They Hear Thy Words

Before I was born again I went to the Word of God. When I was down or I was moody, I would say, just send me to spend time with the Lord(aka then that meant to read my bible). It made me feel better, it encouraged me, it made me in a better mood. I had "joy" from reading it. How would it encourage me and make me in a better mood if I wasn't already saved?

Because this was me...

Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
(Ezekiel 33:30-32)

I would tell people, come, hear the Word of the Lord! I would come to the Lord as His people, and sit before Him as His people. I would hear His Words. BUT I would not do them! I would show much love with my mouth BUT my HEART WOULD GO AFTER MY COVETOUSNESS. To hear the Word of the Lord was as a very lovely song to me, one that had a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, for I heard His Words, BUT I DID NOT DO THEM.

He shows mercy to those who love Him and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS (Exodus 20:6). Oh, that is Old Testament, you say. Well, Jesus says, if you love Me, keep My commandments (John 14:15). And Jesus yet again, he that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him (John 14:21).

And commandments are not just a mere outward action in the flesh. It is of the heart, as Jesus said, if you lust after a woman you have already committed adultery with her in your heart. He sees the heart, not the outward appearance. If He looked on outward appearance, He would not have condemned the Pharisees. The Pharisees looked perfect on the outside, following all commandments, but He calls them white washed sepulchers. They look great on the outside, nice and clean and pretty, but on the inside dead man's bones.

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 11:19-20)

It is not about showing much love with your mouth, the Pharisees also did this, in whom He condemns and gives eternal woes to. Your mouth can show much love, all the while your heart can be going after your own covetousness, as mine did. What was in my heart was much different from what people outwardly saw. I looked very religious, very Christian-like, yet my heart was ugly and sinful. Only God saw it.

I heard His Word, it was as a lovely song to me, yet I did not do it. Also another trait of the Pharisees, who Jesus said, do the things the Pharisees say (because they taught the Word of God) but don't do as they do!! They did not keep any of the things they said. (Matthew 23)

I was a hypocrite, a Pharisee. Judgment was coming upon them whom Ezekiel was warning. They were a stiff-necked people, the Lord sent Ezekiel to a rebellious nation who He knew would not turn from their ways, but He sent him anyway. That was me. Is it you too? Do you do all these "righteous" things yet your heart goes after covetousness, jealousies, contentions, gossiping, lusts, selfishness, vain glory, lying vanities, hatred or anything like it? This is not the fruit of a new heart, this is the bad fruit of a man not having the Spirit of God, not having a new heart. Is this you? We are called to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith. In God's mercy He has given us another day. Is it you?

Nor Sinners In The Congregation Of The Righteous

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. (Psalm 1:5)
[sinners are not to sit with the righteous in the congregation.]

And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. (Ezekiel 44:6-9)
[There was judgment upon these people, because the Lord commanded no stranger, no uncircumcised in heart, which in the New Testament means an unsaved person, shall enter into His sanctuary. Only those circumcised in heart shall enter, only saved.]

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. (Lamentations 1:9-10)
[Judgment upon Israel again because of her transgressions and sin, one of them being that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom He commanded they shall not enter into the congregation. Judgment was come upon Israel in the Old Testament for such a thing, all the time. And we are the spiritual house of Israel, in the New Testament, so why does this not apply to us, as if God changes over time? No, He is the same, yesterday today and forever.]

And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Malachi 3:17-18)
[We are to discern between who is serving God and who is not. We are to have discernment in knowing if a person is born of God or not. We don't just take no thought to it and let everyone congregate together, saved or not. God's people or not. No. God brought judgment upon them in the Old Testament, He is still the same today.]

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6:11-18)
[Can someone worshiping the Lord God, Jesus Christ of the bible, be right next to someone who is worshiping another god? No. What does light have in common with darkness? There is no communion with the two, you are either light in the Lord, a born again Christian, or you are not. Either someone worships idols or they worship the Living True God. God tells us to come out and be separate, and He will be our Father, and we will be His sons and daughters. If we are unequally yoked with unbelievers and are calling ourselves Christians, He will not receive us.]

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: (Psalm 26:2-9)
[He is talking about dwelling in the sanctuary where the Lord is worshiped, the vain persons and the dissemblers, the evil doers and wicked all do not sit with him.]

I cannot help but see these verses in the Word of God, and read them plainly, and know that I cannot come into the solemn assembly with unbelievers. I cannot worship God with someone who is not circumcised in heart, they must be circumcised in heart(Colossians 2:11), they must be born of God. Because the Lord commands it. Because the Word of God declares it. Because His judgment will come upon disobedience. Always has, always will. The Lord loves His Bride, He wants to keep His church pure and undefiled, holy, and set apart just for Him. His commands are not grievous (1 John 5:3). He is protecting His people from wolves, from leaven, from defilement, since He has washed us whiter than snow with His blood, His intercession, commands and guidance is to keep us that way and sanctify and continually cleanse us.

