AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Saturday – May 20, 2023, Iyar 29, 5783
FROM THE PROPHETS CHAMBER
DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS – PART NINE
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and welcome back to From the Prophets Chamber and the topic Do All His Commands. Please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible by every means available to you. Thank you for sharing. The featured picture is of me teaching recently at Faith Chapel in Pennington Texas. Today is part nine of this series which will go on for quite some time. Please be sure you are reading out loud.
Don’t skip this! This teaching is designed to hammer home the vital importance of obeying the commands of God and none other. The whole of Scripture speaks to this fact but somehow it does not get done. People claim to know this but their lives do not show the evidence, the fruit. God is not picking winners and losers, making some rich and others poor, some sick and others healthy and so on. We commonly hear the exclamation that He is Sovereign, that His ways are higher than our ways, beyond our understanding. Sovereign although commonly used in reference to God is not a Bible word however, I will concede that the various descriptions of God are consistent with being Sovereign.
I know, you read it before, but keep reading it! So, what does the word ‘sovereign’ mean? It means the one who is a supreme ruler such as a monarch. Having authority and having control are two very different things. Any parent knows this. God does not make any person do anything, it is always our choice, His child or not. Jesus is the head of the Church, the One of highest authority, the One from whom we receive instruction. When was the last time He made you do anything? I am talking about controlling you or me like a robot or a puppet not convicting us by His Word, the Holy Spirit, or messengers in our lives. The answer is never! We chose dear ones. He made us with a freewill meaning we are free to exercise our will. The whole of Scripture reflects or shouts this, Truth! What have you chosen, what have I chosen? The answer to what we have chosen is evidenced in the life we now live. Now, let’s jump into our primary Bible text once again.
Deuteronomy 28:1-4 (KJV)
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Our God lays out over and over in Scripture the path to a superabundant life, yes, right here on planet earth. This is what the first fourteen verses of Deuteronomy 28 are all about and the remainder of the chapter the consequences of disobedience. If the curse is in my life, in your life, we have chosen it. It was not chosen for us by God to teach us something or bring glory to Him. Give me a break, this foolishness has its source in Satan himself. As an example, let’s take a look at the first Psalm.
Psalm 1:1-6 (KJV)
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Who chooses not to walk with the ungodly, stand with sinners, or sit with the scornful? Did God decide or the man (woman)? What have you and I decided? Who makes the decision to delight in the law of the Lord and meditate upon that law? Is it the man or God? I hope you are getting this. The man decides and the man reaps he consequences (Galatians 6:7). Verse three sounds wonderful to me and well worth obeying God and not keeping company with the world. Remember God is talking to His people, at least the ones who claim He is their God. Some that claim He is their God have many other gods before Him. Oh, I know you are aghast. The ungodly in the text of this 1st Psalm are the people of God who are not doing the will of God spelled out in the first two verses and they perish. Many think they are on their way to Heaven but they are not and, in the end, perish. That is far from the will of God, a choice each person makes.
Lord willing, I will pick up right here next Saturday.
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. (Bold added)
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJV)
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. (Bold added)
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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