Month: July 2019

Something to hope for

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Now in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?
Romans 8:24 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/rom.8.24.CSB

The list of virtues (power and qualities) with which the believer has intimate connections is long indeed. The facets of Spirit-fruit are 8. The growth in grace brings us face to face with another 5 as we discover in 2 Peter 1:5-7

  • knowledge
  • steadfastness
  • godliness
  • brotherly affection
  • love

From Paul in Colossians 3:12-13 we are given more coordinates for virtues

  1. compassionate hearts
  2. kindness,
  3. humility,
  4. meekness
  5. patience,
  6. Tolerance (bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another)
  7. forgiviness (forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive)

Obedience is not on any of these lists of nobility because it lends itself to the most famous fables or fibs. God knows what credit does to humans and that is why we (who know the Lord) are better off giving the Heavenly Father all the glory and dominion. Read Genesis 3, Exodus 20, and Deuteronomy 31:19 to, 29 and see why.

“Teach them to observe” is neither salvation nor holiness. It is the mandate relative to contention and security. The sayings of Yeshua are held only by believers, by the elect. So we can drop the Pharisee routine about converting an unbeliever or as in many cases a Christian.

People need something to hope for. People need room to grow. The idea that one can fill up a seeker with all the truth before and thereby make them believers or saints is false and malicious. The church has been there!

“I have been fully compliant” is always a lie

Father Speech You Want to Know

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Father Speech We Should Know

It is a privilege that we can pick out the distinct voice of the Father in Scripture. Of course there is the notable utterance like the baptism saying “This is my Son, pay attention to him”, and then there are the dozens of words spoken by the Saviour, which we know are words he heard from the Father (John 8:28,12:49). Father speech is rare indeed outside of the narratives. It is a bit of a supernova when Yeshua cites a portion of Scripture where the Father speaks to the Son about John the Baprist.

This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Luke 7:27

John is the one about whom the Father, in speaking to the Son, says

“I am sending a messenger ahead of you…”

the FATHER JOHN YESHUA

Like What You Say?

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We are trying to discover what the precise corollary to the essential Spirit help in prayer is. Likewise tips us in that direction.as we read Romans 8:26

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

To understand the issue we look for
1. Divine help
2. Necessary intervention
3. Human poverty
4. The divine assistance defined

PRAYER

  • Spirit helps our weakness
  • Is necessary
  • Because we are ignorant of what to say

The previously mentioned patterns include:

  1. WHO WE ARE. Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
  2. COMMON INCOMPARABLE EXPERIENCES. Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in
  3. THE FUTILITY AND HOPE TWINS. Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
  4. GROANING SONSHIP. Romans 8:23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
  5. THE NECESSITY OF HAVING SOMETHING TO HOPE FOR. Romans 8:24-25 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Just as these opposite conditions are authentic in both their present and future screening, and not directed by the believer, so is the prayer life.

Walk in the Spirit: no condemnation is possible. We know that without a doubt people who walk in the Spirit will be the last to throw a book at you.

Dead body and righteous life

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We must not assail the faith of our brothers. we ought to as did Paul, affirm, not question, the condition of the faithful: that Christ is in them and that they are righteous.

But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:10

Contrary to the hoopla, fable smuggling and terrorism of the former regime the resident Christ means dead body and righteous living. Faith is that decisive.

Hearty Security

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Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
Proverbs 4:23 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/pro.4.23.CSB

Solomon’s dad felt he could nail down a sinless life (from some point onward!) by storing up (tsafan, צפן) God’s word in his heart. The whole assembly of Hebrews at Sinai, pledging to do what YHWH says, were not blessed with a heart that could contain God’s message.

Heart and soul, exceedingly

All the way to New Testament times few men, knew what it was to have God’s word on the inside. Prophets and wise men, not knowing what they were hearing, clung to reciting the words of God and adorning their bodies and clothing with bits of “Bible” quite literally.

One God is where security starts and we have seen that the people who say they are champions of all the right things have the hardest time getting past the first step. Only the bewitched believe that life comes from what goes into the heart or body.

Life comes from God, Solomon, but that is ok, you did not know, and Moses was not a big deal did you.

Source of life: heart and mouth

Did we not learn that the heart is the source of human badness?

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. Mark 7:21-22

For Moses wrote about life when he discussed the righteousness that is based on the law, namely, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. Solomon was a dismal failure in this regard.

But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down) or Who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

Moses would not be surprised that now a new arrangement rules the life-flow. He predicted the shift to an effective word of faith.

But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:5ff

Always learning, bye truth

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Christ moves in and stays, contrary to popular imagination. The critical learning expected by God does not extend over a person’s lifetime. Paul knew people who had mountains of material they insisted on teaching to others even when their lives showed little evidence of the benefits of such teaching. You might recognize the phenomenon as not extinct in the introduction to Yeshua, His taking up residence in us, and in the effective knowledge of the Saviour.

The image of resistance

This analogy makes an example of opposition from within, taken from an instance of external opposition. The smokescreen of learning in New Testament times did not hide the resistance to truth.

2 Timothy 3:7-9
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

Meeting Christ

The introduction to God’s family does not take forever. The ever-learning never seem to hear God/Yeshua say “Thank you I’ll take it from here”. The way some people introduce us to Christ is surprising because there is so little Christ in the lengthy spiel. Those who are the never-growing clung to their toys and models and despise the liberty of sonship.

Saving knowledge

Knowing Christ is thought to be the element that distinguishes the saved from the lost, but when the knowledge turns out to be piles of rudimentary principles there is no real experience of divinity to be found. There is definitely no intimacy with Christ.
Taking up residence in a person who believes the gospel does not take the Holy Spirit weeks, and the embrace of the extent (breadth, length, depth, height) of God’s fulness towards us is not the interminable drip of the faucet.

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. Ephesians 3:17-19

Effective learning does not keep growing infinitely. We must come to know Christ’s love or we are opposing heaven’s adoption process, and are saying “bye” to the truth.

Consecrated by bread

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When it was time to distribute the bread of the sin offering among the sons of Aaron the scene must have been moving. One did not need to consider how much of that consecrated bread was one’s share. A crumb sufficed to make an already holy person more so.

It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord . Whoever touches them will become consecrated.’ ”

LEVITICUS 6:17‭-‬18 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/lev.6.17-18.NASB

The changes this procedure was supposed to have brought about are now known to be dead in the water. No-one is getting holiness from eating bread baked in an oven.

Thanks are due to God for rescuing us from that futility.

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. John 6:33

Glory! Glory! GLORY!

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Catch some today. Why woncha? Glory seems to be everywhere.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Angels know it!

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

And then there’s Yeshua

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The gospel is something special: kept under wraps for millennia, not revealed in the sky and earth, and delivered only by people.