By
Dr. M.A. Petillo & Reformed Baptist Preacher
“…And
the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightening…” (Ezekiel 1:14 NASB).
1. The Triune
Creator made all things living.
2. The Triune
God holds the thunder and lightening (where He defies Zeus and all gods) in His
very Hand where it occurs at His timing, plan and determination.
3. Are you on a
steady pace before a holy Triune God to glory where you ought to run the race
with Spirit-led confidence through the gift of the eternal Son in the glory of
the Father’s design?
4. Do we run to
the naked to cloth them with the robes of the good news of the gospel and lend
a helping hand to those who are poor, destitute and stricken with helplessness?
5. Do you run
away from those who come to your door or do you run to them in sharing Jesus’
love to them?
6. Do we run to
the fatherless to be a blessing in hope?
7. Do we run to
the orphans and widows to help in time of need?
8. Do we run
away from the face of bearing the burden?
9. God’s
lightening is about God’s indignation of holiness.
10.
God’s lightening is the Father’s design, the Son’s
design and the Spirit’s design: namely, all creation is a work of the Trinity
(the Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
11.
A holy God is furious with reprobates unto
condemnation.
12.
This vision of Ezekiel is not mythology.
13.
This vision of God is not a legend.
14.
It is not something made-up by a brilliant scribe.
15.
The Book of Ezekiel is divine revelation.
16.
This Scriptural revelation is about the glory of God
alone.
17.
All Scripture in a sense is directly about God’s
glory.
18.
The written Word is immediately about the glory of God
because His Word is expressly concerned with His glory.
19.
God’s Word is always concerned with His glory.
20.
God is a God
always concerned with what is right and what is right is always about His
glory.
21.
Everything is
is about God’s glory in His design.
22.
The “is” is not something unreal but something real.
23.
A holy God turns men over to run away or enables men
to run towards him, raises up and tears down, to abase or exalt, to hide or
reveal, to lighten a burden or bear a burden, because He is the God of
providential care.
24.
Lightening comes in a rain storm.
25.
Sometimes the down pour of rain will be the most
trying times of our lives.
26.
We must remember the face of Jesus Christ who endured
the Father’s punishment of sin upon the eternal Son alone at His Cross for the
intention of saving a chosen people.
27.
We must bring our sins to and fro to the Cross of
Jesus Christ in contrite and confessional repentance to God.
28.
The clouds of Mt. Doom spring with
lightening of injustice but fires of rebellion concerning reprobate evil.
29.
The Lord Jesus set His head toward His mission of
atonement because it was in behalf of His elect people.
30.
Sin clings to lost sinner that blinds them in running
to destruction where a holy God turns them over to themselves in ultimate
justice.
31.
Sin ruins lives because it is used by a holy God as an
instrument of damnation (the second cause alone is accountable in the
commission and omission of sin).
32.
Only a good God can bring the ruin of sin to the glory
of the honor of Jesus unto eternal mercy.
33.
The ruin is changed into a life of beauty by the hidden
fingerprints of a holy God!
34.
Sin will take a lost sinner to the place of hell unless
changed by a holy Triune God.
35.
The eternal destiny of a lost sinner is run by God:
namely, He decides the everlasting destiny in eternity past whether we are a
vessel of mercy or a vessel of wrath.
36.
Does the Triune God of the Bible deter you from all
sin?
37.
Do you contemplate the public Second Coming of Jesus
Christ where the Last Day should deter us from all sin but sinners are running
to destruction with the deception of sin prepared for the sentence of eternal
hell?
38.
Sin does not tell us the truth where it is holiness in
the unholy sinner but a pursuit of self-destruction.
39.
Sin causes a delusion that hell is the best place but
Jesus Christ has paid the debt of His people in full.
40.
Sin is still present in a true Christian where there
could be seasons of falling into temptation but he is forgiven and cleansed
always through the ultimate Lamb slain.
41.
We must bring every sin that emerges to and fro in us
in confessional repentance to a Triune God.
42.
Lightening is used by God to teach us about the
awesome superlative holiness of a great and transcendent Creator.
43.
The Father runs to the sinners to initiate, Jesus
walks with the sinner hand-in-hand to glory and the Spirit carries us home safe
and sound on wings of glory.
44.
Around the Shekinah glory of the Father is lightening
and thunder because He is the untouchable God where only that which is holy
approaches because of His work in and for us.
45.
Around the Shekinah glory of the Son is clouds of
glory but no one can stand toe and toe with Incarnate Glory that surpasses all
human beings in all of history.
46.
Around the Shekinah glory of the Spirit are clouds of
holiness where the Spirit precedes from the Father and the Son to accomplish
the work of the Hound of Heaven as bolts of lightening burn with fire from the
masquerade of Satan at Mt. Doom in the spiritual Mordor in defiance of His
Majesty.
47.
Fallen sinners ran away from suffering but some get
burned in running toward God without true love for Jesus but the love of the
Father reserves wrath for Himself in a flame that burns in darkness.
48.
God’s invisible Hand is in the unseen of all things
that are really good of mercy or justice.
49.
If you had eyes to see you would behold a God who is
always there in sustaining all that is.
50.
God’s omnipresent humility reserves the right to be
hidden to test His creatures in all things whether for good or for evil.
51.
A human being bears the image of God.
52.
A human being has an immaterial mind.
53.
A living person has the primacy of the mind and heart.
54.
Humankind have a soul and a spirit but a body of sins.
55.
Do you march into hell with the Gospel of God?
56.
The flame will not scorch you, the darkness will not
blind you and the devils will not hold you!
57.
March on! with the light of the Gospel!
58.
Look! there are those falling into the abyss! Stretch out the Cross of Jesus to save many
alive!
59.
