Rom 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
In my previous blog THE LIFESTYLE OF FAITH I began to expound on the principal of faith
I believe that for many of Gods children faith is a major problem and one of the main reasons is because of the lack of understanding and revelation concerning the principal of faith.
For the next couple of weeks what I would like to do is to bring revelation to you concerning faith and I believe that it will be a tremendous help to you so that your faith even if it functions as a tiny mustard seed can become fruitful and lifestyle and powerful.
Here is reality,
The lifestyle of faith is actually faith in the reality of lifestyle.
The very first thing that I want to share with you is that faith is real and that it works,
This is so simple and yet so profound.
Faith has been proven in my life and it has been proven to the place where I know that it works, it has worked as He has raised me up, as He has shown me the power of His glory, as He has opened up the Red Seas of my life, as He has walked with me in fiery furnaces and slept with me in the lions den.
I have seen the power of His miracles and even though I have not walked perfectly in this revelation of faith it is a proven principal in my life and there are life changing revelations that He has taught me in the area of faith that I want to share with you so that faith can be lifestyle to you
Now the first thing that I want to say again concerning faith is that faith is real
Faith is real and yet there are many who do not believe that faith is real.
What do I mean when I say that many people do not believe that faith is real?
Here is what most people believe that faith is
They believe that faith is saying something that is so when it really is not so and if you say it long enough then it will become so
Most people believe that faith is saying the right things, persevering in these right things, not wavering, holding on, and speaking to those things in persistence and they call it faith.
So that the things that are not so will become real and that is false, that is hypocrisy in the area of faith and it is those false teachings that make people who believe in faith seem weird.
I do not know how many of Gods children believe that if you confess it long enough it will come to pass, if you speak it long enough it will come to pass, that is not so.
Faith is real and if you can grasp this powerful truth it will literally impact your life
Faith is tangible, it can be grasped, faith is reality in the spiritual world.
When I say by the stripes of Jesus Christ I am healed and even though I may not see the manifestation of that healing in my physical body, I am not just saying something that is not so and by confessing that by His stripes I am healed so that it can be so
No
When I say that by his stripes I am healed I know that it is real in the spirit world
It is reality in the spiritual world; in my spirit I am healed.
Not I might be, not I hope to be, not maybe, I am healed.
I do not relate to the physical, I do not relate to my five senses, I do not relate to my flesh
It is the spirit that I am relating to and it is real and it is faith that has made it real to me
Faith gives me the ability to look inside the realm of the spirit, faith gives me a picture in which I can view the spirit and when you the ability to look inside the spirit you are able to perceive spiritual truths that make you free.
Grasp this
Faith is seeing and seeking those things that you believe God has promised to give you through his word and when you believe that, when you believe that all the promises of God are yea in him and amen in him unto the glory of God by us then your faith becomes a bridge from the spiritual world unto the physical world.
Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hear the word of God
Faith is substance, substance means it is tangible, it is something to be held, it is reality and it is real
Faith is made up of substance and it is the reality of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen
The word of God does not say that it is the evidence of things that do not exist, they do exist but they exist in a realm that can not be seen.
Here is revelation,
Everything that you can see was created by someone that you can not see and was made out of things that you can not see.
Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
I need you to grasp this, everything that can be seen, everything that exists in the universe, everything that exists in the world, the trees, the rocks the mountains, the meadows, the plains, you and I.
Every thing tangible that can be seen in this world, that we can see, hear, taste, feel, and smell was made out of things that do not appear.
Here is revelation; every thing physical was made out of spiritual substance.
The world was not created out of nothing as most of Gods people believe;
I know that I just shocked 99% of Gods people.
God did not create the world out of nothing; He created it out of things that do not appear in the physical realm
He created it out of spiritual substance and spiritual realities
The word of God proclaims it
Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
The things that exist in the realm of the spiritual are the things that bring reality to the physical, the things that exist and are real in the spiritual is that which makes things real to you and I in the physical
God is a spirit being and He exists in the spiritual realm and the spiritual realm is a realm in which things are not seen and it is the spiritual realm that is the real reality of all that which is physical.
That which is physical would not exist if it were not for the existence of the spiritual or in other words that which can not be seen.
The spiritual realm is the greater realm of reality, everything in the spiritual is permanent, and every thing in the physical is temporary.
In the spiritual realm nothing ever changes and in the physical realm everything is constantly changing.
The spiritual world existed before the physical world and when this physical world ceases to exist as it now is it is going to be replaced by another world that will be created by spiritual substance again.
If you have been born again for any length of time you understand about the world that is going to be present after the millennium and for the child of God to put on blinders and to believe that the substance of faith is what you can see hear taste feel and smell has no understanding to the reality of faith.
For the child of God to believe that confessing something that is not so,
So that it will become so does not have a true concept of faith and they will never be able to walk in this powerful truth of faith.
The abundance of life that Christ spoke about in
John 10:10
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
That abundance can only be found in the realm of the spiritual and it is the spiritual that makes it real in the physical, the born again child of God needs to understand that Salvation has been brought to them.
That word Salvation in the Greek is sozo and it is an all inclusive word meaning all things pertaining to life and godliness have been given to you as a child of God
Forgiveness, healing, deliverance and prosperity.
2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness , through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
You never have to pray about some thing that you already have.
If you are sick and need healing then you need to have understanding that it has already been given and receive that which has been given to you as a child of God through faith, you need to begin to believe that which the word of God states already exists inside of you.
That which He died to give you is real and it exists inside of you.
It is real and it is substance and you need to begin to believe in the existence of things that you can not see, hear, taste, feel, and smell.
Hear the word of God and believe it,
1 Pet 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
By whose stripes you were healed, were healed is past tense, 200 years ago you were healed and if you are a born again child of God then that healing is already on the inside of you.
And if you can believe, if you can get past your carnal and fleshy realm, if you can get past your five senses, then this power that already exists in the spirit realm, this resurrection power that is already present within you. if you can believe, then faith can give substance, faith can give tangibility, faith can give evidence, and faith can give proof to the things that are not seen and then faith will reach over into that which is spiritual, it will reach over and grasp the spiritual truths and bring it over into the physical and it will become reality.
Faith does not make something that is not so to become so, faith bridges the gap so that which is true in the spiritual becomes reality in the physical
What a powerful truth.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
THE LIFESTYLE OF FAITH
Rom 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Most of Gods children believe that they have adequate knowledge concerning faith and most of Gods people also feel that they are walking in faith.
But the truth is that the fruit that is exhibited in the lives of most of Gods children does not show a lifestyle of faith.
If the child of God would just be honest with themselves most would come to the conclusion that the things that are taking place in there lives do not reflect the faith that is expressed in the word of God.
Faith to many is something that is formed in the realm of there natural life and they may operate in faith periodically, they may operate in faith occasionally, there may even be spurts of faith that they walk in but for the most part their faith is not lifestyle and they do not live by faith.
Hear the word of God
Rom 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Gal 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
The just shall live by faith, this is a place where we are supposed to live; this is the place where we are supposed to dwell.
It is not a place that we go to visit, it is not a place that we use occasionally, it is supposed to be a place that is permanent and we live and dwell there.
It is a place of lifestyle and a place where we abide in faith and the just live there but the truth is that the average Christian today is far removed from this place of abiding and living in faith.
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
The word of God states that without faith it is impossible to please Him for he that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him
You must believe that He is
Look at
Rom 10:14
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
The entire Chapter 11 of Hebrews speaks of those who walked in faith in the midst of controversy and adversity, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, David, Jephthae, Samuel, Sampson and all the prophets.
These names were written in the book of Hebrews to relate to you and I as children of God so that we might have revelation of those who walked in faith and how it pleased God.
They believed in God and it was counted unto them righteousness.
The way that they believed God in the face of adversity and in the midst of crisis is not the same way that the average child of God operates in faith today
.
Today when trouble comes, when adversity presents itself the average child of God becomes stressed out, they become emotional and fall apart like a two dollar suitcase, they quickly come to the end of their rope and remind God that He said that He would not put on them more than they could bear.
And they either need a drink, a smoke or a pill to calm there nerves,
They need to go into the bedroom and like an ostrich bury their head in the sand (under their pillow) to get away from the stress of it all and if they do not rely on those things then they just gut it out and just persevere through it with there teeth clinched.
I am not saying that this is true 100% of the time with all people but the message is that most of Gods children are depending on something other than faith to get them through.
Faith and power is not the lifestyle of the average child of God.
I deal every day in the hurts and sorrows of many who are God’s children and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that the hurts sorrows and things that they are going through would be of no significance at all if they would operate in the realm of faith.
That is the truth of Gods word and yet the reason that so many are not living in this place of faith is because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Faith is released upon revelation of Gods word and very few are walking in revelation knowledge of God’s word.
Turn to,
Mark 4:36-38
And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
VERSE 39-40
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Jesus looks at His disciples and says why are you so fearful, how is it that you have no faith.
The disciples are in a crisis, the wind was driving the waves into the ship and the ship was getting ready to capsize.
I do not believe that our imaginations have to wander too far as to the devastation and destruction that was caused by Katrina just a few short years ago to understand the disciples dilemma.
This is a crisis; the ship is full and is just about ready to sink and the disciples come to Jesus who is sleeping and says Master don’t you care that we perish. Don’t you care that we are in a crisis and our lives are in danger.
And Jesus says why are you fearful, how is it that you do not have faith.
And it could be better stated by saying, why are you not using the faith that I have given to you.
Rom 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith .
Why was Christ sleeping and at peace?
It was because of faith and it was faith that allowed Him to deal with the situation in peace.
That which God the Father had given him enabled him to deal with that which was coming against Him, and that which was in Him kept that which was on the outside from penetrating the inside of Him.
They woke him up; He rebuked the crisis and basically said this, if you were operating in faith you would not be operating in fear.
What an awesome word,
If you were operating in faith you would not be dealing in fear.
These disciples are in the crisis of their life, the ship is ready to capsize and Jesus says where is your faith, why are you so fearful.
To the child of God operating in fear this is a no brainer.
What do you mean why am I so fearful,
The ship is sinking, we are about to perish.
My spouse is dying, my child is dying, I’ve lost my job, we are about to lose everything that we have worked for and it all is going up in smoke.
What do you mean why I am so fearful don’t you understand what is taking place.
And this is the place where the church and the people in the church say.
We understand your feelings, we understand your fears, this is a hard place to be in and you have every right to feel and to react the way that you reacting.
But Jesus said
Why are you so fearful and where is your faith?
This is the place where many are searching for comfort and sympathy and only get it from the church but not from Jesus.
Jesus says,
If you were operating in faith you would not be operating in fear.
Fear is the place that the average child of God lives at and this fear brings forth weeping, moaning, groaning, travailing, complaining, depression, and trying to find answers that will alleviate the fear
Faith is the place that will accomplish those goals.
I Jn 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
If you are operating in faith then you will overcome the world for it is your faith that is the victory that overcomes the world.
Faith gives you the victory
There is no situation or circumstance that is greater than your faith.
Your faith overcomes the world.
Isa 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper; no weapon formed against you shall be profitable against you and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and there righteousness is of me
Hear me,
Faith never loses, faith never fails, faith is the victory that overcomes the world and for the most part the reason that we are not over comers and the reason that we are not overcoming the world through our faith is because we are baptized in unbelief.
The church is full of it; the child of God is full of it
We have been taught by the church that we are limited and that God is limited
And if the church is not teaching that God is limited they are surely showing that He is through their actions.
The average child of God believes that healing does not take place apart from Doctors, medicine and hospitals and some one is going to say God uses Doctors medicine and hospitals to bring healing to us
Jesus had a doctor on His staff (Luke) and never used him.
I am not against Doctors medicine and hospitals and if you can not believe for your healing through the word of God then use human means but God provided a better way
We are healed by the prayer of faith
James 5:15
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
We have been taught that deliverance does not work apart from some 12 step program, some additional helps through some program working along side being saved
Hear me
There are not 12 steps to being delivered there is one step and that one step is Jesus.
We have been taught that prosperity is a dream that will never take place in your life; the church is immersed and baptized in unbelief.
And if any one rises up in the church to begin to walk in the fullness and the completeness of the word of God then those in the church refer to them as a fanatic, as abnormal and weird.
We need to earnestly contend for the faith of the early church which walked in faith and exhibited HOW THE JUST TRULY DO LIVE BY FAITH.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Most of Gods children believe that they have adequate knowledge concerning faith and most of Gods people also feel that they are walking in faith.
But the truth is that the fruit that is exhibited in the lives of most of Gods children does not show a lifestyle of faith.
If the child of God would just be honest with themselves most would come to the conclusion that the things that are taking place in there lives do not reflect the faith that is expressed in the word of God.
Faith to many is something that is formed in the realm of there natural life and they may operate in faith periodically, they may operate in faith occasionally, there may even be spurts of faith that they walk in but for the most part their faith is not lifestyle and they do not live by faith.
Hear the word of God
Rom 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Gal 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
The just shall live by faith, this is a place where we are supposed to live; this is the place where we are supposed to dwell.
It is not a place that we go to visit, it is not a place that we use occasionally, it is supposed to be a place that is permanent and we live and dwell there.
