8-9-2015 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 11:1-7

Main scripture: Galatians 3:6-18

Subject: God calls them whom he foreknows

            The LORD God foreknew Enoch, and called him, and he walked with God for three hundred years; and God took him to heaven (Gen. 5:21-24). And after God planned to judge the world with flood, he called Noah foreknowing him to build the ark for 120 years. Noah found the grace in the eyes of God. Finally the LORD God fulfilled his will through Noah(Gen. 6:5-8).

           In the main scripture given to us today, the LORD God calls another man. The LORD God planned to send his only begotten Son to the world to deliver all nations from sin and death and curses, and to give them eternal life, and he called Abram foreknowing him as the one that believe him, and follow him until his will be done. The LORD God called him, and said unto him:

“Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”(Gen. 12:1-3)

Upon hearing the word of God, Abram departed as God said when he was seventy five years old.

              In the course of many years passed by, the LORD God appeared in a vision to confirm his covenant, and sais unto him when he was old enough so that no son could be given birth unto him at all in the view of man

“And 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)

Even though he was too old to have a son, he believed in the LORD without any doubt; the LORD counted it to him for righteousness (Gen. 15:5)

            After many years passed by again, the LORD God spoke unto him to establish the covenant with him, when he a=was ninety nine years old:

“I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”(Gen. 17:1-8)

           God had planned to send his only begotten Son to the world as the seed of Abraham to deliver many nations of people from death and curses that were brought forth by the sin brought by the Devil. And he made his Son he hanged on the cursed tree that is the cross for all men to save them from the curses of the law so that whosoever believes in him to be delivered from the curses. God spoke unto Abraham of his seed, not seeds; and the seed of Abraham is a man whose name is Jesus Christ so that whosoever whether Jews or Gentiles believes in him may receive the eternal life through the Holy Ghost.

            Foreknowing Abram to believe the words of the LORD God to the end without any doubt, he called him. The Holy Ghost testified of this through Apostle Paul:

“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.”(Rom. 4:18-25)

              Yeah! Whosoever born in the world is living with no hope without Jesus Christ. They are supposed to disappear after 70 or 80 years later in vain not knowing where they are going to after death. Whenever they open the mouth and move around, only sins are accumulated as well as curses unto death. Even now, God foreknow, and is calling them who know that Jesus Christ died miserably for them to redeem their sins of the law receiving the sins of the law on his body as well as all the curses and death. And God foreknows them that believe that Jesus Christ rose again form the dead to make them righteous, and to give them eternal life through the Holy Ghost; and he is calling them to give the gift of faith, and to give the life eternal through justification. The blessing of God is the eternal life that is not the corruptible carnal blessing in this world.

              God gives eternal life unto whom believe in his only begotten Son is to fulfill his plan for them. Apostle Paul testified of his plan for them:

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”(Rom. 8:29,30)

                Yeah! God is willing to adopt them that believe in Jesus Christ giving them the Holy Ghost that is the Spirit of his Son. God made his Son manifested in flesh through the Holy Ghost who was the Word in the beginning, and God himself to make his Son as the firstborn through giving birth many sons through the same Spirit. This is a amazing grace that we couldn’t imagine ourselves at all.

            God spoke unto men in the dream or vision, when there was no written words of God. But, now 66 books written of the words of God in our hands. God still is speaking unto the children of God through the written words of God. Even nowadays, God is searching the heart of his children to fine out right ones to fulfill his will. In other word, he is looking for someone that is willing to walk by faith whenever God speaks unto them.

              Apostle Paul testified of this:

“Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”(Gal. 3:7-9)

             Yeah! Even in this moment when we are hearing this message, God is searching for our heart through the Holy Ghost. God called Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, and prophets and apostles as well as so great cloud of witnesses to fulfill his will. Not only them, but also Jesus called a woman in Samaria, and publicans as well as whores. God is still looking for someone who is dedicated to obey the words of God without any doubt, and to keep the faith until his will be done. The reason why we should search the scripture is for us to hear the voice of the Holy Ghost, and obey the words of God to follow the foot steps of the great cloud of the servants of God including Abraham. Apostle Paul testified of the grate cloud of witnesses:

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”(Heb. 12:1,2)

         Yeah! We have to be encouraged through hearing the end of the ancestors of faith who are still encouraging us resting in heaven. Above all, we have to look unto Jesus Christ so that we may be able to do all things through him. Then we are able to deny ourselves, and take up our cross to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. Until the day when we are changed as Christ Jesus, we are supposed to wait upon the Lord to receive the new strength as eagle, and have victorious life with joy and hope with thanksgiving. Amen! Hallelujah!