If your eyes are not yet open to this fact, then until they are you will always (in your understandings blind spot) keep on trying to climb (by your own religious works and efforts) a mountain that God has already put you on top of by His gift and grace when He raised you up together and made you sit together with Jesus in heavenly places far above.(That's the MOUNTAIN TOP)(Read Ephesians 2:1-10).... Friends listen. Just as the world is blind by their ignorance of TRUTH and of the scriptures about the curses and about their place and position in hell as the children of the devil, even so there are many Christians still (In their minds are also blind spots about heavenly things), they are still yet blind to their many blessings given them in Christ and blind to the fact that they are NOW the sons and daughters of God raised up together with Christ in the spirit as NEW CREATURES IN CHRIST JESUS (2 Corinthians 5:16-21) and made to sit with Jesus in His heavenly places of high authority far above (Ephesians 2:1-10)......... You see, just as the people of the world are citizens of hell in the spirit, but in their minds understanding and in their minds seeing they are blind to this and laugh at such a thought in their mind, even so believers who are citizens of heaven in their spirit, can still be blind to their blessings and blind to their risen with Christ spiritual state and to their real citizenship in heaven (IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND IN THEIR MINDS SEEING) and walk as if they are not risen with Christ, as if they are not redeemed and saved, but are trying to climb the mountain by their own works and effort.... Im so glad that by Jesus Christ and by the gift of the grace of God we who have believed the good report (THE GOSPEL OF THE CROSS AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST), God Himself has made us alive together with Jesus in the spirit and has raised us up together with Jesus and made us sit together with Jesus in heavenly places BY HIS GRACE. The reason Jesus had Paul write (Ephesians 2:1-10) was to unveil unto our understanding a GREAT BIG HEAVENLY TRUTH GIVEN US ALL BY GRACE. In these scriptures it says that God has already made us alive together with Christ and God has ALREADY raised us up together with Christ and made us SIT TOGETHER with Jesus in the heavenly places FAR ABOVE in the spirit (That's the MOUNTAIN TOP). He wrote this so that we would see (IN OUR MINDS UNDERSTANDING), we would SEE OURSELVES as ALREADY THERE, not working in the harvest fields for our own salvation's needs, but resting with Jesus by faith in the Power of His Hard Labors on the Cross and not from our own labors to try to save ourselves. Our work now is not to save ourselves but to serve God as the risen sons of God seated in the heavenly places in Christ to help God save others thru the preaching of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ. For how can you preach to others BE YE RECONCILED UNTO GOD when your not sure that you yourself have been? How can you preach boldly salvation when your not sure of your own? The doubting are waist high in luke warm water and in luke warm faith. YOU SEE Jesus came down from heaven, from HIS HEAVENLY PLACE FAR ABOVE into this world not to become the Son of God but AS THE SON OF GOD sent from Gods heavenly place not of this world. We that are IN CHRIST are down here now as the new born sons and daughters of God NOT OF THIS WORLD in the spirit and we are sent to preach the gospel from the position that WE ARE FROM ABOVE AND FROM BEING RISEN WITH CHRIST (Colossians 3:1-4 & John 17:14-16 & Ephesians 2:1-10 & John 5:24). Thank God for this precious gift that He has placed us on His Mountain Top with Christ as the gift of God by grace thru faith in Christ blood, death, and resurrection and not by our works BUT BY HIS OWN HARD LABOR IN THE CROSS AND RESURRECTION AND FAR ABOVE ALL ASCENSION OF CHRIST as revealed in Ephesians chapters 1 & 2..... Friends, its all in the minds understanding. We all have to climb in our minds spiritual sights and understanding to the places we are already at and belong to, and are already citizens of in the spirit whether FAR ABOVE in heaven or FAR BELOW in hell for the needful effects of redemption plus or minus, for there is a heaven to gain which we do in Christ, and there is a hell to shun which all can by Christ. Amen.......deno......please share freely.
