Jesus said to those that opposed His words and light, I know that the love of God (GOD'S kind of LOVE) is not in you" (John 5:42). Explaining what Jesus was revealing. This is such important light. It must be, it has to be seen and understood...There is too much at stake to not have GOD'S KIND of LOVE in your heart......Lord open our eyes.
Real love, God's love, heavens kind of love which is the real guiding mark of true love is self sacrificing love. This is not the only way God's perfect love is expressed but it is the greatest expression of heavens greater love.
The world's love (Matthew 5:43-48 & Luke 6:27-36) is basically based on the interest of one's own self. How does this or that advantage me, or what is it in for me if i do this or give that.
One day Jesus was talking to some religious men that seemed to always have something negative to say about Jesus and what Jesus was saying and doing. Jesus who reads all of our hearts knew that those who opposed him, they were outwardly very religious appearing but on the inside a great emptiness he could see (They were missing something).
He said to those opposing people the words that reveals and separates what is of heaven from what is of hell, and what is of God from what is of this world. Jesus said to them, Though you honor each other and pat each other on the back and are searchers of the scriptures,THIS I AM SURE OF, Gods love is not in your hearts (John 5:39-47). Now they had a love in their heart BUT IT WAS NOT GOD'S LOVE., It was self love not sacrificing love. They only showed love to those that advantaged them or could exalt them, or when it could bring back to them favor or pleasures of some kind from the same. Self denying, discomforting sacrificing love was far from them NOT EVEN IN THEM according to Jesus the heart analizer. They loaded people down with religious bundles but would not help them carry the load. It was to discomforting. To bothering. Not to self advantage. To costly. To time consuming. It would interfere with their plans and day's agenda and personal life goals and comforts to help others with their burdens. And to bless and to do good to their enemies that caused them grief and pain, NO WAY, not in a thousand lifetimes of living.
The bible reveals to us in Romans 5:5-10 & Gal 2:20, that Christ loved us and gave himself sacrificially every day for others. Every day Jesus was really denying himself, giving himself, and taking up his cross daily living for God and for the good of others, even for the good of his enemies that opposed him. Seldom did he live unto himself (He practiced what he preached. Jesus was the real Love of God. His love for sinners, even for His enemies shocked Israel's elders and even shocks the world).
Then after all those day unto day living sacrifices of himself, Jesus revealed to all the world the real measure of God's greater love. He went to the DISCOMFORTING CROSS to lay down his life for the sin of the world. To bear our burden, to save us, and to take the burden of the weight of our sins and of the Law off our backs, even off the backs of those that drove the nails.
Jesus did not sacrifice himself so painfully to destroy others as evil beast do today. Jesus sacrificed himself so painfully for the good of people to save them. Paul wrote that this is the revelation that reveals the difference between God's love and the world's natural love which is the love from evil. Yes there is love that is of God as Jesus said (John 5:42), and there is the love that is of this world and of evil (Matthew 7:11). He said God's great love is revealed in that Christ died, Christ sacrificed himself for the ungodly, THE UNDESERVING, even for the blessing and salvation of his enemies that only pained him and discomforted his life. RIGHT THERE IS THE LIGHT OF THE BIG DIFFERENCE between Christ love (GOD'S LOVE) verses this world's evil love.
God's love, the love of Christ heart is not limited to self advantages, but will do the same for it's enemies even as it does for its friends. Christ died to save and interceded for his friends and Christ died for his enemies, to save and to intercede for those that crucified him..
Jesus said one day as he was speaking on God's love, he said, If you do good to only those who love you, (Like to your family, to your friends and to those who can advantage you) he said there is no reward from God in that, everyone in the world does that. But he that does good and makes discomforting sacrifices for his enemies and strangers to bless and to do good to them (NOT TO DESTROY THEM), will have reward from God.
God sees and Gods more greater rewards come from the discomforting sacrifices we make that saves and blesses others, especially those we do for our personal enemies that use us, crucify us, that abuse and persecute us.
All the world loves and praises and does good to its own and to those who can advantage us and give us pleasure. God's love goes way beyond that and even loves, and does good and blesses its own enemies and makes discomforting sacrifices for even the most undeserving people day unto day. The evil spirit of the heart of this world's love mocks, gossips, condemns, speaks evil of, gripes, complains, throws stones at, accuses, and wishes ill will towards those people.
