The Promise of Freedom in Christ for all of Humanity, the end of Humanity as we know it, Now for a Promise of other Consequence

 Day 3.01

We have already revealed more than man's religions are able to or allowed to do. By way of Precious Promises of GOD'S Provision (to see this one must know their relationship in Christ, the very objective of this blog), the following are a portion of all things of GOD, "The I AM that I AM." Which we are about to look into after the following quotes: "By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises . . . And my GOD shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." (2Peter 1:4 and Philippians 4:19)

Now for Titus 1 and what it states: 4 of 1-4 An apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of GOD in GOD'S elect, and the acknowledging of the Truth which is after godliness; In hope of eternal life, which GOD, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; That has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of GOD (the I AM) our Savior; To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, of GOD the Father and the ascended LORD Jesus Christ our Savior by being the I AM that I AM. 

Now for the history by way of examples in the OT and NT through the Holy Spirit's guidance, beginning in Genesis 12:1, 4-7; 17:2-5: Gen 12:1 of 1-3  Now the LORD had said to Abram, 'Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; And you shalt be a blessing: I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curse you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed'.....So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; And Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; They went forth to go into the land of Canaan; And into the land of Canaan they came. Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, 'To your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to the LORD, Who appeared to him......'I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.' Abram fell on his face: and GOD talked with him, saying, 'As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; For a father of many nations have I made you.'

Now for the introduction to the great I AM  of Genesis 17:1, 22:1, 35:11 When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, 'I am the Almighty God; Walk before Me, and be perfect'.....It came to pass after these things, that GOD did tempt Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and He said, 'Behold, I AM'.....And GOD said to him, 'I am God Almighty': be fruitful and multiply; For a nation and a company of nations shall be of you, and kings shall come out of you loins; And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your seed after you will I give the land (this a position of rest)'. 

Jumping ahead to Exodus 13 where we find: Exo. 3:6, 14  Moreover GOD said, I am the GOD of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; For he was afraid to look upon GOD....And GOD said to Moses, 'I AM THAT I AM': and He said, 'Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.' Within the context of Exodus through Leviticus there are many such references. Such as in Matthew 22:32 (Mark 12:26,13:6) 28:20 Jesus speaking: 'I am the God' of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living'....Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.' Amen.

For me the following is the most impressive of them all: Mark 14:62, John 7:29  And Jesus said, 'I am: and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven'.... John7:29  'For I know Him: for I am from Him, He having sent Me.'

John 8:12, 16 Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.... And yet if I judge, My judgment is true: for I am not alone, for I and the Father that sent Me are One.'

The nail that releases it all is this in John 8:58  Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.' (Exodus 3:14 above listed; and that of Revelation 1:4, 8, 17, 4:8)

Now if I may do some background on this title using the ancient LXX and Strong's of a word meaning study. First Exodus 3:14 I AM (H1961) THAT (H834) I AM:(H1961)

Strongs #1961: AHLB#: 1097-M (V) 1097) Ee% (Ee% HH) ac: Breathe co: Breath ab: Exist: The pictograph e represents one who is looking at a great sight with his hands raised and taking a long breath. The pictograph e represents one who is looking at a great sight with his hands raised and taking a long breath. 

M) Eie% (Eie% HYH) ac: Exist co: Breath ab: ?
V) Eie% (Eie% HYH) - Exist: To exist or have breath. That which exists has breath. In Hebrew thought the breath is the character of someone or something. Just as a man has character, so do objects. [A generic verb with a wide application meaning to exist or be] [freq. 74] (vf: Paal, Niphal) |kjv: was, come to pass, came, been, happened, become, pertained, better for you| {str: 1961} 

Strongs #834: AHLB#: 1480-C (N) (1480) Rs% (Rs% ShR) ac: Tie co: Cord ab: ?: The pictograph s is a picture of the teeth representing pressure, the r is a picture of the head representing the top or beginning. Combined these mean "press the beginning". Ropes and cords were usually made of bark strips such as from the cedar or from the sinew (tendon) of an animal. The rope is made by twisting two fibers together. A single fiber is attached to a fixed point (top), and the two ends of the fiber are brought together. One fiber is twisted in a clockwise direction and wrapped over the other fiber in counter clockwise direction. The second fiber is then twisted in clockwise direction then wrapped around the first fiber in a counter clockwise direction. The process is repeated through the length of the rope. The twisting of the fibers in opposite directions causes the fibers to lock (press) onto each other making a stronger rope. The rope is used to tightly secure or support something, such as a load to a cart or the poles of the tent. 

C) Rsa% (Rsa% AShR) ac: ? co: Straight ab: ?: A cord pulled tight is straight. 

Nm) Rsa% (Rsa% A-ShR) - I. Happy: One who is happy is one whose life is lived straightly. II. Which: Or who, what or that. As a rope attaches two objects together, this word links the action of the sentence to the one doing the action. [The short form "s" is used as a prefix meaning "who" or "which"] [freq. 156] |kjv: blessed, happy, which, wherewith, because, when, soon, as, that, until much, whosoever, whom, whose| {str: 834, 835} 

Now for the Strong's Greek using John 8:58: Before (G4250) Abraham [G11] was, [G1096] I (G1473) am.(G1510) 

G4250: Adverb from G4253; prior, sooner: (G4253: means, A primary preposition; “fore”, that is, in front of, prior to)

G1473: A primary pronoun of the first person, “I” (only expressed when emphatic): - I, me. 

G1510: First person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist (used only when emphatic)

 Jesus Christ as I AM: That our LORD by this expression asserted His divinity and eternal existence, as the great I AM, appears evident from the use of the present tense, instead of the past tense, from its being in answer to the Jews, who inquired whether He had seen Abraham, and from its being thus understood by the multitude, who were exasperated at it to such a degree that they took up stones to stone Him. The ancient Jews not only believed that the Messiah was superior to and LORD of all the patriarchs, and even of angels, but that His celestial nature existed within GOD (this seen in Genesis 1:1 as I have stated elsewhere in this blog) from Whom it emanated, before the creation, and that the creation was effected by His ministry. 

Now for Revelation passages beginning at: Heb. 13:8; Rev. 1:11, 17-18,  and 2:8.

I do hope and pray that this will help in clearing the air of our understanding.

