The Faith Walk

Have you ever wondered why God put faith as a requirement for receiving from Him? It seem unnatural. It has made blessings seem unattainable. It seems to put them just beyond our reach. Remember man was created in God's image (Genesis 1:26), a spirit being. We were created to walk with God, who is a Spirit (John 4:24). It is the faith realm. It is the realm of the one "Who calleth those things that be not as though they were" (Romans 4:17). When man died spiritually, he became alienated from God. He ceased to live in the spirit. He became separated from God's ability and began to walk in the flesh. According to Roman 8:5-7, "The mind of the flesh is enmity against God." It is this mind that lives according to the five senses. Living by faith is living in the realm of the Spirit. Are you recieving from God by faith or by your own ability through the five senses?

Was God Fair in His Dealings with the Human Race?

Man is ever accusing God of injustice in His dealings with the human race, and has declared that He had no right to create man in the face of the fact that He knew man would fall. Man questions God's right to judge the human race and to execute sentence based the crime that was committed. Can God justify himself in the face of these accusations? Has God a right to send one man to Hell and another to Heaven? Has God, as Judge, a right to execute the sentence that has been shown in scripture upon those who reject Christ?

If God can save one human being who rejects Jesus Christ as a personal Savior, then He could have saved the whole human race, because there is no difference. If the whole world could have been saved apart from Christ, then God sending Jesus to Hell is the most hideous crime ever committed in the Universe. Man's sin is but child's play in comparison to the unthinkable crime of sending the Holy, innocent Son of God into Hell as our sin Substitute, if it were not necessary. If this be true, then every man who rejects Jesus must legally go to Hell regardless of God's feelings, and every man who accepts Jesus must legally go to Heaven. God stand acquitted in that He did not leave man after the sin that was committed without the means of salvation. This give God a right to sit as Judge on the great White Throne and it seals man's lips forever.

Faith's Real Rest

There are 3 powerful words that describe the condition of the believer who is taking advantage of his privileges in Christ Jesus--rest, peace, and joy. These three words are the fruit of full grown faith. "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27). This peace didn't belong to the Jews under the first covenant. The only peace they new would be a national peace, but with the New Creation, it is a peace of the heart, a peace of mind, a peace in his physical body. Sickness is called disease, broken peace, broken rest, broken joy.

Isaiah 26:3 is a prophecy of the church, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee".

More Than The Eyes Can See

God is a Spirit, and He moves in the spirit realm. It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manisfest in the physical world. Most Christians think that if God wants something done, it gets done automatically, but that's not so. They don't understand that there are limitations and restrictions that God has to deal with in order to answer prayer. For example, in Daniel 10, after Daniel prayed about this vision, verse (12) says "Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come because of thy words. But the prince of the Kingdom of Persia (demonic opposition)withstood me one and twenty days (21), but lo Michael one of the chief princes came to help me".

Next time you pray and your prayer does not manisfest right away, remember there are demonic opposition in the spiritual realm that is trying to keep your answer from manisfesting. It took Daniel 21 days before he received the answer to his prayer, and Michael the angel said he was there because of Daniels words. How long are you willing to stand until your prayer is answered?

Hold fast to your confessions of faith in Gods word, because He is faithful to bring it to past if you don't give up.

Serpent on a Pole

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifed up (John 3:14).

The brazen "serpent" lifted up by Moses was symbolical of the means of salvation provided by God, in Christ and his death under divine judgment upon sin. Whereas the living "serpent" symbolizes sin in its origin, for example, unforgiveness and its deadly effects, the brazen "serpent" symbolized the bearing away of the curse and the judgment of sin; and the metal itself representing the righteousness of God's judgment.

The brazen "serpent" on the pole that is associated with hospitals throughout the country is symbolical for healing.

Propitiation

The term propitiation was used among the Greeks with reference to appease or to show mercy. It also signifies an expiation, a means whereby sin is covered and remitted. It is used in the New Testament of Christ Himself as "the propitiation", in 1 John 2:2 and 4:10, signifying that He Himself, through the expiatory sacrifice of His death, is the personal means by whom God shows mercy to the sinner who believes on Christ as the One of provided the ultimate sacrifice.

In 1 John 2:2 Christ is described as "the propitiation" for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. The italicized "the sins of" in the King James Version gives a wrong interpretation indicating that provision is made for the whole world, so that no one is, by divine predetermination, excluded from the scope of God's mercy, on the contrary, the "propitiation" however, is made actual for only those who believe.

In John 4:10, the fact that God "sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" is shown to be the great expression of God's love toward man, and the reason why Christians should love one another.

Thank You!

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank each of you who have visited my blogsite, and been blessed by God's Word. His word is truly a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. It is the Bread of Life to us.

Thanks for your comments and insight that you share. It mean so much to me knowing that the Word of God is making a different in your life. My prayer is that you will continue to prosper throughout the coming year in ALL that you stretch forth your hands to do in His name, Amen.