Resurrection Material

Luke 14:14 (New International Version)

and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

If you are willing to live and die for Christ no matter how difficult it gets, you will be resurrected to life in Christ at the resurrection of the righteous.The most important thing for all of God's people in Christ is to do the will of God and it's the most hardest thing to do. The easiest thing one can do is to obey his or her own self will because it requires no effort at all. Obeying your own self will is the same as doing the will of Satan(The Devil)because obeying your self will is actually yielding yourself to the sinful nature of the Devil embedded in you through the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Revelation 20:5 (New International Version)

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

How can all these happen if Jesus Christ our Lord is not formed in you and me when He is the Firstborn of God? Eternal Life is only found in Christ our Lord.He is the Risen One.He lives eternally because He is the Alpha and the Omega of Eternal Life.
Unless He is formed in you, you will not live eternally. For Him to be formed in you, you will need to fully obey the Holy Spirit for full Christformation in you.

Remove Your Ornaments, You Stiffnecked.

We should not pretend that we are obedient to the Lord when God knows how rebellious and disobedient we are to Him. It's when we refuse to admit our disobedience and rebellion that we become stiffnecked people.How do we know we are stiffneck? When we strongly know the grief. Yes, the grieving of the Holy Spirit in and around us.

Exodus 33:1-6 (New International Version)

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'

2 I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

3 Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way."

4 When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments.

5 For the LORD had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.' "

6 So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.

What did the stripping of the ornaments mean? To be continued.....

Your Sins Have Been Your Downfall!

Hosea 14:1-2 (New International Version)

1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God.
Your sins have been your downfall!

2 Take words with you
and return to the LORD.
Say to him:
"Forgive all our sins
and receive us graciously,
that we may offer the fruit of our lips.

Let's admit and repent from all our sins we have committed thus far and turn from all our rebellion towards the commandments of Christ our Lord.Only you are going to pay for what you do from now on.

Ezekiel 18:14-20
New International Version (NIV)

14 "But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:

15 "He does not eat at the mountain shrines
or look to the idols of the house of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor's wife.

16 He does not oppress anyone
or require a pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked.

17 He withholds his hand from sin [a]
and takes no usury or excessive interest.
He keeps my laws and follows my decrees.
He will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live.

18 But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.

19 "Yet you ask, 'Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.

20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.

The Blood of the Lamb

Revelation 12:11 (New International Version)

They overcame him(The Devil)
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.

Only by the trust we have in the shed blood of Christ our sins can be washed away, for nothing else can wash our sins away from us.

Revelation 22:12-16 (New International Version)

"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."

The spirit of man does not need to be washed because it must be born again, the body of man must be clothed with the imperishable body so, the only part of man that can be washed is the soul(mind) of man. "Blessed are those who wash their robes"- the "robes" here refers to the soul(mind) of man that need to be washed with the blood of the Lamb.

Washed and then being transformed through the renewal of the mind. The mind of Christ will be formed. When this soul of man is washed, then the right to eat from the Tree of Life is given. If you make no effort to wash, you will have no right to eat from the Tree of Life. But, when you have the right to eat from the Tree of Life, your mind will be transformed by the renewal and you will be given the mind of Christ when you make every effort to sow with the help of the Holy Spirit for full Christformation in you. That's how we overcome the Devil with the blood of the Lamb.

Isaiah 1:18-20 (New International Version)

18 "Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.

19 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the best from the land;

20 but if you resist and rebel,
you will be devoured by the sword."
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

The greatest shaking is coming!

A great shaking is coming our way.The only ones who will remain through that shaking will be those in whom Christ the Eternal One has been formed.They cannot be shaken.That's the only Kingdom that cannot be shaken.If Christ is not formed in you, then be afraid.

Hebrews 12:22-29 (New International Version)

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."The words "once more" indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our "God is a consuming fire."

Anything standing on "sand" shall be shaken. Their fall will be great. Great will be the fall of Babylon 'the Great' that stands on this:

Revelation 18:10-20 (New International Version)

Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry:
" 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
O Babylon, city of power!
In one hour your doom has come!'

"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more— cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.

"They will say, 'The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.' The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn and cry out:

" 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!
In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!'

"Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, 'Was there ever a city like this great city?' They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out:

" 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
where all who had ships on the sea
became rich through her wealth!
In one hour she has been brought to ruin!

Rejoice over her, O heaven!
Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets!
God has judged her for the way she treated you.' "

All her boasttings will come to nothing.

Revelation 18:1-3 (New International Version)

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. With a mighty voice he shouted:

"Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!
She has become a home for demons
and a haunt for every evil[a] spirit,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.

For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."

This is what we should do now as Christformed children of His;

Revelation 18:4-5 (New International Version)

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.

The apostle Paul warns all who know the difference between Mount Zion and Babylon with this exhortation:

2 Corinthians 6:17-18 (New International Version)

"Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you."
"I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Th following verse tells us to work out our salvation with every effort to obey Christ and His words. His words are the promises of God to us.

2 Corinthians 7:1 (New International Version)

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Intervention through Intercession

We are given the authority to intervene with intercession for any situation on earth.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (New International Version)

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Do we, as those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ view snakes as snakes and scorpions as scorpions or have we begun to see them as friends also?. Are we trying to 'tame' them so that we could accept them as 'friends'.We were not called to 'tame and play' with them but to trample them with all the authority we have in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:16-20 (New International Version)

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of
the age."

The words in bold says that Christ our Lord has been given all the authority by the Heavenly Father not only in heaven but on earth and even underneath the earth. What's underneath the earth?

1 Peter 3:18-22 (New International Version)

For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

Just study these verses above carefully and take note of the words in bold again. All authority is the Lord's. What does this authority do on earth?

Luke 7:1-10 (New International Version)

When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue." So Jesus went with them.

He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.

The gentile centurion in the passage above knew what was authority but this authority was something different he knew. It breaks all physical or human barriers.
It nullifies the laws of the nature. He does not have to be there in person or orders be given through another person like the centurion always practised as an official in authority among men. He told the Lord Jesus Christ to just say the word from where he was and his servant would be healed. His servant was healed that same moment just as he had believed.

The Lord Jesus Christ has authority to heal anyone from anywhere. He had authority to forgive anyone's sins. He has authority over the wind and the seas. He has authority to raise anyone from the dead. He had authority to say and wither a tree so that it died where it stood. He had authority to say to the hopeless leper "be clean" and he was made clean. To the demons He said; "leave" and they obeyed Him. He ordered Satan to leave after he had tried tempting Him after He had fasted for forty days and nights and Satan bowed to Him.

He says now that this authority has been given to those who are His.

Luke 10:19 (New International Version)

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. To be continued......

Follow God's Accurate Timing for Everything

God has a perfect time for everything. If you would walk with Him as a sheep follows the Shepherd, you would be able to see God's timing in perfect action. Keep your eyes on God's clock. Follow God's timing and not that of your's or anyone elses'. Just ponder deeply on God's patience and long-suffering in the verse below.

Galatians 4:4 (New International Version)

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

God has an appointed time for everything under the sun.Be fearful of Him.

Just because you cannot see Him it doesn't mean that He's not in control of everything. You'll be proven wrong at a time when you are not prepared for things that will happen at God's appointed time. People who don't usually fear Him you'd better start fearing Him. He might remain silent for now but His appointed time will come and it will be frightening for you and the people around you.

People who live to please Him, rejoice, your victory in Christ will surely come in God's appointed time too. You may have asked, "Where is He" or "Why is He so silent" but the time will come for you to jump up in joy in Christ our Lord. Wait....

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 (New International Version)

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What does the worker gain from his toil?

10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.