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For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
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To be certain my brothers and sisters, today’s scripture, the Word of God, makes it clear that God owns everything. And yes, that literally means everything! And yes, that also includes heaven and the highest heavens—that would be the sun, the moon and the stars. {Deut.10:14} He created it all! Therefore, It is not ‘our solar system’ as you were probably taught in school, it is His solar system! {Job 38:4-10} And of course, it is of utmost importance for us to remember that it means that you and I belong to Him! {1Cor.6:20} We believers, obeying His voice, are a treasured possession of the Lord. {Ex.19:5}

That should also be a very important reminder that we are not to learn the way of the nations, the unsaved. {Jer.10:2} I believe that would also obviously include sending our children off each day to government schools to be indoctrinated in the habits, behaviors and beliefs of the world! The results of that worldly training have become clearly visible—I should say, increasingly visible—in this present day!

The Second Humanist Manifesto, a worldview formulated first in 1933 followed by this second and then a third in 2003 states that “false theologies of hope and messianic ideologies cannot cope with existing world realities.” And then continues on to say, “We find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural; it is either meaningless or irrelevant… Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful.”

John Dunphy, an award winning humanist writer, wrote in the January-February 1983 edition of the movement’s magazine, The Humanist, “The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith…” But we know it is the parent’s, specifically the father’s, responsibility to teach his children to ‘love the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their might.’ {Dt.6:5-7} That command was bolstered many years later as Solomon wrote, “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” {Prov.22:6}

God’s ownership makes it certainly within His rights to use us as He desires, “both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” {Php. 2:13} We are blessed that He let us know what His plans for us are; as He said to the prophet Jeremiah: “For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” {Jer.29:11} It is so comforting to know that the Lord also said to us who believe: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!” {Is.43:1}

The Holy Spirit comforts you and I by reminding us that not only are we not our own, but also that nothing we have belongs to us—it all belongs to the Lord God Almighty, maker of heaven and earth to whom nothing is impossible. We have just been entrusted with things, which is generally called “ministry” and whatever He calls us to He equips us for!

Jesus said:“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” (John 10:27-29)
DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD,
BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND