Saturday, March 8, 2014
Truly This Man Was The Son Of God. Strange Things Going On Here. Granpa Had Died But Now He Is In The Living Room....deno.....please share freely
Matthew 27:50-54)..And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His Spirit. 51) Then at that moment, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth in that region shook violently, so much so that the rocks split. 52) and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had died (Probably recently had died) were raised back up (Remember Lazarus, HIS BODY WAS IN THE TOMB 4 DAYS AND JESUS SAID, "LAZARUS COME FORTH"....and he did)......
53) They came forth out of their graves AFTER Jesus was raised back to life. They went into the holy city of Jerusalem and appeared to many people. (Note this: What a sight that had to be. Hey Mom, Granpa's back. He's in the living room. Just imagine what those risen saints testified to. I'm convinced they spoke of many things. Things about Jesus, that he was and is the true Christ and Messiah, the Son of God. Things about God, Angels, Life after death. Things the prophets foretold of the Christ. Things about the place called Abraham's Bosom (Luke 16:22). Things about the reality of the SPIRIT WORLD, of heaven and of hell. Their temporary resurrection was not in vain. God did that ON PURPOSE and He sent them into the city on a mighty mission. He sent them to the people, to testify to the glory of God and of Jesus Christ the TRUTH, who is God's Son and our Savior).....
54) So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earth shake violently, and the things that had happened, they feared greatly and said, TRULY THIS MAN WAS THE SON OF GOD.
John 20:30-31) after His resurrection.....And truly Jesus did MANY OTHER SIGNS in the presence of His disciples, Things which are not written in this Book. vs 31) but these that we have written, are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that in believing you may have life in His Name....I believe Lord Jesus. Yes I Believe......Remember me Lord, when You come to take us home to the Father's House....deno.......God Bless You and Keep You In Christ Jesus No Matter How Dark The World Gets Out There In It's Blindness.....Amen.
Friday, March 7, 2014
The True Gospel Of God. The Gospel of Our Salvation. All Salvation and All the Gifts of Grace and of The Holy Spirit, All (Every One Of Them) Come To Us From The Cross of Christ and His Resurrection.....deno.....please share freely
As we look at this picture BELOW -scroll down-, much is revealed. In whatever you do in word
or in deed, Paul said, do all in the name of Jesus, and do not let anyone
pull you off or away from the message of His Cross (Galations 1:6-9)(Colossians 2:8-23)(1st Corinthians 1:23-24). A bottomless pit is
a long ways down.....
The apostle Paul preached it clearly. He preached that The Cross of Christ is the Wisdom of God. The Cross of Christ is the Power of God. The Cross of Christ and His Resurrection is the TRUE GOSPEL OF GOD....... AND the Cross of Christ is God's Greatest Sermon Ever Preached On Earth. All and I do mean all the words and all the sermons ever before preached by the Prophets of God before Christ, were the stepping stones OF THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST laid out to lead us ALL to the PULPIT OF GOD which was HIS OWN CROSS (Hebrews 9:26) the Cross of Christ. Jesus who was with God and was God and has always been in the GODHEAD (John 1:1-4)(John 17:5) preached the Message of His Cross Live In Great Agony and In His Own Blood. It is His most heart touching, personal message of all. IT IS A MOST VERY PERSONAL MESSAGE THAT HE IS MOST SENSITIVE TO.......
Thru the blood of His Cross we have redemption, salvation, peace with God, and life everlasting. Stay with the Cross of Christ and His Resurrection. Remain in the message of His Cross and Resurrection even as Noah HAD TO, HAD TO, HAD TO -STAY INSIDE -the saving, keeping, preserving, protecting power of the GREAT ARK in order to be saved. Noah would never have jumped ship. We are to never jump off or out of the Ark of the cross of Cross and his resurrection which is the TRUE GOSPEL OF OUR SALVATION (Read all the scriptures given above). Nor are we to allow ourselves to be taken away or pulled off THE MESSAGE OF HIS CROSS by subtle religious deceptions of some other way unto salvation or another beautiful sounding, ear itching FALSE GOSPEL......
If life and salvation could have come to us another way, OTHER THAN THE CROSS, Christ would have been spared. GOD SPARED HIM NOT (Romans 8:32) There was NO OTHER WAY. NO OTHER CUP THAT JESUS COULD DRINK THAT WOULD REDEEM US, RANSOM US, SAVES US, AND BRING US UNTO GOD SAFELY AND IN PEACE (Hebrews 10:4-14). THE CROSS AND THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST UPON IT UNTO THE FULL TASTE OF DEATH BY THE CHRIST WAS THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY CUP. Jesus had to drink that CUP and drink it to the full. We to must drink the CUP of His blood, the blood of His Cross or we will not live (Read John 6:51-56). Jesus said to us, This is My blood, the blood of the New Covenant shed for many, Drink It. We drink in salvation and stay in eternal life by the daily absorption of unwavering faith in the Message of the blood, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. These THREE one and all came BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST. It is a spiritual absorption wrought by an unwavering believing heart that doubts not THE MESSAGE OF HIS CROSS AND RESURRECTION.
When we believe the gospel which means GOOD NEWS of the blood, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God, THAT MESSAGE, the message of the death and resurrection of the Son of God is THRU GOD HIMSELF, IT IS BORN IN US and our spirits pass from death unto life with Christ (John 5:24 & Colossians 4:1-4). It is a spirit resurrection.
