AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Friday – June 19, 2020, Sivan 27, 5780
GIFTS – PART THIRTY-FIVE
SALVATION
Greetings dear and precious saints of God, friends and partners of this Ministry. Also, welcome back to this Friday series titled “Gifts”, I am now on week thirty-five and the subtitle is “Salvation”. Where ever you are reading this please take a few moments and share these teachings as widely as possible. God is good dear ones, let other people know the wonderful news. You may have noticed the phrase “AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH” has been added to the header and as you finish the study you will notice the addition of 2 Chronicles 20:20 the b portion of the verse. I believe the Lord has quickened me to add these and they will be a standard part of The Three Minute Word. The Lord gave me the phrase “Awake, Arise, and Triumph” many years ago now and I wrote two books with those words as the main title. The Church as a whole was sound asleep then and have not awakened, slumbering on, quite oblivious to the Truth. Nothing demonstrates this fact more than the Churches response to this Pandemic. Some in the Church are rebelling against the government looking for a natural solution to a spiritual problem. In the process they are rebelling against God and His instructions, command, in Romans 13. Oh my, it is embarrassing.
But there is good news! There is a remnant arising which will bring the largest awakening the world has ever seen to this day. The organized, traditional, Church will not awaken just as they did not awaken when Jesus walked the earth. These are like the “five foolish virgins”. The “Awake” part of this phrase has to do with awakening to our sin. The “Arise” part of this phrase has to do with us arising once we have awakened to our sin, repenting, and tearing down those high places (thoughts, words, and ways that we exalted above the thoughts, words, and ways of God). Once we have done these things we can truly walk in triumph.
As those who are regular readers know, I spent several months actually laying the legal foundation that God established through Abraham and Isaac to bring Jesus (the Word) into the earth as our (mankind’s) Savior. We needed salvation, rescue, a way out of the wrath of God, a place of safety, a way back into the family of God. God in the beginning started out to have a family and He will have a family, a really large family. Just as in our natural families there are those who rebel so it is in this family. The father of rebellion is Lucifer, now called the Devil among other names, and rebellion is rampant in the world and in the Church alike. As we have discussed God, our Heavenly Father, does not want any person born in the earth to rebel and go to Hell. Unfortunately, the devil is all to successful in his deceptions and people are going to Hell by the billions. The Church for many centuries has not been much help. But God has a rising remnant today who will turn the world upside down like the early disciples in the Book of Acts.
Salvation or being born again is the first and foundational gift. Without salvation one is not in any way entitled to any other of the gifts from or of God. From the Day of Sin and Death in the Garden of Eden mankind was needing and looking for a promised Messiah (Liberator, Savior). Eternal life was going to be the cost of this liberation from darkness back into the light. Just how much do you suppose “eternal life” would cost. I am not talking about eternal existence which is what we all have from the moment of conception, but eternal life verses eternal death. What have I chosen, what have you chosen? Remember one cannot work themselves into Heaven. Being a good person and doing good things will not take us to Heaven except we bow our knee, our whole life to Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2:15 (NLT)
15 “You and I are Jews by birth, not ‘sinners’ like the Gentiles. Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”
Salvation is a gift; we cannot earn salvation. The only source of eternal life is God. To have eternal life or to receive eternal life one must be born again, receive and believe the gift of salvation. We are changed or quickened to eternal life in our spirit man with receiving, declaring Jesus as Lord and believing God raised Him from the dead. Eternal life is too precious to earn, beyond price, it must be given by One who has eternal life. The One was Jesus, the Messiah.
Romans 6:23 (KJV)
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Eternal death, the wages of sin, the wages of the failure to repent, the rejection of Christ, is eternity (forever without end) separated from God in the Lake of Fire. Yes, the Lake of Fire is a real place.
Revelation 20:11-15 (KJV)
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Does any of this sound even close to good to anyone?
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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