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November 5

Today's Reading: Jeremiah 34-36; Hebrews 2

Today's Thoughts: Our Great High Priest

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:14-15

For the Jews, there was no higher office than that of the High Priest. The High Priest held a position of religious supremacy and honor. He was the one responsible for the cleansing of sins for the people on the Day of Atonement. On this holy day, the High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies. Through the acts passed down from Moses and Aaron (animal sacrifices, the sprinkling of blood, and prayers offered on behalf of the people), the High Priest would make atonement for their sins. In the book of Hebrews, we learn how Jesus Christ came to earth as the final High Priest. Not only was He the High Priest, but also He was also the Sacrifice. His death on the cross ended the need for the man-held position of High Priest, sacrifice and the Day of Atonement. Jesus took care of it all.

Not only was Jesus the High Priest, the Sacrifice and the Savior, but also He was still a person in flesh and blood. For us today, this point is so very important to grasp. Because Jesus was here on this earth in a human body, He understands everything we go through. Jesus experienced feelings, hurts, weaknesses and temptations, just as we do. He knows what it is to suffer, to hurt, to be rejected, ridiculed and mocked. Jesus got angry at the Pharisees, He cried over Lazarus and He showed great compassion to a prostitute. But, Jesus was God. He did not sin. He was the perfect, spotless Lamb—the ultimate and final Sacrifice. Why did Jesus go through all of this for us? Love. He loved us then. He loves us now. He has always loved us. He wants us to be with Him, now and forever. The only way to be with Jesus is to believe that He is the Son of God, the Son who came to earth as a Man, and who offered His life on our behalf as the final atonement for all sin.

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Exhort, do not just give sugar pills*

*Acts 20:2* - /And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them
much exhortation, he came into Greece,/

We find preachers, ministers of the Word and Church leaders give great
importance to encouragement. They encourage people to be positive, to
have faith and not to let go of their hope in the Lord. We find a large
majority of the leaders doing this and yet we find there is not much
effect of their words to the Church on the long run. Their words have a
temporary or a short term effect on the people and after some time they
tend to go back to the very state.

We read after the uproar in Ephesians on a matter of a goddess which
almost comes to a riot situation, Paul moves out to Macedonia and other
places to exhort the people. This action of his has great effect in
reviving the Church so we need to understand what Paul did.

The word in Greek translated as exhort is the word '*parakaleo* ' it has
two meanings to it, one which means to encourage and the other to summon.

Speaking words of encouragement is like the sugar coating on medicine
pills. It is necessary sugar coating to give to people when they are
weak spiritually or disturbed in faith since they cannot take the Truth
directly. But imagine a doctor giving you just sugar pills when you are ill.

We see Paul not only gave words of encouragement but also summoned
people to the purpose of the Kingdom of God and among them were Asia
Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus;
and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
Along with them was Luke who wrote the book of Acts. All these had great
part in the building of the Church of the early years.

We who minister to others need to remember when we exhort people during
times of trouble we should not give just sugar pills by words like '/all
will be well, trust in God/' or '/God will not let Satan crush you, He
gave the sacrifice of His only Son for you/' etc.. These words are
important but with them we should summon them unto to Lord for long
lasting and real healing.

Words without action or faith without work is meaningless. When we stand
in the Lord we are safe and standing in the Lord does not mean just
vocal confession of words. It means to be part of what the words spoken.
If we speak love it needs to be demonstrated in actions, if we speak
light it needs to be seen in us, if we speak faith our actions need to
show faith, if we speak salvation we need to go out and give it unto
others for salvation is to the whole Body of Christ - the Church.
Everything we speak needs to backed up with action.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, your Word is complete and every instruction is complete in itself.
It is because your people do not follow your Word completely they do not
bear good fruit. Lord, we pray those whom You have chosen to lead your
sheep do not just give sugar pills to your people who are suffering and
weak. We pray that they along with encouraging also summon them unto
your Truth...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Acts 20:1-4*
1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples,
and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
2And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much
exhortation, he came into Greece,
3And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as
he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
4And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the
Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and
Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

Also read *Acts 19:24-41*

*James 2:18-20*
18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy
faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also
believe, and tremble.
20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

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*Israel is not Israel, but you are*

*Romans 9:8* - /That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these
are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted
for the seed./

One of the greatest obsessions of many Christians especially those from
USA and Europe is the country Israel. More than keeping their eyes on
the Kingdom of God they are day in and out focused on what is happening
in Israel and with the people of Israel. They have been deceived big time.

When one speaks in a worldly way of an Israelite there are three aspects
to that person, one he dwells in the country named Israel, he follows
the religion Judaism and lastly he is a descendant of Abraham. A person
may have one, two or all the three aspects listed above.

The Bible does not refer to people staying in the land as Israelites but
those who are chosen by the Lord, those who worship Him and keep Him
commandment. There are scriptures where God refers to people dwelling
among God's people as not Israelite but '/stranger that sojourneth among
you/'. God had laws concerning Israel's relationship with them. Thus any
person living in the land marked as Israel, may be a citizen of the
country Israel but is not an Israelite whom God has chosen.

Coming to Judaism; though these people follow Moses and worship Yahweh
yet they are not heirs to the promises of God. One needs to understand
all the promised are connected to the Seed of Abraham and Paul clearly
define this 'Seed' as Jesus Christ. That means all the promises of
Abraham are only to those who believe in Jesus Christ. We need to
remember that the Jews reject Jesus Christ. They may call Him a Prophet
but they believe Him to be a false prophet and one who is burning in
Hell. So Jews are actually unbelievers. They are as much Christians or
far from the Kingdom of God as is a Muslim.

Now regarding their blood connection to Abraham, in the verse prior to
today's message Paul clearly put all those who descend from Israel
(Jacob) are not Israel. The word '*Israel*' is made of 2 words '*Isra*'
and '*El*'. The first means '/prince/' or '/one having power/' and the
other is used for '/God/', so together they mean '/Prince of God/' or
'/one have authority of the Lord/'.

If one looks at scriptures you will find the Israelites were sometimes
referred as children of Israel and in the same scripture also called
children of Jacob. It was God who said to Jacob 'no more will you be
called Jacob but Israel', so did God break His own commandment?

When God said this He did not refer to Jacob as He did with Abraham when
He changed his name from Abram. Jacob was a deceiver and when chosen of
God was renewed to a new being. The new being was referred to by the
Lord as Israel and that is the reason the decedents of Jacob kept
shuffling between being children of Jacob and being children of Israel
depending of them keeping the commandments of God.

The Jews today may have a lot of mixed blood but the Jews during the
time of Jesus were told by Him that they were not children of Abraham.
If those of pure Abrahamic blood were not considered Israelite then how
can those of mixed blood be?

Paul also says a Jew is not one who is follows the traditions of the
Jews like being circumcised but a real Jew is the one who is circumcised
in the heart.

In short being an Israelite has to do more with the inner-man more than
to do with the physical man or the man of flesh. Being an Israelite is a
very high stage of spiritual growth and also referred as Sons of Zion.

Therefore being an Israelite is a promise to the children of God, who
are chosen of God, people who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord
and Saviour and spiritually blessed with the promises of Abraham because
of becoming the spiritual children of Abraham, people who have received
authority from Jesus Christ and by the working of the Holy Spirit in
them becoming truly Princes of God.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord God You are spirit and your Kingdom is not of this world. This
world will perish and nothing of this world will remain. The people of
this world have their eyes of the land of this world which they have not
received and will never receive by your true children have their eyes on
the true Promised Land which is Heaven. It is only after crossing the
river Jordan (means descendant) the Israelites reached the promise land.
They being of flesh did not really get the land but we being true
spiritual descendants of Abraham by our faith in Jesus Christ will
surely enter the Promised Land. Lord, open the eyes of those who are
deceived by Satan and are distracted from the Truth. Let them not lose
the riches of your Kingdom...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Exodus 19:3 *- And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him
out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob,
and tell the children of Israel;

*Numbers 24:5* - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles,
O Israel!

*Psalms 149:2* - Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King.

*Isaiah 46:13* - I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,
and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for
Israel my glory.

*Micah 1:13* - O thou inhabitant of Lachish [means invincible - people
who have self-confidence] , bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is
the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions
of Israel were found in thee.

*John8:39-44*
39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which
I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born
of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I
proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

*Romans 2:26-29*
26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law,
shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law,
judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of
the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of
men, but of God.

*Romans 9:6-11*
6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not
all Israel, which are of Israel:
7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children:
but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the
children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara
shall have a son.
10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by
our father Isaac;
11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or
evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of
works, but of him that calleth;)

*Romans 11:5-8*
5Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to
the election of grace.
6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no
more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise
work is no more work.
7What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the
election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber,
eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto
this day.

*Galatians 3:14* - That the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith.

*Romans 4:9-13*
9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the
uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for
righteousness.
10How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the
father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that
righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision
only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to
Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness
of faith.

Luke 9:1 - Then he called his twelve disciples [whom He had chosen]
together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure
diseases.

Matthew 22:14 - For many are called, but few are chosen.

John 15:16 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you.

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*Are we Jehu?*

*Hosea 1:4* - /And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for
yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the
house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel./

In today's message the Lord spoke through the mouth of His Prophet Hosea
against the King of northern Israel - King Jehu.

Let us understand who King Jehu was to understand the anger of God
against him?

Jehu was a general of the army of Joram, he slew his master, and usurped
the throne of Israel. He fulfilled the divine purpose in extirpating the
family of the impious Ahab, and zealously destroyed the priests of Baal
and many other friends of Ahab. He was also cause for the death of
Jezebel the high priestess of Baal.

All the people whom Jehu killed directly or indirectly were people who
went against God. We see by the achievements of Jehu, he should have
been a hero for God like David was, but yet God was very angry against
him. Even David had not killed so many high profile villains like Jehu,
yet God was angry against Jehu. The difference between Jehu and David
was their hearts.

Although Jehu did many good things yet the scriptures say that his heart
was not right. God loved David primarily not because of what he did but
because his heart was good. Jehu was also anointed by the Lord to do all
that the Lord spoke those His servants, but since his heart was not
right he himself turned against God.

The Lord is tell us whatever achievements we may do for His Kingdom and
all the good we may do, but these will not please Him unless our hearts
are right. For soon or later our hearts if not good will lead us away
from Him and against Him, then in His anger He will consume us.

What is the purpose we go out and preach God's message of salvation?
What is the purpose behind which we heal people in the Name of Jesus? Do
we really go to services to worship God along with His people or do we
have other reasons for doing it?

God is unlike man; man sees the content of what a vessel holds, but God
looks at the vessel more that than its contents. We may hold more or
little but the quality of vessel we make ourselves is what will please
God. If the vessel is poisoned it will soon poison its contents.

Our hearts are defined by our attitude towards the things precious to
God, do we keep ourselves holy, do we walk in righteousness, do we do
God's work because we love and care for His people, do we worship Him
because of our love for Him and for Who He is, such things defines how
God looks at us.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Father God, lead us Father to You by the change of our hearts. Lord,
work in our hearts and make it to want pleases You. Help us overcome the
obstacles like greed, pride, selfishness, lust, rebelliousness, etc.
Help us sanctify ourselves and fill us with love for your Kingdom and
for your people...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*1 Kings 19:16-17*
16And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel:
and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be
prophet in thy room.
17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael
shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall
Elisha slay.

*2 Kings 9:1-4*
1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and
said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine
hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
2And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from
among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
3Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith
the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and
flee, and tarry not.
4So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.