As real as the resurrection of the body of Christ was and is, SO ALSO THERE IS A RESURRECTION OF THE SPIRIT IN MAN. JUST AS REAL. IT IS CALLED "being Born Again (John 5:24)(Ephesians 2:1-10)(1st John 5:1-4)(Romans 10:9-10)....Jesus Loves You......deno
Some time ago these words rose up within me. It was like I heard them in an implanted understanding voice way. Bear with me.....Those words were.....Now follow and trace MY BODY from the Cross to the Throne and you can- by that sight -see and understand where you THE BELIEVING are, and what you have passed thru and have gone unto, in your spirit. For My Body traced from the Cross to the Throne is the revelation of the spirit of man passing from death unto life everlasting John 5:24 & Ephesians 2:1-10), back unto and into the Father in the NEW BIRTH. BEING BORN AGAIN. It is the death and resurrection of the BODY OF CHRIST formed and created in them in the hidden man of the heart, in the spirit. This truth just needs to be formed in their understanding in the other area of their inner self called the Mind or the Soul by UNDERSTANDING OBTAINED (See Ephesians 4:23-24)(Galations 4:19)(1st Thessalonians 5:23-24). LET ALL I WRITE BE SUBJECT TO THE PROPHETS AND TO THE SCRIPTURES THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN and to the love of the truth that is in Christ Jesus.
Note: Due to the hour we now live in in the grace periods of redemption, God is freshly raising up the Message of The Cross of Christ and His Resurrection for this blind, sin ridden generation. It is the Message of God for this generation that darkness is consuming with spiritual confusing. The Cross of Christ And His Resurrection Magnified and Lifted Up Has God's Drawing Power In It. It Is The Only True and Everlasting Life Hope. It Is To Be Preached To This Dead and Dying World of Lost Souls. The Time Is Short. Connect with those who are PREACHING THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST without compromise (Read 1st Corinthians 2;2).
The wrath of God is soon to be poured out from the heavens of God upon the earth. As Noah and his family needed the Ark for their salvation in the hour of God's judgements in their day, even so as it was in Noah's hour so it is again in our day. God has Himself built for us and provided for us the TRUE ARK that Noah's Ark Preached In A Mystery. That Ark is the Cross of Christ and His Resurrection. Those who believe and abide by faith in the blood, death ad resurrection of the Son of God Jesus Christ shall be saved (Romans 10:9-10). Faith, real believing bible faith in the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is spiritual righteousness and spiritual true holiness (Ephesians 4:23-24). For it is written in Romans 14:23, WHATSOEVER is not OF FAITH is SIN....And it is also written , THAT FAITH JUSTIFIES AND MAKES RIGHTEOUS them that BELIEVE.......Romans 10:9-10).....Jesus Is Lord.....God Bless You.
The apostle Paul preached it clearly. He preached that The Cross of Christ is the Wisdom of God. The Cross of Christ is the Power of God. The Cross of Christ and His Resurrection is the TRUE GOSPEL OF GOD....... AND the Cross of Christ is God's Greatest Sermon Ever Preached On Earth. All and I do mean all the words and all the sermons ever before preached by the Prophets of God before Christ, were the stepping stones OF THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST laid out to lead us ALL to the PULPIT OF GOD which was HIS OWN CROSS (Hebrews 9:26) the Cross of Christ. Jesus who was with God and was God and has always been in the GODHEAD (John 1:1-4)(John 17:5) preached the Message of His Cross Live In Great Agony and In His Own Blood. It is His most heart touching, personal message of all. IT IS A MOST VERY PERSONAL MESSAGE THAT HE IS MOST SENSITIVE TO.......
Thru the blood of His Cross we have redemption, salvation, peace with God, and life everlasting. Stay with the Cross of Christ and His Resurrection. Remain in the message of His Cross and Resurrection even as Noah HAD TO, HAD TO, HAD TO -STAY INSIDE -the saving, keeping, preserving, protecting power of the GREAT ARK in order to be saved. Noah would never have jumped ship. We are to never jump off or out of the Ark of the cross of Cross and his resurrection which is the TRUE GOSPEL OF OUR SALVATION (Read all the scriptures given above). Nor are we to allow ourselves to be taken away or pulled off THE MESSAGE OF HIS CROSS by subtle religious deceptions of some other way unto salvation or another beautiful sounding, ear itching FALSE GOSPEL......
If life and salvation could have come to us another way, OTHER THAN THE CROSS, Christ would have been spared. GOD SPARED HIM NOT (Romans 8:32) There was NO OTHER WAY. NO OTHER CUP THAT JESUS COULD DRINK THAT WOULD REDEEM US, RANSOM US, SAVES US, AND BRING US UNTO GOD SAFELY AND IN PEACE (Hebrews 10:4-14). THE CROSS AND THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST UPON IT UNTO THE FULL TASTE OF DEATH BY THE CHRIST WAS THE ONLY WAY, THE ONLY CUP. Jesus had to drink that CUP and drink it to the full. We to must drink the CUP of His blood, the blood of His Cross or we will not live (Read John 6:51-56). Jesus said to us, This is My blood, the blood of the New Covenant shed for many, Drink It. We drink in salvation and stay in eternal life by the daily absorption of unwavering faith in the Message of the blood, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. These THREE one and all came BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST. It is a spiritual absorption wrought by an unwavering believing heart that doubts not THE MESSAGE OF HIS CROSS AND RESURRECTION.