It is a place of lifestyle and a place where we abide in faith and the just live there but the truth is that the average Christian today is far removed from this place of abiding and living in faith.
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
The word of God states that without faith it is impossible to please Him for he that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him
You must believe that He is
Look at
Rom 10:14
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
The entire Chapter 11 of Hebrews speaks of those who walked in faith in the midst of controversy and adversity, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, David, Jephthae, Samuel, Sampson and all the prophets.
These names were written in the book of Hebrews to relate to you and I as children of God so that we might have revelation of those who walked in faith and how it pleased God.
They believed in God and it was counted unto them righteousness.
The way that they believed God in the face of adversity and in the midst of crisis is not the same way that the average child of God operates in faith today
.
Today when trouble comes, when adversity presents itself the average child of God becomes stressed out, they become emotional and fall apart like a two dollar suitcase, they quickly come to the end of their rope and remind God that He said that He would not put on them more than they could bear.
And they either need a drink, a smoke or a pill to calm there nerves,
They need to go into the bedroom and like an ostrich bury their head in the sand (under their pillow) to get away from the stress of it all and if they do not rely on those things then they just gut it out and just persevere through it with there teeth clinched.
I am not saying that this is true 100% of the time with all people but the message is that most of Gods children are depending on something other than faith to get them through.
Faith and power is not the lifestyle of the average child of God.
I deal every day in the hurts and sorrows of many who are God’s children and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that the hurts sorrows and things that they are going through would be of no significance at all if they would operate in the realm of faith.
That is the truth of Gods word and yet the reason that so many are not living in this place of faith is because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Faith is released upon revelation of Gods word and very few are walking in revelation knowledge of God’s word.
Turn to,
Mark 4:36-38
And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
VERSE 39-40
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Jesus looks at His disciples and says why are you so fearful, how is it that you have no faith.
The disciples are in a crisis, the wind was driving the waves into the ship and the ship was getting ready to capsize.
I do not believe that our imaginations have to wander too far as to the devastation and destruction that was caused by Katrina just a few short years ago to understand the disciples dilemma.
This is a crisis; the ship is full and is just about ready to sink and the disciples come to Jesus who is sleeping and says Master don’t you care that we perish. Don’t you care that we are in a crisis and our lives are in danger.
And Jesus says why are you fearful, how is it that you do not have faith.
And it could be better stated by saying, why are you not using the faith that I have given to you.
Rom 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith .
Why was Christ sleeping and at peace?
It was because of faith and it was faith that allowed Him to deal with the situation in peace.
That which God the Father had given him enabled him to deal with that which was coming against Him, and that which was in Him kept that which was on the outside from penetrating the inside of Him.
They woke him up; He rebuked the crisis and basically said this, if you were operating in faith you would not be operating in fear.
What an awesome word,
If you were operating in faith you would not be dealing in fear.
These disciples are in the crisis of their life, the ship is ready to capsize and Jesus says where is your faith, why are you so fearful.
To the child of God operating in fear this is a no brainer.
What do you mean why am I so fearful,
The ship is sinking, we are about to perish.
My spouse is dying, my child is dying, I’ve lost my job, we are about to lose everything that we have worked for and it all is going up in smoke.
What do you mean why I am so fearful don’t you understand what is taking place.
And this is the place where the church and the people in the church say.
We understand your feelings, we understand your fears, this is a hard place to be in and you have every right to feel and to react the way that you reacting.
But Jesus said
Why are you so fearful and where is your faith?
This is the place where many are searching for comfort and sympathy and only get it from the church but not from Jesus.
Jesus says,
If you were operating in faith you would not be operating in fear.
Fear is the place that the average child of God lives at and this fear brings forth weeping, moaning, groaning, travailing, complaining, depression, and trying to find answers that will alleviate the fear
Faith is the place that will accomplish those goals.
I Jn 5:4
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
If you are operating in faith then you will overcome the world for it is your faith that is the victory that overcomes the world.
Faith gives you the victory
There is no situation or circumstance that is greater than your faith.
Your faith overcomes the world.
Isa 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper; no weapon formed against you shall be profitable against you and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and there righteousness is of me
Hear me,
Faith never loses, faith never fails, faith is the victory that overcomes the world and for the most part the reason that we are not over comers and the reason that we are not overcoming the world through our faith is because we are baptized in unbelief.
The church is full of it; the child of God is full of it
We have been taught by the church that we are limited and that God is limited
And if the church is not teaching that God is limited they are surely showing that He is through their actions.
The average child of God believes that healing does not take place apart from Doctors, medicine and hospitals and some one is going to say God uses Doctors medicine and hospitals to bring healing to us
Jesus had a doctor on His staff (Luke) and never used him.
I am not against Doctors medicine and hospitals and if you can not believe for your healing through the word of God then use human means but God provided a better way
We are healed by the prayer of faith
James 5:15
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
We have been taught that deliverance does not work apart from some 12 step program, some additional helps through some program working along side being saved
Hear me
There are not 12 steps to being delivered there is one step and that one step is Jesus.
We have been taught that prosperity is a dream that will never take place in your life; the church is immersed and baptized in unbelief.
And if any one rises up in the church to begin to walk in the fullness and the completeness of the word of God then those in the church refer to them as a fanatic, as abnormal and weird.
We need to earnestly contend for the faith of the early church which walked in faith and exhibited HOW THE JUST TRULY DO LIVE BY FAITH.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
TRUTH UNVEILED PT 2
Yesterday I posted a blog that I titled TRUTH UNVEILED and in that blog I believe that there is unveiled truth every child of God needs to hear and not only hear but to become doers of that which they have heard.
James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word , and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
It is a veiled truth that needs to be unveiled and in the unveiling revelation needs to be brought forth in the lives of every child of God because down deep I believe that the children of God really do desire to hear and want the truth but wanting truth has to get past the desire stage.
Yesterday I told you that we as children of God must seek wisdom and then we must have understanding.
Why?
Because we can not believe and stand for something that we do not understand
In order to stand and believe for healing against the onslaught of the body and the negative responses of those who do not believe, we must have wisdom and understanding concerning the promises of God.
In order to stand and to believe for prosperity against all the onslaught of bills and pressures and a failing economy,
To believe for prosperity in the midst of poverty we must have wisdom and understanding concerning the promises of God.
In order to believe for deliverance and freedom, to believe for the perfect law of liberty in our lives we must have understanding concerning His promises
James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty , and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
To believe so that we can walk and be complete in Him filled with all the fullness of Him we need to have wisdom and understanding concerning the word of God
Col 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
You must have wisdom and understanding concerning those things that you believe in so that you can fight the good fight of faith and receive that which has been given to you.
Prov 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Prov 24:3-4
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHTOF FAITH
Col 2:6
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
The same way that you received salvation, the same way that you became a Son of the living God,
Is the same way that you are healed, is the same way that you are healed, delivered and made free?
It is the same way that you prosper in the Lord, the same way that you are forgiven and the same way that you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
You have to believe that which he did is done and then by faith reach out and grasp what the Lord Jesus Christ has already provided for you.
It is a work of faith
It will take effort and you must fight the good fight of faith
1 Tim 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
You can not be passive in this good fight; you can not be a conscientious objector.
A conscientious objector is someone who does not believe in going to war, they do not want to bear arms, they do not want to fight, and they do not want to engage in battle.
They are content and passive to allow the enemy to do what ever it wants to do.
Yes they hate what the enemy is doing, yes they hate what is taking place at the hands of the enemy but they are not willing to fight the good fight to destroy the enemy and the work that he is doing.
And whether the enemy is a people who is bearing arms against the country that you live in, whether the enemy is cancer or a disease that is waging a war against your body, whether the enemy is poverty trying to keep you in financial disaster,
We must fight the good fight of faith.
You can not be passive, inactive or submissive.
You must fight the good fight of faith, you must move past the place of hoping and desiring and move into the place of knowing and fighting, you must know that it was provided for you through the atonement of Christ and that which He provided for you is yours and you are not settling for anything less that what He provided for you.
What you receive from God is going to come because of the application of your faith.
FAITH CAN NOT BE ALONE IT MUST HAVE WORKS
James 2:17-18
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Listen to what Paul is saying
Faith alone is dead, you may say that you have faith but it is your works, deeds and actions that verify that you do indeed have faith.
The scripture is very clear; faith without works deeds or actions is dead.
James 2:14-17
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Faith that is alone is dead.
VERSE: 19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
This scripture is straight forward; there is no room for misinterpretation,
Do you believe that there is one God?
Big deal
The devils also believe.
But let it be known o vain man that faith without works is dead.
Do you hear what the word of God is saying?
It is saying that at this point in scripture?
You haven’t done anything that the devil hasn’t done?
The devil believes also.
Just a passive type of knowledge that acknowledges a truth is not faith, Oh vain man know that faith without works is dead
It is action that releases the power within faith. You must enter into a place where you are past being passive about what belongs to you.
How do you receive the promises of God?
You receive them by faith but more specifically you receive them through faith that acts,
How do you act through faith to receive the promises of God?
You believe in that which he has given to you through redemption and you start doing things that you could not do before
Take healing for example.
You begin meditating on the word of God concerning healing, you begin speaking and proclaiming that you are healed, not hopefully, not if God wills it, not if it is Gods will, but you proclaim that you are healed because two thousand years ago by the stripes that he received it provided for your healing, you begin praising God for your healing and then by faith you begin moving limbs that would not move before.
Hear me
Only sick people talk about how sick that they are a person who is not sick ever talks about how sick that they are.
You have to believe when you pray and all this is faith in action, all of this is faith with works.
Matt 9:20-22
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Matt 9:18-19
While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Mark 5:36
As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.
Matt 8:8-10
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Three instances of faith with actions, three instances of healing where faith did something and every time that those people were healed they were healed according to their faith.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
But in the word of God there is an instance where the individual being healed did not exercise his faith at all to be healed, the reason that he was being healed was for the purpose of glorifying God.
This man does not show his faith through his works and he does not show his faith through his deeds,
In fact when Jesus passes by this man does absolutely nothing.
It is Jesus who notices this man and it is His disciples that ask him why this man is blind.
I want you to grasp this, this blind man does not respond as Bartimeaus responded with cries for mercy, this man does not respond as the ten lepers who approached Jesus for healing, this man does not exercise his faith as the Centurion did, as the woman with the issue of blood did, as Jaruis did concerning his daughter.
This man does nothing.
John 9:1-3
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
VERSE 6-7
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Now follow me,
The pool of Siloam is over ¾ of a mile from the place where Jesus has spit on the ground and made clay and placed it on this blind mans eyes and Jesus expects this blind man to walk through the busy streets of Jerusalem over ¾ of a mile with mud and clay dripping from his eyes, running down his face and He wants him to go wash in the pool of Siloam.
This man is going to suffer ridicule, he is going to suffer mocking and He is going to feel humiliated as he gropes through the city streets trying to go to the pool of Siloam.
This man could have and even might have felt like saying don’t place mud and clay on my eyes, you’re not going to make a fool out of me,
I am not able to see and now you want to put dirt and mud in my face.
How can I walk ¾ of a mile to the pool of Siloam I am blind.
The reason that he was required to do this is because he did not come with faith demonstrating works and because faith being alone is dead he leaves Christ with faith demonstrating works,
Go wash in the pool of Siloam.
Acting in faith is vital to receiving from God
You must believe to the place where it causes action
Either coming or going.
So how do we act in faith for finances?
Let me give you revelation
I believe that the number one reason that God has instructed us to give is to appreciate prosperity.
To appreciate the promise that already has been given
Most of God’s children have been taught that the reason for giving is because it is required, it is there duty and I believe that tithing should be and is required.
But tithing does not bring prosperity,
Tithing is 10% and 10% is the minimal giving and many of God’s children even resent the minimal giving.
But when there is joy in the 10% it will escalate to higher giving.
Giving is an act of faith and the more that is given, the more action is being expressed, the more life is being released, the more faith is being released and the more access to the provision that has already been given.
To those who receive this veiled truth and it becomes unveiled in their lives they are going to find the awesomeness of Gods way and God’s plan to release what you have so that you can have more to release.
The plan of God is for you to give so that you can receive.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
This scripture in Luke pertains to every promise of God.
Prove 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Notice how honor is given to the Lord, it is given through your substance and when honor is given unto the lord He fills your barns and your presses shall burst forth with new wine.
Truth unveiled.
James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word , and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
It is a veiled truth that needs to be unveiled and in the unveiling revelation needs to be brought forth in the lives of every child of God because down deep I believe that the children of God really do desire to hear and want the truth but wanting truth has to get past the desire stage.
Yesterday I told you that we as children of God must seek wisdom and then we must have understanding.
Why?
Because we can not believe and stand for something that we do not understand
In order to stand and believe for healing against the onslaught of the body and the negative responses of those who do not believe, we must have wisdom and understanding concerning the promises of God.
In order to stand and to believe for prosperity against all the onslaught of bills and pressures and a failing economy,
To believe for prosperity in the midst of poverty we must have wisdom and understanding concerning the promises of God.
