It’s the highest place ever and Beyond the Universe! Colossians 3:1

It’s the highest place ever and Beyond the Universe! Colossians 3:1

There is no Higher Place in the universe and beyond, than where Christ is seated at the right hand of God The Father! This is the highest place at that, and that’s for sure! You cannot go higher than that even the outer limits of space cannot reach it!

Colossians 3:1, "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God"

You cannot go higher than the heavenly place where Christ is seated, after His Resurrection and Ascension; and if you try to go higher, you will be cast down, as Satan, the highest Angel, was cast down, from the glory and presence of God!

Even though Jesus is seated in the highest place, He is emanate with us in our earthly realm.

Indeed, you can't even try to reach Him, let alone go higher! You will never reach Christ in your own efforts for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God Romans 3:23. And dead men do not rise, and that is what you are: Dead! Dead men do not rise, by virtue of themselves, but remain a dead carcass.

You can only rise and ascend and reach the Highest place ever and beyond the Universe, by being Raised with Christ and being in Christ through the Life of Jesus and His Resurrection; only by His Grace made manifest to quicken and make you alive and give you faith to your dead being, body and carcass, can you reach; in Christ, and with Christ, and through Jesus Christ, the Heavenly Realm of God's Manifest Glory in the highest place of the universe and beyond.

You cannot approach and Enter no higher place but through the Blood of the lamb; and then, you will reside in that Heavenly Place of God's glory made Manifest, through the Mighty King of Glory who seats on the Throne; Through Him who is crowned with glory and honor forever, the Eternal Son of God-Even Jesus Christ, My God and My Savior! Now unto the King Eternal, Immortal, invisible the only wise God be honor and glory forever and Ever, Amen! I Timothy 1:17

There is no pause button in our Sanctification in Christ! Colossians 3:1-11

There is no pause button in our sanctification! Colossians 3 :1-11
There is no pause button in our Christian life and witness, wherever you may find yourself to be; whether it be at work, at parties, gatherings, events, dinners, banquets, award ceremonies, award ceremony after parties, in Church, at retreats, outings, working-out at the gym or club and spa, if you are driving, walking your dog...the list goes on... and you get the point...there is no pause button to your sanctification in your Christian life and witness!
In Colossians 3:1, It begins by saying, "If then " Here is a conditional conjunction followed by "You have been raised" This conditional clause is stating and denoting a condition and reality that has already taken place in the life of the believer, this assumed condition, is factual for the sake of the Apostle Paul's reasoning and is the driving force whereby the Apostle Paul speaks. Hence, in light of your life being raised with Christ, to the heavenly place, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God the Father, and the believer is seated with Him, in the realm of the heavenly place, where God manifests His great glory; it says, "seek" ζητέω- this is a Greek word to seek, earnestly, as if you are seeking after a treasure. It is in the imperfect tense which means the actions did not happen once in the past or will happen one time in the future, but it is an action that is set one time in the past, in being raised with Christ, and it continues in the present which has relative and continual action to continually seek. And in verse 5, it says, "Put to death"- Νεκρώσατε, This is an imperative command, the tense is aorist and means, also, not just one time, "to put to death" but it means a continual action, as if you are in a battle, and we are in a battle, to constantly put to death the misdeeds of the sinful nature. Hence, the driving force that the Apostle Paul gives this command "to put to death " "a taking up of our own cross" if you will, as Jesus spoke of in the Gospels; in light of the Heavenly reality, of being raised with Christ, in the Resurrected life of Christ; we are to continually "seek", in our earthly realm, the place where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God the Father, in the heavenly realm and place. In light of being raised with Christ, we have power and grace, in the earthly realm, to obey this command. The believer does not have an option, whatsoever, to obey or not to obey, to pause or continue, it is commanded! And in light of our positional standing in Christ, we have The grace of God in the Resurrected life of Jesus Christ to obey this command "to put to death" the misdeeds of the flesh in our positional sanctification. And the only rest you have is to pray in the battle. And the very act of praying is,indeed,obedience to the command "to put to death" the misdeeds of the flesh!
Colossians 3:1-11:
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your[a] life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:[b] sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.[c] 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self[d] with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave,[e] free; but Christ is all, and in all.

No self-praise of boasting will usher you in; No claim to one's own merits will make you stand before the presence of The Mighty King of glory-Even Jesus Christ! Proverbs 25:6

No self-praise of boasting will usher you in; No claim to one's own merits will make you stand before the presence of The Mighty King of glory-Even Jesus Christ! No merit of your own to usher you in, no footing to stand upon before the presence of the Great and Mighty King!