The Promise of Freedom in Christ for all of Humanity, the end of Humanity as we know it, Now for a Promise of other Consequence

 Day 3

Today's post saddens me but I must share it as it is a Promise of greatest of Consequences as stated earlier we have in past posting covered all of the promises be they of warning or of benefit of Grace's activation within the dynamics of our restored spiritual life, described in Day 1 through 11 of The Truth that sets Humanity Free from the snare of Legalism as pushed by man's Religion and it's accompanying Religious forms (of August 4th through the 14th) this being SIN. And under this heading as well by recapping the important parts, as being one within Christ as Christ ones and thereby one in Jesus as well. Today, is revealed the warning that no one can deny or disavowal. As it was spoken by the "I am that I am," Who spoke to Moses in this fashion as we shall discover. Now for what Titus reveals in the following: of Titus 1:2 of 1-4 An apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of GOD'S elect, and the acknowledging of the Truth which is after godliness; In hope of eternal life, which GOD, that cannot lie (cannot deny, speak a falsehood of Himself in us), promised before the world began (this is Genesis 1:26-28, verified in Lev. 14:11 and the Psalms as shared already); But having in due times manifested His word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of GOD our Savior; To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from GOD the Father and the LORD Jesus Christ our Savior.

The Importance of God's "Unpopular" Promises:

Jesus is speaking: 'Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins. (John 8:24)

Generally when speaking, GOD'S promises they are of the "popular"kind with many people. When most of the LORD'S promises are read or taught, people are delighted. "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.....Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.....Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." (John 8:36; Mat. 11:28; and Mat. 4:19). It is Promises like these that are so often received with favor, because they are so encouraging. They embraced approval, because they are so comforting. On the other hand, some of GOD'S promises are definitely edifying while others are "unpopular" with certain segments of humanity. This type of promise is scorned and rejected, because of its convicting or sobering character. Nevertheless, these promises that are not always well-received have great importance in GOD'S plan.

One such promise is given by two-fold in our present verse. "You will die in your sins...you will die in your sins." In a tolerant world that wants to deny the reality of sin and its consequences, this is an unpopular promise. Yet, the promise is true nonetheless. The Sin of denial or disavowal brings spiritual death. These the produce of Genesis 2's warning to Genesis 3's actions. From the beginning, this has been the case. "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die' " (Gen. in 2:16-17 then put into play in Gen. 3, from that time until Jesus came to bring correction as in a change of course and after Him). This truth is restated by the prophets of Israel. "The soul who sins shall die" (Ezekiel in 18:20 ). It is also repeated by the apostles in the early church. "For the wages of sin is death" (Rom. in 6:23). Since everyone has sinned (by inheritance or by actions and of word of mouth), this warning by promise Jesus gave applies to us all who haven't volatility accepted the I am that I am within themselves. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. in 3:23). The disciples now apostles were obligated to rehears the old warnings with that of Jesus'.

To escape the inevitable consequences of sin's denial factor (this also seen in Gen. 3), one must trust Jesus as the promised, divine Savior. "If you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins." This statement ("I am He") hints of Jesus' deity (of Genesis 1:1, as well as ours as seen in 1:26-28 and Lev. 17:11). Shortly thereafter, He openly declares that He is GOD, the Son. "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:58). Here, Jesus applies to Himself the same name that He GOD revealed to Moses. "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you' " (Exodus 3:14). Thus, this important promise by Jesus warns that only our trusting His faithfulness in us and we in Him that is true as the divine Savior will deliver a person from the certain consequences of sin.

LORD Jesus, I thank You for this important warning given by promise. I am delighted to have yielded to Your truth and certainty. By my accepting Your offer to abide in You and You in me, and the yoke of learning of You, and the offering up of myself as a living sacrifice as my reasonable service by which a renewed mind is acquired, I rejoice that my sins are forgiven, extinguished. Use me to pass on this promise to others who need to respond to it, as I abide in Your name, Christ Jesus, the abiding Amen.

The Promise of Freedom in Christ for all of Humanity

 Day 2

More on the Promise of Freedom in Christ:

Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed... How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation. (John 8:36 and Hebrews 2:3)

By the promises of GOD, our true spiritual liberation and is made available in Jesus Christ. "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." If this saving work of the LORD is neglected there is no rescue, no redemption from the devastating consequences of sin's grip of self will, self works....as under the Mosaic Law. "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation." From what is salvation made available? Numbers 14 and Genesis 12 give us a clue. First Abram who became Abraham after he heard the voice of the LORD, which told him to leave his father's idolatrous house, this spoken of in Romans 4, Galatians 3:29, and Hebrews 2:16, 6:13, 11:8. Then we have the acknowledgement of a "different spirit" being within Caleb and Joshua in Numbers 14: 24 and 28. As we previously noted, this delivering Grace of GOD is so great that it not only provides a rescue "from," but it also supplies a rescue "unto."

This great salvation (of Heb. 2:3; G4991, means to rescue, to heal, place into safety), which is experienced by coming to Jesus in humble faith (the taking up of our cross daily, in Luke 9:23, or accepting His yoke of learning of Him, in Matthew 11:29-30), these include a setting free from innate (originating in or derived from the mind or constituted from the intellect rather than from the spirit)   sin to imputed righteousness. "For He made Him Who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of GOD in Him" (2Cor. 5:21). This great salvation is Christ, Christ is deliverance from the kingdom of darkness (the worlds corrupted systems of religion that caused the flood of Noah and more) unto the kingdom of light (the Body of Christ). "Giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated (G3197 to exchange ) us into the kingdom of the Son of His love" (Colossians 1:12-13). This great salvation also includes liberation from enmity (corrupted mindsets) toward God into friendship with God. "When we were enemies we were reconciled (turned from enemies into friends) through the death of His Son" (Col. 1:21). This great salvation also includes deliverance from alienation from God (this the standard message of the worlds religions) unto completed union with Him. "And you, who once were alienated... For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection" (Col. 1:21 and Rom. 6:5). This great salvation also includes liberation from our own weakness into God's mighty power. "And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then, the "I am" is strong" (2Cor. 12:9-10). Lastly, this great salvation includes a rescuing from a self-produced life to Christ living in us. "I have been crucified with Christ; It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).

The Promise of Freedom in Christ for all of Humanity

 Day 1

We have revealed the way into the promised Rest of GOD in Christ and through Christ as found in Jesus Himself as we are. Now look again at John 8:36 where we have this: "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed."

