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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Jesus is not flattered with empty confessions to His Name


Jesus is not flattered with empty confessions to His Name That The Father Bestowed upon Him!
The Name of Jesus Christ comes with Power to destroy the works of Satan for in the name of Jesus is the mighty person of Jesus Christ who conquered the penalty of sin, Death and the Devil!
Luke 4:34-35:
"Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” 35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!”
The name of Christ and His Titles will not be content with empty confessions of flattery so as to leave the workers of iniquity and of Satan alone to continue in the status quo of their iniquity, darkness and wickedness of the sin cursed nature; for the very purpose Christ came was to destroy the works of the Devil.
The Titles of Christ are not mere empty words without power conferred upon Him; for in, and behind, the Titles of Christ is the mighty Person of Jesus who came with destructive power to deliver His people from Satan's grip and powerful hold and from this dark corrupt world of Satan's reign, from sin, corruption, decay and death!
For Christ will not be flattered by acknowledgment of empty confessions to His glorious Titles from Satan and wicked men (The Titles conferred upon Him by God The Father), He did not become the incarnate Son of God to seek glory to have men and Satan confess His Divine Titles and name that the Father bestowd upon Him, so as to cunningly decieve Christ into a stay of execution of His power to withold destroying the works of the Devil; for Christ came for this very purpose but to Destroy the works of the devil and deliver His people from their sin and bondage, that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and tongue confess Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father, for when you acknowledge the name of Jesus you can be sure that the power of Christ will be unleashed for your deliverance!
Do not think that confessing the title of Christ alone would prevent Christ to manifest His power, for in Jesus Christ name, there is great power of His mighty Person unleashed that will reveal His glory to destroy the works of the Devil and set His people free from the tyranny of Satan and that His glory will never be shrouded in the darkness and evil of Satan and wicked men.
Christ will not be flattered by empty acknowledgments of his title and disregard to his power to save and deliver Men from their sin and bondage; He will not let the wickedness of sin cursed men and the devil shroud His glory, but He will exercise His power over all wickedness of the devil, demons and darkness of men and he will deliver all who are oppressed and call upon his Name for salvation.
He will also manifest his power to destroy the works of Satan and the hands of wicked men, for Christ's power will not be shrouded in the darkness of Satan or this wicked world;
Christ power is made manifest in this dark world, sin cursed nature of man and over the power of Satan, and is made manifest to destroy the works of Satan and this dark corrupt Wicked World; He will not let sin and the darkness of this age nor the darkness of Satan's confession and flattery Shroud his glory. Jesus will not be content and He will not be flattered with people who acknowledge Him only in word and not in true faith from the Heart believing, to let them alone to their sin cursed nature and prevent Him from manifesting His power to deliver them from Satan's hold of bondage and Tyranny, to set them free to change them and transform them by His Grace, He will not let His children born dead in sin and a child of wrath remain in that condition and state of affairs without manifesting His power to quicken them and make them alive in the power of His Blood, according to His Sovereign will to manifest His power to set free whomsoever He wills according to the good pleasure of His will given to Him by the will of the Father. John Calvin said in his commentary, in Luke 4:34-35:
"This demoniac was probably one of that multitude, which was mentioned, a little before, by Matthew 4:24. Yet the narrative of Mark and Luke is not superfluous: for they relate some circumstances, which not only present the miracle in a more striking light, but also contain useful instruction. The devil dexterously acknowledges, that Christ is the Holy One of God, in order to insinuate into the minds of men a suspicion, that there was some secret understanding between him and Christ. By such a trick he has since endeavored to make the Gospel suspected, and, in the present day, he is continually making similar attempts. That is the reason why Christ rebukes him. It is, no doubt, possible, that this confession was violently extorted from him: but there is no inconsistency between the two suppositions, that he is forced to yield to the power of Christ, and therefore cries out that he is the Holy One of God, -- and yet that he cunningly attempts to shroud in his own darkness the glory of Christ. At the same time, we must observe that, while he flatters Christ in this manner, he indirectly withdraws himself from his power, and in this way contradicts himself. For why was Christ sanctified by the Father, but that he might deliver men from the tyranny of the devil, and overturn his kingdom? But as Satan cannot endure that power, which he feels to be destructive to himself, he would desire that Christ should satisfy himself with an empty title, without exercising it on the present occasion. [344]

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Wonderment of The Cross is the Hidden presence of God the Father in the midst of the pain and suffering of His only Begotten Son!