Proverbs 25:6 “Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great,”

On what merit, worth, status, wealth, works, efforts, position, office, authority or right shall you put yourself in the Presence of t...he great King and eternal God-even The King of all King and Sovereign of all sovereigns, the LORD Jesus Christ?
What right do you have? And by whose Authority are you authorized to enter? What claims of importance can you make that would bring you into His presence that He would take notice of you? None!
None, but your filthy sin cursed soul clothed in darkness of sin and death's dark robe of sin and death; only for the great King to send you away in shame before His Father and the Heavenly Hosts and Holy angels; only to send you away in shame and utter separation into the outer darkness and torments of the lake of fire where there will be gnashing of the teeth, wailing and writhing in pain of eternal torment where there is your eternal place and destiny reserved for you!
For the King will notice you, indeed, but not for your blessing, but for your cursing; He will notice you that you are not clothed in wedding cloths, but in filthy rags at His wedding banquet, and He will call His heavenly hosts to cast you out of his presence forever: " But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22: 11-14. For in speechless, utter shame, you will stand before Him, to find your shameful nakedness before Him, because you refused to be clothed in the robe of righteousness without the very fibers of His shed blood clothing you!
The only claim you can make before the presence of The Great and Mighty Eternal King, is your own emptiness and helplessness to your inability for deliverance from the clutches of the sin cursed self of sin, darkness and death; Your own poverty to cloth yourself, you very nakedness exposed before Him; your very nature of darkness exposed before the nature of His Holy, pure light and great love and compassion of the light of His presence!
The only claim you can make is to fall helpless before the throne of grace and bow your knee at the foot of the cross, before, and at the feet of Jesus, that His blood may cleanse you and cloth you in the robe of His righteousness and that you may be cleansed and made new in the new birth of Christ's Holy nature unto your dead soul. The only entrance before the throne of Grace that will usher you into the presence of God is that you stand by faith in the shed blood of Jesus, resting on the merits of His death and Resurrection that your place may be reserved for you in the light of His eternal glory, in the eternal place and dwelling in the presence of God forever!

The LORD provides peace in a right relationship with Him, apart from Him there is no Peace! Hebrews 13-20-21.

Preached on Sunday 1-12-2014:

The LORD provides peace in a right relationship with Him, apart from Him there is no Peace! Hebrews 13:20-21.

There is no R.I.P in death, if a person did not have peace in a right relationship with God in life!

There is no peace in our lives, if we do not have Jesus ruling our hearts!

If you allow the deceitfulness of the sinful nature to rule your heart then you will not walk before God in holiness without blame in love, having Peace in a right relationship with God!

In fact, if you do not have Peace in a right relationship with God, you cannot have peace in a right relationship with others! Be it your spouse, children, friends, employer's, teachers, and with those governing towns, cities, the State, indeed, even our country!

Nations will seek after military might, weapons of warfare and financial aid to the end of peaceful relations for a season; yet, Nations will rise against nations. In Fact, we all strive for lasting peace in our life, but soon find tragedy, broken relationships, strife, unrest and no Peace. Jesus said that Nations will rise against Nations, and people groups against people groups—that is, no peace amongst the races! Matthew 24: 7 "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom..."
Jeremiah the Prophet prophesied of this: "14 they dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace."
You will never find peace amongst the nations and peoples apart from Jesus, the Prince of Peace (Sar-Shalom) Isaiah 9:6.

Sin separates us from God causing us to have great enmity, hatred and strife toward God, indeed, a great spiritual death to God.

The source of our Peace is from God the Father and our LORD Jesus Christ. Jesus provided, exclusively, in His death and shed blood the only means whereby sin, death, the enmity and hatred toward God is removed! He bridged the gap of the great divide and separation from God in His Blood! Indeed, He provided Reconciliation back to God in a right relationship of harmony and peace with our triune God--Bodily, in His flesh and shed blood on the Cross the exclusive and final Sacrifice and offering in His Blood to appease the wrath of God against the penalty of our sin, and in His Resurrection provides a wonderful outcome of "Peace be with you..." to those whom He chooses to reveal Himself to!

