CREATED TO DO GOOD WORKS
Monday – November 7, 2016
Greetings and the Lord bless you in your obedience (love) and your pursuit to know Jesus and Him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2 (KJV)
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Because of Jesus Christ and His crucifixion we have the privilege to choose to be a child of the only living God, the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Almighty God of Jesus and now of you and me.
Tomorrow is Election Day, be sure that you have or will exercise your responsibility of stewardship over this nation and before God to vote. Let us determine before God that we will vote in the full light of the Word of God. We must pray and believe God, calling things that be not as though they were. We call for and decree righteousness in all three branches of our government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial).
Proverbs 29:2 (KJV)
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Now back to our text in the Book of Ephesians.
Ephesians 2:8-10 (KJV)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
We left off last Friday talking about the “good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” A prominent part of that which functions in all of the direction of the Holy Spirit, the will of God, is for us to be fruitful, to multiply, to replenish, to subdue the earth, to dress and keep our garden, and to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Jesus told us we were to do the works that He did and even greater works than He did.
John 14:12 (KJV)
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
First I will look at least a part of what Jesus did and we are commanded to do. Notice in the preceding verse we are not told that the things Jesus did were only for Him, or that we were to aspire to those things and try, no, Jesus, the Head of the Church, our Master said: “the works that I do shall he do also;” Last I knew the phrase “shall he do” is not a holy suggestion but a command.
Luke 7:21-22 (KJV)
21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
It is incumbent upon each of us to examine our lives, our relationship with our Heavenly Father, and inquire as to why these things are not common place among the children of God, more specifically and more importantly in our personal life. As we finish for today I want to review once again the anointing that was on Jesus is upon us and are we not only to do the things He did but greater things. One place we find the things He did and the greater things is in the following passage. You will recognize this as part of what Jesus read at the synagogue in Nazareth after passing Adam’s Test (temptation) in the wilderness. The greater things starts mid-way through the second verse. Let’s meditate this and I will pick-up here tomorrow.
Isaiah 61:1-11 (KJV)
1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord
GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