The Wonderment of The Cross is the Hidden presence of God the Father in the midst of the pain and suffering of His only Begotten Son!
Hebrews 12:2:
2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The real wonderment for the suffering and the pain of Jesus on the Cross in His Sufferings, was Jesus discovering God the Father's Hidden presence in the midst of His sufferings! I have to repeat this in great wonderment, notwithstanding, it is worth repeating, the real wonderment concerning the Pain of the Cross of Jesus Christ that allowed Jesus to endure the suffering with Great Joy is found in Jesus discovering God the Father's Hidden presence in the midst of His sufferings!
Christ Jesus was not focused on the injurious, injustice of the infliction of the pain and suffering by the hands of wicked puny man; for Jesus prayed to the Father for their forgivenss, when He prayed hanging on the cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do," Luke 23:34.
But in Jesus sufferings, He focused on the Hidden presence of God the Father, in His sufferings, Just as He appeared in the midst of the Burning bush before Moses. Jesus in His suffering in His human nature and Divine nature reached beyond His suffering, by Faith and went beyond His suffering in juxtaposition to find the Hidden presence of His Father in the midst of His sufferings and such discovery for Jesus in the midst of His sufferings and being Eternally crushed by The Father's Hand, brought Jesus great Joy to discover the Hidden presence of The Father being in the midst of His only Begotten Son's suffering, for Jesus was aware of His Father's presence, or He would not otherwise have prayed for the forgiveness of the hands of the wicked. And just that awareness of God the Father's Hidden presence brought Jesus great joy in the midst of His suffering, that caused Him to despise the shame of the cross and with great Joy endured the suffering of the cross and the Eternal wrath of God by the Hidden presence and Grace of God The Father! For the Joy set before Him allowed Jesus to endure the pain of the Cross despising puny man's shame only for Jesus to endure the pain of Separation from God the Father Until His full surrender in His victorious cry, "it is finished!"
O how we need to endure the pain and suffering of dying to this world that we may discover God's Hidden presence in the midst of our sufferings to find the greater Grace sufficient to help in our sufferings and may have the joy set before us with the discovery of God's Hidden presence in a right relationship to God in the blood of Christ!
Hebrews 12:1-4
2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Saturday, February 11, 2017

God is brainless; yet, nonetheless, Sovereignly Created the Universe! Isaiah 55: 8-9:


God is brainless; yet, nonetheless, Sovereignly  Created the Universe!
Isaiah 55: 8-9:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord. 9“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
God does not have a physical brain, like man has. And man's brains give him the capacity to think, feel and touch. God's thinking, feeling and touch is higher than man's ways, God's thoughts are higher than man's without a physical human brain! God thinks, but He thinks not by means of a Human Brain.
But God is not like man that we should make Him like us to worship an image of God made in our likeness. Nor does God dwell in houses made by man's hands! For God created all and fills the heavens and the earth.
God's Aseity is not dependent on anything in man, around man or in man's surroundings of God's  creation on earth or His created Universe!
God's  capacity to think and plan all things is not based on having a human brain, for God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth, as Jesus said, in John 4:24,"God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
God's capacity to think stems from His eternal Being, the great "I AM", does not exist, nor is it an existence outside of Himself, for He is, and  His Being  Always was, is and ever shall be. God's eternality not only Thought and planned all things and created all things by the Fiat of His Word, but had intimate fellowship within the Person's of His being: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; within that intimate union and fellowship was intimate thoughts of Love and communion within the God head three! In Eternity Past, Present and forevermore!
Within God's eternal being, All this expression  of intimate Love and communion was done without a human physical Brain!
Now, within the Godhead three, the change to  God's  Divine being was that the second Person of the Trinity, the Son of God took to his being human flesh; when at His incarnation, and within  the being of the Son of Man,  was the hypostatic union of the Divine nature and Human nature of the Son of God, in the One personality of Jesus Christ. In Jesus human nature, He took to himself a human brain with the human capacity to have the sensation of human  feeling, touch, emotions, awareness in human terms and human realms; the ability to think on a human level guided by God's Divine truth! And yet, was without sin!
Hebrews 2:14-15:
14Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Now Jesus is Raised unto immortality in His physical human Body and is ascended in glory with His immortal Body and His immortal Brain, raised and ascended, using His human immortal brain to make intercession with God the Father and the Holy Spirit in their intimate union with one another on behalf of His saints and the church!
Hebrews 7:25:
"Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them."

