My Poetry
August 2, 2008
WE ARE THE PEACE-MAKERS
We are the peace-makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Walking on lively sea-breakers
Living in flowing, rushing streams
World-movers and world-forsakers
On whom the crystal Light gleams
Yet, we are the movers and shakers
Of a dying world, it seems
With wonderful, meaningful ditties
And out of a fabulous story
We wake the worlds great cities
We fashion a Saviors glory
One Lord with a dream, at pleasure
Has come forth to conquer a crown
Twelve with a new song’s measure
Trampled a fallen empire down
We, in the following ages vying
To keep buried the past of the earth
Stand tall against adversity without sighing
Creating a crystal city with our mirth
SOUNDS OF LIFE
What was he doing, our great God’s plan?
With the sound of a great mighty wind
He gives life an eternal meaning for man
Sweeping, washing away our sin
Staves of acclamation resound
From the recesses of the heart
With accentual stress of sounds
Rythm abounds, setting us apart
Life’s sound is a path with no end
Strecthing before us like a train
An experience on which we depend
Our souls gift providing refrain
Life’s hill to climb, causing rose colored cheeks
A valley to ascend, rind closing of the ears
Look up to an eastern white clouds peaks
For in his throne room, he dries you tears
A BOYS MEMORIES
In time when honesty and innocence were standards in living
door locks were seldom used
the shirt off our backs in giving
crime was a dog killing chickens, oh, he pays his dues!
I know that sounds trivial, oh, but honey!
let me explain, it was a very serious matter
it cost Mom her much needed egg money
Mom jumped, yelled, spit and spattered
Why the big fuss? its only a loss of two, three bits
back then, that bought salt, flour and a pound of lard
so you to tell Mom she threw a senseless fit
we were simple country folk and times were hard
But, something you should know
she’s fixin to tell ya about the mouths to feed
also, when Moms mad, a summer’s shower will turn to snow
no banker can better explain money and need
Pound for pound, the ole dog tucked tail and ran
Mom was only five foot tall and really small
but ole dog, ‘heck with the chichen, i’ll git while I can’
getting dark, so Mom was afraid to fall
After it was all said and done, I had to laugh
Mom with a garden hoe in her hand, chasing a black and tan
the way he ran, you would think Mom was tall as a geraffe
Mom picked up the hen, ripped off the feathers, fried it in a pan
Long, long ago memories of a lad that are so dear
ole dog and Mom have gone on to be with the Lord
but, me and my memories will keep them so very near
simple times, living; didn’t know how to be bored.
Careful !
July 31, 2008
Acts 26 is Paul preaching to King Agrippa for his defense of departing ultra Judiasm for the newly, Christian doctrine. Verse 24, we find Festus accusing Paul of being mad [imbecle, lacking reason] for all that he gave in his defense. We know it was not the case, but it shows how the adversary loves to turn the tails and accuse the righteous with his very own form of deception. Therefore, true believers have been called heretics from the very beginning of the church. It is satans way to defend his improprieties, for he has nothing to offer but deception. I personally find myself feeling a certain vindication with the comment, I can identify with Paul and he most assuredly identified with Christ.
It is headed Wesley’s Notes..he wasn’t the only one, 99.9% of writings are falsehood or have strong errors. Our hope lies in the .001, and that is the Written Word of God!
QUOTE: Wesley’s Notes
2:38 Repent - And hereby return to God: be baptized - Believing in the name of Jesus - And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost - See the three - one God clearly proved. See Ac 26:20. The gift of the Holy Ghost does not mean in this place the power of speaking with tongues. For the promise of this was not given to all that were afar off, in distant ages and nations. But rather the constant fruits of faith, even righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Whomsoever the Lord our God shall call - (Whether they are Jews or Gentiles) by his word and by his Spirit: and who are not disobedient to the heavenly calling. But it is observable St. Peter did not yet understand the very words he spoke
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It is beyond absurd to state Peter did not yet understand what he spoke. Lets take in account he was with Christ throughout his ministry, crucifiction, resurrection, and was given ‘the keys’ to the kindom. What part of that gives hint Peter didn’t know what he was saying? Now, you and I can take Festus’s statement to Paul and apply it to Wesley and others that denounce the doctrine of Christ, ‘Sir, you are mad with much learning’. Wesley, followed after Luther, Calvin, etc, and they followed after Agustus, Tertullian, Clement, and they all were partakers of trying to figure out God and his ‘Word’ with mental capacities and it just cannot be done. It is too simple to make it complicated, but, they did and became mad men swallowing in their own desires to know more than God about God. Incredible undertaking and a gross misjudgement of a beautiful truth. The irony is, God made it simple for humans to find his truth, humans made it difficult because they can’t fanthom God doing anything on their level. [Romans 8:1-17]
NEVER MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN!
July 27, 2008
“Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought Him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this Man.” -John 7:45,46.
“I have given them the words which Thou gavest me.” -John 17:8
“His name is called THE WORD OF GOD.” -Revelation 19:13
“..no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father..” Luke 10:22
“But unto the Son he saith, ‘Thy throne, O God, is forever..” Heb.1:8
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When the officers who had been sent by the chief priests and Pharisees to take the Lord Jesus into custody returned without Him, they gave a most extraordinary reason for their failure to carry out their orders. For, in reply to the demand, “Why have ye not brought Him?” they gave the strange answer, “Never man spake like this man.” This reply is the more surprising because it came from the lips of men whose very occupation tends to deaden all the sensibilities that are natural to human beings.
The record does not state just what were the words which so impressed their hearts that they dared not touch the One who uttered them; but it may be gathered from the context that the sayings of Christ recorded in this chapter [John 7:33-38] were part at least of what they heard. Those sayings made a great impression upon others also; for we read that some, when they heard them, said, “Of a truth this is the Prophet”; while others said, “This is the Christ”.
The statement made by those constables contains a truth far more profound, doubtless, than they had any concept of. It is a statement of fact. Hence it is either true or false, and is open to proof or disproof. Moreover, it invites a comparison between the words spoken by Jesus Christ and all of mankind to follow. What would such a comparison show? Would it show that Jesus Christ did indeed speak as never man spake? God had foretold by Moses the coming of One concerning whom He said, “I will put My words into His mouth” (Deut. 18:18, Is.28:10). Is Jesus Christ that Prophet? Did He indeed speak the very words of God? Is it true, as declared at the beginning of the Epistle to the Hebrews, that God Himself has, in these last days, spoken unto us as the Son? [note scripture above] Here is a question which manifestly is of the highest importance; yet it is one which people of ordinary intelligence are quite competent to decide; and this blog is written for the purpose of presenting the materials which will enable them to decide it.