Will you heed the Word of God?

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Letters to the Churches

There are commendations, rebukes, commands and promises for each of the churches, in the letters to the churches in Revelation.  A few are not given commendation, some are just given rebukes, others are not given rebukes but many commendations for their work.  They are all given commands and promises though!  In the beginning to each letter to each church He glorifies Himself telling you about Him first, then addresses the issues of the church.  I believe the Lord has something to say to us in all of this, as He says we live not by bread alone but by every Word of God, every Word is pure.  These are not written to unbelievers, but to churches. Our churches need to take heed to these as well.  As many as He loves, He rebukes and chastens. Just take this all in...

The Lord declares who HE is, because it is completely about Him.  He that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.  The first and the last which was dead and is alive!  He which hath the sharp sword with two edges.  The Word of God, the two edged sword!  The Son of God, who hath His eyes like unto a flame of fire, and His feet are like fine brass.  He that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars.  He that is holy, He that is true, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth and no man openeth.  The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.  He doesn't allow one of these letters to be without first declaring who He is in truth.  

The commendation for each church, if they were commended for anything follow this.  Thy works, thy labour, thy patience, how thou canst not bear them which are evil, and has tried them which are evil, and thou hast tried them that say they are apostles and are not and hast found them liars.  Thou hast borne and hast patience, and for My name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.  Thou hast hated the deeds of the Nicolatians, which I also hate.  I know thy works and tribulation, poverty.  Thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satan's seat is, and holdest fast My name, and hast not denied My faith.  Thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience, and thy works, and the last to be more than the first, not knoing the depths of Satan, many not having the doctrine of Jezebel.  Thy works, thou hast kept the word of My patience.  Notice these encouragements and acknowledgements of their faithfulness and of their works.

Following comes the rebukes though.  We need to heed these things as well.  Knowing we have the same potential to fall into sin as these churches did.  And Jesus will have words for us to repent and if not we will have the punishment to bear as these churches He warns.  The rebukes: I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love, thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.  Thou also hast them that hold the docrtine of Nicolaitans which thing I hate.  I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.  I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead.  For I have not found thy works perfect before God. If therefore thou shalt not watch I will come on thee as a thief and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.  I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie; behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.  I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot, I would thou wert cold or hot.  So then because thou are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of thy mouth.  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and I have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Wow, that is some intense rebuke and fault the Lord finds in them.  Is any of this pricking our heart and putting finger on anything in our life?  

The commands the Lord has to the churches after the rebukes, are remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, do the first works.  Be thou faithful unto death.  Repent or else I will come unto thee quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.  Repent of their deeds.  But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.  Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.  Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast and repent.  Behold I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.  Be zealous therefore and repent.  

Look at all these wonderful promises that come after the commands!!!  He that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.  He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.  He that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.  He that overcometh and keepth my works unto the end, to him that I will give power over the nations.  And I will give him the morning star.  He that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out: and i will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God and I will write upon him my  new name.  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne.  These are all for the overcomer!  How do you overcome!? 

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.  The blood of the Lamb and their testimony, this is how we overcome!  It is not our works, for apart from Him they are dead works.  It is by the blood of the Lamb, He is the One who overcame the world.  Our testimony is just as precious and important, as it is the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ, when you met Him, when He bore you of His Spirit, when you were born again.  It is your testimony that overcomes as well as the blood of the Lamb.  A true testimony is worth dieing for.  Just as the blood of Jesus, of the Lamb, is more than worth dieing for.  Your testimony of what the Lord has done, of when He came in power to disperse the blood of Himself upon you makes you an overcomer!  How spectacular and fearful! What is your testimony?  Do you have one? 

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?  Our faith in the blood of the Lamb, our belief in the Lord Jesus, in His salvation overcomes!  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.  Our belief, faith, is born of God!  Not of the intellect, not of man, nor of flesh. But of God, if it is true faith.  Do you think it was your will to be saved?  Do you think it was a will of man, that you have faith?  Then it probably is not true saving faith given to you by the Lord.  If it is true faith from the Lord, you know it was the Lord and your desire is to give Him all the glory because you know it had nothing to do with you.  It is His work.  He alone deserves the glory!  He makes men overcomers.  After all if it is our faith which overcometh the world, He is the author of your faith.

Revelation 2:1-3:22; Revelation 12:11; John 1:13; Luke 4:4; Prov 30:5

Blessed.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakes, for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

If the gospel you preach is powerless, if it brings no reproach, if it is not offensive, it is not The Gospel of the bible.  The True Gospel of the bible is offensive.  It always brings persecution to the bearer of the Message.  The True Gospel bore a cross to Jesus and bears a cross to His disciples.

Christianity is no different today, as it was in biblical times.  

Christians hate the things that Christ hates, do you?

Are you offended and grieved by sin?  Are you vexed in your soul by these things?  By wickedness?  By perversity?  By violence you see in movies?  By jokes that blaspheme the holy God?  By the constant blaspheming of His name in the media today?  Do you hate sin?

