Sun, May 24th - 6:59AM
DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST
Brothers and sisters, thanks, praises, and blessings be to God our Father who has made us a priesthood and family under Jesus Christ God the Son of God whom God our Father has appointed our eternal great High Priest forever, Heb 2:17; Heb 4:14l; Heb 6:20 - Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. who has washed and cleansed us from all sin with His own sinless blood. Let us offer up the sweet sacrifices of love, adoration, and thanksgiving to Him continually, and to God our Father who has given us His only begotten Son through whom we have received the eternal atonement eternal everlasting forgiveness of sins and eternal life through faith in His name with sure New Covenant promises: Heb 8:12 - For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Heb 10:17 - And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Dearly beloved, much love, blessings and peace to you. I pray that you, me, us- that our hearts would rejoice continually in the knowledge of the eternal love and truth of our great invincible, Father God who has raised us up from the dead through the operation of faith in Christ, and placed us on the risen side of the cross our lives hidden in Him in God wherein He has finished our work for us and bestowed upon us eternal incendiary undying love and forgiveness of our sins, nailing them to His cross. Jesus stands as our perpetual Advocate in heaven with the Holy Ghost making continual intercessions for us wherein, we stand by His power. We know without doubt or question brothers and sisters, that God through Christ has given us an eternal inheritance, which we cannot lose- it is the free gift of God, not by works, lest any man should boast. However, let none of us lose our reward, but out of love and trust in Jesus get our full reward in partnering with God in sharing the gospel message and glorifying Him in all that we do in word and deed : Mat 16:27; 1Co 3:8-9; Heb 10:35 2Jo 1:8. As we continue with this study, we know that God commands us never to fear but to love even our enemies as we gladly do, for He loves them and doesn’t want them to parish neither do His people. We ourselves, having been saved and delivered from the power and kingdom of darkness desire that all who believe should be delivered as well. However, God’s people are not doormats and are empowered by God to defend and protect themselves and others should the need arise to do so. Worldwide God has established authorities to restrain and punish those who do evil/evil doers: Rom 13:3-4. Therefore, we understand the wrath of God against those that do evil through His perspective of love patience, long suffering, and goodness not wanting any to parish but for all to be saved which by no means indicates that He is tolerant, neutral, indifferent, or soft on evil people. Evil people are in the world, and evil people are in the church, and in some of our families too. The world cries out for justice. Many are angry and troubled that too often the wicked are not held accountable and there is little concern for the poor victims as there ought to be. We find more than we like to that the justice of the world is imperfect two tiered, having a mix of both corrupt and just judges limited in ability to detect the whole truth at times allowing the guilty to escape justice and the innocent to be found guilty. The holy justice system of God is nothing like that of the world. The holy justice system of God is perfect, meticulous, inerrant, no respecter of persons. God knows the secret intents, purposes of the hearts, and minds of all men and women too. All flesh is open and naked before His eyes and nothing and no one can be hidden from Him. Therefore, holy brethren, we can be absolutely certain that in the absolute perfect inerrant justice system of God the unrepentant wicked shall have no excuse and shall not by any means escape everlasting punishment in hell to await final judgement in the lake of fire with the devil and his angels forever separated from the kingdom of God, while the repentant righteous shall never be condemned but shall be forever saved, blessed and shall enter into the kingdom of God and dwell in His presence forever. Next Judas’ journey to hell. Stay tuned. Love and truth forever.