When Christ was here among men, He frequently made appeal to the works done by Him as proof that the Father had sent Him (Mat. 11:4-6; John 5:36; 10:24, 25; 15:24). But skeptics of our day can evade the force of that witness by denying that the accounts of the miracles of Christ, found in the Gospels, aren’t true or were allegorical. They cannot, however, thus set aside the witness of His words for obviously, if those words are of such a nature, and have in them such qualities, as are not to be found in the utterances of other men, then there can be no escape from the conclusion that He from Whom they proceeded, whether it was Jesus Himself, or, [Father] who put words into His mouth, was more than a man! For if those sayings have super human qualities, then it is manifestly just as impossible for men to have invented them, and put them into His mouth, as for a man to have uttered them.
Let it be carefully noted, that, the proof of the origin of the sayings attributed to Christ lies in those sayings themselves. This must needs be so; for if indeed His words are, as He Himself said, “spirit and life” it is simply impossible that those qualities should not be discernible in them. The words which are reported to us by the Gospels as the words of Christ are still with us. They speak for themselves. If Divine, they will clearly exhibit qualities which God alone could impart to them; and if human, they will plainly display the infirmities, imperfections, and limitations, which characterize all human utterances. And not only so but the marks of origin, whether Divine or human, will be such that anyone of ordinary intelligence can distinguish them upon examination. This is why religious factions from early on, turned away from using scripture and began to use each others argumentive ideas pondered. There are doctrines today that simply cannot stand up to the ‘Words’ taught by our Lord Jesus Christ! These internal evidences, which lie in and are part of the words themselves, constitute proofs of origin of the most conclusive character. For just as the brilliancy, of the words of Christ have inherent qualities, not to be found in the sayings of any other, which declare with absolute certainty their unique character and origin.
It is most certainly clearly seen upon examination of the records, that Jesus Christ spake of His personal relation to the human race as never man spake. The difference in this respect between His words and those of any other with whom He could be compared is incalculably great. Take for example the words of John 7:37, 38, which apparently the officers heard: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.” Certainly none of the great ones of earth ever spake like that, or could conceivably have so spoken. If we try to think of some prominent personage, whether of the past or present, into whose lips we could put those words, the impossibility of so doing will be evident at once. The boastfulness, the self-confidence, the pretentiousness of man has gone to extravagant lengths; but none ever did or ever could claim to be, to his fellow mortals, or to do for them, what Jesus Christ habitually and consistently claimed to be, and to do. No Branham, no Graham, no whomever, could say what Christ’s words claim for us, they would provoke only scorn and derision. Yet none who read the Gospels are aware of the slightest incongruity in such sayings on the lips of Jesus Christ; for they are in perfect keeping with the ‘manifestation’ later revealed. It follows that the only way whereby the sayings attributed to Him can be accounted for is by assuming that the One pictured in the Gospels was, and is truly ‘Father’ as the Son of God.
In John 6 we have the account of the miraculous feeding of the multitude with the five loaves and two fishes; and there we read that Christ spake of Himself to the crowds who had witnessed and benefited by that miracle, as the bread of life, saying, “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst”; and again, “I am the living bread which came down from Heaven, [Father]; if any man eat of this bread he shall live forever”; and again, “Verily, verily I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you” (John 6:35,51,53).
Here again are words such as never man spake, either before or since. For these sayings are not only radically different from all others whereof we have a record, but they make a claim so stupendous that we cannot even imagine a mere man giving utterance to it.
Again, in the eighth chapter of this same Gospel is found a saying of Christ wherein He speaks of still another relation which He claims to sustain to all mankind. He there says, “I am the Light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12).
Thus, in three successive chapters of John’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus Christ announces Himself as the Bread of life, as the Water of life, and as the Light of life. These are relationships which are so impossible for a man to occupy towards his fellowmen that we cannot conceive of a mere human being claiming the power to fulfill them. Moreover, Christ presents Himself in those relationships not only to men of His own day and nation, but to men of all nations and all generations. Assuredly then we can say, and without fear of contradiction, that never man so spake since the world began.
No saying has ever spread so widely, or has moved so many hearts, as that of Christ in Matthew 11:28-30: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” This one saying, if we had no other, would fully justify the statement of the officers. It has all the sublimity of an utterance of God, yet it comes from the lips of a man. Here is One who, though meek and lowly in heart, yet calmly and confidently offers to revive all the weary and heavy-laden ones of earth, even as many as will “come” to Him. It is the saying of One Who is conscious that He has at His disposal the resources of omnipotence. But more than that, it calls upon all men to submit to His authority, and to put themselves under His instruction. He thus presents Himself as the Lord and Teacher of all, making, at the same time, the stupendous promise that He can afford “rest” for every soul. Most assuredly we can say it is simply impossible that any man should so speak.
Another saying which is worthy of special attention is that spoken at the grave of Lazarus: “I AM the Resurrection and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he die, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die” (John 11:25, 26). In the majesty of its form and the sublimity of its thought this saying is manifestly Divine [Father]. No man could conceive such an idea as this,which indeed is the basic truth of Christianity,namely, that the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead carries with it the resurrection also of all His believing people. And no man could have expressed that idea in words of such majestic simplicity and power. With all possible emphasis and conviction we set to our seal that never man so spake.
It would require many pages to set forth and to comment upon all the sayings of Jesus Christ in which He has spoken of the relation in which He stands to all the world. He speaks of Himself as “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”; as “the Good Shepherd,” come to lay down His life for the sheep; as the One who has power on earth to forgive sins; as the One to whom all authority is given in Heaven and on earth; as the One who will return in power and glory to judge all nations and all men; as coming from the Father, and returning to the Father; and as being One with the Father.
No man ever so spake, even in the moments of greatest self-exaltation, or in the wildest flights of imagination. But to Jesus Christ, on the contrary, such sayings were habitual, and they are perfectly consistent with all His words and actions. Hence we have, in this class of sayings alone, quite enough to force every candid mind to the conclusion that what those constables declared concerning Him was true. In this connection we cannot refrain from pointing out, that if any mortal man could conceivably have said of himself, and of his relations to other men, the things which Jesus Christ habitually asserted of Himself, he would have become an object of ridicule, or would have been regarded as a victim of insanity. In the case of any mere man the utter falsity of such pretensions would be quickly and clearly be apparent to all. In the case, however, of Jesus Christ, not only were those sayings accepted by the men of His own day and generation as being in perfect harmony with His personality, but the history of centuries bears testimony to the convincing fact that men of all nations and languages, and of all ranks and degrees of intelligence and learning, have received those utterances as the literal and exact truth, and always with the result of unspeakable benefit to themselves, and of good to the communities among which they have lived.
