Sunday, April 17, 2016
Discovering THE HIDDEN TREASURE......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.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
When God Opens Eyes This Is What You See.....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.......deno.....share freely.
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.
You Are His Special......deno......share freely.
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.
God is Love......deno......share freely.
God Is Love...written by deno.
The Bread is in the writings.
Matthew 22:34-46....New King James Version.
The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?
34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
John wrote, When we love God we love His children also. The real measure of one's love for God can be seen by the way we love one another. The two are un-seperable.
John wrote by the Spirit, If a man says he loves God but hates his brother (means his fellow man), that man is a liar. Those are pretty stout words used calling a man a liar, but the point had to be made, because there were many spirits that had gone out into the world claiming that they were and are of God and that they knew God. The world is flooded and full of these deceiving misleading spirits...See 1 John 4:1-12.
But the disciples, (including John) really did know God. He had become flesh and dwelt amongst them for three years. Emmanuel which means GOD WITH US as the prophet Isaiah foretold, had paid the world THE PROMISED BIG DIVINE VISIT THRU CHRIST. And John had seen Him, John had handled Him , touched Him, heard Him, talked face to face with Him, and watched Him in action and everything he observed about Jesus was just awing and so incredible, so not of this world in glory and wisdom and power.
Jesus was not just your ordinary man. No one had ever seen such a man as Jesus who was excellent in all his ways AND ANOINTED. He even walked on water and calmed the raging seas. His character and strengths in every way were flawless and without any form of blemish. He was Divine in Spirit and Divine in His thinking. His way of doing things was far above our ways and His level of thinking was as high as heaven is above the earth compared to our level.
We think according to the flesh. Jesus' wisdom thoughts and thinking was according to the Spirit and Power of God. We use boats to get to the other side because that is on the level of which we think and believe. Jesus uses his feet walking on the water to the other side or FLIES IN THE AIR TO MAKE THE TRIP, because that is the way of HIS MIGHTY THOUGHTS and the level of HIS FAR ABOVE ALL THINKING and BELIEVING. In no way was that water holding Jesus up or down. It was the glory of HIS BELIEVING. He was Emmanuel, God With Us that had become flesh.
John knew Jesus was the Lord from heaven. He knew Jesus was the Word, and that the Word had been with God and that the Word WAS GOD and he knew that THE WORD which was God had become flesh and was now with them. John knew Jesus was and is the brightness of God's glory and the express image of His Person (Heb 1:1-3). And He by witnessing God for three years in action and watching Him in His divine character on earth in the flesh, he knew God was PERFECT LOVE and so MIRACULOUS. His Word was like no others and His Word never failed no matter the weight of the demand put upon them, even to the raising of the dead, or the calming of the seas. His Word made it happen. God was being God in the midst of men.
After many days of showing great love and compassion to crowds and multitudes by way of miracles, and after healing thousands and thousands who had been oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38), John heard this incredible Christ one divinely blessed day on earth before men utter the MONUMENTAL WORDS that to this day blesses and brings joy and comfort to many all over the world and has now for 2000 years....Jesus said, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.
Jesus did not just say those INCREDIBLE WORDS and then vanish and just leave the planet. No, Jesus continued mightily to back those words with Love, Power and divine demonstrations of His Glory from on High that backed His love of God light. Jesus had so shook the world in those days with the GLORY of those words I AM, that his fame grew so great that the onlookers one day being heaven struck said, Behold, the whole world has gone after him.
Many people do not realize HOW BIG THIS MOVE OF GOD ON EARTH WAS IN THOSE DAYS. God was ON EARTH walking with men. God with us in Christ was the most MONUMENTAL MOVE of GOD ever on earth since the fall. Greater than all the esteemed prophets had formerly seen or tasted or experienced. A greater One than Moses is here Jesus shouted and His Father on the mount of transfiguration bore the same Divine Witness in His glistening glory saying, THIS IS MY DIVINE SON WHO I LOVE, LISTEN AND OBEY HIM.
Jesus one day said to his disciples, If I had not done the works that no other man has ever done before, then Israel would have excuse. But now they have seen and have heard but they still do not believe, therefore there sin remains. In other words Israel had finally broke the back of the patience of God. This is that heir they said in their hearts. Let us kill him and all shall be ours. This was Israels worse transgression.
Of all the blood of the prophets that Israel had shed thru-out the years (Matthew 23:37-39), this One's (Gods Son) bloodshed would cost them and their children greatly on earth even into eternity. Part of the cost was this. The Covenant of grace would be taken from them and a wild branch (The Gentiles) would be engrafted and the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-21) would be handed over to the gentiles for a period of time for life and for entrustment. Then after the fulness of the time of the gentiles was accomplished, an awakening would take place in Israel. From the offspring of Abraham and of Sarah would be heard the cry, Blessed was Jesus that came to us in the Name of the Lord and Jerusalem in that our would be reborn from within and again shine with the glory of Israel which has always been the Spirit of Jesus Christ the Lord from heaven whom they had pierced in the day of their monumental visitation from Immanuel.