Has it cost you anything to follow Christ?

Does the Word of God condemn you?  Does it confirm you?

Have you experienced joy unspeakable from His Spirit?

Have you been counted worthy to suffer shame for His name? 

Do you obey God rather than men?

Can you see God's holiness?

Have you been given a new heart by His Spirit?

Have you been born of God? 

Do you see fruit in your life and heart?

Do you have a testimony?  Of when God came and confirmed you?

Does your walk with Christ line up with the bible or is it off at all?  

Do you have the same Spirit as the disciples were given at Pentecost?  

Can you see the cross?  Has He brought you to the Cross?

Do you bear the cross and the reproach of Christ?

Beloved, this is a serious matter, this is no light thing.  Please don't take it lightly.  Ask yourself these questions, in humility, ask God to examine your heart, to show you the truth about your soul.  He desires to do this.  He desires one worship Him in spirit and in truth.  

When Jesus was on the earth, they all accused Him, hated Him.  All who have His Spirit in them bring this same offense, just by His presence.  His Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment.

You are blessed if you bear the reproach of Christ.

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Dearly Beloved:

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Dearly beloved, choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.  Esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.  Greater riches than all the treasures this world can offer.

Dearly beloved, come out from among them, be ye separate.

Dearly beloved, desire a better country, an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called your God, for He hath prepared you a city.

Dearly beloved, be persuaded of the great and precious promises the Lord has given and will give, embrace them, confess that you are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Dearly beloved, don't despise the riches of His goodness and forebearance and longsuffering. Don't you know that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  

Dearly beloved, do not let thy heart be hardness and impenitent, treasuring up unto yourself the wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Dearly beloved, know that the Lord will render to every man according to his deeds; unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.  There will be tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil in the day of judgment.

Dearly beloved, believe when God's Word says, to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory, honour and immortality will receive eternal life.

Dearly beloved, many will seek to enter in but shall not be able.

Dearly beloved, if you are crucified with Him you shall also be raised with Him.

Dearly beloved, you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation, manner of life, received by the traditions of your fathers.

Dearly beloved, you were redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb, without blemish and without spot.

Dearly beloved,  if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. 

Dearly beloved, if thou be lukewarm He will spew you out of His mouth, as many as He love He chasten, be zealous therefore and repent.

Dearly beloved, if a man abide not in Jesus, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Dearly beloved, you were born again by incorruptible seed.

Dearly beloved, His Word declares, the righteous are scarcely saved.

Dearly beloved, cleave to Him, the Author and Perfecter of your faith.

Dearly beloved, set no wicked thing before your eyes.

Dearly beloved, forget not all His benefits.

Dearly beloved, praise His great and terrible Name; for it is holy.

Dearly beloved, be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Dearly beloved, put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.

Dearly beloved,  pure religion, undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 

Dearly beloved, I beseech you, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Dearly beloved, be not as Nadab and Abihu who worshiped God in a way He did not command them to.  The offering was what He commanded, but the way in which they offered it was not as He instructed.  So He consumed them with fire.  

Dearly beloved,  exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  

Dearly beloved, ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Dearly beloved, live soberly, godly and righteously in this present age, not loving the things of this world.

Dearly beloved, worship Him in the way He commands in the Word of God, no other way.

Dearly beloved, thou shalt have no other gods before Him.

Dearly beloved, it is the GRACE OF GOD that teaches us to deny ungodly and worldly lusts.

Dearly beloved, without the Holy Spirit in you this is impossible.  No good thing lies in your flesh, only death. 

Dearly beloved, if you have been crucified with Christ: nevertheless you live; yet not you, but Christ liveth in you: and the life which you now live in the flesh you live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved you, and gave himself for you.

Dearly beloved, walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.  Walk in love, as Christ has loved us.

Dearly beloved, for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.

Dearly beloved, walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.

Dearly beloved, redeem the time, because the days are evil.

Dearly beloved, do you look like the world?  Oh how this grieves the Spirit of God, how is quenches His Spirit.  Let this not be so.  Be not leavened, for a little leaven, a little compromise, leavens the whole lump.  I plead with you to put away the old man, crucify the old man in Christ Jesus, confess, repent to the Lord and King of kings, come out and be ye separate, child of God, not looking like the world.  Seek ye the Lord.  Forsake your ways and your thoughts.  For His thoughts are so much higher than yours.  Turn from idols to serve the Living God.  The time is short.  Seek Him in truth.

 

Luke 13:24; Romans 2:3-10; Hebrews 11:16, 25, 26; 1 Peter 2:11, 1 Peter 1; John 15; James 1:27; Revelation 3:16,19; Psalm 103;  Psalm 101; Psalm 99; Ephesians 4:23; Romans 12; Ephesians 5:2,8; Leviticus 10; Exodus 20:3; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9; Hebrews 3:13