Another distinguishing characteristic of the utterances of Christ is the absolute authority with which He always spoke. In this respect again (and the characteristic is exceedingly important for our present purposes) He spake as never man spake.
For the sake of comparison, we would bring to mind that among all who preceded Him none had spoken with authority surpassing that of Moses. But Moses always gave his commands as preceding not from himself but from God, his invariable formula being, “Thus saith the Lord.” In the most marked and significant contrast to this are the words of Christ, as for example, in His Sermon on the Mount, where He quietly assumes the power and authority to modify, repeal, and add to, the legislation of Moses, giving as the only and all-sufficient warrant therefor His “But I say unto you.” In this it is manifest that Jesus Christ puts Himself before men as none other than He who gave the law to Moses. No wonder then that they who heard Him were astonished because “He taught them as having authority” (Matt. 7:28,29).
This remarkable characteristic of speaking as with absolute and supreme authority may be discerned in all the recorded utterances of Christ. Never is the note of authority lacking, as often it would be if He were other than “the Lord of all”; for no pretender could possibly keep his sayings on the superlatively high level that would be necessary in order to support such a claim. But in His case, whether He spoke to the leper, or to the paralytic, or to the blind, or to the lame, or the deaf, or the dead, or to winds and waves, or to the fig-tree, or to the demons, or to His servants when He sent them upon a mission, it was ever as the One whose very word compels obedience, as the One who in the beginning said “Light be,” and instantly light was. In a word, every utterance of His is in perfect keeping with His own statement, “All authority is given unto Me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore” (Mat. 28:18-20). It is simply an impossibility (and who can fail to recognize it?) that any man could impart to his every word this Divine quality of “having authority,” or that men could have invented such a character, and put into his mouth utterances which, no matter under what circumstances they were spoken, are found to be, when closely scrutinized, impregnated with the consciousness of having supreme and absolute authority. But one conclusion is possible from these facts, namely, that Jesus Christ is Immanuel, God manifest in the flesh.
Only on one incident, I was awarded the priviledge of hearing His voice. He spoke to me, audiblity, but to my spirit, about a former Pastor; I could only respond with exactness to his question. I then was ‘taken’ up and shown this Pastors entire ministry, then His acceptance into Heaven, then to a small chapel somewhere here with the Pastor in a casket. I was then given the choice to either leave him or bring him back. All this time I didn’t see Christ, just felt his presence and heard his voice…oh, that voice! It was the most beautiful speech I will ever hear, it was impossible to pad the truth, and I was soaked with tears from the experience. I spent the day wrestling with this burden and all the while, my wife was trying to find ths Pastor, we hadn’t seen or heard from them for over 17 years. This started 3 a.m. and 5 p.m , I recieved a call from his wife..she began to tell me he was doing better…I interupted and told her I had no clue what we were discussing, I just was given a burden for him..she explained he had 5 bypass surgery that day and around 3am he died. They worked on him and revived him thinking it wouldn’t last he was so weak. Jesus Christ and I had our visit at his death, I did as instructed and Bro. Scott lived another 11 years! At the end of this 11 years, Sis Scott passed on, and a week later Bro. Scott died in his sleep.
I have never been the same since then, one cannot actually hear the voice of God and not be changed forever! NEVER A MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN!!
Was Jesus God?
July 26, 2008
One of the most demanding questions in Christianity today is; Is Jesus God?
Or, Is Jesus His Own Father? I know I have already lost some of you as you
just decided, how heretical !. Any imbecile knows Jesus cant be
his own Father. If I were only relying on my own intellect, it would be my take
on it as well, but, when dealing with spiritual facts about Jesus, were not
dealing with just a man! That is the key to this whole concept and question.
It is the deciding factor many people fail to realize when reading scripture.
Scripture was not designed for carnal mentalism, nor, can we use it to decide
any aspect of its meaning. Paul said it best in Romans 8:1-17. He places carnal
mentality and flesh in the dead zone, but, spiritually seeking AFTER the
Sprit is life. Lets seek a spiritual understanding of who Jesus is, from his
own definition. We simply cannot go anyplace else to find the answer, and yes,
there is one.
Although, it is a fact, Jesus never said he WAS God; it is also a fact he did
proclaim that he was.The first example should be, John 10:30 I and my
Father are one. If we notice the reaction of the Jews, the meaning of
that scripture cannot be denied. They took up stones to stone him, because
he makest thyself God. Another factor we need to notice, he never
corrected their thinking, he left it as they perceived and touched on explaining
all three aspects of his teachings. I and my Father are one, because
I said, I am the Son of God, and the Father is in me, and I
in him. This alone, shows inseparability, I cannot be separated because we
are one. 1John 5:7]
John 20:28 Thomas is declaring to Jesus; My Lord and my God, but,
we must note this is after his resurrection. A very key point and again, Jesus
Christ, now] does not correct him. Other scripture relating this fact is,
Titus 2:13, 2Peter 1:1, and Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith,
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of thy kingdom.Let me stray from the subject
briefly. The word scepter caught my attention and needs defining. Scepter
of righteousness defines the priesthood of the church, kingdom].
Refer to my article: Intrinsic Persona of God in Christ Now, back to
Jesus.
John 1:1 ..the Word was God John 1:14 ..the Word became
flesh and 1Tim. 3:16 And without controversy, great is the mystery
of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of
angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into
glory. Paul made no mistakes in how he wrote of Jesus, Father, Son,
and God. I know he may seem to make distinctions, but he is making
distinctions in works laid out for mankind. Acts 20:28 tells us
something of a different nature; Take heed therefore unto yourselves,
and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made
you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with
his own blood. We now have completed linkage of rightly divided
scripture showing Jesus was the Christ, God in flesh, and the Holy Ghost
that bought us with his blood. There can be no separation, for it was a
work that is called line upon line in Is. 28. Jesus was
worshiped as God; Matt. 2:11, 14:33, 28:9,17 and Luke 24:52, then John
9:38. Not one time did he correct any of these incidents. It was why he
was here, to lead us into all truth and sit with us in communion
and fellowship. Lets not deny him that opportunity by lessening his
position to a mere man. There is an undeniable fact; no one, absolutely
no man could redeem us but God in flesh. It took pure blood to save a
wretched crew such as you and I.
