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Abundance in Relationship with Jesus

9/27/2020

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Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;     his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers,     as the spring rains that water the earth.” Hosea 6:3 on a photo by Donna Campbell
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” Hosea 6:3
​Today, I want to continue looking at what it means to live an abundant life. Yesterday, we looked at the awesome grace of Jesus Christ. That grace gives us a beautiful freedom from slavery to sin and law which is the same thing. We can say this because without law, there is no sin although there is still death (Romans 4:15). Today, we will expound a bit on abundant life. I would venture to say that most lost people would consider that they are free to do anything while the Christian is forced to live a narrow and restricted life. I say the opposite is true; True Christianity broadens one’s life and opens the Believer to unimaginable possibilities and experiences in her life simply because she is now in a relationship with Jesus.
Many non-believers and too many people who claim Christianity believe this verse, “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard” taken out of context. Who would want to walk that way? But Beloved, that is not the whole verse, it is not the entire thought. In Matthew 7:13-14 Jesus said,
Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
The road may be narrow, but the journey is rich and the destination is more than we could ever fathom. The wider road is crowded, the journey is about trying to obtain prosperity, sumptuousness of sensation, and fulfilled desires. It is a selfish and self-centered road that too many people take. Even those who think they are living a selfless life, if they took a real look at the “love” they show and the things they do in service to others would see that they are trying to fill a hole, be ‘good,’ feel good or bring glory to themselves. Even a believer can often start living a life of trying to be good instead of a life of following Christ. They find themselves on that wide road and the only thing keeping them from the destruction at the end is His Love and Mercy, Jesus let them find destruction before sending them onto the Salvation and eternal life they could have been living since the moment they called on His name to be saved.
The way is not hard as in difficult to live. The original Greek words are translated to strait (not straight) and narrow. Strait comes from the Greek word stenos which means narrow because of obstacles. Those obstacles include things such as seeking sensual experiences, wealth, and virtue. These are the lies that keep people from Jesus.
Narrow is translated from the Greek word qlibw (pronounced thleebow) which means pressed like grapes. It gives more of a picture of difficult to get through, sort of that picture of the camel going through the eye of a needle (Mark 10:25). It gives me the image of grapes being pressed into wine.  A camel cannot go through the eye of a needle. It can only enter because Jesus makes it possible.
The only way through that strait and narrow gate that leads to life is Jesus Christ. Remember from yesterday’s reading in John 10, Jesus described Himself as the gate. And in John 14:6 Jesus proclaims, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Jesus is not only the door, but He is the Way to the door, He is the truth that gives us freedom on the way to the destination of life, and He is the Life both the destination and the gift. He is All in All. And in His awesome Grace, He did all the work for us in this gift of life we have received from Him. Let’s look back at John 10 again now so we can find out more about living life abundantly. Verses 7-18 read,
 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
In verses 14-15, Jesus says, “I Am the Good Shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.” These two verses are profoundly full of meaning. And this is where I want to spend some time today learning about that abundance of life we are given. How was that life given to us? Jesus gave it to us of His own will. It was the will of the Father and so it was His will as well. He chose it, He bought us with a precious price to call us His own (1 Corinthians 6:20). When Jesus gave us His name in verse 14, He gave it in the same way that God did throughout the Bible, He started it with His most Holy and encompassing name, I Am. He is. He is God, He is The LORD. He is The LORD our Good Shepherd. And while we will look at being God’s own and Jesus as the Good Shepherd another day, today we will look at the great benefit of God knowing us and our knowing Him.
What is it to be known by God? Just think about that? He knows us. Do you need me to tell you just how wonderful and beautiful that is? He knows you! He not just is aware of us, the way we are aware of a co-worker, neighbor, or acquaintance, He knows us. He completely and absolutely recognizes, identifies, discerns, appreciates, and understands us. To me, that is astounding. Out of all the 7.8 billion people, that is 7800000000 people on this earth, if you are His own, He knows you personally, and above that He really loves you!
Not only does He know us, but we can know Him too! And because of this mutual knowing, we hear His voice and know His voice! We have a relationship with the LORD! Talking with God is one of the greatest things I know, not just talking to Him, which is special enough, but listening to Him talk to me. I can remember years ago wondering how people could hear God speak. I swore I couldn’t hear Him. Just about every person I asked, replied the same way. They said His voice was quiet and small. I wondered how they could differentiate God’s voice from their own thoughts. How do I know if that thought is God speaking or me wishing? Well, this is one of the ways that God’s knowing you is particularly important. God knows how you hear Him best and how you understand Him best. He knows if you will be listening closer while you walk in nature, submerge yourself in water, close yourself into a prayer closet, immerse yourself in music, kneel, or drive your car. He knows if you will understand Him more through verbal language, picture language or symbols.
But looking back at the passage from John 10 helps us find the answer to this question about recognizing Jesus’ voice. Verse 16 says, “they will listen to my voice.” How could I possibly ever hope to recognize a voice I’m not listening to? The more I know Jesus the more I will understand the way He conveys messages to me. What wording does He use, what expression and point of view? Does the message merge with the Bible? The more I listen the more I will recognize that voice and differentiate it from my own, from influences around me, and from the accuser of the brethren. Just like a newborn baby recognizes her mother’s voice because she has spent 40 weeks listening to her, we recognize Jesus ’voice because we have been in Him and He and His Spirit in us.  Nearly all newborns will turn their heads towards their mothers when they speak. When the main caretaker is not the birth mother, the infant will soon turn her head toward the main caretaker be it a father, adoptive parent, or other because she has bonded and developed a complete trust in that one person. Believer, we too will recognize Jesus’ voice because we have chosen to listen to Him, trust Him, and obey Him. We have a relationship with Him. Hosea 6:1-6 tells us,
Come, let us return to the Lord;
    for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;
    his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
    as the spring rains that water the earth.”

