hello,

I just finished reading a Christian fiction book, "Christy & Todd: The College Years" and in this book there was a part that talked about how God pursues a relationship with everyone. The book is rather large and I havent been successful in finding the passage, so I was wondering if there was a particular Bible verse that talked about that?

Thanks for any help!

 

[nmwings]

Hello,

I just finished reading a Christian fiction book, "Christy & Todd: The College Years" and in this book there was a part that talked about how God pursues a relationship with everyone. The book is rather large and I havent been successful in finding the passage, so I was wondering if there was a particular Bible verse that talked about that?

Thanks for any help!

YES!!! The best one is the Covenant of Marriage at Mt Sinai where God VOWS to be our husband! And we being the BRIDE responded by saying, "Everything you have said, we will do!" The problem began when we stopped obeying. But God, in His infinate wisdom and mercy knew this would happen. Gen 15 tells us about the Covenant He made with Abraham and his descendants to remedy that situation. When the ancients went into covenant with each other, they would slaughter animals, flay them open and then the 2 parties would walk between the pieces declaring, "If I don't keep this agreement, may I be flayed open like these animals!" So when God told Abraham to lay out those pieces, ONLY GOD WALKED BETWEEN THE PIECES! The Lord had put him to sleep. Since God was the only one to invoke the penalty of death, that means if Abraham, his descendants, or any of the who-so-evers that want to be included break their part of the covenant, then GOD HIMSELF WILL PAY THE PRICE FOR THEM! And that's EXACTLY what the Messiah has done... paid the price of disobedience for us! That is why he is called the Lamb of God.
You can't get more relational than THAT!

 

[Elijah674]

Hello,

I just finished reading a Christian fiction book, "Christy & Todd: The College Years" and in this book there was a part that talked about how God pursues a relationship with everyone. The book is rather large and I havent been successful in finding the passage, so I was wondering if there was a particular Bible verse that talked about that?

Thanks for any help!

Hi, it is not fiction about a world flood. And the Holy Spirit did indeed STRIVE for 120 years with Noah's preaching [[for these ones to Obey God and get into the Ark]]. But to no availe. You can read about that in

Gen. 6
[3] And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.


[12] And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
[13] And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

And in 2 Peter 2:5 we find Peter calling Noah a preacher of Rightousness!

[5] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

--Elijah

 

[felix]

Hello,

I just finished reading a Christian fiction book, "Christy & Todd: The College Years" and in this book there was a part that talked about how God pursues a relationship with everyone. The book is rather large and I havent been successful in finding the passage, so I was wondering if there was a particular Bible verse that talked about that?

Thanks for any help!

(Rom 8:15) For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

 

[handy]

Good one Felix!

Another is the beautiful Psalm 139:

1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
5 You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it. 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,â€
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
19 O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
20 For they speak against You wickedly,
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.

 

[Sparkey]

Handy, thanks for reminding me!
[video=youtube;dwfZMRYw-lI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfZMRYw-lI[/video]

The video is Psalm 139 sung by Deb Fung. The song starts at marker 1:12.

 

[handy]

Lovely! Sparrowhawke...what a wonderful way to end my very long day!!!