[To add this later]; in Heb. 11:24-27 “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the peasures of sin for a season; [Esteeming the reproach of Christ...]” Why is it Paul wrote it this way, when we know Moses didn’t know ‘the’ name of ‘Christ’? It’s because Paul knows just who Christ is, the Father/God/..Christ was and is his name. When adding Jesus in baptism and Christ as well, we are ‘going outside the camp, bearing his reproach’, Heb. 13:13. We take on and identify with the sufferings of Jesus unto repentence, and the salvation of Christ, the Holy Ghost/Spirit.
bible source: KJV]
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Trinity, Prophecy Reveals
July 23, 2008
Trinity Exposed in Prophecy!
Taken from Isaiah 28, [KJV]
There are times in our lives, when something special happens, and, we know
that we were blessed of God and will forever hold it dear in our hearts. This
is one of those events. A visitation from the Lord is not rare to me, but this
sort of revelation is beyond special. Am I making myself someone important
enough that our Lord Jesus Christ would visit? Not at all, I just love his Word
enough to be searchful and inquisitive. John penned, Jesus spoke: 16:24
” Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your
joy may be full.” I take that to heart and seek God for everything in my life.
Why ask for this subject, well, I didn’t really. I was asked to give a statement
on Is. 28:16 in a home study meeting, and as I refreshed myself with the
scripture; the Lord began to deal with me. I am always ready and willing to let
him lead, so, this is the results of that encounter. In my using Is. 28 before
was to show “Jesus” in prophecy and I always centered on the ‘cornerstone’.
This time, the Lord made it a point to open my understanding to the
first 15 verses and I was physically and emotionally stunned at what he has
shown me.
Before I began, let me lay a very quick foundation. We must understand the
sole purpose of prophecy. In not giving you the ‘websters’ take on it, let me
give you scriptural findings that makes this study profound. Revelations 19;10
” And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not:
I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus:
worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” The latter part
is without denial, any prophecy given was given to show Jesus and his authority
thru his testimony! Isaiah 28: 1-15 is an ensample of this very truth. We find
ourselves being introduced to drunkards overcome with wine! We are quickly
brought to attention when verse two states: “Behold, the Lord hath a mighty
and strong one, [1] which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a
flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.”
Lets look at the original of strong one. ‘ammiyts [am-meets] means mighty,
courageous and used when speaking of an individual as common, and not an army.
Commentary has it the Assyrians as the strong one, it is improper to assume it
to be an army. What we do have is Jesus mentioned; and, as the rest of this
scripture is inline with what we know from other mentions concerning water.
Jeremiah 17:13 “…because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living
waters.” So, it is indeed an individual identified in verse two to come and cast
down wth the hand.
The priest and the prophet are in err in drunkeness as well, not one sober
enough to listen to the teachings of “he” in verse nine. He needs to teach
knowledge and make them to understand his doctrine and they are too drunk!
He proclaims for one to be able to understand needs to be ‘weaned from the
milk, and drawn from the breast.’ There has to be a certain sobriety towards
the doctrine and the giver of knowledge. For it is of most importance one
understand the manner in which this knowledge of doctrine is proclaimed.
You and I find ourselves facing the most important scripture in the Old
Testament just now; verse ten. “For precept must be upon precept, precept
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.”
What you just read is as if God cupped his hands to his mouth and yelled as
loud as possible, “I am proclaiming, exaggerating, stressing the most important
thing known to man, so, pay close attention, because your very life depends
on knowing what I am about to say. This is not left up to you to interpret, I
am laying down ‘rules upon rules’ and ‘line upon line so you can know how to
follow [verse 5] “..the Lord of host”..who wears a crown of glory, and
speaks to his people. This ‘Lord’ is original to Yhovah, [Jehovah] self
existent, eternal. His shouting was heard throughout time, for it was in
verse eleven that we know when He gave his precepts upon precepts
and line upon line and it was his doctrine we must hear and follow.
[11] “For with stammering [la'eg- law-ayg, means foreign to the speaker
and hearer] lips, [from ones mouth] and another tongue will “he” speak
to this people. Acts two, we find: “And sudenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were filled with
the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave
them utterance.” Now, we know when this drunkeness was and when
“he” needed to teach knowledge of his doctrine that everyone must hear
and obey, or, find themselves disobeying God’s ‘precepts upon precepts’.
It is now established that we must heed Jesus’s teachings, or perish.
The manner in which it was given made his teachings of most importance.
It was given in a double double superlative, the same as rapping the gavel
on the judges desk and pronouncing you with sentence.
In this case, it doesn’t have to be a sentence, it can be life for evermore!
To all positives, there is a negative. It is so, even with God, he has an
opponent. We find also, that God spoke to this opponent in verse fifteen.
Same time, same place, Jerusalem in the time of Jesus on earth.
[14, 15] “Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule
this people which is in Jerusalem.” The Lord has already addressed Ephraim,
and the priest and prophets and the people; who is he speaking to now?
The world ruling power in that time was Rome. Herod the king, tried to kill
Jesus as a child to stop his growing up and causing the Jews to follow
him instead. [Matt. 2] Pilate was the Roman govenor that sentenced Jesus
to the demands of the ‘drunken’ Jews that couldn’t listen to sound doctrine.
This being the ‘rulers’ of the people, there is more to be said to them.
“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with
hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under
falsehood have we hid ourselves:” The covenant with death was meted
out on the cross and it was hell itself they agreed with that it
would end Jesus’s ministry and reign, but it didn’t happen as they had
planned. When the ‘overflowing scourge passed through, they were left
behind. The church was born in a mighty wind, overflowing to over three
thousand in a day and the ‘rulers’ and drunk Jews were left out. It was
then they began to make a ‘refuge of lies’ and under ‘falsehood have they
hid themselves. What is this? Everything Jesus taught, they changed it
to try and defeat him more so. He said to be baptised in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins..they changed it to baptising
in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Jesus taught full emersion,
they changed it to sprinkling, Jesus taught to be filled with the Holy Ghost
and speak in tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance, they denounce it
in all religions that practice the erronous baptism. Most of them says it is
of the devil to speak in tongues. Was Peter, John, James, Matthew, etc
of the devil? If Matthew 28:19 was a baptism formula, then why did Matthew
do as the rest on the day of Pentecost? he was baptised along with the
rest in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus said I am in the Father, the Father
is in me, we are one. The Roman church came up with three ‘persons’ in God.
Luke records Jesus as saying: [10:21-24] “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit,
and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto
babes: even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are
delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the
Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will
reveal him. And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed
are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you, that many
prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have
not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard
them.” Jesus was allowing them a glimspe into the revelation of who he was.
History also records the ‘refuge of lies’ and ‘falsehood’ of the Romish church.