4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
    like the dew that goes early away.
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Verse 1 doesn’t refer to God punishing us, it refers to Him removing the obstacles that keep us from experiencing and having all He wants for us. We can see that in verse 2, when we read it with a New Covenant perspective. We have been resurrected with Jesus to new life (Colossians2:12). While He has done all the work of giving us this relationship, our part is to want it to press onto know the Lord and He will come to us just as the spring rains water the earth. We choose to know God and He comes to us and He even nourishes the relationship. He does all the work, because He is merciful, and His Grace knows no boundaries. Even though our love is fleeting, His love is not. Even though He is so powerful that His very words could judge us, that is not what God wants for us. He wants our fleeting love to grow into the steadfast love and intimate knowledge of relationship.
That relationship God makes with us is such a wonderful and joyful thing. And what about all the longings we have as humans? The excuse that people us to say they don’t want the “straight and narrow.” Psalm 37:4 reads,
Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

When we delight or as this word awnug means to luxuriate ourselves in the Lord, then He gives us the desires of our hearts! Are those desires different than the ones that kept us from Jesus before? They probably are, or at least they have changed into a new yearning. If we are luxuriating or reveling in the Lord, our heart is, like David going to be a heart after God’s heart. God wants good things for us. He has good plans for us. Jeremiah 29:10b-14a reads,
I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations
God is so good, He gives us good gifts. He gives us the desires of our hearts and since He knows us so well, He knows what it is we want! But He also listens to us and gives what we ask for. Anything we ask for in Jesus’ name, He gives us (John 14:13).
The life He has given us is rich and full and it gets better and better. This is just one part the abundant life He has given us. Yet even if a relationship with God was the one and only part, it would be more than any of us could ever have known without Him.
Stay with us as we continue this series about living life abundantly. Be blessed, Beloved!
 
 
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Life of David Part 5: You are Not Meant to Walk Alone

8/20/2016

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This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15:12-13
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15:12-13
 You are not meant to walk alone. You were made in the image of God and one aspect of God’s being is that He is relational. You were made for relationships. You were made for a relationship with God and relationships with other people. David had Jonathan. The two were knit together, forever joined by God. They were not just friends; they were closer than brothers. Trouble didn’t separate them, but carried them through some very terrible times. Proverbs 17:17 describes this kind of friendship.
A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

1 Samuel 20 describes how Jonathan, who just could not believe his father really meant to kill David, stuck by David’s side and learned of his father’s murderous intentions. David was expected to attend the three-day Festival of the New Moon with the king at his table. But he didn’t dare because Saul was determined to kill him.  Although Jonathan was naïve to his father’s state of mind, he remembered his covenant to David and the LORD and remained steadfastly loyal to him. He was certain David was wrong and wanted to prove it to him. David was certain Jonathan was wrong and wanted him to understand how dangerous Saul had become. Verses 1-4 read,
Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?” 2 And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.” 3 But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”4 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”
The two hatched a plan. If Saul asked about David’s absence from the festival, Jonathan would tell his father that David was in Bethlehem to sacrifice. If Saul reacted angrily, Jonathan would know he wanted to kill David, if not then David would be safe.
Well of course, Saul was angry and this time his anger was directed at Jonathan as well as David since he understood the deep bond they had. He realized Jonathan had no plans of ever being Israel’s king because he was happy to let David take the role, the LORD had anointed him to take. Verses 30-34 describe it.
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.” 32 Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”33 But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. 34 And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.
 
Saul knew in his heart that the LORD had chosen David to be his successor but he was resolute in making sure it was his family line that continued on Israel’s throne. Once Jonathan understood it, he was all the more devoted to David and went to tell David that he was right and Saul wanted him dead. He had seen Saul’s true nature when his father said such horrible things to him. He had seen David’s true nature throughout. David had never sinned against Saul. They said goodbye to one another knowing it would be a long time before they might see one another again, if ever. Verses 41-42 read,
 And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most. 42 Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
 
Jonathan and David’s bond, their friendship was based on God. He was between them and would forever be what united them. Though at times they doubted one another, they always came back to faith in each other because it was God between them and He is Steadfast, Faithful, and True.
When your relationships include God, you can trust the relationship and you will know that it is an eternal one. The relationships you have with fellow believers, ones where you intentionally include your Lord are powerful. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 in The Message reads,
It’s better to have a partner than go it alone.
Share the work, share the wealth.
And if one falls down, the other helps,
But if there’s no one to help, tough!

11 Two in a bed warm each other.
Alone, you shiver all night.

12 By yourself you’re unprotected.
With a friend you can face the worst.
Can you round up a third?
A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped.

 
Real friendships strengthen you, support you and keep you protected from enemy attacks. Deliberately inviting Jesus into the relationships makes them even more wonderful.  Jesus told us,
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.  For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” (Matthew 18:18-20).
 
When we walk this walk together with Jesus, the Holy Spirit works even more within us. He is able to work through each of us to edify all of us. Proverbs 27:17 reminds us,
Iron sharpens iron,
    and one man sharpens another.

 
And 1 Thessalonians 5:8-24 says this,
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
12 We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
Believer, Jesus calls you His friend but you were not meant to be friends with Him alone. You have brothers and sisters in Christ to commune with as well. There is a world of lost people who need to interact with you, to have a relationship with you so they will know Jesus. In John 15:12-17 Jesus gave us this encouragement and commandment,
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.  You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
What does it mean that Jesus is our friend? We’re in on God’s will. He tells us what his plan is. But there is more! Job 16:18-22 in The Message describes Jesus this way,
“O Earth, don’t cover up the wrong done to me!
    Don’t muffle my cry!
There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me,
    in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name--
My Champion, my Friend,
    while I’m weeping my eyes out before God.
I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God
    as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.