In order to believe for deliverance and freedom, to believe for the perfect law of liberty in our lives we must have understanding concerning His promises
James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty , and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
To believe so that we can walk and be complete in Him filled with all the fullness of Him we need to have wisdom and understanding concerning the word of God
Col 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
You must have wisdom and understanding concerning those things that you believe in so that you can fight the good fight of faith and receive that which has been given to you.
Prov 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Prov 24:3-4
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHTOF FAITH
Col 2:6
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
The same way that you received salvation, the same way that you became a Son of the living God,
Is the same way that you are healed, is the same way that you are healed, delivered and made free?
It is the same way that you prosper in the Lord, the same way that you are forgiven and the same way that you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
You have to believe that which he did is done and then by faith reach out and grasp what the Lord Jesus Christ has already provided for you.
It is a work of faith
It will take effort and you must fight the good fight of faith
1 Tim 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
You can not be passive in this good fight; you can not be a conscientious objector.
A conscientious objector is someone who does not believe in going to war, they do not want to bear arms, they do not want to fight, and they do not want to engage in battle.
They are content and passive to allow the enemy to do what ever it wants to do.
Yes they hate what the enemy is doing, yes they hate what is taking place at the hands of the enemy but they are not willing to fight the good fight to destroy the enemy and the work that he is doing.
And whether the enemy is a people who is bearing arms against the country that you live in, whether the enemy is cancer or a disease that is waging a war against your body, whether the enemy is poverty trying to keep you in financial disaster,
We must fight the good fight of faith.
You can not be passive, inactive or submissive.
You must fight the good fight of faith, you must move past the place of hoping and desiring and move into the place of knowing and fighting, you must know that it was provided for you through the atonement of Christ and that which He provided for you is yours and you are not settling for anything less that what He provided for you.
What you receive from God is going to come because of the application of your faith.
FAITH CAN NOT BE ALONE IT MUST HAVE WORKS
James 2:17-18
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Listen to what Paul is saying
Faith alone is dead, you may say that you have faith but it is your works, deeds and actions that verify that you do indeed have faith.
The scripture is very clear; faith without works deeds or actions is dead.
James 2:14-17
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Faith that is alone is dead.
VERSE: 19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
This scripture is straight forward; there is no room for misinterpretation,
Do you believe that there is one God?
Big deal
The devils also believe.
But let it be known o vain man that faith without works is dead.
Do you hear what the word of God is saying?
It is saying that at this point in scripture?
You haven’t done anything that the devil hasn’t done?
The devil believes also.
Just a passive type of knowledge that acknowledges a truth is not faith, Oh vain man know that faith without works is dead
It is action that releases the power within faith. You must enter into a place where you are past being passive about what belongs to you.
How do you receive the promises of God?
You receive them by faith but more specifically you receive them through faith that acts,
How do you act through faith to receive the promises of God?
You believe in that which he has given to you through redemption and you start doing things that you could not do before
Take healing for example.
You begin meditating on the word of God concerning healing, you begin speaking and proclaiming that you are healed, not hopefully, not if God wills it, not if it is Gods will, but you proclaim that you are healed because two thousand years ago by the stripes that he received it provided for your healing, you begin praising God for your healing and then by faith you begin moving limbs that would not move before.
Hear me
Only sick people talk about how sick that they are a person who is not sick ever talks about how sick that they are.
You have to believe when you pray and all this is faith in action, all of this is faith with works.
Matt 9:20-22
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Matt 9:18-19
While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Mark 5:36
As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.
Matt 8:8-10
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Three instances of faith with actions, three instances of healing where faith did something and every time that those people were healed they were healed according to their faith.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
But in the word of God there is an instance where the individual being healed did not exercise his faith at all to be healed, the reason that he was being healed was for the purpose of glorifying God.
This man does not show his faith through his works and he does not show his faith through his deeds,
In fact when Jesus passes by this man does absolutely nothing.
It is Jesus who notices this man and it is His disciples that ask him why this man is blind.
I want you to grasp this, this blind man does not respond as Bartimeaus responded with cries for mercy, this man does not respond as the ten lepers who approached Jesus for healing, this man does not exercise his faith as the Centurion did, as the woman with the issue of blood did, as Jaruis did concerning his daughter.
This man does nothing.
John 9:1-3
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
VERSE 6-7
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Now follow me,
The pool of Siloam is over ¾ of a mile from the place where Jesus has spit on the ground and made clay and placed it on this blind mans eyes and Jesus expects this blind man to walk through the busy streets of Jerusalem over ¾ of a mile with mud and clay dripping from his eyes, running down his face and He wants him to go wash in the pool of Siloam.
This man is going to suffer ridicule, he is going to suffer mocking and He is going to feel humiliated as he gropes through the city streets trying to go to the pool of Siloam.
This man could have and even might have felt like saying don’t place mud and clay on my eyes, you’re not going to make a fool out of me,
I am not able to see and now you want to put dirt and mud in my face.
How can I walk ¾ of a mile to the pool of Siloam I am blind.
The reason that he was required to do this is because he did not come with faith demonstrating works and because faith being alone is dead he leaves Christ with faith demonstrating works,
Go wash in the pool of Siloam.
Acting in faith is vital to receiving from God
You must believe to the place where it causes action
Either coming or going.
So how do we act in faith for finances?
Let me give you revelation
I believe that the number one reason that God has instructed us to give is to appreciate prosperity.
To appreciate the promise that already has been given
Most of God’s children have been taught that the reason for giving is because it is required, it is there duty and I believe that tithing should be and is required.
But tithing does not bring prosperity,
Tithing is 10% and 10% is the minimal giving and many of God’s children even resent the minimal giving.
But when there is joy in the 10% it will escalate to higher giving.
Giving is an act of faith and the more that is given, the more action is being expressed, the more life is being released, the more faith is being released and the more access to the provision that has already been given.
To those who receive this veiled truth and it becomes unveiled in their lives they are going to find the awesomeness of Gods way and God’s plan to release what you have so that you can have more to release.
The plan of God is for you to give so that you can receive.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
This scripture in Luke pertains to every promise of God.
Prove 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Notice how honor is given to the Lord, it is given through your substance and when honor is given unto the lord He fills your barns and your presses shall burst forth with new wine.
Truth unveiled.
Friday, October 23, 2009
TRUTH UNVEILED
The word of God promises us that the truth will make us free.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
But here is the reality of that scripture; truth only makes you free if you know the truth,
In order for the truth to make you free, the truth has to be unveiled before you, it has to be revealed to you for the sole purpose of receiving that which God so desperately wants you to receive.
The word of God tells us to seek wisdom and then to get understanding
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Prov 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
I desire and seek for revelation truth,
I desire and seek for it so that I might have life and that I might have it more abundantly.
John 10:10 (later part of verse)
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Only life abundantly is the life that makes the captive free and makes them free indeed.
When a child of God is truly seeking for truth, that truth will bring revelation and the revealing of Him, who has redeemed them, and in the revelation of Him you are given choices and when the right choice is made transformation takes place and you are brought to a higher standard.
Truth has its own standard.
The standard of truth has its own banner and the banner of truth flies upon its own flagpole and that flagpole is anchored and secured in the rock.
And it is in this place where you become unmovable, steadfast and anchored in the truth of His word and you begin to rejoice in veiled truth that has become unveiled.
Prov 8:14
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Here is veiled truth that has to be unveiled,
2 Cor 1:20
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Hear the word of God.
All the promises of God in Him (Jesus Christ) are yes and they are finished unto the Glory of God by us
Why have we the church made the promises of God optional when they are not optional.
Healing is not optional,
It has been provided through the atonement of Christ
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
by whose stripes ye were healed.
And yet the majority of God’s children who are saved are not healed and the reason that they are not healed is because they have made healing optional.
Prosperity is not optional it also has been provided through the atonement of Jesus Christ and yet many of Gods children have made prosperity optional.
These promises of God are not optional
They have been provided to every born again child of God through the atonement of Him who became sin that we might be free from sin
We as children of God are to prosper spiritually, emotionally, financially and in healing
3 Jn 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
The Word of God deals with three things in this scripture,
That He (God) desires for us to prosper spiritually, physically and financially.
But the reality in most of Gods children is that they do not grasp that they are to live in prosperity instead of in poverty,
We are to live in the prosperity of health and not in the poverty of sickness and it is not an option.
We are to live in the prosperity of finances and not in the poverty of lack and it is not an option,
We are to live in the prosperity of deliverance and to be free from all condemnation and it is not an option.
It has been provided through the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ just the same as the forgiveness of sins was provided.
The reason that so many people are so easily saved is because they understand that forgiveness had been provided through the atonement.
It has already been paid for
It has already been accomplished and it is a gift from God.
And because they understand what has been provided they immediately accept its conditions and requirements and are saved but when it comes to health and finances it is not accepted as something that has already been provided for and because of that error very few enter into that place of truth so that truth can be unveiled so that they can be made free.
2 Cor 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
The Greek word for (might be rich) is plotheo and it means to become wealthy,
To be increased with goods
This scripture in its context is speaking about financial prosperity but I do not believe that it is limited to just finances, I believe that it pertains to all things pertaining to life and godliness.
that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Now that brings forth a question that applies to every child of God that lives in this world whether it be in the United States or in a third world country.
Does this mean then that God desires for every child of God to become financially prosperous, to have healing, to prosper emotionally, spiritually, physically
And the answer to that question is yes and amen.
The word God is not limited nor is it restricted to the economic conditions of the world.
2 Pet 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
All this is part of what the lord Jesus Christ has accomplished for you and I through His atonement on the cross,
What does prosperity mean?
It means having enough of Gods supply to meet all of your needs and to be able to minister to the needs of others,
Let me put it another way
Having enough of Gods supply to meet all of your needs and to abound to every good work.
2 Cor 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
The real motive for prosperity is not to accumulate things but rather it is to meet the needs of others and when that motive is the reason for your desire to prosper then greed never has the chance to come center stage in the life of the child of God.
In this motive there is going to be ample enough to meet every need that you have and also to meet the needs of those who the Lord has put upon your heart.
Here is truth unveiled,
It is the nature of God to bless those who bless others, when you have one hand to receive and one hand to give there will always be enough for you to prosper in abundance.
Needless to say then,
There are many people and even Gods children who have plenty of Gods supply, but they do not minister and meet the need of those who are in need, and because of that they are not prosperous according to the word of God and that is sin
Rom 14:23
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin .
Everything that we receive from God we have to receive through faith,
We have to receive salvation through faith, healing through faith, prosperity through faith, everything that we receive from God we have to receive through faith.
2 Cor 1:20
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
By us
Everything that we receive from God we must have the foundation of knowledge to receive by faith that which we desire to receive.
If you as a child of God do not have the knowledge for what you believe for how are you going to believe for something that you do not know.
You have to receive that knowledge so that the knowledge you receive can impart to you faith to begin to believe for that which you have come into the revelation of.
Salvation does not happen automatically,
Healing does not take place automatically,
Prosperity does not happen automatically,
The Lord has supplied salvation for every single person upon the earth and yet every person is not going to be saved.
By grace salvation has been supplied to all
The reason that all will not be saved is because that which has been provided by grace will not be accepted by faith.
Eph 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
What does it take to be saved?
The combination of Gods grace, what he has done independent of you and secondly how you respond to what he has provided for you whether in faith or unbelief.
It is the will of God for every person to be saved
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
And yet not every person will be saved
Why?
Because even though the Grace of God, the provision of God is present and hath appeared to all men, not every one is going to respond in faith.
Two things need to be present for Gods power to work and to become a reality in our life
God’s provision and your faith and the same is true in healing, the same is true in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, the same is true in prosperity and in deliverance.
This is the right and the inheritance of every single born again believer but it does not come to all.
Why?
Because it is not automatic.
There are two things that you must believe.
You must believe in Gods provision and you must believe that it is for you
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
The will of God is for you to prosper, to be healed, to be stable emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
It is your right as a born again child of God.
It is your inheritance.
Your attitude can not be that you know that God can heal you, save you or, prosper you.
Your attitude must be that you know it is available to you and that it is yours,
It belongs to you and it is your inheritance as a child of God.
The provision is there
The supply is there
It has all been done
There is only one thing left for you to do and that is to come into the knowledge of that provision and then by faith appropriate it through the good fight of faith.
But in order to fight the good fight of faith there are some things that you need to know and believe.
Mark 11:23-24
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
You have to believe that you are receiving when you pray.
It is not about believing when you see it, not about when it comes to pass, not about when it looks like it might happen, not when all the symptoms are gone.
You must believe that you receive it when you pray.
There is no way that you can believe God to bring forth the promises of God without believing in God for them.
Col 2:6
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
What does that scripture mean,
It means the same way that you received salvation, the same way that you received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is going to be the same way that you are going to receive everything else from God.
And to just name a few,
The baptism of the Holy Ghost, healing, prosperity, your emotions becoming stable, stability physically and restoration of your marriage.
So walk in Him.
It takes a work of faith.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
But here is the reality of that scripture; truth only makes you free if you know the truth,
In order for the truth to make you free, the truth has to be unveiled before you, it has to be revealed to you for the sole purpose of receiving that which God so desperately wants you to receive.
