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10-10-2021 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91:1-16

Main scripture: Isaiah 43:18-21

Subject: Two kinds of the new things to be done by God

        Since the first man sinned, God proclaimed of the new thing that will be done for six thousand years (six days for God) unto the old serpent that is enemy devil that brought sin and death to the world. God planned to let the devil bruise the feet of the seed of the woman that is Christ Jesus on the cross; and through the resurrection of Jesus the third day, God planned to take away the sin of the world by the blood of Christ. When time is fulfilled, God is going to bruise the head of the devil.

         The LORD God has chosen Israel as his own people, and let them understand their sins through the law given to them. God sent Jesus Christ to make him the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, and let the devil bruise his feet. Through his death, God took away the sin of the world. Therefore, God planned the new thing and proclaimed of it that is to give the grace for purifying the sins of the Jews and the Gentiles through the faith in Christ.

         The new thing was planned to take away the sins within men first to make them renewed, and secondly, to renew the earth that has been defiled and curse because of the sins of men.

        The LORD God said, “My glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” before he restore the Israel that sinned against him after they are chastened by God. God declared unto them to do new things for them. Of the new things, God had said unto them in advance saying they shall sing a new song unto the LORD, and his praise from the end of the earth. ” (Isa. 42:8-10)

        The LORD God said unto them in advance, they shall be chastened because of their sins, before they shall see the new things. For them not to be discouraged when they are chastened, God spoke unto them in advance of the new things for them. The LORD God had long time held his peace, and he had been still, and refrained himself. Finally, God said unto them, he will cry like travailing woman; and he will destroy and devour them at once. He also said, he will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and he will make the rivers islands, and he will dry up pools (Isa. 42:14,15).

        Not only this, he will lead them in paths that they have not known; and he will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. But the LORD God added a very important message, saying “These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.” Then, they shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, “Ye are our gods.” God spoke unto them, saying, “Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.” (Isa. 42:16-18)

        Finally, the LORD God spoke unto Israel to restore them again, after he chasten sinful Israel:

 “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.”(Isa. 43:18-18)

        The LORD God reminded Israel again of the new things saying,

 “ I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ea

was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.(Isa. 48:3-8)

        The LORD God explained about the new things; after God chasten them and try them for them to be pure gold coming out of furnace so that he may lead them to the promised land that is to be restored for them. It was the reason why God reminded them of the new things again and again repeatedly for them not to forget. The LORD God foresaw them passing through the Great Tribulation to be tried as Job was so that the remnant of Israel may be able to enter the promised land to be restored that was given unto Abraham as the covenant. The LORD God had decided to make them the head of all the nations in the earth; this is the reason why God has tried them for thousands of years so much severely.

        The LORD God had spoken through prophet Isaiah of the blessing in the kingdom of their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. when God doses the new thing for Israel:

 “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.”(Isa. 35:1,2)

        God, before the foundation of the world, had predestined the chosen people in Christ to be adopted as the children of God different form the people of Israel through taking away their sins by the blood of Christ Jesus; and made them the church of God as well as the bride of Christ to make them as the joint-heir with Christ. To make his will for them fulfilled, God has been trying them also severely for last two thousand years.

      But, unfortunately, even the church of God has been falling away as Israel has done; God spoke unto the churches in the last days through Apostle John:

 “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any

man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”(Rev. 3:15-20)

        The Lord Jesus Christ spoke unto the angel of the church of Laodiceans, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am st down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” In other word, as Apostle Paul testified, he promised the church of God to give the blessing of reigning over all the nations with Christ in his kingdom as the joint-heir with Christ. The first new things are to be done for Israel in the earth making them as the nation of priesthood; and the second new things shall be done for the church of God in heaven as well as in the earth reigning with Christ in his Millennum Kingdom.

        Nowadays, we see, all the nations of people are rejecting the words of God, for their heart are frozen to be hardened. Even the churches of God are worshipping the gods of the world that is mammon as Jesus said unto the Jews rejecting the words of God not understanding, they are committing idolatry.

        As the LORD God reminded unto Israel repeatedly of the new things, for Israel was not be aware of them either; and he will make the new things for them come to pass, The psalmist testified of this:

 “He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.”(Ps. 147:16-18)

          Yeah! The LORD God will restore Israel that has been chastened, and he will restore the promised land where they shall dwell in the kingdom of Christ as the Garden of Eden. And he also will do the new things for the churches of God making the way and filling the living water in the heart of the children of God as wilderness and desert, after God chasten the churches that fall away as the church of Laodicean as Israel did.

        Now, we have received the pure words of God as the silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times (Ps. 12:6), the words of God shall melt the heart of men frozen through the Holy Spirit as wind blows so that waters shall flow out of them, when we preach the words of God by faith. Receiving this word by faith, let us participate in the new things of God that will melt the frozen hearts beginning from the city where we live unto the all the earth! Amen! Hallelujah!