“Only a few years are left
    before I set out on the road of no return.”

 
David was a man after God’s own heart and he had a profound friendship with Jonathan. If we are to be men and women after God’s own heart, then we too must have those relationships. We can’t do all God’s will if we are walking a solitary walk.
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Genesis 18 Intimate Friendship With God

6/20/2016

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Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me Revelation 3:20
​Genesis 18
When we are in a relationship with God, it can become as intimate as we choose it to be. God is close and He will be as close to us as we are willing to let Him be.  That closeness, that deep familiarity and mutual affection we call fellowship or friendship is not always easy. It is fueled by faith and strong faith is not attained by an easy life.
Abraham had that kind of intimacy with God. His faith likely began when his father Terah raised him to follow the Lord. I am struck by the fact that Terah was seventy years old when he became a father to Abraham (Genesis 11:26). He had waited a long time for his sons and he had three. I think it is clear from who both Abraham and Lot became, that Terah raised his sons to follow God. His faith had grown from the time he first obeyed God and traveled from his home in Ur to Canaan. It grew more as he obeyed the Lord time and again over the years and it grew as He believed God’s covenant, God’s word to him about his future. Abraham’s road was not easy, his faith was massive, and his relationship with God was as close as any relationship could be. They were friends. The Lord enjoyed spending time with His friend so one day, He came by for a visit. (Remember He did not yet dwell in His people). Verses 1-5 read,
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth 3 and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. 4 Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, 5 while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”
The relationship is initiated by God but it is not forced. God showed up and let Abraham decide if he would spend some time with Him. There were three men, The Lord didn’t need Abraham’s company, He has Himself for community. He wasn’t lonely. He wanted Abraham’s company so He offered the chance for a little time together. Abraham took the chance and asked the Lord to stay and rest and take a little food. So, they, The Lord said, “Do as you have said.” Did God need a rest? Was He hungry? No. He chose to relate to Abraham on a level Abraham could understand.
What would your reaction be to having the Lord God come and agree to have a bite with you? I think that depends on where you are on your walk with Jesus. Would you cower in fear, would you be all formal and speak to Him in flowery words to keep distance between you? Would you fall at His feet, hug him, or give Him a high five? I doubt any of us can answer that question with complete objectivity. We tend to answer how we hope it would go down. One day, we will see Him face to face and since we will have been made into the perfect image of Christ, our response will be perfect love and worship. But for now, believers know Him just a bit, partially and even that is bigger than most of us can grasp (1 Corinthians 13:12). By the way, God has offered you the chance to fellowship. In Revelation 3:20-21 Jesus says,
 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Abraham’s reaction showed his friendship with God as the LORD. He worshipped and invited Him to spend time with him. Then he rushed off to prepare the water and the morsel of bread. Verses 6-8 read,
And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.” 7 And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly. 8 Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
Abraham didn’t bring back a bowl of water and a morsel of bread. He had a feast prepared. He wasn’t doing this for the neighbor down the road, he was doing this for The LORD God Almighty. What difference does it make to you, when you are doing something for me and something for God? Do you do your best for God, do you give Him you best? Keep in mind that we are to do everything from washing a dish to serving a king as if we were doing it for the Lord (Colossians 3:23). Remember that whatever we do for even the seemingly most seemingly insignificant of people, we are doing for the Lord. (Mathew 25:40).
A seah of flower was a little under seven and half liters of flour, more than enough for three little cakes of bread, but Abraham had Sarah use a seah each for the three. Then he went and had a calf killed and prepared with curds and milk. (Had this happened in the days of Levitical law, he would have prepared the Lord a non-kosher dish). How long do you imagine that takes? Does it take a few minutes or is it many hours? He was giving the Lord more than a morsel of bread, He was giving him a feast and as long as it took to prepare it, he got to spend that time with God. As long as it took God to enjoy it, he got to spend that time with Him too.
Don’t imagine that the only time you can spend with your Lord is while you are at church or in service or in a carved out quiet time. What about the time you are preparing for those times? What about the times when you are working, concentrating on a task, or relating to the people in your life? If you allow the Lord to be in those times as well as the others, you can enjoy all that time with Him as well.
Abraham was not the only person present. Sarah was there too. She knew the Lord was right outside her door. She had made Him cakes and she could hear the conversation. She chose to remain outside of that fellowship. She chose to stay by the tent door listening. The Lord knew she was there and He invited her into the conversation. He wanted her to enjoy the same closeness that Abraham was enjoying. Verses 9-12 read,
They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.” 10 The Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”
Although the Lord spoke to Abraham, He addressed Sarah. His words were for her benefit and for her faith. She laughed, scoffed at the idea of having a child when she had not had her menses for such a long time. She wasn’t in menopause, she was long past it.  She had desired a child for so long and had accepted the fact that she would not have one, even in the face of God’s promise to her and her husband. She had been through many of the same things her husband had been through, yet her faith was not as strong as his. What was the difference? Abraham chose to have a relationship right up close with God and spoke to and listened to Him directly. Sarah chose to listen from afar and let Abraham speak to and for God for her.
I’ve been where she was. I have laughed at the idea of God fulfilling my desires because science and logic say it can’t happen. How did God respond to His precious daughter’s derision? Verses 13-15 read,
The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.” 15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”
Once again the Lord spoke to Abraham but addressed Sarah and this time Sarah answered the Lord and let Him speak to her directly. This passage doesn’t say what Sarah’s response was. But we know that the Lord didn’t change His mind about the child. A year later Isaac was born. And God didn’t choose to remember Sarah for her doubt or her sins. He chose to remember her faith and her righteousness. Hebrews 11:11 is a testimonial memorial to Sarah.
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised
Intimacy with God, friendship with Him also lets us in on His plans. How many of us go through life wondering what God’s will is for us? How many times have you asked your friend what her prayer is and she has said, “I just want to know what God’s will is.” When you are friends with Him, He lets’ you in on it. Verses 16-22 read,
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. 17 The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, 18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.” 20 Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, 21 I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”
 
The Lord wanted to share His will with Abraham. He wanted Abraham to be included in His work. God doesn’t work in mysterious ways. He is open with us about His will and His plan and He lets us participate. His ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8-9), but His work, acts, and plans are not mysterious. Jesus said it this way in John 15:14-15,
You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
 
Letting us into His plans gives us to join in His work. Amos 3:7-8 reads,
“For the Lord God does nothing
    without revealing his secret
    to his servants the prophets.
8 The lion has roared;
    who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken;
    who can but prophesy?”