In this life, we can never know, nor will we here on earth ever experience the complete
fulness of the Lords presence, joy, love, blessings and power in our
lives if we never obtain full surrender and full submission to His will,
plan, and purpose for us in doing our part in the body of Christ in the
work of the Lord....This, in part, is why Jesus said some will bring
forth 30 fold, others 60 fold, and others 100 fold. Those who brought
forth the 100 fold were 100% submitted, surrendered to the Master plan
for them. Like the disciples said to Jesus, "Lord we have forsaken all
to follow you and your plan for us. Go and read Matthew 19:27-29)
Therein is revealed by the Lord their blessings for doing so.....deno.
Matthew 19:27-29) vs 27) Then answered Peter and said to Jesus, Behold, we have forsaken all and followed you. what shall we have therefore? (WHAT A QUESTION TO ASK AND WHAT A GLORIOUS ANSWER SO GIVEN). 28) Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, That you which have followed Me, in the generation when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His Glory, you also shall sit upon thrones ruling over the twelve tribes of Israel. 29) And (I like that. This means there is more reward fixing to be unveiled by Jesus) And EVERY ONE (EVERY PERSON YAHOOOOOO, this includes us Gentile Christians) that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife and children, or lands for My Names sake (For Gods plan, purpose and work for them) SHALL RECEIVE a HUNDREDFOLD, and shall (ALSO) inherit everlasting life.
Brethren it is truly rewarding to fully serve the Lord Jesus Christ. It blesses us in this life and in the life to come. When this world loses its grip off of our hearts, minds, and souls to where we give all and do all things in full submission and full surrender to Christ and His Lordship and Plan for us, we will taste God and His fulness in our lives in life and in death. We live in His presence and we die in His Love and Grace ascending up into the glory of God and His Heavenly Goodness. Amen.....deno.....please share freely.
Come now thou good and faithful servant. Enter ye into the joy of the Lord.
When you feel discouraged and feel surrounded by darkness, REMEMBER this
grace Word. Matthew 4:16 KJV) The people which sat in darkness SAW
(WERE GIVEN) GREAT LIGHT; and to them which sat in the region and shadow
of death LIGHT SPRUNG UP. No matter how dreary and dark things seem
right now, God has light and grace for you. In our text that generation of people, they were sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death they were living. It does not get much darker than that, than to be living and to be dwelling in the shadow of death. Hope seemed millions of miles away. In that desperate situation our God, the God of our comforts and our confirmations commanded relief and light to shine out upon those people. Friends in Christ, God has a mighty Throne of
grace for you to soar to in your faith and hope in Jesus Christ to
OBTAIN HIS HELP IN THIS YOUR TIME OF NEED. You may feel surrounded and overwhelmed by darkness right now, but God is God and He is the God of light and of real hope. He is easily touched
with the feelings of our infirmities and weakness......so have faith in God and remember the words of David, Whenever my heart is afraid I will trust in the Lord. Let us remember
this Word also. When the world was in great darkness, it was then that
God COMMANDED something great to happen. Even His Greatest to happen. He
commanded His Son and His Sons Grace, His Anointing, and Marvelous Light to shine out
into this world, into the lives of those who were sitting in darkness and dwelling along the paths of the shadow of death. (See 2 Corinthians 4:5-7)......Scroll Down. Friends the light has come and is coming. This Storm cannot last. The Son will rise with recovery in His Wings. They who trust in God will not be ashamed. They who wait on the Lord shall RENEW their strength. They shall mount up with wings like an eagle REMEMBER. This means they SHALL RECOVER. In other words of His grace, you will mount up in the victory of the Lords mercies given you that restores your soul. BELIEVE and Praise Him that this to shall pass and you will rejoice and smile again in the joy of His Salvation.....deno.....please share freely.
