Definition of "Old Way Determination"

Determination:  The definition from Noah Webster 1828.  n. The act of determining or deciding.  2.  Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination.  

*Mentioned only once in the Holy Bible:  Zephaniah 3:8

We are moving towards a judgment time.  It will come when Jesus comes for his church.  It begins then and ends when he returns to rule over his earthly kingdom.  There are many who think this statement a fairy tale, but for those who have been born again, it is very much a reality.  For us (who are born again), it will be a time of jubilation.  For mercy has flown down to us through our Redeemer’s blood.  The time of Great Tribulation is an ominous certainty for those who do not believe.  For as God says through Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (KJV)

 

I believe that there was a time when this certainty for the unbeliever was such a reality to believers that they actually lived their lives in such a way as to draw more to the gospel of Jesus.   If you question my statement I urge you to take a walk sometime around an old graveyard and see what is written on the old believers tombstones.  That “old way determination” came straight from their knowledge of the word.  From a desire, like their Lord’s, to see people saved from God’s determination to judge man’s sinful hearts.  That determination of the old time believers has encouraged me to be more for Jesus.  To live my life so those around me will see him.  What a process, what a Savoir. 

Determination:  The definition from Noah Webster 1828.  n. The act of determining or deciding.  2.  Decision of a question in the mind; firm resolution; settled purpose; as, they have acquainted me with their determination.  

*Mentioned only once in the Holy Bible:  Zephaniah 3:8

We are moving towards a judgment time.  It will come when Jesus comes for his church.  It begins then and ends when he returns to rule over his earthly kingdom.  There are many who think this statement a fairy tale, but for those who have been born again, it is very much a reality.  For us (who are born again), it will be a time of jubilation.  For mercy has flown down to us through our Redeemer’s blood.  The time of Great Tribulation is an ominous certainty for those who do not believe.  For as God says through Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (KJV)

 

I believe that there was a time when this certainty for the unbeliever was such a reality to believers that they actually lived their lives in such a way as to draw more to the gospel of Jesus.   If you question my statement I urge you to take a walk sometime around an old graveyard and see what is written on the old believers tombstones.  That “old way determination” came straight from their knowledge of the word.  From a desire, like their Lord’s, to see people saved from God’s determination to judge man’s sinful hearts.  That determination of the old time believers has encouraged me to be more for Jesus.  To live my life so those around me will see him.  What a process, what a Savoir.