*2 Kings 9:14-37*
14So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against
Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of
Hazael king of Syria.
15But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds
which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor
escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there.
And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
17And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the
company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said,
Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
18So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the
king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn
thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to
them, but he cometh not again.
19Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said,
Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to
do with peace? turn thee behind me.
20And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not
again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi;
for he driveth furiously.
21And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram
king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot,
and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the
Jezreelite.
22And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace,
Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy
mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
23And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is
treachery, O Ahaziah.
24And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between
his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his
chariot.
25Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the
portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that,
when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this
burden upon him;
26Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his
sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the
LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according
to the word of the LORD.
27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the
garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in
the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam.
And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
28And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him
in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
29And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to
reign over Judah.
30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she
painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
31And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who
slew his master?
32And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side?
who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
33And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her
blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her
under foot.
34And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now
this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
35And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the
skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
36Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word
of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
37And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field
in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

*2 Kings 10:10-23*
10Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of
the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the
LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
11So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and
all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him
none remaining.
12And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the
shearing house in the way,
13Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are
ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to
salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
14And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them
at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left
he any of them.
15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of
Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine
heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It
is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took
him up to him into the chariot.
16And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made
him ride in his chariot.
17And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in
Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD,
which he spake to Elijah.
18And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab
served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
19Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants,
and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice
to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu
did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers
of Baal.
20And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they
proclaimed it.
21And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal
came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into
the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
22And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments
for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
23And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of
Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there
be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers
of Baal only.

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*Sift as wheat*

*Luke 22:31,32* - /And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath
desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed
for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted,
strengthen thy brethren./

Firstly like to apologize for not sending mails for these few days, I
was on a trip out of Mumbai in a remote town in Maharashtra and had an
awesome time with many Men and Women of God ministering to the people
there. Even after coming back I took 2 days to settle down.

In today's message Jesus tells Simon Peter about the plans of Satan to
destroy him, but also informs us of how Jesus intervened to stop this
plan. Jesus warns Simon Peter that the plan is not completely stopped
but the results of the plan are; so Simon Peter would go through it a
distance but would be saved.

What was Satan trying to do to Simon Peter and how did Jesus stop Satan
in his plan?

The scripture tells us that Satan was trying to sift Simon Peter like
wheat. Sifting like wheat did not mean to shake him. One needs to
understand why wheat is sifted.

Wheat is sifted to remove the covering of it. It is the covering that
protects the wheat within. Satan desired to sift Simon Peter to remove
the covering around him which protected him and that covering was his faith.

Satan could not touch Simon Peter because his faith protected him. Satan
put a request to get Simon Peter but Jesus countered that request with a
request not to completely loose the covering.

When we have faith even Satan cannot touch us, for him to harm us he
first tries to temp us / test us so as to fall by losing faith. Faith is
a shield that does not let the plans of Satan to affect us, that is
reason Satan first tries to shake our faith so as to bring our defence down.

Coming to the most important factor of how Jesus stopped this plan.

Faith is a Fruit as well as a gift of the Holy Spirit. Faith the Fruit
is to be grown and nurtured by studying the Word and practising it.
Jesus' prayer could not affect this but His prayer could the other kind
of faith which is a gift. Jesus prayed for the gift of faith for Simon
Peter so that he would be strong and come out of this sifting in one
piece. That is why we see even though Simon Peter abandoned Jesus and
denied Him trice yet all of a sudden he turned back and came out strong,
strong enough to lead the others colleagues and face the people with
boldness.

Let us remember this message always and let us pray for each other for
the gift of faith so that none of us get sifted by Satan completely.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we pray for the gift of faith for our brothers and sisters and for
ourselves so that we do not get sifted by Satan when he tempts us or
tests us unto destruction. Lord, we especially pray for those who are
leading your sheep, working in your Vineyard. We pray for abundant faith
that protects them and shields them from every plan of the deceiver. Let
your Truth protect all their 5 senses and fill tem with discernment to
lead them and not let them fall...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Ephesians 6:10-18*
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his
might.
11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against
the wiles of the devil.
12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able
to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having
on the breastplate of righteousness;
15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which
is the word of God:
18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

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*Man'**s self-respect his downfall*

*Mark 6:26, 27* - /And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's
sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to
be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,/

In today's message we read that King Herod was aware of who John the
Baptist was, and history also tells us he had a good relationship with
John until he declared Herod's marriage with Herodias unlawful. John
after Moses had one of the largest numbers of followers any Man of God
ever had till that time.

We read Herod after getting seduced by the daughter of Herodias (his
step daughter) he gave her a wish of her choice. He did it not once but
twice that too second time with an oath. When she asked for the head of
John he fell in the trap. On one hand was an old friend and on the other
hand was his self-respect.

There were 2 things that got him to do the wrong decision, one was him
honouring his word and second his self-respect in front of his guest.

The Word of God tells us very clearly never to give an oath especially
ones which we cannot deliver and Jesus specified to us in the Word that
we should refrain from swearing by things which are out of our hands or
not ours like the Heavens or the Throne of God and we should realize by
what we swear.

The second important factor is even though Herod realized he made a
mistake, he did not repent for it. To keep his respect in front of his
guest he went ahead and made a more serious crime. The Bible tells us to
be humble and if we have made a mistake we should never fear to admit it
before God and before the people. It is our admittance to our mistakes
that gets us forgiveness from God.

The Lord in today's message tells us to be very careful on these 2
points in our life. A human tongue is the strongest muscle of the human
body but the weak part of man. We should learn to control it and if we
lose control of it and make a mistake, we should not fear or be ashamed
to admit it before God or the people.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, your Word gives us the knowledge of the power in what we speak.
When we speak life and believe it, life flows in us. But if we speak
death and believe it, then darkness and death comes into us. Lord, we
pray for control over this muscle which is in our mouth. Help us to use
it according to your Word which is life. Help us to admit to our
mistakes especially when we speak the wrong things. Help us be humble
before you...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Mark 6:21-28*
21And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a
supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
22And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and
pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel,
Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
23And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it
thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
24And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And
she said, The head of John the Baptist.
25And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked,
saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John
the Baptist.
26And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for
their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
27And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head
to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
28And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the
damsel gave it to her mother.

*Matthew 5:34-37*
34But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is
God's throne:
35Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for
it is the city of the great King.
36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one
hair white or black.
37But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is
more than these cometh of evil.

*Matthew 23:16-22*
16Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the
temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the
temple, he is a debtor!
17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple
that sanctifieth the gold?
18And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever
sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
19Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar
that sanctifieth the gift?
20Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all
things thereon.
21And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that
dwelleth therein.
22And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and
by him that sitteth thereon.

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*The Church of Priscilla and Aquila*

*Romans 16:3,4* - /Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ
Jesus: Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not
only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles./

(Yesterday's message)
The couple Priscilla and Aquila are among the few people who have been
praised again and again for their work in the Lord. They were a Jewish
couple who came to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. They worked
in the Lord together and also did their family business together. It was
because of their common business of tent making with Paul, they met and
grew in relationship with him when they along with the other Jews were
driven out of Rome.

Among Believers they are not spoken of like Paul or the 12 Apostles or
the Patriarchs of the Old Testament, but in the Kingdom of God they were
not less than any other. They did great work for the Kingdom of God that
time and again Paul and others gave credit to them.

They were rooted into the Kingdom of God not only by their steadfast
work but also by their own spiritual growth in the Lord which was not
less than their work. There is an incident recorded where a Jew named
Apollos who came into the Lord, was mighty in the scriptures and was
boldly proclaiming the Gospel of our Lord Jesus even in the Jewish
synagogues. These couple on hearing of him take him into their
congregation and polish him in the ways of the Lord to make him better.
They may have not been having knowledge in scriptures like Apollos but
they knew the application of scripture very well and thus helped Apollos
grow in the Kingdom of God. This shows the need of having each other in
the Body of Christ.

These couple showed a perfect meaning of a family being a Church of God;
their love for the Lord, for each other and for the people. They worked
independently as well as together with the Body of Christ. They may have
had no special ministerial calling but that did not mean they became an
audience. They may not have been the gold vessels of the Temple but they
became among the best silver vessels of the Temple. They were as holy
and sacred to the Lord if not less than any other vessel.

Let us learn from these couple and make our families a true Church of
God like them.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we thank You for given us an inspiration in our brother and sister
Aquila and Priscilla. Lord, help us to be selflessly dedicated to your
Kingdom as Priscilla and Aquila. Help us make our families into the true
purpose You intended this institution. ..

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Acts 18:1-3*
1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
2And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from
Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all
Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought:
for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

*Romans 16:3-4*
3Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
4Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I
give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

*1 Corinthians 16:19* - The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and
Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their
house.

*2 Timothy 4:19* - Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of
Onesiphorus.

*Acts 18:24-28*
24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man,
and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in
the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord,
knowing only the baptism of John.
26And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and
Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the
way of God more perfectly.
27And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote,
exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped
them much which had believed through grace:
28For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the
scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

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*Fleeing from the Lord unto Tarshish*

*Jonah 1:3* - /But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence
of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to
Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with
them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD./

We all know that the Lord is everywhere and David says in his Psalms
that anywhere he goes the Lord is there. He goes to the extent to state
even in Hell he cannot run away from the Lord, for the Lord is omnipresent.

In today's message we read Jonah a man of faith, close to the Lord tries
to flee from the presence of the Lord. The scripture says he '/rose up
to flee unto Tarshish/' to flee from the presence of the Lord. Later we
read when he reached Joppa he found a ship going to Tarshish. We need to
ask, is Tarshish more than Hell that Jonah would flee from the Lord, by
going there?

We can to understand this scripture by understanding Tarshish. This
Hebrew word means 'yellow jasper'. All names of all important places in
the Bible have relation to scriptures and their understanding. So also
the gems in the Bible in the spiritual world have an understanding like
the 12 stones on the breast plate of the High Priest represented the 12
tribes and the same stones are of which Heaven is made of, as stated in
the book of Revelation.

I stated in one of my posts long back that these 12 stones represent the
12 Fruits of the Holy Spirit. Like the stone sapphire symbolizes mercy
and therefore the Throne of God is symbolized as made by sapphire.
Coming to the stone Jasper, which is on the last row represents the
Spiritual Fruit temperance or self-control. The stone jasper is found in
many colours, but here the colour yellow is specifically specified. If
one looks at the way the Lord defines the identification of leprosy
there too He specifies the colour yellow. Leprosy was given great
importance not because it was the most dangerous disease but because of
its spiritual understanding. Jesus bought dead to life but for the
lepers after He healed them He gave them instructions to see the High
Priest.

Yellow jasper represents the worldly way of self-control or the self
confidence that one has in one's works or in one's ability. We need to
remember however much of worldly assets we may have or even of spiritual
gifts; at no point should we be self-confident. We should always
remember if the Lord is not with us it would not take a micro-second for
our world to come crashing down.

The Lord is telling us greater than Hell is the self-confidence of man
which can keep the Lord away from him and this Truth we need to always
remember.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we thank You for this message of warning which we really did not
understand the grave danger of. Lord, keep us always meek and humble
before You. You bless us with gifts and abilities which are from You and
for a purpose and that purpose is the glory of your Kingdom. Lord, help
us remember without You we are nothing and therefore help us live for
You and You alone...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Psalms 139:8* - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make
my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

*Psalms 118:8-9*
8It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
9It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

*Exodus 28:17-21*
17And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones:
the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall
be the first row.
18And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
19And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be
set in gold in their inclosings.
21And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel,
twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every
one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

*Revelation 21:19-21*
19The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner
of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the
eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh,
jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates
was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass.

