On the way home from sending Jc to school, I pass by a group of people doing morning exercise, I was thinking if I should start doing exercise to keep myself healthy or just trust the Lord for a healthy body. As I reached home, Lord led me to listen to 03/05/07 ‘Why You are one with Christ and never cut-off from the Vine’.
I requested Lord to manifest His wisdom, revelation and understanding fully in me to let me get all His nuggets of Gold and to manifest His spirit of strength and energy to keep me awake. Praise the Lord, I took down 5 pages of notes that Lord wanted me to post here:
The Principle of Law:
The men who do them shall live in them – the principle of Doing.
The Misinterpretation of Faith without works:
Rahab sending the spies away as well as Abraham putting the son on altar – evidence of faith they were justified before God. Now is the manifestation before man.
The only corresponding action that God hand => when God spoke the universe into existence. He spoke light into being --> He spoke and He believed --> no work --> that was His work. We are made in God’s image. Many a time, we forget the simplicity of speaking and believing.
Romans 10, Moses describe the righteousness of the Law saying the men who do them shall live in them. Law is the Principle of Doing, Doing.
The Righteousness of faith speaks, the words is near you, in your mouth, in your heart. When we operate by faith speaking --> if you have not been speaking over your body but exercise a lot, you are watching your diet carefully, you are trusting in your works and you are under the Law. Just observe 1 Principle, Eat less Move more!
In Galatians, not everyone of the nation of
Galatians 3, those that are of Faith are blessed with believing Abraham. In you, Abraham, all nations shall be blessed; nations are blessed using Abraham’s Name. Doer of words is to read/listen and believe. We must learn to say that the blessing of Abraham is mine. We are given the Sure Mercy of David but not the blessing of David. Abraham lived 400yrs before Law and he was a friend of God.
Just by being sons/daughters of Abraham, Lord said Luke 13:16 ‘ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound – think of it - for 18 years, be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath’. I being a daughter of Abraham, ought not I be blessed! :P
God loved her in her years of bondage, but God is not moved by need. God moves when there is Faith! 18 years of bondage for the woman comes to an end when she believed and became a true daughter of Abraham. The 1st face she saw was Jesus. For 18 years, she was bow down by the yoke of Law, her eyes were on dust. Our body is dust, but spirit is not, live in the spirit and devil cannot consume you.
The fullness of the blessing comes for those who believe with Speak and Believing Abraham. The moment she believed, she was already free! It takes someone to tell her that she is loosed and she realised it.
We have to realise it is not our worthiness; we are to say we are not worthy but Lord Jesus is worthy. Lord Jesus spent 2 months in
When get blessed, we cannot be in pride for, In Pride, Bless becomes Curse, hear sermons becomes works. In Luke 13:8, fertilizer (self-righteousness) is dung. Phil 3: 3-9, we are to have no confidence in the fresh! We are to count self-righteousness as dung so that we can come to Jesus. Example of self-righteous: pride in wealth, show off. Whatever things that make us proud, put that at the foot of Jesus as dung.
Lord: that’s why, even whatever achievements those people who were fruitful and victorious for Him, they still took their crown and put at His feet. The habit did not stop even in Heaven. They are so used to it, even lawful, legal compensation and reward, they put at Jesus feet.
Self-Righteous is very evil, the root of suffering. The Mother of all Sin is Self-Righteousness. Adam sinned (self-righteous) in an attempt to be like God. Job 1:5 ‘When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them (his kids) purified. Early in the morning, he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. This was Job’s regular custom.’
Job would do for his children the sacrifice but not for himself. This is an act of self-righteousness. In the book of Job, Job argued a lot on what he has done. This is self-righteousness too. It was when God corrected him, then he submitted to God saying Job 42:5-6 ‘My ears had heard of you (hear God), but now my eyes have seen you (look to God). Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes (throw away self-righteousness).’ Lord gave him double blessing when he submitted to God.
John 15:6 ‘If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up and thrown into the fire and burned.’ This refers to those who did not accept Christ. John 15:2 ‘He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,’ This ‘cut-off’ means airo in Hebrew, which means rise up. Lord will rise up those that is disbelieve believer to believe in Him. John 15:2-3 ‘while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes (clean by the words) so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.’ We are cleans by the words of God that delivers from the pastor mouth.
Luke 13:8-9 ‘”Sir (Father God),” the man (Lord Jesus) replied, “leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not then cut it down.”’ Lord Jesus could not find anyone that wanted to throw their self-righteousness in
We are not to boast against the olive tree – the life of
What is central in God’s Plan is the church (vine) filled with His Righteousness. If you are the vine, you can never:- loose your salvation, cannot be under this judgment, God will never judge you. Phil 3, you are under the Righteousness of God. Through Faith of Christ, you get the Righteousness of God by Faith so that you may know Him and the power of His resurrection.
We are of the vine, we are under His wings in Christ at the Father’s right hand. John 15, the vine has no trunk, vine intertwine. The life of Christ is flowing --> bear fruit, sunshine of God’s love and the soil --> Grow in Grace and plenty of dung (pass our self-righteousness to God) -- > will bear fruit.
Praise the Lord for this super long post. Hope you realise you are the righteousness of God in Christ and sons of Abraham. When you believe it in your heart, you will bear fruits.
PS: Both Su and I meditated Deuteronomy 28 blessings and Lord revealed very bright and wonderful lives of our future; the taste of Heaven on Earth. Praise the Lord for leading us so close and blessing us so much! Hallelujah!!! Amen and Amen!!!
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