10-18-2015 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 139:1-24

Main scripture: proverbs 1:1-9

Subject: Are we fearing God?

             King Solomon, son of King David wrote the book of Proverbs through the wisdom that he received from the LORD God. After he became the king of Israel, he offered thousand burnt offerings upon the alter in Gibeon. Then the LORD God appeared to him in a dream, and said unto him, “Ask what I shall give thee.”; he asked the LORD God saying:

“ Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”(1King 3:6-9)

           The LORD God was pleased upon hearing from Solomon, and answered him saying,

“And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.”(1King 3:11-13)

               The man of wisdom of God testified of the wisdom that he received, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and direction. He continued to say, a wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels; to understand a proverb, and interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.(Prov. 1:1-6)

               He also testified of a very important thing saying, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”(Prov. 1:7).

He also said, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil….The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy in understanding.”(prov. 8:13;9:10)

                 Yeah! They that not fear the LORD are ignorant of the Holy God. They think of God even as inferior to them. Prophet Hosea preached the message of judgment unto the people of Israel against their willful ignorance:

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.”(Hosea 4:6-9)

                 When thousand years were passed by, since Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden, God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And God destroyed man whom he had created from the face of the earth with the flood of waters. At that time, only one man, Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. We can imagine how much God grieved because of this (Gen. 6:5-8).

                  If man doesn’t understand the three kinds of character such as Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent, his imagination of the thoughts in the heart is to be evil as them at the time of Noah. King David, man of wisdom of God spoke unto Solomon, his son:

“And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.”(1Chron. 28:9)

                 King David understood God of Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, and he testified of them in his Psalms:

“O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.”(Ps. 139:1-8)

               Yeah! The LORD God was searching the heart of every man in the days of Noah; and even now he is searching the imagination of the thought in the heart of every man of seven Billion. But they that not received wisdom and understanding from are not able to know God nor believe in him, but only believe in themselves. The Lord Jesus Christ mentioned about his second coming as the Son of man:

“ But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”(Matt. 24:37-39)

               Prophet Isaiah testified of the Spirit of God:

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;”(Isa. 11:1,2)

he testified of the Holy Ghost to be within the Lord Jesus Christ appearing as the son of David in the future. Unless man believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the Holy Ghost to be born again, man cannot have wisdom and understanding and might and knowledge of God, and shall be ended up living wickedness without the fear of God.

              Therefore, in the time of the law, no one can have the knowledge of God to fear him, nor can do good; they only could sanctify their flesh with the blood of animals. The LORD God spoke through prophet Jeremiah of this:

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil…. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”(Jer. 13:23; 17:9,10)

                 The writer of the book of Hebrews preached toward the Hebrews of the gospel of grace of the Lord Jesus Christ; he testified of the eternal power of the blood of Christ as well as unlimited grace:

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having

obtained eternal redemption for us.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?….. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”(Heb. 9:11-14; 10:10-14)

                   All men sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23); the Holy Ghost cannot come in the heart of man, unless all sins in the conscience of man are taken away. As John the Baptist testified of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world, only through believing in the blood of Jesus Christ, all sins shall be taken away so that man could be saved of the soul to receive wisdom and understanding through the Holy Ghost. It is the only way to live in holiness fearing God.

              Therefore, to have the life of fearing God through the knowledge of God, there is no other way but to read the scriptures, and to hear them, and to meditate. The purpose of Bible study is to know the Father God, not to pile up the knowledge itself in the head. Therefore, whosoever is born again of the Spirit has to walk in the truth to sanctify all spirit and soul and body. This is because even the children of God have to stand before the judgment seat of Christ to be judged all their words and works done in the earth. Apostle Paul testified of this:

“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”(2Cor. 5:8-10)

Amen! Hallelujah!