There is a host of things that we have acquired freedom from, some are man's fraudulent forms of religion of which there are nearly 1500 in total all being called snares and traps within the context of scripture. The Mosaic Law of flesh works is another as it's only end is shame and condemnation, a burden that no one can escape, no one. So how does this a play look with me at what Jesus said just before our passage of concern in John 8:33-35: They (the Jewish leaders) answered Him, "We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how say You, "You shall be made free?" Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily (of a great truth), I say to you, Whosoever committees sin is the servant (slave) of sin. And it's servant abides not in the house for ever: but the Son abides forever."  

So from this we can gather that to live a life in Grace is to have and possess living and abiding in His faith and faithfulness as untainted ones, as in the promises of GOD. Remember 1Peter's thought of 1:4? Which states this beginning at verse 3: "Blessed be the GOD and Father of ourselves and the LORD Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled (undefined), and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of GOD through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." Then we have this in 2Peter 1:4 beginning at verse 2: "Grace and peace be multiplied in you through the knowledge of GOD, and of Jesus our LORD,
according as His divine power having given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness (the redemption of our origin and design, identity's oneness, having been if you will rebooted, the default settings restored this allowing us to fully participate in the Life, Love and Light of our design.), through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."  

Our spiritual freedom of promised in Christ this theme repeats itself throughout scripture. Now to verify this lets turn to John 5:24 beginning at verse 19 through 27 where we have this: Then answered Jesus saying to them (the priests, the false propagandists of the Jews), 'Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He saw the Father do: for what things soever He does, these also does the Son likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and showed Him all things that Himself does: and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; Even so the Son quickens whom He will. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son: That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent Him. Verily, verily, I say to you, He that hears My word (voice), and believes Him that sent Me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; But is passed from death to life. Verily, verily, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of GOD: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father has life in Himself; So has He given to the Son to have life in Himself; And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man.' Those who come to Christ are rescued from the fear and condemnation of hell.

Turn to Romans 5 beginning at verse 17 where we find this: For if by one man's offense death reigned by one (this explained in verse 13-16); Much more they which receive abundance of Grace and of the gift of righteousness (our restored innocence of our origin) shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; Even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous (G1342, equitable (in character or act); by implication innocent, holy). Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, Grace does much more abound: That as sin having reigned in death, even so might Grace reigns through righteousness to eternal life in Jesus Christ our LORD. 

Do we have space for one more? Lets look at Matthew 23:33 where we find this beginning at verse 29: Jesus is speaking: 'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build (filled) the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, and say, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets." Wherefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill you up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, a generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?'

Now here's the good news for those who leave behind the bankruptcy of vain human resources for the richness of abundant spiritual treasures, this in 1Peter 1:3 beginning at verse 2: To the Elect according to the foreknowledge of GOD the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the GOD and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you are kept by the power of GOD through His faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein we greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, we are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your trust in His faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found in praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, we love; In Whom, though now we see Him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:as having Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (Rom. 7:18 and Eph. 1:3)

John 8:58  Jesus said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.'

The Truth that sets Humanity Free from the snare of Legalism as pushed by man's Religion and it's accompaning Religious forms, this being SIN.

Day 11

We are looking into our ability to enter GOD'S promised Rest as Jesus is the Way, the Life and Love that opened it and paved the way into it for us. Pardon me for taking a short cut to the subject matter of today for I have again chosen to take from Pastor Hoekstra's works. I will as the Spirit leads me edit this as needed. I might note that in Gen. 1:1 is found the identity of Elohiym in the following Strong's numbering system: H410, H430 and H433, This explained in 1John 5:4, in 7 of 5-12 we find the power, authority and right of GOD established, this the law of GOD, which is His Grace at work.

Coming to the Lord for Edifying Grace:

Coming to Jesus as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men (men's religious systems), but chosen by GOD a precious commodity, we also, are living stones (the petros of Peter in Mat. 16:18), are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to GOD through Jesus Christ. (1Peter 2:4-5)

Our coming to Jesus habitually (by way of the personal taking up of our cross) for the grace that we need daily is at the heart of growing in His Grace. The closing verses of our Day 10's meditation provide a profound example of this personal relational emphasis in the Christian life. The spiritual impact in view there is edification: "being built up." As we saw earlier, GOD'S Grace is to be the edifying resource for our lives. "And now, brethren, I commend you to GOD our Father and to the word of His Grace, which is able to build you up" (Acts 20:32). Now, we will look at the relational path that GOD has designed for accessing this edifying grace.

Jesus is likened here to "a living stone." He is solid and reliable, like a rock. Yet, a rock is lifeless, insensitive, unresponsive. Jesus is a "living stone." Jesus is alive, tender, lovingly responsive. The LORD wants to build us up to be like Himself (solid and stable, yet loving and caring filled with His mercies). The LORD'S way (Isaiah 48:17, Joshua 23:14; John 14:6) to build us up "as living stones" is to call us to an ongoing process of coming to Himself: "Coming to Him as to a living stone... you also, as living stones, are being built up." In order to practically grow "as living stones," we must be coming to the one who already is innately intimately one with us, what He wants us to become. He alone can provide what is needed in our lives.

How do we come to Jesus in this manner? Again, it is a matter of our eternal and abiding relationship that relates to Him. When we get into the word of GOD, we are not merely looking for more biblical information. Jesus is the one we are to be seeking. When we are praying, we are not merely "saying our prayers." Jesus is the one in whose name we are praying and whose Will and work we are seeking. When we are worshiping, we are not merely singing songs, we are singing to the LORD Himself. When we are going forth in ministry, we are not merely carrying out a valid task. We are looking to the LORD for enablement, while desiring to please and honor Him.

The more we come to Jesus in this way, to that extent His edifying Grace will be building us up "a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Father GOD through Jesus Christ."  Day by day in Grace, by Pastor Bob Hoekstra

I had it in mind to list the referenced passages in the last few posting, so here goes:

Matthew 16:18 of 13-20  When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, 'Whom do men say that I the Son of man is?'  And they said, "Some say that You are John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets."  He said to them, 'But whom say you that I am?' And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living GOD." And Jesus answered and said to him, 'Blessed art you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in heaven. And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock (revelation, a piece, a chip off of the bigger rock*) I will build my church; And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.' Then charged He His disciples that they should tell no man that He was Jesus the Christ. (*This rock relates to the "Rock of Ages." (Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a GOD of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He....2Samuel 22:3  The God of my rock; in Him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; You save me from violence...Psalm 18:2  The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My GOD, my strength, in whom I will trust; My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower....Psalm 28:1  A Psalm of David. Unto You will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if You be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.)