It is recorded by Josephus, Quintus Tertullian and others the sufferings the
Romish church inflicted on the Christians for not recanting their faith in
“Jesus Christ, their God”. They demanded of each to deny their ‘birthing
experience’ taught by Jesus Christ to Nicodemus in John 3:3 “…Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, Except a man be ‘born again’, he cannot see the kingdom
of God.” The ‘kingdom’ is always referring to the ‘church’. One must be born
into the church…precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon
line, line upon line… More history proves, that, in time, the Roman church
continued to change things contrary to the taught gospel of Christ. In the
Creeds, Councils, and by their, so called ‘church authority’ they have
continued with the refuge of lies and in falsehood still hide themselves and
deny the written word of God as supreme. It is as well with any religion that
follows their teachings of the trinity, etc. If was the epitomy of the
‘refuge of lies’. It is named as ‘anti-christ in 1John 2:18- “to denieth that
Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
That is explained as “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. It simply
says, they cannot be separated, you can’t have one without having the other.
Frankly, I wish I were wrong about this, I have many, many dear friends
living with this form of doctrine. But, God has spoken, it is as he intended
and no one can dispute its value to our lives as a direct warning. It is my
appointed duty to warn, exalt and admonish each to heed this prophecy
as the rest of the Bible, the infallable word of God. It is to be taken at its
face value.
Enoch, Are You Willing?
July 19, 2008
Chapter 11 Of The Book Of Enoch
1 “And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.” [end quote]
First, I have to dispell any doubt or fears of my using the Book of Enoch as a basis of thought. I would not use it, [even thou the book is mentioned by Peter, Paul, and quoted by Jude] if it was equivocal in a sense that it disputed our beloved Bible. I find it to do just the opposite, it brings to light many parts of scripture that will effect us even in our future. A most refreshing and spiritual feeling is emulated in me as I read. I am positive it was inspired of God, and I join the Apostles and Jude in loving its content enough to use it for our thought for this blog.
My thought comes from the end of an account of how the earth was corrupted by fallen angels and how they came down to earth and coveted themselves wifes of the children of men. It was described that they took wives and taught them all sorts of vain and erronious living and produced gaints as children. God sent an angel to tell Noah to “hide himself” and prepare to be saved with his offspring as God prepared to destroy the world with a great deluge. My opening quote is after the flood and it was a promise to Noah and his sons. There is no doubt we are the decendents of Noah, [as the earth has not been destroyed by fire yet], we can also relish in the fact that we are enjoying the “store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven.” Notice what is blessed. Our ’work and labour’. But be keenly aware of the association given with our blessing. I don’t know about you just now, but this association sets my soul on fire! “TRUTH AND PEACE” cannot be separated as they are bedfellows by the design of God. Two attributes of Gods nature given to men for an eternity! “Here, my sons, have my truth and along with it comes peace, and if you have truth, you have Me in your mist.” Lets keep in mind in the course of this thought that this is our second chance from God to do and complete a ’labour of work’ pleasing to our Creator. Lets also keep in mind that the world had just been destroyed. Why? It became totally corrupt and sinful to the point that only one man with offspring was found set apart and safe from judgement. I am sad to have to account that history has proven sin did not die in the flood, just the sinful. So, it was Enochs calling to continue to denounce mankind for sin and corruption, and in doing so, he portrayed it with rage, anger, and damnational speech. As Enoch was enspired to write, one can feel the volatility of Gods disdain for sin. Oh, but we have a promise! Truth and Peace. Lay hold on the truth and one can please God. What more were we created for? but to serve God with a surrogate love. Yes, we must allow Jesus Christ to substitute [or replace] our sinful nature with his truth and all is well in our labours.
One may ask, what is truth? Most have a concept as it is a small part of our nature to seek it out, but, be assured; one does not know the true meaning of truth until they know God. Oh, I know, most everybody knows who God is, but that is not knowing God; that is knowing ’of ’ God. A total difference between the two. Many religions today know who God is, but so did the fallen angels and they trembled in fear. The distinction made with that verse of scripture shows they knew their fate as partakers of sin and having no remission. It was the fact they knew where they stood with God, it was there ’relationship’ lost forever, thus they knew him and not only knew of him. As man was made a little lower than the angels, we inherently have the same ability to know our fate. In all honesty, there is no difference in this aspect as we were both made by God. Our difference is, we are redeemable…Oh, Lord, I must take a moment to give thanks to you for such a one who cares and loves as you do! Never, ever could mankind design so great a love as this. Therefore, I have the pleasure of knowing you. May our work and labour please you all the days of our lives. Thank you Lord, that I, [along with the redeemed] am able to say I know your truth, for it is in me a light unto my path for righteousness sake. Continue to condemn sin in me as it rears its uglyness, make clean my spirit with your loving presence. That is knowing God, to allow him to purge us of our sins. It is his sole desire on our behalf, to eradicate, [pull up by the roots] and surround us with his righteous self. Truth? When you see a true child of God, you see a distinctiveness that is beyond the call of this natural world. Are you peculiar in the sense that you please God and not ’hollywood’? Lets get real and to the point; do you think you can emulate ’hollywood’ and please Jesus Christ?
Folk; knowing God cannot be empiric, we must follow Gods design to true salvation. It is the only way one can know truth, and his truth can set you free. Free is peace. Love Him with all your heart, mind, and soul.
“Intrinsic Persona of God in Christ”
July 19, 2008
INTRINSIC PERSONA OF GOD IN CHRIST
This phrase was given to me in prayer and
meditation one morning and it has gripped my heart, mind
and soul since. When God speaks to our hearts/souls, it is not idle
words, nor is it always meant just for us; he speaks to one in his
kingdom for all to hear as well. We are one in Christ! Please feel the
unity of his word as I give what has been given to proclaim
before a people that need to align themselves to a time that
has not yet been, except, in a plan ‘before the world was’.
As mere humans, we have limited ability at best to see into
the future. We, as a people, lost that ability in the garden,
but there was a time it was restored unto us, it is called
‘born again’ [John 3:3]. A restoring to our dominion status with God as
our provider and creator. EVERYTHING is given by God to
those that live ‘in’ him and he lives ‘in’ us [1John 5:20]. He is sole provider, [true God, and eternal life]
of the little things as well as the great things that make us
capable of prenotions such as this subject. I am simply saying
God LEADS his chosen as he provides us insight so that we
may prepare for an event beyond our comprehension. Our
inertial guidance can only be the Holy Ghost within; he is
sole [2] proprietor of his church [kingdom] and we are ‘free
servants’.
