Luke 1:6)...And they (Zechariah and Elizabeth) were both righteous before God (In right standing with God), walking in all the commandments and ordinances (instructions) of the Lord blameless.
Commentary.
......When I think of our world today I weep sometimes because it seems less and less people could fit the description of Zechariah and Elizabeth's love and devotion to God. As husband and wife they walked in all the commandments of God as blameless. What sweet life they must have tasted within. Not by wealth or fame, not by worldly applause or human success in this world, but by the souls reward from really constantly being faithful and obedient to God.
We live today in the prophetic times of the scripture that sin would be all over the place abounding in the last days. Few there be that are really sanctified and set apart for the Master by sincere love for him shown in their faithful obedience as Zechariah and Elizabeth were. These few among us today that do make the cut, when their friends turn left against the Lord they turn right and follow him. When it becomes politically incorrect to call upon the name of Jesus Christ publicly, they run and shout His Name on the house tops loving not their lives and fearing no threat of man or beast. But today, few are to embarrassed to shout his name so boldly. What will the neighbors think they say. Our family and friends will call us fanatical. Christ enemies will attack us. Friends nowhere in the scriptures have I found a word from Jesus telling us to put our light under a basket as if to be silent. Have you found one?
Well Zechariah and Elizabeth seemed to not care what the neighbors thought or didn't think about their deep devotion to God. Their delight was in the Lord and as our text tells us they delighted in keeping his commandments. What peace and joy must have been theirs thru the years of such sincere sanctification. A married couple loving and walking with God on earth.
Such sincere love and devotion to God always gets Gods attention. Psalms 91:14-16 reveals this truth and it reveals the rewards that can come upon the faithful ones when such true and sincere devotion is found. Zechariah and Elizabeth were about to find out that their love for the Lord and his commandments had gotten Gods attention.
At the right place and at the right time frame of Gods redemption work, Zechariah and Elizabeth were found to be in the right position to get an Angelic visitation with a glorious message from God. They were at the right place to be amongst the few on earth to hear from heaven that the dispensation for the visitation of Christ, Immanuel, which means God with us, had finally arrived on earth. They were even to become chosen to be vessels unto a special honor. They were going to be honored to bring forth Elijah, the great prophet known as John the baptist, to prepare the people for the visitation of Jesus the Lord of heaven.
Friends faith shown in obedience to God constantly, such sincere devotion lines us up for blessings and rewards, and sometime even special rewards. God has plenty of them to go around and He is the rewarder of those who obey him and diligently SEEK HIM (Hebrews 11:6).....But we must also say, sometimes they can cause us to experience the thorns of persecution. Our Lord fore told us that also. But Jesus said when we are persecuted for righteousness sake, he said for us to rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for that persecution means great is your reward in glory.
........Verse seven commentary coming soon.....deno....Thank you Jesus.
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| Luke 1:6 Commentary. |
As Israel was to be believing, proud of, and so happy about their God, so are all believing Americans who have been ransomed by His Son who loved us and gave himself for us to redeem us unto God thru the sinless blood of His Cross. I am not ashamed.
Christ said to us all these words. (IT'S IN THE BOOK). He said and we quote, "He that will acknowledge Me before people so will I acknowledge him before My Father who is in glory. And yet those who deny Me before others, so will I deny them before My Father in heaven"....
Satan has been after all of America, he has been working hard against all the Americans and the world that he can, to corner them with this reason or that reason to deny knowing or believing in God or His Son. Why? So that they will suffer Christ denying them before the Father in heaven in their own personal judgement causing them their souls eternity.
Lord i am not ashamed of you and I acknowledge you before my fellow Americans and the world unashamedly. Jesus you are both Lord and Christ and My Savior....share freely your acknowledging Jesus Christ the Son of God. These days that is most important....deno.
When The True Spirit of God Leads.....deno.....share freely.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
..... So true is this verse, As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God. The leading of the Spirit of the Lord is manifold in His leading. These scriptures bear out some of those specific leading's.
1) Jesus said, When the Spirit of truth (Christ Spirit) is come, he will lead and guide you into all truth.
......He will dwell IN YOU. (John 14:17)
..... He will not speak of himself.
