4-2-2017 Weekly Message

Contemplation of the Week: Psalms 27:1-14

Text: Isaiah 40:18-31

Subject: The life of mounting up wings as eagles

          God once again speaks to the people of Israel what he is. It is not only to them, but also to all Christians who believe in the Messiah, Jesus Christ of ours today, as His children. Jesus said in his final prayer for His disciples, ”  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.“ (John 17: 3).

         That is correct! If we do not know what God we believe in, we cannot be  winners in the world ruled by the devil. Apostle John testified about the power of our faith, “ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. ” (1 John 5: 4). In other words, those who are born again of the Holy Spirit and become children of God can know what God is like. The apostle John, who was born of God, testified to his young children about who He is in Himself;

” Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4: 4).

            Through the prophet Isaiah, God once again gave a message to the Israelites about who he is, so  that they should not be discouraged when they were subjected to extreme persecution in the world, but that they should triumph in faith in His coming l. God, who was from the beginning, sat on the circular earth and looked at the inhabitants of the earth and told them how insignificant they were, so they did not fear them and gave them a message that they should overcome them by faith. It is also a word for all the children of God.

        Everyone living in this world says that they are all bouncing like grasshoppers, regardless of their wealth. They will rise up and become rulers and judges, but they will not be planted; they will not be rooted forever, and they will live forever, and if God blows them, they will grow old and dry up and become like a stubble blown by a whirlwind.

           He spoke of how miserable and fragile beings are, and how great and strong God Himself is. To realize this, he first asked them to raise his eyes up and look at the sky. God opened the eyes of Asaph, and testified of  the wicked Israelites  that  were living  foolish life by looking at the earth, not looking at the high heavens: ” They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.“(Psalm 73: 9)

           We can see that they are no different from the members of the Laodicean church who lives at the end time. They used to say that they  go to heaven after death, but their lives are not those belong to heaven, but to the  earth. Just like old Jews, mouth and tongue are playing separately. Because of this Jesus said to the wicked Jews, ”  This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.“ (Matthew 15: 8).

         As God as ked the people of Israel to look up to heaven,  to see the sun, the moon, and many stars in the heavens, and the stars in heaven that he created , and  brought them up to number, He said that he is the mighty God . When God made a covenant with Abraham, he took him out at night and asked him to look at heaven. ” 5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. “(Gen. 15: 5) He spoke.

            That is correct! It is to live a life of trusting in God whether the Jews and the children of God  caring for God’s greatness in theeir heart. Long before the end of the nineteenth century in 1885, the song of a man who realized God’s greatness and looked up to heaven (Hymns, 40) singed the song of God’s high and greatness. But at this last moment, the   Satan darkens the hearts of those who do not believe, The apostle Paul testified that In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (2 Corinthians 4: 4)

               God spoke toward the children of Israel, the children of Jacob. This word is also to all Christians who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and have become Abraham’s descendants: ” Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.“(Isaiah 40: 28-29)

           God told the prophet Isaiah to cry out to  about how fragile man  is:” The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever  “(Isaiah 40: 6-8)

           The Apostle Peter testified that a weak body must receive the word of God in order to live as eternally as God: ” Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.“(1 Peter 1: 23-25)

            Young people are all too clumsy and tired, and even young people can not help but fall down because they all are a bitterly flesh that is blue for a short time and then dried up and forced to die. But God has renewed his power over his chosen Israelites, and he spoke of the secret of the eagle not being tired   even though they run  like mounting up with the  wings. It is that He gives to “Only those who wait upon the Lord.”

            It is a promise that when the Israelites expect their Messiah to appear, they will be able to overcome the world through their beliefs and to rush to the moment when their mea appears with the power of faith. This promise is a word of promise given especially to the remnant of Israel at the time of the great tribulation, the time of Jacob’s suffering. In addition, those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel, and who receive His Spirit live in this evil world, and live a life of expectation only in the day of His appearing Christ, that faith overcomes all suffering, As Apostle Paul kept the faith  looking forward  the day when Christ appears  to the end, and rejoiced in Christ for all weaknesses, insults, poverty, persecutions, and distresses. (Isa. 40:29),  He said, “ when I am weak, then am I strong. ” (2 Cor. 12:10). To the end, and finally to mount up to heaven  like an eagle on that day when Christ is in the air.  Therefore, the apostle Paul exhorted the saints of the Thessalonian Church to comfort each other with these words.

           The Holy Spirit spoke through David:

” Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord..” (Psalm 27:14)

            The God who spoke through Isaiah appeared as a Son of man in the name of Jesus, and before he left the world, he gave the same message in his words to his disciples: ”  Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.  “(John 16: 32-33)

            The Lord has spoken to say that they are to be encouraged   to renew their strength as they look forward the day when he come back to them.   All apostles, including the Apostle Paul and the apostle John, had the power to overcome the world and wait for the Lord’s coming back, finally to deny themselves  to the Lord, to take his cross, and to follow him to the end. This power is not only given to them but also to all the children of God. Because of this, the apostle John testifies that faith is the power to overcome the world. Amen! Hallelujah!