Romans 11:33

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of GOD! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” Romans 11:33 KJV

“Our consolation is knowing that Our Father is working according to His own wisdom.” Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest

Oswald’s thoughts on Romans 11:33 affirm that the Church needs to understand how great and awesome our GOD is! He is bigger than our desire for comfort and peace. Peace and comfort are found in the rest of GOD and that rest does not mean that everything in our life is easy and comfortable; Jesus said, “Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentile (meek) and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV

To enter into His rest we first must be laboring in His Kingdom, the works that Jesus did as the Son of GOD; the works that the Apostles did. The Apostles called themselves bondservants of Christ, they experienced persecution, suffering and death for their faith. They tell us to not only expect trials, tests and persecutions but to rejoice in them. Jesus said we would be persecuted, imprisoned and killed for our faith, He said we would have to flee for our lives at times.

The bigness of our GOD is not in how comfortable and peaceful our life is it is in how in the persecution, tests and trials of life while we do the works of His Kingdom we have His rest!

Study Matthew 5:11-12, 5:43-46, 7:21-23, 10:16-42; Luke 6:22-26; Hebrews12:1-11; James 1:2-27; 1 Peter 3:13-4:19; 1 John 4:20-5:5; Revelation 7:13-17; Romans 1:1; James 1:1; 2 Peter 1:1; Jude 1:1

GOD is Everything!

This past Sunday, August 12^th, I heard Apostle Clark Ortiz speaking at Faith Pleases GOD Church in Harlingen, Texas and he made a statement that rang true for me; while this was not the focus of his message it is a message that Charlene and I have believed since the early 90’s; I have not heard anyone else make this statement or teach on this. I think one of the reasons that the Church lacks faith and obedience is that the Church as a whole has a low esteem of who GOD is. This is not the statement that Ortiz made but it is the result of those who do not understand his statement. Most Christians and all who do not know Him believe that GOD is out there somewhere in space or eternity (Heaven) or some other dimension (the spiritual {supernatural} realm) looking in on us and having some influence on us as individuals and as His creation. This is a small view of who GOD is!

The statement that Charlene and I have believed since the early 90’s and that Apostle Ortiz made is, “All things exist within GOD.” All things means everything nothing excluded, GOD is not out there we are within Him! All creation; the heavens, the earth and seas, the galaxies, the universes; everything that exists that is not GOD exists within GOD.

How do we wrap our minds around that? The more we think about it, try to picture it in our mind the more impossible it becomes; it is only possible when we just believe that GOD is and that He is everything that He reveals Himself to be. There is no singular scripture that teaches this; it is not a doctrine or theological teaching. It is a revelation of, an experiential understanding of who GOD is!*

It is the result of understanding that GOD is bigger (greater) than we generally think of Him. There is nothing outside of GOD, nothing that we can imagine, nothing that is revealed to us. There is GOD and everything that we see and know is made by Him for His good pleasure and exists within Him. Whatever might be outside of GOD He has not revealed so we do not need to know; remember that is original sin, Eve wanted to know what GOD was keeping from them.

We need to think and speak bigger about GOD, there are many things that the Church says that mimic what the world says that are demeaning to GOD. When we believe who GOD is in His fullness not in our limited human thinking this will change how we understand everything; like the tri-unity of GOD (the GOD Head), light and darkness, the heavens and hell, predestination, eternal salvation, the 1000 year reign of Christ on the earth, the new Jerusalem, eternal life, physical and spiritual death, etc. We limit GOD by our words which are a reflection of our faith.

*”In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth.” “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with GOD and the Word was GOD.” “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of GOD, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which were visible.” Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, Hebrews 11:3 NKJV Also study Psalm 33:6-9

So in the beginning there was only GOD and His Word! He created light and He is light; Genesis 1:3, John 1:4-5, 8:12, 9:5 Also study Psalm 27:1, 139:7-12, Isaiah 60:1-3, Matthew 5:14-16, John 3:14-21, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 1 John 1:5, Revelation 21:23, 22:5

GOD created life and He is life; Genesis 1 & 2, John 1:4, 5:21, 8:12, 11:25-26, 14:6 Also study Psalm 119:50, Galatians 2:20, Philippians 3:10-11, Colossians 2:11-3:17

The whole Bible (the Word of GOD) is given to humanity so that we may know Him and when we have faith in Him (not just believe that He is {James 2:19-20}) He (Holy Spirit) comes and lives in us and teaches us everything we need to know to fear Him, love Him and serve Him. John 16:5-15, 1 Corinthians 6:14-20 Also study Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, Mark 12:28-34, Luke 12:4-7, 2 Corinthians 6:11-18, Ephesians 2:19-22

The point is to know GOD you must more than believe that He is you must seek Him and His Righteousness (Matthew 5-7) many seek Him for their gain rather than to know Him. Many in hell believed there was a God before their judgment but they did not seek to know Him and to serve Him in this life; the very things Jesus came to teach and demonstrate to us.