Does GOD?

 

Does GOD?

 

Does GOD judge people and nations? Yes!

In Genesis 3 GOD judged Adam, the ground would not easily yield its fruit (17-19); Eve would have sorrow and pain in bearing and birthing children (16); and satan that JESUS (the woman’s seed) would crush his head (14-15). He judged Israel and sent them into captivity in Babylon for 70 years because they stopped keeping the Sabbath for the land (Exodus 31:16-17); Daniel 1:1-2; 9:1-2, 11-12.

 

Does GOD use circumstances to accomplish His Will? Yes!

In Acts 21-26 when Paul was being accused by the Hebrews of blaspheming the Law and desecrating the Temple (21:27-28), 40 men made a vow to no eat or drink until they killed him (23:11-), but GOD used that to have Paul moved to Caesarea (23:23-35) where he witnessed to two governors (24:24-27; 25:4-9) and a king (25:23, 26:1-2) before being sent to Rome (25:10, 21; 27; 28:16, 30-31).

 

Does GOD create circumstances to accomplish His Will? Yes!

In Exodus 1-12 when the Hebrews were enslaved by the Egyptians (Exodus 1:8-11). GOD hardened Pharaoh’s heart (7:1-5; 11:9-10), and used it to display His Power to the nations (9:13-17). And, it actually started in Genesis 37-47 when Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery instead of killing him (37:18-22, 26-27; 39:1-2), this led to Pharaoh’s dream (41:1-8, 25) and Joseph’s interpretation of the dream, and the Hebrews coming to Egypt (47:1).

 

We need to stop calling on GOD for special protection and blessings when things are bad (Matthew 5:10-15, 10:34-39; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 3:13-17; Hebrews 5:5-9).

We need to call on GOD for His Will to be done in our life and on the earth as it is in Heaven (Matthew 6:9-13).

JESUS endured persecution for our sakes, Psalm 34:19; Hebrew 12:1-3.

Rick Warren, “You’re going to go through pain in life, don’t waste it!”

 

JESUS said to the seventy disciples, “Do not rejoice in the power you have in My Name, rejoice that your names are written in Heaven!” This is The Book of Life! Many do not like to read the lists of names and genealogies in The Bible, but this is evidence that GOD knows us and that our name and deeds are recorded in Heaven – and that one day we will be judged according to what is in those books. Luke 10:17-20; Revelation 20:11-15.

 

No matter the persecution and trials that we experience, having our name written in Heaven (The Book of Life) is greater than anything we will experience in this life.

Saturday vs Sunday

 

Saturday vs. Sunday

 

The Sabbath:

Under the Law (Torah) that was give to Moses for the Israelis the 4^th Commandment was that they would rest on the 7^th day, Saturday, it was called the Sabbath day. They were to do no work, but rest because GOD rested on the 7^th day after creating everything that exists. Genesis 2:1-3, “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them were finished. And on the seventh day GOD ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then GOD Blessed the seventh day and Sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which GOD had created and made.”

In Exodus 31:12-17 GOD clarifies this commandment, “And The LORD, spoke to Moses, saying ‘Speak also to the children of Israel, saying,: “Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I Am The LORD Who sanctifies you. You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you…Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days The LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”’”

 

This was specifically for Israel, no other nation was required to keep this commandment!

 

There is a lot of teaching in the Bible about the Sabbath, by the time we get to JESUS’ life in Israel, we see that the Sabbath has become a religious token of religious observance of the Torah rather than an actual celebration of rest and a day to worship GOD. JESUS on several occasions takes the religious leaders of His day to task for their misconstrued practice of the Sabbath. In Luke 13:10-17 we see an example, “Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. When JESUS saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, ‘Woman , you are loosed from your infirmity.’ And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified GOD. But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because JESUS healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, ‘There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.’ The LORD then answered him and said, ‘Hypocrite! Does not each of one you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water? So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom satan has bound–think of it–for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?’ And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things done by Him.”