When we believe the gospel which means GOOD NEWS of the blood, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God, THAT MESSAGE, the message of the death and resurrection of the Son of God is THRU GOD HIMSELF, IT IS BORN IN US and our spirits pass from death unto life with Christ (John 5:24 & Colossians 4:1-4). It is a spirit resurrection.
As real as the resurrection of the body of Christ was and is, SO ALSO THERE IS A RESURRECTION OF THE SPIRIT IN MAN. JUST AS REAL. IT IS CALLED "being Born Again (John 5:24)(Ephesians 2:1-10)(1st John 5:1-4)(Romans 10:9-10)....Jesus Loves You......deno
Some time ago these words rose up within me. It was like I heard them in an implanted understanding voice way. Bear with me.....Those words were.....Now follow and trace MY BODY from the Cross to the Throne and you can- by that sight -see and understand where you THE BELIEVING are, and what you have passed thru and have gone unto, in your spirit. For My Body traced from the Cross to the Throne is the revelation of the spirit of man passing from death unto life everlasting John 5:24 & Ephesians 2:1-10), back unto and into the Father in the NEW BIRTH. BEING BORN AGAIN. It is the death and resurrection of the BODY OF CHRIST formed and created in them in the hidden man of the heart, in the spirit. This truth just needs to be formed in their understanding in the other area of their inner self called the Mind or the Soul by UNDERSTANDING OBTAINED (See Ephesians 4:23-24)(Galations 4:19)(1st Thessalonians 5:23-24). LET ALL I WRITE BE SUBJECT TO THE PROPHETS AND TO THE SCRIPTURES THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN and to the love of the truth that is in Christ Jesus.
Note: Due to the hour we now live in in the grace periods of redemption, God is freshly raising up the Message of The Cross of Christ and His Resurrection for this blind, sin ridden generation. It is the Message of God for this generation that darkness is consuming with spiritual confusing. The Cross of Christ And His Resurrection Magnified and Lifted Up Has God's Drawing Power In It. It Is The Only True and Everlasting Life Hope. It Is To Be Preached To This Dead and Dying World of Lost Souls. The Time Is Short. Connect with those who are PREACHING THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST without compromise (Read 1st Corinthians 2;2).
The wrath of God is soon to be poured out from the heavens of God upon the earth. As Noah and his family needed the Ark for their salvation in the hour of God's judgements in their day, even so as it was in Noah's hour so it is again in our day. God has Himself built for us and provided for us the TRUE ARK that Noah's Ark Preached In A Mystery. That Ark is the Cross of Christ and His Resurrection. Those who believe and abide by faith in the blood, death ad resurrection of the Son of God Jesus Christ shall be saved (Romans 10:9-10). Faith, real believing bible faith in the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is spiritual righteousness and spiritual true holiness (Ephesians 4:23-24). For it is written in Romans 14:23, WHATSOEVER is not OF FAITH is SIN....And it is also written , THAT FAITH JUSTIFIES AND MAKES RIGHTEOUS them that BELIEVE.......Romans 10:9-10).....Jesus Is Lord.....God Bless You.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
UPDATED; The Entrance Into His Rest Is By Faith and Not By Works. We Enter Christ Life & Rest By Faith....It is Written......deno......please share freely.
Hebrews 3:12) Beware, brethren, lest there be in you and EVIL HEART of UNBELIEF in departing from the living God. (Note: Unbelief is the way of real departure from God. No longer believing.) vs 14) "For we are made partakers of Christ, (IF) we hold on to the BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE steadfast to the finish line".
Brethren let us recall some of Peters story to help us understand what it is to hold fast the beginning of our confidence STEADFAST TO THE FINISH LINE as we mentioned above. Peter started walking on the water to go to Jesus. He started out in faith. He began his course to Jesus on top of that water in faith and BY FAITH with zero doubt. Things were going great and he was high on life. He was walking by faith and not by sight. But something wrecked his confidence. Something caused his faith to start dangerously failing. Peter for faith killing reasons, he began to doubt. He began to doubt Jesus' Invitational Word to COME, and Peter began to doubt himself. That doubt, that UNBELIEF caused him to start to sink. He took his eyes off of Jesus and began to question, he began to doubt, and then doubts tormenting fear entered him and he lost his inner peace and he lost his souls rest. He began to sink.
When he was in faith nothing doubting, Peter was high on Jesus. But when doubt entered, fear that has torment oppressed him unto a major DOWNER SITUATION AND ATTITUDE. Nothing of or about Jesus changed. ALL the joy robbing stuff took place inside Peter. Real faith can make us very happy and excited in Jesus. But doubt and unbelief will rob us of that happiness and excitement. Lack of faith and confidence in Christ gives place to tormenting robbing fear. Peter, Jesus said. Why did you start doubting?
Such doubting turned Peter's Joy into Sorrow. His peace & confidence into dread and fear. Such doubt caused him to go from treading on top of the water to nearly drowning beneath it. His doubt made him enter SOUL UNREST. Jesus said to him, Peter why did you doubt? Peter did not keep the beginning of his confidence stead fast to the finish line.
Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead is the foundation, THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE that we BY FAITH are to stay connected to & attached to all the way to the finish line. Paul said Christ lives, dwells, and remains in our hearts BY FAITH (See Ephesians 3:17).
