2-21-2016 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms

Main scripture: Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Subject: What are you choosing out of blessing and life or curse and death in daily life?

God has given the free will only unto man of all other creatures. And the first man received the reigning power of all things with his free will given by God. But unfortunately, Adam and Eve used their free will wrongfully to choose curse and death instead of blessing and life. They chose to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ended up with curse and death for them. The curse and death that were chosen by them have been inherited unto all men for six thousand years. Apostle Paul testified of the miserable thing unto the saints in Rome:

“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”(Rom. 5:14)

              Moses, man of God declared a very important message from the LORD God unto the people of Israel:

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

16In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.”(Deut. 30:15-18)

               He testified of this message in more details. he called heaven and earth to receive that day against them, that he had set before them life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, he asked them to choose life, so that they and their seed might live. He also testified of the Lord God their life; and asked them to obey his word if they wanted to live. And he also sais unto them, they shall not dwell in the land which their LORD swore unto their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

              Apostle Paul testified of the Lord Jesus Christ unto the saints of Corinthians:

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”(1Cor. 15:45)

He testified of the Lord Jesus Christ as the last Adam who was clothed with the form of Adam. He also testified of Adam as the figure of him that was to come. He also testified of the Lord Jesus Christ that has opened the way to be delivered from curse and death through his death and resurrection for whosever the Jews or the Gentiles when they choose him that has come to the world to give light and life. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one that ended death and curse inherited from Adam.

               Apostle Paul testified of such a amazing grace of the Lord Jesus Christ unto the Romas:

“15But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

16And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

17For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

18Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

19For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”(Rom. 5:15-19)

                 The LORD God gave the law though Moses, and spoke unto them to keep the law if they wanted to live. But unfortunately, sin and death inherited from Adam were already within them so that they couldn’t keep the law of God as known by God. Apostle Paul understood this truth in the Holy Ghost to continue to testify:

“20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”(Rom. 5:20-21)

           When the LORD God asked them to choose to live, he was asking them to choose the life in the Lord Jesus Christ, the last Adam to come who shall transfer all sins of the world spread out by Adam, and die and rise again. This is the reason why Apostle Paul testified of the gospel of Christ that gives the power of salvation to whomsoever believe, the Jews first and the gentiles(Rom. 1:16)

              The LORD God gave the word of promise unto Abraham saying,

“18In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”(Gen. 15:18-21)

             The Holy Ghost testified of the seed of Abraham unto Apostle Paul:

“16Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”(Gal. 3:16)

             Yeah! Long time ago the LORD God led the people of Israel through Joshua to the land of Canaan. The Holy Ghost testified of the seed of Abraham that is Jesus Christ through Apostle Paul. Therefore, the people of Israel shall be able to enter the land of promise led by the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the reason why they have to choose the Lord Jesus Christ that is their life. This is the reason why God had chosen Apostle Paul to preach the gospel unto the Jew and the Gentiles.

              Apostle Paul preached a very important word of doctrine unto the Hebrews. He testified, Christ Jesus, the seed of Abraham will lead them to the land of promise in the future, and they have to choose life to enter the promised land:

“4For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.”(Heb. 4:4-9)

             The people of Israel have been chosen to inherit the earth where we live. And the LORD God gave them the law that they couldn’t keep so that they might have been living under the curse of the law. The Lord Jesus Christ will lead them that repent unto Zion, the holy mountain when he comes as the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords, as they entered the land of Canaan led by Joshua.

               In other hand, God has chosen them that shall dwell in heaven in Christ to give them the grace to be the children of God. This is the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that has been given unto the Jews and the Gentiles without discrimination. This is the life eternal given through choosing the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of life that is the last Adam.

               Jesus spoke unto the Jews to choose life saying,

“28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”(Matt. 11:28)

He asked them to enter the kingdom of God through believing in him being saved of their souls. In other word, Jesus spoke of the blessing to enter the spiritual land of Canaan. he testified of the rest given by God. Apostle Paul testified of this kind of blessing:

“10For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.”(Heb. 4:10)

               As the word of warning that was given unto the people of Israel, the Holy Ghost gives a very important message unto the children of God to have rest in the world even though they are saved unto the eternal life of their souls. In other word, of the life to live in peace without condemnation that is guilty feeling. Apostle Paul understood of this and testified:

“1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

… 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”(Rom. 8:1,2,5,6)

             Yeah! We have to remember that blessing and curse, life and death are before the earthly life of the Christians that have peace with God through the remission of sins through the blood of Christ. Therefore, in any kinds of situation, they also could abide in the midst of death if they follow their own thoughts not following the words given by the Spirit of God. As David confessed, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path”(Ps. 119:105), we have to shine the light unto the evil world as the wilderness in darkness not to fall to the right and left to live in blessing of life and peace. Amen! Hallelujah!