The word of God tells us to seek wisdom and then to get understanding
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Prov 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
I desire and seek for revelation truth,
I desire and seek for it so that I might have life and that I might have it more abundantly.
John 10:10 (later part of verse)
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Only life abundantly is the life that makes the captive free and makes them free indeed.
When a child of God is truly seeking for truth, that truth will bring revelation and the revealing of Him, who has redeemed them, and in the revelation of Him you are given choices and when the right choice is made transformation takes place and you are brought to a higher standard.
Truth has its own standard.
The standard of truth has its own banner and the banner of truth flies upon its own flagpole and that flagpole is anchored and secured in the rock.
And it is in this place where you become unmovable, steadfast and anchored in the truth of His word and you begin to rejoice in veiled truth that has become unveiled.
Prov 8:14
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Here is veiled truth that has to be unveiled,
2 Cor 1:20
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Hear the word of God.
All the promises of God in Him (Jesus Christ) are yes and they are finished unto the Glory of God by us
Why have we the church made the promises of God optional when they are not optional.
Healing is not optional,
It has been provided through the atonement of Christ
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
by whose stripes ye were healed.
And yet the majority of God’s children who are saved are not healed and the reason that they are not healed is because they have made healing optional.
Prosperity is not optional it also has been provided through the atonement of Jesus Christ and yet many of Gods children have made prosperity optional.
These promises of God are not optional
They have been provided to every born again child of God through the atonement of Him who became sin that we might be free from sin
We as children of God are to prosper spiritually, emotionally, financially and in healing
3 Jn 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
The Word of God deals with three things in this scripture,
That He (God) desires for us to prosper spiritually, physically and financially.
But the reality in most of Gods children is that they do not grasp that they are to live in prosperity instead of in poverty,
We are to live in the prosperity of health and not in the poverty of sickness and it is not an option.
We are to live in the prosperity of finances and not in the poverty of lack and it is not an option,
We are to live in the prosperity of deliverance and to be free from all condemnation and it is not an option.
It has been provided through the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ just the same as the forgiveness of sins was provided.
The reason that so many people are so easily saved is because they understand that forgiveness had been provided through the atonement.
It has already been paid for
It has already been accomplished and it is a gift from God.
And because they understand what has been provided they immediately accept its conditions and requirements and are saved but when it comes to health and finances it is not accepted as something that has already been provided for and because of that error very few enter into that place of truth so that truth can be unveiled so that they can be made free.
2 Cor 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
The Greek word for (might be rich) is plotheo and it means to become wealthy,
To be increased with goods
This scripture in its context is speaking about financial prosperity but I do not believe that it is limited to just finances, I believe that it pertains to all things pertaining to life and godliness.
that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Now that brings forth a question that applies to every child of God that lives in this world whether it be in the United States or in a third world country.
Does this mean then that God desires for every child of God to become financially prosperous, to have healing, to prosper emotionally, spiritually, physically
And the answer to that question is yes and amen.
The word God is not limited nor is it restricted to the economic conditions of the world.
2 Pet 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
All this is part of what the lord Jesus Christ has accomplished for you and I through His atonement on the cross,
What does prosperity mean?
It means having enough of Gods supply to meet all of your needs and to be able to minister to the needs of others,
Let me put it another way
Having enough of Gods supply to meet all of your needs and to abound to every good work.
2 Cor 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
The real motive for prosperity is not to accumulate things but rather it is to meet the needs of others and when that motive is the reason for your desire to prosper then greed never has the chance to come center stage in the life of the child of God.
In this motive there is going to be ample enough to meet every need that you have and also to meet the needs of those who the Lord has put upon your heart.
Here is truth unveiled,
It is the nature of God to bless those who bless others, when you have one hand to receive and one hand to give there will always be enough for you to prosper in abundance.
Needless to say then,
There are many people and even Gods children who have plenty of Gods supply, but they do not minister and meet the need of those who are in need, and because of that they are not prosperous according to the word of God and that is sin
Rom 14:23
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin .
Everything that we receive from God we have to receive through faith,
We have to receive salvation through faith, healing through faith, prosperity through faith, everything that we receive from God we have to receive through faith.
2 Cor 1:20
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
By us
Everything that we receive from God we must have the foundation of knowledge to receive by faith that which we desire to receive.
If you as a child of God do not have the knowledge for what you believe for how are you going to believe for something that you do not know.
You have to receive that knowledge so that the knowledge you receive can impart to you faith to begin to believe for that which you have come into the revelation of.
Salvation does not happen automatically,
Healing does not take place automatically,
Prosperity does not happen automatically,
The Lord has supplied salvation for every single person upon the earth and yet every person is not going to be saved.
By grace salvation has been supplied to all
The reason that all will not be saved is because that which has been provided by grace will not be accepted by faith.
Eph 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
What does it take to be saved?
The combination of Gods grace, what he has done independent of you and secondly how you respond to what he has provided for you whether in faith or unbelief.
It is the will of God for every person to be saved
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
And yet not every person will be saved
Why?
Because even though the Grace of God, the provision of God is present and hath appeared to all men, not every one is going to respond in faith.
Two things need to be present for Gods power to work and to become a reality in our life
God’s provision and your faith and the same is true in healing, the same is true in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, the same is true in prosperity and in deliverance.
This is the right and the inheritance of every single born again believer but it does not come to all.
Why?
Because it is not automatic.
There are two things that you must believe.
You must believe in Gods provision and you must believe that it is for you
Heb 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
The will of God is for you to prosper, to be healed, to be stable emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
It is your right as a born again child of God.
It is your inheritance.
Your attitude can not be that you know that God can heal you, save you or, prosper you.
Your attitude must be that you know it is available to you and that it is yours,
It belongs to you and it is your inheritance as a child of God.
The provision is there
The supply is there
It has all been done
There is only one thing left for you to do and that is to come into the knowledge of that provision and then by faith appropriate it through the good fight of faith.
But in order to fight the good fight of faith there are some things that you need to know and believe.
Mark 11:23-24
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
You have to believe that you are receiving when you pray.
It is not about believing when you see it, not about when it comes to pass, not about when it looks like it might happen, not when all the symptoms are gone.
You must believe that you receive it when you pray.
There is no way that you can believe God to bring forth the promises of God without believing in God for them.
Col 2:6
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
What does that scripture mean,
It means the same way that you received salvation, the same way that you received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is going to be the same way that you are going to receive everything else from God.
And to just name a few,
The baptism of the Holy Ghost, healing, prosperity, your emotions becoming stable, stability physically and restoration of your marriage.
So walk in Him.
It takes a work of faith.
Monday, October 19, 2009
GOD IS SATISFIED PT 5
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In the past four blogs that I have posted GOD IS SATISFIED I believe that many have been blessed by what they have read and that the revelation that they have received has changed and transformed lives.
Hear the message that the angels brought,
The conflict has ended between God and Man.
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
This is tremendous news and yet when Isaiah receives the news he makes a shocking statement.
Who is going to believe it?
Isa 53:1-7
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Who will believe our report it is too good to be true, it is amazing, it is wonderful but who is going to believe it and to whom is the arm of the Lord going to be revealed.
God is not angry any more.
Here is revelation,
God is not angry with you and He is not going to be angry with you
All of your sins, past present and future have been dealt with, all of your iniquities; all of your transgressions have been dealt with and paid for.
Who can believe it, who can believe the report that we have heard says Isaiah and the tragic truth is that there are many who will not believe the report.
VERSE 2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Grasp the scripture,
There was nothing special about Jesus when he walked on the face of this earth, He was ordinary, He was comely and there was nothing beautiful about Him that would draw you to Him.
It would be hard to see Him in the light of being God
He walked thirty miles a day in the hot Judean sun, He wore the same clothes for days and even weeks, He did not take a bath every day, He did not change clothes to bring forth a message and much of the time His hair was matted and uncombed.
It was very difficult to see him as God and that is why some of his brothers and sisters rejected Him as the Messiah.
Today the church portrays him with a halo around his head, with a lamb in his arms, His countenance is angelic and people are drawn to Him because of His angelic demeanor.
Scripture does not portray Him in that light at all, in fact it would take a revelation from God to see Him as God.
VERSE 3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
He had no grief’s or sorrows of His own
He only carried ours.
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
And with His stripes we are healed, spiritually, emotionally and physically,
In every aspect of being human, in every aspect of spirituality we are healed by his stripes.
How do I know that?
Matt 8:14-17
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Isa 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
And God laid on Him and in Him the sins of us all, every sin, every perversion, all the ungodliness of the world, all corruption, all diseases, every perversion of homosexuality, every rape and murder, every perversion of beastiality, every iniquity and transgression, every sin that has ever been committed by any person was laid on Him and in Him.
The iniquity of us all was laid upon Him
1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world .
Isa 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment:
That means He never had the opportunity to go to prison, He never had the opportunity to have a fair trial,
and who shall declare His generation?
He had no descendants,
for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;
What a tremendous statement?
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;
Very few people are going to grasp the context and the meaning of this verse
Allow me to bring something to you,
What kind of God would find pleasure in bruising his Son?
What kind of God would find pleasure in applying double His wrath upon His Son?
And He would allow His face to be marred more than any other man,
He would allow His body to be deformed more than any other man and then find pleasure in it.
What kind of God does that?
Let me tell you kind of God that would do that,
A God of love who would take upon himself the iniquities and transgressions of the entire human race so that this same human race could be delivered from the bondages of sin that they had brought upon themselves,
He is the kind of God who would take upon himself our iniquities and transgression so that the bondages of Satan would be forever broken and cast at our feet so that we could walk in the perfect law of liberty.
Do you want to know why He was pleased?
The reason that He was pleased was because what Christ did totally solved the dilemma concerning the fall of man.
It pleased him because it forever settled the sin issue with mankind.
The conflict was over
Heb 9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
And for you to think that God is still angry, that He still demands payment, that He still demands that blood must flow, that He is still upset with you over your sins,
The reason you are feeling the way that you are feeling is because of your religious teaching.
If you are born again and you believe that your prayers are not being answered because of sin in your life the reason that you believe that is because of religious teaching
Why would God go to such extreme measures with his Son if the extreme was not sufficient to resolve the situation of sin in man?
It is pointless, it is nothing more than a temporary fix, and it is still the Old Testament
But He entered in once into the holy place and obtained eternal redemption forever.
He entered in once into the holy place and dealt with the sin issue forever--past present and future and obtained eternal redemption forever.
And some one is going to say,
Are you saying that two thousand years ago he took care of all future sins?
We had better believe that He did or our salvation means nothing.
He entered in once and obtained and the church has been proclaiming for years that yes Jesus died for your sins, but sin still separates you from God, if there is sin in your life God will not answer your prayers, God can not use a dirty vessel, God not use you if you are not a separated vessel and the lies go on and on and on.
And by all of this stupidity they have diminished the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Isa 53:1-10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
Listen to this promise in Galatians,
Gal 3:16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Hear the scripture again,
Isa 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
When God made the soul of his Son an offering for sin, when He sees the seed of that offering, when He sees souls brought to reconciliation with God because of the sacrifice it brings pleasure to Him.
VERSE 11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
God is satisfied with the sacrifice of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ and there is nothing that you can do to satisfy Him any more.
There is nothing that you can do to satisfy God any further, God the Father is satisfied because of what His Son has done and you’re feelings of unworthiness, you’re feelings of dejectedness, you’re feelings of shame does not add one thing to how the Lord views you as a child of God.
God is satisfied with you because of Jesus and the only thing that qualifies you to be a participant of His great mercy is your sin
Don’t miss what I just said; the only thing that qualifies you to be a participant of His great mercy is your sin.
He paid the price and all that is left for you to do is to believe in what he has done
If you are a born again child of God
God is satisfied with you because Jesus has borne all of your iniquities.
VERSE 11
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
That word justify means as if I had never sinned
Verse 12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Here is the benefit of all Isaiah 53
Isa 54:1
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Sing here is the wonderment of all that God has provided
Sing--I am barren no more
Sing--you that could not bear break forth into singing.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In the past four blogs that I have posted GOD IS SATISFIED I believe that many have been blessed by what they have read and that the revelation that they have received has changed and transformed lives.
Hear the message that the angels brought,
The conflict has ended between God and Man.
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
This is tremendous news and yet when Isaiah receives the news he makes a shocking statement.
Who is going to believe it?
Isa 53:1-7
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Who will believe our report it is too good to be true, it is amazing, it is wonderful but who is going to believe it and to whom is the arm of the Lord going to be revealed.
God is not angry any more.
Here is revelation,
God is not angry with you and He is not going to be angry with you
All of your sins, past present and future have been dealt with, all of your iniquities; all of your transgressions have been dealt with and paid for.
Who can believe it, who can believe the report that we have heard says Isaiah and the tragic truth is that there are many who will not believe the report.
VERSE 2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Grasp the scripture,
There was nothing special about Jesus when he walked on the face of this earth, He was ordinary, He was comely and there was nothing beautiful about Him that would draw you to Him.
It would be hard to see Him in the light of being God
He walked thirty miles a day in the hot Judean sun, He wore the same clothes for days and even weeks, He did not take a bath every day, He did not change clothes to bring forth a message and much of the time His hair was matted and uncombed.