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Fri, May 22nd - 12:36AM
DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST
Brothers
and sisters, family of the living God our Father, and priests under our great
High Priest, Saviour, Mediator Jesus Christ, God the Son of God, we know that God
commands that all believers be taught the scriptures through the local church
servant officers it is not automatically known. We know that Lord Jesus Christ
is the only saviour and the only way of salvation is through faith/obedience in
His atonement. We know that God commands that the New Covenant is the sole and
final authority of the church. We know that all believers must be taught/understand
and live it publicly and privately through the Standard of Christ within the
boundaries established within the whole context of both the Old and New
Testaments. We know that God commands every
believer in addition to being taught, that after they are taught are to
continue to study live and feed themselves on Christ as well: 2Ti
2:15 - Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
We know that the Word of
God alone through the scriptures alone comprehensively equip, prepares, and
enables every believer to be able over time to understand and to faithfully
carry out the will of God in works, manner of living, character, publicly and privately:
To make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is
in Christ Jesus. 2Ti 3:16 - All scripture is given
by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 - That the
man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works. When
we open the scriptures, dearly beloveds, we cannot fail to notice that Lord Jesus the
Word of God never ceased to teach and correct through and by the scriptures,
leaving us the supreme example to follow. Therefore, we can be fully confident
to trust completely and understand that God commands us all to
interpret Scriptures by the scriptures because the scriptures interprets itself
by the scriptures, teaches, confirms/validates, backs up, proves, corrects and defends scriptures
absolutely without error nor any contradiction in any way, manner or kind
whatsoever within the whole context of both the New and Old Testaments. We see
many examples of this throughout scripture- the apostles interpreting the Old
Testament within whole context of both Testaments. We know, holy brethren, that
the duty of teaching the flock starts primarily with the servant leaders of
every local church with the goal of aiding believers to grow from spiritual
infancy to spiritual maturity in living and sharing the gospel in the world and
to encourage other believers and aid them in their growth. God forbids adding
to or taking away from His word, and curses those who do so unrepentantly
willfully: Gal
1:8-9; 2Jo
1:10-9. There are those who have helpful studies interpreting scriptures
but all such including teachers must be tested/proven rightly by scripture. There cannot be any spiritual
healthy church without the nourishment of the scriptures. You, me us- we
can do nothing without Jesus, and why would we want to try, it will never work.
Spiritual slops cannot feed God’s people only Jesus can. There is an abundance
of spiritually healthy churches addicted to the scriptures fully equipping the
saints (G40 hagios}. Unfortunately, there are others whose members are
spiritually poorly developed showing evidence of failure of being taught
scripture to any significant degree. These kinds of flocks get in trouble in
ignorance making up stuff trying to please God. Some suffer terrible
consequences and some even die and have died. Just as the multitude of faithful
servant leaders will be rewarded for their faithful care of the flock, the
negligent unfaithful ones, unless they repent will suffer the punishment of
God. However, it is error to teach
that the devil possessed Judas and caused him to not believe and betray Jesus.
Jesus declared that evil is a condition of the heart: Mar 7:20 - And he
said, That which
cometh out
of the man, that defileth the man. Mar 7:21 - For from
within, out of the heart of
men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, We know dearly beloveds that, God allows all men
to be tested but tempts no man: Jas 1:13-15. The
devil can tempt for he is the tempter and adversary of both the good and the
evil. However, if the devil could force all peoples to sin, then God would have
to abolish hell, and that will never happen. Judas yielded to temptation
because it aligned with what he wanted to do all along. Judas was not possessed
the devil was his Father and entered him to encourage him to do what he wanted
to do even before the devil entered him. Throughout scriptures we find certain people
who knowingly and were willingly involved with the devil to gain wealth and/ or
power. However, in the case of possession the victims-men, women, children- were
never conscious or in control of their own bodies, but were under the complete
control of the devil/demons, that only Lord Jesus could deliver them from. Judas
was fully conscious and in control of himself, he was not forced to do evil, he
chose to do evil. He loved money more than God.Jhn :19 - And this is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.Jhn
3:20 - For every
one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should
be reproved. Love and truth forever, serola
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Wed, May 6th - 8:25AM
DINNER WITH JESUS CHRIST
Brothers
and sisters, priests under our Saviour, Mediator, Great High Priest Jesus
Christ God the Son of God, Anointed forever by God our Father in perpetuity,
let us pour out our love, thanks and praise offerings to our God Lord Jesus
Christ, God our Father, and to God our Holy Ghost, who indwells and lives in us
