When we read Isaiah 58, is there any doubt about who we're to feed and clothe? Is there any doubt about who who we are to loose from the bonds of wickedness? Is there any doubt about whether we should be freeing the oppressed and breaking the enslaving yoke of bondage? Isaiah 58 is what God calls His "Chosen" fast and is His will for this earth, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." I cannot believe that God's will in heaven, is for us to be tempted, tried, sick, hungry, naked, afraid or oppressed.
Jesus taught us to pray that way. We must first watch and believe that Jesus is and was the Perfect Will of God. No one on this earth is exempted from God's grace and mercy, if they will receive it. We can only get in this mess if we "choose to," whether ignorantly or by choice. It's time for God's children to recognize Who their Father is and learn to know Him as "Father."
Matthew 4:6-7 (Amplified) says, "And he (the devil) said to Jesus, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge over You, and they will bear you up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, On the other hand, It is written also, You shall not tempt (test thoroughly or try exceedingly), the Lord your God."
Jesus knew the difference between a truth and THE TRUTH. Jesus knew the will of God and couldn't be tempted by the carnal way of reading or interpreting the Living Word of God. We read the Word with our intellect, more often than through the Spirit. John 7:16-17 (Amplified) says, "Jesus answered them by saying, My teaching is not My Own, but His Who sent Me. If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure) he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I Am speaking from Myself and of My Own authority."
In these last days, we must learn to know the will of God, so that we can reveal Him to the Church and the world, as He really is. The world hasn't seen the heart or grace or the power of God for a long, long time. God said in Isaiah 58:12 (Amplified), "And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; You shall raise up the foundations of (buildings that have laid waste) for many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to dwell in."
I believe that the "buildings" are the Temple of God, the Body of Christ, and those who are saved and those who will be saved. I also believe that the "Repairer of the Breach" is the restoration of the True Will of God as seen in the form of Jesus on this earth. "The Streets to Dwell in" will be those God has prepared for His children to walk in, both here and when we get home to heaven.
The greatest things the Church can walk in, is God's Love. We're no here to express our ideas about why someone is sick (judgement) or to tell them why certain things happen to them, but our job it to allow the Father in us, to do the work. A crowd brought an adulterous women before Jesus in John 8, (Notice that they didn't bring the adulterous male) and asked what should be done with her. If Jesus answered that she should be stoned according to the Law, then He would violate His Own teaching. If Jesus didn't stone her, then He would violate the Law, so they believed they had trapped Him. By placing this same Law upon all who were present, Jesus could judge righteously and in mercy and loose the woman from the sin she was accused of.
Can we walk in righteousness and still walk in love, so as not to judge, but be able to loose those who are bound? Can we still accept the person without having to embrace the sin as well? Can we still know how to do like Jesus, when it comes to sin? Jesus loosed that woman, but judged the sin when He said, "Go on your way, and from now on sin no more."
Jesus didn't say that adultery was acceptable in the Church, but that an adulterer could be set free to be in the Church. We've been made to feel like it's alright to bring the sin into the Church, but that's not so according to Isaiah 58:6 (Amplified) which tells us to, "Undo the yoke and bands and break every enslaving yoke and loose the bonds of wickedness."
There are times when this involves casting out a spirit. There are other times when it simply takes the power of loving someone. there are things in today's world that are influenced by unclean spirits and must be cast out. We need to know when, why, where and how to minister the will of God.
Grace doesn't mean living any way you wish to, while remaining in right standing with God. Grace means that anyway you were, can now be done away with and then you're alright with God. This is not an all accepting kind of family. Jesus is still the Only Way to the Father. He is not a way, but The Way. This isn't a religion that can leavened into the loaf, but one of unleavened in Jesus.
Anyone can be saved, but there is still Only One Way to be saved. Jesus is still the Only Savior. Even the love of God is still based on the will of God. We must understand His will, even in His love. God still loves the sinner, but His will is still "Believe on the Lord Jesus" and you will be saved.
Satan will use many things today like politics, carnality, along with misunderstanding in the world, to leaven the Church. Pressure has been applied to make the Church appear as being intolerant of others. We might have many denominations and our own way of thinking, but all those who truly know the Lord, agree on the fact that you cannot be the way you were and still be the way you are in Christ. When you get born again, there is a change that occurs in your spirit that will separate you from the person you used to be. It might take some time for the entire transformation to be completed, but there must be a change.
Jesus told the woman in John 8:11 (Amplified), "I do not condemn you either. Go on your way and from now on sin no more." He didn't condemn her for what she had been doing, but He didn't intend for her to continue in her old ways either. In today's Church, we seem to believe it's okay to have open sin in our lives and still be "washed in the Blood," have other gods as our lords and continue in the Church.
Politicians and fools make it sound like there are many way to God and there are many names, but we all serve the same God. This is one of the most outlandish lies satan has propagated in these last days for the Church. We're not the ones who made requirements of salvation and we cannot be the one who changes them. What we think should be, doesn't change the way it will be.
The age of deception has come into a new boldness and openness in these last days. We see things in our social media that are so anti-Christ and blasphemous, but people don't seem to notice them. The time to know God's will for us is paramount in this day and age. Many new translations of the Bible have been rewritten to appease those who want to go to heaven by their own ways and means. We have Bibles have now been written to leave out the Second part of the Trinity of God, Jesus and without saying that He is the Son of God/. We now have Bibles written that say God is a woman, in order to appease the feminists. We also have Bibles that declare Jesus was nothing more than "a prophet." We don't want to leave anyone out. It's all politically correct.
Do not leave it up to your pastor to read the Word for you. Don't even decide that you you're better than others because you at least didn't do what they did. Make it your quest to know God, not only as God, but as Father. You might ask, "Aren't they the same?" Yes, but your relationship and your understanding will change the way you see and approach Him. I've said previously that Barack Obama is probably the most powerful political figure in the world today (or at least he thinks he is) and people all over the world are trying to obtain favor and power through him. They lobby him in the White House, trying to get all they can from him. They push to get bills passed and legislation put into place, by cajoling and puffing him up with praise and flattery. There are two girls living in the White House with him and Michelle, his daughters. Even though he is President of the United States and perhaps the most powerful man in the world, his daughters do not address him as "Mister Presidents, nor do they need lobby for his favor. They approach him as Dad or Father, without diminishing his power or his title or his prominence. He is still President, the only difference being the relationship of the girls.
We can undoubtedly have a better audience and relationship with Father, than you can from God. He is the same, but you're knowing Who He is to you, that makes the difference. The Obama girls will obtain more from their father, than you ever will from Mr. President. We, in the Church, need to not only call Him "Father," but know Him as Father.
We've spent so much wasted time trying to "lobby" our way into getting something from God, when all the time Father has already lavished all those things on His children. We seek ways and means to get God to hear us, when all the time Jesus said, "Whatever you ask the Father, in My Name, He will give it to you."
Religion has separated us from relation in so many ways. Walking with my Heavenly Father is the easiest things I've ever done. His great love has accepted me. His grace and mercy protect me and His Holy Spirit and His Word direct me. If I do mess up (and I do), then He will forgive me and help me overcome. We are family.
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