 
God’s Word tells us His will and if we are in an intimate relationship with Him we’ll act. (BTW, God’s will is for the whole world to be saved, for your sanctification, a relationship with you and His glory 1 Timothy 3:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, Hosea 6:6, Isaiah 43:7).
Abraham responded to the news that Sodom and Gomorrah were going to be destroyed for their wickedness by intervening to try and save them. The evil of these two cities was more than simple homosexuality as some would make us believe. It was ramped depravity, debauchery, and sexual immorality. It was hedonism to such a degree that the residents only care was their own pleasure. But Abraham had hope for them, because he had faith. He also knew his nephew Lot and was a righteous man living in Sodom with his family. Abraham stood his ground and spoke to the Lord as only a loving friend can. Verses 22-26 read,
So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. 23 Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26 And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
 
Can you imagine? He stood in the way of the Lord without letting Him continue onto His plan until He knew more and could convince God to save the wicked cities for the sake of the righteous men within their gates. He knew that the Lord was on His way, the two men went on to the cities but Abraham also knew God is sovereign and powerful. He wouldn’t have any trouble communicating with them.
He then had the boldness to go further. Verses 27-33 in The Message read,
Abraham came back, “Do I, a mere mortal made from a handful of dirt, dare open my mouth again to my Master? What if the fifty fall short by five—would you destroy the city because of those missing five?”
He said, “I won’t destroy it if there are forty-five.”
29 Abraham spoke up again, “What if you only find forty?”
“Neither will I destroy it if for forty.”
30 He said, “Master, don’t be irritated with me, but what if only thirty are found?”
“No, I won’t do it if I find thirty.”
31 He pushed on, “I know I’m trying your patience, Master, but how about for twenty?”
“I won’t destroy it for twenty.”
32 He wouldn’t quit, “Don’t get angry, Master—this is the last time. What if you only come up with ten?”
“For the sake of only ten, I won’t destroy the city.”
33 When God finished talking with Abraham, he left. And Abraham went home.
 
God already knew exactly how many righteous men dwelled in those two cities, one man, Lot and tomorrow we’ll read about what happened.
How close are you to the Lord? Do you visit with Him, talk with Him, and give Him your best? Are you His friend who He can share His plans with? Are you still waiting at the tent door afraid that God will see your doubt? God knows your heart completely whether you choose to be aloof or not. Let Him make you into who you are meant to be, the sanctified righteous image of Jesus Christ. Go ahead join Him for supper, hang out with Him and walk with Him.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8
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2 Kings 14:23-29 God Does Not Need Us.

2/5/2016

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The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. Acts 17:24-25
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. Acts 17:24-25
2 Kings 14:23-29
The Lord does not need us to be faithful and obedient; He wants us to be faithful and obedient (Acts 17:24-26). He desires a relationship with us, not ignorant servitude (Hosea 6:6). But He is God and He does not need us to do a single thing. He allows us to take part in His work. It is our privilege that He considers us His sons and daughters, His royal priesthood, and His chosen nation called out of the world to be distinctively His. That is our honor and His joy. But if we do not do what The Lord asks, He is no worse off. His will will be done.
Take for instance Jeroboam II, he did evil in the sight of the Lord. He followed in the footsteps of his namesake and led Israel to sin in wrong worship, yet The Lord still chose to use him to save His people. Verses 23-25 reads,
“In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 25 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea ofthe Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.”
Even though Jeroboam did evil in His sight, The Lord spoke to him through Jonah and allowed him to restore Israel’s border. This was the same Jonah who rebelled against The Lord and did not want to speak to Evil Nineveh, because he knew God’s great mercy would save them (Jonah 1:1). Yet he eventually obeyed The Lord in Nineveh and he obeyed the Lord in Samaria. He spoke to Jeroboam and he obeyed.
The Lord does not need anyone, including you and me to do anything. He is The LORD. Isaiah 63:4-9 describes how He will save and has saved Israel and the entire world through her without any help from men.
“For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
6 I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
    the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
    and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
8 For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will not deal falsely.”
    And he became their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted,
    and the angel of his presence saved them;
in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
    he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Why would God want to save Israel when it seems all they did was evil and idolatry? Because God is merciful and kind, He loves Israel. He allowed her to be brought down many times so that they would turn to Him, but He would not let her be completely destroyed. Verses 26-29 read,
“For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel. 27 But theLord had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son.”
Why did God save Israel? Israel was His treasured possession, so he sent prophet after prophet to her to get her to turn from idolatry to Him. Jesus said it this way in Matthew 23:37-38,
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.”
Believer, The Lord chose you as well. He loves you. He sends you prophets, wise men, teachers, and servants to speak to you. He speaks to you Himself. He gave you His Word. He wants you to hear and obey, not because He needs you but because He wants to give you His complete joy in perfect relationship with Him. He wants to bless you beyond your imagination (Psalm 84:11-12). But you and I are far from perfect. In response to His love we strive to continue developing His character. The more we obey, the more we delight in Him, the more we will be able to enjoy the blessings and gifts he pours out on us and the better able we will be to do the good works He created us to do.
God saved Israel through Jeroboam’s obedience, even though he did not have faith and did not worship the Lord in truth. God used Jonah even through his rebellion and pride. God can use anyone. It does not have to be you and me. But it can be and it should be! If we love Him, we obey Him (John 14:15). If we love Him, we love and take care of one another (John 21:15-19). If we love Him with our entire being, we love other people (Matthew 22:36-40). Our love for God is reflected in our love for people. It is how He is glorified, it is how we obey, and it is how others will know who Jesus Christ is. 1 John 4:10-14 reads,
“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.”
And John 13:31-35 says,
“When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
That obedience and love is an outpouring and response to God’s love for us, for who God is, and for who we are in Christ. We do not do the work of God to earn his love, we do it because He loves us so much already. We cannot save ourselves. Ephesians 2:4-10 reads,
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
It is an honor to serve God. He doesn’t need us to serve Him, He allows us to serve Him.
Ephesians 3:6-8 says,
“This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,”
Why is The Lord our God? Does He need us? Does it give Him anything to be our God? Job 22:2-4 reads,
“Can a man be profitable to God?
    Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
    or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
    and enters into judgment with you?”