 

Sunday:

Since JESUS rose from the dead on Sunday - the first day of the week (John 20:1) most Christians have celebrated this day as their version of the Sabbath. It did not start this way early on since most Christians were Jewish. Early on there were Judean Christians who believed that the new Gentile believers needed to follow the Law when it came to such things as circumcision and the Sabbath. The Apostles and early Church leaders knew this was not true and spoke out against trying to force Gentile believers to follow the Torah. In Acts 15:1-35 we see an example of this, “And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, ‘Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.’ Therefore, Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders about this question…And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that GOD had done through them. But some of the sect of The Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, ‘It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.’ Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter…And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, ‘Men and brethren, listen to me: Simon has declared how GOD at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His Name. and with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: “After this I will return and rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild it’s ruins, and I will set it up; so that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD, Even all the Gentiles who are called by My Name, says The LORD Who does all these things. Know to GOD from eternity are all His Works. Therefore I judge we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to GOD, but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.’ Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren…”

 

But before long Christians began to worship and fellowship on Sunday, Acts 20:7, “Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.” Paul expounded on this principle in Colossians 2:16-17, “So let no one judge you in food or drink, regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of CHRIST.” Also study 1 Corinthians 16:1

 

There is no Bible doctrine about worshipping on Saturday or Sunday, it is a matter of personal choice what day you worship and fellowship on. Some have made it a denominational or church doctrine, but that is a religious issue not a Biblical one. The main emphasis is on taking one day a week to rest. Pastors and church staff don’t rest on Sunday, they are working. They rest on Monday, unless they have a regular job. If GOD enjoyed a day of rest after created everything that exists and He ordered the Hebrew people, His chosen people to reveal Himself and His Kingdom to the nations, to take a day of rest it must be important. But there is more to this issue that we will not try to cover in this already long explanation. Not just the people, but the land was supposed to rest every seven years, and finances were supposed to rest every seven years.

GOD Calls US From - To

 

GOD Calls Us From – To

 

GOD Calls us from lost to Saved!

GOD Calls us from death to Life!

GOD Calls us from hell to Heaven!

GOD Calls us from darkness to Light!

GOD Calls us from poverty to Blessed!

GOD Calls us from sickness to Healing!

GOD Calls us from judgment to Eternity!

GOD Calls us from mortal to Immortality!

GOD Calls us from defeated to Victorious!

GOD Calls us from imperfect to Perfection!

GOD Calls us from being common to being Holy!

GOD Calls us from being a sinner to being a Saint!

GOD Calls us from being an orphan to being His Child!

GOD Calls us from fear to Peace that passes understanding!

Tony's Top Ten 10/20/2022

 

TONY’S TOP TEN

 

Isaiah 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

1. The first step in healing our hurts is to really understand what is happening to you.

2. We must be willing to face the truth of what has happened to us, why it has happened to us, and what to do about it; those truths are only revealed in God’s word.

3. Depression comes when we suppress the truth rather than face the truth.

4. Holding on to hurts put us into bondage; facing the truth about our hurts opens us to deliverance.

5. Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor [perpetual animosity, resentment, strife, fault-finding] and slander be put away from you, along with every kind of malice [all spitefulness, verbal abuse, malevolence]. 32 Be kind and helpful to one another, tender-hearted [compassionate, understanding], forgiving one another [readily and freely], just as God in Christ also forgave [c]you. KJV Amiflied Bible.

6. John 8:32 and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

7. Knowing and facing the truth of what has happened to you and what it has done to you is vital to breaking through and getting rid of the oppression and depression that has kept you into bondage.

8. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

9. Whatever we confess before God will release us from the bondage that accompanies it.

10. Holding on to your hurts causes you to miss the best that God has for you.

By Pastor Tony Kim

ONE!

 

ONE!

