There are great rewards in following God's commands, but most of His promises are conditional. Before we can receive the great rewards offered, we must first obey the conditions. No more is this more apparent than in this scripture from Matthew.
Do you sometimes feel that living the Christian life is too hard? That Satan and the forces of evil have the upper hand? That as much as you try, you aren't growing in the Lord and becoming more like Him? If this sounds like you, there's good news. God didn't command us to live a righteous life, then just leave us to figure out how to do it on our own. Scripture provides us with the answers to all the issues of life. Let's begin with a scripture in Second Peter.
Our God is a promise-making and a promise-keeping God. No one can read the Bible without becoming aware that it is filled with His promises.
God prepared the groundwork for sending His Son to be our Savior long before Jesus was born on earth. His selection of the people in Jesus' ancestry is in many cases unimpressive. Matthew lists five women in Jesus' lineage: Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah, who prostituted herself to him; Ruth, a heathen woman; Bathsheba, who committed adultery with David; Mary, Jesus' mother, a simple peasant girl; and Rahab, a prostitute.
In the first part of this study, we learned how the Israelites camped on the eastern side of the Jordan River as they waited for God's instructions for the taking of Canaan, the land they had been promised many years before. Spies that had sneaked into the land met with Rahab, a prostitute who believed in their mission.
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