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Lets note some faith and unbelief history of the children of Israel. Hebrews 3:16) For the children of Israel, after they were preached the gospel, rebelled (in unbelief). Indeed those who came out of Egypt, led by Moses (Even Arron) departed from God by doubt & unbelief (Remember the golden calf).
vs 17) Now with whom was God angry with for forty years? He was angry with those who sinned, whose bodies failed and died in the wilderness.
vs 18) And to what people did God swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those people who heard but DID NOT BELIEVE.
vs 19) SO WE SEE that they could not ENTER IN because of UNBELIEF......Notice that they could not enter (The Rest God had for them) because of their UNBELIEF). Who really can?
THEN IN CHAPTER 4 HE MAKES CLEAR THAT WE ENTER LIFE/THE PROMISE LAND, SOUL REST & PEACE, SOLELY by the ASSURANCE of FAITH. Faith in Christ blood.
(Hebrews 11:19( Having therefore brethren, BOLDNESS TO ENTER into the holiest (God's Full Presence) by the BLOOD OF JESUS....
vs 22) Having now entered BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, (entered where?) INTO THE HOLIEST (We are in Gods Presence Now, What is next?), vs 22) Let us draw near to Him (At the Throne of God) with a true (Believing) heart in FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, having (knowing this) our hearts sprinkled from an unworthy conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (We must believe this)...In other words we are fully assured that by the cleansing blood and water of Christ, EVEN BY that which flowed from HIS PIERCED SIDE & HANDS that sprinkled us, WE HAVE boldness and access with confidence to DAD AT THE THRONE (Ephesians 3:12). By the word and blood and by the Spirit of the redeeming gospel, of the Cross of Christ, by Christ and His blood, God hath MADE US accepted in the family of God HERE, and also by Christ blood, thru faith in His Blood, God as made us accepted AT His Throne THERE. So He says to us like Jesus said to Peter on the water, "COME" and COME BOLDLY:(Hebrews 4:16) (Ephesians 1:6). Hebrews 4:1-3). Do you doubt this?
Hebrews 4:1) Therefore, since a promise remains of entering HIS REST, let us fear lest any of you seem to come short of it. (There is no peace or boldness, or REST in doubt, in lack of confidence, or in UNBELIEF. All three are Joy robbers. Assurance killers. Soul tormenting agitators and Salvation enemies.)
vs 2) For indeed the (soul saving) gospel was preached to us as well as unto them; but THE WORD preached did not profit them, (Why?) NOT BEING MIXED WITH FAITH, in them that heard it. (They did not believe what was preached). (Jesus said those that believe the gospel (ENTER SALVATION) shall be saved (They Profit. They Enter Rest). But He said also that those that BELIEVE NOT (enter not into salvation) they shall be damned. Talk about ZERO REST (See Revelations 14:9-11). (Their unbelief destroyed and condemned them-Mark 16:16).
vs 3) But thank God we who HAVE BELIEVED do ENTER INTO REST......What rest? Vs 1 OF CHAPTER 4- His Rest. Christ Rest. His life of perfect peace with God). God is his God and God is our God. God is his Dad and God is Our Dad....See John 20:15-17).
So we see that in Hebrews 3:12 that unbelief is called evil and that by the sin of unbelief (Romans 14:23) people sink (Matthew 14:29-31), people fall away (2 Thessalonians 2:3), and people depart from the living God (Hebrews 3:12).
Hebrews 4:3) reveals to us that we who BELIEVE the gospel HAVE ENTERED into God and entered into Christ Rest.....And we everyday WALK BY FAITH and not by sight. By faith we stand. By blind faith? No, but by CONSTANT FAITH, CONFIDENCE, AND ASSURANCE in the blood, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as OUR DAILY WAY AND OUR CONSTANT SALVATION. This truth, this gospel of faith in Christ blood, death and resurrection remains in us and we remain in this truth with thankful hearts that believe God and in faith obey His Commandments......
vs 6) Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached DID NOT ENTER in BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.....Since UNBELIEF keeps one from entering and causes one to fall away, and to depart from God; then it is correct to say by the word of the Lord which we have read in this blog, that BELIEF, believing the gospel preached NOTHING DOUBTING, is what causes us TO ENTER IN, and causes us to STAY IN soul rest and peace and joy, ever cleaving to Jesus, and remaining in Christ Jesus and He in us by abiding faith and trust obedience. As it is written, that Christ may dwell in your hearts BY FAITH (by your constant believing - Ephesians 3:17). This can also be prayed this way and be accurate in TRUTH, "that you would dwell and remain in Christ BY FAITH". (Read Romans 15:12-13 KJV). Amen......deno......please share freely.
Note....What we really believe with our hearts gives our hearts their convictions. When we believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, we also are recognizing HIS GREAT AUTHORITY. He is Lord. He is the Lord from Heaven. Even as Paul preached, Jesus is God in the flesh. Knowing this. Believing this, we then learn to more to more bow down our lives to Him and obey His Words (1 Peter 2:1-2) and Lordship over our lives in the Peace and in the Rest His sacrifice gives us with the Father.
If we do not have real bible faith in Christ atoning, cleansing, purifying blood and sacrifice, then we will doubt almost everything. Are we saved by the Cross and blood of Christ and his resurrection? He that doubts says, hmmm, Not sure (No Soul Peace & Rest in that). Are we forgiven? He that is of a doubtful heart says, hmmm, Not sure (No Soul Peace & Rest there). Are we cleansed & made spotless by the blood of Christ? He that doubts says, I wish such were so but I am not really sure (No Soul Peace & Rest in that either), on and on it goes.
