Waking Up From Sleep

Ephesians 5:13-15
New International Version (NIV)
But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,

The wise 'builder' and the wise 'virgin', had the wisdom of God filling them. The wisdom of this world could not help the foolish ones. Christ is the Wisdom of God and Christ is the Power of God. We must be filled with Christ's divine nature to be ready for the coming of the Bridegroom. We must be filled with Christ. Christ must be fully formed in us.

All Evil Rule of Men Will End Abrubtly

Psalm 94:20
New International Version (NIV)
Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?

God is not saying that He is bringing all evil men to justice yet, but He certainly is going to bring every evil rule of men to justice, He is the greatest judge of men. All those who have equated their evil rule to God's throne, you better watch out. You have no fear of God at all. How can a corrupt throne be allied to God? For that is what the Devil had been advocating since the time of Adam and Eve. If misery for it's subjects and luxury for the throne to enjoy is the outcome of the laws and decrees of that throne, God has nothing to do with it! With God everything happens in the opposite direction. Suffering for the throne and blessing for the subjects of His Kingdom.

Proverbs 29:4
New International Version (NIV)
By justice a king gives a country stability, but those who are greedy for bribes tear it down.

Be it known to you that only when justice is practised in the land, will that land have stability. Stability comes from justice and not from human wisdom as many think. It is not how clever you are but in what you practise that stability will come. If you practise unfairness,unrighteousness and every evil under the sun, do not ever dream of stability coming to you. Your future will be very unstable. You will be shaken to the core and all you have tried to build will collapse suddenly.

1 Corinthians 1:25
New International Version (NIV)
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

The weather is just the weakness of God but imagine what devastation it leaves on earth.
Man cannot withstand the weakness of God. The strength of God is His love. His love is definitely stronger than the human love we see. Human love changes but His doesn't. Human strength tried their best to fight God's love, but the resurrection power of Jesus Christ showed that God's love is eternal. No matter how you oppose God's love with human strength, it will be victorious forever and ever.

They Fill You With False Hopes

Jeremiah 23:16-18
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This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. They keep saying to those who despise me, ‘The LORD says: You will have peace.’ And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’ But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?

The disobedient aren't the church. The church is made up of the Lord Jesus Christ's obedient children. All those who obey Christ are the church. If you do not obey Christ and all that He had commanded, then you aren't the church. If He says no to idolatry, then you should have nothing to do with idolatry. If you are still involved with anything related to idols, then you aren't the church. The same goes for all the commandments that He had given. Actually, by your own actions you despise the LORD when you do not obey all that He had commanded.

Matthew 6:23-25
New International Version (NIV)
But if your eyes are unhealthy,your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

You may ask, what has our eyes got to do here? You see, God has to open your eyes in order for you to see Christ as He is. There are many who do not obey Christ because they do not see Him as He is. They might be those sitting next to you. You may claim you have the light in you but in practice you are still in the dark as to who you should obey- Christ or the sinful nature of the Devil in you. This is possible when you are deceived. However, as long as it is called 'today', you still have a chance from God so that He opens your eyes to make you see the Lord Jesus Christ as He is and be saved.

When the Lord Jesus Christ said to Peter, "Upon this rock I will built my church" He was referring to what Peter saw Jesus as and this would be useful for His obedience to Him. He said to Peter that upon the truth you see me as, my church will be built. Peter saw Jesus as "The Messiah, the Son of the living God". Peter's eyes were open by the heavenly Father to see Jesus our Lord as He is. We too will obey the Lord Jesus Christ and all that He had commanded us,only when we see Him as He really is. If we do not see Him as He is in God's sight, we would not obey Him. Now, The Lord knew that Peter's eyes were opened. Let me tell you, once your eyes are opened to see who Jesus Christ is actually, you too would obey all that He had commanded. Until then, you would be going on a 'merry-go-round' yourself. Consider this......

2 Corinthians 6:14-18
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Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

If you can't differentiate between light and darkness then you must be blind.If you can't understand that believers do not have anything in common with unbelievers, then, you do not know who Christ is actually.If you are not able to keep yourself clean from the corruption of this world, then why must you claim openly that you belong to Christ?
It is impossible to be in fellowship with those who cannot see Christ as you see Him. Fellowship means to share a table. What table? If you cannot share the Lord's supper table with someone, how can you share your life with Him? If you do that, it will be better if you do not partake of the Lord's table in the first place. Touch no unclean thing!

The Seventy Years Must be Fulfilled

Jeremiah 25:12-14
New International Version (NIV)
“But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever. I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. They themselves will be enslaved by many nations and great kings; I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

You may ask, why 'seventy years'? Why not thirty or fifty years? We must realise that God sets the time for everything. He knows when everything will be fulfilled according to His purpose and plan. We may think that forty years would be enough as it was in the wilderness when Moses led the people of God. Here, God says seventy years would be enough to cause my people to return to me. God's obejctive is always to make His people return to Him by obeying all that He had commanded. After my people have genuinely repented, He says, I will punish the one who brought this suffering upon them. Nebchadnezzar knew who Daniel's God was but never bothered to obey Him. Yes, Nebuchadnezzar was at one time amazed by the power and authority displayed by Daniel's God but he did not obey Daniel's God as Daniel had. Instead, he continued with his sinful liviing through idolatry, personal pride and arrogance. Being amazed at God's power is one thing and obeying Him is another. Many of us are amazed by what God could do on earth but we still do not obey Him.

