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In the last week, a government was shut down. In that many are being laid off their work. Those affected will be loud in the streets!
Matthew 7: 24-29 NKJV “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, & does them, ‘I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, 25 “& the rain descended, the floods came, & the winds blew & beat on that house, & it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, & does not do them, will be like the foolish man who built his house on the sand, 27 “& the rain descended & beat on that house & it fell, And great was its fall.” 28 & so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, 29 for He taught them as one having authority & not as the scribes.
Those who put their trust in the Lord, with all our hearts gain understanding. Proverbs 3: 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
We are to acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. It is more than one path. In a direct contact with the Lord, one that is of intimacy, each of us will know our paths! Each path is straight, it is for the upright in God. It is always the pleasing and the good.
In the previous verse found in Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart, 4 and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.
In wise living we will avoid all the things that shorten your life. But many are on the outside of the justice of God. They will bargain with anything to gain the advantage over another person. They will do that even to the President. Have you seen it in these last days?
You and I must deal accurately with people. We are to be the honest and transparent in our dealings. But those who choose to make those deals in getting that heart's desire find they are in a bad deal ending up with emptiness and falsehood.
Sa Saw a lady head to the west coast yesterday seeking justice for those who fight to keep this nation one under God. She is one of many who seek justice to those who live righteously here and now under God. Any justice of God is to keep His own safe and anyone breaking those rules and laws are to repent and turn.
But it is too easy for many to get free stuff. And when the government shuts down, the free is cut off indeed. If Jesus is truly the Lord of our hearts, then His reign is health to us, He is prosperity, happiness and peace. Our justice is wisdom from God. And it is inexhaustible which guides us daily in this life and into our future!
2 Corinthians 4: 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:17-19 For He received from God the Father honor & glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.” 18 we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. 19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns & the morning star rises in your hearts.
Jesus brought light to reveal error when darkness had appeared through sin. The word confirmed for salvation, healing & deliverance…to live for God by faith in obedience to Him: John 14:6 NKJV 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth & the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. It is the walk of faith in Him! Having Jesus, is sinning no more!
Matthew 9:12 When Jesus heard that, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 “But go and learn what this means: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.” For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. ( This was addressing the sins of the priests in the life of Hosea)
Hosea 6:5-7 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; and your judgments are like light that goes forth, 6 For I desire mercy & not sacrifice & the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But like men they transgressed the covenant. There they dealt treacherously with Me.
Men dealt treacherously with Jesus. Men dealt treacherously with Dr. Martin Luther King. Men will deal treacherously with you. Anyone who shines a light in those dark places will be subject to the violence of treacherous men!
For us, you and I we see mercy daily. In a covenant of love to those who have experiences it in their own relationships with God, we can extend it to others. We both will pray for those who break laws in this nation for their own heart's desire. We extend mercy and believe in justice!
Those who know that love can extend the kingdom of God….those who know the Healer will see themselves speak comfort to those who mourn and bring light in the darkest heart to see the goodness of God! Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate 39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!”
Not receiving Jesus is seeking the empty. Not taking Him in our hearts is those seeking the world's wisdom. Jesus told the Jewish nation their house was left to them desolate. And seventy years later it came to pass!
God has no lack in heaven! God has ways to get things to us. He can show you when you are willing to put forth some effort! That effort is getting a job. It is doing something for your community. It is willing to help your neighbor. But scripture reminds us not all use scripture nor do they know God!
In Romans 10 we are reminded of this:
Romans 10:1-3……….(1) Brethren, my
heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. (2) For
I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to
knowledge. (3) For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to
establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of
God. NKJV
Paul accurately records that the Israelites had a zeal,
"but not according to knowledge."
1. They
operated in much confusion.
2. The
apostle Paul before his conversion had a misdirected zeal. You can say his zeal
as a Pharisee compelled him, and bound him to thoughts to see Christ and those
of the “Way” to be enemies.
3. They
were those who were enemies to his early fathers and to the faith they held for
their God. And of course the case against him at the beginning and before his
conversion on the road to Damascus…….was he had put many of them into prison. But
his zeal also killed!
WHEN true knowledge is still lacking. Today they have thrown out responsibility to law and substituted a specious faith. Justification is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it I the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
As to poetry: a design produced by an artisan, a product of conversion: a balance to us, a symmetry/order. We are God’s poem, His work of ART! He that begun this work in us: it is he that is a good thing: Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
His word will produce benefits: will be in a physical sense, a good thing,, an attractiveness, an excellence. This is ALWAYS bases on God’s goodness, His faithfulness not on our own!
Faith in God produces Order in the Law: Romans 2: 13 ( for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; Romans 7:7-12 NKJV 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 9 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 10 and the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore, the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good.
Law pointed to the spiritual of man and spiritual death of
him!
1. From
Romans 2:13: as the believer, we trust by faith, we hear and then we obey
2. Listening is not enough: we must obey ! The
only in-corrupt doer of the law was Jesus, the righteous One!
3. The
law is holy, just and good, He presented it in His perfect and
eternal holiness.
If the actual law has been done away with, then there is no such thing as sin—but sin certainly exists! James explains that the faith that is "living" obeys the royal law .
(James 2:8-12 NKJV if you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love our neighbor as yourself,” you do well; 9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
In Romans 7:8 we are told not to covet. Covetousness is idolatry. It is seen in the activity of the human heart. It is in those from across the border to those living in these United States. In this covetousness, it is a deed of the body. It is a heart craving, that wanting and enjoying with something treasured more than God. It is paying war lords back money owed to get across a border because someone coveted what Americans have. It is coveting a neighbors house or their husband or wife. An idol written by Paul is a disordered love or desire. It is putting on those cowboy boots and kicking high in idolatry that gives song to the dark side!
So we might have that idol in heart. I hope we do not. But should you love a girlfriend more, a sport more and maybe your yard more than God, then it is a bad thing. Where there is no lack is finding home in the heart of God. Where there is no lack is knowing His heart and His plan for you. And it is not stealing from Joe, Fred or Jenny to pay war lords or gang leaders. Get a job, pay your fair share and be a part of something good. Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 1 this: You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. So when we turn to Christ from idols, we escape the wrath of God because He is for us! Thank YOU Lord for the Cross!
Where there is no lack it is not worshiping dead people as grandparents or great grandparents. It is not bringing a ritual of death and calling it your heritage. Only God can create and He can cast into Hell! (Matthew 10:28 and Luke 12:4-7) Will we be citizens of heaven or hell?
Fearing God involves trust and not terror. He makes sure there is no lack for you or me!
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