 

“In the beginning, ELOHIM, created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And The SPIRIT of ELOHIM was hovering over the face of the waters. Then ELOHIM said, ‘Let there be Light’; and there was light. And ELOHIM saw the light that it was good; and ELOHIM divided the light from the darkness. ELOHIM called The light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.” Genesis 1:1-5

“In the beginning was The WORD, and The WORD was with GOD and The WORD was GOD. He was in the beginning with GOD. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of men. And The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1:1-5

 

“Then ELOHIM said, ‘Let Us make man in Our Image, according to Our Likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So ELOHIM created man in His Own Image, in the Image of ELOHIM He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:26-28

 “And The LORD ELOHIM caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which The LORD ELOHIM had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:21-24

 

ELOHIM (GODS) is the Name of The One True GOD Who is Triune in Nature (FATHER, SON, SPIRIT). He created everything that exists; when He created man He created them as a dual being (male, female) but triune in nature (spirit, soul, body). Then ELOHIM saw that man needed a companion but there was nothing in His creation that was a perfect companion for man. So He put man to sleep and removed his rib and created woman. Then ELOHIM put the man and the woman together in marriage so that they are again One; (this was before there were any parents to leave).

 

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become Children of GOD, to those who believe in His Name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of man, but of GOD. For GOD so Loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting Life. For GOD did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 1:12-13: 3:16-17

“’Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in GOD, believe also in Me. In My Father’s House are many dwellings; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, you may be also.’ JESUS said to him, ‘I Am the Way, The Truth, and The Life. No one comes to The Father except through Me.’ “Do you not believe that I am in The Father, and The Father is in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak on My Own Authority; but The Father Who Dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and The Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.’” John 14:1-4, 6, 10-11

“Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come you Blessed of My Father, inherit The Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’; Then He will say to those on His left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels’; And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into Eternal Life.” Matthew 25:34, 41, 46 (25:31-46)

“As you therefore have received CHRIST JESUS The LORD, so walk in Him. For in Him dwells all the fullness of The GODHEAD bodily; and you are complete in Him, Who is The Head of all principality and power.” Colossians 2:6, 9

“All who dwell on the earth will worship him (the anti-christ) whose names have not been written in The Book of Life of The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8 (17:8)

“JESUS spoke these Words, lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and said, ‘Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may also Glorify You, as You have given Him Authority over all flesh, that He should give Eternal Life to as many as You have given Him. And this is Eternal Life, that they may know You, The Only True GOD, and JESUS CHRIST Whom You have sent. I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the Glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are One: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and Loved them as You have Loved Me.” John 17:1-3, 20-23

 

Man was created in GOD’s Image to be One with Him, but sin divided man from GOD. But, GOD had a plan even before creation. JESUS was born as The Son of Man, not by man but by The SPIRIT in the flesh so that He was the Son of GOD and The Son of Man. He came to redeem humanity from eternal judgment to Eternal Salvation. In the process of being Born Again we are reunited with ELOHIM so that we become Children of GOD – joint heirs with JESUS of ELOHIM’s Eternal Kingdom. We are called to do GOD’s Will: proclaim the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST to the ends of the earth. “Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He was risen. And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach The Gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: in My Name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.’” Mark 16:14-18

Will To Obey!

 

Will To Obey!

 

“When GOD gives us a vision of Truth it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will do. We must exercise our will. We must will to obey.” Oswald Chambers

 

“Therefore my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now also in my absence, work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling; for it is GOD Who Works in you both to will and to do for His Good Pleasure.” Philippians 2:12-13

 

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who Love GOD, to those who are The Called according to His Purpose.” Romans 2:28

 

“And if it seems good to you to serve The LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers serves that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve The LORD.” Joshua 24:15

 

When we are having trials, testings, tribulations, persecutions and judgments from GOD it is always our choice what to do and whom to serve! The key to all these verses is my choice! It is not about the works, we can do the works of GOD’s Kingdom and not be doing His Will for our life!

 

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘LORD, LORD,’ will enter The Kingdom of Heaven’, but him who does the Will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that Day, ‘LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in Your Name, cast out demons in Your Name and done many wonders in Your Name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:21-23

 

To know His Will for you, you must seek Him First! “Seek you first The Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:33

The Harmonized Gospel of JESUS CHRIST Part 17

 

Chapter 17

 

It was the third hour as they led JESUS away and they took hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him that he might bear it after JESUS. A great multitude of the people followed Him and women who also mourned and lamented for Him. JESUS turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, weep for yourselves and for your children. Indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren wombs that never bore and breasts which never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ For if they do these things in the green wood what will be done in the dry?”