Isaiah 48:16-17  'Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From before time that it was, there am I: and now the LORD GOD, and His Spirit, has sent me. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.' 

Joshua 23:14-15a of 13-16 reveals who is the Judge of the snared of man's religions: 'Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; For they shall be snares and traps set for you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land of promised rest which the LORD your God has given you. For, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; All are come to pass in you, and not one thing has failed thereof. Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until I have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you by way of promise. When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; Then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which He has given unto you.'

John 14:6 of 1-7 Jesus is speaking here: 'Let not your heart be troubled: you believe GOD, believe also Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself (no time limit imposed here); that where I am, there you may be also (Eph. 1:10, 20, 2:6, 3:10, 15, Col. 1:16, 20.) And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas saith to Him, "Lord, we know not where You go; And how can we know the way?" Jesus said him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by Me. If you had known Me, you should have known My Father also: and from henceforth you shall know Him, and have seen Him.'

Now for the added passages as the zeal of the LORD often over takes me:

Ephesians 1:10, 20, 2:6, 3:10 and 15

Ephesians 1:9-10  Having made known to us the mystery of His Will, according to His good pleasure which He had purposed in Himself: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; Even in Him: In Whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who works all things after the counsel of His own Will: That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trust in Christ. 

Ephesians1:20 of 15-23  Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the LORD Jesus, and love for all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the GOD of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; That you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and having put all things under His feet, and given Him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is His Body, Christ, the fullness of Him that fills all in All. 

Ephesians 2:6 of 1-10 And you has He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past we walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience (this being man's many religious forms and systems of deception and bewilderment among us): Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; And were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But GOD, Who is rich in mercy, for His great Love wherewith He loves us, even when we were dead (unknowing) in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace we are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His Grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by His Grace are we saved through His faith; That not of yourselves: it is the gift of GOD: Not of the Mosaic Law of self works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which GOD had before ordained (predestinated, this being before the earth's foundation was established, Gen. 1:26-28) that we should walk in them. 

Ephesians 3:10, and 15 of 3:1-13, 14-4:6  For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of GOD which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation He made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, to this I can say dido!) Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed in His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same Body, and partakers of His promises in Christ by our gospel: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the Grace of GOD given to me by the effectual working of His power. To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this Grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in GOD (Deu. 29:29), Who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of GOD, according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD: In Whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him. Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 

Ephesians 3:14-4:6  For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our resurrected and ascended LORD Jesus Christ, Of Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named (identified), that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man (restored within us); That Christ may dwell in your hearts (Lev. 17:11) by His faith; That we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that we might be filled with all the fullness of GOD. Now to Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. The living an abiding Amen. I therefore, the prisoner of the LORD, beseech you that you walk (live) worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace. There is one Body, and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One GOD and Father of us all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Now for Colossians 1:16, 20 of 15-20, 21-23 Now for The Preeminence of Christ:
Col 1:15-20, 21  Who is the image (found in Gen. 1:26-28)of the invisible (found in Lev. 17:14) GOD, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. He is the head of the Body, His Church: Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; That in all things He now having the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell;  And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to in Himself; For by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

Colossians 1:21-23  You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works (of a man's religion), yet now having been His, He has reconciled in the Body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight: If you'll continue in His faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven. 

1John 5:4, 7 of 5-12 For whatsoever is born of GOD overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, His faith placed in us.....Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; Not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is Truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of GOD is greater: for this is the witness of GOD which He has testified of His Son. He that believe the Son of GOD has this witness in himself: he that believes not GOD has made himself a liar; Because he believes not the record that GOD gave of His Son. And this is the record, that GOD has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that has the Son has His Life; and he that has not the Son of GOD has not the redeemed life. (And I might add has no salvation.)

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 Day 10

The lifting of the veil from our eyes is paramount herein as I share the following shared by another more intelligent in the matters of the Grace of GOD at work within us all this highlighted by the use of ("....") as I pick up on Romans 8:1-10 where our true original identity is established without hypocrisy:

Coming to the LORD for Grace:

"Jesus asked and said: 'Come to Me . . . and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me... and you will find rest for your souls.' (Matthew 11:28-29)

Our previous meditations on Jesus promising spiritual rest provides an excellent opportunity to reflect again upon the relational aspect of living by the Grace of GOD. GOD'S Grace does not abound toward us by means of some religious procedure. His grace flows into our lives as we live in a developing relationship with Him. This is essential for our understanding, since it is "the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ" (2Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich.) this we are to be experiencing in abundance, as promised us.

It is in coming to the LORD, in relationship with the LORD, that we find His Grace at work in our lives. 'Come to Me...Take My yoke... learn from Me.' When we first come to Jesus in humble dependence, we find His Grace to forgive us of our our inherited sin, often diluted sin and guilt pushed upon us by a man's religion. When we yoke up with Him, walking intimately with Him each day, we find His Grace to rescue us from religious, fleshly strivings of hyprocy's falsehoods.

This pattern of coming to the LORD is prevalent in the scriptures. As Isaiah wrote of it concerning salvation. "Look to Me, and be saved (H3467, to succor, give releaf), all you ends of the earth! For I am GOD, and there is no other... Surely in the LORD I have righteousness and strength. To Him men shall come" (Isaiah 45:22, 24). Isaiah also declared that spiritual refreshment and life from GOD would be available by simply coming to the Lord Jesus. "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters... Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live (have newness of Life)" (Isa. 55:1-3). Of course, Jesus restated this profound invitation concerning Himself. 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes Me, as the Scripture have said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.' (John 7:37-38).

The Apostle Peter wrote of another significant issue for which we come to Jesus. "Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men (man's religion based on flesh workings), but chosen by GOD and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to GOD through Jesus Christ" (1Pet. 2:4-5). If we are going to access the Grace that edifies our lives, we must consistently be coming to Jesus Christ, the Father's chosen and precious cornerstone."