......He will honor, exalt, and glorify Me (Jesus Christ).
......He will teach you all about Me.
......He will show you things to come. (John 16:13-15).
......He will convict the world of sin.
......He will teach you all things.
......He will bring all that I have told and taught you to your remembrance.
......And of course the Spirit of God being that God is love and that God is Holy, will always lead and guide us to walk in love towards each other and towards all men, and do so in mercy and in holiness.
......Doing good to others, clothing them, feeding them, helping them, and even blessing them without Jesus Christ as the root and the cause, and doing good to others without holiness is possible but it is not the gospels pure road. Not every so called good thing, or good move is of the Spirit of the Lord. Jesus said, even the world loves and does good to its own, but we must remember that when he said THE WORLD in this scripture, he was talking about people who do not know the Lord and who are separated from God and who are not yet saved, yet they have a love in their heart to do good to their own but they are lost and without God in their world and affairs (See Ephesians 2:12-13). For all of us to see and understand this truth is SO IMPORTANT. Above all things, we all must have Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead as the heartbeat of all the good we do or the good then that we do, it is all in vain and has no effect in saving the soul.
......A love and a charity without Jesus and without holiness is a counterfeit religion or walk. In Matthew 7:11 Jesus revealed this startling truth. He revealed that evil people, yes EVIL PEOPLE KNOW HOW to do good to others, to their children and friends. But that does not change the fact that they are evil. Matthew 11:7 SPEAKS VOLUMES that we all, even all the world must read and be clear about. We must all repent and submit our faith and devotion to Jesus Christ the Son of God.
.......Jesus said, Evil people know how to do good, act good, fall in love, marry and be given into marriage. He said that EVIL PEOPLE make love, have children, and provide for them good things, pleasant gifts, and to meet their needs. Nonetheless Jesus said and the scriptures cannot be broken, he said they are still evil people. WOW.
.......Think about this... All of Rome and all of its society with all its rich and vast culture and wealth, not one stone laid in it was built upon the truth of God, but on the lies of a deceiving prince and ruler of this world called Satan, and by delusions concerning divine things. ALL OF ROME. They did not know the one true God of Israel. Their gods were pagan gods (really no gods at all) but still yet their society was highly advanced and well organized to bless and to meet needs and to accomplish many other good things. They even had rules and laws to help cloth and feed poor people. But not one act of their charity was done in the name of Jesus Christ, nor in the name of the God of Israel. Matter of fact when certain leaders of Rome first met Christ face to face, those in Roman authority yielded to an AntiChrist screaming mob and assisted in hammering the Lord himself to a cross.
......Does your religion in this world teach you to be kind, sweet, to do good, and to be charitable and to help others but at the same time your teachers teach you to scorn, hiss at, and to mock the name and gospel of Jesus Christ ? If so, the good you are doing is not of nor led by the Spirit of God but by a deceiving counterfeit as the people of Rome was before its conversion to Christ......Jesus Christ Is Lord.
Luke 1:5....King James Version (KJV)
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course (bloodline) of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters (bloodline) of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Commentary
The time frame of Christ birth was during the reign of king Herod who was a power hungry envious Jewish king very protective of his power and control seat.
Entering the scene is Zacharias a priest and his wife Elizabeth. Both were from the records kept of the priest bloodlines of Abia, and her from Aaron. God is bloodline aware and calculating. Why even the hairs on our head he counts and calculates. God knows all of us so well. He can trace all of us thru DNA roots, mixing's and measures starting at the blood of Adam the first man. As it is written in the book of Acts, "From the blood of one man God brought forth all men and all the nations.
God made one man and by that one mans blood came forth all the races and the physical external things that distinguish each race from the other. Adam had the awing mighty DNA mix of all of us and of all the races in his incredible cellular vast and massive information base. All of our common likeness and all of our racial or external differences, and our dispersement into the various places into the four corners of the earth was Gods own original design and plan as we replenished the earth.
