July 11, 2007

  • A Heart Ablaze - Part XI

    07/05/2007

    Titled: As Many As I Love

    Is corrections supposed to be painful?
    How are we chastened?
    What is true repentence?

    Revelation 3:19a - As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten:

    Notice it doesn't say who HE hates or who HE puts up with....but who HE loves.

    Hebrews 12:5-6 - And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    Chasten - to correct or discipline

    MASTIGOO - greek for scourge - physically with a whip and it can be severe

    Chastening is extremely painful inside - you'd rather prefer an actual whooping.

    Hebrews 12:7-8 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

    When you feel the chastening say, "Praise YHWH I'm saved!"  "I am a true son!"

    {he talked about like sermons in church where you feel the conviction/chastening...I thought pastors weren't suppose to preach every sermon as a guilt trip...PRESENT PERFECT anyone?!}

    Hebrews 12:9-10 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

    Hebrews 12:11 - Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

    Painful - HIS first way to chasten is speaking to us in a stern matter through HIS Word {are you reading the Word? it would be wise}.  If we ignore HIS Word HE will use affliction and hardship to chasten us.

    OT verses for proof: Psalm 119:67-75

    NT verses for those who say "but that was OT times": I Corinthians 11:30-32

    When you are chastened, just listen and be quick to repent.

    Hebrews 12:12 - Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

    Hands are for service and feet ar for your walk/manner of living.

    Jeremiah 23:22 - But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

    Isaiah 35:3-8  Highway of Holiness, a higher level of living.  {He said the NASB gave a "better" translation because it said fools will not travel this highway...but KJV also uses the word fool...hrm..}.anywho a fool sees his thought and life as a measure of wisdom and is deceived.

    Hebrews 12:14-15 - Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

    More verses describing a fool: Proverbs 12:15; 14:16; 18:2

    Laodicea thought they were ok, but YHWH rebuked them.

    If you are not willing to heed correction then you will miss the road to Holiness.

    ***Correction without repentence is of little value***

    Revelations 3:19b - be zealous therefore, and repent.

    A passionate desire to change from where we are to where HE is.

    Complete change of mind, thought and heart.

    Not an emotional thing.

    He said that I John chapter 2 tells us to be like HIM.  This means that one of us has to change and it ain't gonna be HIM so we need to be corrected.

    Embrace the correction of YHWH.

    Isaiah 35:10 - And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

    Hebrews 12:18-23 Remember only Moses (and Joshua) could get on Mount Sinai...but we can go to Mount Sion.

    Verse 22-23: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

    angels= angels

    General assembly = OT saints

    church of the firstborn = saints who have already died

    spirits of just men made perfect = us....we enter HIS throneroom when we pray.

    verse 24-25 - And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

    Moses heard the crystal clear voice of YHWH while the Israelites heard only thunder and a great shaking.  And yet they didn't escape...so much more we won't.

    Some get the revelation preached as hearing a clear voice....others don't get it because they only hear noise or static.

    Verse 26 - Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

    to shake=remove that which is not built on the proper foundation or that which is dead.

    verse 27 - And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.   (Eternally)

    Verse 28 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

    He points out again that he is reading from the NT!

    This is how this verse is preached today, "so like dude I'm saved by grace it's so cool cuz it means I can live however I want to live, it's all gooood"

    II Corinthians 7:2 - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

    Teases for Part XII

    What keeps us from being chastened?
    YHWH's greatest attribute
    How to receive the fire of YHWH upon your life

    Staye tuned....