Those who are double minded about such things are unstable souls. Their doubt fills them with fear and lack of assurance. Their always in a sinking mode or condition within. They will resort to all kinds of things to drown their doubt and fear. They will go get circumcised thinking such would make them feel more saved and more accepted. IT WANT. They will skin their heads or not cut their hair thinking such has GREAT POWER TO SAVE and to make one accepted. IT WANT IF THEY DOUBT THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL THAT CHRIST PRECIOUS BLOOD SPEAKS......Christ died for our sins punishment and rose again for our newness of life and justification (Romans 4:18-25). This is the gospel. This is the saving message. This is the beginning of our confidence that by faith our hearts are to hold to steadfastly without wavering, all the way to the finish line. Jesus Christ alone is OUR ALL IN ALL.....deno.....God Bless You......please share freely.
Brethren let us recall some of Peters story to help us understand what it is to hold fast the beginning of our confidence STEADFAST TO THE FINISH LINE as we mentioned above. Peter started walking on the water to go to Jesus. He started out in faith. He began his course to Jesus on top of that water in faith and BY FAITH with zero doubt. Things were going great and he was high on life. He was walking by faith and not by sight. But something wrecked his confidence. Something caused his faith to start dangerously failing. Peter for faith killing reasons, he began to doubt. He began to doubt Jesus' Invitational Word to COME, and Peter began to doubt himself. That doubt, that UNBELIEF caused him to start to sink. He took his eyes off of Jesus and began to question, he began to doubt, and then doubts tormenting fear entered him and he lost his inner peace and he lost his souls rest. He began to sink.
When he was in faith nothing doubting, Peter was high on Jesus. But when doubt entered, fear that has torment oppressed him unto a major DOWNER SITUATION AND ATTITUDE. Nothing of or about Jesus changed. ALL the joy robbing stuff took place inside Peter. Real faith can make us very happy and excited in Jesus. But doubt and unbelief will rob us of that happiness and excitement. Lack of faith and confidence in Christ gives place to tormenting robbing fear. Peter, Jesus said. Why did you start doubting?
Such doubting turned Peter's Joy into Sorrow. His peace & confidence into dread and fear. Such doubt caused him to go from treading on top of the water to nearly drowning beneath it. His doubt made him enter SOUL UNREST. Jesus said to him, Peter why did you doubt? Peter did not keep the beginning of his confidence stead fast to the finish line.
Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead is the foundation, THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE that we BY FAITH are to stay connected to & attached to all the way to the finish line. Paul said Christ lives, dwells, and remains in our hearts BY FAITH (See Ephesians 3:17).
* * * * * * * *
Lets note some faith and unbelief history of the children of Israel. Hebrews 3:16) For the children of Israel, after they were preached the gospel, rebelled (in unbelief). Indeed those who came out of Egypt, led by Moses (Even Arron) departed from God by doubt & unbelief (Remember the golden calf).
vs 17) Now with whom was God angry with for forty years? He was angry with those who sinned, whose bodies failed and died in the wilderness.
vs 18) And to what people did God swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those people who heard but DID NOT BELIEVE.
vs 19) SO WE SEE that they could not ENTER IN because of UNBELIEF......Notice that they could not enter (The Rest God had for them) because of their UNBELIEF). Who really can?
THEN IN CHAPTER 4 HE MAKES CLEAR THAT WE ENTER LIFE/THE PROMISE LAND, SOUL REST & PEACE, SOLELY by the ASSURANCE of FAITH. Faith in Christ blood.
(Hebrews 11:19( Having therefore brethren, BOLDNESS TO ENTER into the holiest (God's Full Presence) by the BLOOD OF JESUS....
vs 22) Having now entered BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, (entered where?) INTO THE HOLIEST (We are in Gods Presence Now, What is next?), vs 22) Let us draw near to Him (At the Throne of God) with a true (Believing) heart in FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, having (knowing this) our hearts sprinkled from an unworthy conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (We must believe this)...In other words we are fully assured that by the cleansing blood and water of Christ, EVEN BY that which flowed from HIS PIERCED SIDE & HANDS that sprinkled us, WE HAVE boldness and access with confidence to DAD AT THE THRONE (Ephesians 3:12). By the word and blood and by the Spirit of the redeeming gospel, of the Cross of Christ, by Christ and His blood, God hath MADE US accepted in the family of God HERE, and also by Christ blood, thru faith in His Blood, God as made us accepted AT His Throne THERE. So He says to us like Jesus said to Peter on the water, "COME" and COME BOLDLY:(Hebrews 4:16) (Ephesians 1:6). Hebrews 4:1-3). Do you doubt this?
Hebrews 4:1) Therefore, since a promise remains of entering HIS REST, let us fear lest any of you seem to come short of it. (There is no peace or boldness, or REST in doubt, in lack of confidence, or in UNBELIEF. All three are Joy robbers. Assurance killers. Soul tormenting agitators and Salvation enemies.)
vs 2) For indeed the (soul saving) gospel was preached to us as well as unto them; but THE WORD preached did not profit them, (Why?) NOT BEING MIXED WITH FAITH, in them that heard it. (They did not believe what was preached). (Jesus said those that believe the gospel (ENTER SALVATION) shall be saved (They Profit. They Enter Rest). But He said also that those that BELIEVE NOT (enter not into salvation) they shall be damned. Talk about ZERO REST (See Revelations 14:9-11). (Their unbelief destroyed and condemned them-Mark 16:16).
vs 3) But thank God we who HAVE BELIEVED do ENTER INTO REST......What rest? Vs 1 OF CHAPTER 4- His Rest. Christ Rest. His life of perfect peace with God). God is his God and God is our God. God is his Dad and God is Our Dad....See John 20:15-17).