 

There were two others, criminals, led with Him to be put to death.  When they had come to the place called Calvary also called Golgotha which is translated Place of a Skull they crucified Him and the two criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. So the scripture was fulfilled which says, “He was numbered with the transgressors.” They gave Him wine mixed with myrrh to drink but He did not take it. Then JESUS said, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do.” Those who passed by blasphemed Him wagging their heads and saying “Aha! You who would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days save Yourself and come down from the cross!” Likewise the chief priests and the scribes mocked among themselves saying, “He saved others He cannot save Himself. Let the CHRIST the King of Israel descend now from the cross that we may see and believe.”

 

The people stood looking on and even the rulers with them sneered saying, “He saved others let Him save Himself if He is the CHRIST the chosen of GOD.” The soldiers mocked Him coming and offering Him sour wine and saying, “If You are the King of the Jews save Yourself.”

 

Pilate wrote a title and had it put on the cross that said:

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Then many of the Jews read this title for the place where JESUS was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ rather, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.”’” Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

 

The soldiers when they had crucified JESUS took His garments and made four parts, one part for each soldier and also His tunic which was without seam woven from the top in one piece. They said among themselves, “Let us not tear it but cast lots for it to see who gets it,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, “They divided My garments among them and for My clothing they cast lots.”

 

Then one of the criminals who were crucified blasphemed JESUS saying, “If You are the CHRIST save Yourself and us.” The other rebuked him saying, “Do you not even fear GOD seeing you are under the same condemnation? We justly, for we receive the results of our deeds but this Man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said to JESUS, “LORD remember me when You come into Your Kingdom.” JESUS said to him, “Truly I say today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

 

There stood by the cross of JESUS His mother and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene, Solame and the mother of Zebedee’s sons. When JESUS saw His mother and His disciple John, whom He loved, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to John, “Behold your mother!” and from that hour John took her to his own home.

 

When the sixth hour had come there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. At the ninth hour JESUS cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My GOD, My GOD, why have You forsaken Me?” Some of those who stood by when they heard JESUS said, “Look He is calling for Elijah!” Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine put it on a reed and offered it to Him to drink saying, “Let Him alone let us see if Elijah will come to take Him down.” Then JESUS cried out with a loud voice, “It is finished Father into Your hands I commit My Spirit” having said this He breathed His last.

 

Then the earth quaked and the rocks were split, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom and the graves of many of the saints who had fallen asleep were opened and they came out of the graves after His resurrection, going into the holy city they appeared to many.

 

So when the centurion and those with him who were guarding JESUS saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly saying, “Truly this was the Son of GOD!”

 

Because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high holy day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who were crucified with Him. When they came to JESUS and saw that He was already dead they did not break His legs. One of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out and John who has seen this has testified and his testimony is true and he knows that he is telling the truth so that you may believe. For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.” another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

 

When evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the Kingdom of GOD, taking courage went in to Pilate and asked for the body of JESUS. Pilate marveled that He was already dead and summoning the centurion, he asked him if He had been dead for some time. So when he found out from the centurion he granted the body to Joseph. Nicodemus, who at first came to JESUS by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of JESUS and bound it in strips of linen with the spices as was the custom of the Jews to bury. In the place where He was crucified there was a garden and in the garden Joseph had a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So they laid JESUS in the tomb then they rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb and departed. The women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after and they observed the tomb and where His body was laid. Then they went home and prepared spices and fragrant oils and they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

 

On the next day, which was the high holy Sabbath, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together and went to Pilate saying, “Sir we remember while He was still alive how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard go your way make it as secure as you know how.” So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.

 

Trump Said

 

Rulers

 

Judgment For America?

 

Judgment For America?

Deuteronomy 32:1-43 TLV (emphasis mine)

 

A song of Moses!

“Give ear O Heavens, and I will speak! Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching trickle like rain, my speech like dew – like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

For I will proclaim The Name of The LORD, ascribe Greatness to our GOD! The Rock – blameless in His Work. Indeed, all His Ways are Just. GOD of Faithfulness without iniquity, Righteous and Upright is He.

