AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Monday – November 23, 2020, Kislev 7, 5781
NOT OF THIS WORLD
Greetings dear and precious friends and partners of this Ministry and The Three Minute Word blog. Please take a moment to share this teaching as widely as possible. Be reminded of the Wednesday Night Bible Study at 6 pm eastern time on Zoom. If you need the meeting id and password contact us. These meetings have been powerful, come expecting. Expect to receive whatever is needed by faith. The featured picture today was contributed by Joe Getchell Jr. Joe has a wonderful eye for interesting scenes. This is Thanksgiving week and we encourage everyone to look around, look inside and see all the things for which we can be thankful. As I have said before, for those born again, no matter our circumstances, we can be thankful that we are not headed for eternity in Hell but instead eternity in Heaven with our Father and our Lord. Beyond that remember that all things in this earth whether in our bodies or outside our bodies are temporal. Whatever our circumstances they are not of God! What!? Our circumstances are the result of our thoughts and words. So, if we change our thoughts and words, we change our world (circumstances). Now, let’s turn our attention to our primary Bible text and read it aloud, yes, out loud.
John 18:35-37 (KJV)
35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
We are in the final hours of Jesus’ ministry as a man in the earth showing us how we are to live, paying the price of sin, restoring authority and Power, and restoring eternal life. This work is nearly done, in three days the Father will bring Him from the grave fully restored as God, and Jesus will bring the Old Testament saints from the bosom of Abraham with Him to Heaven. Abraham’s bosom dear saints is now empty, there is no purgatory or other half-way place between this life and the next. Back to our text, Pilate has just asked Jesus if He is the King of the Jews. Pilate in effect says that he was told this by others.
Pilate in verse thirty-five then tells Jesus that the secular and religious leaders have brought Jesus before Him and he wants to know what He has done. Jesus does not answer him directly but continues on the idea of Him being a King and having a Kingdom. He tells Pilate that He has a Kingdom but it is not of this world. That statement was true on that side of the Cross but not on this side of the Cross. God gave the earth unto mankind with full authority and the Power to back up the authority. However, mankind (Adam and Eve) surrendered their authority to Satan by the deceptions of Satan. God, the Father, however still wants a family, a very large family, and He wants that family to exercise dominion in the earth. The earth, dominion (authority) and the Power to back the authority up is back in the hands of His children. Jesus is about to accomplish just that but for now His Kingdom is everything but the earth. However, earth is the place that God created and placed man, created in His image and likeness. Being in the image and likeness of God is to say that we look like, we are an exact duplicate in kind, and that we are to act or do like God. With the Cross and Resurrection and the sending of the Holy Spirit into the earth, Heaven is come to earth, the Garden of Eden is again possible in the earth. Let me remind us all of a couple of things.
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.
Would a just God tell us to do this if He had not made full provision? Has the will of God, God’s original intent from the beginning ever changed? Has He ever said: oops, that didn’t work so well, let’s get a new plan? Where ever we are (where we live) should be as Heaven on earth, as the Garden of Eden. Where ever God sends us we should make as Heaven on earth, as the Garden of Eden. Is that happening? Short answer, no. What not? Unbelief and way too many trees the Father did not plant. Incorruptible seed (Word of God) needs to replace and displace trees of corrupted seed (lies of the enemy).
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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