So we see that in Hebrews 3:12 that unbelief is called evil and that by the sin of unbelief (Romans 14:23) people sink (Matthew 14:29-31), people fall away (2 Thessalonians 2:3), and people depart from the living God (Hebrews 3:12).
Hebrews 4:3) reveals to us that we who BELIEVE the gospel HAVE ENTERED into God and entered into Christ Rest.....And we everyday WALK BY FAITH and not by sight. By faith we stand. By blind faith? No, but by CONSTANT FAITH, CONFIDENCE, AND ASSURANCE in the blood, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as OUR DAILY WAY AND OUR CONSTANT SALVATION. This truth, this gospel of faith in Christ blood, death and resurrection remains in us and we remain in this truth with thankful hearts that believe God and in faith obey His Commandments......
vs 6) Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached DID NOT ENTER in BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.....Since UNBELIEF keeps one from entering and causes one to fall away, and to depart from God; then it is correct to say by the word of the Lord which we have read in this blog, that BELIEF, believing the gospel preached NOTHING DOUBTING, is what causes us TO ENTER IN, and causes us to STAY IN soul rest and peace and joy, ever cleaving to Jesus, and remaining in Christ Jesus and He in us by abiding faith and trust obedience. As it is written, that Christ may dwell in your hearts BY FAITH (by your constant believing - Ephesians 3:17). This can also be prayed this way and be accurate in TRUTH, "that you would dwell and remain in Christ BY FAITH". (Read Romans 15:12-13 KJV). Amen......deno......please share freely.
Note....What we really believe with our hearts gives our hearts their convictions. When we believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, we also are recognizing HIS GREAT AUTHORITY. He is Lord. He is the Lord from Heaven. Even as Paul preached, Jesus is God in the flesh. Knowing this. Believing this, we then learn to more to more bow down our lives to Him and obey His Words (1 Peter 2:1-2) and Lordship over our lives in the Peace and in the Rest His sacrifice gives us with the Father.
If we do not have real bible faith in Christ atoning, cleansing, purifying blood and sacrifice, then we will doubt almost everything. Are we saved by the Cross and blood of Christ and his resurrection? He that doubts says, hmmm, Not sure (No Soul Peace & Rest in that). Are we forgiven? He that is of a doubtful heart says, hmmm, Not sure (No Soul Peace & Rest there). Are we cleansed & made spotless by the blood of Christ? He that doubts says, I wish such were so but I am not really sure (No Soul Peace & Rest in that either), on and on it goes.
Those who are double minded about such things are unstable souls. Their doubt fills them with fear and lack of assurance. Their always in a sinking mode or condition within. They will resort to all kinds of things to drown their doubt and fear. They will go get circumcised thinking such would make them feel more saved and more accepted. IT WANT. They will skin their heads or not cut their hair thinking such has GREAT POWER TO SAVE and to make one accepted. IT WANT IF THEY DOUBT THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL THAT CHRIST PRECIOUS BLOOD SPEAKS......Christ died for our sins punishment and rose again for our newness of life and justification (Romans 4:18-25). This is the gospel. This is the saving message. This is the beginning of our confidence that by faith our hearts are to hold to steadfastly without wavering, all the way to the finish line. Jesus Christ alone is OUR ALL IN ALL.....deno.....God Bless You......please share freely.
President Reagan ran for the Presidency 3 times before we finally elected him. After we did elect him, it was then that we the American people realized the special gift of inspirational leadership that was in him to be a GREAT PRESIDENT. Mitt Romney has that same gift on the inside of him. He really is the perfect candidate to be the leader this country needs to lead us out of these self inflicted wounds that we have let happen to us and to our Nation and it's liberties due to the lack of sincere American Pariotism, real leadership and experience that we so desperately need in this hour in America's condition and history...I hope Romney will run for the THIRD time like Ronald Reagan did. We need him and his manifold business and governing experience. America would be so blessed by the real leadership gifts that are in him......deno........ Red Rocks
Hear Now A Word Of His Grace....The Lord Restores.....deno......please share freely this Word. Such is God's Will.
Acts
13:44) On the next Sabbath almost the whole city (that means almost
everybody in town or in that city) came together to hear the Word of the
Gospel......Paul preached to them, Jesus Christ and Him Crucified and Risen from the dead. The Cross of Christ was his central theme (1st Corinthians 1:17-18).
Do you remember how our elders such as Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart use to go into our towns and cities, and how the stadiums and the coliseums use to be overflowingly filled with the souls in those towns and cities. People were so hungry for the Word of the Lord. GOD CAN DO IT AGAIN FOR THIS GENERATION. As it is written, Though they sat in darkness, God sent them GREAT LIGHT, the light of life Himself, Jesus the Son of God......
Do you remember how our elders such as Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart use to go into our towns and cities, and how the stadiums and the coliseums use to be overflowingly filled with the souls in those towns and cities. People were so hungry for the Word of the Lord. GOD CAN DO IT AGAIN FOR THIS GENERATION. As it is written, Though they sat in darkness, God sent them GREAT LIGHT, the light of life Himself, Jesus the Son of God......