When Adam and Eve transgressed the commandment, they left the blessing, the life, and the comfort of the
Garden of Eden, they left the presence of God and they entered, yes they entered into the
realities of their transgressions consequences, making a living in the sweat of the brow, weighed down by the
sin they had committed, into the hands of a master deceiver and his manifold trickeries, into aches and
pains, into a place called the grave, into alienated from the life and power of God, into a future world that would be ruled by greed and by the snare and trap of money, which would eventually, in the end,
lead them into the arms of the crafty and clever AntiChrist, who would
lead them in strong delusion into the worship of Satan as god, into a world war against the true Creator and Redeemer, and then into hell itself which shall be thrown into the Lake of fire. This is the real course of
this world by its sins and blasphemies that are now and that are soon to come. But let us brethren remain in the course of Jesus' love,
grace, favor, and mercy from the Cross of Christ to the Throne of the Father. Jesus came into this world to change our course. He will have the final Word. For He will destroy the AntiChrist with the brightness of His coming when He returns in the great power and glory of His Father to put all enemies under His feet and to adorn His Church with the full fruits of our so great a salvation that we have in Him. For us in Him it is Victory . For us in Him we have His full triumph over all of the powers of sin, death, hell and the grave. Thank You God. Amen......deno......please share freely.
Psalms 130:2-7) Lord hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry
for mercy. If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, then Lord who could
stand? (None, no not even one.) But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can with reverence
in awe of your mercy and goodness fear your Name and serve you. I wait
for the Lord, my soul, my whole being waits for the Lord, and in His
word I put my hope. Yes I wait for the Lord more than the night soldier
waits for his morning relief. Yes even more than he waits
for his morning relief. Put all your hope in the Lord and trust Him O
Israel (Church). For with the Lord is unfailing love, and with him is
full redemption. Amen........ For this and these words Lord Jesus we are
so thankful. THANK YOU LORD for the encouragement. Thank you Lord for
your great love. For redeeming us with your own precious blood unto God
and His Wonders and His Wonderful Life Forever. Thank you Lord that in
You, In Christ we are Gods dear children and He is our Everlasting Holy
Incredible Father. What a gloriously bright and pleasant future we have
In God. Brothers and sisters we have GREAT HOPE in the Lord. In His love and in His great compassion and mercy I have set my hope forever. Amen......deno......please share freely.
Galations 5:9) A little yeast works its way thru the whole batch of dough. Sin and false doctrines tolerated will in time work their way and their effects into every area of our life and swell like yeast in dough in an harmful way hindering our fellowship with God and they will Quench the flow of the Spirit of the Lord. If tolerated, these sins and those false doctrines believed, can have such a robbing effect that we, instead of enjoying the real deal of Christ in us, we end up having only a form of godliness, an external image but not the power of Christ and of God within. Paul preached to the church of Galatia that they were being attacked doctrinally by the devil and that that doctrine, that persuasion, was not of God (Galations 5:1-12). The church at Corinth had a member of it's church having forbidden relations with his fathers wife, his step mother and it had come to light by the light and Paul said if you tolerate this, that sin with that spirit could end up ALSO working it's yeast, it's poison into the whole body and this kind of behavior will break out every where, YES even in the church. This is a major problem in today's church, fornication and adulteries, plus false inspirations & doctrines. Church, tolerating sin and false doctrines is extremely dangerous to us all. They effect us personally, bodily, both now and eternally. Paul said to the church of Galatia that were being taught the false doctrine of you men must be circumcised or you cannot be saved, that believing and obeying that false doctrine that it was necessary to be circumcised and keep the whole Law of Moses or you want be saved, IF THEY WERE CONVINCED YOU HAD TO AS TO FULLY BELIEVE IT SO TO GO AND BE CIRCUMCISED BELIEVING IT WOULD SAVE YOU, THEY WOULD FALL FROM GRACE AND THAT ALL THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST AND HIS BLOODS POWER WOULD PROFIT THEM NOTHING (Galations 5:1-4). That was the power of THAT PARTICULAR FALSE DOCTRINE. Friends also, if we believe but never repent of our sins and do not ask God to forgive our sins, we are deceived and under a false light. We are at a loss instead of GREAT GAIN. You see Satan knows God. Satan knows and believes Jesus is the Son of God. They cried when Jesus was on earth, "What have you to do with us Jesus thou Son of the Most High God, have you come to torment us before the time. I know who you