In Red Above. Awesome.
Reminds me of Romans 10v9 that if you confess with your mouth the
Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Lord means Master. It is the relative relationship we have with Him. We are Slaves to Righteousness.
Romans 6v18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Yes Jesus said in Luke 6v46 “But why do you call Me ‘
Lord, Lord,’
and not do the things which I say?
We have many in church which confesses Christ with their mouths but their hearts are far from Him.
Matthew 15v8
8 ‘These people [
c]draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with
their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
Titus 1
16 They profess to know God, but
in works they deny Him, being [
d]abominable,
disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
>and what do we see happening today. Everyone arguing against works. And overlooking disobedience.
Thanks Chris! Merry Christmas too you and yours as well, btw.
To continue on with what our Lord was quoting from Isaiah there: "But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.
Therefore,
once more I will astound them with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear."
Therefore, a response we have in these days as we "grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it" (Ez.9) through all these false doctrines, is what we find in Hosea 6:1-3: "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but He will heal us; He has injured us but He will bind up our wounds. After 2 days He will revive us; on the 3rd day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. [there's an awesome, separate revelation there]
So let us know; let us press on to know the Lord. For as surely as the sun rises He will appear; He will come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
The church will
not exit this age in a weaker state than it entered it in. The Holy Spirit will be poured out. We covered Isaiah 35 during family devotions this morning in connection with this. The eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. The glory departed, but the ministry of the Spirit will be even more glorious than the glory Moses reflected. We'll have some real oaks of righteousness in those days who will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Is.61:3,4 The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house. Hag.2:9
Where will the theologian be in those days? The scholar? He'll put his hand over his mouth. So let us press on to know Him.
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His suffering, becoming like Him in His death, and so,
somehow, to attain to the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but
I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. I do
not consider myself to have yet taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and
straining toward what is ahead, I
press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. Amen.
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