The Outcome of Jesus’ being the source of our peace still stands and the
Offering for Peace is still on the table. This Peace is indeed offered through God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Philippians 1:2 “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ…”
This peace is Applied and Sealed upon our hearts through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit by Faith given through the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Blood of the eternal covenant, I Peter 1:2”…According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.”
Internally check you heart to make sure you have the Peace of God in your Life--If you do not have This Shalom, you do not have the blood of Jesus to cleanse you and you do not have eternal Shalom with Almighty God!
Therefore, reach out to God our Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit that the Prince of peace may bless your life with eternal and abiding Shalom now and this coming year of 2014 and unto all eternity forever in a Harmonious peaceful Relationship with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit!
Accept it by Faith, Believing on Jesus for Salvation and sure and Lasting Peace!
Shalom to you, my family and Friends Through God my Father and The LORD Jesus Christ in the Sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit!
Romans 5:1-2:
“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.…”

Couched in God’s Mercy! Exodus 33:17-20 Romans 9:14-16, Ephesians 1:3-6

Couched in God’s Mercy! Exodus 33:17-20 Romans 9:14-16, Ephesians 1:3-6
It is couched In God's Electing Love before the foundation of the World! Indeed, couched in God the Father’s Mercy according to His free will and Sovereign Grace in Choosing His people out of this world before the foundation of the World!

The Doctrine of The regenerating work of the Holy Spirit upon our dead souls is couched in God the Father choosing His people in Christ out of this world, before the foundation of the world.

The Doctrine of God's Electing Love provokes an illicit response of rebellion in us from our natural self and mind and that of all mankind’s way of thinking and existence; from every age and generation; from the beginning of time to the end; from every human being that God chose to bring into existence according to His purposes, do we ever have enmity and hatred toward the Sovereignty of God and His Free will in Electing His people in Love to everlasting glory! Such a hatred to think that their life existence and destiny all lies in the hands of the creator of the Universe to have Mercy according to whomever God chooses to have mercy--and that, out of this world before the foundation of the world!

The Natural self wants to claim sovereignty and be in control of one’s existence, life and one’s own destiny, as if the natural person Hewed themselves into existence independent of God; such a sovereignty based only on chance and luck, as if we formed our own looks, size, stature and abilities in life apart from God—Perish the thought of God’s electing love! choosing whomever He wills before the foundation of the world—God cannot be fair if God chooses to rightfully act according to His Free and Sovereign will to choose whomever He wills according to whomever He chooses to have mercy on. God cannot have free choice, only man has free choice, right? Wrong! Man has volition and a will but it is ever bound by sin to always reject God in one’s own spiritual deadness to God.

Romans 9: 18-24:
“18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, Oh, Man! To talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?”

This doctrine of God choosing His people before the foundation of the world in Christ (Ephesians 1:4), can never be invented from the mind of man; for it goes against our human nature to think that our destiny is left up to the Sovereign free Will of Almighty God according to His mercy that is not founded in anything in us. We are enraged at it, because it leaves us helpless in our sinful condition to change; indeed, It reminds us that we are dead to God and there is nothing we can do to make us alive to God except that we trust in God's mercy alone to make us alive by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit--and this, regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, is according to whom God the Father has chosen out of this world before the foundation of the World to give all those He chose to the Son and whom God the Father and God the Son gave to the Holy Spirit to quicken and make alive, out of this world, before the foundation of the world, made alive and enabled to believe on Jesus for Salvation through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit!

Indeed, the wisdom of God's mercy is constantly abiding and being revealed even while we were dead and helpless, Christ died for the ungodly! (Romans 5:6).

Flesh and blood could never reveal such truths of the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles in the Doctrine that the Apostles taught, especially the Apostle John, Peter and Paul, that before the foundation of the world, God's Sovereign free grace and will was revealed in Christ to choose His Elect in Love out of this world before the foundation of the world; His chosen--indeed, His Bride, the church, in Love did He Forelove and predestinate them to be conformed to the image and likeness of His Son! (Romans 8:28-31)--And this is according to His Mercy, not according to anything in us, but that before the foundation of the World, He hewed out, His Chosen, from His infinite wisdom and eternal omniscient mind, according to His mercy and Eternal Decrees and predetermined plans, not according to chance, or luck--for such terms do not even exist in God’s Universe, but According to His Mercy, whom He chooses to have Mercy on and whom He chooses to have compassion on:
Romans 9:14-18:
“14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[c] 16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[d] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.”

Exodus 33:17-20:
“17 And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.” 18 Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” 19 And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
Hence, we are left helpless and dead before the throne of grace to ever think that we are alive to ever choose God--except that, we are dead! And need the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit to make us Alive:
Ephesians 2:1-2:
“1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works so that no one can boast“

The Doctrine of the Regenerating work of the Holy Spirit to whom the Holy Spirit chooses to make alive in Christ, is not based on anyone choosing God, for the natural man is spiritually dead and won’t choose to believe in Jesus at all! But whom the Holy Spirit chooses to make alive is based on all those whom God the Father gave to God the Son out of this world, before the foundation of the world!
Ephesians 1:4-6:
“4 …For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves…”


Hence, such doctrines can never be sourced from, derived in, or, ever invented by, the mind of the natural man; it goes against our nature to replace our free will to choose of our own volition and believe on Christ from our own ability even in our own dead state, condition and standing before Almighty God. The Nature of mankind is enraged and Hates God's electing Love!
That the natural man could ever possibly think of such Doctrines as to be invented by the mind of Mankind and his natural human nature; for it goes against our natural mind and nature to allow us to think that we are helpless and cannot change the state we are in by our good works, efforts, merits. Resources and ability to gain God’s favor! Indeed, we are unholy, sin cursed, imperfect, unrighteous, that even our own best righteous acts are like filthy, unclean, self-condemning works before Almighty God!