Day by day by grace: Pastor Bob Hoekstra

Jesus restored to us our unknown identity (masked, covered over behind a veil of deception, in Gen. 3) and union within Himself this making all of Humanity Christ Ones; Romans 8:1-10 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the Mosaic Law of sin and death. For what that Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, GOD sending His own Son in the likeness (Gen. 1:26-28) of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the New law of Life, Light and Love, might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; But they that are after do mine the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; But to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against GOD: for it is not subject to the law of GOD, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please GOD. For we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of GOD dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; For the Spirit is Life because of righteousness. For if the Spirit of Him (ie..GOD) that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you. 

I shall leave it here for you to decide for yourselves. I do wish that you would accept the "yoke of learn of Him." As I have!

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Day 9

We are looking into our call to Rest in GOD in Christ as being of the Resurrection from the dead. With that said lets look at a few things that Jesus stated as commandments beginning in John where we find the following as they describe the commandments of the LORD Jesus, but first a look at 2Peter 1:

2Peter 1:1-2, 3-11 An apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of GOD and our Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and Peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of GOD, and of Jesus our LORD. 

Confirm Your Calling and Election:

According as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption (2Pet. 2:1-3, 4-16, 17-22) that is in the world through lust. And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; And to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; And to temperance patience; And to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; And to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ. For they that lack these things are blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sin of unbelief. Wherefore the rather, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall backward: For an entrance has been opened for ministry for you abundantly in the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Now for the Words of Jesus:

John 12:46  'I am come a light in the world, that whosoever believes Me should not abide in darkness.'
John 14:16  'I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide within you for ever;'
John 15:4, 6, 7, 10  'Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; No more can you, except you abide in Me......"If" a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, that withers; And men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.... "If" you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you....."If" you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love; Even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love.'

Okay, now for the rest of GOD found in Matthew 11:25-27, 28-30 and remember that much of this is hidden within the first passage of Genesis 1:1 and is explained by John in 1John 5 and I have endeavored to declare.....

Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest

Matthe'w 11:25-27,28-30  At that time Jesus answered and said, 'I thank You, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because You have hid (Deu. 29:29) these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Your sight. All things are delivered to Me of My Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; Neither know any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him. 

Come to Me, all that labor and are heavy laden (by the worlds description of religion, Gen. 3:15), and I will give you rest. Take My yoke (hidden in Genesis 1:1's H410, H430, H433 of Elohiym) upon you, and learn (this also part of Gen. 1:1) of Me; For I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.'  

Before I go any farther lets look at 1John 5 to see what John shared there:

Overcoming the World:

1John 5:1-5  Whosoever believes Jesus is the Christ is born of GOD: and every one that loves Him is begotten of love, belong's to Him that also is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of GOD, when we love GOD, and keep His commandments (those listed above in John 15). For this is the love of GOD, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous (as in under the weight of the Mosaic Law of condemnation, relaying on flesh works and obedience to them that do so). For whatsoever is born ('of a different spirit',,,ie. as was Caleb and Joshua of Numbers 14:24, 'have follow Me faithfully.') of GOD overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcome the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes Jesus is the Son of GOD?

The Testimony Concerning the Son of God:

1John 5:6-12  This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; Not by water only, but by water and blood (this the legal and authorized enter into the world through the womb of woman). And it is the Spirit that bearers witness, because the Spirit is Truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one (Elohiym as in Gen. 1:1). And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the water, the blood: these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of GOD is greater: for this is the witness of GOD which He has testified of His Son. He that believes the Son of GOD has the witness in himself: he that believes not GOD has made Him a liar; Because he believes not the record that GOD gave of His Son. And this is the record, that GOD has given us eternal life, and this life is His Son. He that has the Son has life; And he that has not the Son of GOD has not life. 

That You May Know:

1John 5:13-20, 21  These things have I written to you that believe the Son of GOD; That you may know that you have eternal life, and that you believe the Son of GOD. And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to Their Will, They hear us: And if we know that They hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Them. If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and They shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. For all unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. We know that whosoever is born of GOD sins not; For he is begotten of GOD and keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not. And we know that we are of GOD, and the whole world lies in wickedness.  And we know that the Son of GOD is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true GOD, and eternal life. 

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. 

So we are looking at "I will give you rest" and "you will find rest for your souls." These promises supplement well the earlier studies on GOD'S promises, of which we have studied these in some depth some time back in this blog and now GOD'S rest. The first promise pertains to our justification and spiritual birth, while the second pertains to our sanctification and spiritual growth.

The first promise addresses those who are struggling under the burden of guilt and condemnation administered under the height of sin's guilt and shame by the Mosaic Law: "all who labor and are heavily laden." This being the point where everyone begins their earthly trek. This is where Isaiah's message of Isaiah 53:6 comes in "All are like sheep have gone astray (lacking the knowledge of their identity and origin); We have turned, everyone, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity (H5771 of H5753 means to turn away, to hide, This in Gen. 3) of us all." For all who come to Jesus in humble humility receive forgiveness. The promise of "rest" is fulfilled.

The second promise is addressed to those who have found the initial rest of forgiveness, but their soul is restless. For they are still struggling under the false conception of burden, trying to produce what is freely given, not having yet realized their own efforts of trying through the fleshly resources....ie, church of man's religious forms. "Are you so foolish? Have you begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3) They yearn for a rescue from the crushing load of walking according to the flesh. "Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Rom. 7:24)

Jesus provides the answer in Mat. 11:26-30, which allows us to take part in the benefits of this promise, we must be "yoked to the LORD for our learning of Him." This yoke is not like that of beginning yoked to an ox. For His yoke is easy and His burden is light. As we learn of HIM! This walk is a communion of an abiding relationship of Love unfeigned within the LORD and this second promise is then fulfilled. And remember that this is also hidden in Gen. 1, where our origin and identity began.

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 Day 8

The lifting of the secret things of GOD and the mysteries of Christ in you, by the renting of His Body, born of fire from heaven, with today's thoughts I shall move to Romans 12:1-5; Hebrews 10:20-22 and Psalm 100:3, and others where we find these things all dealing with the rest of GOD restored, renewed, made complete...ect. in the KJV:

Romans 12:1-5 I beseech you, by the mercies of GOD, that you present your bodies a living (Heb 10:20-22 By a new and living way, which GOD in Jesus as Christ has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; And we now have an High Priest over the House of GOD; Let us draw near with a true hearts in full assurance of His faith and faithfulness, now having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Psalm 100:3  Know that the LORD Jesus is God: it is He that has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.) sacrifice, holy, acceptable to GOD, which is your reasonable service. In this fashion you'll be not conformed to this world: but will be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, Will of GOD. For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; But to think soberly, according as GOD has dealt to every man the measure of His faith. For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one Body as Christ, and every one member is one of another. 