*Exodus 24:9-10*
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the
elders of Israel:
10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it
were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven
in his clearness.

*Galatians 5:22-23*
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

*Leviticus 13:30* - Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold,
if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin
hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall,
even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

*Job 28:12-21*
12But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
13Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of
the living.
14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
15It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the
price thereof.
16It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or
the sapphire.
17The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall
not be for jewels of fine gold.
18No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of
wisdom is above rubies.
19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued
with pure gold.
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the
fowls of the air.

*Ezekiel 10:1* - Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was
above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a
sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

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*Out of Egypt - the Spirit leads us*

*Haggai 2:5 *- /the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of
Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not./

(This is yesterday's message)
In the books of Moses the Lord did great and mighty things to get His
people out of Egypt. Was He really so against the Egyptians that He
wanted to separate His people from them?

There are scriptures, in which the Lord calls the Egyptians His people;
so then why did God orchestrated such an event in the story of the
deliverance of His people?

The Egypt which the Lord wants to deliver His people is not the land
Egypt but the spiritual state Egypt. The word Egypt means 'double way' -
the land of Egypt which the Lord delivers His people from is the double
life they live. All God's people know God, and deep within them is a
desire to know Him and to be with Him just like a child desire its
mother. But their compromise with the world and weakness to their lust
has caused them to live a life which keeps them far from God. Scriptures
say the Israelites knew God and were worshippers of Yahweh but still
they also worshipped the gods of the Egyptian people. It was for this
reason the Lord sent the plagues which were actually against the gods of
the Egyptians. Their gods did not exist but the plague bought down the
understandings and regards the people had for these man made gods.

Even before the people crossed the Red Sea which symbolized their
baptism in water we see the Pillar of cloud and fire was with them. It
was the Pillar that led them and protected them not only to cross the
Red Sea but throughout their journey till they reached the river Jordan
to cross onto the Promised Land.

The story of the Israelites is a shadow of a believer's life. He brings
His people out of the double way of life; He guides them and protects
them by His Spirit. Since He has shown this in the shadow, would He not
do it in real?

Let us not doubt the Lord but always keep our eyes focused on our Pillar
of cloud and fire, the Holy Spirit of God. He will guide us and protect
us through our journey until we come to our Promised Land - Heaven.

The Israelites did not receive what they were given for they never
understood the Lord and had their eyes on earthly things. We the true
Israelite, children chosen by God by Faith will surely receive our
Promised Land, for our Passover Lamb was not an animal but an
unblemished eternal sacrifice - the only Son of God.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we thank You for being our eternal sacrifice. Lord by your
sacrifice You made it possible to receive your Spirit. Your Spirit
guides us and protects us. Holy Spirit, it was by You that all creation
was made. You are omnipotent and omnipresent. You are our Father and our
Mother, we know You will not forsake us or leave us but we prayer You
Lord, be close to us always that we feel the warmth of your love and
comfort...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Isaiah 19:25 - *Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be
Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my
inheritance.
**
*Deuteronomy 4:31* - (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will
not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your
fathers which he swore to them.

*Deuteronomy 31:6* - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be
afraid of them: for the LORD your God, he it is that does go with you;
he will not fail you, nor forsake you.

*Joshua 1:5* - There shall not any man be able to stand before you all
the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I
will not fail you, nor forsake you.

*Exodus 13:21-22*
21And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead
them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to
go by day and night:
22He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of
fire by night, from before the people.

*1 Corinthians 9:1-11*
1 Moreover, brothers, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that
all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were
overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust
after evil things, as they also lusted.
7Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The
people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell
in one day three and twenty thousand.
9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were
destroyed of serpents.
10Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed
of the destroyer.
11Now all these things happened to them for ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the world are come.

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*The Bible is all about Him*

*Luke 24:27* - /And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he
expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself./

Ivan Panin was a Russian who left Russia and settled in United States as
a young man. He graduated from Harvard University as a brilliant
mathematician; he was offered a splendid post in the United States which
he refused because he wanted to dedicate his life to demonstrating the
Truth and inspiration of the Bible. He did a mathematician verification
of the New Testament demonstrating that the scriptures had an inbuilt
security system like a currency note. Every scripture had signature of
God which no man could copy or even dream of copying, if any person
changed even a word it could easily be caught. He used a system of
substituting numbers to characters and found the base of the total of
every scripture, chapter and book was the number 8. In Bible codes the
number 8 symbolizes Christ, the First Born, and the new or last Adam. He
was instrument in bring many worldly wise or highly educated men to the
Lord.

It is not only the New Testament is about Christ even the Old Testament
is all about Him. In today's message the Lord Jesus Christ confirms
that. When He explained scriptures starting with Moses and all the
Prophets, it is written He showed them how all scriptures were
concerning Him. It is written *ALL SCRIPTURES* and *ALL PROPHETS*
including *MOSES*.

How many preachers do we find today who are preaching Jesus from the Old
Testament? It shows the lack of understanding of scriptures among us.
Some do take a few scriptures from the Old Testament to explain the
birth prophesies of Jesus or Jesus being the Lamb of God, the Passover
Lamb. Few quote the Old Testament to give details of the suffering of
Jesus as our eternal sacrifice for not much is in the New Testament on
this matter. On the other hand we have many who reject or ignore many
scriptures of the Old Testament as being violent, not pertaining to us
now, being part of the Law for the Israelites etc. They do not
understand every scripture is about Jesus and they may seem that way not
because the scripture is like that but only because man does not have
the understanding of those scriptures.

When I used to debate with people of another religion on the internet
they would point to some of the scriptures of great violence in the Old
Testament and when I sat with the Lord on them I was shocked to find how
the Lord tried to explain spiritual matters through these scriptures.
Per say these scriptures were to explain things we today need to do even
though we are in Christ and we do not do any violence against man. They
give an understanding of the Kingdom of God and how we relate with the
war that is happening in the spirit world.

Lord Jesus Christ is the Only Way to our Father in Heaven and the Bible
is called the Book of Instructions which takes us to God our Father. We
also know Jesus Christ is the Word manifested in the flesh so the Word
is Him and He is the Word of God. Rejecting any part of the Word
irrespective it being in the Old or New Testament is like rejecting the
Way to the Father or rejecting Jesus Christ.

When Jesus said baptize in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
it was not the order between them but who reveals who. God the Father
revealed God the Son Who was in Him and let the Heavens know Him. It was
the Son Who gave us His Spirit. It was by the Holy Spirit that Jesus was
born as man so being the Father we come to know Him, and it is from the
words of Jesus we know the Spirit of God, They being one it one who
reveals the other. We find man out of ignorance of scriptures makes the
sign of the crucifix in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
without understand it. The Apostles having the right understanding of
this baptized in the Name of Jesus for they know it is only through
Jesus the manifested Word that we know the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Let us pray to the Spirit of God Who reveals the scriptures and through
the scriptures reveals the Son to us.

*[Prayer Starter]*
Holy Spirit, You are the author of the Word of God. It is by You that
man was inspired to write the Bible. Even though they really did not
understand what they wrote yet having faith in You the Word came unto
man. Even the people with Jesus including His own earthly mother did not
really know Him fully, it was only when they were baptized in You that
they came to know Him. Holy Spirit fall in abundance on your people and
open their minds to know our Saviour and King, our Lord Jesus Christ,
our only way to the Father...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[Reference Scriptures]*
*Matthew 2:23* - And he came and dwelled in a city called Nazareth: that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be
called a Nazarene.

*Matthew 5:17-18*
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18For truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth pass, one stroke or one
pronunciation mark shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.

*Matthew 23:32-35*
32Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.
33You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the
damnation of hell?
34 Why, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and
some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you whip
in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from
the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias,
whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

*Matthew 26:52-56*
52Then said Jesus to him, Put up again your sword into his place: for
all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53Think you that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently
give me more than twelve legions of angels?
54But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are you come out as
against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with
you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hold on me.
56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be
fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

*Mark 1:2* - As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my
messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.

*John 1:45* - Philip finds Nathanael, and said to him, We have found
him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

*John 6:44-46*
44No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
God.Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father,
comes to me.
46Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has
seen the Father.
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*The Bride comes to the Lord from Lebanon*

*Songs of Solomon 4:8 *- /Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me
from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and
Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards./

Like I told you in my previous post to understand the book Songs of
Solomon one needs to do deep word study, image study, Bible codes and
have a good understanding of the characters noted in this book. It is
like a Shakespeare play with the names of the person saying the
dialogues removed.

Not going into too much explanation I would like to put down the message
the Lord gives us today.

I will list the meanings of the words and what they symbolize.

_Lebanon_ means whiteness, stands for purity. This purity is not exactly
the purity which the Lord desires but a purity which a worldly man sees
as good. Scriptures tell us even though we may not know everything, we
may not know what is good or bad fully yet we should do whatever good we
can towards others.

_Amana_ means support or faith.

_Shenir_ the name given to the snow-mountains of Hermon. I quote below a
person describing the view of these mountains.

For a view of Hermon, Professor Hackett thus describes its appearance as
seen from a hill north of Nazareth: "The mountain was concealed one
moment, and the next, on ascending a few steps higher, stood arrayed
before me with an imposing effect which I cannot easily describe. It
rose immensely above every surrounding object. The purity of the
atmosphere caused it to appear near, though it was in reality many miles
distant. The snow on its head and sides sparkled under the rays of the
sun, as if it had been robed in a vesture of silver. In my mind's eye at
that moment it had none of the appearance of an inert mass of earth and
rock, but glowed with life and animation. It stood there athwart my
path, like a mighty giant rearing his head towards heaven and swelling
with the proud consciousness of strength and majesty."

_Hermon_ means sanctuary. It means a safe place.

_Lion_ is an animal which symbolizes righteousness. Jesus is called the
Righteousness of Judah. Satan the Beast is called a young lion for he
imitates Christ and comes as an angel of light.

_Leopard_ means to filtrate or to be pure or holy, separated from things
unholy.

The Lord is telling us His Bride - His Church will come from the good
that she does for mankind. She would be one who stands on faith. Her
spiritual beauty would be majestic to the eyes everyone and none would
be able to compare to her. She would have a safe place. Even though
there would be turmoil and disasters around her, she would be safe and
protected by the Lord. She would be one who pursues righteousness and
holiness.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You alone are good and man is far from being anything like You.
Yet You are working on man and making him worthy so that he can be part
of You and have glory in You. In You alone is everlasting life and life
in abundance. Lord, work on us, and as the message given today to us
make your Church holy and righteous. Show your people that beautiful
buildings or great structures do not count for churches but spiritually
beautiful people do...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Songs of Solomon 4:7-15*
7Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from
the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions'
dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished
my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
10How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy
love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under
thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a
fountain sealed.
13Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits;
camphire, with spikenard,
14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

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*The flesh of man*

*1 Corinthians 15:39* - /All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is
one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes,
and another of birds./

One of the greatest manifestations of God's greatness is to watch a
birth. It is beautiful when one studies how from a cell a being is born.
We see man is so different from one another yet all are born in the same
way from a single cell. One should study the stages of a child in the
womb of its mother, it is just awesome. When my wife was conceived with
my daughter I had registered on an internet site named
http://www.baby. com, the site would regularly update on every stage of
the child in the womb, I just loved it.

It is amazing how accurate God is that every process is perfect and
results just excellent. But we see sometimes in odd cases we have
deformed children or children with 2 heads or abnormal body growth. Is
it that God also does make mistakes? Also how do children inherit
sicknesses or skills from parents?