Very well then, our souls are indeed restless, dead and helpless before God's Sovereign grace and will never come alive until it is quickened by the Holy Spirit to rest contented, couched in God's great mercy and Love for those chosen before the foundation of the world.

Therefore, be compelled to seek after this Divine Election by God the Father, and know that there is great hope. Therefore, check yourself and see if you were chosen by God the Father before the foundation of the World by believing On Jesus with your life—resting, couched in His shed blood for the redemption of your life in His Death and Resurrection unto everlasting life--and this life, is indeed, to know, and have a relationship with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit then you too, will know such great mercy of God's sovereign Electing Love to Choose in Jesus Christ, before the foundation of the world, whomever He wills to have Mercy on to be forever couched in His Mercy unto Everlasting Life!

The Beaver’s instinctive nature declares the glory of God Job 12:7-10

The Beaver’s instinctive nature declares the glory of God Job 12:7-10

7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creature
and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:7-10

It is the instinctive nature for Beavers to build a Dam, and they do not go wondering in the woods for loose branches and random trees that have fallen to the ground, nor do they go shopping at a STIHL store to buy a chain saw to cut down a tree to gather wood to build a Dam. No, they use what God gave them to gather their wood; they use their sharp two front teeth to gnaw away at the tree, patiently, until the tree falls to the ground to gather the wood of the tree and bring it into the lake to build a dam.

No doubt, there are benefits to a beaver’s labor of building a dam:
“Beavers building their dams play an important role in nature. Because of the dramatic effects their dams have on surrounding ecosystems, these mammals are considered a keystone species. By constructing dams they create wetlands -- lush environments which attract fish, ducks, frogs and other creatures.” Jacob Silverman, Why do beavers build Damns? Animal Planet.

But I have to say, that I am Awe struck at God’s Sovereignty in Creation and Awesomeness to distinctively create beavers after their kind, not through the process of evolution, to be created with long beaver front teeth to be sharp enough to cut down a tree. If I went to a tree and started to use my front teeth to gnaw at a tree until it fell, this would not happen, in fact, my front teeth would be broken and have to be replaced with dentures.

Genesis 1:24-25 ”And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”

Just think, God created the Land, all vegetation and trees; and specific trees for specific creatures, after their kind to cut down the tress with their teeth! God chose specific trees for specific animals, like the beaver to cut down the tree with their teeth, that they may use that wood from the tree that was cut down by their teeth that they put to hard labor to use the material and the wood from the tree to build their dams.

They do not question God saying, “God why did you make me with these long buck teeth, why couldn’t you, God, make me like the fox that roams around, even though I do not know what the fox says?” No, they take the way God created them and use what God has given to them to put it to fruitful labor and gather their wood.

The Sovereignty of God in creating man in His own image is greater than the beaver being created with buck teeth to cut down the tree with their fangs. Yet, because of the fall, mankind is blind to the value and special Honor, dignity and crowning portion that God has placed upon man to be created in God’s image to have fellowship and a spiritual relationship with God.

God did not create you to admire your lines and curves, your size and stature; God did not create you to worship yourself as if you had something to do with your being and image; God created you to worship and glorify God. Yet, we’ve become egotistical and self-centered and end up worshipping our own lines and curves of how we are made and put together by God.

Whatever God has given you at creation and at the second birth of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit upon your heart; whatever gifts and blessing God has given to you, they are not for your own self-aggrandizement and glory, they are to be used from what God has wrought within, to be put to good use to build up the body of Christ.

God wrought within you that you may look outside yourself and glorify God in your body, which you may put to good use; your body as living sacrifice which is your spiritual form of worship holy and acceptable to God Romans 12:1-2.

Put, it to good use, all the curves and lines that make up your being and very existence, that you may glorify God with your body and live for the praise of His glory and grace, that Jesus may live and shine through you, like the teeth that God has given to his creature, the beaver; the teeth on the beaver is put to good use to cut down the tree and build their dams.