I Kill and I Make Alive | Kevin J. Mullins

For more information, please visit: https://lastmessageofmercy.com/ Lyrics: I opened my Bible the other day, To learn of God’s love so I started to pray. I said, “Please O’ Lord, show me what’s true, For I want to know, all about You.” Then I began to turn the pages with joy, Anticipation like a little boy. Then I read something with dread, Which made my heart sink and shake my head. I couldn’t believe what I just saw, Could God really go against His own Law? He said, “See that I, I am He, There is no other God, besides Me. I do kill, and make alive, I wound and I heal, you won’t survive.” I ran outside, to get some fresh air, So many questions for Him, but do I dare. For this is not, what Jesus revealed, How His Father acts, this can’t be real. He taught that our Father loves all people, Always kind to His enemies, and those who are evil. So I made the plea, Father please show me, All about Your justice, and Your glory. Who do You kill? And who do You make alive? How do You decide who lives or dies? He said, “My precious child, don’t you fear, You’re misunderstanding what you hear. You’re reading it all, with old eyes, Come let Me make them new, and you’ll be surprised. I'm not killing some here while healing some there, It's a two-step process, because I care. Like a doctor breaks a bone, to heal it right, Or a dentist drills a hole, to seal the tooth tight.” After this, He led me on to perceive, That in the scriptures there's no controversy. In Job 5; 17 through 18, The same understanding is also seen. It says, "How blessed is the one whom God corrects, Whose heart His wisdom now directs, So do not scorn the Father's hand, Nor turn from what His love has planned. Though He wounds, He binds the sore, To make you stronger than before. He shatters pride to heal the soul, His hands alone can make you whole." As you can see, it's only one man, Who is wounded and is healed, from God's mighty hand. Just as the letter kills, the Spirit gives life, We become reborn by being crucified with Christ. Now knowing this, being crucified with Him, That we will no longer be in bondage to sin. Consider now the truth you hold, The "old man" buried, still and cold. For in the Son, you breathe anew, His life, His strength, now flows through you. So then I looked again, at the verse I read, This time with new eyes, and this is what it said, “See that I, I am He, There is no other God, besides Me. I kill your old self, to revive, My Spirit within you to come alive. When I heal your wounds at My Command, There’s no one to pluck you from My hand. Hallelujah, what joy I felt, Raising my hands, as I knelt. Just as Hannah prayed aloud with a great big smile, When God healed her womb and gave her a child. I came to see that the Lord is all good, There's no darkness in Him, nor any falsehood. So let us heed the call, in Hosea chapter 6, To return unto the Lord, for He shall surely fix. He has to tear us down, so He can build us up, He has to wound our soul, so He can make us whole. Don't hesitate to live for Him, Die to self now and let the new life begin. Die to self now and let the new life begin.