To understand this we need to understand today's message. If we really
understand and master today's message we can overcome all sickness,
health problems, and have life like which man did not experience since
thousand s of years.

It is from just a since human cell that the different organs and parts
of the human body is formed. It is amazing to know that we do not need
the human egg, for every cell in our body knows every information needed
to grow into a full human being.

Yes, from the cell of or hair to our blood cell, to cells in our saliva
has all the information required to form our whole body. Even though all
this information is in every cell yet they take their own roles and form
the various parts of the body when a child grows from a single cell.

The details of every part of a human body, its functioning, design,
relations with other parts all is in our DNA. Not only man but all
living beings have a DNA and it is due to the DNA one is different from
another.

Man did not come from monkey or ape for the DNA does not mutilate or
majorly change permanently. Since thousands of years there is no great
permanent change in human or any other creation. Mix breeds are formed
when 2 DNA are fused to form another DNA, but there is a limitation of
mix breeding for DNA with high differences cannot fuse, thus for man to
evolve from apes would require apes to have relation with another animal
by which the fusion of both their DNAs would cause the DNA of man.
Science shows such DNA mutilations has never happened and is not
possible in a natural environment and continue naturally.

DNA of all living beings when seen from a bird's eye view is just simply
instructions having sentences, chapters and books. The books are call
chromosomes. Each animal or being has varying number of chromosomes and
it is this design that differentiates each from another.

Having more or less chromosomes does not make a being superior or
inferior but having the exact chromosomes. A donkey has 62 chromosomes
and a lion has 38 chromosomes so we see it has nothing to do with the
numbers, what matters is the design. Man has 22pairs of chromosomes and
2 sex chromosomes.

The Lord taught me how human DNA is a copy of the Bible in man. A Bible
is a collection of books and also has chapters and verses like our DNA.
There were many questions on the Bible like the number of books and the
relationships of books between each other and all these questions the
Lord answered me by explaining this with our DNA.

Word of God shows us God, therefore the image of God is in His Word and
when God created man the image of His Word was in man in perfection. Sin
caused the corruption of this perfect Instruction from God and therefore
sickness started to come into man. Adam was called reddish for he was
full of life but after he sinned, this sin started manifesting
physically in his grandson and he was called Enoch which means pale or
mortal. It was then man started realizing he needed God and started
worshiping Him.

We humans are different from other beings in whole of creation only
because we have God's image in us. Even though it has got corrupted, the
love and mercy of God has made way for us to get back this image by the
understanding of His Word and its application into our lives. It is from
the spirit that things manifest into the flesh so when we speak the Word
with its full understanding and authority we heal the flesh and thus see
miracles happen in man. The Hebrew word used for flesh means message and
when God's message is in us life is in us. Thus we see Jesus kept
emphasizing on us eating (consuming and making a part of us) His flesh
(message) to have life in us.

Let us realize we humans are different and how we are made in God. Let
us bring to fullness this image of God in us by getting the Truth in us
and thus free ourselves from the curse of sin and death. Jesus was
without blemish for the Word was perfect in Him and therefore God did
not allow even His flesh to see corruption when He died. In the end when
we get the full understanding of the Word in its perfection, it is
written corrupt man would put on and inherit incorruption.

So let us know the importance of believing in Jesus Christ, studying and
applying the Word of God in our lives and becoming a Holy flesh.

*[Prayer Starter]*
Lord, all things are created by your Word, but the perfection of your
Word was only in man whom You loved the most. When sin came man saw
corruption when sin came into man like what happened when some of the
angels revolted against the Light and the Body of the Son lost His
glory. Lord, You made man so that the Light will shine in man and when
He becomes part of your Body the glory of the Son will be restored. Open
the minds of your people so that the Word gets rooted in them and they
be healed in the flesh...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[Reference Scriptures]*
*1 Corinthians 15:35-43*
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body
do they come?
36Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,
but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his
own body.
39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of
men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory
of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in
glory.
42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it
is raised in incorruption:
43It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power:

*John 1:11-14*
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.

*Acts 2:25-27,35-39*
25For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my
face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also
my flesh shall rest in hope:
27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption.
35Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.
36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God,
fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this
man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39aAnd by him all that believe are justified from all things,

*1 Corinthians 15:50-58*
50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed,
52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.
53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.
54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour
is not in vain in the Lord.

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*The Storms*

*Jonah 1:4* - /But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and
there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be
broken./

(This is yesterday's message which I am sending today)
Some days back I was discussing with a friend with regards the crossing
of the Red Sea in the book of Moses. He was very sad to point to the
fact that the Lord killed all those of the Egyptian army when He drowned
them in the Red Sea by bringing the walls of water on them. Had He not
taken that step the Egyptians would have killed the Israelites and would
God allow that to happen to His people. Will a mother allow her child be
harmed by anyone?

Our discussion went on to another point; isn't God the one who created
the Egyptians?

Firstly we need to understand everything in all creation is created by
God that includes all mankind, animals, Angels and even Satan and his
fallen angels and it is He who give life unto all. It is only when we
study the Bible we understand the purpose God created all this, that we
realize why He calls Himself a Possessive God, a God who is possessive
of His people, who would do anything to save and protect them.

When any person takes the step to harm God's people, he or she becomes
an enemy of God and does not qualify for God's mercy. God being the
giver of life also has the right to take it away.

My friend saw only that one incident, what about all the calamities
which happen throughout the world? The natural disasters like the
tsunami, the cyclones, earthquakes, landslides, storms, sickness,
accidents etc. do these just happen?

Today's message tells us God sent the storm when Jonah was running away
from a task given to him, so are all the natural disasters sent by God?

Bible tells us when God created man and natural, man was in command of
nature and they lived in harmony. But when sin came into man he lost his
authority and nature turn against man and became his enemy. Bible states
before sin Adam was able to farm even without rain for nature provided
water in abundance for him, but after sin he had to sweat hard to farm
and even after that the yield was not very good. So we see sin causes
disasters to come into man's life.

Now coming to cases where God directly sends disasters in the way of man.

In today's message we need to understand the reason why Jonah was
running away, that God needed to intervene is such a drastic way and
bring him back to do the job.

Most people think Jonah was running away due to fear and they are wrong.
Jonah was a man of faith and being told to tell the Nineveh to repent he
knew that they would repent and that was something he did not want.
History confirms the people of Nineveh were one of the most barbaric
people who skinned live people and offered live babies as sacrifices to
their gods among other things. They were a strong, prosperous and highly
advanced in military and the world feared them. Jonah hated them and
wanted them to be punished and destroyed but God did not share his views.

God knew even in these barbaric people was a heart which could repent
and turn to Him. Our God always desires to save for He is a God Who sits
on a Throne of mercy, but He is not a foolish God to keep pouring mercy
on one whom He knows would never repent or change.

The possibility of the people of Nineveh to repent and turn to God was
not even 1percent, but yet God was happy with that less than 1percent
and made that percentage successful. Our God is love and sits on a
throne of mercy, He desires to save and bring all unto Him for in Him
alone can one have eternal life, true peace and true prosperity.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You created this world and us, so as to prosper us in You. You
have great plans for man and want to bless him with things unimaginable.
Lord, we pray that man open his eyes and see nothing just happens and
realizes all things have a purpose and reason behind it. May we discern
all things and changing our way of life so as to avoid being an enemy of
You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Jonah 1:1-2*
1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their
wickedness is come up before me.

*Jonah 3:1-10*
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the
preaching that I bid thee.
3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried,
and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put
on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne,
and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat
in ashes.
7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the
decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast,
herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto
God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the
violence that is in their hands.
9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce
anger, that we perish not?
10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and
he did it not.

*Jonah 4:1-4*
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not
this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before
unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is
better for me to die than to live.
4Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

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*The Messenger*

*Mark 1:2* - /As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my
messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. /

The role of 'The Messenger' is across many religions but plays an
important role primarily in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. This title
is a special title given to a very specific person with a special mission.

In Christianity it is John the Baptist who is given that title and in
Islam the title is been given to Mohammed, but in Judaism due to their
inability to understand scriptures (even though we share mostly the same
scriptures) they do not have any specific Messenger and consider all
Prophets with that title. Therefore I will discuss this topic between
Islam and Christianity only.

People mistakenly compare differences with Mohammed with Jesus which
they compare Islam with Christianity. If anyone studies the Quran one
will realize even Mohammed could not put down the Name of Jesus.

Stated below are some 7 reasons:
1) In the Quran Jesus is said to be born without sin while Mohammed is
born in sin.
2) Quran states when a child is born Satan comes and touches it,
therefore the child cries. But Jesus was the only one who did not cry
when born.
3) It also states Jesus as a just born child opened his mouth and spoke
which no other man did.
4) Jesus in the Quran is given the titles as 'Word of God' and 'Creator'
which no other Prophet is given, including Mohamed.
5) Jesus did miracles in the Quran like giving life which no other
Prophet did.
6) Jesus' death and resurrection is stated even in the Quran. While in
the case of Mohammed, he failed the test of a Prophet put to him by a
Jewish woman when he ate a poisoned chicken leg piece.
7) On the Day of Judgment it is written in the Quran that every human in
all creation, including all Prophets will stand before the Lord and
confess their sins but Jesus will be silent, since there will be no sin
in him even at that time.

What we see even in the Quran, Jesus is given the image of man in
perfection, above all mankind, having power with God and having victory
over sin.

Coming to the real comparison between John the Baptist and Mohammed as
being 'The Messenger'.

We see John came to give the message of repentance and the message of
hope. He came to warn the people about continuing their sinful ways. He
asked them to repent and take refuge in God and have hope in the Lamb of
God Jesus Christ Who will be the cause of our forgiveness of sins. John
came to point out to Jesus Christ who is perfect in nature and has one
having victory over sin and death. He pointed to us receiving the Holy
Spirit and becoming sons of God.

The Quran on contrary, although showing Jesus as the perfect being, yet
their Messenger does not point towards Him. Mohammed does warn people of
their sinful ways but does not give a way out of their sinful lives. He
gets people confused between getting victory over sin by repentance and
doing good works but at the same time points out to the failure of man
against temptation. He includes himself as being unable to have victory
and being a failure.

So we see the difference between these two Messengers John the Baptist
and Mohammed is their message, one takes us towards Light and other to
darkness and confusion.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, there are many who come in your Name and You have warned us in
your Word. You stated some come as angels of light but You have not sent
them. Lord, You expose the evil in their words and bring the darkness to
light. Lord, we pray the people open their eyes and by using the basic
sense of understanding stop continuing in the deceit they are in. Help
them repent and come to You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Mark 1:2-5*
2As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before
thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make his paths straight.
4John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins.
5And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of
Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan,
confessing their sins.

*John 1:6-15, 19-37*
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men
through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the
world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew
him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I
spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
20And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
21And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.
Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
22Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to
them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
23He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight
the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
24And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
25And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if
thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
26John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth
one among you, whom ye know not;
27He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's
latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
28These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
30This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred
before me: for he was before me.
31And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel,
therefore am I come baptizing with water.
32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
like a dove, and it abode upon him.
33And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the
same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and
remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
34And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
35Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
36And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

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*Get rid of your strange clothes or bear the punishment*

*Zephaniah 1:8* - /And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S
sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and
all such as are clothed with strange apparel./

We read in the books of Moses about the life of Joseph, how he was
nearly killed by his own brothers, sold to a slave master, imprisoned
and how he suffered, but later he becomes one of the greatest persons in
that Kingdom. If you notice his story starts with him wearing vivid
coloured clothes and ends with him wearing royal white linen robes. His
story is all about his clothes; it has nothing to do with his physical
garments but what they represent.