Now for Romans 6:12-13 of 10-14  For in that He died, He died for sin once: but in that He lives, He lives in GOD. Likewise reckon also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive in GOD through Jesus Christ our LORD. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves to GOD, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of the righteousness of GOD. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for we are not under the Mosaic Law, but in Grace. 

Luke 9:23 of 23-26  Jesus said to them all, 'If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He shall come in His own glory, and in His Father's Glory, and of the holy angels. For I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.' (This repeated in Mark 8:34)

Hebrews 9:26 of 24-28  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; But into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of GOD as us: Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed for men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; And for them that look to Him shall He appear the second time without sin for salvation. 

Hebrews 2:6 of 5-14  For to the angels has He not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place testified, saying, 'What is man (Psa 8:4-8  What is man, that You are mindful of him? Or and the son of man, that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! That You are mindful of him? or the son of man, that You visited him? Then we have this in Psa 95:8-11 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, 'It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways: To whom I swore in My wrath (as being red hot LOVE from them) that they should not enter into my rest.') You made him a little lower than the angels; thou crown him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of Your hands: You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, Who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; That He by the grace of GOD has tasted death for every man. For it became Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through their sufferings. For both He that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One identity: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren and friend, Saying, 'I will declare your name to My brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise for You. And again, I will put My trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which GOD has given Me.' For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; That through our joint death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And delivered them who through fear of death  (this seen in Matthew 27:51-54) were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 

Now for the redeemed as follows beginning with Psalm 71:23-24  My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You; My soul, which You have redeemed H6299, means, to rescue, deliver, to revive, to release, to restore our original identity). My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.

Psalm 103:2-6, 8  Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities; Who heals all our diseases; Who redeemed our life from destruction; Who crowns us with loving-kindnesses and tender mercies; Who satisfies our mouth with good things; So that our youth is renewed like the eagle's. The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.....  The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.  

Psalm 51:6  Behold, You desire truth in our inward parts (Lev. 17:11): and in the hidden part You make us to know Your wisdom. 

Psalm 51:12-17 Restore (H7725, means, to restore rest, LXX 1462-J to turn back to a previous state, to recover, render an answer) me in Your joy and Your salvation; Uphold me with Your free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors Your ways; And sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O GOD, You are GOD of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips; My mouth shall shew forth Your praise. For You desire not sacrifice; Else would I give it: You delight not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of GOD are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You wilt not despise. 

Isaiah 49:5-7  And now, said the LORD that formed me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob again to Him, 'Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my GOD shall be my strength.' Then He said, 'It is a light thing that you should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you maybe My salvation to the end of the earth.' Thus said the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to Him Whom man despises, to Him Whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, for He has chosen you.' 

Matthew 17:11-12 Jesus answered and said to them, 'Elias truly shall first come, and restore (G600, means to reconstitute) all things.' But I say to you, 'That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done to him whatsoever they lusted. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.' 

Galatians 6:1-2  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore (G2675, repair, refresh perfectly, restore to the state of rest or that of our original design of joint identity ) such a one in the spirit of meekness; Considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 

Hebrews 13:21 which states this, beginning at verse 20: 13:20-21  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His Will (Will being an active choice, means Word, Life Light and Love, these being predetermined, predestined, predestination to bless humanity, mankind as Christ ones Romans 8:8-11 in which we have: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But we are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of GOD dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; For the Spirit is Life because of GOD'S righteousness. For if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells (occupies, inhabits) in you.), working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; In Whom be glory for ever and ever. The great Amen.  

John 3:3, 7  Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of GOD'.......Marvel not that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
1Peter 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word (Will, plan, purpose) of GOD, which lives and abids for ever.

Acts 2:1-4 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. When suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared no them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Glorifying GOD!

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 Day 7

I want to share the Numbers 14 message from the 1611 KJV Bible but only by the high lighting of a few passages only as they are keys in my opinion.

Numbers 14:6-9, 24, 28, 30b, 34-35, using the 1611 KJV; Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: They spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it to us; A land which flows with milk and honey. Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; For they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not"....'But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land where-into he went; And his seed shall posses it'....'Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in My ears, so will I do to you'.....'save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun'.....'After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know My breach of promise. I the LORD have spoken, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me: In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'

Now my problem is this from here where do I go next? What do I say, next?

Israel here presents humanity and their religion the religion of men, as it is throughout the scriptures. But those of "another spirit" are the Christ of GOD, for it is they that "follow Me fully." Are the lessons learned here what I suppose them to be? Or are they of my own biased opinion? That springs from the discoveries of Genesis 3's contents? Next am I putting the scriptures together properly as directed? A workmen that labors under Your yoke for learning of You by direction, rightly dividing the word of Truth. Christ being Truth and the Word within our humanity as the seed of GOD.

All of our redeemed life is based on the Promises of GOD in Christ and it is this Christ that resides within all of Humanity.

2Peter 1:3-4  According as His divine power has given us all things that pertaining to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory (dignity, our original identity of Gen. 1:26-28*) and virtue: wherein are given us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature (G5449, growth), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. *This being Humanity's unique Oneness in GOD, our abiding in Him and His abiding within us this revealed by Jesus.

*Psalm 100:3  Know you not that the LORD Jesus is GOD: it is He that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His (seed, Gen. 1:26-28) people.

Matthew5:48, Luke 6:40, John 17:23  (Jesus is speaking) 'Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.'

Luke 6:40  'The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.'
John 17:23  I in them, and you in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; And that the world may know that You have sent Me, and having loved them, as You having loved Me.'

Romans 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, Will of God.

Philippians 3:15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.

1Thessalians 3:10  Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see Your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith.

James 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, within Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Hebrews 13:21  It is GOD Himself that Makes you perfect in every good work to do His Will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; In Whom, We, humanity are the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1Peter 5:10  For the GOD of all grace, Who having called (formed) us in His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after that we have suffered a while, make us perfect, established, strengthen, settle you.

1John :17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.

1John 4:18  There is no fear in love; For perfect love castes out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.

Remember that it is man's many religions that use and pushes fear by intimidation as it's gospel. This copied from Judaism among many others of antiquity.

