Sunday, February 20, 2011

1John 4:16,17
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Herein is our love made perfect, (because of God's indwelling) we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Did you get that? Because of God's indwelling..... his love is Perfected in us!! that we may have boldness in the day of judgment!!

Why? Because as He is, so are we in this world!!

When? Now that is when!! In this present age. In this world. Today if you will hear His voice Harden not your hearts But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. That you may have boldness all out-spokenness, in other words, frankness, bluntness, in the day of Judgement.

IJohn2 also has something to say about this" The anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, this love. And ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing, this love teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him, in His love.
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, boldness all out-spokenness, and that we not be ashamed before him at his coming.
If ye know that he is righteous.... Love, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness.... loves is born of him. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;," Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, the Gospel.... God‘s Love, any of us should seem to come short of it.
For unto us was the Gospel preached God's indwelling Love, but the word preached will not profit us, if it is not mixed with faith. 1John 2:28,29; Hebrews 3:14; 4:2

So Are we Exhorting in God's Love? Exhorting is par-ak-al-eh'-o in the Greek And it means to call near. That is to invite, or invoke (by imploration begging earnestly: to plead with somebody to do something.
hortation , urging, encouraging, or strongly advising
or consolation being a source of comfort.
Are we sharing the New covenant, The Gospel and the precious truths found in the Holy writ? Are we doing this with God's Love. A love that involves all our Heart, all our mind, and all our strength.

Heb 8:10-13 In The New Covenant God says He will put His laws..... His Love into our mind, and write them in our hearts: and He will be our God, and we shall be His people: And How does he do this By His indwelling for we are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 2cor6
Talk about getting to know someone. You can’t get much more intimate than that. Being one with someone can you.
He saith, old Covenant is vanished away. We went from, obey the Law the Love of God which was part of the old covenant to being, the Law the Love of God that is the Gospel and this all happens through faith.

So What is this faith that we walk in? Let me remind you what was shared before. In the Hebrew it is:
ay-moon'
It means established, and is translated faithful in the King James. This word is from aw-man' and aw-man'Means, to build up or support, to prop, to sustain, ; to foster as a parent or nurse; to be permanent And permanent means continuing or enduring in the same state . .... without marked change; not subject to alteration; lasting, abiding. And by the way if any of us lack this Faith let us ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, do not ask or take the Lord God‘s name in vain living a life of sin, slandering the precious Body of Christ by your actions; and it shall be given to you.
Lets look at one more word in the Hebrew and that word is em-oo-naw' And this word literally means firmness; figuratively it speaks of security; morally fidelity. faith, stability.
Now lets look at the Greek:
pis'-tis
Is persuasion, A credence ( a mental acceptance); a conviction ( a state of being convinced. A strong persuasion or belief. And this word is from
pi'-tho To assent, Assent means to be of the same mind, to agree (to evidence or to an authority), more importantly to rely (by an inward certainty) confluent is a word I found by accident as I was studying this out and it is a flowing or coming together to form one, such as streams. But in this case the forming of one is the Body of Christ. Which is the culmination the end result of our faith.
So what is Faith? It Is a state of being convinced. Being of the same Mind, assenting. Relying by inward certainty. Being firm in our convictions. Permanent steadfast, Built Up, Fostered and Sustained by the Lord God Almighty. Being Established in Christ through Christ. Without this Faith it is impossible to Please Him. That is what Faith is to God and that is the Faith he wants us to have in and of Him. And this Faith is available to us through and as the Body of Christ. Believing and being the Love of God through God’s Love.
 
 
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. One body, and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of Of His our God’s calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Herein is our love made perfect, (because of God's indwelling) because as he is, so are we in this world.
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Leading captivity captive: For Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And if the Son shall make you free you shall be free indeed!! That the righteousness of the law, His Love might be fulfilled in us through His indwelling . Through His Love.

Heb 10:5,6 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. These words were spoken prophetically in Psalm 40 concerning the Messiah. Interesting though. Is that, it is David who is speaking in the Psalm, and David is speaking of himself. And even more interesting is this Prophecy also speak of us. For a Body has He prepared for us and that Body is Christ.

Here is Psalms 40, isn't beautiful?

I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

God say’s in Phil 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: love one another, as He have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised; )
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Give yourself as an offering. A Sacrifice.... your Life for the World. That sacrifice that is sweet-smelling to our Father God. That He will savour for all eternity.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you Scott. You have linked together the scriptures beautifully. I think Jesus would be pleased.

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