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7-22-2018 Weekly Message
The Meditations of the Week: Psalm 1: 1-6
Text: Isaiah 55: 1-13
The title of the Word: The delight of soul in fatness

God made man a living soul (Genesis 2: 2: 7). God placed the living soul in the body made of clay. Therefore, the real identity of  man is not the body but the soul. But Satan, who brought sin, death, and curse into this world, deceives that the body of man is man himself, and causes man to follow the lust of the flesh, the lust of eyes, and the pride of life. It is also making men waste their lives trying to achieve these three things and to fulfill their physical thirst. It also allows them to live to satisfy the physical body, spending money for their lives and laboring for the rest of their lives.

The man of God, Moses, testified about how the end of their lives would be:

” The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:10)

God has spoken through him about the inevitable end of man who lives to fulfill his thirst for the rest of his life. It is for those who do not know who they are and live in vain for the rest of their lives. They are like stupid people who think that the house in which they live are themselves, and that they spend  everything to live in a good house for the rest of their lives,

A philosopher tried to find out who he is, and preached for life to others saying, “Know yourself,” but he did not realize it and left the world in vain. Most people do not know that no one knows about anyone but God, who created them. God says that He made man in three parts: body, spirit, and soul, according to His image and his likeness, as if God Himself are one:

” And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.“ (Genesis 2: 7).

Therefore, the human body is for the soul and the spirit within it. But when Satan brought sin into the world, the soul and spirit dwelling in the body of all men are born dead without knowing it. The soul and spirit in it are dead, and the breathing body is mistakenly as being alive, and living for the life of the flesh in thirst unto eternal death.

God has called out to the ignorant through the prophet Isaiah:

” Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. “(Isaiah 55: 1-2)

It is not about the flesh that people are thirsty for something, but many people still do not realize that they are thirsty and struggling of  the souls and spirits that being dead within theme. When they do not realize this and live for decades, when they hear God’s Word, their dead spirit will come to life and finally the soul will be saved. The Apostle Peter testified of this truth:

” Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see himnot, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.” (1 Peter 1: 8 -9)

Therefore, man whose spirit is quickened and the soul saved is not thirsty for the lust of the flesh, but he realizes that he is thirsty for spirit and soul. As the body is healthy through nourishing with balanced diet.  The spirit and the soul are healthy when man eat  the word of God that is life and spirit as prophet Isaiah testified:

” Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” (Isaiah 55: 3).

            Apostle John wrote a blessed letter unto Gaius who listened to the word of God to be saved his soul :

” The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

2Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.“(3John 1:1-2)

            That’s right! Everyone born in the world must first hear the Word of God and realize that their spirit and soul are thirsty, and accept the word of life, and be born again of the Spirit to save the soul. From then on, they shall be prosperous in the kingdom of God, and even the body shall be blessed to enjoy healthy life.

             That’s why God encourage all men saying, seek ye the LORD while he may be found, and call ye upon him while he is near.  When man  realizes the thirst of the spirit and soul and call upon the Lord, the soul is to be saved. As an example , the one that was saved calling upon the Lord is the man crucified with Jesus. Apostle Paul testified about thist:

”  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

15And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! ” “(Romans 10: 13-15)

           Through the thirst of the soul, he who hears the word of God, and  born again of the Spirit, and save his soul, is going to have  God’s thoughts  forsaking his own thoughts through the Word of God. It is no longer living in the world, but living in the spiritual kingdom of God. When the Spirit is filled with the word of life and the Spirit is filled with the Spirit of God, living waters is overflowing from the belly, and save people that are dying in the thirst.

           Jesus cried out about this and said:

” In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)  “(John 7: 37-39)

          As the heavens, the earth, and Jerusalem shall be restored in the future, the living waters in the believers now shall be filled in heaven, earth, and new Jerusalem:

          The prophet Ezekiel prophesied about the water of life that would come down from the Temple of Jerusalem as the earth is restored and ruled by the Lord Jesus Christ:

” Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.    . And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. “(Ezekiel 47: 1, 9)

          Apostle John testified about the river of life and water flowing in a new Jerusalem where the bride of Christ shall dwell::

” And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, andyielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. “(Revelation 22: 1-2).

Amen! Hallelujah!