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 Day 6

I was of a mind to share the area where I found our true Identity restored as in redeemed but I was unable to. Then the LORD said 'look again at what I said about Caleb,' so here goes beginning where Israel complains about their supposed misfortune, now it might be noted that there was no call for "repentance" here, only that of 'another spirit':

Numbers 14:6-9 of 1-9, 30  All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; The people wept that night. All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! Wherefore has the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?" And they said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 

Then spoke the LORD, 'Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it us; A land which flowing with milk and honey. Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; For they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not'".......(beginning with the charge against Israel and Moses at verse 20 through to verse 30:)

Numbers 14:24 of 20-30  The LORD said, 'I have pardoned according to your word: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Because all those men which have seen My glory, and My miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it: But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land where-into he went; and his seed shall possess it.  (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn and get into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.' And the LORD spoke again to Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against Me. Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in My ears, so will I do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; And all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against Me, doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.' 

Now for the New Covenant witness:

John 7:16-18 (Jesus is speaking) Jesus answered them, and said, 'My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me. (showing His Identity) If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of GOD, or whether I speak of Myself. He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks His glory (from Him) that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.'

Ephesians 1:5, 10, 9, 11 of 3-12 Blessed be GOD and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as They have chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world [this in Genesis 1:26-28, confirmed in Psa 100:3 and Lev. 17:11; Heb 13:10)  Know you that the LORD He is God: it is He that has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people (our identity revealed here), and the sheep (wonders) of His pasture], that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: Having predestinationed (this in Gen. 1:26-28) us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ in Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He having made us accepted in the Beloved. In whom we have redemption (the restoration of our origin and identity) through His blood (Lev. 17:11), the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; Wherein He having abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He having purposed in Himself: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things (nations, humanity) in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; Even in Him: In Whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who works all things after the counsel of His own will: That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted Christ.  

Galatians 2:20, of 16-21  Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Mosaic Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law: for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners (slid-den back in under the Mosaic Law), is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid! For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live in God. For I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; Yet not I, but Christ live in me (this the Genesis 1:26-28 gospel of Life in the blood of Leviticus 17:11): and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the (supernatural) faith of the Son of GOD, Who loves me, and gave Himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of GOD: for if righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain.
 

Philippians 2:13 of 12-18  Wherefore, my beloved, as we have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is GOD who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputing: That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of GOD, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse world, cosmos, among whom we are to shine as lights in the world; Holding the word of (Christ which is) Life; That I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. Yes, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do we joy, and rejoice with you.

Colossians 1:9-17  For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of Their (Elohiym) will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of GOD; Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, with patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks to Father, which having made us meet (fit) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: In Whom we have redemption by His blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible GOD (in Lev. 17:11's Life in the blood of the altar, the Laminin protein), the firstborn of every creature (Genesis 1:26-28, in 2:7): For by Him we're all created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things are created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

Now for a warning for those who fall short as seen in Israel, this in Hebrews 3 which states the following:

Hebrews 3:1-6, 7-19  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to Him that appointed (predestinated) Him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who builds the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by some man; But He that built this House is GOD. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony (witness) of those things which were to be spoken after; For Christ as a son over His own house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 

A Rest for the People of God

Hebrews 3:7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost stated, 'To day if you will hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation (Numbers 14), in the day of temptation in the wilderness (Exodus): When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; And they have not known My ways. So I swore in My (burning deep and abiding Love for them) wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.)' Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living Word of GOD. For we exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end; While it is said, To day if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. For with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom swore He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. 

Now for Hebrews 4:7 of 1-14:

Hebrews 4:7 of 1-14, 15-16  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with trust leading to faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, 'As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And GOD did rest the seventh day from all Their works.' And in this place again, 'If they shall enter My rest. Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: Again, He limited it to a certain day, saying by David, 'To day, after so long a time; As it is said, To day if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.' For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of GOD. For he that is entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as GOD did from His (in Genesis 2:1-3). Let us labor therefore to enter into this rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of GOD is (of a different spirit as seen in Numbers 14 spoken of Caleb) quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow (this in Genesis 2:21-24 and Leviticus 17:11, Psalm 100), and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: For all things are naked and opened before Him with whom we have to do. 

Jesus the Great High Priest

Hebrews 4:14-16  Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of GOD, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an High Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; But was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (for He knew His origin and identity). Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. 

James 1:12-18  Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD has promised to them that love Him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for GOD cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts He any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed (by the teachings of a man's religion to do so). Then when lust hath conceived, it bring forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death (by the doctrines of man not of Christ). Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow (in Genesis 1:26-28) of turning. Of His own will begat He us with the word of Truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures (Genesis 2:7, 21-24 by Leviticus 17:11).  

Now for the outcome of promise in Revelation 21:3, 6-8  And I John heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of GOD is within men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and GOD Himself shall be within them, and be their GOD.....And He said to me, 'It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; I will be his GOD, and he shall be My son. But the fearful, and not unbelieving, for the abominable, and murderers, and whore-mongers (human trafficker), and sorcerers (druggists, poisoners), and idolaters (worshipers of false deities, gods, those who participate in the worship of heathen gods, sacrificial feasts, shades of the departed), and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone (meant for the advisory of man and GOD, the devil, the dragon ie..Satan's fallen comrades, demons and the like): which is the second death.

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 Day 5

I want to look again at Numbers 14 but this time at verse 24 as it reveals something some what unusual within it's context:

Num. 14:23-24 The LORD is speaking here: 'Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it: But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land where-into he went; and his seed (notice that is a singular seed, meaning Christ) shall possess it.' 

So what is this "another spirit" what does this mean? The LXX has this for "another": H312, means hinder, from H309, meaning defer. Then the word "spirit": H7307, meaning breathe, life, from H7306, meaning to perceive, to make of quick understanding.

Now for Psalm 100 verse 3 where we have this:

Psa 100:3-4  Know that the LORD He is GOD: it is He that has made you, and not we ourselves; We are His people (H5971, nation), and the sheep (H6629, to migrate) of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful in Him, and bless His name. 

The following is taken from Clark's record: Know that the Lord he is God - Acknowledge in every possible way, both in public and private, that Jehovah, the un-created self-existent, and eternal Being, is Elohiym, the GOD Who is in covenant with man, to instruct, redeem, love, and make him finally happy.
It is He that has made us - He is our Creator and has consequently the only right in and over us.... God made us, therefore we are His: we are His people, and should acknowledge Him for our GOD; We are the sheep of His pasture, and should devote our lives to Him constantly which He continually supports.