In today's message the Lord is telling us He may not be as gracious as
He was with Joseph if we wear strange garments. Strange garments, does
not mean weird designs or vivid colours nor unfashionable garments, our
God is not fashion conscious. The Lord is talking of the weird
understandings we carry and the weird traditions which we practice. He
has been patient with us since long, but now that His grace is abundant
and He has many of His elect among us who educate us and warn us, we
need to adhere to these warnings and turn back from our strange
practices and beliefs.

It is already written in the Bible as to what He would be doing to these
people and today's warning is come at the right time. Do not take this
as the casual warnings which were given from the days of Isaiah or the
times of Jesus as man on earth. When Jesus warned the Jews about the
destruction of Jerusalem, there was 70 years between the warning and its
consequences; today's warning will not have that much time but may come
to pass in a few years.

Also understand one cannot put it back for a later date because most
know change takes time and many struggle in that period, so let today be
our day of start of change. All that the Lord has shown us as not
according to His Word put them in our garbage can. Let us have nothing
to do with them. Let us cover our minds with the pure white true
understandings of the scriptures, practicing them in Spirit and Truth.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You are a Holy God and You ask your children to be holy. Lord, You
know we cannot be holy nor righteous but when we walk according to the
little things your Spirit reveals we are called righteous and a holy
nation. Lord, help your people to put away all the pagan practises and
the idols they worship in the name of Christian traditions. They have no
knowledge of your Word and are deceived by spiritually blind men who
dress is self-righteous robes. When Jesus Himself as man did not allow
any person to worship Him, we have people worshiping other characters of
the Bible. Lord, help them know who really is coming in the form of
these characters and whom they are worshipping. ..

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Genesis 37:3-5,9-11, 18-20*
3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the
son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his
brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they
hated him yet the more.
9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said,
Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father
rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast
dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down
ourselves to thee to the earth?
11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them,
they conspired against him to slay him.
19And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit,
and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see
what will become of his dreams.

*Genesis 41:41-43*
41And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land
of Egypt.
42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's
hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain
about his neck;
43And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they
cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land
of Egypt.
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*Truth which is after Holiness*

*Titus 1:1* - /Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the
truth which is after godliness (holiness);/

Paul was one of the foundational members of the early Church. Even
though he was not one of the 12 Apostles yet his contribution to the
Church growth at that time was far greater than any of the 12.

His knowledge of the Truth can be assessed by the fact he has the
largest contribution to the New Testament. Let us look at the
interesting way he introduces himself in his letter.

The first words he uses are 'servant of God' which means a bondman or
one who gives himself up to another's will. So we see Paul was very
focused on who is in control of himself. He knew he did not live for
himself but lived for his Creator and that is the most primary fact we
need to have in us, if we too want to be as dynamic as Paul in the
Kingdom of God. Unless we do not die to ourselves we cannot live for
Christ or allow the Lord to work through us.

The second point he makes is calling himself an apostle of Jesus Christ.
The word apostle has two meanings one as a noun and the other as a verb.
As a noun it represents the calling of a person and as a verb it means
'being sent'. Paul used this word in both its presentations. He knew who
he was in the Body of Christ and also knew whom he represents. He knew
the authority he carried and the authority of the one who sent him. It
is very important we know who we are and what authority we carry to work
efficiently in the Kingdom of God, but more than that we should know the
authority of Whom we represent. Even though each calling is different
yet we are part of the same Body.

The third point which Paul uses to introduce himself is, being one who
is 'according to the faith of God's elect'. Paul knew he was part of a
body and not a lone ranger. Most workers of the vineyard work like lone
rangers and therefore are not successful as Paul was. After knowing our
authority it is more important we need to know we are part of a team. It
is not what I or you desire or our plans but the Lord's plans for His
people.

The last and the most important point which Paul makes is 'acknowledging
of the truth which is after holiness'. This point is the most, most
important point not only for Paul but for the whole Church and in fact
for all creation. We need to realize we are all corrupt bodies which are
seeking perfection in the Lord. Due to sin we lost the image of God in
us and the sacrifice of Jesus was necessary firstly to clean us of our
sins and secondary and more important was to make it possible for us to
receive the Spirit of God.

We need to realize first what corruption is and secondary how we are
going to get it undone. Corruption is the loss of the 3 Fruits of the
Holy Spirit which are Truth, Righteousness and Holiness. In Galatians
5:22-23 Paul listed the 9 Fruits of which we have the seeds off and can
grow Fruit. But the 3 Fruits are not there in the list and are noted by
Paul separately in Ephesians 5:9 for it is impossible for corrupt man to
get them by himself.

Bible tells us none were found holy and the righteousness of man is like
rags before the Lord. It also says man suffers because of the lack of
knowledge since the Truth is not in him.

Jesus by His sacrifice and victory made it possible for us to receive
the Spirit of Truth; it is by the working of the Holy Spirit in us, that
we come to know the Truth. It is only when the Truth comes into man that
Jesus comes again to finish the job. On the Judgement Day only those who
have pursued the Truth and found worthy will receive the gift of
Righteousness from the Son and then after entering Heaven they will
receive the gift of Holiness from the Father so that we can dwell with
God the Father Who is Holy and before Whom nothing unholy can stand.

So ultimately it is all about getting the Truth so that we can receive
Holiness.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we pray that all your workers in the vineyard may be not only as
dynamic as Paul, but even more than him. Let them be people of Light
walking in the knowledge and understanding of the Kingdom of God, of who
they are and the role You have for them. Lord, let them understand it is
all team work with Jesus Christ as our head and guided by the Holy Spirit...

We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Matthew 20:25-28*
25But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of
the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great
exercise authority upon them.
26But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among
you, let him be your minister;
27And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

*Mark 10:29-30*
29And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man
that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
30But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with
persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

*Matthew 18:20* - For where two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.

*Romans 12:4-8*
4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the
same office:
5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of
another.
6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,
whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on
teaching;
8Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it
with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy,
with cheerfulness.

*Galatians 5:22-23*
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Ephesians 5:9 - (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
[holiness] and righteousness and truth;)

Psalms 33:12 - Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the
people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

John 1:18 - No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

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*Cast away the abominations and the idols of Egypt*

*Ezekiel 20:7* - /Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the
abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I am the LORD your God./

Does man every correct his mistake and turn to goodness?

If we ask the Lord this question He will have a very disappointing
answer. In the Bible He proves even after doing so many great things for
man time and time again man has been doing the very same things, many a
times worshipping those very same gods with a new name or sometimes with
the very same name. He used a very appropriate name 'stiff-neck' for His
people. This message is not about the non-Christians but people who call
themselves Christians. Even today the Lord is saying the same words to
His people '/get rid of the idols of Egypt and stop the abominations/ '.

Some months back BBC showed a documentary on people who call themselves
Christians and worshipped a saint (female) called Santa Muerte. It is a
human skeleton dressed in women's robs with rosaries and chains around
its neck while holding a reaper's staff in its hand. This figure is very
famous in Mexico among the drug mafia and is venerated like Mother Mary
is among the Catholics. They burn candles and make offerings to it. They
crawl on their knees or role on grounds for long distances to its
shrines. Their offerings may be anything from a doll to even a joint
(drugs) or liquor. They have their own set of prayers for this saint and
are said on the beads. They believe this saint has powers to protect
them from death and most important they believe this saint kills the
enemies of those who take refuge in it. If one goes on the net you will
even find testimonies of its patrons, how they are blessed with
children, healed or saved from death. This figure has caught the
imagination of many so much that they have made a movie to glorify the
powers of this saint. Historians have found that this figure is not new
but a goddess worshiped by the Egyptians and people many eras before.
Like this there are many others including one called Black Mary, which
has its patrons performing black magic and witchcraft even though being
Christians?

What we see is the same old rubbish keeps coming back again and again in
different forms and names. Satan knows his tricks are successful, and
they work with man, so keeps using them the very same trick in new forms
like he used the same 3 temptations he used successfully against Adam
and Eve, against Jesus. But Jesus being rooted in the Word did not give
Satan the pleasure of a success even in His weakest moments.

You will get shock to the extent the gods (idols) of Egypt have
penetrated into many sections of the Christian faith in the name of
characters close to Jesus or events connected to Him. Many festivals
celebrated by Christians have less to do with the Lord Jesus Christ and
more to do with the gods of the heathens.

It is time Christians open the Bible, opening their eyes, read the
scriptures and stop believing man more than God.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You warned us that the evil one will come as an Angel of light,
yet your people do not adhere to your warning. People are worshiping
devils and at the same time calling themselves Christians. They make
idols of you and keep them along with idols of devils come deceived in
the form of humans. Lord, we pray they open their eyes and see the
extent of spiritual blindness they are in and they cast these idols into
garbage cans, where they belong...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Exodus 20:3-6*
3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth:
5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD
thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.

*1 Kings 11:31-33*
31And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand
of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
32(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel:)
33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom
the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do
that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my
judgments, as did David his father.

*Jeremiah 7:17-19*
17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem?
18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

*Jeremiah 44:15-19*
15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto
other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all
the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying,
16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD,
we will not hearken unto thee.
17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own
mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and
our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem:
for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
18But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out
drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour
out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

*Acts 19:30-35*
30And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples
suffered him not.
31And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto
him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was
confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
33And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him
forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his
defence unto the people.
34But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the
space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
35And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of
Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the
Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image
which fell down from Jupiter?

*2 Kings 23:1-14, 20-25*
1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah
and of Jerusalem.
2And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of
Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests,
and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read
in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found
in the house of the LORD.
3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to
walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies
and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the
words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the
people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the
second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the
temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the
grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without
Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto
Bethel.
5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and
in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the
host of heaven.
6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without
Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and
stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves
of the children of the people.
7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house
of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled
the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to
Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the
entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were
on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of
the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among
their brethren.
10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through
the fire to Molech.
11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the
sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of
Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the
chariots of the sun with fire.
12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz,
which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had
made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down,
and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the
brook Kidron.
13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the
right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel
had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for
Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination
of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled
their places with the bones of men.
20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon
the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto
the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the
judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel,
nor of the kings of Judah;
23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was
holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
24Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the
images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the
land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might
perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah
the priest found in the house of the LORD.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the
LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might,
according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any
like him.

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*The choice to go north or south is ours*

*Ezekiel 41:11* - /And the doors of the side chambers [were] toward [the
place that was] left, one door toward the north, and another door toward
the south: and the breadth of the place that was left [was] five cubits
round about./

Before I came into the Lord I was into astrology and palmistry and also
in superstitions. I would believe the right hand or right foot was good
or lucky so I would enter most places putting my right foot first. This
understanding was the influence of living with heathens (unbelievers) in
India especially the Hindus. It was also because of the lack of
understanding of scriptures.

Scriptures talk about The Son sitting at the right hand of the Father
but we should realize God is not a man to have a right or left hand and
He being God every part of Him is Holy and Good.

The Right Hand of God means the Righteous Hand of God, it does not
really mean an hand of God. In spirit world the west or right means
towards righteousness and east or left means towards unrighteousness.

When Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden or Paradise,
Cherubs and a flaming Sword were placed towards the east to prevent
anyone from enter the Garden. That did not mean the direction but from
the unrighteous side for the Garden of Eden or Paradise was in Heaven
and Adam and Eve when without sin had access to Heaven but after sin
were deprived access. Eden is in the top 3 levels of Heaven which we
refer as Heaven and alone with man even the fallen angels were deprived
access for God did not need such a great deterrence of two great Cherubs
(who are thousands or time stronger than an Angel) and a flaming sword
for mere mortal man for man lost his powers and became mortal. Jesus
showed us this immortal power of man over human body when He
transfigured. God the Son who humbled Himself and came as man Jesus
entered from the east gate and closed it forever; He removes the
unrighteousness from man by giving us His righteousness and making us
Sons of God forever.

Coming to today's message, like I put in my previous mails that Ezekiel
chapter 41 where the Angel measured the temple was part of really
showing the inner man or heart of man. Today's message the Lord talks
about the decision which unrighteous man is put to.

If man is told to decide between north and south directions most men
will think north is towards God and south is towards hell, but man's
wisdom is foolishness for God. North is not west and south east.
According to the spirit world north means towards hidden treasure or
secret treasure and south means right or righteousness. Our God does not
hide anything, everything of Him is available to know but it is our
corruption and our mortal inability which keeps us from knowing Him. God
always wants us to know Him and be more like Him but the state of our
heart keeps us from knowing Him.

In today's scripture God states, to us all a choice is given to choose
between believe is some hidden treasures and fantasies or to choose the
ways of the Lord, the ways of Righteousness, the way to humble oneself
for the glory of God.

It always titillates man to fantasize in hidden things and wild dark
secrets. Just get on the internet and put up a conspiracy theory and you
will have thousands of hits but if you put the Truth not many will come.
All religions are founded on this fundament of believe in hidden things
or secrets and therefore make gods for themselves. All even the atheist
know God but choose to not believe in Him. Christianity in the Bible is
never used with the word religion but used with the word devoting or
simple worshipping of God. In the Bible God has revealed everything that
man can possibly know about Him. It is our sin, our sinful nature and
the teachings of this world that is within us which keeps from knowing
Him. It is only when we repent and are born again and when we start
walking in the little we know about Him that we come to know more and
more of Him.

It is our choice to take the north gate or to take the south gate; to
choose in believing in hidden things or to be born again and know God.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You always desire man to know You but ever since man has be filled
with corruption, he has gone far from You. Your ways are not man's ways
and therefore man has been lost. Lord, help us repent from our ways and
we pray Lord for your wisdom and knowledge which You desire to give to
those who ask of You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Genesis 3:21-24*
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins,
and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also
of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from whence he was taken.
24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of
Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the
way of the tree of life.

*Psalms 118:15* - The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the
tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

*2 Corinthians 12:2 *- I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,
(whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I
cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

*Deuteronomy 33:23* - And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied
with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the
west and the south.

*Ezekiel 43:1-9*
1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary
which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
2Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be
opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of
Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
3It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread
before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate,
and shall go out by the way of the same.
4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I
looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD:
and I fell upon my face.
5And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine
eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all
the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and
mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the
sanctuary.
6And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your
abominations,
7In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in
heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it,
even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they
have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
8And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set
keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger
that is among the children of Israel.

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*Luke 24:25-27*
/25Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken:/
/26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his
glory?/
/27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them
in all the scriptures the things concerning himself./

"O fools, slow of heart!"
These are among the last words Jesus Christ spoke before He left us as
man to ascend to the Father; even today if He personally meets us I am
sure He will speak these same words to us.

The biggest problem for me when it comes to teaching people the Bible is
to explain the Old Testament is not Old but all about Jesus Christ and
the Holy Spirit, what all that They spoke and did as written in the New
Testament or will do.

People think the Old Testament is about violence and things not
associated with Jesus so should not be considered.

What the Jews and the Israelite did and what the Lord commanded of them
was never in line, for they never understood it. If you see when the
Jews accused Jesus of breaking the Law of Moses, Jesus answered them
that even though they did all those practises, they still did not keep
the Law of Moses. The Jews had a book much fatter than the Torah on just
the topic Sabbath, yet they did not understand the ABC of the Sabbath.

When I came to the Lord and when the Lord started teaching me, I
actually understood more of Him from the Old Testament than the New
Testament. It surprises people when I share with them that the words
Jesus spoke in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke were the same which
the Lord spoke to Moses and the Prophets. It is people without wisdom
who do not understand them. This wisdom is not something which any
person can take credit for, but is the wisdom which the Lord gives.

We people are fools without doubt for we think we know and therefore do
not ask of the Lord for wisdom to understand His instructions. Before I
used to be eager to hear the famous preachers on God Channel and other
Christian TV channels but as I started to understand the scriptures more
and more, I realized I could hardly find people who really gave the Word
on them. They all preach a popularity Gospel which pleased people, many
a times it was either just baby food or another Gospel and not what
Jesus or the Apostles preached. When they started they did preach the
Word but when they got tuned to the people, they got more into
controlling and pleasing people than letting the Holy Spirit do the
work. They try to help God in His work and not let the Lord help them to
do His work.

Yesterday I was happy to hear a preacher from a well-known international
ministry was preaching in Mumbai on the harmony of scriptures between
the Old and New Testament. Someone who attended it was testifying how
zapped he was when the preacher linked scriptures from the Old and the
New Testament.

Among the first things that Satan the Beast did was to get the early
church to break the Word into the Old and New Testament. And now it is
time we need to bring it back to one Word for our God is not one a God
Who speaks in two tongues.

When I started learning from the Lord I knew the only way to learn is to
first empty out all that I knew so that I could be filled with His
Knowledge and His understanding. So let us all remove all the human
teaching we are filled with and sit with the Lord to learn from Him.

We did need people to teach us to a stage so as to bring us unto Him,
now that we know Him let us learn from Him. Even Jesus who was perfect
in His understanding still did not try to continue teaching His
disciples but handed His disciples unto the Holy Spirit to be taught and
be led by Him. It was the Holy Spirit Who really opened their minds to
know Jesus and the scriptures.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Holy Spirit, You alone are the Rock on which we are founded and on which
we will not be shaken. Father, You are the giver of wisdom and knowledge
and have always desire to give them unto those who asked for them. You
have hidden these from those who are wise in worldly things. People do
not know You not because they cannot but because they are lost in this
world of vanity and their hearts are harden with lust and sins. Lord, we
pray You work in the hearts of your people and bring them into your
light, it is time You bring them out of this vanity like You delivered
Israel from Egypt...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Luke 24:44-47*
44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you,
while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were
written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms,
concerning me.
45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the
scriptures,
46And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to
suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his
name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

*John 1:45* - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have
found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

*Mark 12:24* - And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore
err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

*John 7:19a* - Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
keepeth the law?...

*John 5:39 *- Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

*Acts 28:23* - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to
him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of
God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and
out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

*Acts 17:2,10-13*
2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days
reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
10And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto
Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were
Greeks, and of men, not a few.
13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God
was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up
the people.

*1 Corinthians 9:9* - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt
not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take
care for oxen?
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*No good dwells in our flesh*

*Romans 7:18* - /For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth
no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that
which is good I find not./

We see people of other religions as an act of penance punish their
bodies beating it, whipping it; even in the early church it was a known
fact that priests would punish themselves with whips behind closed
doors. If by punishing the body man could have had the hope of change
then Churches would have been torture houses.

We need to understand when Adam and Eve were made into human flesh there
was no problem with them. Adam was referred to as a son of God, but it
was only after they sinned and ate of the fruit of good and bad that
corruption came into man. It was not that the flesh changed any form but
it was the corruption of the inner-man that took place. The image of God
in man got corrupted and man was no longer called son of God.

Paul used the right word 'corruption' for it does not mean complete
deformation but part deformation. That means in us, something of God
still exists.

The Biblical word 'flesh' comes from the root meaning which means
'message'. If we get into the DNA which is the basic element of our
flesh it is made of elements A, B, C, D etc. and they are linked
together into sentences, chapters and further structured into books
called Chromosomes. This does not stop here but the number of
Chromosomes in man and the way the elements work between each other and
others has the working of the Word of God in us.

When God made us this DNA was perfect for the Word was perfect in us,
but when man sinned the word in us got corrupted, like changes in the
DNA brings sicknesses. Even in Adam who when made was full of life and
was made to live for many more years than he did, started showing
effects of sin in his body so much so that his grandson was named 'Enos'
which means 'mortal' and comes from the root word which means 'sick'.

Each one of us carries a message which is a corrupt message and we
struggle with whatever good is in us. The evil or corruption in us does
not let the good to bear good fruit.

Jesus being without blemish, free of corruption was the perfect Word of
God in the flesh. His Word and His Spirit brings a change in us and
helps us remove the corruption in us. That is why it is written when we
know the Truth and allow this Truth to be written in us by walking in
the Truth we are set free from the corruption and once again become sons
of God.

The message of this world being not the Message of God causes more
corruption in us and therefore is against God. So fighting this world
does not mean we physically take arms against people of this world but
means to bring down the teachings of this world and like Paul says this
can only happen when we get the message in us according to the Word of God.

The Jews kept the Law in the flesh and therefore even though they did
everything they could, according to the Law, yet Jesus told them they
did not keep the law.

Thus right fasting is not to deprive the body of food but to overcome
the desires of the body; therefore we see that Daniel's fast was very
effective even though he did eat. Confessing of scriptures heals us
because it brings change of the message in us right from our DNA. So
when confessing scriptures we are not telling them to God but to our
minds and to our body so that it comes in line with the Word and gets
healed.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord Jesus, You came as man and gave us your flesh to eat so that the
perfect Message from You will bring change in us and make us again sons
of God and part of You. Lord, let your people know that battle does not
lie in the physical but in the carnal mind of man which is against your
Kingdom...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Romans 7:17-25*
17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I
find not.
19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not,
that I do.
20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that
dwelleth in me.
21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death?
25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I
myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

*Galatians 6:8* - For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the
Spirit reap eternal life.

*John 6:49-56*
49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat
thereof, and not die.
51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of
this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give
is my flesh [message], for the life of the world.
52The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?
53Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except
ye eat the flesh [message] of the Son of man and drink his blood
[sacrifice], ye have not life in yourselves.
54He that eateth my flesh [message] and drinketh my blood [sacrifice]
hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
55For my flesh [message] is meat indeed, and my blood [sacrifice] is
drink indeed.
56He that eateth my flesh [message] and drinketh my blood [sacrifice]
abideth in me, and I in him.

*John 7:19a* - Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth
the law?

*John 4:23* - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father
seek to be his worshippers.

*Romans 8:12-14*
12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the
flesh:
13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye
put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

*2 Corinthians 10:6 - *And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

*1 Corinthians 15:48-54*
48As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly.
50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed,
52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.
53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.
54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

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*Disagreements between Believers*

*Acts 15:39 *- /And the contention was so sharp between them, that they
departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and
sailed unto Cyprus;/

Among Christians there are two categories, one which follow the Word of
God above all and then there is the other category which follow man
irrespective of it is according to the Word or contrary to the Word.

Among the later you will find not much disagreement about what they
follow, but among the prior category if you put five of them in a room
chances are not even two will have an agreement on all matters. They may
agree more or less with each other on many matters but they will
disagree on some or other matters.

The second category will nod their head even if their leader says the
world is flat and we are the center of the universe. In science they
will learn of the solar system and how man landed on the moon but when
it came to their leader they will not question the belief of their
leader. The good part of the first category is that they question, they
reason and do not follow blindly whatever is thrown at them. Now the
question comes about the disagreement. Is it a spirit of error that is
working among them and causing them to disagree? In fact it is the deaf
and dumb spirit which keeps the second category from knowing God but
about the first the Lord wants us to understand what the problem is.