Lets look at a time Jesus prayed an intercessory prayer and
take our liberty to re-understand some of its elements that
is not common among religious factions today. John 17 records:
“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also
may glorify thee; An thou hast given him power over all flesh,
that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given
him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent. I have glorified
thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest
me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own
self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
Skip to verse 8: “For I have given unto them [Apostles] the words which
thou gavest me; and they have recieved them, and have known
surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that
thou didst send me. [10] And all mine are thine, and thine
are mine; and I am glorified in them. ” The re-sounding theme
in this prayer is glorification. It is the one thing desired, and
explained in detail how and why it is needed. Lets view it as
a scepter, because that is exactly what it is. Scepter: ‘imperial
authority, sovereignty invested by royalty.’ Glory: ‘the condition
of highest achievement; circle of light.’ I now have a totally
new perception of omnipresence, omnipitence and the meaning of dispensations. Can you see with
me how God has passed Himself down thru his diety and not
one time lost his idenity? Can you see He ‘was’, ‘is’ and ‘is to
come’? Can you see with me the totality of God’s presence, not
only in and thru Jesus Christ, but to the Apostles and they passed it to mankind in Acts 1&2 ? [those of us that took
on Christ in name and Spirit !] When the glory
came to Jesus, he said [11] “And now I am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father,
keep through thine OWN NAME [JESUS CHRIST]those whom thou has given me,
that they may be one, as we are.” The Greek/English Lexicon
reads: “And no longer I am in the, ‘world’, and these in the
world are, and I to thee come. Father Holy, keep them in thy
name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as
we.” Jesus is speaking of an event to take place as if it HAD
been done, glorification. Lets pay close attention in Acts 1:21
” Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all
the time that the LORD JESUS went in and out among us,”
Acts 2:36 ” Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and Christ.” Just as Jesus was glorified, we can’t
know he is ‘Lord’ until we have been glorified with the infilling
of his Spirit. We are then glorified, and hold the scepter of
glory until his return. God bore himself a body to pass thru the
blood, death, burial, [supreme sacrifice]
that he could reside ‘in’ us. “INTRINSIC PERSONA OF GOD IN
CHRIST”
Intrinsic: [as in Anatomy] ‘located within, or, exclusively of.
Persona: [psychol] ‘the outer personality, or, facade [fa-saad]
presented to others by an individual.’ God born himself an
anatomy and his persona was ‘visioned’ in his personality: “..no
greater love than this..” “I will not leave you comfortless: I will
come to you..” ” But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost..” “
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me…
but the Father dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” ” And I
knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the
same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
descending, and REMAINING ON HIM, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.” ” But God be thanked,
that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the
heart that ‘form of doctrine’ which was delivered you.” “For
the wages of sin is death; but the GIFT of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.” ” And they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them utterance.” INTRINSIC PERSONA OF GOD IN
CHRIST PASSED ON TO THOSE THAT WERE GIVEN TO HIM…
It is imperitive we drop the debate issues of Christianity
and focus on our souls salvation. There is no other doctrine/
salvation other than that Christ taught and delivered. One can
can use various scripture for ‘another’ form of salvation, but
until they submit to Jesus Christ, they are a tinkling symbol.
Typology
July 19, 2008
TYPOLOGY BY EXAMPLE FOR UNDERSTANDING
This may seem strange to you, but I am starting from the
ending, and working my way back to the beginning. It will
take more than one blog to get to the starting line, but it
most assuredly is “worth the drive”. Kids invariably ask on
a trip; ‘are we there yet?’. Well, pipe down,[LOL] and go
get a tall drink, [you'll need it] and get comfortable;
this is the most endeared subject to our Creator. He
designed it ‘before the world was’ and it is the
catalyst for all mankind, and He has been the author from
start to finish. The bible bears out there is ‘but One
God’ [Is.44:6] “Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel,
and his redeemer the Lord of host; I…the first, and I
am the last; and beside me….no God. I left out the added
English words to give a keen visual, because this verse
used to puzzle me many years ago. It sure sounds like two
right? Well, in a sense, it is, but the very same “One
God”. We’ll get to the explanation within. But, another
two verses that coinside with these are, [Is 45:5] “I..the
Lord, and …..none else, ….no God beside me; I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me:” [Don't let that
'not known me' throw you, He was speaking to Cyrus.]
The other is [Is.48:12] “Hearken unto me, O Jacob and
Israel, my called; I..he; I..the first, and I…the last.”
Why all this? It establishes ‘home base’ ‘first base’
umpires and there is no second or third in God’s game!
He is a jealous God, and shares with no other gods.
Hmm, I’m almost past my attention span and not even
started. Typology: the study of types, symbols. [2]
symbolism by representation. Human beings were designed
and TOTALLY operate within a standard representation of
tangible substances. Our five senses are initiatory in
our discovery of the next second in our lives. We
identify everything with them. We survive because of them.
We also die because of them. So, our lives are predicated
upon our senses, they feed the brain information and it
tells us to keep our hand out of the fire. Wipe our nose,
its leaking, bow a knee to God, He is supreme. Lets get
started, but this is by no means an all exclusive of the
types and shadows; or similitudes used within God’s creation.
[1John 5:6] “This is he that came by water and blood,
…Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water AND
blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because
the Spirit is truth.” I could stay right here and spend
the rest of this whole blog series on this one verse, but
I will supress and move on. But, you must ’see’ the
typology here before moving…water AND blood, witnessed
and beareth [makes available] by the ‘Spirit’. When you
see the capital ‘S’ that is God; plain and simple. God
came in water and blood? Yes! These ‘three’ elements take
us from the ‘human’ known to the spiritual unknown. Don’t
stay in the flesh [typology], get in the Spirit and the
Spirit in you and there is so much you can know from God.
Why were these three elements linked together? Redemption.
Because your senses has taught you both good and evil.
You were introduced to evil thru your earthly mother,
Eve and earthly father, Adam. The ‘Spirit’ had to take
on both blood and water for our redemption. Jesus Christ
was His name when it happened. Now, lets transistion a
little.
Before the cross, death, burial, resurrection, infilling
of the Holy Ghost for redemption; there had to be some
way to appease God and find forgivness. It was called law.
But, lets go even further back than that, lets go back to
the very beginning of redemption and see what it took for
an Israelite to get out of Egypt. They were given explicit
instructions how to excape. Those that didn’t adhere, died
there. Those that applied the blood on the door post were
able to make it to the water and cross over, and THEIR EMENY
DIED IN THAT WATER!!! See the typology? See the similitude?
Make no mistake; going down in full emersion in baptism in
the name of Jesus Christ is MOST ESSENTIAL.
The Israelites had to be delivered thru blood and water and
the ‘Spiritual’ cloud led them and fed them manna. And they
grumbled and they died by the tens of thousands because they
could not see or wait for the finish line, the promised land.