God created us, not because He was lonely, He was never lonely. He has always been Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He created us because He is Love (1 John 4:8) and He wants to share that love with us. I want to leave you with this encouragement from Ephesians 3:14-21.
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
 
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Leviticus 26 Obedience And Disobedience Have Consequences

5/20/2015

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Leviticus Chapter 26

This chapter tells about two opposing lifestyles for Israel and for the child of God, obedience and disobedience. First the Lord gives two statutes that exemplify a relationship with Him. Verses 1-2 read,

“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.”

We know looking at Israel’s history that they couldn’t and wouldn’t stop worshipping false gods. They made idols every chance they got. Even at Mt. Sinai they made a golden calf. Even then when The Lord was so obviously present with them and doing miracles for their redemption. We also know that Israel turned the Sabbath from a celebration of rest and peace with God into a ritualistic job. They put a huge amount of effort into keeping His rest. That was never the intention of the Sabbath.

Both of those laws were about keeping the Lord first in their hearts, communing with the Almighty in love and fellowship. But they missed the boat. How many of us missed it?

Next The Lord told them how obedience would lead to blessings. He is referring to Israel and today to Believers. He doesn’t expect the gentile or the lost to obey Him, because they don’t know Him or His proclamations. Verses 3-5 read,

“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.”

He gives His obedient children everything we need and more. He makes sure we have plenty. He gives His compliant children peace and security. We let Him deal with those who would hurt us and with the enemy. That isn’t our concern. Our enemy will be afraid of us because The Lord of Angel Armies fights for us. Verses 6-8 say it this way,

“I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”

His security goes beyond fighting the enemy for us. It is in the fruit of our wombs, the fruit of the land, and the fruit of The Spirit. Obedience is possible because of faith and faith is fortified by obedience. Obedience, faith, and peace form an unending circle as each strengthens each.  The Lord gave us freedom, not so we could be enslaved by the law, but so we could freely worship and adore Him and so we could unreservedly fellowship with Him. Verses 9-13 read,

“I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.”

Believer, is your relationship with the Lord like that? He wants you to know Him intimately. If your faith is too small to let you obey Him, is your fear is too great to let you give yourself wholly to Him, He will do what He must to bring you into that complete and lovely dependence on Him. His discipline is for your benefit. Verses 14-17 describe it like this,

“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.”

With each disciplinary action He allows, He gives the opportunity for us to turn to Him and repent. And each time we refuse to give up our pride and submit to Him the correction becomes more severe. If we choose not to trust in His provision and instead toil away for ourselves, He allows it. But without Him our laboring comes up empty. If we choose to fight our enemy ourselves, He permits it, but without Him our fight is futile and our hearts are filled with fear.

If we keep walking against Him, He will allow others to come in and fight us, harm us, and dominate us. How many times was Israel sent into captivity when they disobeyed? He will do what He must to restore us into a relationship with Him. Verses 21-22 read,

“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.”

If we choose to walk without Him, He will let us go the road alone sweating and striving to meet our needs and fighting our own battles. Not because He doesn’t love us, but because He does and He will not force Himself on us. He takes His hands off our lives in those desperate times so we will turn back to Him. But He never spurns us, He never forsakes us. Verses 27-28 say,

“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.”

God doesn’t send discipline to us for no reason. He loves us deeply. He wants a friendship with us. He wants a union with us that is so profound that we have His nature and His heart and that we bear His image. All we ever have to do is turn to Him with repentant submissive hearts and He restores us to His intimacy. He prefers to be our tender loving Father instead of our wrathful God. Verses 40-42 read,

“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.”

Verses 45-46 read,

“But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

46 These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.”

Are you being disciplined? Is the Lord calling back to obedience? Examine your heart. Is it beginning to harden against your adoring Father? Is your neck too stiff to turn to your loving Lord? Let His discipline break your pride. Find your faith and use it to bow to The Lord God Almighty.

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John 14:18-24 You are not alone. God is with you.

12/21/2014

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John Chapter 14 Verses 18-24

Jesus continued to teach the disciples at their Passover Seder in the hours before His arrest and crucifixion. Verses 18-21 read,

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

The words Jesus spoke hold great joy and hope. But the disciples couldn’t understand it all because they didn’t realize He was about to sacrifice His life and they didn’t completely understand the resurrection that would take place after. You and I have the benefit of knowing what was about to happen and we have the Holy Spirit, who reveals the truths to us.

Jesus was going to die, but that wasn’t the end of the story. The disciples wouldn’t be without Him. The lost world would think Jesus was gone and that was that. But even after His death, resurrection and ascension, those who followed and loved Jesus would know He is still with them. Do you now that Jesus is with you? Do you know God is always with you? What a wonderful comfort.