We see in today's scripture there is a strong disagreement between Paul
and Barnabas which caused them to separate their ministry. The cause of
this disagreement was Mark; whose real name was John and the issue here
was the Gospel of Mark and this caused Paul to get Luke to write the Gospel.

Paul was very upset with Mark because he was chosen by the Apostles to
write the Gospel and he had left the Gospel incomplete. But Mark being a
man of few words and a man to the point did not find it necessary to
explain everything, and with this attitude he missed emphasizing the
resurrection of Jesus Christ which Paul would not compromise on. He had
stopped the Gospel at Mark 16:6 and it was later others had to complete
the Gospel. Barnabas (whose real name was Joseph and known as Barsabas
in Acts 1) who was one among those who was with Jesus right form the
time of baptism and had worked a lot with Paul, in fact was instrument
in building Paul's spiritual life in his initial stages. He was firstly
blinded to the important point which Paul raised because of his blood
relationship with Mark and the other point which could be the fact he
was earlier in the Lord than Paul.

People should realize one cannot be a permanent leader here in the
Kingdom of God. It is like the medical industry where people are
specialized in different fields and according to the knowledge and
skillset of a person one is given position in the industry. One cannot
be on a higher position forever if one does not continually keep
building oneself in knowledge and experience every day.

Many believers do not understand the most primary fact that we are part
of the Body of Christ; we are all different parts of that Body. So many
of us have different callings and therefore have different viewpoints
and understanding on the same matter. And the second and most important
fact is that the Lord is always teaching people and building them, if we
are not listening to Him we miss and do not grow in Him. Like Barnabas
we may be pulled back by our fleshly connections or thinking.

If I do not spend quality time with the Lord and do His work every day I
realize the amount of knowledge and understanding I miss on from the
Lord and that one day I will be left way behind in the Kingdom of God.
The other factor I realize I always need others to get a full dimension
of the same matter which I am knowledgeable of, for I know one thing as
to why the Lord symbolized Truth as a pomegranate fruit.

Like the fable of the race between the hare and the tortoise the Kingdom
of God is not about speed or being slow but of being consistent. Many
like the hare go crazy about God and have a great hunger for Him but
after some time this hunger dies or they become confident in themselves
and then spiritually go to sleep. We should not laugh at those who are
slow for one day they being consistent will surpass us and move far
ahead spiritually. All of us need to look at our spiritual life every
day and see are we moving ahead or are we at the same place?

It is very important to remember that a spiritually blind or lame person
will never grow in the Kingdom of God, all other disabilities the Lord
may tolerate but especially not blindness or lameness.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we rebuke the spirits of dumbness, deafness, blindness, lameness
and the spirit of laziness which has engulfed all your people and is
preventing them from growing in You. May their blindness and their
lameness be healed and may the Kingdom of God grow and your glory fill
this earth...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Mark 16:5-6*
5And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the
right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
6And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth,
which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where
they laid him.

*Exodus 39:22-26*
22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;
23and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat
of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not
be rent.
24And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the
pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the
pomegranates;
26a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of
the robe round about, to minister in; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

*Haggai 2:19* - Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the
fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought
forth; from this day will I bless you.

*Leviticus 21:18* - For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he
shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose,
or anything superfluous,

*Deuteronomy 15:21* - And if it have any blemish, as if it be lame or
blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto
Jehovah thy God.

*2 Samuel 5:6-8*
5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in
Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the
inhabitants of the land, who spake unto David, saying, Except thou take
away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither; thinking,
David cannot come in hither.
7Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of
David.
8And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him
get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are
hated of David's soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the
lame; he cannot come into the house.

*Acts 1:21-23*
21Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that
the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was
taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his
resurrection.
23And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias.

*Acts 4:36-37*
36And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being
interpreted, Son of exhortation) , a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
37having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the
apostles' feet.

*Colossians 4:10* - Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you, and
Mark, the cousin [kin] of Barnabas (touching whom ye received
commandments; if he come unto you, receive him),

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*Marriage and Chastity among Priest*

*Mark 14:66* - *And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of
the maids of the high priest:*

The Greek word ‘*paidiske*’ translated as maid here also means damsel and
comes from the word ‘*pais*’ which also means child.

In one of the translations this young woman has referred to as daughter of
the High Priest. This woman may or may not be a daughter but marriage in
priesthood was a common thing during the Jewish Church and also in the
Christian church.

The concept of chastity in the Bible is only twice and both places they are
not connected with priesthood. In the early Church there was no restriction
about getting married. Peter was married and had children; even the early
Popes of the Catholic church were married and had children. It was only
during the dark ages of the Catholic church (around 1400AD) after one of the
Popes did the most shameful act that the concept of chastity was introduced
into the church.

The teachings of Paul’s preference of chastity for servants of God existed
even before but became an excuse to hide the unthinkable shameful acts which
almost destroyed the church at that time. These restrictions have of late
resulted in another type of shameful incidents, with the people who vowed to
chastity indulging in child molestation. Though they were happening since
long it was only of late people have come to the knowledge of it. In western
countries this has caused many to leave the church and some to even leave
Christianity.

The cause of this is lack of understanding of marriage and the term
chastity. Not going into the understanding of marriage I will touch on the
understanding of chastity. People think chastity causes a person to be pure,
and that is a very wrong notion.

God made man to reproduce and be fruitful. God created every part of the
body of man and no part of our body or its functions are dirty. The purpose
what we use it for may be bad but by itself our body is made by God and He
said all is good. He created a relationship of husband and wife between man
and woman. Sex is solely for reproduction and it is good and commanded by
God in the relationship of husband and wife. Sex for the sake of pleasure is
not what God made man and wife for but has allowed it in marriage but at the
same time instructed us to overcome come it.

Paul too suggests if one is not called for marriage and has the grace to
control the desires of the flesh they should not marry so that they can
concentrate on their service by staying away from the responsibility of
supporting a family.

Being married or staying chastity should be done according to the purpose
that God has in the person’s life and the grace that is on that person. Like
Paul said it is better to be married then to struggle with one’s flesh and
sin. With people who called to lead the people of God it is a great
responsibility for them to uplift the Name of the Lord. So married or
unmarried their representation is more important.

*[Prayer Starter]*

Lord, You have made man and woman with purpose to understand your
relationship with man. You made all things good and with reason. It is only
when the purpose changes that the things turn away from being good. Lord, we
pray specially that people follow You with understanding and not blindly
follow men who mislead them by taking your name. Lord, let them know your
purpose and their purpose in You...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

*[Reference Scriptures]*

*Genesis 1:26-31*

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

*1 Corinthians 7:32-38*

32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth
for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how
he may please his wife.

34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried
woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body
and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.

35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon
you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord
without distraction.

36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his
virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do
what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his
heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth
her not in marriage doeth better.

*Luke 1: 5* - There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain
priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the
daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

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*He is the Lord of the Harvest*

*Acts 11:21* - /And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great
number believed, and turned unto the Lord./

If a farmer sows seasonal seeds in the wrong season can he expect a good
harvest? If man can discern these things why can they not discern the
things of the spirit?

We all know it is the Lord who is the giver of the harvest then if we
are making a lot of efforts and not reaping good results then we should
realize that there is something wrong in what we are doing. Either we
are sowing in the wrong place, or at the wrong season, or with wrong
intentions, or our process of sowing is wrong. On the other hand some
people see something growing like seeing halls fill of people they think
they are blessed with a harvest and the favour of the Lord is on them.
But it is later they realize these were just weeds, thorn and thistles
but not a harvest. These very people become trouble and pain for them.
To get a real good harvest we need to understand we need the Lord's hand
to be over us. That means we need to follow the Lord's instructions
according to the heart of God.

We read in today's scripture that some of them did not follow the normal
process of preaching to the Jews which the others were doing but they
being led by the heart of the Lord went and preached the Gospel to the
Greeks and the Hand (Spirit) of God was great on them and they reaped a
great harvest. They were among the first (along with Peter and John) to
reach out to people other than the Jews for they knew that the Lord was
not Lord of just the Jews and they knew what the term Israel meant; this
work later Paul championed. They were not told like Paul was but in
their heart they knew.Their work was so blessed that later their harvest
was the first to be called 'little Christs' - Christians.

If we do our work in the Lord led by the Spirit of God then we will see
results like Joshua saw when he being full of faith did not let the Sun
or the Moon to move for a long time. The Lord's Hand was great on him
and there was large hailstones falling from the sky on his enemies.
Archaeology and astronomy prove this event and things concerning this event.

Let us not be foolish workers putting efforts in trying to push a wall.
Without the Spirit of God, without following His instructions and
without tuning our hearts according to His Heart we will not reap any
good harvest.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You are the Lord of the Harvest. When people celebrated Pentecost
their eyes were on the earthly harvest but only those led by the Spirit
knew which harvest You were referring to. You prefer using unqualified
people, rejects of this world to do your great work, for without
surrendering to You no one can reap any good harvest. Lord help us
realize without You we can do nothing good and it is only when we with a
clear heart lift our hands (works) unto You that we are blessed...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

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*Acts 11:19-26*
19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose
about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch,
preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
20And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were
come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed,
and turned unto the Lord.
22Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which
was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far
as Antioch.
23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and
exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the
Lord.
24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and
much people was added unto the Lord.
25Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
26And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to
pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and
taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in
Antioch.

*Acts 3:1-12*
1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of
prayer, being the ninth hour.
2And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they
laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask
alms of them that entered into the temple;
3Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
4And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
6Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I
thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately
his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the
temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
10And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate
of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that
which had happened unto him.
11And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the
people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's,
greatly wondering.
12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel,
why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by
our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

*Acts 4:1-4*
1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the
temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
2Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus
the resurrection from the dead.
3And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day:
for it was now eventide.
4Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of
the men was about five thousand.

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*Not the time to rest or enjoy life*

*Luke 17:7,8* - /But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding
cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go
and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready
wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten
and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?/

The Bible talks of having rest and having peace in the Lord so most
people come thinking they will have rest from the worries of this world
and they will have peace from the troubles of this world. But after the
initial period of coming in the Lord, when the Lord starts to work on
those whom He has called to mature them in spirit they find life
difficult and they need to nearly give up on life and the pleasure of
this world. Most among these find they run a very high risk of fear of
life from people of this world.

When Jesus said case your burden unto me, so that He can take care of
them, He meant it. When we come to the Lord we find even though there
are problems they do not harm us. Our enemies may conceive great plans
to harm us or destroy us but none of them will be fruitful and these in
turn land themselves into problems.

When Jesus said cast your burden unto me, He also said take my burden.
It is this factor most people prefer to ignore and thus find the first
part of the scripture failing. When we take the Lord's burden we carry
our Cross. No doubt the Lord's burden is far bigger and just impossible
for us but yet Jesus says it is light like a feather and this is because
He gives us His Spirit Who helps us in carrying our burden. When our
Helper helps us carry our Cross it becomes very light.

In today's message the Lord says He has planned great things for us but
this is not the time to enjoy. He has freed us from the bondages of evil
and destruction of this world so we should willingly become bondmen unto
Him. He asks us for a small sacrifice for a far greater prize in Heaven,
it is like giving just one day for a lifetime of pleasure and that is
not much which the Lord asks for.

We all know one day when our evening comes we will sleep in the Lord so
let us give this day (this earthly life) to the Lord to receive great
rewards in Heaven. We also should not worry of being burden for if no
sane man breaks the neck of his ox which runs his mill; then will our
perfect God do that?