are. The Holy One of God." But these same evil hearted, evil spirits REFUSE TO REPENT. In every place that we hear them speak in the new testament we never once hear them ask Jesus to please forgive us. NOT ONCE. Even so there is a people who say they believe and say they know the Lord and we hope they do. But some say and do not. Some they say yes I believe and know Jesus, but they like Satan and the evil spirits, refuse to repent of their sins and iniquities and ask for no forgiveness. When they stand before the Lord they will be put in the pews and dry places of lasting judgements where the Lord will say, These people honored Me with their lips but the truth of the matter is their heart and their love was far from Me. Friends that is scripture. Now we know we all have or have had our issues and problems with sin and in sin. We are not blind to this. But we in whom Christ really dwells have the echoes of holy conviction in our hearts from Gods Holy Image and Spirit and from our new born spirits righteous conscience, we ask God to forgive us and we repent. Some of us even need His help to repent. He will help us for Holiness is in the commandment in both the shadow of the Old and in the light of the New. When we all realize how sinful we are and that realization loads us down with guilt and shame, and some one comes and preaches the Cross of Christ to us and His resurrection, when faith is present we are happy to hear that good news. We believe in the love God has for us and call upon His Name unto Salvation and such is right and good. But just as the devil came to Jesus when he heard the voice say, This is My beloved Son, even so the devil comes to us the aged saints or the NEW BORN as he always will, and thru even friends, family members, strangers, or other misled people that say they believe, they come and hook up with you and the next thing you know your persuaded to believe that it is ok as believers to still be involved in drunken parties of wine and drugs, and orgies, and fornication, and foul unholy speech, and other sinful pleasures. Friends this is not of the Spirit of Him that called you out of sin into His marvelous light. It is the devil roaming about trying to devour your understanding with his deceptive sensual chatter for your downfall and ruin. I personally learned a lot of this the hard way. False doctrines and false persuasions are like the black widows spider web. If you fall into the webs trap, someone is happy and is coming and it sure is not God. As it is written, Go and sin no more lest a worse thing come upon you. Also it is written, When angry SIN NOT. Do not give place to the devil. When Satan comes against you, He will tell you things like, Your only human and to sin is only human. So you need not to repent but only to believe and all will be well with you. He will say, You were altogether born in sin like the rest of the world. God understands this. So there is no need to stop this sin after all, It is written, you are saved by grace and not by works. And thousands of other similar words he will say to persuade you to believe and then obey his lie into sin and disobedience and unto loss to rob you of the GREAT GAIN and MORE ABUNDANT LIFE that Christ came to give you in the beauty of holiness. In closing let us remember that in the garden of Eden we plainly see and hear the persuading voice and whisper of the devil. When God told Adam & Eve that sin would cost them much, Satan lied to them and said that it would not. Well, I ask you, Who told the truth? Was it the Spirit of God or the spirit of the lying one? Hell is full of the answer. Let us all repent and believe the gospel of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ. The Cross of Christ is Gods love for us displayed. And repentance, living holy and believing and obeying God is the display of our love for God. Moses cried, Who is on the Lords side? Jesus said in John 14:21) If a person really loves Me, he will believe and obey My Words and My Father will love him and We will come and make our home in him......deno......please share freely.
One day a bible quoting preacher was about to whip his son that he raised on quoting the scriptures, into obedience shape with his belt for acting up in church and for not doing what he was told. The little boy cried out quoting the scripture, "But dad, Jesus said I will have mercy and I will abundantly pardon, REMEMBER. The preaching dad said back, Yes Jesus did say that, but JESUS ALSO SAID to spare the rod means you hate your child and you know daddy loves you son....The little boy crying at hearing those words said, Your right dad, forgive me, Jesus certainly did say THOSE WORDS to.....Then crying some more knowing what was about to happen to him he said, "Ok dad, Just please give me a moment here, in this what is now my own garden of Gethsemane experience like Jesus had ok? The preaching dad being amused at his sons cleverness stepped back and said, ok, have your moment. The little feller got down on his knees before his preaching dad and prayed. He prayed out loud saying, Lord Jesus Paul said be ye imitators of Christ so now I'm imitatin. Lord Jesus,...this is my body which is about to broken CAUSE OF YOU. Into your hands I commit my spirit........deno......please share freely.