It was very difficult to see him as God and that is why some of his brothers and sisters rejected Him as the Messiah.
Today the church portrays him with a halo around his head, with a lamb in his arms, His countenance is angelic and people are drawn to Him because of His angelic demeanor.
Scripture does not portray Him in that light at all, in fact it would take a revelation from God to see Him as God.
VERSE 3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
He had no grief’s or sorrows of His own
He only carried ours.
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
And with His stripes we are healed, spiritually, emotionally and physically,
In every aspect of being human, in every aspect of spirituality we are healed by his stripes.
How do I know that?
Matt 8:14-17
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Isa 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
And God laid on Him and in Him the sins of us all, every sin, every perversion, all the ungodliness of the world, all corruption, all diseases, every perversion of homosexuality, every rape and murder, every perversion of beastiality, every iniquity and transgression, every sin that has ever been committed by any person was laid on Him and in Him.
The iniquity of us all was laid upon Him
1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world .
Isa 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment:
That means He never had the opportunity to go to prison, He never had the opportunity to have a fair trial,
and who shall declare His generation?
He had no descendants,
for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;
What a tremendous statement?
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;
Very few people are going to grasp the context and the meaning of this verse
Allow me to bring something to you,
What kind of God would find pleasure in bruising his Son?
What kind of God would find pleasure in applying double His wrath upon His Son?
And He would allow His face to be marred more than any other man,
He would allow His body to be deformed more than any other man and then find pleasure in it.
What kind of God does that?
Let me tell you kind of God that would do that,
A God of love who would take upon himself the iniquities and transgressions of the entire human race so that this same human race could be delivered from the bondages of sin that they had brought upon themselves,
He is the kind of God who would take upon himself our iniquities and transgression so that the bondages of Satan would be forever broken and cast at our feet so that we could walk in the perfect law of liberty.
Do you want to know why He was pleased?
The reason that He was pleased was because what Christ did totally solved the dilemma concerning the fall of man.
It pleased him because it forever settled the sin issue with mankind.
The conflict was over
Heb 9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
And for you to think that God is still angry, that He still demands payment, that He still demands that blood must flow, that He is still upset with you over your sins,
The reason you are feeling the way that you are feeling is because of your religious teaching.
If you are born again and you believe that your prayers are not being answered because of sin in your life the reason that you believe that is because of religious teaching
Why would God go to such extreme measures with his Son if the extreme was not sufficient to resolve the situation of sin in man?
It is pointless, it is nothing more than a temporary fix, and it is still the Old Testament
But He entered in once into the holy place and obtained eternal redemption forever.
He entered in once into the holy place and dealt with the sin issue forever--past present and future and obtained eternal redemption forever.
And some one is going to say,
Are you saying that two thousand years ago he took care of all future sins?
We had better believe that He did or our salvation means nothing.
He entered in once and obtained and the church has been proclaiming for years that yes Jesus died for your sins, but sin still separates you from God, if there is sin in your life God will not answer your prayers, God can not use a dirty vessel, God not use you if you are not a separated vessel and the lies go on and on and on.
And by all of this stupidity they have diminished the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Isa 53:1-10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
Listen to this promise in Galatians,
Gal 3:16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Hear the scripture again,
Isa 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
When God made the soul of his Son an offering for sin, when He sees the seed of that offering, when He sees souls brought to reconciliation with God because of the sacrifice it brings pleasure to Him.
VERSE 11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
God is satisfied with the sacrifice of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ and there is nothing that you can do to satisfy Him any more.
There is nothing that you can do to satisfy God any further, God the Father is satisfied because of what His Son has done and you’re feelings of unworthiness, you’re feelings of dejectedness, you’re feelings of shame does not add one thing to how the Lord views you as a child of God.
God is satisfied with you because of Jesus and the only thing that qualifies you to be a participant of His great mercy is your sin
Don’t miss what I just said; the only thing that qualifies you to be a participant of His great mercy is your sin.
He paid the price and all that is left for you to do is to believe in what he has done
If you are a born again child of God
God is satisfied with you because Jesus has borne all of your iniquities.
VERSE 11
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
That word justify means as if I had never sinned
Verse 12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Here is the benefit of all Isaiah 53
Isa 54:1
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Sing here is the wonderment of all that God has provided
Sing--I am barren no more
Sing--you that could not bear break forth into singing.
Friday, October 16, 2009
GOD IS SATISFIED PT 4
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In my last three blogs that I have posted on the subject of GOD IS SATISFIED, I have brought what I believe to be revelation and to those who have eyes to see and an ear to hear I believe it will transform their lives.
Look at
Isa 6:1-13
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Here in scripture we see that Isaiah is allowed to see the glory of God
Now grasp this,
Here is a man who is separated from sin, He is living a life of holiness and yet following the vision that He saw of the Lord high and lifted up Isaiah comes to the undeniable revelation of his condition.
VERSE 5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Hear me because here is truth and revelation,
Anyone who has ever seen the glory of God also sees the deplorable condition that there are in because of sin and because they see the glory of God they immediately expect judgment, they immediately expect to be destroyed and to be consumed because they see that is what they deserve.
I believe with all of my heart that we as children of God have missed one of the major concepts of sin,
We do not see sin as God sees sin, we do not see the ghastliness and the horrors of sin as it should be seen.
Sin to us is getting caught with our hands in the cookie jar when we have been told not to get into the cookie jar.
We do not see the degradation of sin neither do we see the consequences and devastation of sin
For if we did,
We would realize that hell is not enough payment for our sins; hell does not compensate nor pay the price for our sins and hell
is mild in comparison to the horrors of sin.
And when you think that hell is such a terrible concept and that hell is to harsh for payment of sin, you have no concept of the ghastliness of sin.
I do not know how to convey and to bring to you the description and the devastation and horrors of sin
The only way that I know how to bring it forth is by instruction in the word of God concerning the devastation that Christ the Son of God went through when He became sin.
Hear the word of God with your heart and not your head.
Isa 40:1-2
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
This is the message from God to Isaiah; this also is the same message that John the Baptist is going to receive in the deserts of Judaea, and this is the message of the Messiah to the nations of Israel and even to the ends of the earth.
Comfort ye comfort ye
The warfare is over, the conflict has ended between the Creator and his creation.
And the angels sing the message in Luke 2:14
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Good will towards men, peace towards men from God, the conflict has ended.
The wrath of God has been appeased and satisfied because the Son of God will bear the iniquities and sins of man
The conflict is over.
Let me bring something to you
for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
I need you to grasp this,
The wrath of God upon his Son was double, very few people that I have talked to have understanding of the price that was paid for their sins,
He received double the wrath of God when he did not even deserve the wrath of God at all.
How many times do we cry injustice when we think that the penalty is to harsh for the infraction
Here is reality that very few of Gods people understand
Christ received double.
He who had no sin,
He who was the glory of the Father, not only would he become sin, not only would he pay the price, not only would He be the ransom for our iniquities
He also would receive the wrath of God double upon himself.
Isa 52:13-14
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
That word visage here is referring to the face of Jesus Christ, the word of God states that His face was marred more than any other man in the world,
That is a sobering statement
Take the worst thing that you have ever heard of, take any individual whose face has been eaten up by cancer or leprosy, take any individual whose face as been destroyed and ravaged by fire, think of the worst case scenario and the word of God says that no mans face has ever been marred as his face was marred
Look at the rest of the scripture,
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
and his form more than the sons of men:
What the word of God is telling you is that when you looked upon Him you could not even tell that He was a human being.
He was so deformed and so grotesques that you could not even tell that He was a human being.
How could that be?
How could scourging do that?
How could a beating do that?
How could the crown of thorns and the cat of nine tails do that?
I do not believe that it could.
Look at,
1 Pet 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Isa 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The word of God says that he bore our sins in his body, He that had no sin; He that had never touched sin became sin.
Do you understand what that means?
It means every sickness, every depravity, every illness, every deformity, every tumor, every perversion; every malignancy of the entire human race entered into the Son the Living God.
And all you have to do is to close your eyes and look with your heart to see what sin did to the Son of God,
It marred his face more than any other man in the world and deformed his body to the point where it did not even look human anymore.
Think about that for a moment and you will begin to get a visual of the consequences and the devastation of sin.
Luke 22:40-44
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And being in agony He prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood, the condition is called hematidrosis and though very rare it occurs when an individual incurs great levels of extreme suffering.
What was it that was bringing him such mental stress?
What was it that was causing him to suffer so intensely?
I believe it was becoming what he hated and loathed the most, the very thing that had brought separation from his creation,
Sin
There are many people who believe that the agony in the garden was about the crucifixion, was about the scrounging, and was about Him hanging on the cross.
I do not believe that.
It was because of His great love that he came to this world, He would give up the omnipresence of His glory to take upon himself a human body, and His desire was for intimate relationship with his creation.
His love did not change when he came here on earth, His plea was not about removing the cup from Him because he did not want to die because he feared the cross, because he wanted to back out of delivering us his creation.
He would endure the cross; He would endure the scourging for the joy that was set before him
Heb 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
What was the joy?
The joy was bringing us back into fellowship with Him, the joy was breaking and casting down the curse and the dominion that held his creation bound that had engulfed his love, and He would become sin so that you and I could become the righteousness of God.
The agony in the garden was not about death it was about him becoming sin.
The physical emotional agony that Christ went through because of becoming sin is rarely mentioned in the church and when it is mentioned it is not brought forth in the revelation of the devastation of that sin.
The concept of sin is diminished when it comes to the teaching of the church.
And they diminish it by the concept of yes Christ did pay the price
Yes Jesus paid for your sins but every time you sin,
God is still angry, God is still upset, God still demands payment, the blood must still be applied again, you must get it under the blood and if you do not then God will not answer your prayers.
And the church has made Jesus a part of the solution instead of the entire solution. He is not a part of the solution He is the entire solution.
Hear the word of God in
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Here is the Son of God rejected and separated from His Father, it has never happened before in His existence,
All of the sins of the world, all of the sickness of the world, all of the suffering of the world, all of the perversion of the world is now in Him.
All of our debt, all of the things that we were guilty of and then because God had no other choice as he looks down and sees the horror and the ghastliness of sin as it marred and deformed His Son,
He turns His back.
Let me tell you about hell,
Many people will tell you about the things that are going to be in hell that is going to make it terrible
The torture of hell is not going to be about the things that are in hell but rather it is going to about the things that will not be in hell.
Everything that is good is gone, everything that is light is gone, everything that is love is gone, all the goodness is gone, God and all the light of God is gone,
Forever separated forever in darkness and forever in suffering.
Everything that is good is gone, it will be unbearable to the degree that men will chew their tongues.
But the good news is that the conflict is over and God is satisfied and wants to reconcile you back to himself and give you the ministry of reconciliation.
2 Cor 5:19
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
2 Cor 5:18
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In my last three blogs that I have posted on the subject of GOD IS SATISFIED, I have brought what I believe to be revelation and to those who have eyes to see and an ear to hear I believe it will transform their lives.
Look at
Isa 6:1-13
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Here in scripture we see that Isaiah is allowed to see the glory of God
Now grasp this,
Here is a man who is separated from sin, He is living a life of holiness and yet following the vision that He saw of the Lord high and lifted up Isaiah comes to the undeniable revelation of his condition.
VERSE 5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Hear me because here is truth and revelation,
Anyone who has ever seen the glory of God also sees the deplorable condition that there are in because of sin and because they see the glory of God they immediately expect judgment, they immediately expect to be destroyed and to be consumed because they see that is what they deserve.
I believe with all of my heart that we as children of God have missed one of the major concepts of sin,
We do not see sin as God sees sin, we do not see the ghastliness and the horrors of sin as it should be seen.
Sin to us is getting caught with our hands in the cookie jar when we have been told not to get into the cookie jar.
We do not see the degradation of sin neither do we see the consequences and devastation of sin
For if we did,
We would realize that hell is not enough payment for our sins; hell does not compensate nor pay the price for our sins and hell
is mild in comparison to the horrors of sin.
And when you think that hell is such a terrible concept and that hell is to harsh for payment of sin, you have no concept of the ghastliness of sin.
I do not know how to convey and to bring to you the description and the devastation and horrors of sin
The only way that I know how to bring it forth is by instruction in the word of God concerning the devastation that Christ the Son of God went through when He became sin.
Hear the word of God with your heart and not your head.
Isa 40:1-2
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
This is the message from God to Isaiah; this also is the same message that John the Baptist is going to receive in the deserts of Judaea, and this is the message of the Messiah to the nations of Israel and even to the ends of the earth.
Comfort ye comfort ye
The warfare is over, the conflict has ended between the Creator and his creation.
And the angels sing the message in Luke 2:14
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Good will towards men, peace towards men from God, the conflict has ended.
The wrath of God has been appeased and satisfied because the Son of God will bear the iniquities and sins of man
The conflict is over.
Let me bring something to you
for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
I need you to grasp this,
The wrath of God upon his Son was double, very few people that I have talked to have understanding of the price that was paid for their sins,
He received double the wrath of God when he did not even deserve the wrath of God at all.