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, You freed us from the bondages of sin and death and all You ask of
us is small sacrifice of our fleshly desires on earth. For this
sacrifice too You reward us greatly in Heaven, like Paul says with
spiritual crowns like royals. Even for this sacrifice it is You Who
helps us fulfil it. Lord, help us realize the great bargain we have in
You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Matthew 11:28-30*
28Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.
29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

*Hebrews 13:6* - So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my
helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

*1 Corinthians 9:9-10*
9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,
10or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was
written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that
thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.

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*Our Spiritual State*

*Daniel 1:2* - /And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand,
with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the
land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into
the treasure house of his god./

Last night I was given a vision connected to today's message, in which
the Lord showed me how He sees the state of His Church.

In the vision I saw sick people out on the road, some sitting and some
sleeping. First when I saw them I thought a hospital had some problem
and had removed their patients on to the road. But later as I kept
moving ahead I saw more and more of them all on the road. They were with
bandages and most of them had wounds wide open which were getting
infected. All along the way I did not see any nurse or any doctor
attending to them.

The worst sight for me was when I saw between these people small infants
some just born also having wounds all over them and they too were lying
in middle of the road. Some had cushions kept around them to warn off
the cars that are passing on the road. It did not take much to realize
that these people could be easily crushed under any of the passing
vehicles; it was just God's grace that they were alive.

You may think I am giving an over dramatized picture to you. If I really
put the details I may not be able to send this post to all the people
who receive it.

We really do not have an idea of how God sees things. Let me give you
another incident which happened a few days back, where the Lord warned
me about an event that was about to happen and what I should do. This
event did happen immediately after I got up and having pre-empt known it
I confidently breezed though it without any slight worry. But what
amazed me was the person who was involved in the event, how the Lord saw
that person. That person daily went to church and is a very religious
person who says her prayers daily without fail. This person for the
world seems like a godly person but the Lord showed as someone whom He
does not know, or has any relationship with. He showed the spiritual
health of that person as having rash all over the skin, some deep wounds
and eyes infected and bulging out.

Like we look in the mirror and see our body, if we could look at our
spirit most of us may not be able to sustain ourselves.

In today's message when the people sinned against the Lord, the Lord had
delivered the people to Babylon. Along with the people even the vessels
were taken away by the Babylonians.

In the early years when the Church went away from the Word of God and
into traditions of man, this Church too was given by the Lord into
confusion. Along with the Church even the workers of the Church were
also taken over by confusion. It has been many, many years and many
think they are doing the right things but the Lord's heart cries when He
sees the spiritual state of His people.

People proudly calling themselves Christians but on another hand are
made to do demon worship by their leaders. The people are so spiritually
blind that they do not see what they are doing. The people are
spiritually hurt and having serious problems and there is none among us
who can attend to them.

Some days back at our group discussion someone told us Paul a lone man
whose ministry was hardly for 40years and he managed to plant more than
a thousand Churches that too across continents even at a time when
transport and communication was unspeakably bad.

Today we have means by which a person can fly across the globe in less
than a day. It takes just milliseconds for a person to talk to another
person in another continent we can print thousands of books very
quickly, we do not need to hand write them or use manual blocks to print
them, yet we see a pathetic state at which the Church is growing.

What all of us have achieved through these two thousand years, Paul
could have done it in a few hundred years that too alone, had he lived.

I do not have words to say to ourselves and yet we proudly call
ourselves Christians and do not feel guilty when we come before our God
not one among us can lift our heads before Him.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we cannot do nothing other than cry and weep in shame when we look
at what we have achieved even though your grace was abundant on us. You
gave us all things and your Hand protects us but we fear man more than
You. We are more afraid to die this physical death but do not fear the
real terrible spiritual dead which awaits us if we fail. Lord, forgive
us and fill us with your Spirit that we may have the boldness to
proclaim your Message of Life - our Lord Jesus Christ unto the whole
world. Implant in us courage that we do not fear persecution and hide in
caves, which should be happening to our spiritual enemies. Open our
spiritual eyes that we may see ourselves and receive your healing...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
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*God knows*

*Acts 28:25* - /And when they agreed not among themselves, they
departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost
by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,/

In today's scripture we read a large number of people collected and
persuaded Paul to teach them about Jesus. It is written Paul
concentrated more about Jesus from the books of Moses and the books of
the Prophets. A few among them digested some of the matter and others
did not, but when people started discussing between them all agreed to
disagree and thus it took a thousand years for man to know Jesus better,
even though there was a man called Paul who did and who tried to explain
to others. And Paul rightly quoted a scripture from Isaiah.

*Acts 28:26-28*
/26Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:/
/27For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and should be converted, and I should heal them./

The day when the Lord had revealed me yesterday's message I was shocked
at the level of deceit the Beast has the Church in. I was amazed the
Beast did not spare even the elect, people led by the Spirit of God. But
I realized God had written the Beast would do that for that period of time.

My question to the Lord was did not anyone read these scriptures? Did
not they meditate on them?

The words of Isaiah came to my mind too '/they will hear and shall not
understand, they will see and not perceive/'. At one time I tried to
follow breaking of Bread at a congregation according to scriptures and I
know what happened that day, not one man was left unexposed. People who
received and those who did not receive by rejecting it. All the hidden
in them came out and I remember the instructions of Paul not to receive
the Body of Christ in an unworthy manner. Those who thoroughly humbled
themselves were lifted up and those who were deceiving were taken away
by wolves like Judas was taken by Satan at the supper table of the Lord.

When I was told to send the message I was worried about the
reciprocations the mail would have. After sending it, the lukewarm I
received had me asking the Lord why, and He gave this message today.

The days the Lord had opened the book of Moses to me and explained the
scriptures to me about Jesus in them, I remember those days for almost 2
to 3 month the Lord used to wake me up 3am in the mornings. When each
scripture was explained to me I used to literally sit and cry in awe of
Who God is, how wonderful He is and His love for us. I wondered why man
does not know these things but then I realized there are people like
Paul among us who know God much better but when they speak no one
listens to them. People like to hear things they know or things they
like to know. Look at the preacher who are famous today, they teach
popular topics which entice human ears.

Each one of us has many illegal constructions in our spiritual life and
we do not want to bring them down for fear we will change. The words
that come out of our mouths mostly do not match the words our hearts
speak. We praise God and preach Him but in our lives it is different, we
are scared to die in the flesh.

Unless our fleshy inner-man does not die our spirit man will not fully
be in charge and we will not be fully led by the Spirit of God. It is
not that these words are only for you, they are also for me, for in some
areas of my life I too struggle to be free from the hold of our fleshy
inner (old) man.

Let us daily nail every part of our sinful inner man to death so that we
can be more and more people of light, people of spirit and Sons of God.

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, we pray your mercy and grace be abundant on your people. Lord,
these are days where You are doing great and wonderful things among your
people. Not only You are sending strong spirit men to your people but
You also yourself have been actively reaching out. Lord open the eyes
and ears of your people that they may hear and eye, that they may die to
the flesh and be born again in spirit...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Acts 28:23-31*
23And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his
lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God,
persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out
of the prophets, from morning till evening.
24And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
25And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that
Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the
prophet unto our fathers,
26Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall
not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
27For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and should be converted, and I should heal them.
28Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto
the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
29And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great
reasoning among themselves.
30And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received
all that came in unto him,
31Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern
the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

*1 Corinthians 5:6-8*
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump?
7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the
leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.

*1 Corinthians 11:23-30*
23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,
That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this
is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped,
saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as
ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the
Lord's death till he come.
27Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the
Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and
drink of that cup.
29For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

*Romans 6:3-13*
3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death?
4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of
sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death
hath no more dominion over him.
10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he
liveth unto God.
11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey
it in the lusts thereof.
13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto
sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the
dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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*Which Jesus do we receive?*

*Luke 24:29-31*
/29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward
evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them./
/30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and
blessed it, and brake, and gave to them./
/31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of
their sight./

It is said all that is yellow and shines is not gold, so also every
person with the name Jesus is not Lord Jesus Christ. Like the eyes of
the people in today's message open when Jesus broke bread so also
sometime back my eyes too opened when I went to receive bread (Body of
Christ) at a service. I hope today's message opens people's eyes like
mine did to the deceit we are in.

To know Jesus more than a man as to who He is we learn more from the Old
Testament and less from the New Testament. So also when we take bread
which represents Christ, to learn more on bread too we need to go to the
Old Testament.

One day I was discussing this matter with a representative of a Church
and it was very difficult for me to explain him this without hurting his
sentiments. So I told him, if I took a plum cake and said this is the
Body of Christ what will your reaction be? Surely he got offended at it.
I told him, even though cake is made of flour like bread is but because
he could see the colour difference and distinguish the taste he got
offended.

When I went to a service I to receive Bread I saw they were using a bun
(sweet bread) with tutti-frutti in them and I was spiritually shaken. I
asked the Lord what was this I was receiving and then He opened my mind
to this deceit.

In the Old Testament even though it is written that Jesus took bread we
come to know what bread He took only by learning about the traditions
followed by the Jews according to the book of Moses. In the book of
Moses, God went to great lengths to explain bread and to distinguish the
different kinds of bread and we smart alecs try to correct God about
what bread is.

If we read the following scriptures

*Exodus 29:23* - /And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread,
and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before
the LORD:/

*Leviticus 8:26* - /And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was
before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread,
and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:/

*Numbers 6:19* - /And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the
ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened
wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair
of his separation is shaven:/

We all know how the Lord was very specific about yeast not being a part
of the Passover which in reality was a shadow of the Sacrificial Lamb -
Lord Jesus Christ, like all the other festivals celebrated were also
shadows of what Christ did and will do.

When it came to normal bread, unleavened bread, cake and wafer the Bible
differentiates each from the other very clearly. Yet we being smarter
than God correct Him by telling Him there is no difference between them.

Some may argue it is only symbolic and what they mean is what matters.

I like to tell them, why not they start using plum cake tomorrow or even
cream cake. What is the harm? Something extra should not matter; bread
is there in them too. Who decides how much compromise is okay?

Was God foolish to proclaim a punishment given for murder and rape, for
a small thing like keeping yeast during the Passover?

Out of convenience some to increase shelf life we use wafer instead of
unleavened bread. Seem God did not realize the inconvenience we would
have following His instructions.

Every tradition in the Bible had reason and purpose to get the message
to those who do not know. When we are changing the basics then surely
the message would also change and we would be preaching another Gospel
another Jesus.

I like to ask everyone, next time you go to church or service ask
yourself what Jesus you are receiving.

(This is yesterday's message; I had written this message yesterday
partly and had a tough time toning it down so as not to shake anyone
spiritually very much)

*[/Prayer Starter/]*
Lord, your people are deceived since ages from receiving the Daily
Sacrifice. Open their eyes and let them know the Truth. Let them
experience the power of Breaking of Bread and how lives change when they
do with understanding. We praying they receive forgiveness this Daily
Sacrifice offers...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

*[/Reference Scriptures/] *
*Luke 22:19* - /And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and
gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do
in remembrance of me./

*Exodus 12:7-8,15*
7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts
and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall
put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread
from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off
from Israel.

*Leviticus 24:5-8*
5And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two
tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table
before the LORD.
7And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on
the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually,
being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

*Daniel 8:9-12*
9And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding
great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
10And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some
of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
11Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him
the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was
cast down.
12And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of
transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it
practised, and prospered.

*Daniel 12:8-11*
8And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall
be the end of these things?
9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed
till the time of the end.
10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked
shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise
shall understand.
11And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and
the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand
two hundred and ninety days.

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