Let us keep praying for Evangelist Reinhard
Bonnke, for Jimmy Swaggart and His Son Donnie and Gabriel the grandson evangelist,
and for all our evangelist in America and those who are going into all
the world fearlessly and with all boldness amidst a world of demonic
opposition working thru men who are wicked. Working thru men who have
not faith or are religiously deceived.......
God RESTORES and the Lord
is the God of the Restorations of all His people, and the God of the
resurrection. Nothing is impossible with God. Amen.
Gods mercies are
renewed every morning for all of us to repent, for us to be restored,
renewed and refreshed in the Lord (ALL OF US). Let us all lay aside our past. Let us
let go of the disobedience and the failures of our past and let us take
holt on to the Cross of Christ afresh, and again, as One People Under
God In Christ, carry it's saving message to this generation. .......
God
has His messengers. They need our support and our love and our prayers.
For today's opposition against the Lord and against The Message of His
Cross in America and around the world is a lot more severe and
threatening than it was 30 years ago. (The worlds spiritual atmosphere
is full of wicked, rude, cruel, hate filled, evil, deceiving spirits like the end time scriptures foretold ).
Only the strong, the fearless, and the bold are on the front lines today. We must keep them in our
prayers, supporting them with our love in action.
If we gossip about, or judge or condemn
any evangelist or anyone else we have no good reward from that. But
rather we set our own selves up to be judged, to be spiritually stoned, and
convicted of wrong, even fit for self inflicted condemnation, so saith
the scriptures. But if we as Christ does in love FORGIVE ALL, RESTORE
ALL and support all them with our love, prayers, finances and if we even
give them a cup of cold water because we recognize them as Christ
fearless and bold servants, Jesus promised we would by no means lose our
reward for doing so........
Hear now a word of His grace, "The wounds of our past are now healed. By
the grace and restoring mercies of our God in Christ, those past wounds are now
only scars (THAT'S ALL). Let no past sin or past failure keep us out of
the love of God, or keep our hands off the plow of His evangelizing
will, or keep us from doing our part in the work of Christ present evangelistic
ministries....FOR GOD STILL SO LOVES THE WORLD"....
THE TESTIMONIES AND THE LIGHT IN THE
RECOVERED AND OF THE PRODIGAL SONS WILL BE POWERFUL TO THIS SIN BRUISED
GENERATION. For in those testimonies even the most wicked of men, and in those words of Gods grace, mercy and compassion's, even the most seductress of women, in them both, faith shall be stirred up giving them hope
in God thru Christ....It is Written.......deno
The Prayer That Changed The World. Let Us Pray It Daily. For Such A Time As This......deno....please share freely
Acts 4:13-33......The first church leaders had been arrested and taking into custody. They had been severely threatened to never again teach or preach again in the Name of Jesus. They responded to those that threatened them, Saying, "You are but men and dust, We must obey God above all the laws of men". Hardheaded and stubbornly devoted to Christ they left.
They went to the brethren, the church members of that day and told them all that the chief priest and the elders of Israel had told them and how they THREATENED THEM. What happened next was historical and changed the course of the world forever.
With one heart and with one mind (very important point there), they as One, raised their voice unto God and prayed the prayer that changed the world and the course of history.
The Prayer, Acts 4:24-33)
vs 24).....Lord, You alone are God, who designed and created heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them.
vs 25) who by the mouth of Your servant David have said, "Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
vs 26) The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and Against His Christ. (Note: They are doing this today in America, against Christ, against the Christians, and against our Christian Heritage)
vs 27) For truly Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were joined together,
vs 28) to do whatever Your scriptures foretold would happen.
vs 29) Now, Lord, BEHOLD THEIR THREATENINGS; and grant to Your servants that with ALL BOLDNESS they may speak Your Gospel.
vs 30) By stretching forth Your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the Name of Your holy child Jesus (our Redeemer/Savior).
vs 31) And when they had prayed, the place was shaken (God said OK lets do this) where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (again/afresh), and they SPOKE the word of God (the gospel) with ALL BOLDNESS.
vs 33) And with GREAT POWER gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and GREAT GRACE was upon them all.
And it is also written, Mark 16:20) And they went into the nations and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ every where. The Lord went with them confirming His Word with His signs and wonders following. Amen.
America was the result of this prayer prayed long ago. She can be again if we will be as committed as they were to Christ and pray and turn from our luke warm state and from our sins and wicked ways. And believe God afresh to be filled with the Holy Ghost as they were and give our hearts and our all to the work of the Lord.
They went to the brethren, the church members of that day and told them all that the chief priest and the elders of Israel had told them and how they THREATENED THEM. What happened next was historical and changed the course of the world forever.
With one heart and with one mind (very important point there), they as One, raised their voice unto God and prayed the prayer that changed the world and the course of history.
The Prayer, Acts 4:24-33)
vs 24).....Lord, You alone are God, who designed and created heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them.
vs 25) who by the mouth of Your servant David have said, "Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
vs 26) The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and Against His Christ. (Note: They are doing this today in America, against Christ, against the Christians, and against our Christian Heritage)
vs 27) For truly Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were joined together,
vs 28) to do whatever Your scriptures foretold would happen.
vs 29) Now, Lord, BEHOLD THEIR THREATENINGS; and grant to Your servants that with ALL BOLDNESS they may speak Your Gospel.
vs 30) By stretching forth Your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the Name of Your holy child Jesus (our Redeemer/Savior).
vs 31) And when they had prayed, the place was shaken (God said OK lets do this) where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (again/afresh), and they SPOKE the word of God (the gospel) with ALL BOLDNESS.
vs 33) And with GREAT POWER gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and GREAT GRACE was upon them all.