Jesus reminded the disciples again that it is by obeying His commandments that we prove our love. In demonstrating our love for God by demonstrating His love for humanity we get to know Jesus more. The Son is in the Father, and you are in Him and He is in you. Meditate on the awesomeness of that. Truly consider it. You are in God and God is in you, and Jesus makes Himself known to you. Then follow that thought and realize that Jesus is the exact image of the Father (Hebrews 1:3) and if He is making Himself known to you, He is making the Father known to you.

The disciples didn’t understand but wanted to. They had been with Jesus as His closest friends, students, and followers for a couple of years but without the Holy Spirit they couldn’t grasp the depth of the mystery that Jesus revealed. Verses 22-24 read,

“Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.”

Notice, that Jesus repeated what He has said several times, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word.” But look what else He says, “and my Father will love him.” He doesn’t mean the Father doesn’t love people who do not love Jesus. He means that the Father has a relationship with those who love Jesus. His love becomes an active relational love in which He interacts and communes with us. Do you get what a big deal it is that you can have a friendship with God? It is awesome in the truest sense of the word. It’s better than being friends with Billy Graham or the President. You can be intimate friends the Creator, the Lord God of Hosts.

And God makes His Home with you. The Father’s house has many rooms. Jesus went to the Father to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2-3). And that place, that home is with you! Believer, God is with you. You are not alone. You are never alone. Jesus didn’t walk the earth, then sacrifice Himself, resurrect and ascend to leave you alone. He did all that so that you could always be with Him. There is no long bridge from here to Heaven. There is no need for a staircase. Jesus brought eternity to you. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6). God (Father, Son and Spirit) are with you here and now. There is no need to be anxious, worried, or afraid. God is with you and within you. Jesus did a marvelous thing for you. He gave His life so that you could live in a relationship with God.

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Ephesians 6:1-4 Obey and Honor Your Mother and Father

11/4/2014

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As children of God and Followers of Christ filled with the Holy Spirit, we are expected to conduct ourselves in a certain way. We've discussed that over the last several days. Our relationship with God should also be reflected in our relationships with people. If we say we love God but that love doesn't manifest in our earthly relationships, then we are kidding ourselves. John put it like this in 1 John 4:19-21

“We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

He calls us liars! He says we can’t love God if we can’t love our brothers. In fact loving our brothers is how we prove our love for God. Loving others is the command that Jesus gave us that encompasses all the law of the new covenant. In John 13:3-35 Jesus said,

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

We can see the importance of our earthly relationships to Jesus. It is clear that they have meaning. In Ephesians chapter 5 Paul taught that the marriage relationship was a mirror of our relationship with Christ. Now He talks about a couple of other types of relationships. He begins chapter 6 of his letter talking about the parent-child relationship. Verses 1-4 read,

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

Since other relationships and earthly things echo heavenly things, I believe this relationship teaches us about our relationship with the Father. The difference being that our human fathers and mothers are not perfect. God’s love is complete perfect and flawless. Our dads are only human. We cannot expect our mortal dads to be our Abba Father. But we still strive to live this relationship the way God meant for us to.

The first thing Paul says is, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right” Obedience to one’s parents is not always easy. When we are young we are still learning and we have to obey blindly. Daddy says a stern “No” when we reach for the interesting electrical outlet and if we ignore him and try to touch it anyway, we get a quick punishment. We have no idea why we are not allowed to touch the outlet. We don’t know why Mommy won’t let us touch the pretty candle and its flickering flame but she won’t. But one day we learn one of the reasons behind the bizarre rules. One day when Mommy doesn't notice we reach up to the high shelf for that beautiful thing she is always saying “do not touch.” And as we get our excited and curious little fingers on it, it falls off the shelf, and hits us on the head before falling to the floor and breaking. Mommy doesn't have to say “no” this time. Our head hurts, our foot is bleeding where we stepped on a piece of the broken figurine. The consequences told us the what we didn't know before. We should have listened and trusted.

As we grow up, obeying remains difficult because now although we often understand the reasons behind the rules. We want to break out from the rules and discover ourselves. Too often as adolescents we think our parents do not understand us. But the truth is our parents know us better than we know ourselves. They understand because they were once our age. They no longer have the raging hormones wreaking havoc on their minds or emotions, but even if they don’t remember how difficult it was, they know it is happening. Now they teach us by giving us the rules and letting the consequences of breaking or keeping them teach us. They try to talk to us and guide us through this very difficult time and sometimes we let them in and sometimes we don’t.

When we are finally mature we can look back and see our parent’s wisdom and love in their methods. We can establish a new deeper relationship with them as adults.

Can you see your relationship and path with God exhibited in the relationship with your parents? Learning to trust your parents taught you to easier trust your Heavenly Father. He teaches us and guides us to help us to mature in Him and become like Him. How many times have you surprised yourself to see your mother or father displayed in your actions and dealings? I've spoken and realized the words I spoke were my father’s words. I've looked in the mirror and seen my mother’s face.

God knows best. He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows you better than your parents know you. He made you. He brought you into this world. He made you. Psalm 139:13-14 reads,

“For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.”

He has known you and chosen you from the moment He created you. Psalm 71:5-6 reads,

“For you, O Lord, are my hope,
    my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
6 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
    you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.”

Paul next tells us to Honor our mother and father. He also says, this command comes with a promise. If you honor your parents “it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” It doesn’t say you will live a long life. It says you may live long in the land. You will know God sooner and you will live in the Kingdom of God longer than a person who rebelled, refused to honor his earthly parents and had to come to the promise of grace and rest from further away. Lost is lost. It doesn’t matter if you are ½ mile off course or 100 miles off course, you are still lost. But the person who is not as far away from the target he is seeking will probably find it sooner than the person out in the wilderness searching.