Did it corrupt Him? No! The blemish is His Children’s – a generation crooked and twisted.

Is this how you pay back The LORD, O foolish, unwise people? Isn’t He your Father Who Ransomed you? He made you and established you.

Remember the days of antiquity, understand the years across generations. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will say to you. When The Most High gave nations their heritage, when He separated the sons of man, He set boundaries for the people by the number of the Children of Israel.

But The LORD’s portion is His People – Jacob (America) is the share of His inheritance. He found him in the wilderness land, in the void of a howling waist. He surrounded him, cared for him, guarded him as the pupil of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, He spreads His wings, catches him, lifts him up on His pinions. The LORD alone guided him – there was no foreign god with him.

He made him mount the heights of the land, so he ate the produce of the field. He suckled him with honey from a rock, with oil from a flinty boulder. Butter of cattle and milk of a flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the Bashan and he-goats, with fat of the kidneys, of wheat, and blood of grapes you drank.

But Israel (America) grew fat and kicked – you got fat, you grew thick, you gorged! He forsook GOD Who made him. He mocked the Rock of his Salvation. They made Him jealous with strangers, with abominations they angered Him. They sacrificed to demons, a non-god, gods they had not known – to new ones who came in lately, ones your fathers had not dreaded. The Rock Who birthed you, you ignored. You forgot GOD Who brought you forth.

The LORD saw and He spurned His Sons and His Daughters out of vexation. He said, ‘I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, Children with no faithfulness in them. They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them. For fire has ignited My nostrils – it will burn to Hell beneath, devour the earth and her produce, and scorch the foundations of mountains. I will heap calamities upon them. With My Arrows I will finish them. Wasted by famine, ravaged by plague and pestilence so bitter, fangs of beasts I’ll let loosen them, with venom of creepers in the dust. Outside the sword deals death, and inside terror – to both young men and young women, infants, with men of gray hair. I would have said, “I will hack them to pieces, make the memory of them cease from mankind,” except I dread the taught of the enemy, lest their foes might construe – least they say, “Our hand is held high, and The LORD has not done all this.” For they are a nation lacking counsel, among them there is no understanding.’

If they were wise they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter. How can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and The LORD had handed them over? Surely their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies judge. For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the terraces of Gomorrah. Its grapes are grapes of poison – bitter clusters on it. Venom of serpents is their wine – poison of vipers so cruel.

Is it not stored up with ME, sealed up in My Treasuries? Vengeance is Mine and Payback, for the time when their foot stagers. Surely their day of disaster is near – what is prepared rushes on them. For The LORD will Judge His People – for His Servants He will relent when He sees that strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free. He will say, ‘Where are their gods, the “rock” they took refuge in? Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libation?’Let them rise up and help you and be a shelter over you! See now that I, I AM He! There are no other gods beside Me. I bring death and give Life, I have wounded but I will Heal, and none can rescue from My hand.

Yes, I lift My hand up to Heaven and I say, ‘As I Myself Live Forever, when I sharpen My Lightning Sword and My hand seizes it in Judgment, I will return vengeance on My foes, and those who hate Me I will Payback. I will make My Arrows drunk from blood, and My Sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slain and the captive, the head of the leaders of the enemy.’

Make His People rejoice O nations, for He will avenge the blood of His Servants. He will return vengeance on His foes, and Atone for the Land of His People.”

 

America, like Israel has strayed from our foundation of JESUS CHRIST, we have rejected GOD and removed Him from every aspect of our lives. And, like Israel we are suffering the pains of GOD’s Judgment. The call of GOD is clear to America and Israel: “If I shut up heaven so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My People, when My People, over whom My Name is called, humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will Forgive their sin and will Heal their Land.” 2 Chronicles 7:13-14

True Worship by Sophia Leeper

 

True Worship by Sophia Leeper

 

The priests in the Bible were not glorified. You didn’t hear “oh you offer sacrifice in such an amazing way!” It was not about them in any way. Yes, the Lord used them and they had a very important job, but it was all for the glory of God - not the priests.

