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Hebrews 12 a way of God to Save and Heal broken areas in us and in our Journey and keep us Whole!!
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Let us come to Him to receive from His 'Word' now. The Holy Spirit is in us, He is real and a Person. So lets pray to the Father so the Spirit can reveal to us the 'Word 'of God. "Father, in the Name of Jesus we come to you, to know you and your 'Word' so we can honor You in our being and in our life. We Pray that You enable us to receive Your 'Word' in meekness that it becomes real to us and in us in genuiness, that in can produce faith by your love Father. That Christ can be formed fully in us Father, that we can know what is the riches of Your Glory in us Your saints and Your Power towords us and Your 'Word'. Forgive us of any sins Father, Thank You so much Father that we can know You and be something from You. Amen."
Keys, Keys.....look at the Keys to identify what it is and the keys and the process that we can go through to make it and win in that area of ourselves and our lives.
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Hebrews 12
The Race of Faith
Are we ready to see some keys to keep us in the 'Way' and give us the ability to discern and not get damaged by sin?
1 'Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,'
Wait!!! Will you choose to remember these people, these witnesses of Gods Hand------ and how God has worked to Prove Himself and His Way through these people in the Bible?? If you put it all on you you won't see how God is Able to work that Clearly. All the people of old remembered the testimonies of God in other people of God. Example...they always said the God of Abraham, the God of our Fathers, The God that saved our people back then......etc. They were remembering the Way and How God saved others to empower themselves to stay to the life of God and what God wanted in the present or for the future. It empowered them to 'Acknowledge' what God did in otherst. And how about the Christians now that you know for sure have testimonies of God, not just believe in God...."IF YOU HAVE TAKEN THE TIME TO FIND THEM," them that have the 'Testimony of God in their LIFE!' And will you take courage from this and comfort or we will still have our pride and be blind or let a doctrine used wrong destroy us because we use it wrong!!! Will you choose not to let a little sin or the dark doubt or emotional bondage whatever it is hang on you? Or Lust. See what Courage can do if you follow the steps below to be Free and Stay empowered for good rewards.
Next part of scripture: 'let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, '
Stop: what is the thing that weighs you down?? Is there something?? Answer Honestly!!! LOOK----- And Honestly Idendify what it IS????!!!! Then Look to Christ, to the Freedom He will Give for it. And the easy sin, what is the easy sin? Don't worry about being a murderer! How about cleaning your room, or helping with the dishes, or Saying Hi to your neighbor and 'Mean It!' What is the sin that is kind of Little or Big that ensnares you, keeps you From the Freedom of KNOWING CHRIST IN YOU or do you just want stuff? And yes we need to Rely on, Stay in 'Life Mode' from Christ in these all areas. And Do something about what we know is wrong. If not we will not have victory and the taints these areas we don't handle accurately will affect other areas sometimes.
So look at the next statements.
Next part of Scripture: 'and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.'
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.'
So are we going to run or we going to sit were we are at. Are you going to 'Go For' something? Do You Really Know what the Race Is? Do You Really Want that Something to Change???
Have you Lost the Root? If yes find out what that root is and get it in you. If you are good here in Each Area of Your Responsibility will you run According to the Rules of God? No, not your Minds covetness or ego to Be the Man. To His Life for that Relationship, that way of doing things. Whatever it is, His Life, His way for it. Are you going to develop the 'DISCIPLINE' to make something work right? Running to run takes practice and you have to do the same thing, over and over and over and over. There are certain rules of the body that apply that is the only way to run. What are Gods rules for The Race of Life by God? And will you continue In Them. Not bounce in and out. ==== 'endurance'. When terrain changes, sickness, job loss, relationship ends both in good ways and bad. Will you Continue in the principles of Gods Life?? Or are you going to 'use something that is wrong; complaining, unforgiveness, contempt, a few drinks should maybe, how about I date 3 girls at once to find the right one. Or something that is your pleasure not Gods Life says to make it better. Maybe a self righteous holiness that is not real holiness at all so you can hate and judge. We use Gods judgments to mask our Hatred not Love. We can say all the right things but how do we know? Look at the next part....'looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith. In that Race of your life and in each area.....Each Area...Let Jesus Be the Author in it and let Him ALSO FINISH IN IT!!!! Some of us never let Him start in certain areas of our life and we want Him to finish something there and we keep pushing the Finish...come on God I want it , confessing and looking but 'Since' We never Let Him Start in that area. It never seems to come to pass or even really ever start. Or some of us and quite a few I have found over the years have Him start in Areas but somehow we get out in front of Jesus and We Become the Finisher of our Faith. We start to conjecture, we get this help book, this or that 'IDEA OF HOW IT SHOULD BE' and everything gets mixed with Gods ways and our selfish idealism and It becomes not Gods ways because we are not Looking Unto Jesus so His Life imparts, so He Speaks into those areas of our Life. So His Word which is sharper than a two edged sword can show us what is really going on and give us life!!! We never finish the Race in certain areas of our life. Half marriage, 3/4 marriage. Half work life, career. 3/4 ministry life. 7/8th childens/parents relationship. 4 % Church, I just don't want to go to hell. Maybe you really are. Or your going to have a Ruined life because you Don't Let HIM FINISH HIS DESIGN FOR YOU IN EVERY AREA!! Because we don't let Jesus be the finisher.