If you honor your parents, you are that much closer to understanding how to honor God. Do you honor your parents? Do you say, “But my parents are not worth honoring?” God still wants you to honor them. Find it in you to see this, God chose them to be your parents. He picked them. They had exactly the right qualities to create exactly the right you. He chose them because the life they gave you shaped your personality just as much as the DNA they gave you. God honored them by electing them to give you life. And they did. You may not like the life they provided, but God chose them. He was with you through every step of your life from conception to now. Psalm 22:9-11 reads,

“Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
    you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
10 On you was I cast from my birth,
    and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
11 Be not far from me,
    for trouble is near,
    and there is none to help.”

Whether you had a good childhood or not, God has asked you to honor your parents. It is the 5th commandment of “the big 10.” The first after the commandments that direct how we are to interact with God. The first of the commandments that tell us how to interact with the world. It comes before telling us not to murder, lie, steal, commit adultery, or covet. That is a big deal.

So how do we honor our parents? What does that mean? To honor means to value, respect, or esteem. It means to understand and acknowledge their worth. We honor God by obeying Him. We honor God by loving Him and praising His name. We honor Him by living and walking in the manner He has asked us to, a manner that reflects or imitates who He is. We honor our parents then by recognizing the value they have to God and to us. Remember they gave us life. Obey them. Make them proud by living a good life. We honor our parents by loving them. God loves them. God chose them for you. You honor God, by honoring your parents.

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Ephesians 4:1-6 You can't express love and unity with one another if you do not go to church.

10/29/2014

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Ephesians 4 1-6

Believer, I hope you are an active member of a worship community. Being part of a community of other followers of Christ is one of the ways that your redemption and transformation exhibits itself. It provides you opportunities to learn more and on a deeper level. You manifest God’s love in a plain way, others see it, and they are amazed by what makes you different.

Of course some fellowships are not the tight knit group they are meant to be. We are human and we too often let our nature express itself rather than glorify God by the letting His Spirit reveal Himself in our words, emotions, and actions. Perhaps that is the reason unity in Christ is so often addressed in The Word.

We are urged to be unified with one another. We are implored to love one another and be one with each other. The accord we live and display is a picture and a testimony to outsiders of The Kingdom of God. Our unison with each other is a mirror of our oneness with God the Father, Son, and Spirit. Our unity is also a depiction of God’s relationship to Himself. He is Father, Son, and Spirit, all three in unanimity and perfect wholeness as one. He maintains three very distinct selves and yet He is one. You cannot separate Him from Himself. No one can separate Him from you. So no one can separate you from the Fellowship of Believers.

Walking and actively demonstrating the Spirit within us is vital to togetherness and cohesion with our Brothers and Sisters. Verses 1-3 read,

“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

Although the fruit of the Spirit is a natural manifestation of our salvation, we consciously exhibit it. Paul urges us. He insists and he pleads that we walk in this way. Walking is active. We have a choice to walk in a worthy manner or in a worldly manner.

He commends us to walk is with all humility. Humility is not looking at our own needs but putting the needs and desires of others before our own.

Gentleness is mild-mannered, quiet, and soft. We are not supposed to be harsh. Honesty and harshness are not the same thing. Gentleness requires kindness, compassion, and tenderness.

Patience asks us to persist calmly, to endure, to wait, and stay. Patience keeps us looking forward to the result but as if it has already happened. The patient man waits and tolerates the present because he knows the outcome will be.

That patience keeps us bearing one another in love. Not merely tolerating or putting up with each other but bearing one another. That is accepting, supporting, and going through everything good or bad together.

We do all these things in love. We don’t pretend to care about each other, we don’t act as if we stomach each other. We love each other. Love is an active choice. You can help who you love. Love is the fruit of the Spirit. Love is the way in which all the characteristics of Christ are expressed to us and through us. Love is our expression of the bond we have. It is our articulation of the Spirit within us. He is Love.

When I walk into the building where my church meets, I am flooded with love. People greet me, ask me how I am and listen earnestly to the answer. People hug me and are genuinely happy to see me and I am similarly happy to see them. I look forward to the times when I will see my church family. And likewise, I enjoy meeting Brothers and Sisters elsewhere. We recognize our family connection and we celebrate that connection. Verses 4-6 read,

“There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all”

We are part of one body, the body of Christ, His bride, His temple we are not only members in it, but inextricable from it. We share the same Spirit. We have the same promise and hope of eternity. That hope gives us a common purpose to bring others into The Kingdom of God, to become part of this body with us and give them the same awesome hope we have.

There are not many roads to the same destination. There is one road. There is only one way and that is the Lord. He is The One True God King of Kings Jesus Christ. There are not many different beliefs. There is one faith. The truth doesn’t change for the hearer. The Gospel remains the gospel and the hearer accepts it or does not. There is one baptism, one forgiveness and cleansing not many. We have one God. There are not gods of love, gods of wisdom, and gods of creation. There is one God, He is the God of Love, the God of Wisdom, and Creator of all. He is our Father.

He is the LORD. He is sovereign over everyone and everything regardless of our recognition of the fact. He is through all. God can and does use whomever He chooses. He used a donkey to speak to Balaam in Numbers 22. He used a tree to teach Jonah. He used Babylon to discipline Judah and Israel. He is in all. Not only is God in His followers in the form of His Spirit, but by the very fact that He created us after His own image, every person carries a part of God within them, sort of like DNA. It is what makes us need Him and seek Him. It is what some people call that God-shaped whole.

Remember Paul’s insistent and burning request. Walk in unity of peace and love with one another. The Message says, “Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness.” God is the very exact picture of perfect unity. Then we also should be saturated with His unity. Choose to be in oneness with the Fellowship. Love one another.