 

Leviticus 10:3 says: “And Moses said to Aaron, ‘This is what the Lord spoke, saying: By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’”

Our job as worshipers is to be priests to the Lord, to bring a holy sacrifice, and to bring it the right way. We can’t just sing praises to the Lord on Sunday - our lifestyle needs to be one of someone who is obedient to the Lord, set apart, pure and sanctified, like the Lord called the Israelites to be.

 

Leviticus 20:26 says: “You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.”

 

Our goal cannot be to seek fame or fortune, but only that Jesus would be glorified. Worship is obedience, so as worship leaders, we need to lead others to obey the Lord; to guide others to placing their eyes on Jesus, to turn the focus away from you or the team, and to focus on loving Yeshua.

 

“If you love me, you will obey my commandments” John 14:15

 #jesusbeglorified #holyandsetapart #yeshua #blessthelord #holyspiritfire #glory

 

Questions About The HOLY SPIRIT - Zacchaeus - Water Into Wine

 

How does The Holy SPIRIT work on us?

The HOLY SPIRIT is in The Bible from the beginning to Eternity:

Genesis 1:1-2 “In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And The SPIRIT of GOD was hovering over the face of the waters.”

Revelation 22:16-17 “I JESUS, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the Churches. I AM The Root and The Offspring of David, The Bright and Morning Star. And The SPIRIT and The Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the Water of Life freely.”

JESUS and The Bible say:

He is the Power of GOD – Acts 1:8; Romans 8:11, 15:13,16

He is the Promise of GOD – Acts 1:4-5, 8; 2:1-4

He is Truth – John 14:15-18

He gives Life – Romans 8:11; 2 Corinthians 3:6

He seals us to GOD – Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:30

He sanctifies us – Romans 15:16

He convicts – John 16:5-11

He lives in us – Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

He comforts us – John 14:16; Acts 9:31

He reminds us of what JESUS said and did – John 14:25-26; 16:12-15

He gives us gifts – 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

He manifests fruit in our lives – Galatians 5:22-26

No forgiveness for blaspheme of The HOLY SPIRIT – Mark 3:28-30

 

The story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10) is about salvation.

Zacchaeus was a tax collector, tax collectors were the most hated of all Jews by other Jews. Tax collectors were Jews who worked for the Roman government and many of them made themselves rich by over charging the citizens their taxes. The problem was that the Roman government did not care if the tax collectors cheated the citizens, but they did care if the tax collectors cheated the government.

The story is about a tax collector who was rich, it is assumed that he cheated his fellow citizens and was considered the worst kind of sinner. When JESUS came to town Zacchaeus wanted to see Him but because of his height he could not see through the crowd, so he climbed a sycamore tree. JESUS stopped below the tree, looked at Zacchaeus and told him He was going to eat at Zacchaeus’ house, this angered a lot of the people of Jericho.

During the meal Zacchaeus got up and announced, “Look, LORD, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”

Then JESUS said, “Today Salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; for The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.”

The moral of the story is that no one is beyond Salvation and that as it says in John 3:16-17, everyone has the opportunity to be saved and change their life in JESUS.

 

Water into wine (John 2:1-12) is about Grace.

JESUS, his mother Mary, and His disciples are invited to a wedding in Cana. At the wedding the groom runs out of wine and Mary wants her son JESUS to solve the problem. We do not know Mary and JESUS’ relationship to the family but Mary does not want to see them embarrassed.

Mary pressures JESUS in to solving the wine problem, she tells Him there is a problem and when He replies that it’s not His concern she tells the servants to do what JESUS tells them to do putting Him on the spot.

JESUS tells the servants to fill the water jars with water and they do, to the brim. Then JESUS tells them to take some to the “master of the feast” and they do. The servants know that it was just water in the jars, but the “master of the feast“ does not. He tastes the water now wine and announces, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”

JESUS never says anything to the water, He does not touch the water or the jars, but the water becomes good wine. Mary, His mother is satisfied that the hosts are not embarrassed about running out of wine and JESUS has done His first miracle, manifesting His Glory; and His disciples now really believe in Him.