Jesus knew that in those (RELIGIOUS PEOPLE) who fought against His Words and Light daily, he knew that they had only the natural self advantaging love of this world and of evil beings in them and not the Love of God (John 5:42.
Let's read intently (Matt 7:l1 & Luke 6:27-36). Here is the light of those revealing verses of scripture combined and simply put...Jesus revealed....Evil beings KNOW HOW to DO GOOD to their own and to those that can return to them favor and EVIL BEINGS know how to GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THEIR CHILDREN).
......All the world Jesus said does that...In saying those words Jesus revealed a startling revelation that this world of Evil Beings and of Evil creatures have their own type of love AND THEIR OWN TYPE OF GOODNESS and THAT EVIL BEINGS, THEIR LOVE EVEN KNOWS HOW TO DO GOOD (Matt 7:11). But none of it is of God and that it is not the love of God (John 5:42), it is EVIL'S LOVE (Satanic Love)
.......Evil itself has a certain type of love and evil loves its own and knows how to do good and to give good to its own. THATS WAS and IS THE HUGE REVELATION POINT that Jesus was revealing to the world AS A WARNING and as a WAKE UP CALL to His people. In that revelation Jesus warns us and was revealing that Evil has a love, Evil has a goodness, and Evil even knows how to give good things to its own. Evil even falls in love with its own, marries and raises children BUT IT IS STILL NOT GOD'S KIND OF SACRIFICING LOVE, who does for its enemies the same as it does for its family and friends..Right there is the DIVIDING DISTINGUISHING MARK and THE BIG MAJOR DIFFERENCE.
CHRIST made personal self discomforting LIVING SACRIFICES every day for the good and blessing of others, even to those who were his opposers, persecutors, and to his enemies. The scriptures say....Christ sacrificed himself to save and to bless his people, his friends and even for his enemies, the ungodly and the undeserving (Rom 5:5-10 & Gal 2:20 & John 15:12-14).
THIS IS THE IMPORTANT POINT OF THIS WHOLE LIGHT....Here it is.....It's the kind of love in us (IN OUR HEART) that reveals if GODS IS REALLY IN US or not. The normal natural love of this world's heart and of the world, Jesus said is evil. The world's natural kind of love is not GOD'S LOVE. The Kind of love in our heart is the mark of what and who is living within us, not the knowledge and the quoting of the scriptures as Jesus' religious appearing enemies could do greatly. (Matt 7:11 & st John 3:14-18)).....Lord open our eyes......deno......share freely.
Wisdom whispers. Are we listening?
The Bread is in the writings.
So man people in the faith of Jesus Christ think that their emotional feelings are their spirits condition and voice, yet no where in the bible does it say our emotions are the voice of our spirit or its condition.
Let me try to make an important point here that is needed. Ok.Help me Lord.
When a loved one dies and we look at the condition of that body in the coffin, is the condition of that body and all that that dead body is telling us, is any of that any indication of the true condition of the spirit that no longer lives therein? No. Everything about that body in that coffin is dead, but the spirit is living on elsewhere. The body is one thing, but the spirit is another thing.
Also, We can by no means by looking at that dead body, none of that which we can see there can tell us any truth about whether that soul went up into heaven or descended down into hell. Even if that dead persons body has a smile on its face does not give Us a 100 percent guarantee that THAT soul went to heaven. People laugh and smile all the time all over the planet who are not saved and some of them have died with a smile on their face and some lost people have even died while laughing. So we do not want to fall into the trap of basing spirit conditions solie on physical feelings, physical sights, conditions, and circumstances.
Also, speaking of the Spirit of God, Jesus said of the Holy Spirit in John 14:17.. He dwells with you and shall be IN YOU.