A little more......'For Consider Him who against....' Look at Jesus in His testimony of all the evil happening to Him and How He made it by the Power of God. He loved them and forgave them!! And don't worry God Wants Justice too. But He needs us Saved. We fail, we want judgement to fast or out of a wrong nature. If the Lord gets the right nature in Us he also wants to Judge when it is right too. So lets go on, looking at this 'Key' point. It says if we do not consider Him we will faint in our hearts. The 'Word' says it but if you doubt it your already fainting and coming up short on the Life of God and won't get the Life He wants you to have or the outcome to come out right. Now if we are Acknowledging Him here in this way our Minds will be free and our heart have the right feelings, and we will lock onto the power of God to work for what is needed. We will not faint and will be able to get through whatever we have to. If we don't follow through here we will faint in our hearts and sin in some kind of way(s)!! And miss rewards too. But if we do we get His Life in whatever area we need it in. If it is Kindness, we get it, Love we get it, Peace we get it. We need a certain outrcome in health, or abiltiy to suffer right in any area we will get it. If it is direction, or provision we will get it if we hold and stay to God and His ways.
4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
Yeah, verse 4, we don't strive against Sin, we try to find a way to allow it or a little of it or to allow a new sin in maybe just a little ya know like resentment, hatred, I'm not going to help them attitude. or Lust. And it starts distroying our life and vision in life. This verse is saying 'Hold the Line', do it. We need to hold the Line!!! and in trusting Him in His Life by the Cross we will win because He will Give us the Life too do it in. And We need to trust Him no matter what Anyways!!! Even if it doesn't come out Good!!! in our eyes. God will show you later. But He will Give Us His Love and Life in our Spirits and our Soul can enjoy all the fruit even if we have to suffer.
“ My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”
There is a difference between Punishment or Judgment and Chastisement. But do we understand these things. Are you playing with God.....don't really care in that area God wants to talk about but you want this or that. Is God your Shopping Cart Daddy!! Even though you don't want to really admit it, and you know what you might not want God to be that but check in your heart is He that to you? Or do we just want to Judge, get us a Clean Planet, come on God off the bad guys and lets enjoy the Planet. You know we want God to Judge every wrong way. But do we know the Jesus kind of Love for Sinners, for Us. And Can we Trust God to teach Us Judgement too!!!!!! Some of us bail from following God because we won't stand up to wrong, we won't say no!!!! We won't say You have to Stop when we need to. We don't want to go through the persecution or be alone or outcast. But we have to believe in Judgement too. We have to Stand up against wrong!!! We are confused about Chastisment, we allow sin to have a place and argue with God and we think the fruit of Sin is the Chastisment . Is it fruit of Sin you are thinking is Chastisment??? Really examine this....do you know? Find out? Let God prove Himself....He is better than we think. The word says, "it seems grivous". And yes it does hurt but you can find more life than the sin and the fear and inability to connect to a future. If you start and stay to the process and not allow sin or lust to deceive you you will see a Good Reward.
Do we Strive against Sin? Are We trying not to Sin? Will we let the Holy Spirit show us and trust Gods 'Word' and Quit doing what he says is 'BAD'! We don't fight and that is why some areas take years to heal. Some areas we have problems in are not the problems but are problems because of other things we won't let God Save us in so we keep staying stuck in these areas and they become problems. Like Drugs. They can become a problem but might not BE THE PROBLEM!!!! Whatever Sin God Shows you will you 'Cut if Off'....even if God has to Dig in you to get to the other problems? Then trust him in this Chastisement.