Their flesh was just way too important to them, after all it
was ‘their’ life! [We only live once: have you heard that one
before?] They were seeing the tangiblenes only and if they felt
they were loosing it, what had they to gain? Indeed. This same
attitude prevails so strongly today, as people grumble with
the written word and say, no, I can’t do it that way God,
I want to do it my way..its easier, and I’m pretty with this
stuff because I want to please myself and those around me. If
I look holy, then I will be scoffed at and looked down on. I
don’t want to use your salvation plan, because the tongues part
I don’t understand; I don’t want to separate from the world,
Lord, because I love doing these things…ok enough head bashing
lets move on.
[1John 5:7] “For there are three that bear witness in HEAVEN,
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three ARE
ONE”. That takes us back to Is.44:6 doesn’t it? See who God
is, was, and will be? Yes! Thank you Lord God for being my
redeemer and coming in the flesh and letting Him die for me. He
accomplished something I could never do, and that is pay
my price for sin. You came in your flesh and shed your
blood and water poured out of your side that I could be
submersed/cleansed of my enemy. Oh how important it is,
and, facsimilie religions are doing away with it because
they don’t want to listen to your Word/Jesus Christ!
How sad it is people are still grumbling at your designed
plan for their redemption! People, are you willing to
allow God to convert you from a sinner to a saint? He
made the rules before He even made the world, how is it
that people are so arrogant to think they can over rule
His plan? He will only honor those that honor His Word
to “the jot and tittle” for it will not change or can
be changed. Please don’t be too upset with me, I only mean
to jog us into realizing God is and always will be in
control. If you felt a little uneasy, its called conviction;
listen to the small still voice of your concience and let
God design you in ‘His’ image and you chose to forget the
world! Until next time, God bless and take care.
Typology Cont’d
July 19, 2008
Typology Cont’d
In the last blog, we started with 1John 5:6 and then went
back to Exodus 6 to show that typology and similitudes are
the standards in showing how God has designed salvation for
his chosen. Jesus said in Matt. 28:20 “Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo,
I am with you always, …unto the end of the world. Amen.”
So, the chosen have a duty to perform, ‘obeserve all things
whatsoever I have commanded..” It is then, by all accounts,
most important we understand the typologies and similitudes
of the Old Testament that was so aptly fulfilled in the New.
Commanded leaves no doubt as to our duty. It does not give
us a choice of which doctrine/religion or set of scriptures
we want to chose; it gives us one choice, to follow the words
of Jesus Christ for all he said was instructional; thus we
must consider them commandments. The same is for the Epistles,
for they were inspired by God, thus, they are commandments
as well. I don’t care what you believe, it must be inline
with scripture and if it doesn’t suit you, then why are you
here? This writer had occasion to feel the Spirit of God lift
from him because of sin, and I can tell you, I no longer
cull any of God’s word as trivial or unimportant. I listen
to EVERY word! It took years of repentance to find favor and
I wont ever do that again! No sin, or slackness is worth
feeling the loss of his Spirit, that was by far, the most
miserable I have ever been. Flames of hell couldn’t have
hurt me more! Therefore, I am able to take you to this
subject with the deepest conviction it is truth!
As I vaguely pointed out in the last blog, I didn’t want
to expound too much as it may become boring, but the
Israelites had to apply blood to the door post, they had
to pass thru the water, [where their enemies died] and was
led by a ‘Spiritual cloud’ by day and it fed them as their
needs commanded. You and I have commanding needs today, we
think we want for nothing, but not really, there is a need
in our lives for a Savior just as there was then. Blood,
water, and Spirit. It takes the three in unison to lead us
humans from the known into the spiritual unknown. We then,
have a witness and that witness is described in 1John 5:8
“And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit,
and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Believe it or not, that is a commandment that if the three
are not in agreement, you are not saved. You have no choice
but to use all three. It is a sad day that ‘religions’ are
kicking the water out of the equasion, but that is only
because they didn’t have the ’spirit’ as well. They are
very much against the ‘infilling’ of the Holy Ghost because,
I would have to speak in tongues and that is of the devil
today…hogwash!! not one inkling of proof to that lie.
What Jesus Christ set in motion is to last until the
“uttermost part” of the earth [Acts 1:8] The redeemed have
inherited this thing within us to seek out something
‘eternal’ for our lives. It is the ‘dominion status’ we
lost in the garden, God is wanting to restore our status
with him and it is done through the ‘Witness’ of
Jesus Christ our Lord.
When we have accomplished this witness experience for
ourselves, that being repentence: sins washed away in
baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, infilling of the Holy
Ghost [blood applied, life given] and we have become a
‘new creature’’spiritual creature’ we have embarked on a
new journey.
We then are exposed to two aspects of the gospel. First,
is the work God has done FOR us and, the second being
the work He has done IN us. If we can understand this,
we can walk with God succinctly defined. Paul told the
Corinthian church in the first epistle, [15:1-4]
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which
I preached unto you, which also ye have recieved, and
wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye
keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also recieved, how that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures:” EVERYTHING IN OUR
CHRISTIAN WALK MUST POINT TO JESUS CHRIST; HIS LIFE, HIS
PLAN OF SALVATION, HIS COMMANDMENTS. If it does not, then
we don’t have a chance in hades with anything less.
We must
recognize there are ‘three’ sets of spirits in the world.
God and his angelic host, Satan and his angelic host, and
our own spirits that must serve one of them; we have no
choice but to serve. Does any of this make sense to you?
I think its elementary whom we choose when we look at it
this way. If one believes anything other than Christ
crucified, then they have made a conscionable pack with
Satan the reviler. The undeniable fact is, it must be
Jesus Christ and His plan all the way or you fall short
and serve the lessor. There is a coming up short taught
in scripture! My most learned lesson in living for God
is; keep myself in line with HIS SPIRIT and all else
will be taken care of.
When a person recieves salvation, his spirit
is brought into FULL COMMUNION with God’s Spirit. Let
me also point out as this is the beginning; if we stopped
there, we still die lost! I know that sounds strange and
contradictory, but we must progress as a truly oiled
and sychronized machine led by his Spirit as we ‘die’ to
our spirit. How does this work? You know as well as
I; spirit of prayer, worship and praise, and study to
show ourselves approved. That is allowing His behavior
system to replace ours. THAT is how you must proceed for
the rest of your life. Now I ask you, is that not an easy
yoke to bear? Much easier than the ‘other’ set of spirits.
I want to mention one more type and shadow. This one
is most important as it defines whom we serve. You
cannot serve one if you don’t know him. In Old Testament
times there was an ark of the covenant. No now, forget
Harrison Ford and that ridiculas movie. This ark was by
all standards the ’seat of God’. It signified not only
his presence, but his power ‘in the hands of the priest’.
