While taking a shower this morning the LORD impressed upon me the importance of how words work to cause acts and reactions in man. From the beginning of time words were used to create and recreate things. Words have either of two forces, the first as seen in Genesis 1 and 2 are positive, then in 3 we see the use of the negative to cause separation from the positive. Or the separation of light the positive from darkness the negative also seen in 1. Put it this way sin caused woman by her ignorance to question and ultimately doubt GOD's words this caused separation. Put in todays terms it cause antichrist to become effective as a negative within humanity from that moment on this known as the law of sin and death, having a time limit of its duration. Whereas light, life, love and union with God is also a perpetual law. Then in chapter 3 we see the promise of restoration to man the Christ then lost by separation. Later after it was proven that man could not abide under a Law of commandments, judgements and statutes which caused works of self efforts to come about, because it was with its does and do not's as a corral and school master of the weak and beggarly condition of natural earthy humanity. GOD brought to man a way of restoration through promises of His own doing and making of mans required obedience in a new law of faith in His faithfulness. This HE accomplished in His promised son Immanuel who was also the promised Messiah, a man of what appeared to be two names but it was and is one name, the similitude of Benjamin. In this the legalists under the Law argued endlessly, as there being two not one meaning. So words are indeed powerful and a cause of much contention in spiritually blind man. Today we re seeing the power of this effect in what has been labeled the resistance progressive movement of politicalized religionist. For mans history does indeed repeat itself if it we do not learn of Him who broke its cycles and outcome.
Now for my targeted subject of this post our Essential Success in a renewed Relationship Enterprise.
Essential Success in a renewed Relationship Enterprise:
To Sustain in Times of Weakness,
Exodus 17:8-13 "Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand." So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. When Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword."
To Give Success in Battle,
Judges 20:8-11 "Then all the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house. But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot, and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin, for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel." So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man."
To Nerve for the Conflict,
1Samuel 14:6-15 "Then Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few." And his armor-bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul." Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them. If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them. But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the LORD has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us." So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves." And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you a thing." And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel." Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him. And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic."
To Inspire men to Improve their Conditions,
2Kings 6:1-7 "Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there." And he answered, "Go." Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go." So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed." Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float. And he said, "Take it up." So he reached out his hand and took it."
To Encourage Reforms,
1Chronicles 12:38-40 with Ezra 10:4 "All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king. And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them. And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel."
This is sub headed "Reconciliation with GOD,"
Ezra 10:1-4 "While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law. Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it."
To Carry through Great Undertakings,
Nehemiah 4:15-20 "When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."
To Give Men to Christ,
Matthew 18:19-20 with Mark 6:7 and Philippians 1:27 Jesus is speaking. "Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I among them."
Mark 6:7-13 "Then Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And He said to them, "Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them." So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them."
Philippians 1:27-30 "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe Him but also suffer for His sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have."
My last area will be the marriage subject as our relation grows in the knowledge of Christ in such a relationship. Notice that I did not say religion because religion is in resistance to the knowledge of GOD in Christ and Christ in us as promised. in Genesis 3:15, where we first find the resistance spoken of in a veiled form as the heel that is bruised when bruising satin's head.
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