and have made us one body in Christ and members of one another, by the will of
God our Father through faith in our Lord Jesus and sealed us forever with God
our Holy Ghost. Much love, grace, peace and blessings to you brothers and
sisters. I give our great Almighty God who is love and invincible in power thanks
for you and pray that He will strengthen you, me us in the knowledge of His
will, and all wisdom and spiritual understanding that we will be rooted and
established in His undying incendiary love and truth for our God is a consuming
fire. Having
dinner with someone regularly is so intimate. But how do you keep dining with
somebody whom you know, although they think you don’t know, that they are only
with you to make money off
of you and see you as having no value for anything other than that? Yet we see again and again the patience and
long suffering of God, that Lord Jesus not only dined with Judas Iscariot but
slept in the same dwellings and allowed him to be in his life for the total years of His earthly
ministry. Jesus gave Judas chance after chance, continual sermons, warnings, teachings,
observation of miracles upon miracles, along with love and affection, washed
Judas’ feet with the rest of the disciples, and
Judas still did not believe. It is
through the perspective of God’s mercy, love and long-suffering patience, that
we gain a comprehensive understanding of the wrath of God against evil and why
He will destroy evil out of His kingdom forever at the appointed time. While
God is patient and long suffering with all men this absolutely never indicates
indifference, tolerance, or the approval of evil in any way or manner
whatsoever. Some
might find it mind blowing that Judas heard the gospel directly from Jesus the
Son of God all that time and still did not believe. Jesus knew that there were
others that did not believe in Him, but only Judas betrayed Him: Jhn 6:70 - Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
devil? Jhn
6:71 - He spake of
Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it
was that
should betray him, being one of the twelve. I.Devil:
prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely 1. a
calumniator, false accuser, slanderer, II.metaph.
applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part
of the devil or to side with him. We
know that Judas didn’t suddenly just jump up and betray Jesus, the seed of his
greed, unbelief, hatred and distain for the Lord was already simmering in his
heart by choice not by force, which Jesus indicates indirectly referring to one
of His disciples meaning Judas as a devil: Mat 13:39 - The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
end of the world; and the reapers are the
angels. We
know that Jesus directly referred to other people in scripture as Satan, and
also children of the devil. Why did Jesus never directly confront Judas, as He
had done with others as in the case of Peter, Mar 8:33?The
apostles Matthew and Mark write nothing about the devil or Satan entering Judas,
but the apostles Luke and John clearly state that the devil entered Judas. This
is not a contradiction of scripture but a 360 degree view of Judas that he by
choice, even before the devil entered him was willing to do anything necessary
to get a final windfall of money out of Jesus, seeing that Jesus would suffer
death and His ministry would end on earth. Both apostles Matthew and Mark make
it clear that after Judas realizes the death of Jesus means the end of easy
money, and not getting access to Mary’s ointment Judas goes straight to the
chief priests to betray Jesus: Mat
26:14 - Then one of
the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief
priests, Mar
14:10 - And Judas Iscariot, one of
the twelve, went unto the chief
priests, to betray him unto them. Luk
22:3 - Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of
the twelve. Jhn
13:2 - And supper being
ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; Jhn
13:27 - And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
him, That thou doest, do quickly. Dearly
beloveds, as horrific as these verses are that the devil first put it into
Judas’ heart to betray Jesus, than entered Judas the question some might ask is
why didn’t Jesus cast the devil out, as He had done many times with those who
were possessed. Jesus certainly knew the devil was in Judas. Instead, what
did Jesus do? He gave Judas communion with the rest of His apostles, a final
warning and a last chance to believe on Him and escape eternal damnation. Lke14And
when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. 15And he said unto them, With
desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: 16For I say unto you, I will not
any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 17And he took the cup, and gave
thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: 18For I say unto you, I will not
drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. 19And he took bread, and gave
thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body
which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 20Likewise also the cup after
supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood,
which is shed for you. 21But,
behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the
table. 22And truly the
Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is
betrayed! Jesus, the good Shepherd, showed love and mercy even to a man in such a state as Judas. Jesus loved and didn’t want
to lose any of His disciples, including Judas. Jesus gave Judas chance after
chance and a final opportunity to be saved, and Judas rejected the final and
last opportunity to be saved. Some
might say in error,
it was already too late because Judas was possessed by the devil. Stay tuned. love and truth forever, serola
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