Now lets think about that truth for a second. Jesus said the Holy Spirit shall be in you, IN YOU. IN YOU, IN YOU....Think about that, the Spirit of the Almighty is in us who have received Him. Paul said, Christ in you INSIDE YOU the hope of glory. Do you suppose you and I as we check our emotions, feelings, moods, and the desires of our being, do you suppose we are feeling and experiencing and tasting all the fulness of the Spirit. Are we feeling all of Almighty Gods Joy, Presence, Love, Peace, Perfect Assurance and Power? Not even close. So again, our feelings and our moods etc of the flesh cannot be depended upon to tell us the truth of how God feels. Some wisdom given is soon to be revealed
Now let me lay this out there where many of you can relate. When we have those compulsions to sin, (and we all do if we are honest), are those feelings, compulsions, emotions, and desires to do wrong Gods Spirits feelings, emotions, and desires? BY NO MEANS. God cannot sin. God does not even have a micro speck of sin desire in His Holy Pure Being. But how often it is that people think their moods and emotions whether up or down are God's Spirit or their spirit when on the most part it is only their own fleshes sensational sensual moods and emotions and that mostly of their body, not of their spirit..
I have noticed that when my fleshes sinful side and strength is strong, the passions for sin and to do evil or wrong are high and numerous. Sometimes those evil passions of anger and other desires and sinful moods are almost to overwhelming for me when they are pressing against me (my spirit) with their dictating strengths.
I think most of you can identify with that. When the flesh is wound up whether in anger to punch or to slander or to gossip or to sin other ways, its voice is so loud that it is like the sound of a dog barking because he is starving and its voice is so loud it's echoing. Sometimes it can be so overwhelming we feel almost helpless against those passions and rages and feelings and those sin cravings. Well friend, that's the sinful flesh Peter and Paul preached to us about that wars against the soul. It will be warring with us until the day that death is swallowed up in victory.
I sought the Lord over this because I'm hungry for understanding, for understanding me, you, us and for the spiritual wisdom of things. I crave it.
Well in that hunger I said to Jesus, Lord where are you on the inside of me when I'm all wound up like that and my sinful side is barking so loud because it is hungry? The Lord got back with me on that. Be still and know God said. So I got away and got quiet. Then all this light and wisdom that i had never even heard before began to start crossing over from His Spirit into my mind.
He said, I am set apart within you. I am sanctified down on the inside of you with your spirit man that's born of God in my holy image and righteous likeness. Like Noah was set apart in the Ark in the place where My wrath could not get to him, even-so likewise I am sanctified within you with a shield of my power and glory where your flesh and sin cannot get to Me. I have made sin reaching into Me impossible no matter where I am in My creation. That way I can fulfill My promise to live and to abide with My Children forever.
All that sin cannot touch Me though I live with you, with your spirit in that body. In those times of your infirmities of weakness when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, I'm the gentle conscience, that gentle voice of holy conviction saying do not do this. I'm the thou shalt not voice. It is not so much a feeling although I can turn the belly bitter and fill the heart and soul with joy. My voice is in your conscience and in the depths of the deep within you where sin cannot reach as to defile Me.
Your spirit and My Spirit fellowship in the Ark of Christ sanctification within you. Sin can never reach into My Holy Spirit . It can only reach into My hearing in the confession of sins and to My awareness thru knowing yet without ever being able to touch My Person as to defile My Spirit or to be in any way a part of My being. It falls dead before it reaches me. As Christ was surrounded by sin and by sinners yet was never defiled and was without sin himself, even so My Holy Spirit which is the Spirit of Christ on earth is surrounded by sinful flesh, but my Spirit does not mingle with those passions, nor can sin touch Me. I ride around on the inside of you (with your spirit) in the Ark of Christ within you. Sin is just around Me as My wrath was all around Noah yet Noah was protected and fully shielded from all that wrath that pressed upon the outside of that Ark from side side as He stayed in the Ark of His sanctification.
Son you and I are riding around on the inside of you in the Ark of your sanctification which is Christ in you your hope of glory...This is the Power of the Cross of Christ which is the Ark of eternal refuge dwelling inside you....This light shall help open My Peoples Eyes....Amen.....deno....share freely.
Luke 24:13--32...Go and read the WHOLE TEXT for the lesson. This is an after the resurrection event.
15) So it was while these two disciples conversed and reasoned together about the things concerning Jesus and the events of the last few days, Jesus Himself (THE WORD OF GOD) drew near to them and walked with them.
16) but their eyes were closed and restrained and by that they did not recognize him. (Failure to IDENTIFY the GLORY)
30) Now it came to pass later that evening, as Jesus sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it and gave it to them.