And it is also written, Mark 16:20) And they went into the nations and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ every where. The Lord went with them confirming His Word with His signs and wonders following. Amen.
America was the result of this prayer prayed long ago. She can be again if we will be as committed as they were to Christ and pray and turn from our luke warm state and from our sins and wicked ways. And believe God afresh to be filled with the Holy Ghost as they were and give our hearts and our all to the work of the Lord.
Updated...AntiChrist says, Let Us Severely Threaten Them......deno.......please share freely
Acts
4:16-18)...they said, What shall we do to these people? For indeed, a
notable miracle has been done through them and it is evident to all who
dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. vs 17) But so that it spreads
no further among the people (and among the nations), let us severely threaten them, that from
now on they speak to no man in THIS NAME (Jesus Name) vs 18) So they
called the disciples and threatened them NOT
TO SPEAK AT ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS, NOR TO TEACH IN THE NAME
OF JESUS......
Friends the same antichrist spirit that was operating in those men that threatened the early church, that opposed the gospel and the name of Jesus in Jerusalem are now in the United States. For this reason our persecution has begun in this nation for being Christians. The same people that threatened them are behind the scenes threatening us, and Satan is invisibly behind them using them as he did those to crucify the Lord of glory (John 8:44). We are in the beginning stages of the antichrist spirits testing and sweep of the nations to see if they are ready for his appearing, for the take over......
When the majority love darkness more than light, sin more than holiness, and question the validity of the gospel and resurrection of Jesus Christ, they are ripe for his plucking.......So how did the disciples answer those Jesus opposers? They answered back. Please go and read Acts 4: 19-33)....as it is written, Go and do like wise.....deno.....please share freely.
Well to simply put it they answered back and said, We must OBEY GOD and not you.....then after a mighty prayer of the church we read in Acts 4:33) And with GREAT POWER the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, And GREAT GRACE was upon them all. Glory to God.
The first church was on fire for God. Their hearts love was Jesus, and the promise of heaven and it's fascinating glory and life with the Father thrilled and excited their souls. They loved the preaching of the gospel, and the fellowship of his sufferings. The world found them STUBBORN AND HARD HEADED. Even when they burned them at the stakes in the coliseum and fed them to lions, they were SO STUBBORN they refused to denounce Christ and they kept singing praises to the Lord even when in the flames. But it was this stubborness that eventually gave that same nation that did those terrible things to the church, to the faith of the Son of God. Like Paul's conversion so was Romes.
We must be THEIR KIND of STUBBORN, and have THEIR KIND of love and devotion to Christ to overcome and to win this nation back to God and it's christian roots. The seeds are still here. (THE SEEDS) just need our hearts stubborn love and devotion to Christ RAIN STORMS of intercessory prayers and commitment AND THE EARLY CHURCH'S UNCOMPROMISING STAND FOR GOD AND JESUS CHRIST.......We must obey God rather than men.
American Believers, it is time to take back up the Cross of Christ.......deno.
Friends the same antichrist spirit that was operating in those men that threatened the early church, that opposed the gospel and the name of Jesus in Jerusalem are now in the United States. For this reason our persecution has begun in this nation for being Christians. The same people that threatened them are behind the scenes threatening us, and Satan is invisibly behind them using them as he did those to crucify the Lord of glory (John 8:44). We are in the beginning stages of the antichrist spirits testing and sweep of the nations to see if they are ready for his appearing, for the take over......
When the majority love darkness more than light, sin more than holiness, and question the validity of the gospel and resurrection of Jesus Christ, they are ripe for his plucking.......So how did the disciples answer those Jesus opposers? They answered back. Please go and read Acts 4: 19-33)....as it is written, Go and do like wise.....deno.....please share freely.
Well to simply put it they answered back and said, We must OBEY GOD and not you.....then after a mighty prayer of the church we read in Acts 4:33) And with GREAT POWER the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, And GREAT GRACE was upon them all. Glory to God.
The first church was on fire for God. Their hearts love was Jesus, and the promise of heaven and it's fascinating glory and life with the Father thrilled and excited their souls. They loved the preaching of the gospel, and the fellowship of his sufferings. The world found them STUBBORN AND HARD HEADED. Even when they burned them at the stakes in the coliseum and fed them to lions, they were SO STUBBORN they refused to denounce Christ and they kept singing praises to the Lord even when in the flames. But it was this stubborness that eventually gave that same nation that did those terrible things to the church, to the faith of the Son of God. Like Paul's conversion so was Romes.
We must be THEIR KIND of STUBBORN, and have THEIR KIND of love and devotion to Christ to overcome and to win this nation back to God and it's christian roots. The seeds are still here. (THE SEEDS) just need our hearts stubborn love and devotion to Christ RAIN STORMS of intercessory prayers and commitment AND THE EARLY CHURCH'S UNCOMPROMISING STAND FOR GOD AND JESUS CHRIST.......We must obey God rather than men.
American Believers, it is time to take back up the Cross of Christ.......deno.
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