Grace: JESUS gave grace to His mother and fulfilled her desire for the groom’s family. Mary gave grace to the groom’s family by having her Son provide wine for the wedding feast. Did she know what or how He was going to solve the problem, no, she just knew He could (maybe she knew by The HOLY SPIRIT). The master of the feast gave grace to the groom’s family by his declaration.

There are those who make an issue of the wine and drinking, but they did not have the options that we have today, they had unfiltered water, unrefrigerated milk and fermented juice. Everyone drank wine, not all wine was strong, some was weak and not everyone drank to get drunk. Water and fermented juice (wine) were the only drinks that could be stored; milk and unfermented juice would not last long.

Ephesian 5:18 tells us not to be drunk with wine but filled with The SPIRIT. Proverbs 23:29-35 talks about alcoholics. Proverbs 31:1-7 talks of giving strong drink to those who are dying and broken hearted. 1 Timothy 5:23 Paul tells Timothy to drink less water and more wine for his stomach.

 

The Harmonized Gospel Of JESUS CHRIST Part 16

 

Chapter 16

 

Then they led JESUS from Caiaphas to the Praetorium and it was early morning. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, or they would be defiled, so that they could eat the Passover. Pilate then went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?” They answered him, “If He were not an evildoer we would not have delivered Him up to you.” Then Pilate said, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.” The Jews said, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,” that the saying of JESUS might be fulfilled which He spoke signifying by what death He would die.

 

Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again called JESUS and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” JESUS answered, “Are you speaking for yourself about this or did others tell you this concerning Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me what have You done?” JESUS answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If My Kingdom were of this world My servants would fight so that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now My Kingdom is not from here.” Pilate asked Him, “Are You a king then?” JESUS answered, “You say rightly that I am a King. For this cause I was born and for this cause I have come into the world that I should bear witness to the truth, everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”

 

When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.” They were all the more fierce saying, “He stirs up the people teaching throughout all Judea beginning from Galilee to this place.” When Pilate heard of Galilee he asked if the Man were a Galilean. As soon as he knew that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction he sent Him to Herod who was in Jerusalem at that time.

 

When Herod saw JESUS he was exceedingly glad for he had desired for a long time to see Him because he had heard many things about Him and he hoped to see some miracle done by Him. Then he questioned Him with many words but JESUS did not answer him. The chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him. Then Herod with his men of war treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate. That very day Pilate and Herod became friends, for previously they had been at enmity with each other.

 

Then the Roman soldiers led Him away into the hall called Praetorium and they called together the whole garrison. They clothed Him with purple and they twisted a crown of thorns put it on His head and began to salute Him, “Hail King of the Jews!” Then they struck Him on the head with a rod and spat on Him and bowing the knee they worshiped Him. Then they scourged him with a whip. After they had mocked Him then they led Him out when JESUS came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!” When the chief priests and officers saw Him they cried out, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “You take Him and crucify Him for I find no fault in Him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law and according to our law He ought to die because He made Himself the Son of GOD.” When Pilate heard that saying he was apprehensive and went again into the Praetorium and said to JESUS, “Where are You from?” JESUS gave him no answer, Pilate marveled and said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have power to crucify You and power to release You?” JESUS answered, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above, so the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

 

From then on Pilate sought to release Him but the Jews cried out saying, “If you let this Man go you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.” When Pilate heard that saying he brought JESUS out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. It was the Preparation Day of the Passover and Pilate said to the Jews, “See your King!” They cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

 

At the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished, at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Barabbas. Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you Barabbas or JESUS who is called CHRIST?” for he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy. While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that just Man for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”

 

Then the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy JESUS. The governor said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!” Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with JESUS who is called CHRIST?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!”

 

Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” but they cried out all the more saying, “Let Him be crucified!” When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person you see to it.” All the people said, “His blood is on us and on our children.” Then he released Barabbas to them and delivered JESUS to be crucified.

 

Judas, His betrayer seeing that JESUS had been condemned was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? You see to it!” Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself. The chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury because they are the price of blood.” They consulted together and bought with them the potter’s field to bury strangers in. So that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced and gave them for the potter’s field, as the LORD directed me.”