when somebody is preaching at the pulpit, maybe a brother or a sister or Pastors or Prophets, they are engaging us in a transaction in heaven. when the word of God suddenly spoke to your heart and you say Amen, it is as if receiving a blank check. The promise you hold is the amount so you have to withdraw till the appointed time. That is the representation of God's fullfilment by Jesus Christ.
An example about receiving and reaping the word is the life of Mary. When Angel Gabriel sent the word, she received it, and the Savior is born. Imagine what a willing heart and the word of God can produce? A simple Amen 2000 years ago changed the world. It set a time on history from BC to AD, Jesus saves. But one fact about saying and reaping the Amen is it always points toward God. MARY'S AMEN ISN'T ABOUT MARY ANYWAY. IT'S ABOUT GOD GIVING HIS SON AS A RANSOM FOR MANY. So the fullfilment of your personal word isn't about you, it's about God being glorified through your life. In fact, your situation is necessary so God can be God in your life, So He can prove that there's no other God like him. And today you'll have more reason to thank him because God won't let his name be trampled down. He will fullfil his promiise for the sake of his name. This is not selfishness, it just happen that you're one of the lives God chose to prove himself. Hallelujah!
Sunday, May 5, 2013
God hurts!
If God is
good then we should thank Him even in pain. "Yet what we suffer
now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal us later."
(Rom. 8:18)
So what are the types of God's discipline? here is what Deuteronomy 8 verse 2 says, "Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands"
to humble
to humble means you've been proud. for what's the purpose of a humbling experience if you're already down to earth? and yes, God is healer, protector, and shield but He would rather choose to hurt you than to see you die. He will inflict a severe damage in you up to the point that you're totally broken. He'll hurt you because your favorite sin has to be purged away. And we know that sin's penalty is eternal separation; God loved you so much he will never tolerate it. Once God tolerates your sin it is as if saying, "I am tired of you. I confronted you many times and in many ways but you don't respond. Now, suffer your own decision, I give up!" But that's not the story of the cross because when we don't care for God before, he cared for us most. So your pain is the best lesson you'll have because godly sorrow leads to repentance. And when God is chastening you, He is actually giving you a second chance.
to test
"to test you in order to know what was in your heart" you may be serving God so well but let's not forget his characteristic -jealous God. He is so critical about affection he would test you even if you're evidently faithful. let's take Job for example. He is a righteous man who offers atonement just in case his children cursed God or sinned unintentionally. He appeals to conscience than to mere law, not like the pharisee. God knew his heart and is so confident about Job's faith, he allowed satan to take away everything but not Job's life. At the middle of suffering the Messiah is revealed when Job pleaded that if there is only a mediator for man and God, which speaks of Jesus Christ. Let's take Jesus as example himself. Even before time began, when no one else is created, He said to the Father, ''Here I am, Take me." So before Isaiah wrote it, Christ already did it . He is the wisdom of God, the alpha and omega, and all scripture point to him. In reality He mourned and cried to God about sin, death on the cross, that he never commit. But in order know what was in Jesus heart, test is needed. "Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done." Luke 22:42
So what are the types of God's discipline? here is what Deuteronomy 8 verse 2 says, "Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands"
to humble
to humble means you've been proud. for what's the purpose of a humbling experience if you're already down to earth? and yes, God is healer, protector, and shield but He would rather choose to hurt you than to see you die. He will inflict a severe damage in you up to the point that you're totally broken. He'll hurt you because your favorite sin has to be purged away. And we know that sin's penalty is eternal separation; God loved you so much he will never tolerate it. Once God tolerates your sin it is as if saying, "I am tired of you. I confronted you many times and in many ways but you don't respond. Now, suffer your own decision, I give up!" But that's not the story of the cross because when we don't care for God before, he cared for us most. So your pain is the best lesson you'll have because godly sorrow leads to repentance. And when God is chastening you, He is actually giving you a second chance.
to test
"to test you in order to know what was in your heart" you may be serving God so well but let's not forget his characteristic -jealous God. He is so critical about affection he would test you even if you're evidently faithful. let's take Job for example. He is a righteous man who offers atonement just in case his children cursed God or sinned unintentionally. He appeals to conscience than to mere law, not like the pharisee. God knew his heart and is so confident about Job's faith, he allowed satan to take away everything but not Job's life. At the middle of suffering the Messiah is revealed when Job pleaded that if there is only a mediator for man and God, which speaks of Jesus Christ. Let's take Jesus as example himself. Even before time began, when no one else is created, He said to the Father, ''Here I am, Take me." So before Isaiah wrote it, Christ already did it . He is the wisdom of God, the alpha and omega, and all scripture point to him. In reality He mourned and cried to God about sin, death on the cross, that he never commit. But in order know what was in Jesus heart, test is needed. "Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done." Luke 22:42
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