It Must Happen In This Way

Matthew 26:52-54
New International Version (NIV)
“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”

The power is not in the sword of men. Using the weapons of this world will only invite more trouble for all men. God's way is not like man's way of dealing with all the affairs of man. God's way is found in God's word. God's Word is Jesus Christ His Son. God's way is in His beloved Son. God's eternal way is fulfilled in His Son. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life of God. These many aspects of the divine nature of Christ must be formed in you. But, how can these be formed in you, if you do not obey His word. You must obey Christ in order that Christformation occurs in you.

Having Two Differing Measures in Your House

Deuteronomy 25:13-16
New International Version (NIV)
Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light. Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.

You should put your house in order pertaining to honesty and justice first and everything else should follow. Do not have a differing measure between one and the other. Do not practice double standards, in other words. Put your house in order!

If you deal dishonestly with those outside your influence or family, watch it! There is a God who deals all matters related to man with honesty and justice. He will act justly against you soon! Dishonesty will amount to cheating and cheating will amount to displeasure to the LORD where He will unleash His wrath on you.

No, do not ever think you could do magic before the eyes of others and get away with it. Not so easily with the LORD who weighs every actions of man justly. He will pay back all those who have cheated and have been cheated of their honest living. The LORD our God is fair and just and there is no one as strong as Him.

Wounded from Day One but, Raised on the Third.

Isaiah 53:5
New King James Version (NKJV)
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

The Lord Jesus Christ was wounded for our sins from day one on this earth but on the third day, He showed us clearly why He was wounded for us.The third day here refers to His resurrection power. Through His resurrection power, we learn that there is no more death for those who believe and obey Him. That He fills us with His eternal life through Christformation.

The world did not know who Jesus Christ was. If it did, it would not have done what it did to Him. They could only see Him as just another ordinary human being but not as the Promised One. To be able to see and receive Him as the Promised One, God the Father has to open one's eyes. He was wounded by evil men and women in this world from the start because they were blind to the things of God. They could not see what God was doing before their very eyes. If they could see Him as He was revealed, then they would have believed and received Him as many others did.

God the Father's intention of sending The Lord Jesus Christ into this world is for His best purpose and will but evil men turned it into something bad through their false accusations of Christ. They twisted and turned a good purpose into a bad one to suit their own evil desires.Not for long though. They were all made to look like fools when the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third day. They still appear to be like fools after two thousand years or so now.

As You Have Done, It Will Be Done To You

Obadiah 1:15New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.

No one escapes from the coming judgment of the LORD. Whatever evil you have done on earth it will be returned upon your own head, meaning you would have to face the consequences of your own actions. They will return to you someday and haunt you with endless retribution.

Psalm 94:1-3
O LORD, the God who avenges, O God who avenges, shine forth. Rise up, O Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve. How long will the wicked, O LORD,how long will the wicked be jubilant?

All the evil schemes of the Evil one have been around for a long time now. For the past six thousand years or so, the LORD has known and dealt with them time and again, but they will come to an end soon.

Psalm 7:15-16
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head

If you have been wilfully evil, your day of annihilation from earth for eternity will surely come suddenly. God is still in control of the affairs of man and this we learn when the trouble that sin brings recoils on the person who causes the sin.

Matthew 13:40-42
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Evil will be defeated. We are talking about nations here. Nations will be defeated for all the evil they do. The day of the LORD is near for all nations. Judgment is coming soon from the LORD. When every wickedness is judged by the LORD, many will turn to the LORD JESUS CHRIST for He is the Righteousness of God. There is none other.

The New Way of The Spirit

Romans 7:5-7
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
For when we were controlled by the sinful nature,the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

You have to die to what binds you before you can be released from the law. What binds you is the sinful nature of the Devil that was sown in you through the deception of the Devil upon Adam and Eve. We can break free from pleasing the sinful nature of the Devil in us by putting it to death. You cannot put it to death by your own strength and power.

You can only do this by obeying God the Holy Spirit in you. I'm sure that there is a raging battle going on in you. This is where God the Holy Spirit turns into God's holy fire in you. He burns up the chaff in you when you strictly obey all that Christ had commanded. The Devil will have no hold over you from then on. The Devil will find that you have found someone else to obey and no more the sinful nature that he had deceptively put in you.

You will be on your way to total victory over the sinful nature in you. The Devil will still keep trying so that you will submit to him but you must keep on obeying God the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit will lead you towards full Christformation in you as you put to death the evil passions and desires of the sinful nature in you. You will find obeying all that Christ had commanded to be more attractive and eternally rewarding when you obey God the Holy Spirit in you. You will reject the pleasing of the sinful nature in you.

Luke 3:15-17
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

The new way of the Spirit comes from the Shepherd of our souls. He cleanses, clears and will burn up the sinful nature of the Devil forever with unquenchable fire. By the power of God's Spirit, Christformation will occur in us.