5-15-2016 Weekly Message

This week’s meditation: Psalms 124:1-8

Scripture: Isaiah 55: 6-13

Title: Abandon the idea of man to fill the thought of God!

            God is speaking  towards the people of Israel that committed sins against the LORD seriously. Before it is too late when He said, find the Lord GOD. When he  is close unto them, asked them to call him. Unjust and wicked man were asked by God to come back to the Lord forsaking their own thoughts.  It is to lay down his thoughts is  true repentance saith the LORD. God said , he will have mercy upon him that returns unto the LORD, ans he also will abundantly pardon him.

          The Lord God appeared in the flesh . He was the LORD God that asked them to repent. When he was crucified to redeem the sins of the whole world, he forgave a thief giving mercy that repented forsaking his own thoughts. But the other side one lost forever the opportunity to receive the mercy of him not forsaking  his own thoughts.

          They pledged to keep all the laws of God before Moses and God: but unfortunately they fail. Then God brought forth famine, pestilence and sword unto them. Thereafter they were still not willing to repent their sins, but they rather rejected to serve the LORD God  to serve the Gentile nations envying with them.  God spoke unto them, his thoughts are not their thoughts, neither are their ways, for as the heavens higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than their ways, and his thoughts than their thoughts.  

          He also said unto them, as the rain cometh down, and snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth: and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread t the eater. He also said,  so shall his word be that goeth forth out of his mouth: it shall not return unto him void, but i shall accomplish that which he please, and it shall prosper in the things whereto he sent it.

          After hundreds of years, God appeared to them in the name of Jesus in the earth, and  he said to them again. He wanted to let them know that he is the Word in the beginning. They did not listen to the words spoken through the prophet Isaiah: Jesus said unto them again: ” 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd….” (John 10: 10-11)

         God spoke through the prophet Isaiah he will accomplish the eternal covenant unto Abraham, their forefather. Again the word of their Lord promised that God will restore their kingdom, when they repent and come unto the Lord Jesus Christ when he  appears again as the Messiah of Israel. Then they shall be the eternal priest nation on the earth; and it shall be done by the Lord God. :” For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” (Isaiah 55: 12-13)

           When God speaks of the reason why they have been in disaster against the people of Israel through the prophet Jeremiah:  ” Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.” (Jeremiah 6:19)

         God spoke again unto them looking forward when they shall repent in the end: : “For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end“(Jer. 29: 10-11)

           The LORD God had loved the people of Israel with all his thoughts for thousands of years, for he had chosen them. He appeared to his people, and said unto a lawyer:

” Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matthew 22:37)

           We can understand that  the old world was judged with the waters except  Noah and his own family due to the wicked thoughts of men through the scriptures. : “  And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them “(Genesis 6: 5-7)

         The Holy Ghost that came in the name of Jesus Christ testified unto the churches of God of the thoughts of God once again through the Apostle Paul:  ” O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” (Romans 11: 33-36)

            The Apostle Paul encouraged the Philippian church to have the mind  of God, Jesus Christ:” Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;  “(Philippians 2: 5-10).

          That’s right! The Lord God of Israel hath obeyed the Father God unto death to give the salvation for not only the Jews, but also all the nations of people. Apostle Paul testified unto Timothy, his spiritual son saying, Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”(1Tim 2:4)

The knowledge of the truth is to let all men know that God is willing to give his grace unto all that believe on him.

          God wants not to be misunderstood of him by the Jews and all the gentile nations of people. His thoughts toward them is not wrath, but peace; they only have to come forward unto him to receive the abundant mercy as well as forgiveness of sins.

           The Apostle Paul spoke unto the Hebrews sincerely:

  ” So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.….. 3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. “Hebrews 3: 11-13; 12: 3).

          The Apostle Paul encouraged the Ephesian church about being filled with the thoughts of God: ” 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;“ (Ephesians 5:18)

           We are to be in temptation giving a break to the Devil when we are not filled with the Holy Ghost; then we may misunderstand the thoughts of God unto us discouraged by the spirit of fear. But the spirit to be given unto us through being filled with the Spirit of God is not the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of the sound mind(2Tim. 1:7) as testified by the Apostle Paul unto Timothy. That’s right, Those three spirits are in the seven Spirit of God that are the spirit of the LORD, and the spirit of wisdom and understanding, and the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD(Isa. 11:2).   

       All the words of God are inspired by the Holy Ghost. Therefore, to be filled with the thoughts of God through being filled with the Holy Ghost, we have to make our thoughts to be filled with all the words of God. Amen! Hallelujah!