5-22-2016 Weekly Message

This week’s meditation: Psalms 24: 1-10

Scripture: Psalm 23: 1-6

Title: The everlasting happiness for the sheep of the Lord Jesus Christ

         David, the Lord God called his Shepherd has confessed that he is the sheep of the LORD God. He testifies of his life as a sheep of God.  In the present world, as well as it is telling you about life in eternity. Calling himself as the sheep of the LORD God, he meant to pledge to obey the voice of the LORD God through his whole life.

          When Jesus came into the world, he  spoke of the relationship between shepherd and sheep:” Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.  I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.…. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.  I and my Father are one. “(John 10: 7-9, 27-30)

             Confessing, “The LRD is my shepherd”, he testified of the Jehovah God as well as the Lord Jesus Christ to be manifested in flesh in the future. He confessed of the Lord Jesus Christ  that is going to appear in the world as his Lord in his prayer:

”  The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. “(Psalm 110: 1).

             He testifies, he is not in want, for the LORD God the Creator is his own shepherd so that he is following him thoroughly. Jesus spoke unto the Jews to enter the kingdom of God through believing in him to be his sheep so that he will supply all things that they need abundantly foreknowing their need:

“ Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.“(Matthew 6: 31-33)

         He confess that like a shepherd leads his sheep to the green pastures for them to eat the grass freely as well as to the still waters for them to drink therein, the LORD God let him eat the words of life that is never withers as well as everlasting waters to drink through the Holy Ghost. We understand that he had rest in the Holy Ghost. He asked unto the LORD not to take the Spirit of the LORD with repentance when he committed sin against God taking the wife of Uriah saying, ” Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.“ (Psalm 51:11)  

         We can understand how much great grace has been given unto us when we are saved to be born again of the Spirit through believing on the death of the Lord Jesus Christ for us as well as his resurrection. Apostle Paul testified of such a great grace unto the Saints in Ephsians church:

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.“(Eph. 1: 13-14).

           In addition, David has proof that God revive his soul. And he testifies that the Lord leads his soul to righteous ways. He prayed to revive his soul:

 ” My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.“(Psalm 119: 25-27).

          He realized his soul no choice but to sin because of that cleaved to the body of sin. Knowing that there are so few that understand of this truth, it makes us sad. He realized of himself as the living soul made by the LORD God (Gen. 27). If you do not realize this fact cannot be found to be sinners, neither to come unto the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation.  Realizing this truth, the apostle Peter testified, ” Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (I Peter 1:09)

          The Apostle Paul also testified to the people who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, they put off the body of sin as the dust through the circumcision of Christ:

” In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (Colossians 2:11)

             King David prayed three times a day to prayed unto the LORD God, and praised him seven times a day in the presence of the Holy Ghost.  What he was most afraid of was to lose the presence of the Holt Ghost as confessed in his prayer:

” Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.” (Psalm 27: 9)

             The Holy Ghost which dwelled within King David was not the Spirit of adopted son, but of the servant; he always prayed unto the LORD God in the fear to ask not to leave him away. King David foresaw the great grace to be given unto them that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifested in flesh, and shed his blood, and rose again for sinner; and he confessed:

” Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.” (Psalm 32: 1-2)

         Jesus appeared to take away the sin of the world; and  spoke about the blessings to those who will receive salvation through himself to the disciples:

” And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (John 14:16)

          He also confessed that his  rod and staff comforted him. He testifies of the staff of God that led him right ways, and of the rod that punished him whenever he was in trouble continually. He confessed to walk according to the words of God:

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.“ (Psalm 119: 105)

           He also testified of the wandering days falling apart the words of God as well as the troubles and grace because of that: ” Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word….. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” (Psalm 119: 67,71).

          King David finally testifies of the hope of his resurrection as Jesus rise again, and of the hope of his coming down to the earth together with the Lord Jesus Christ to be the pastor as well as the prince reigning with Christ. He also testifies of the blessing that in the Millennium age,  he shall receive the table from the Lord Jesus Christ before the Devil that is his enemy while he is in the bondage in the bottomless pit. He testifies of his blessing of the everlasting anointing as saying “My cup runneth over”  

          God prophesied of the blessing for King David in the days of the Millennium of Christ through the prophet Ezekiel to prophesy:

“And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.

“(Ezekiel 34: 23-24).

          Finally, he confess, the goodness and mercy of God had followed him for all the days of his life as two dogs are used by the shepherd to follow his sheep to protect them. He also testifies of the resting in the bosom of Abraham after death as well as his resurrection with Jesus Christ in his likeness saying,  

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

              The Holy Ghost testifies of the everlasting hope of the children of God through the Apostle John:

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.“(1 John 3: 2-3).

           That’s right! The bride of the Lord Jesus Christ that is the church of God shall dwell in the New Jerusalem that is house of the Lord.

Amen! Hallelujah!