3-13-2016 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 25:1-22

Main scripture: Psalms 37:18-34

Subject: God is pleased to bless them that are upright

             God is pleased to see the one that walk in righteousness before him. The scriptures define of walking in righteousness as “upright”. The word, upright means to be righteous and to be straight forward. In other word, it is not of froward  or crooked heart (Prov. 11:20), and not of lifting up or arrogant (Hab. 2:4). He is the one that is not crooked to compromise with evil. We have to understand what kind of man is considered as upright one by God, and what kinds of blessing shall be made by God.

            Moses, man of God testified of God saying, he is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he (Deut. 32:4). Yeah! He is righteous so that he loves one of upright.

             King David spoke unto the LORD the words of the song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies. He also testified of the reason why the LORD had delivered from the hand of his enemies saying:

“24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

25Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

26With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

27With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.”(2Sam. 22:24-27)

             Long time ago, God paid attention a man, Job, and God wanted to use Satan to try Job to give him double blessing afterwards. We are able to understand that God loves the upright through the conversation between God and Satan:

“Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”(Job 1:8)

             God shall judge the world in righteousness, and he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. King David testified, the LORD loves righteous; his countenance does behold upright.(Ps. 9:8; 11:7) He also testified of one that shall abide in the tabernacle of the LORD saying, he walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart (Ps. 15:1-2) He prophesied of the remnant of Israel that shall repent at the end of the Great Tribulation when the Lord Jesus Christ appears, and that shall enter the his kingdom.

              Yeah! Good and upright is the LORD; therefore will he teach sinners in the way(Ps. 25:8). Even though upright man may be mocked by sinners, but he is glad in the LORD, and rejoice shout in joy(Ps. 32:11)

              When the evil man, the Antichrist appears, the wicked shall draw out the sword, and bend their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be  of upright conversation. But the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but the LORD upholds the righteous. The LORD knows the days of the upright; and their inheritance shall be forever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. And the end of that man is peace(Ps. 37:14-19, 37)

             Such as be blessed of the LORD shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off. The righteous inherit the land, and dwell therein forever. (Ps. 37:22,29).

When Jesus taught the Jews, he spoke of them that shall inherit the earth:

“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”(Matt. 5:5)

               King Solomon, man of wisdom that is given by the LORD testified of the man that walks in uprightness:

“Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly…. The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.”(Prov. 15:21; 16:17)

He also testified of the thing that was found out by himself: “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”(Eccl. 7:29)

He also testified of the words of God being written upright, even words of truth.

               The LORD God spoke unto the people of Israel through Jeremiah of the reason why he was going to judge them because they were not upright:

“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.”(Jer. 23:10)

                   The LORD God spoke unto the Israel through prophet Ezekiel smiting them of their dishonest gain:

“Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.”(EZ. 22:13)

The LORD also declared the message of judgment unto their princes:

“27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when theLord hath not spoken.

1. 22:27-28)

             Prophet Micah also prophesied of the Israel to be judged:

“The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net….. 4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.”(Micah 7:2,4)

               Jesus also testified of the man that reap the fruit in his parable of sowing the seed. Jesus said that he is upright man:

“But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”(Luke 8:15)

                 Apostle Paul encouraged the saints in Rome to be upright to be honest:

“Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.”(Rom. 12:17)

He also encouraged unto the churches of Corinthians and Philippians:

“Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.”(2Cor. 13:7)

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”(Phil. 4:8)

               He also wrote unto the church of Thessalonians that were looking forward the day of Christ saying, he is praying for them a very important:

“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.”(1Thes. 5:23-24)

               Yeah! When we received the Lord Jesus Christ by faith understanding ourselves sinners, he made us perfect. God wants us to keep this perfect until he comes. God sanctified us through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ one for all (Heb. 10:10). He purified thirteen different evils in our conscience through the blood of Christ to make our souls blameless. Our Lord Jesus Christ sat down on the right hand of God after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Heb. 10:12-14)

                  When our souls are saved to be perfected, our dead spirits were born again by the words of God to be perfected also. King David prayed unto the LORD looking forward the day of the salvation of his soul:

“My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.”(Ps. 119:25)

                  We have already put off the mortal body through the circumcision of Christ (Col. 2:11). Before we were saved, we had given our body unto the Devil as the instrument of unrighteousness, but now we are able to present it unto God as the ones that are quickened from the dead. No more walking in the lust of the flesh, but led by the Spirit of God obeying the words of God to be upright, we shall be inherited in the kingdom of God as our works for him. And we shall be clothed with the glorious body, immortal and incorruptible putting off the mortal body of sin. And we shall be changed as the Lord Jesus Christ as we purify ourselves as he is pure (1John 3:1-3).

               King David understood of such amazing blessing through the Holy Ghost confessed unto the LORD God:

“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”(Ps. 17:15)

Amen! hallelujah!