In those dispersed places, as we (the sons of God) visited each other in our positioned places in this world, our racial differences were supposed to be a beautiful thing and joyfully celebrated. Our external differences and looks were never supposed to be a subject for arguments, or for strife, hate, or a means or cause for division in an evil sense. All our racial external differences were meant to add beauty and flavor to our fellowship as we loved one another and as we loved our neighbor in all the nations as our self. That was Gods original intent for all our external differences as we fellowshipped with one another with hearts full of Christ perfect love.
But sin (Adams disobedience that effected us all with a transforming warping curse), his sin wrecked paradise and it wrecked the spirit and nature of perfect love that we originally were created with in our hearts. His sin (Adams sin) ruined paradise and it ruined the paradise level of love and fellowship of what was supposed to be the beautiful fellowship and brotherhood of man with man and of man with God his Maker. Love has surely seen some better days on earth.
Now in this present evil world the races that were meant to add their special and unique color and beauty and flavor to the holy fellowship of men, they are now mixing blood. This is not forbidden and this is not sin, however it is never to dissolve the pure blood line of any race.
Remember in our text how God, yes God himself keeps track of our blood lines. To the Lord such has a holy and sacred place and should be noted. Your difference from me and my differences from you externally is of God. They are God designed and God made and are to God equally beautiful.
Satan as always is trying to pervert the right ways and plans and words and designs of the Lord. Satan wants to inter mingle and mix all the races on such a massive scale until Gods original plan of our unique differences is removed and greatly distorted. Lucifer wants to mix all the bloodlines of men so much that there remains no more any pure blood lines. This is not what God wanted. If He did not intend for pure blood lines to arrive and be upon the earth, then He would have made all of us the same blood mix with no racial or external differences. But it seems that the Lord thought it to be more colorful and better for us and more beautiful to bring forth and to maintain our differences in the holy fellowship of men with men and man with God on this planet that He gave us.
The way the world is mixing bloodlines today is no sin and it is by no means forbidden, but it is to be of such low percent as to never threaten pure bloodlines. Satan wants to mix the blood lines by so much blood mixing until we are all mixed up and even more messed up. It is the demonic way.
Now can races mix in marriage? Yes they can for the seed itself permits it and such is not unholy, but such is not to become so massive that Gods original plans for us are distorted. Just like there is never to be allowed a confusion of the male from the female gender though demons seek to form such confusion and distortion in the mind and souls of people to warp Gods original plan. To permit and to allow gender confusion and distortion is led by deceiving sensual demonic spirits and not by the Spirit of the Lord. Man was never allowed by the holy One of Israel to lie with a man in sex as a man does with a woman. Such was called a worse kind of sin and would even curse people and lands. Yet Satan is pushing this perverting agenda of his with sly justifications and he is using souls that are not of the Spirit of God to push such agendas upon the earth.
Solomon was known in his dynasty of rebellion to mix his seed with foreign women. This God commanded he and all the men of Israel not to do. But oh how we are known to want things our way and not Gods way. This mixing caused Israel trouble. Solomon's manifold mixing sins from the flesh and of the spiritual caused the people of Israel much pain in the generations after Solomon's return to dust.
God dealt with Solomon about his hard head and hard heart toward the laws laid out by God. His mixing his seed and blood with foreign gentile women and his mixing his hearts affections with those women's idols got Israel eventually in the hottest of water. Though the troubles mostly came after Solomon was dead and gone, Solomon sowed the seed to those painful troubles that Israel was made to eat of the wrath of God against them for Solomon and their manifold mixing sins of flesh and of spirit. Foreign powers rose up and attacked Israel and brought them down and into bondage and took them to foreign lands. There was little joy in that kind of mixing when they were driven out of the promise land to serve foreign powers in other lands of the similarity of Egypt.
Yes God sparred Solomon the blows of his great mixing sins by His recall of David, the man that was after Gods own heart who was Solomon's father. God laid the punishment for the sins of Solomon upon the next generations.
What we do good or evil folks can effect us and others. Let us be careful what we mix our hearts and our seed with and be wise to what we join ourselves unto. Some things are not approved by God for the mixing. Men mixing with men and women mixing sexually with women are totally God forbid.... Choose Wisely....God is keeping track as we have discovered in our above text.....verse 6 coming soon.....deno....share freely.
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