Chastisment is a Scrubbing a Cleansing. It is a Father of the same kind saying to Us who are of the same kind. That junk I'm going to get it out and give you MY LIFE, MY HOLINESS IN THAT AREA!!! What area.....divide everything into parts or you won't see right. You won't see what needs to be taken care of. Look into each area. Don't make it one big blob and because you are good in a few areas say It is All Good. Bull....Help God and submit to the Chastisment because if you don't you will not get the reward or even if you do get the reward you will Ruin it because the bad nature in those areas we still have will affect the good areas or keep us from going forward in life. I know I have had some good rewards but because of some areas I didn't take the time to cleanse myself by working with God I lost the rewards. We might be good in a bunch of areas except one or two and those two areas will destroy or keep rewards at arms bay. Or ruin them when we get them. Sometimes we might even be blind to those areas because we 'Like them' but they are not right. And we have not Let Gods Light Really define the way in these areas even though we Believe in His ways. Let Him get Real Clear in These Areas!!!!.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
See the if!!! If we go all the way through letting God Fulfill the fruit. You will know. But are you letting him get into every area? Sometimes we think one area, ya know it isn't that bad....we say. Some good things can cause cancer if taken to much. It is the truth. Some good things we like out of a wrong desire becasue we don't allow a right desire to be formed in us or 'Use Self Control for the right time and right way!' And we don't mean nothing wrong....but we fight the change in that area because we think our 'Desire is Right' and it isn't or isn't Controlled. Our emotions can be wrong also. And this is bad fruit in us. Some kind of lust, some kind of Hatred, some kind of I don't care but we just confess and say I repent because that is the right thing to say...but we really, really, don't care or we just don't follow through with changing doing the foot work to change! So let's remember to do the foot work and submit to the Chastisment to get the fruit we need. Lets choose to 'Do What is Right'. In doing our heart will Change.
Can you see how much God loves us. He starts the Chastisment but will we Fight with Him and not Fight against the sin. Don't shuck and jive and hide from what He wants to show us. He will Save us better than we Like. Wouldn't you if you were a good father and we know God is Better than US!!!!
So now God is going to show us how to get into that place of relationship where we can trust him even if we are going through some correction.
Lets look at the 'Word'.
Renew Your Spiritual Vitality
12 "Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. "
Strengthen the hands. What truth are you really believing in. just ah.....kinda believing. Not really letting it have a 'Full' place in your heart???? I believe in the kindness that God says....but I'm not really going to have it in my heart for that guy, for those people. We keep it in the air but we will not 'REALLY PUT IT IN OUR HEART'. We won't have it for that Guy, for those people. Got to look good to the world, got friends ya know, I don't want to be different. Well you got to be different. Gods Ways have no compromise with darkness. You need to strenthen your Beliefs of What God says and PUT 'ACTION' to your belief. You hands always ACT. They Work!! Or do you just let them limp along. You will starve! And it always shows how you handle things. Roughly, vulgarly, filthly, or in Kindness, Strength with control, Goodness or hatred. Violence or Peace. What nature are you handling Gods ways in your life. Will you let Him have the right way of Handling EVERY SITUATION OR NOT? Will you ask Him To Reveal How to Act or Give you the right Heart in a certain area if you completely don't know for sure how to BE???? Will you seriously trust Him to Make a Change in you. He will do it if you are serious. How are you Handling your belief in Money, in Material things, in a Career, in family, in your Desires. Are you going to Strengthen your Grip on Gods Life for every single area.
Your knees. Keep a good stride, don't go mushy on God and complain. Keep a good walk, Stand on what He says and How He says!! Don't bow when you need to Stand!! Don't buckle when you just Need to stand. And it says we can strengthen our Knees. So practice that Belief you'll know where you need to 'Correct' your life and do it. Sometimes we forget to Enjoy Good things too, we are always into dealing with bad you can't get fruit of Life if you don't Enjoy Good Things. You will choose something wrong....especially a vendictive judgment if you don't enjoy His Good too.
Make staight paths for your feet. Get wisdom, God speaks by His Spirit and Word. Will you let Him prove Himself and will you make it the final Authority. Straight, not a little of mans ideas here and there!! Got Makes all things that are good and all things for us to enjoy. Do you think He doesn't give the wisdom to walk or get or give life in those areas? God gives Light so we can have the right path in Life in every area!! Are you ging to trust Him in His way of getting them or our you going to try and help Him out and use the way of the world, your reasoning with your emotional desires that might not be so wholesome because you have little crooked parts in your path that you just won't clear out of your life. Quit going places, Quit hanging around them, Go to the place God says ONLY, Go with the Kind of People God says ONLY.
