Character is based on knowing God. Jesus defines eternal life as "to know God". This "know" suggests a very close intimacy, just as a husband and wife are intimate in marriage. (Genesis 4:1) The word for "eternal" is the word Aionis translated as to not only duration but more importantly that quality of life. Living endlessly is not necessarily good. True eternal life is the life of God. It is possessing that has the meaning of experiencing some splendor, that lives in the glorious fruits here on earth. Martin Luther King is still talked about today, although they want to change his speaking.
An example of this is found in Psalm 9:10 "And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You. Those living by faith do not trust in what He is called, for that would be mere superstition. Their faith is in what He is, His character and nature, which they have experienced by seeking to live His way. ( David spoke to Israel and the giant Goliath, that he spoke: "1 Samuel 17:45 " You come to me with a sword, with a speak and with a javelin, But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." 46 "This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will take your head from you." "And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel."
Passing through the barrier is to have focus interest and ambition heavenward. It is casting away specific vises and cultivation of certain virtues. Those pertaining to the sensual indulgence, attitude, speech and prejudice of the mind must die.
I am truly amazed every year, when Martin Luther King day arrives, people are wanting to change his vision to suit their agenda. When he spoke of his dream it was that his children would have character to exist in this life now. It would not be by the color of their skin. Yet, today, we have people who choose to put fleshly things on the altar of their own religion.1 John 1:3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, 4 and these things we write to your that your joy may be full. 5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
WHAT is
DEMONSTRATED and seen here is our response to people based on the kind of character they have
demonstrated. Fools will be dealt with differently than with
those who are the wise!
Matthew
16:1-4 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that he
would show them a sign from heaven.
2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be foul
weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ ‘Hypocrites!’ You know how
to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.
4 “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be
given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And He left them and
departed.
1. From verse 4: Jesus’ description of
Israel’s religious leaders is reminiscent of Deut. 32:5 where Moses rebuked
Israel for rejecting Yahweh.
2. Deuteronomy 32:5-6 NKJV They have
corrupted themselves; they are not His children, because of their blemish: a
perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus deal(repay )with
the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you?
Has He not made you and established you?
3. The relationship with the LORD is
ruined when His children no longer act like His children.
4. They had become a grotesque mockery
of what God created them to be.
Matthew 12: 39-40 NKJV 39 But He
answered and said to them,
“An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be
given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three
days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be
three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
An attitude
that demands the miraculous sign as that condition for belief does not and will
not please God. Jesus told Thomas: John 20:29
“blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. Seeing always follows believing!
A
spiritual adulterous exhibition was presented by the scribe’s and Pharisees
because of their rejection of Jesus. These were both blind and in opposition to
His authority : He the wise, they the fools!
We see this today in the present hour. You have the few wise and many fools! You have those trying to stop I.C.E. agents from doing their jobs. This present age is choosing Barabbas over Jesus!
People’s eyes have that capacity for lust, envy & greed. The Rich Man in Luke 16 had wealth but had no wisdom: Proverbs 17:16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, When he has no sense [literally, “heart”]? (17:16). The rich man had no heart for the man who begged for crumbs at the rich man’s gate. Have we asked God for His heart concerning the lost?
Proverbs
18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But only in expressing ( or revealing)
his own heart . Here the wealthy man is capture in the flame and cannot pass to
Abraham, yet he wants Abraham to send Lazarus to quench his thirst in that
flame. He wants the same to be done for him in hell as it was in his palace or
notable estate he owned. He wants word to be given to his five brothers to not
come to this place hell but repent.
But the
rich man is told “if they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they
be persuaded though one rose from the dead.”
Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But only in expressing ( or revealing) his own heart . God gave us His wisdom to have knowledge and understanding. He is not about destruction but restoring WHEN REPENTANCE APPEARS! He is about repentance His plan for each man, woman and child. God is not willing that any person should suffer the judgment coming but for all to repent and turn to Him. ( seen in Luke 13:3-5; 2 Peter 3:9)
We can see
a glimpse of those creatures from hell. We can see where the door to the
bottomless pit is opened and smoke rises as the smoke of a great furnace.
Revelation 9:2-11 NKJV And he opened the bottomless pit, & smoke arose out of the pit
like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and
the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke
locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of
the earth have power. 4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth,
or any green thing or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of
God on their foreheads. 5 & they were not given authority to kill them, but
to torment them for 5 months. Their
torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those
days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die &
death will flee from them. 7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared
for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, & their
faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like women’s hair and their
teeth were like lion’s teeth. 9 & they had breastplates like breastplates
of iron & the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many
horses running into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions and there were
stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men 5 months. 11 And they had
as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is
Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name of Apollyon.
1. Locusts or (grasshoppers) thick as
smoke come up out of the abyss
2. Not regular locusts like the insect that eats plants/destroys trees; These are locusts that are demonic that torment people; target those who do not have God’s seal on them; from v. 7 they have faces like those of men, they have intelligence ;Their wings make a great sound, noisy, terrifying ; These creatures have a leader: Abaddon in Hebrew & in Greek Apollyon…meaning destruction/destroyer ; They will be tormented by what they worshiped on earth; God will not allow these men to die, but just be tormented/These will attack for 5 months. They, being demonic are grotesque, with lion-like teeth & human like faces & breastplates of scales.
3. Reminds us of those designed by the movie makers, where robotics have the face of men, have some intelligence, but also have awesome and terrifying sounds in wings. Philippians 1: 27-30 .. 27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come & see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel, 28 & not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, & that from God. 29 For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ,
Those who
encountered Jesus demanded more and more signs. In Matt. 16:1-4 and in this
occurrence to perform one from heaven. Demanding a sign, even though a sign was
given by John the Baptist of the Messiah present with them. In their dullness
they saw no history being made within their generation. The
Son of God stood before them and they knew Him not! Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive
you with empty words for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon
the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. Hell
is a real & those who are bound to that place have a fierce & hostile
character toward those who have the image of God. Those held in justice, that
righteousness of a holy God find faith their lifeline & the character points
to Jesus, wisdom of great light leading us who believe & choose to be wise
in Him!
People on what is considered the "left" want you to love what they love, but is wrong in every way. They want you to kneel to their likes and plans. Yet, God is moving and He is always working. He reveals Himself daily and are we seeing Him in this hour? Warning going out about tsunamis and great earthquakes are on the horizon here on the west coast, and who is awake for such an event? There is a ring of fire in the Pacific Ocean ramping up for something big, there is a multitude raising voices about people recruited for "rapid response" teams all designed to swarm I.C.E. and there are more grocery stores who are having less on their shelves. Ready or not, your character will be seen and heard! What a "poor woman" on commercial spoke: " she spent all one hundred dollars on her groceries for family. Well, I can tell you here in this area, a couple can spend almost $500. Not sure what planet she is on but she is not being truthful.
That character you have or have lack of is about to be revealed!
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