O sinner! you will not perish for He is unbreakable
bridge to the Father! to reconcile you to Himself! for it is not the end!
60.
The Father is from everlasting to everlasting. You O man! What are you to say in reply to a
God who lives perfectly and depends upon nothing to sustain Him!
61.
The Son is from all eternity where He had no beginning
touching His divine nature because the Son always is was and forever shall
be! Do you see God veiled in human flesh
in Jesus Christ? Why do you have such a
low view of God the Son where you suppose He was created without an eternal
divine nature in the hypostatic union of the God-man?
62.
The Spirit is was and forever shall be! Do you suppose He is an impersonal
force? No, no! The Holy Spirit spoke creation into being but
He is a divine person as the Third Person of the Trinity in the one unity of
the three persons in the Triune Godhead (where He is in co-equal submission to
the Father and the Son).
63.
There are spots of sin upon our soul from the sins of
the body where we must bring these sins to the Divine Christ but in the
positional sense we are already forgiven but in a practical sense we are being
forgiven.
64.
Run like St. Joseph of the Old
Testament because he runs away from adultery with someone else’s wife that
clearly violates the Ten Commandments and New Testament obedience!
65.
Run away from all kinds of sexual fornication!
66.
Run away from violating the superlative innocence of a
holy Triune God who ordains all things with His providential care in the
handiwork of the outcome of the display of all things!
67.
There were runners with news in Old Testament days but
are you running to lost sinners with the good news of the gospel of God?
68.
Or do you make the excuse that you were not called to
share the gospel of God while no tears are shed for those perishing?
69.
The Spirit transforms those tears of doom to tears of
joy over the spiritual awakening by the Spirit.
70.
The Father rejoices with the Son and the Spirit over a
found lost sinner to the glory of the Triune Majesty.
71.
A holy Triune God sings over those who are found by
Him.
72.
The elect angels ascend and descend up and down
Jacob’s Latter but who does it mean? It
is how the elect angels operate in the cosmic realm by the command of Jesus.
73.
Jacob’s Latter is fulfilled in Jesus Christ where
elect angels descend and ascend upon Him where they take commands by the
immediate word of Jesus in immediate obedience to the excellence of the glory
of His name’s sake.
74.
Martin Luther was in a lightening storm where he vowed
to become a monk where previously he was pursuing a law career but the trauma
of God’s holiness would teach Dr. Luther of self-loathing of his totally sinful
nature without violating the image of God but honoring the holy innocence of a
glorious Triune God of Conquering Peace.
75.
Satan roams to and fro upon the earth seeking someone
to devour without case because of the boasting of God’s work upon a redeemed
sinner where he comes with spite against the light of the eternal Son with no
regard for holiness,
76.
Those that run back to the City of Destruction could very
well be a partial apostate that returns back to Jesus.
77.
St. Peter in Galatians Chapter 2 added circumision to
the matchlessness of the unified work of Jesus Christ but the Apostle Peter was
forgiven of his sin because he brought this sin to His Majesty (Jesus Christ)
for forgiveness through Christ crucified where alone there is pardon.
78.
The Father takes care of the birds like He cares for
us, because the little things are open to Him like the big things.
79.
The Father is represented by consuming flames where
lightening shoots to and fro from the fire of God because He is untouchable
holiness in superlative magnanimous excellence in the pursuit of His good
pleasure.
80.
The Son is faster than lightening but more powerful
than thunder: namely, His eyes flash with fire at the sin of never-converted
reprobates and the lifestyle of lawlessness.
81.
The Spirit is the Dove of God that goes to and fro
over all creation because in the beginning He hovered over the formlessness of
creation and He hovers over Jesus in His baptism by John the Baptist in
approbation of His public ministry in wings spread to conquer a rebellion
against His Majesty to further a heaven of innumerable people.
82.
A holy Triune God created all things that move to and
fro because that which was not alive is alive by the Power of His sheer Word.
83.
A holy Triune God holds the very Power of Being in and
of Himself where nothing could be unless He created, sustained and maintained
it.
84.
The Triune Majesty has the absolute and immediate
power to create out of nothing, the power to sustain it and the Power to speak
it into being.
85.
The permanent reprobates always run away from God.
86.
The temporary reprobates run for a time away from God
until God changes it for the glory of the Son unto His everlasting mercy.
87.
The pre-converted elect run away from the Father with
the total depraved nature but the Father catches them into His everlasting arms
that are best displayed in the outstretched arms of Jesus Christ where love
nails Him to the Cross by the Father’s Hand to crush His eternal Son in behalf
of unjust, poor and helpless sinners at the co-equal submission to establish
justice against sin but exalt mercy for those that bear the covering of the
robes of His matchless merit.
88.
Some sinners ran back to the City of Destruction.
89.
The City of Destruction is the
place of God’s judgment.
90.
God’s elect people are called back to the City of Destruction by the
never-converted reprobates to resume a life of rebellion in their saying “Come
back to us, Come back to us” etc., but we are eternally kept by the Triune
King.
91.
Let’s run away from Satan’s pride to the arms of Jesus
at His Cross and denounce him awaiting his sentence to hell.
92.
Let’s run away from idolatry because God alone is God.
93.
It was once said that a disabled person must run to
Jesus but the Father runs to the disabled person where no merit of a sinner
merits heaven but the Son alone.
94.
There is no where to except in hell where sinners are
on the run from a good God.
95.
St. Jonah of
the Old Testament ran away from a holy Triune God in his ministry because he
was frustrated with God’s mercy in proclaiming the word of repentance where God
was merciful to lost rebels but later on in Old Testament history the prophet
Nahum would preach the word of God’s justice to a Nineveh that arose to
spiritual ruin in lawlessness continually reserved for God’s wrath.
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