31) Then their eyes were opened and they knew it was Jesus; and He suddenly vanished from their sight.
32) And they said to each other, Did not our heart BURN WITHIN us while HE TALKED, while HE talked with us on the road, and while He opened up the scriptures to us?
I love this text, what a divine resurrection encounter. You know the scriptures tells us that with many INFALLIBLE PROOFS Jesus showed himself alive from the dead. In other words the resurrection of Christ is infallible. It can be lied against, and the blind can refuse to believe it, but all those lies and all the unbelief in all the world can never change the fact that God raised HIS SON our blessed Savior from the dead, and SAT HIM DOWN at His own right hand IN THE THRONE OF GOD. It Is A Done Deal. It is infallible to God and by HIS SPIRIT so it is to men.
But here in our text (Hope you went and read all the text), is something the Lord wants us TO SEE. These 2 disciples (here in our text) had been walking with Jesus down a road for a few hours. They were in a level of fellowship with the resurrected Master. They were listening to Jesus, looking at him right in the face speaking the Word, and these two even spent the whole afternoon with the Lord, THE WORD OF GOD. But we need to see something that is happening here during this whole visitation so that we can pray about it.
These two BELIEVERS have no idea who it is that is walking right there with them. They were in the Presence of the Living Risen Lord and Christ but were blind to the glory. They did feel something burning in their hearts as this man was speaking to them but their eyes were blind to the glory of what was staring them in the face and to what was being said.
Part of the reason for this NUMBED HARDENED HEART AND UNIDENTIFYING STATE was they were in a state of doubt and unbelief and Jesus rebuked them for that(Luke 24:25 & Mark 16:14)).
According to Romans 14:23, that verse of scripture tells us that doubt and unbelief are spiritual sins. Sin has consequences. It can make the heart hard to see and understand Jesus and the Word of God. We can even believe in Jesus, even belong to Jesus, and BE SAVED, but at the same time doubt His Word and miss out on a whole lot of what he is saying. We can even fail to RECOGNIZE or IDENTIFY things of Jesus and His Word, and you can have blind areas in you spiritual redemption understanding. Yes your saved and yes you belong to Jesus and He knows you by name, but at the same time your doubt and unbelief of His Word and your lack of IDENTIFYING THE HIDDEN TREASURE in the field of the scriptures is robbing you with their effects upon your eyes, upon your heart and life, and by that we fail to enjoy the fullness of blessings of the gospel (Romans 15:29). We are grieving and quenching the Spirit. And we all know that as long as the Spirit is being grieved and is in a state of being quenched, then we are not enjoying the fulness of the blessing of the gospel in our churches and in our lives, but just fragments of the glory.
All afternoon these two disciples were seeing and hearing the WORD OF GOD and yet they did not see the glory nor the value of THE WORD, though THE WORD was masterfully being proclaimed to them By the Lord himself who was right there next to them alive from the dead YET BY THEM UNRECOGNIZED. Their eyes were closed in their heart and mind.
So it is with us sometimes who believe and belong to Christ. We have read the Word of God, heard the Word of God. We are listening to preachers preach the Word of God yet we just don't get it, we just don't see the value. We like, read the word of God but to our understanding it seems to be nothing more than a blank page before us. We just don't get it.
Well let's stop kicking ourselves in the head about it and here is a good reason why. These two men in our text were followers of Christ for years. They loved the Lord and they were believers. They had been with Jesus for years and knew him well as the Son of God with Power, the Christ. But we find in our text that there is a place that can be in even in a believers life where though he does believe and belong to Christ, his eyes can still be in a restrained or closed type position in the spirit and in the mind. In that state, you can be in the Word and hanging around the spoken Word all evening and not see the glory nor the value of what is being said or presented. You hardly get a thing from it. That can be certainly true as we see its reality in our text.
These two believers were hanging around THE WORD all afternoon with the eyes of their hearts and minds in a restrained closed spiritual position and THEY WERE SAVED CHRISTIANS. This is the same state many believers are in today and many others have been in, in the past generations.
