I over the past few days have found and explored the revelation of GOD as the Spirit, that is Life, and mans consciousness, when we are restored to HIM that is, "IS, the I AM" the El of the Aramaic and Pilio-Hebrew languages of the past. I showed the GOD in the Beginning filled the universe as One being and that ALL is filled with Himself including all created things, Being Him. Then yesterday I began to look at what is our victory as this has also been distorted by twisting of GOD's own Christ revelation by man. The very thing that took place with man as recorded in Genesis 3. Now before Jesus came there had been many a person who walked with GOD, some of whom it is said that they were righteous, as born out in their records as revealed in scripture. All of them having eyes and ears to both see and hear GOD the LORD. For Jesus as a young lade knew just who He and GOD his Father were One being. This I can now attest to and just maybe many of you out there can do the same. If you have been reading the growth in the LORD's knowledge that this blog reveals since day one of its being, have heard my own history from a young man to my now 69 years plus and my own walk the LORD-GOD Who's light is within us. This I know because it has been revealed visibly to me on at lease two occasions as I have stated here in. All that said, I will now turn to Pastor Hoekstra's teaching on Grace and then I will look again at the victory we have in Christ as the ultimate triumph using the ESV translation.
"Humility and the Fear of the Lord"
"By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches and honor and life . . . with the humble is wisdom . . . The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom." (Proverbs 22:4; 11:2; and 9:10)
"Many of our previous meditations have clearly demonstrated that walking in humility is the pathway for living by the Grace of GOD. "GOD . . . gives [Himself in] grace to the humble" (1Peter 5:5). In our present verses, we see that humility and the fear [expresses filial or a slavish passion] of the LORD are related. In Proverbs 9:10 the "fear of the LORD" there used means: the fullness of the LORD.
Humility and the fear [brings the fullness] of the LORD result in the same blessings. "By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches and honor and life." The closing trio ("riches and honor and life") are an Old Testament description of a life that is fully blessed by GOD. The New Testament counterpart would be fullness of spiritual life. "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Humility and the fear [fullness] of the LORD also result in wisdom. "With the humble is wisdom . . . The fear [fullness] of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom."
Humility is the candid acknowledgment of our absolute need for the LORD-Christ to work comprehensively in our lives day by day. The fear of the LORD is absolute respect and reverence toward our great GOD. It is not a fear involving terror or apprehension. Rather, it is based upon profound admiration and dependent devotion.
Those who humbly fear the LORD (by placing their admiration and devotion in Him) also embrace His perspectives and values. They develop a hatred for the things that He hates. "The fear [a holy awe and reverence which spring from a just view] of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate" (Proverbs 8:13). Correspondingly, those who have respect and reverence for the LORD develop a love for all that He loves. The LORD loves for His people to walk in righteousness and justice. "The LORD loves the righteous . . . the LORD loves justice" (Psalm 146:8 and 37:28). The LORD loves Israel, His chosen nation. "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples" (Deuteronomy 7:7). The LORD loves His [those who have and continue to poses Him, His fullness the] Church / Body / Family, the children of GOD. "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of GOD!" (1John 3:1). The LORD loves the world, those who need to know Him. "For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
Promises of Ultimate (Spiritual) Triumph:
Over Evil Influences of Man,
Psalm 44:4-8 and Malachi 4:1-3 "You are my King, O GOD; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through You we push down our foes; through Your name we tread down those who rise up against us. For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. But You have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us. In GOD we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to Your name forever."
Malachi 4:1-3 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing [Salvation] in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts."
Over Malign Spiritual Forces,
Luke 10:17-20 "The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name!" And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Over Severest Afflictions,
Romans 8:31-39 and 2Corinthinas 2:14-17, 10:1-6 "What then shall we say to these things? If GOD is for us, who can be against us? HE Who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will HE not also with [through] Him graciously give us all [of Himself as] things? Who shall bring any charge against GOD's elect? It is GOD who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, Who was raised—Who is at the right hand of GOD, Who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For Your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." (Psalm 44:22) No, in all these things [GOD] we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of GOD in Christ Jesus our LORD."
2Corinthians 2:14 "Thanks be to GOD, Who always leads us in triumphal in Christ's procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to GOD among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to Life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, like so many, peddlers of GOD's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by GOD, in the sight of GOD we speak in [through] Christ."
2Corinthians 10:1-6 "I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the [true accurate] knowledge of GOD, and taking every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete."
Over Worldly Allurements,
1John 5:1-4 "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of GOD, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of GOD, when we love GOD and obey His commandments. For this is the love of GOD, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of GOD overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Over all Satanic Powers,
Revelation 15:2-4 "I, John saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of GOD in their hands. And they sing the song of Moses (of Exodus 15:1 and following, with Joshua 22:5), the servant of GOD, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are Your deeds, O LORD GOD the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O LORD, and glorify Your name? For You alone are Holy. All nations will come and worship You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.(of Jeremiah 10:7)"
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