Psalms 22-24 represents the presentation of the Messiah on the Cross of Crucifixion, His leadership as the Shepherd who leads us His people and of Psalm 24 He talks of the gates of being lifted to let in the King of glory.
Who are the gates? They are people! Hearts are to be turned to God in seeing the suffering of the Messiah for mankind. Hearts are too see His face and understand that God has purpose for mankind. He is everlasting speaking to those who have eternity in their hearts. God placed eternity in us and God surely desires us to be with Him always.
But there are those who choose evil ways, to get the upper hand and to rule over man in every way they possibly can!
Matthew 16: 13-20 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" 14 So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 16 Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
17 Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you Simon Bar-Jonah, For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth, will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.
Jesus was not saying the He would build His church on Peter. I mean seriously we are talking about the Cornerstone: Jesus! Jesus was speaking of building the church on the the words that came from heaven revealed to Simon Peter' s heart!
Yet you see a church built on men's own thoughts and purposes and not on God's at all! And if you pay attention to those in leadership of those said churches, you find them finding more ways to wrong than right with God!
This region of Caesarea Philippi was north of Galilee near Mt. Hermon. This was a principle area where idol worship was highly regarded. It was also the area where early people worshiped Pan, the half man, half goat deity. Pan was the cult that was about the "wild". ( we will not go into what they were wild about) Their rituals involved nudity! Yikes!
So when Jesus spoke here in this region ....to Simon Peter and those with him, He also was speaking to that which existed in the forms of idolatry that were against God! And what Simon who spoke revealed to him by God in heaven was that which would prevail. It is those in Jesus Christ who speak the same as Christ Jesus speaks as He did when He spoke of His Father and heaven.
Again from Psalm 24, the gates who lift their heads and allow the king of Glory are you and me who stand and speak about salvation, the glory of the Lord in Jesus Christ. We speak to declare the life that came to us abundantly through Him. And those who stand at the gate of hell who speak for hell are those who can look like you and me but speak only by lies, human nature, and that which is death. Their hearts are ruled by the devil.
We lift our gates to become those who say this is the way, the truth and the life in Jesus Christ. To walk as He did and prevail by the words given to us from heaven. For all that was presented of His kingdom to us, the greatest is the smack-down of hell that we stand in faith. We understand by daily reading and praying we are connecting with Jesus face to face. And as He opposed the enemy that once for all by the shedding of His blood, so too we have that victory now at our disposal through His sacrifice. Anything that is opposing God & His will is the lie. We regard the truth of God's word and we speak it in warfare of the mind, a warfare against arrogance & those rebellious thoughts, & ideas, those arguments against God. And we know that our God is to be prized. We are to stand against any un-scriptural idea or personal confused belief that we might hold as true. What you fear, you will find a lie behind it & behind that fear is an idol!
From Matthew 16:19 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth, will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.
We are gathered to Him. He plundered the strong man and we have that victory. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you and to speak those words Jesus spoke: Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus ( and He is seated on our hearts). We abide in Him and His words abide in us, and we speak what is glorifying to the Father. His peace He has left to us; not as the word gives did He give to us. We let not our hearts be troubled, neither will we be afraid. (John 14:25-27)
Jesus did a smackdown on the devil and we have the victory! We love the Lord, keep His word and the Father loves us. They have made their home with us! (John 14:23-24)
If we truly know God our Father to be the Creator and Jesus the
manifested Word, then the Holy Spirit will speak to us what the Father has told Him
from that appointment from the Cross on Calvary.
Many things are on the airwaves, on videos
and in news reports, still our faith is to be in God and Him alone. So what about those viruses with those wild names, and those things that seem to capture headline
news day and night for months on end? What if you get a cough? What if you do not
get a cough? Still whatever the list of other maladies may be, still we
understand of the end-time prophecies for disease and epidemics. God is still
here, and has not left us as orphans. He planned His best for us through His Son
and I am not missing this great opportunity to be a witness of His great love
in this end-time harvest! How about you? Let's have a smack-down!
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