It was the ark that the priest approached and sought
forgivness of sins for the people and they were cast
ahead for another year and NO PRIEST EVER SAT DOWN IN
THE HOLIEST OF HOLIES, if he did he died. In this ‘tent’
temple, there was water, blood sacrifice, and the Holies
of Holies that forgave sin. We are now that royal
priesthood, able to go in and seek forgivness of the
one that ascended and sits on the ‘right hand of God’.
This is not two thrones and two God’s as you know there
cannot be. It says [1Tim 3:16] God ascended and sat
in total power over salvation, [paraphrased]. He sits on
the mercy seat as we speak and you can find forgivness
for sins as long as he is ’sitting’. No more blood
sacrifice needed, it was paid on the cross. 1John 5:20
“And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given
us and understanding, that we may know him that is true,
and we are in him that is true, …in his Son Jesus
Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”
The right hand of God is signifing POWER, and THAT IS
A POSITION!! It is the ’sitting’ position that gives
grace instead of grief for sin, it is a position that
gives agape instead of judgement, it is a position that
gives talents/gifts that we may become the sons of God
in works worthy of a righteous priesthood. Jesus Christ,
the Priest that could sit down and cast sins from our
lives, no other has or could do that, not even Aaron.
There are so many typologies/similitudes in scripture and
the creations, but our most important is the symbolical
“blood”, “water”, and “spirit”. That is the salvation
plan of Jesus Christ. Take it to heart!
Deliverance
July 19, 2008
DELIVERANCE NEEDED?
Deliverance: a setting free; rescue or release. [2] the fact or state of being
freed. [3] to offer an opinion, judgement, etc; formally or publicly expressed.
How many times have you been delivered? From what have you been set
free? Have you delivered an opinion or judgement? Was it to set free or to
bind? Was this opinion or judgement well thought out before executing it?
Valid questions that make me take inventory of my life and cause me to
look back and assess myself and most especially my walk with God. How
do we stand with our Judge at this time? There comes a time we need
deliverance, without it, we are doomed. We, as humans are most
often caught up in affairs that we have no control and began to look for
a judge, an officer of some sort, or just plainly find ourselves seeking God.
I want to bring out something in this setting that was brought to my
attention as I had a conversation with my older sister. I was reading
from Exodus 6: 2,3 as we were discussing the ‘names’ that God has
used since the beginning of mankind. It has been a topic this last few
weeks and I was given a new take on this scripture, one that has escaped
me for years until now. It is amazing how we miss the most simple things
in scripture when we are focused on another subject, but God has more
meaning, and as He needs, He will reveal in due time. Thank God for
the fruits of the Spirit and the meat of His Word!
“And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord: And
I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of
God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.”
Why was this being explained to Moses? It has special significance as
His name will always have a specific meaning. It identifies what He is
doing for his people at any given period of time. As God Almighty, he
was creator to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Creator of the Heavens and
Earth, all that was present with them, and themselves as His Chosen.
Creator as He provided them livelihood, land, goods, promises, and for
Jacob; bondage. Although bondage for Jacob was a life saving experience
for Israel later, it was nonetheless, bondage. This brings us to the
name changing explained to Moses. It had come time to deliver His
people from bondage, and He needed to use a name to identify His
work in their behalf. JEHOVAH: [websters] transliteration of the
Tetragrammaton YHWH; the vowels appear through arbitrary
transference of the vowel point of adonia, [My Lord]. Same identity,
same God, new name/work to be done. I can’t help from wonder at this
point, just how much experience God had in delivering someone from
slavery/bondage? It is our first account that He had to ‘deliver’ His
people from Egypt, a type of the world. This was a physical deliverance.
Because of its physical provenance, it required certain requirements.
Nevertheless, it was deliverance and it seems it was God’s first time.
My new thought on this was; whether it was physical, spiritual;
there was a need to be delivered. It is so like God to demand His
children be completely free! No matter the circumstance, no matter
the situation, God does not allow His children to be under any type
of bondage. Lets elaborate on this a minute. Habits, Slavery, Sin,
other gods, facsimilies of religion, worldly govenments to a great
extent; so many ways we can be bound, but none is acceptable to
God when it comes to His chosen. That is magnificent! A Father
with such care for His own. His children are to be totally free; totally
delivered. Nothing halfway with our Lord, it is a complete work that
may take time, but it must be finished. Is it for our sake? No, it is
not; God is author and finisher of our faith, so it is for Him that we
be totally free because, He cannot fail, so that makes our being totally
free a requirement that He holds Himself to. My friends, you cannot be
a work partially done, He just simply doesn’t work that way.
Another scripture enlightenment was in Isaiah 62. This is as
simple as the other, but profound in its concept. “For Zion’s sake
will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation
thereof as a lamp that burneth. [2] And the Gentiles shall see thy
righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called
by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.” We, that
search out ‘Christ’ in prophecy have used this so many times to
point to Jesus and also, the event in Acts where Cornelious and
household were saved. This is correct, but I have a new take on
this and lets look at it again. From the beginning of verse 1, we
notice God as speaking to Himself; “For Zion’s sake will I not
hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation
thereof as a lamp that burneth”….as this appears as being said
as if God is planning in His thoughts, he says “the Gentiles shall
see thy righteousness…glory…and “I” will be called by a new name.”
He will ’speak’ His new name at that time. This whole passage is
most definitely God’s planning for the Gentiles and He is doing it
as a thought within Himself. I will paraphrase verse 3. “I” as man,
will be a crown of glory in my own hand,[when 'hand' is mentioned,
it is signifying Gods power] a royal diadem: ["royal
power, authority, or dignity with a crown."] Again, “I” am coming
in righteousness and salvation to the Gentiles and “I” will have a
new name that “I” will use; and “I” will be a crown of glory with
power and authority as “God” to show them they are no longer referred
to as Forsaken, Desolate, but they will be the delight of the Lord.
We ultimately have the new name in baptism, but He had to bear
the ordinance of that name before we could obtain His ‘works’. I said
all this for this one simple point: His chosen and delivered were able
to go so far in deliverance and they began to reject its ultimate finale. He
grafted in the Gentiles and now provides for us the same offer of
salvation. But make no mistake, it comes with the same stipulations;
full deliverance/full freedom or we suffer the same fate as Israel
proper. Are you willing to allow God to make you ‘free’? It is more than
just spiritual, it is a total work from any sort of bondage. For, if
Gods Spirit dwells in us, He cannot be bound, He must be totally free.