14 "Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; 16"
Now we need to do it by Peace not self-rightousnes with a false Holiness of Judgement to help God Clean up the Planet. Are we just trying to get rid of the people who bother us so we can Have our Pleasures satisfied. Some of us want men dead if they don't do it our way or not in our life at least. But we really don't want to see that in ourselves we say I'm not like that and 'Stuff the emotion' and say it isn't so. Is that you?? That's not the love of God and how can you have peace when you really don't love someone. Trust God with Judgement. Back His Judgements but don't let evil get in you. You pursue Holiness, not I just want that reward God so I can use it to my pleasure!!!! It is alright to have rewards and to Enjoy the pleasures of them!! Nothing wrong with that at all!! But you need Holiness in you or you will add junk to the rewards or the junk in you will keep you from the rewards. How can we look on the Lord and Love Him and His Life if we have no Holiness. He is one Nature and we were created in Him. What nature are you going to share????? in your rewards.
You can see where we are failing to let God and His Grace fulfill us by looking at any Bitterness and what is causing it in us!!!! Look for Bitterness, look for bitterness. Don't just pass it by in the sneaky lustful with a good face look to it, excuse of I don't got that in me. Check? Test every area in you and if you see Bitterness arising don't cover it up. Deal with it with God. Look for What He say about it and then Look unto Him to Give you Light in that area so you can have Joy!! Not bitterness! Bitterness mask itself in a false holiness or a God knows and it's OK kinda belief but its not OK. It likes to judge and manipulate to get what it wants. It pollutes other people and stops them from growing. Don't hang around people and don't let people who are bitter in your inner circle!!!! They will pollute you, don't do it!!! Don't do it either!!!. Don't distroy others because you are Bitter!!! Get Healed by Grace not Works, not Judgement. But GRACE!!!! Grace is Power, not works.....Works will help keep you safe so the Grace can produce but make sure you are Relying on the Grace of God not the Works to Prove what you can Get. Grace is a Gift, Works just Give it Place to prove itself not our underling resentments or vengence.
lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
Esau knew his father didn't like a certain clan of people and the bible says he married two woman of that clan of people and brought them before his father. What area are you just plain defiling God.....your not that bitter, can't even tell its bad in our hearts cause we 'Have Pleasure in It'. Huh? The thing that is wrong to God but We Like. But we know huh, it isn't Gods way. Or maybe you need to find out Gods way. And we are not bitter in these sins but we get bitter because we can't get some other things God says or we have some problems but hey this area where God says to not do we Like and keep sinning expecting God to work in the other areas. And this scripture is also very specific of Fornication. We we dull our belief of Special, one woman, with Gods Life... Life gets compromising and Dull in all kinds of areas. It is just a law of God. "Do not be unequally yoked". We will not get Gods Word to work in other areas. Yeah, God shows himself in these peoples lives because He is a merciful God but their lives are always destroyed or very unfulfilled and Does not have Gods Life. God touches their lives here and their hoping they will repent in this area or choose to get born again so they can Grow in Fullness and He is merciful doesn't want them totally distroyed. You ever notice if we love a pleasure too much it is hard to repent even though we cry for it because we like the pleasre of what we want that is against Gods Way. Sex is very powerful in seducing the heart to say it doesn't matter it is all Good and it is Not All Good!!!! Period. Don't be Seduced!!! You can't have the Majesty of 'One' that Quality unless you Back it and then when you see the Quality you see the Lords Nature for all other area of Life. One Woman and One Man. Life was built around this Union of Relationship!!!! This Appreciaction of Gods Design. God is not a Whore and if you believe Gods Nature allows whoring nature you Can't have His Life Work. But the pleasure of Sex seduces us to say it is OK because of the Pleausre.
The Glorious Company
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Hear the Heavenly Voice
God displayed Himself and Power to back it. Yet now there is not lighting or thunder but We Know because He speaks By His Spirit if you Will Listen. But will we or will be bow our heads and use His Mercy, harding ourselves,,,,,even in that area we just don't want to let Him in. We could have a pretty good walk with God but we will not let Him Here IN this area. How are we to escape.... We will have to Look upon Him on His Throne. "Every mans Work will be Tried by Fire". New testiment. Everything!!!!!!
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
You have it, It will be done, Some of us the rough way, some of us a little rough, some of us are Going to Hell, Some of Us will shine!!! Nothing He said will stand against His Kingdom. His Fire will Consume everything and either we learn to Rely on His Grace in Every Area and Listen to His Spirit and Seek His Face. You will give account. I know I will give account. Yeah, a lot will go to heaven but Some won't have Certain Rewards. That is the Word of God!!! He says you won't rule over certain things in the heavenly kingdom if you try to side walk it here. I'm sure you will learn it there though.
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. 20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” 21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
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