But friends as in all things, THERE IS ALWAYS REAL HOPE IN CHRIST. Jesus Opened Their Eyes. God has an answer. We find in our test that the Lord can heal us of this closed eyes condition and our eyes can be opened to His Recognizable Presence and to the Riches of God's Glory that He has placed in His Word. Like Elijah prayed so should we. Elijah praying for his servant said, Lord open his eyes. Then suddenly God opened his eyes and that servant SAW THE GLORY that had been theirs all the time with them of which he was numb and blind to before.. It was there all the time BUT HIS EYES WERE RESTRAINED AND CLOSED TO IT. Once he saw it though, HE GREATLY REJOICED and was TREMENDOUSLY COMFORTED.
There is GLORY, MUCH GLORY, even the glory of God in HIS WORD,even riches OF LIFE and VALUE, blessings and benefits beyond all this world's natural understanding. All we need is our EYES OPENED to THE HIDDEN TREASURES THAT ARE IN THE FIELD OF THE SCRIPTURES......deno......share freely.
Then Jesus OPENED THEIR EYES to understand the scriptures.
When God Spirit opens the eyes of the world this is what they see.
Luke 24:44-53....New King James Version (NKJV)
The Scriptures Opened
44 Then Jesus said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me (The Christ).”
45 And He opened their eyes, their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for THE CHRIST to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And you are witnesses of these things.
49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
The Ascension
50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
51 Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.
52 And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.
To save a country.....written by deno.
To save a country you MUST HAVE, you have to have real great love of country with patriotic passion, otherwise it's people nor it's ground to you will not be hallow. All you will think about in your decision makings is yourself and not US, and not for what is good for the country's fiscal well being AS A WHOLE and for what we stand for as Americans according to the guidelines of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, as a FREE PEOPLE. You may even betray it, EVEN AS TO EMPOWER OUR ENEMIES AGAINST US, their economies and their military might while using our nation's wealth to do it. GOD KNOWS.
And you wonder why these wolves in political sheep's clothing, these many thieves in office today do not push patriotism, nor love of God and country, nor love for America. People are even being more and more slapped in the face and in the pocket book for their public display of their traditional American faith and patriotism like in the raising of the flag in the places where the left can get away with pushing such a negative agenda against American Faith and Patriotic Traditions.
But oh how these same ones, they love to apologize for America publicly, some even globally, and make it known how they are not proud of our nation. It's time to get wise again AMERICAN PEOPLE and never ever elect anyone in office ever again whose love and whose loyalty to this nation is in question.
WE NEED THE HELP AND GRACE OF GOD UPON OUR NATION LIKE NEVER BEFORE AND TRUMP who has chosen to be a healing servant to the recovery of our nation. I'm all for Let's Make America Great Again. God blessed us that way before, but we have let disloyal, UNPATRIOTIC PEOPLE and POLITICAL LIARS deceive us and to little by little remove our Strengths to foreigners, our businesses to distant lands, while burying us within with piles of monstrous national debt. And also, they wage political war with the christians of this nations to force the expression of our Christian faith in God to the closets and our light underneath the bushels only to make themselves comfortable while they tie Jesus' hands again in their wish to silence the influence of God, His Ways, and His Church in this nation as it was for over 300 plus years before as the Nation enjoyed the blessing of the Lord.
I believe that He that can restore the soul and that raised HIS SON from the dead to give us His divine testimony to the world, can raise this nation back up if we will turn our hearts to Him in repentance and in faith...As it is written, HOPE THOU IN GOD for He alone is thy life....And ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO THEM THAT BELIEVE GOD......Deno......America Founded By Believers For Believers.
So you feel that you are a nobody? No one dear or special at all?...Well God came to you and visited your heart thru the Spirit of His Son. He personally picked your heart out for His Sons gospel visitation and because you believed, God took you and placed you in the life of His Son as a member of the body of the most important man of all, the GOD/MAN JESUS CHRIST who sits today in the Throne of God with His Father.
Now that you are a part of him as a member of His Flesh and Bones; you are Royalty beyond your wildest dreams. The glory that shall soon be revealed in you is beyond natural human fathoming in beauty, in joy, in life, in bliss, and in the riches of His glory....In your patience Jesus said, possess ye your souls......For friends it is a glorious paradise. The greatest Love and the greatest life. No pains. No sorrows. No death, just joy of life and more abundant living all around. It is a great great endless never changing inheritance........Jesus Loves You......Amen......deno.....share freely.