How many times do we cry injustice when we think that the penalty is to harsh for the infraction
Here is reality that very few of Gods people understand
Christ received double.
He who had no sin,
He who was the glory of the Father, not only would he become sin, not only would he pay the price, not only would He be the ransom for our iniquities
He also would receive the wrath of God double upon himself.
Isa 52:13-14
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
That word visage here is referring to the face of Jesus Christ, the word of God states that His face was marred more than any other man in the world,
That is a sobering statement
Take the worst thing that you have ever heard of, take any individual whose face has been eaten up by cancer or leprosy, take any individual whose face as been destroyed and ravaged by fire, think of the worst case scenario and the word of God says that no mans face has ever been marred as his face was marred
Look at the rest of the scripture,
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
and his form more than the sons of men:
What the word of God is telling you is that when you looked upon Him you could not even tell that He was a human being.
He was so deformed and so grotesques that you could not even tell that He was a human being.
How could that be?
How could scourging do that?
How could a beating do that?
How could the crown of thorns and the cat of nine tails do that?
I do not believe that it could.
Look at,
1 Pet 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Isa 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The word of God says that he bore our sins in his body, He that had no sin; He that had never touched sin became sin.
Do you understand what that means?
It means every sickness, every depravity, every illness, every deformity, every tumor, every perversion; every malignancy of the entire human race entered into the Son the Living God.
And all you have to do is to close your eyes and look with your heart to see what sin did to the Son of God,
It marred his face more than any other man in the world and deformed his body to the point where it did not even look human anymore.
Think about that for a moment and you will begin to get a visual of the consequences and the devastation of sin.
Luke 22:40-44
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And being in agony He prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood, the condition is called hematidrosis and though very rare it occurs when an individual incurs great levels of extreme suffering.
What was it that was bringing him such mental stress?
What was it that was causing him to suffer so intensely?
I believe it was becoming what he hated and loathed the most, the very thing that had brought separation from his creation,
Sin
There are many people who believe that the agony in the garden was about the crucifixion, was about the scrounging, and was about Him hanging on the cross.
I do not believe that.
It was because of His great love that he came to this world, He would give up the omnipresence of His glory to take upon himself a human body, and His desire was for intimate relationship with his creation.
His love did not change when he came here on earth, His plea was not about removing the cup from Him because he did not want to die because he feared the cross, because he wanted to back out of delivering us his creation.
He would endure the cross; He would endure the scourging for the joy that was set before him
Heb 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
What was the joy?
The joy was bringing us back into fellowship with Him, the joy was breaking and casting down the curse and the dominion that held his creation bound that had engulfed his love, and He would become sin so that you and I could become the righteousness of God.
The agony in the garden was not about death it was about him becoming sin.
The physical emotional agony that Christ went through because of becoming sin is rarely mentioned in the church and when it is mentioned it is not brought forth in the revelation of the devastation of that sin.
The concept of sin is diminished when it comes to the teaching of the church.
And they diminish it by the concept of yes Christ did pay the price
Yes Jesus paid for your sins but every time you sin,
God is still angry, God is still upset, God still demands payment, the blood must still be applied again, you must get it under the blood and if you do not then God will not answer your prayers.
And the church has made Jesus a part of the solution instead of the entire solution. He is not a part of the solution He is the entire solution.
Hear the word of God in
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Here is the Son of God rejected and separated from His Father, it has never happened before in His existence,
All of the sins of the world, all of the sickness of the world, all of the suffering of the world, all of the perversion of the world is now in Him.
All of our debt, all of the things that we were guilty of and then because God had no other choice as he looks down and sees the horror and the ghastliness of sin as it marred and deformed His Son,
He turns His back.
Let me tell you about hell,
Many people will tell you about the things that are going to be in hell that is going to make it terrible
The torture of hell is not going to be about the things that are in hell but rather it is going to about the things that will not be in hell.
Everything that is good is gone, everything that is light is gone, everything that is love is gone, all the goodness is gone, God and all the light of God is gone,
Forever separated forever in darkness and forever in suffering.
Everything that is good is gone, it will be unbearable to the degree that men will chew their tongues.
But the good news is that the conflict is over and God is satisfied and wants to reconcile you back to himself and give you the ministry of reconciliation.
2 Cor 5:19
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
2 Cor 5:18
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Thursday, October 15, 2009
YOUR LIFE DIRECTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT 2
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
When the Holy Spirit directed me to begin sharing what He has placed in my heart I understood that there was going to be reality and truth that was certainly going to offend many, especially those in the Pentecostal realm who believe that their lives are being directed by the Holy Spirit simply because they speak in tongues.
But here is reality and truth, we speak in tongues but we are not drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit, we are not allowing Him to lead us into all truth and we are not allowing him to guide us to the fullness of walking through Him in completeness
With all that he is, with all that he possesses, with all that is available to us through Him, we still do not draw on his power.
The truth is that we have access to God through God the Holy Spirit and the prophets of old longed and desired to see what we are seeing; they longed and desired to hear the things that we are hearing from the word of God
Matt 13:17
For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men 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.
And here we are living in this blessed day where it is more beneficial for us to have the Holy Spirit than it is to have Jesus Christ
.
John 16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
And we walk around depressed, discouraged, wanting a fresh touch from God, constantly looking for some thing new that can be felt, chasing God here and chasing God there and the whole time the Holy Spirit (Almighty God) lives on the inside of us.
If you have been born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues then He lives and dwells on the inside of you,
He lives on the inside of you where you can be refreshed and if you are weary can find rest
Isa 28:11-13
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing : yet they would not hear.
He lives on the inside of you where you can build up your most holy faith,
Jude 20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith , praying in the Holy Ghost,
But what does the child of God do, they chase God from one event to another, they chase God from one church to another and God is not running.
They are looking for a well to drink from, they are looking for a place to get a fresh drink of water and they never come to the revelation that the well that they are looking to drink from is on the inside of them.
A well of living water springing up, leaping up into everlasting life,
The Holy Ghost.
John 4:10---Jesus is speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
VERSE 13
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life .
Notice the words,
But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give shall never thirst and it will be a well of water springing up into everlasting life
John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Hear the words,
You shall never hunger, you will never thirst if you drink of the water that he gives and it shall be to you a well of living water that is constantly bubbling up, that is springing up like an artesian well, it never has to be primed, it never has to be pumped---it is a well of springing water.
And one of the biggest monsters in the church today is
Lord I hunger for you
Lord I thirst for you
Fill us up Lord we are so desperate for you.
It’s like sitting down to a six course meal and then telling every one how hungry you are,
If you are hungry --- then why don’t you just eat, if you are thirsty then why don’t you just drink, it has been given to you so that you will never hunger, so that you will never thirst.
But the language of the church is I feel so empty, so dry, so drained, instead of telling every one how hungry you are—why don’t you eat.
The reason you’re so empty, so dry, so confused and so drained is because you are not drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit to refresh you and bring you rest
When did you stop realizing who it is that lives on the inside of you?
When did you stop seeing the potential that lives on the inside of you?
When did you stop the flow of the resurrection power that dwells on the inside of you?
When did you stop promoting spiritual growth and strength.
Speaking in tongues edifies and builds you up, when did you stop allowing it to do that.
1 Cor 14:4
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
The word edifieth in the Greek is oykodomehoo and it means to build a house,
Building a house promotes growth and strength.
Jesus said come to me and you will never hunger and you will never thirst again and yet in the body of Christ there are multitudes that are doing just that, hungering and thirsting, desperate for him and the whole time the well is on the inside of them.
The Holy Spirit has been sent to be your encourager, your comforter, to build you up, to strengthen you, to refresh you, to bring you rest when you are weary, to lead you into all truth and we walk around depressed discouraged and confused.
There is something terribly wrong with this picture.
It is not about what we do not have; it’s about not appreciating what we do have and not walking in the revelation of power that has been given to us.
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He will guide you into all truth
Those words he will guide in the Greek are hodaygeho and it means to show you the way and the meaning is literal
To show you the way means to start revealing to you the things of God
John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus
The Holy Spirit takes the things of Jesus and reveals them
The Holy Spirit is sent to exalt Jesus, to glorify Jesus, to lift up Jesus, to magnify Jesus and many of God’s people do not know the Holy Spirit intimately.
Are they born again---Yes?
Are they baptized in the Holy Spirit—yes--but they do not know Him apart from speaking in tongues.
The way that you think reveals whether or not that you know Him, The things that you speak reveals whether or not you have intimacy with him.
What is intimacy---knowing Him?
Paul said it in
Phil 3:10
That I may know him , and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
It is the Holy Spirit that reveals Jesus to you, you can come to the place in your life where you know Jesus and it will keep you from being depressed and discouraged, it will keep you from being confused.
I am not speaking about superhuman strength in which to persevere through
I am revealing to you intimacy and love through the Holy Spirit..
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
If you only take the last part of this verse it would transform your life if you would grasp what is being said.
and he will shew you things to come.
If you were open to see just what he would reveal unto you about next week it would transform you, and if you would take advantage of what he would show you it would radically change your life, it could prevent you from having a car wreak and being killed, it could prevent you from having an accident at home.
There have been times when the Holy Spirit has told me to move and if I would not have moved I would have been seriously hurt.
The Holy Spirit shows you things to come and because he knows about those things he can save your life.
Rom 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
The word helpeth our in the Greek is soonanteelombanomahee and it means to take hold together.
The Holy Spirit does not intercede for you by himself, He does not help our infirmities by himself, He does not help our infirmities on his own and you can not intercede on your own
.
It is beyond human ability.
But when you begun to pray and to intercede then the Holy Spirit takes hold with you and He then joins with you making intercession with groanings which can not be uttered making the prayer of a righteous man effectual and fervent that avails much.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
When the Holy Spirit directed me to begin sharing what He has placed in my heart I understood that there was going to be reality and truth that was certainly going to offend many, especially those in the Pentecostal realm who believe that their lives are being directed by the Holy Spirit simply because they speak in tongues.
But here is reality and truth, we speak in tongues but we are not drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit, we are not allowing Him to lead us into all truth and we are not allowing him to guide us to the fullness of walking through Him in completeness
With all that he is, with all that he possesses, with all that is available to us through Him, we still do not draw on his power.
The truth is that we have access to God through God the Holy Spirit and the prophets of old longed and desired to see what we are seeing; they longed and desired to hear the things that we are hearing from the word of God
Matt 13:17
For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men 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.
And here we are living in this blessed day where it is more beneficial for us to have the Holy Spirit than it is to have Jesus Christ
.
John 16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
And we walk around depressed, discouraged, wanting a fresh touch from God, constantly looking for some thing new that can be felt, chasing God here and chasing God there and the whole time the Holy Spirit (Almighty God) lives on the inside of us.
If you have been born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues then He lives and dwells on the inside of you,
He lives on the inside of you where you can be refreshed and if you are weary can find rest
Isa 28:11-13
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing : yet they would not hear.
He lives on the inside of you where you can build up your most holy faith,
Jude 20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith , praying in the Holy Ghost,
But what does the child of God do, they chase God from one event to another, they chase God from one church to another and God is not running.
They are looking for a well to drink from, they are looking for a place to get a fresh drink of water and they never come to the revelation that the well that they are looking to drink from is on the inside of them.
A well of living water springing up, leaping up into everlasting life,
The Holy Ghost.
John 4:10---Jesus is speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
VERSE 13
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life .
Notice the words,
But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give shall never thirst and it will be a well of water springing up into everlasting life
John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Hear the words,
You shall never hunger, you will never thirst if you drink of the water that he gives and it shall be to you a well of living water that is constantly bubbling up, that is springing up like an artesian well, it never has to be primed, it never has to be pumped---it is a well of springing water.
And one of the biggest monsters in the church today is
Lord I hunger for you
Lord I thirst for you
Fill us up Lord we are so desperate for you.
It’s like sitting down to a six course meal and then telling every one how hungry you are,
If you are hungry --- then why don’t you just eat, if you are thirsty then why don’t you just drink, it has been given to you so that you will never hunger, so that you will never thirst.
But the language of the church is I feel so empty, so dry, so drained, instead of telling every one how hungry you are—why don’t you eat.
The reason you’re so empty, so dry, so confused and so drained is because you are not drawing on the power of the Holy Spirit to refresh you and bring you rest
When did you stop realizing who it is that lives on the inside of you?
When did you stop seeing the potential that lives on the inside of you?
When did you stop the flow of the resurrection power that dwells on the inside of you?
When did you stop promoting spiritual growth and strength.
Speaking in tongues edifies and builds you up, when did you stop allowing it to do that.
1 Cor 14:4
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
The word edifieth in the Greek is oykodomehoo and it means to build a house,
Building a house promotes growth and strength.
Jesus said come to me and you will never hunger and you will never thirst again and yet in the body of Christ there are multitudes that are doing just that, hungering and thirsting, desperate for him and the whole time the well is on the inside of them.
The Holy Spirit has been sent to be your encourager, your comforter, to build you up, to strengthen you, to refresh you, to bring you rest when you are weary, to lead you into all truth and we walk around depressed discouraged and confused.
There is something terribly wrong with this picture.