John 13:35 reads,

“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Your love displayed through harmony is how God is glorified and how we achieve the call to make Him known to the world.

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Ephesians 2:11-22 If you are united with Christ, you are united with the church. 

10/26/2014

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Ephesians 2 11-22

Believer, you are one with Christ. You and He are united. When He saved you, He put you to rights with Himself and bonded you with God. Now that you are reconciled to God through Christ, you are also joined with fellow believers as one. You are one of God’s children, His chosen people. You have become part of Israel. 1 Peter 2:9 reads,

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”

That was not always the case. At one time we were separated from God, estranged from Christ, and apart from God’s people. Ephesians 2: 12 remind us of that.

“remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”

We were alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. We had no understanding of what it meant to belong to God. We had no hope without the promise of Jesus and His new covenant, a covenant that made a new nation for God, a new Israel out of the previous one. A commonwealth is a nation or state founded on law and united by an understanding and an agreement or covenant for the common good of the people. A commonwealth does not submit to an earthly king or government. It is governed by the people. Israel, God’s chosen people was founded on God’s law and given the freedom to govern themselves. When Jesus came and made a new covenant, the foundation of law did not change it was realized and He made a way for all people to choose citizenship amongst God’s nation.

Although the laws still stand, all the intricate rules and edicts added to those laws were abolished by Christ. Even better, Jesus made it possible to follow the law which is nearly impossible to follow by simplifying it for us. He reminded us that all the laws hinge on Loving God wholly and loving others wholly. (Matthew 22:36-40).

Verses 13-16 read,

“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.”

Because we are able to be members of this commonwealth together, Jesus dissolved the walls that used to come between us. We are not separated by our differing cultures. Our backgrounds cannot divide us. We are a new race, God’s chosen race. We are united, wedded to one another and indivisible. When we cloud this unity by trying to rebuild the walls that Jesus destroyed, we are doing the work of the enemy. The little differences that come in and create division accomplish Satan’s desires and keep us from working toward the common good and God’s desire to bring all people to Salvation.

Keep in mind that salvation not only brings us peace with God, but it brings us peace with one another. He means for us to be united. How can we not be? We share a Father. We have a mutual King in our Lord Jesus. We have one Spirit. When you disrespect your Brother, you disregard God. You forget that His Spirit is him and insult the Lord. You are the temple of God. We are the temple of God.

God’s plan for us is communal as well. While He has very individual relationships with each of us, He has a corporate relationship with us as well. We are meant to grow together, work together, love one another, and love others together. We come from many different backgrounds but we all have the same future and same hope. Verses 17-22 read,

“And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.”

Don’t affront God by discounting the unison and harmony He gives us with one another. Just as we are united with God, He has bonded us to one another. So remember John 13:34-35.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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Isaiah 66 God doesn't want your elaborate worship. He wants a relationship with you.

10/22/2014

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Read Isaiah Chapter 66

Do you imagine God needs you, your worship, or your works? He doesn’t. He doesn’t even want ritualistic superficial worship. He is not blessed by your singing songs to Him while you think about your lunch plans. He is not blessed by sacrifices made down to the letter of the law if the heart is not in it. God is blessed by the person whose sacrifice is their pride, who worships Him in truth and spirit, and who believes and obeys Him. Verses 1-3 put it this way,

“Thus says the Lord:
“Heaven is my throne,
    and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
    and what is the place of my rest?
2 All these things my hand has made,
    and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
But this is the one to whom I will look:
    he who is humble and contrite in spirit
    and trembles at my word.

3 “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man;
    he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck;
he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood;
    he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.
These have chosen their own ways,
    and their soul delights in their abominations;”

If you have not humbled yourself to worship God in your spirit, then your acts of worship are mere posturing and you may as well be insulting Him rather than praising Him with your lips or ceremonies. God considers those whose worship is shallow and insincere His enemies.

God doesn’t need you, you need Him. He desires you to be in a real relationship with Him. He wants you to know the joy and love He has for you. Following Jesus is not about following rules and conforming to the standards of the church. Following Jesus is about being a friend of God and transforming to the image of Christ.

God promises recompense to His enemies and reward to His friends. Believer, you may feel injustice now as you suffer hate and injustice for your faith, but God is a God of justice and He assures you that they will pay for their wrongs. He promise His friends not only future rewards but compensations and gifts now as well. Your relationship with Him gives you relief and help from the Almighty. The same God who will destroy your enemies preserves you. Verses 12-14 read,

“For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
    and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
    and bounced upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
    so I will comfort you;
    you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
    your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants,
    and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.”

Do you try to make yourself better? Do you do all you can to be good? You can’t make yourself good. You can’t ever do enough to make yourself good enough. Trying to make yourself good enough is an atrocity to God, just as if you sacrificed a pig and drank its blood. Verse 17 puts it like this,

“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.”

God doesn’t want your convoluted methods to show Him you are a good Christian. He doesn’t want your elaborate ways of saying you love Him. He wants you to know Him, love Him, and follow Him with your whole heart, mind, soul, and strength. He wants a mutual camaraderie and deep familiarity with you.

God knows your heart. He knows the hearts of everyone. He discerns the affected from the genuine. There are two ends. One for God’s friends and one for His enemies. Verses 22-24 describe them,

“For as the new heavens and the new earth
    that I make
shall remain before me, says the Lord,
    so shall your offspring and your name remain.
23 From new moon to new moon,
    and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
all flesh shall come to worship before me,
declares the Lord.

24 “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

Examine your walk with the Lord. Is Jesus truly your Lord or is it you in charge? Is your worship earnest? Perhaps there is some mendacity or hollowness to your worship. God reveals those things to you so you can give them to Him. Let Him purify you. Let Him transform you. Humble yourself before your Lord God before He humbles you.

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