Now for Gill's commentary as follows: Know you that the Lord He is God,.... Own and acknowledge Him to be God, as well as man; And though a man, yet not a mere man, but the great God and our Savior, the true God and eternal life; So a man, as that he is Jehovah's fellow; Or our God, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; Immanuel, God within us, God in our nature, God manifested in the flesh:

It is He that has made us; As men, without whom nothing is made that was made; In Him we live, move, and have our being; And, as new creatures, we are His workmanship, created in Him, and by Him; Regenerated by His Spirit and grace, and formed for Himself, His service and glory; and made great and honorable by Him, raised from a low to an high estate; From being beggars on the dunghill, to sit among princes; Yes, made kings and priests unto GOD by Him; so, Kimchi, "He has brought us up, and exalted us:''
And this not we ourselves; That is, did not make ourselves, neither as creatures, nor as new creatures; For we have no hand in making either our souls or bodies, so neither in our regeneration, or in the work of GOD upon our hearts; That is solely the Lord's work: there is a double reading of this clause; The marginal reading is, and we are His; Which is followed by the Targum and Aben Ezra: both are approved of by Kimchi, and the sense of both is included; For if the Lord has made us, and not we ourselves, then we are not our own, but His, and ought to serve and glorify Him: we are His by creation; "We are also His offspring," as said Aratus, an Heathen poet, cited by the Apostle Paul, in Acts 17:28, we are His people; By choice and covenant; By His Father's gift, and His own purchase; And by the power of His grace, bringing to a voluntary surrender and subjection to Him; Even the Gentiles particularly, who were not His people, but now are His people. 1Pet 2:9, and the sheep of His pasture; His sheep also by gift and purchase, called by Him, made to know His voice, and follow Him; For whom He provides pasture, leads to it, and feeds them with it Himself; see Psa. 74:1. 

If anything what is expressed in the after-fore commentaries is our original identity (Gen. 1:26-28, 2:7, 18, 21-23, 24; Lev. 17:11) Jesus put this in several ways: in one, He said for us to eat of His flesh and drink in of His blood, in another He said that we are to abide in Him and He would abide in us. But the one that stands out is that of John 16:26 which states this beginning at verse 25: John 16:25-28  'These things have I spoken to you in proverbs: but there is a time to come, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, for I shall show you plainly of the Father. At that day you shall ask in My name: and I say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from GOD. I came forth from the Father, and I am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.' Now there are many more of such as this in Jesus' teachings. GOD is Love, Life, and Light. These three are to be operational within us as well.

This then is the Gospel our redeemed (restored to our knowing of our) identity of inseparable unity; by GOD'S Righteousness which is our innocence.

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 Day 4

I want to do a recap of lead up to this Rest and who it was first offered, to do so look with me at Numbers 14:18-22, 23-24 where we find this to see how Psalm 95:11 describes it afterwards:

But first Caleb: Num 14:6-9  Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it us; A land which flowing with milk and honey. Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; For they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not."

Now for verse 18-22, 23-24, 30 picking the thought at verse 17:

Num 14:17  Now, Moses is speaking: "I beseech you, let the power of my Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying, "The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." Pardon, I beseech You, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy, and as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. And the LORD said, 'I have pardoned according to your word: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Because all those men which have seen My glory, and My miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sworn to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit within him, and has followed Me fully, to him will I bring into the land where-into he went; And his seed shall possess it.'

Now for verse 30, picking up the flow at verse 28: Num 14:28-31  Say to them, 'As truly as I live, said the LORD, as you have spoken in My ears, so will I do to you: Your car cases shall fall in this wilderness; And all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against Me, doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 

Now back to Hebrews 4, no lets look at Psalm 95:11 beginning at verse 6 first:

Psa 95:6-10, 11  O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For He is our God; And we are the people of His (seed of His) pasture, and the sheep of His hand. To day if we will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation (Num. 14), and as in the day of temptation (Exodus) in the wilderness: 'When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work (John 15:24) Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways: To whom I swore in My wrath (H639, From H599; properly [long-] suffering, H599, displeased) that they should not enter into My rest.' 

Okay now for Hebrews 4 again:

Heb 4:1-3  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, if any of you should seem to come short of it. For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it (as shown in Ps. 95:11).  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, 'As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.'

Now for Hebrews 6:11-12, 15, picking the flow at verse 10:

Heb 6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. For we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end: That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.  

Heb 6:13  For when GOD made promise to Abram, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself, saying, 'Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.' And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 

Now back to the Psalms and Ps. 100 verse 3 beginning at verse 2:

Ps. 100:2  Serve the LORD with gladness: come before His presence with singing. Know that the LORD He is GOD: it is He that has made us (Gen. 1:26-28, 2:7, 18, 21-24; Lev. 17:11), and not we ourselves; We are His people (Lev. 17:11), and the sheep (H6629, means to migrate) of His pasture (H4830, He tends to our every need, John 6:51, 15:4, 7). Enter His gates (H8179, means its original sense; to split, to opening, Is. 53:5) with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise: be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the LORD God is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations. 

Heb 4:11, 6:11-12,15  Let us labor therefore to enter into this rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief....Heb 6:11-12  If I desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises...so, after you have patiently endured, you obtained the promise.  

Okay, there are two terms that sound to be of different meanings and purposes but in all actually they work together, they are "patiently endure" and "obtain the promise." Those who actually Believe Jesus acquire spiritual rest, a divine rescue (redemption, the return to our original state of being, ie..GOD'S righteousness our innocence) from the crushing burden if the Law's sin and guilt. There is also another benefit intended the relief from the unbearable load of self-generated Christian living. Our entering this spiritual rest is neither optional nor a casual matter. For is states, be diligent to enter this rest. As it is the LORD Who works within us to Perfect His Will for us. We're to have no sluggishness that leads to spiritual lethargic attitudes. (Rom. 12:11)

Remember that Jesus was taken outside the camp, the camp being the city of Jerusalem as a lamb lead out for slaughter but know that there were two lambs both having once hands (the Priest's) were laid upon its head, having the curses recited, one for crucifixion the other released in the wilderness as a sin offering, in remembrance of Israel's rebellion days.