Monday 021025
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by GRACE you have been SAVED through FAITH; and this is not of yourselves, it is a GIFT of God…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Jesus, allow me to be a voice and hopefully I can reach out and help spread Your Word this morning.
Allow Your Word to open up for us this morning Jesus, and allow our eyes and ears to welcome Your presence and fill our minds with Your love and Your kindness.
We truly love You Jesus. Amen.
The verses we will use this morning in our study is:
Acts 4:12; Leviticus 25:1-5; Daniel 9:24-27; Luke 4:16-21; Isaiah 61:1-2; Acts 9:15.
Maybe we all need to take a moment a stop where we are right now and take our eyes off what we have acquired in this human life we are living and realize that God, in His Sovereignty, can at any time bring this world as we know it, to an END.
This, directly, straightforward and head on, will make every person take a stand for what they believe in right now.
There are two (2) choices and maybe a third response, but that third response is nothing more than an answer to one of the two original choices.
You either BELIEVE in God …
… or You do not believe in God.
Now there are going to be some that will have an excuse for not answering, like, your too busy to answer, which in essence is stating that you do not believe in God.
This is about all there is, it’s an either you DO BELIEVE in God, or you do not.
Today in the 21st century, the simple response that you do believe in God, will then find an entire conglomeration of people coming up with excuses when they file their claim.
First off, many people will each have a special category to include with their exclamation in BELIEVING in God.
These categories can range from particular denominations, or particular churches, or particular priests or pastors, or certain denominational set of bi-laws, and there are many others I’m not even going to try and mention until finally the last category even offered is going to be the Holy Bible (the Word of God).
If a person’s ‘category’ is anything other than the Holy Bible (the Word of God), in essence this person is stating they do not believe entirely on God, they instead value their category as being higher or more valuable than a one-on-one relationship with God Himself.
In this lesson, I am only going to focus on this last category, our Holy Bible (the Word of God).
To me, all of these ‘categories’ are useless. None of the other categories are going to save you when the End comes.
The ONLY One that is going to save anyone of us, and it is God Himself, there’s nothing even slightly hinted to about there being a special category, like a Get-Out-Of-Jail card or anything like that.
Acts 4:12
‘…Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved…’ AKJV
‘…And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved…’ NASB
‘…Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved…’ NIV
I am only going to show these three (3) versions for this one (1) verse, if you need to look at other versions, please feel free to do so, allow yourself to search any other version you might feel more comfortable with, they will ALL basically state the same thing,
IT IS ONLY GOD THAT OFFERS US SALVATION.
So, continuing to build onto this category of the Word of God for that individual that BELIEVES in Him, along with my previous statement of SALVATION, much of the Bible can be set aside since Salvation isn’t mentioned or even thought of on many of these pages.
What do I mean you might be asking:
Well nowhere in the entire OT is the word or even the thought of Salvation even mentioned and besides the only one being talked to in the OT from Genesis 12 onward are the Jewish people.
The four (4) synoptic gospels, nowhere mentions that Salvation is an available possibility to anyone walking on the earth, back in the days when their books were written.
Skipping ahead to the book of Revelation, this book is telling about a promised punishment that God declared onto His Chosen people, way back in the book of Daniel for their disobeying of God’s command to allow the land to rest, every seventh (7th) year.
Leviticus 25
vs1 ‘…The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and commanded him…’
vs2 ‘…to give the following regulations to the people of Israel. When you enter the land that the Lord is giving you, you shall honor the Lord by not cultivating the land every seventh year…’
vs3 ‘…You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years…’
vs4 ‘…But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the land, a year dedicated to the Lord. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards…’
vs5 ‘…Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted, and do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines; it is a year of complete rest for the land…’ GNT
Read Leviticus chapter 26 to see how upset God was because the land was not given this rest He had commanded.
In the book of Daniel we find where the punishment is given in detail to the prophet Daniel that is to be cast onto the Jewish people.
Daniel 9
vs24 ‘…Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place…’
vs25 ‘…So you are to know and understand that from the issuance of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until [the coming of] the Messiah (the Anointed One), the Prince, there will be seven weeks [of years] and sixty-two weeks [of years]; it will be built again, with [a city] plaza and moat, even in times of trouble…’
vs26 ‘…Then after the sixty-two weeks [of years] the Anointed One will be cut off [and denied His Messianic kingdom] and have nothing [and no one to defend Him], and the people of the [other] prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined…’
vs27 ‘…And he will enter into a binding and irrevocable covenant with the many for one week (seven years), but in the middle of the week he will stop the sacrifice and grain offering [for the remaining three and one-half years]; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until the complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who causes the horror…’ AMP (the Amplified Bible)
Many men will ask, how can God do such a thing?
And the problem with ALL mankind, we seem to have memory problems, God is SOVERIGN.
God can do whatever He wants to do, whenever He wants to do it and as many times as He wants to have it done.
GOD IS SOVERIGN
We are nothing but creations created by Him and for His own pleasure.
God gave us the GIFT of Salvation if we obey HIS rules.
His wants and His desires.
GOD IS GOD. HE IS A SOVERIGN GOD.
To go one (1) step more, after the Jews had their promised Messiah killed, God, nowhere in any Scripture foretold of the 2000 years of Jesus’ church.
The Bible doesn’t know it, the Jews didn’t know about it, Jesus’ remaining apostles, that hunkered down in Jerusalem didn’t know about it, no one knew anything about it EXCEPT GOD, HIMSELF.
This is the reason given why Jesus stopped short, in the middle of a verse when He was speaking in the synagogue.
Luke 4
vs16 ‘…And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read…’
vs17 ‘…And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written…’
vs18 ‘…The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised…’
vs19 ‘…to preach the acceptable year of the Lord…’
vs20 ‘…And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him…’
vs21 ‘…And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears…’ AKJV
What did Jesus skip and not read, you might ask.
Isaiah 61
vs1 ‘…The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound…’
vs2 ‘…to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn…’ AKJV
Jesus didn’t finish reading the verse in Isaiah 61 because He knew.
Jesus knew the Day of Vengeance was about to be interrupted.
And it is here where I lose my patience and understanding with what our churches have been preaching for almost these two thousand (2000) years.
How can they actually stand up there in front of their congregation of people and blatantly lie directly to them, right to their face.
Why am I not taught how I should read my Bible?
Why am I not shown how Salvation was never mentioned in the OT?
Why am I not taught that the book of Revelation is punishment God made ONLY to the Jew?
This causes me to question now whatever I’ve been taught, and now I read a verse, and I have to ask, WHY didn’t you show me this?
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
If Jesus CHOSE Saul, why have you pointed elsewhere?
If Jesus CHOSE Saul, why did you think you were wiser than Him to choose someone different for us?
This lesson this morning, is to teach you that maybe you need to step away from what we’ve been taught throughout our lives.
Maybe Jesus wants us to see WHAT HE WANTS US TO SEE.
I love ALL of y’all.
KEEP your Bibles open and continue to study the Word that God has given to us.
The Bible is one of the easier books to read if you let Jesus speak to you in His Word.
Allow yourself to see what God has been trying to get this world to recognize for centuries.
Hurry before it’s too late.
I am InHIM.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>