It is not about what we do not have; it’s about not appreciating what we do have and not walking in the revelation of power that has been given to us.
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He will guide you into all truth
Those words he will guide in the Greek are hodaygeho and it means to show you the way and the meaning is literal
To show you the way means to start revealing to you the things of God
John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus
The Holy Spirit takes the things of Jesus and reveals them
The Holy Spirit is sent to exalt Jesus, to glorify Jesus, to lift up Jesus, to magnify Jesus and many of God’s people do not know the Holy Spirit intimately.
Are they born again---Yes?
Are they baptized in the Holy Spirit—yes--but they do not know Him apart from speaking in tongues.
The way that you think reveals whether or not that you know Him, The things that you speak reveals whether or not you have intimacy with him.
What is intimacy---knowing Him?
Paul said it in
Phil 3:10
That I may know him , and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
It is the Holy Spirit that reveals Jesus to you, you can come to the place in your life where you know Jesus and it will keep you from being depressed and discouraged, it will keep you from being confused.
I am not speaking about superhuman strength in which to persevere through
I am revealing to you intimacy and love through the Holy Spirit..
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
If you only take the last part of this verse it would transform your life if you would grasp what is being said.
and he will shew you things to come.
If you were open to see just what he would reveal unto you about next week it would transform you, and if you would take advantage of what he would show you it would radically change your life, it could prevent you from having a car wreak and being killed, it could prevent you from having an accident at home.
There have been times when the Holy Spirit has told me to move and if I would not have moved I would have been seriously hurt.
The Holy Spirit shows you things to come and because he knows about those things he can save your life.
Rom 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
The word helpeth our in the Greek is soonanteelombanomahee and it means to take hold together.
The Holy Spirit does not intercede for you by himself, He does not help our infirmities by himself, He does not help our infirmities on his own and you can not intercede on your own
.
It is beyond human ability.
But when you begun to pray and to intercede then the Holy Spirit takes hold with you and He then joins with you making intercession with groanings which can not be uttered making the prayer of a righteous man effectual and fervent that avails much.
Monday, October 12, 2009
GOD IS SATISFIED PT 3
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In the past two messages that I have brought to you, I believe they have been incredible truths that have brought awesome insight to you concerning the word of God.
Once again let’s look at 2 Cor 5:18-19
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
The word of God reveals the intentions of God towards us His creation
He is not angry, He does not want vengeance, He is not imputing our trespasses towards us and He is not holding our sins to our account, He is reconciling the world unto Himself and has given to us, His children the ministry of reconciliation.
Here is the message that the church should be preaching, this is the good news that should be brought to the multitudes
The wrath of God is not upon this earth nor have the judgments of God descended upon mankind,
September 11 or 9-11 is not a judgment of God nor is Katrina or any of the rest of the hurricanes that have brought devastation to our world, the tsunamis in the Philippines, the fires in California, the draughts in the mid-west, the countless tornadoes that have brought destruction, none of these are the judgments of God
The wrath of God is not upon this earth, the wrath of God was upon his Son and his wrath has been appeased
I guarantee you that there is coming a time when the church age, the dispensation of grace is going to be over and it is at that time when the wrath of God is going to be poured out upon this earth and to those who have accepted him will be received up with joy and to those who have rejected him will experience that wrath on this earth, but right now the earth is in the dispensation of grace and God is reconciling the world unto himself and the message ought to be the good news of the gospel,
The power of God unto salvation
The message that we ought to be proclaiming to the world is the same message that the angels were proclaiming
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Look at,
2 Cor 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We are the ambassadors for Christ
What is an Ambassador?
It is a representative, a diplomat, an emissary.
It is some one who brings the message of goodwill, a message of reconciliation.
We are the representation of God
God was reconciling the world to himself through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation and God in Jesus did not impute mans sin unto them.
We are His ambassadors and we are supposed to bring forth his message, the message of reconciliation.
Not the message of man, not the message of religion, not the message of the wayward church.
For multitudes of years the message of the church has been about the wrath of God, the vengeance of God, the message that God is a jealous God, a God who does not wink at ignorance, a God of natural destructions and devastation against mankind, a God bent on the destruction of evil man.
The message has been you must live a holy life or you will not be healed, God will not answer your prayers if there is sin in your life, you are a sinner and you will never be worthy of so great a salvation.
We have tied the ability and the grace of God to our worthiness, to our goodness, to our performance, to our righteousness and that is the reason that very few of Gods people are doing the exploits of God.
Satan has done well to perpetrate the lie
The message of the Godhead is the reconciliation of man and He has given unto us the ministry of reconciliation
When Christ came he came not imputing our sins to us, the good news that He brought was that we were not going to receive what we deserved, the conflict is over and the wrath of God has been appeased and the only thing that is required of you is to believe to receive and confess that He is your Lord.
And if you are reading this and you have feelings that you have messed up so badly that God is no longer interested in you, you have believed the lie of Satan.
You need to have revelation of how much that God loves you and to have understanding of that which has been appointed for you
Eph 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
If you have understanding concerning the love of God for you, if you understand His love to the breadeth, length, depth and height,
If you understood that His love passes knowledge and that it fills you with the fullness of God,
If you understand that the revelation of His love is what allows the faith inside of you to work.
Gal 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
If you really understood His love for you then you would be using the full measure of your faith.
God is not disappointed in you, He is not upset with you and He is not grieved with you for if he was then he would be disappointed and grieved in His Son.
He loves you.
You are the Apple of His eye.
Ps 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
We need to read it again
2 Cor 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Be ye reconciled to God
Are you going to reconcile yourself to God, are you going to accept the gift that has been given unto you and accept the revelation of the message that he has brought forth to the earth.
He has already reconciled himself to you through his Son
VERSE 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Let me make this clear,
When the word of God says that he came not imputing their sins unto them
It is not implying that there was no debt to be paid.
Christ paid the debt.
Your sins were not imputed to you but they were imputed unto Him, who knew no sin,
He paid the price so that you would not have to
And not only did he pay the debt of your sins but he also made you the Righteousness of God
So have understanding, all of your iniquities, all of your sins, all of your transgressions that were inside of you, He took them from you and gave you what was on the inside of him.
He took what was inside of Him which was righteousness and placed it within you and then took what was inside of you which was transgressions and sin and placed it on the inside of Him.
You are not a sinner saved by grace
You was a sinner who needed to be saved by grace but now you are the righteousness of God,
Your sins are gone
They have been cast into the sea of forgetfulness.
Ps 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
God is not looking at your sins; He is not dealing with his creation based upon the sacrifice of bulls and goats, based upon the conditions of the law, His wrath has been satisfied through his Son.
Hear the message that John the Baptist received in the desert
Hear His words concerning the coming of Christ to the Nation of Israel,,
Isa 40:1-5
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Hear the message.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
In the past two messages that I have brought to you, I believe they have been incredible truths that have brought awesome insight to you concerning the word of God.
Once again let’s look at 2 Cor 5:18-19
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
The word of God reveals the intentions of God towards us His creation
He is not angry, He does not want vengeance, He is not imputing our trespasses towards us and He is not holding our sins to our account, He is reconciling the world unto Himself and has given to us, His children the ministry of reconciliation.
Here is the message that the church should be preaching, this is the good news that should be brought to the multitudes
The wrath of God is not upon this earth nor have the judgments of God descended upon mankind,
September 11 or 9-11 is not a judgment of God nor is Katrina or any of the rest of the hurricanes that have brought devastation to our world, the tsunamis in the Philippines, the fires in California, the draughts in the mid-west, the countless tornadoes that have brought destruction, none of these are the judgments of God
The wrath of God is not upon this earth, the wrath of God was upon his Son and his wrath has been appeased
I guarantee you that there is coming a time when the church age, the dispensation of grace is going to be over and it is at that time when the wrath of God is going to be poured out upon this earth and to those who have accepted him will be received up with joy and to those who have rejected him will experience that wrath on this earth, but right now the earth is in the dispensation of grace and God is reconciling the world unto himself and the message ought to be the good news of the gospel,
The power of God unto salvation
The message that we ought to be proclaiming to the world is the same message that the angels were proclaiming
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Look at,
2 Cor 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We are the ambassadors for Christ
What is an Ambassador?
It is a representative, a diplomat, an emissary.
It is some one who brings the message of goodwill, a message of reconciliation.
We are the representation of God
God was reconciling the world to himself through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation and God in Jesus did not impute mans sin unto them.
We are His ambassadors and we are supposed to bring forth his message, the message of reconciliation.
Not the message of man, not the message of religion, not the message of the wayward church.
For multitudes of years the message of the church has been about the wrath of God, the vengeance of God, the message that God is a jealous God, a God who does not wink at ignorance, a God of natural destructions and devastation against mankind, a God bent on the destruction of evil man.
The message has been you must live a holy life or you will not be healed, God will not answer your prayers if there is sin in your life, you are a sinner and you will never be worthy of so great a salvation.
We have tied the ability and the grace of God to our worthiness, to our goodness, to our performance, to our righteousness and that is the reason that very few of Gods people are doing the exploits of God.
Satan has done well to perpetrate the lie
The message of the Godhead is the reconciliation of man and He has given unto us the ministry of reconciliation
When Christ came he came not imputing our sins to us, the good news that He brought was that we were not going to receive what we deserved, the conflict is over and the wrath of God has been appeased and the only thing that is required of you is to believe to receive and confess that He is your Lord.
And if you are reading this and you have feelings that you have messed up so badly that God is no longer interested in you, you have believed the lie of Satan.
You need to have revelation of how much that God loves you and to have understanding of that which has been appointed for you
Eph 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
If you have understanding concerning the love of God for you, if you understand His love to the breadeth, length, depth and height,
If you understood that His love passes knowledge and that it fills you with the fullness of God,
If you understand that the revelation of His love is what allows the faith inside of you to work.
Gal 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
If you really understood His love for you then you would be using the full measure of your faith.
God is not disappointed in you, He is not upset with you and He is not grieved with you for if he was then he would be disappointed and grieved in His Son.
He loves you.
You are the Apple of His eye.
Ps 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
We need to read it again
2 Cor 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Be ye reconciled to God
Are you going to reconcile yourself to God, are you going to accept the gift that has been given unto you and accept the revelation of the message that he has brought forth to the earth.
He has already reconciled himself to you through his Son
VERSE 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Let me make this clear,
When the word of God says that he came not imputing their sins unto them
It is not implying that there was no debt to be paid.
Christ paid the debt.
Your sins were not imputed to you but they were imputed unto Him, who knew no sin,
He paid the price so that you would not have to
And not only did he pay the debt of your sins but he also made you the Righteousness of God
So have understanding, all of your iniquities, all of your sins, all of your transgressions that were inside of you, He took them from you and gave you what was on the inside of him.
He took what was inside of Him which was righteousness and placed it within you and then took what was inside of you which was transgressions and sin and placed it on the inside of Him.
You are not a sinner saved by grace
You was a sinner who needed to be saved by grace but now you are the righteousness of God,
Your sins are gone
They have been cast into the sea of forgetfulness.
Ps 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
God is not looking at your sins; He is not dealing with his creation based upon the sacrifice of bulls and goats, based upon the conditions of the law, His wrath has been satisfied through his Son.
Hear the message that John the Baptist received in the desert
Hear His words concerning the coming of Christ to the Nation of Israel,,
Isa 40:1-5
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Hear the message.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
GOD IS SATISFIED PT 2
Luke 2:13-14
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
On my last blog GOD IS SATISFIED I began to deal with some radical truths that are really foreign to many of God’s children.
After much prayer and seeking the face of the Lord I believe the Holy Spirit has instructed me to place these truths before those who have a ear to hear and a heart to perceive.
If you have not read the first blog GOD IS SATISFIED do so because you will not want to miss the truth and the transformation that will follow simply because the truth that will be birthed in your heart certainly is going to make you free.
Let’s touch briefly on my first message GOD IS SATISFIED
Luke 2:8-14
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Most people believe that this scripture is proclaiming peace and goodwill among men and they also believe that this scripture is pertaining to a specific time of the year and that peace on earth has come because Christ is being born.
That is not true?
Matt 10:34 states,
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
The words of Christ are very plain, do not think that I have come to send peace on the earth; it is not peace that I bring to this earth but a sword
I have not come to end wars and rumors of wars, I have not come to end divisions and strife and separations among men, I have not come to bring peace but a sword
VERSE 35
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 12:49-53
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Religion teaches that Christ came to bring peace among people and that is not true as I have just showed you according to the word of God
Listen to the word of God again,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
This is God proclaiming to man that his wrath is being satisfied
His judgment is being appeased; His relationship with his creation man is being brought to a place of peace and goodwill.
Before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the relationship that God had with man, his creation with the exception of a few who had entered into intimacy with Him was wrath
Here is a radical statement,
Christ has changed how God deals with his creation Man.
2 Cor 5:17-18
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
And all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself by Christ
The word reconcile means to bring back into friendship after estrangement,
To bring back into friendship after separation, to bring back into harmony, to establish intimacy
Man may not be reconciled to God but God is reconciled to man based on what Christ has done, the conflict between God and man has ended and He has even given to us the ministry of reconciliation, and I believe that the reason Christianity is not having the impact on the earth that it was meant to have is because we are not preaching this message of being reconciled to God by Christ and the ministry of reconciliation that has been given to us as children of God.
Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Hear the word of God,
For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth
The it that is being referred to here in the word of God is the gospel of Christ, the salvation of Christ and the word salvation is all inclusive, it is all encompassing and it is the unlimited availability of all that God is and all that God has.
Everything that Jesus came to do and everything that he did is released through the power of the gospel.
The good news, the news that is too good to be true is the good news of total deliverance in your emotions, total healing in your body, total forgiveness without guilt and condemnation, total freedom through the power of the gospel.
But this is not the message that is being preached in the church, this is not the message of the church.
The message coming forth from the church is that you are a sinner, you are condemned to hell, the wrath of God is upon you, you have to accept Christ or you will be cursed
You need repentance or you will find yourself in the eternal pits of hell.
And these things are true but they are not the good news of the gospel, they are surely not the power of God unto salvation and they are not the focus and the reason that Jesus Christ came.
The good news of the gospel is that in spite of our sins
In spite of our separation from God, in spite of our rebellion, in spite of our rejection, in spite of our unworthiness, in spite of the fact that we deserve to be punished and judged
The good news of the gospel is that God placed his wrath, his judgment, his anger, his rage, his fury on his Son and that wrath has been appeased
The conflict has ended
The wrath of God has been appeased and God is no longer angry with man
Christ appeased the anger and the wrath of God
Isa 53:10-
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Christ has paid the price and the only thing that we need to do is to receive that payment
The power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth
That is the good news, that is the gospel and this is the message that is not as a whole being preached in the church today
People are turning away from the gospel.
Why because the message being proclaimed is about sin and you being a sinner, the message being proclaimed is about God being angry because you have not repented, the message is about hell and your rebellion coming into His presence,
Hear the word of God
Rom 2:1-4
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
It is the goodness of God that leads man to repentance
It is the goodness of God that is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth and he has reconciled us to himself through the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is what the angels were proclaiming in the fields of Jerusalem
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace goodwill toward men
Hear the word of God
2 Cor 5:18-19
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
To wit means to know, to know that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing there trespasses unto them
In the Greek the word imputing is logizomai and it means to calculate, to number, to lay upon
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself not calculating, not numbering, and not laying upon us our trespasses that we deserved
God was in Christ not holding mans sins against him, not making man accountable,
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.
This is the reason that the religious leaders of that day viewed Christ as such a radical
This is the reason that the Pharisees and the Scribes hated Christ so much
He came reconciling the world to Himself; He came in the arena of friendliness.
He did not come proclaiming the anger of God he came reconciling the world unto Himself
He came to establish the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God is about relationship
God is not mad, God is not angry,--- on earth peace and goodwill towards men
It was the wrath of God that the Pharisee and Scribes used to hold the people in bondage and in fear,
It was the wrath of God that the religious leaders used to keep the people bringing there sacrifices and there tithes to the temple
It was the wrath of God that was being preached to them that kept them in there bondage and in there loyalty to the religious leaders.
If you continue to pay your tithes, if you continue to make your pilgrimage, if you will continue to pray and read your bible then Gods anger is appeased
This is not the message that Christ came with
He came with the ministry of reconciling man unto God and that their trespasses, their sins were not imputed towards them
God is not angry; God is not holding you accountable any more
The conflict has ended and your sins are not a problem.
And I can hear preachers and people screaming all over the internet over what I just said about sins not being a problem
Your sins are not a problem with God
People will reject you and call you a cult for making such a comment
They will call you a false prophet
Look at Verse 19
It tells us that our trespasses were not being imputed towards us
People will rise up and say that I am making light of sin
They will tell me that I do not know the damage that I am causing when I say that sin is not a problem
They will tell me that God can not fellowship with anyone if there is sin in there life
Hear me
Then God can’t fellowship with man
The word of God is clear while we were yet sinners he commended his love towards us
I am not condoning sin, I am not proclaiming that sin is not a big deal; I am not telling you that sin is not devastating
I am not giving people a license to sin,
If you like what I am saying because you think that it gives you liberty to go out and sin you need to get born again
Hear the word of God concerning this stupidly.
I Jn 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Every man that has this hope
What hope?
The hope of being like Jesus
Purifieth himself even as he is pure
Any one who is truly born again is looking for the means to have dominion to overcome sin not to indulge it
So when I say that you’re sins are not a problem I am speaking in the realm of God and Christ
One drop of the blood of Christ was enough to rid the entire human population of all of there sins and there trespasses, all there iniquity, all of the curses, all of the rebellion, mutiny and rejection.
Sin is not the problem to God
Jesus paid for our sins
One drop of His blood satisfied the wrath of God and God is not angry
Sin is not the issue
You do not go to hell because of your sin; you go to hell because you rejected the payment that was provided for your sins.
And when the church is out there preaching the message that you are going to go to hell for smoking, drinking, gossiping, adultery, lying and cheating you are imputing the sins of man unto them and you are diminishing the penalty that was provided by Christ
You are not in the ministry of reconciliation that he has given unto you
Your sins do not send you to hell
Your rejection of Jesus sends you to hell
God was in Jesus reconciling man unto himself
The issue is not about sin, the issue is not about your transgressions, the issue is about what are you going to do with Jesus Christ, the issue is about the commitment that people are making concerning there life with Christ
If you do not accept Christ as the payment for your iniquities then you have to make the payment with your own your life and your life is not acceptable the same as Cain’s offering was not acceptable
And I am not speaking about accepting Christ in a prayer I am speaking about accepting Christ in commitment and dedication.
God is not mad
God is not angry
He is not angry at you
He is not angry at America
His anger has been appeased through his Son
1Thes 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
On my last blog GOD IS SATISFIED I began to deal with some radical truths that are really foreign to many of God’s children.
After much prayer and seeking the face of the Lord I believe the Holy Spirit has instructed me to place these truths before those who have a ear to hear and a heart to perceive.
If you have not read the first blog GOD IS SATISFIED do so because you will not want to miss the truth and the transformation that will follow simply because the truth that will be birthed in your heart certainly is going to make you free.
Let’s touch briefly on my first message GOD IS SATISFIED
Luke 2:8-14
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Most people believe that this scripture is proclaiming peace and goodwill among men and they also believe that this scripture is pertaining to a specific time of the year and that peace on earth has come because Christ is being born.
That is not true?
Matt 10:34 states,
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
The words of Christ are very plain, do not think that I have come to send peace on the earth; it is not peace that I bring to this earth but a sword
I have not come to end wars and rumors of wars, I have not come to end divisions and strife and separations among men, I have not come to bring peace but a sword
VERSE 35
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 12:49-53
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Religion teaches that Christ came to bring peace among people and that is not true as I have just showed you according to the word of God
Listen to the word of God again,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
This is God proclaiming to man that his wrath is being satisfied
His judgment is being appeased; His relationship with his creation man is being brought to a place of peace and goodwill.
Before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the relationship that God had with man, his creation with the exception of a few who had entered into intimacy with Him was wrath
Here is a radical statement,
Christ has changed how God deals with his creation Man.
2 Cor 5:17-18
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
And all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself by Christ
The word reconcile means to bring back into friendship after estrangement,
To bring back into friendship after separation, to bring back into harmony, to establish intimacy
Man may not be reconciled to God but God is reconciled to man based on what Christ has done, the conflict between God and man has ended and He has even given to us the ministry of reconciliation, and I believe that the reason Christianity is not having the impact on the earth that it was meant to have is because we are not preaching this message of being reconciled to God by Christ and the ministry of reconciliation that has been given to us as children of God.
Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Hear the word of God,
For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth
The it that is being referred to here in the word of God is the gospel of Christ, the salvation of Christ and the word salvation is all inclusive, it is all encompassing and it is the unlimited availability of all that God is and all that God has.
Everything that Jesus came to do and everything that he did is released through the power of the gospel.
The good news, the news that is too good to be true is the good news of total deliverance in your emotions, total healing in your body, total forgiveness without guilt and condemnation, total freedom through the power of the gospel.
But this is not the message that is being preached in the church, this is not the message of the church.
The message coming forth from the church is that you are a sinner, you are condemned to hell, the wrath of God is upon you, you have to accept Christ or you will be cursed
You need repentance or you will find yourself in the eternal pits of hell.
And these things are true but they are not the good news of the gospel, they are surely not the power of God unto salvation and they are not the focus and the reason that Jesus Christ came.
The good news of the gospel is that in spite of our sins
In spite of our separation from God, in spite of our rebellion, in spite of our rejection, in spite of our unworthiness, in spite of the fact that we deserve to be punished and judged
The good news of the gospel is that God placed his wrath, his judgment, his anger, his rage, his fury on his Son and that wrath has been appeased
The conflict has ended
The wrath of God has been appeased and God is no longer angry with man
Christ appeased the anger and the wrath of God
Isa 53:10-
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Christ has paid the price and the only thing that we need to do is to receive that payment
The power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth
That is the good news, that is the gospel and this is the message that is not as a whole being preached in the church today
People are turning away from the gospel.
Why because the message being proclaimed is about sin and you being a sinner, the message being proclaimed is about God being angry because you have not repented, the message is about hell and your rebellion coming into His presence,
Hear the word of God
Rom 2:1-4
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
It is the goodness of God that leads man to repentance
It is the goodness of God that is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth and he has reconciled us to himself through the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is what the angels were proclaiming in the fields of Jerusalem
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace goodwill toward men
Hear the word of God
2 Cor 5:18-19
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
To wit means to know, to know that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing there trespasses unto them
In the Greek the word imputing is logizomai and it means to calculate, to number, to lay upon
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself not calculating, not numbering, and not laying upon us our trespasses that we deserved
God was in Christ not holding mans sins against him, not making man accountable,
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.
This is the reason that the religious leaders of that day viewed Christ as such a radical
This is the reason that the Pharisees and the Scribes hated Christ so much
He came reconciling the world to Himself; He came in the arena of friendliness.
He did not come proclaiming the anger of God he came reconciling the world unto Himself
He came to establish the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God is about relationship
God is not mad, God is not angry,--- on earth peace and goodwill towards men
It was the wrath of God that the Pharisee and Scribes used to hold the people in bondage and in fear,
It was the wrath of God that the religious leaders used to keep the people bringing there sacrifices and there tithes to the temple
It was the wrath of God that was being preached to them that kept them in there bondage and in there loyalty to the religious leaders.
If you continue to pay your tithes, if you continue to make your pilgrimage, if you will continue to pray and read your bible then Gods anger is appeased
This is not the message that Christ came with
He came with the ministry of reconciling man unto God and that their trespasses, their sins were not imputed towards them
God is not angry; God is not holding you accountable any more
The conflict has ended and your sins are not a problem.
And I can hear preachers and people screaming all over the internet over what I just said about sins not being a problem
Your sins are not a problem with God
People will reject you and call you a cult for making such a comment
They will call you a false prophet
Look at Verse 19
It tells us that our trespasses were not being imputed towards us
People will rise up and say that I am making light of sin
They will tell me that I do not know the damage that I am causing when I say that sin is not a problem
They will tell me that God can not fellowship with anyone if there is sin in there life
Hear me
Then God can’t fellowship with man
The word of God is clear while we were yet sinners he commended his love towards us
I am not condoning sin, I am not proclaiming that sin is not a big deal; I am not telling you that sin is not devastating
I am not giving people a license to sin,
If you like what I am saying because you think that it gives you liberty to go out and sin you need to get born again
Hear the word of God concerning this stupidly.
I Jn 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Every man that has this hope
What hope?
The hope of being like Jesus
Purifieth himself even as he is pure
Any one who is truly born again is looking for the means to have dominion to overcome sin not to indulge it
So when I say that you’re sins are not a problem I am speaking in the realm of God and Christ
One drop of the blood of Christ was enough to rid the entire human population of all of there sins and there trespasses, all there iniquity, all of the curses, all of the rebellion, mutiny and rejection.
Sin is not the problem to God
Jesus paid for our sins
One drop of His blood satisfied the wrath of God and God is not angry
Sin is not the issue
You do not go to hell because of your sin; you go to hell because you rejected the payment that was provided for your sins.
And when the church is out there preaching the message that you are going to go to hell for smoking, drinking, gossiping, adultery, lying and cheating you are imputing the sins of man unto them and you are diminishing the penalty that was provided by Christ
You are not in the ministry of reconciliation that he has given unto you
Your sins do not send you to hell
Your rejection of Jesus sends you to hell
God was in Jesus reconciling man unto himself
The issue is not about sin, the issue is not about your transgressions, the issue is about what are you going to do with Jesus Christ, the issue is about the commitment that people are making concerning there life with Christ
If you do not accept Christ as the payment for your iniquities then you have to make the payment with your own your life and your life is not acceptable the same as Cain’s offering was not acceptable
And I am not speaking about accepting Christ in a prayer I am speaking about accepting Christ in commitment and dedication.
God is not mad
God is not angry
He is not angry at you
He is not angry at America
His anger has been appeased through his Son
1Thes 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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