God had loved Israel for years and they over and over again showed Him as a nation little love back. They often killed the prophets and stoned those He sent to them and now their hearts had become so full of Satan they were about to crucify the Lord of glory HIMSELF, not understanding the day of their visitation. They could not understand HIS GREAT LOVE FOR ALL EVEN FOR THE GENTILES that they despised. But John really got to know God. His ears were amongst the blessed ones that did hear and his eyes were amongst the fortunate ones that did see. Having eyes he saw and having ears he heard.
John's heart, to simply say it, GOT IT. He understood the Lord and He got to know God's heart and true eternal character maybe more than all (Maybe). He was THAT FRIEND that saw the love of God in Christ. He realized the call and the heritage of Israel was not just unto themselves, but that God had raised Israel up in order to have the REDEEMING COMPASSION of HIS LOVE to reach ALL THE WORLD thru Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead. God clearly has told them their calling in these words to Abraham and HIS SEED.... I will bless you He said, SO THAT you will be a blessing, and in another place. From your seed shall ALL THE NATIONS of the earth BE BLESSED. That seed was Christ. Christ was born from the virgin thru the power of God so that the works of God would be manifested in HIM.
Yes, John knew the Lord. John knew God. He knew that the rest of mankind was blind and in the darkness and that they had been misled and deceived by Satan about God, about divine things, and the true things of God. But he knew Him, he had seen Him, he spent three years, THREE INCREDIBLE YEARS with Him on earth in the flesh and saw ALL THE GLORY.
John in those three incredible years with God learned much about God. He came to really know God. He learned that the one true God is love and perfect in holiness and was rich in mercy and compassion. And he knew also that if a man or a woman or a spirit said he or they knew God, or that he loved God but that same man or that same spirit hated his brother or sister or fellow man, or preached a message of hate, he said that man and that spirit is a liar, a false prophet, a deceived heart, a lying spirit, even a murderer, a demonized soul though he seems to even look religious (Islam).
Friends no matter what men say on earth or boast of how much they know God, John who lived and loved with God for three years on earth said, If you say you love God but hate others or are prejudice about others, he said in your heart you are a liar and a murderer, you don't really know Him. All these people all over America, in the middle east, and all over the world that boast that they know God but terrorize and kill in the name of their god, and that hate others and preach hate by skin tone or by any other dividing differences ARE LYING...Jesus even said, Love your enemies. Do good to those that do you wrong. Pray for those who use you and persecute you. By doing so Jesus said you would be like your Father which is in heaven. LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS CHRIST LOVED US.
..........Friends, the One true God is LOVE and He is Jesus Christ The Word, God with us.....scroll down......deno......share freely.
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Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?
45 If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” 46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.
Friday, April 15, 2016
For the Pulling Down of Strongholds.......deno.....share freely
2 Cor 10:4-6)
For the weapons of our warfare (battle with the spirits that rule the darkness and spiritual ignorance of this world and that fight against us to hinder the evangelizing of the world with the gospel) our weapons are not of flesh and blood, but are of God and given to us in the giving of His Son, His Word, His Grace, His Name and His Spirit. God has given us these mighty weapons for the PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS of the lies, the philosophies, false doctrines, false religions, believed lies, wrong convictions and deceiving ideas and thoughts found in the mind and hearts of men all over this deceived and blinded world.
By our use of these mighty weapons we fight and war empowered by the Spirit, Mind and Grace of Christ strength, going everywhere within and without, CASTING DOWN personal and global planted arguments, theories, oppositions, deceitful lust, unnatural affections, deceptions, imaginations, human fantasies, misguided beliefs, and every high and promoted thought, idea, best guess, presumptions, and thing that in this world in our hearts and in our minds has been planted there by the spiritual forces of darkness that we wrestle and war with. All those things that those spiritual forces have planted in us and in all the world thru out the many ages that is exalted and exalts itself thru the demonic power that is in those theories and lies and misguided beliefs that fight against the knowledge of God and wars against the truth that is in His Son Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead, we being empowered by God and His Grace with these weapons we cast down and out Satan's manifold plantings that he planted in us and in the world, subjecting everything now to Christ the Son of God who is God's true light to all MANKIND.
And by these powerful weapons God has given us we bring into captivity every thought to line up with the truth that is in Christ Jesus and to His Words, to the obedience of Christ, (to the faith agreement that all things of God are in Christ Jesus only and no other and that Jesus alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and this is God's Exaltation of His Son that we preach and stand in faith upon forever without compromise and without deluding Gods Message & Words with the lies of the worlds many shortcoming beliefs that are not in line with the light of the Son of God who was crucified for our sins and risen from the dead for our justification)...Amen.....deno....share freely.
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