Henceforth, God does not have a human brain, but took to His being a Human brain within the second Person of the Trinity, at His incarnation. Before the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity, God was brainless, without a human brain. Notwithstanding,  God's Divine Being without a human brain,  does not make God out to be  deaf, dumb and blind; for God in His Sovereignty created the universe according to His predetermined plan and purpose for His glory. God predetermined and planned all things in eternity past without a human brain! Therefore, fall on your knees and worship God for His greatness where His ways are not your ways and His thoughts not your thoughts! Where He has no human brain to think like fallen man, or act in the ways of fallen man!

Isaiah 55:1-13
Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Happiness is a byproduct of Contentment Rooted in the Holy Spirit!


Happiness is a byproduct of Contentment Rooted in the Holy Spirit!

Jesus said," But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." Matthew 6:33.

Galatians 5:22:
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control;

I Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain,

It Is rooted in God's Design for mankind and the fruit of the Holy Spirit; if you are not pursuing Him for happiness all other pursuits are inferior pursuits rooted in the sin cursed nature for its design of happiness is temporal and fleeting and rooted in discontentment and does not have the ultimate purpose of God, for Happiness, but rather an inferior fallen expression of happiness.

If you do not have the Holy Spirit, you do not have the Son and a relationship with God the Father; if you are not pursuing Your Union with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then your pursuit for the ultimate fulfillment for Happiness in life will never be reached, achieved or found.

People can pursue riches to fulfill all their needs in life, and have everything that they want in life, and still not be happy, for they are constantly ever wanting more and more and are never satisfied, for from the writing of King Solomon, he penned that very truth of mankind,
"All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing" Ecclesiastes 1:8.

A person who is not made alive by the Holy Spirit will pursue Happiness, but their pursuits are not after God, and that Godless pursuit in life will never fulfill true happiness for them.
For even in the Westminster Shorter Chatecism, the question and answer is clearly seen for man's chief End, " What is the chief end of man?
A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Indeed, Augustine of Hyppo pursued many pursuits until he found his true meaning in life of resting his restless heart in God.Behind "Augustine are a succession of desperate searches for fulfillment: excessive pleasures, false religions, philosophy, dissipation and distractions—futilities that left him so weary of himself he could only cry out, “How long, O Lord, how long?” At the very moment when he uttered that cry, circumstances led his eyes to a passage in Romans that showed him he could be freed from sin. Shortly afterward, he was baptized. " Dan Graves
Augustine realized In spite of sin, each feels the longing to reach out to his Creator. Why is this? He realizes it is the doing of God. “You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.”

"You have made us for yourself and Our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.” Augustine of Hippo (354–430), in Confessions.

"However, "happiness" is a byproduct of its origin, God. If happiness were an abstract thing, then one could claim and define it as it one sees fit. But if happiness has a source (specifically, if it emanates from God), then pursuing it must involve pursuing Him.

"This means that whatever our wounds are, the cure lies in obedience to Christ. Happiness and contentment are spiritual qualities that must be traced to His Spirit, for they flow from (and culminate in) Him"

Are you truly Happy today, have you rested your restless heart in God, for true fulfillment and chief end in your life to glorify God through His only Begotten Son?

There is no happiness in life, like a .heart forgiven, cleansed, restored, renewed and made alive by the Holy Spirit through the Blood of Jesus Christ, such a heart is seen evidenced in Joy and Spiritual happiness in life, for it is a heart resting in God to glorify God in life.