AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Wednesday – July 15, 2020, Tamuz 23, 5780
EVEN MORE OF OUR JOY AND HIS JOY
Greetings precious brothers and sisters in Christ. Please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible. Thank you. The featured picture was taken by our good friend Joe Getchell Jr in Pittsfield, Maine. We hope you are enjoying his pictures. Each of you are precious beyond any natural price, God set the price, our value to Him, and it is far beyond any natural price a man could pay. When man forfeited eternal life by sinning God Himself possessing eternal life became a man, took our sin, restoring eternal life to those who would receive. This cannot be bought with silver and gold.
1 Peter 1:18-19 (KJV)
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Considering the cost of the sin of Adam, our sin, how can we view sin so lightly, so cavalier? Yet, this has happened, it is it seems a foundational belief among Christians that we are all human and therefore will sin and there is no other alternative. What a lie! This is humanism. Humanism is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems. We are to be less and less carnal, fleshy, sinful, day by day and achieve a time when sin is rare even absent in our lives.
Romans 8:6 (KJV)
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
It is our choice to remain carnally (humanism) minded or spiritually minded. Do we want to maintain the death (stealing, killing, and destroying by the thief) we have brought by our own choice of thoughts, words, and ways into our lives? Or do we want eternal life, life as God knows life (right here and now, days of Heaven in the earth) with peace? We are in a human or earth body dear ones but we are not flesh or carnal beings but supernatural (spiritual) beings. Now, let’s turn our attention to our primary Bible text and read it out loud (Romans 10:17).
John 16:20-22 (KJV)
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Joy is a supernatural, spiritual force, that increases our strength. This is true whether it is our joy we are talking about or the joy of the Lord. These two will always run together so it is quite artificial and perhaps misleading to evaluate them as operating separate from one another. Our closeness to the Lord determines our joy level and it also determines His joy level towards us.
John 15:10-11 (KJV)
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
The antonym (opposite) of joy is sorrow. As we consider joy as a positive, sorrow is a negative. We know from human experience say nothing of spiritual experience that there is no victory in sorrow. As I prepare to close for today notice in verse ten of the preceding text that love (agape) is intimately connected, cannot be separated from, His joy remaining in us and our joy being full. Oh no, we are back to obeying the commandments, the Word of God! That was just a tad of sarcasm perhaps but somehow we have gotten the idea that we have a way around doing the Word of God. Our level of joy is dependent upon our level of love (agape). Let me repeat again what the highest level of love (agape) is for those who think it is saying they love the Lord and getting a fuzzy wuzzy feeling. Love (agape) is willing obedience to the Scripture, selflessness, and observance of Blood Covenant. Lord willing, I will pick up right here tomorrow.
2 Chronicles 20:20b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Until our next publication, as a Bible Teacher and Prophetic Voice I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus name! Quit asking God to bless you, you are already blessed, you have the Blessing, give Him something to do by the words of your mouth. Once you know the will of God, decree the thing (Job 22:28, Isaiah 45:11, Mark 11:23). (The Blessing is the Holy Spirit) We have left God way to long with nothing to do in our lives.
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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