Luke 8:38-39 records this:
“But the man from whom the demons had gone out was begging Him (Jesus) that he might accompany Him; but Jesus sent him away, saying,
“Return to your home and describe what great things God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city what great things Jesus had done for him.”
Son and readers. Do you see how Jesus shows my sins in my heart again? Do you see How He cares for me so that I can receive His forgiveness? Do you see how merciful what Jesus did for me? Do you see that Jesus Christ, who came into the world more than two thousand years ago, is still alive today, watching all the people on earth, still speaking to His people, still teaching God’s people to break out of the bondage of sin? If He is not alive, how can He remind me to prevent my brother from sinning against Him? And how can He remind me to forgive My Father and forgive myself at the important moment when I am finally going to fulfill my revenge against My Father? Jesus is alive, forever alive. A lot of time, He does not need human being to spread His presence with our own knowledge and understanding. He only needs us to say plainly what He had done for us and it is what He is asking us to do.
Romans 11:33-36 say it very well on this:
“Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?
Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM, THAT IT WOULD BE PAID BACK TO HIM?
For from Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.”
Because the Lord Jesus is the Son of the living God who created all things in heaven and earth and all living beings on earth, He is immortal. Since the Lord Jesus is immortal and lives with the Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit in the hearts of all God’s people, and promises to appear to His people, why does such a housemate have little opportunity to hear His voice? The Bible Jude 22-23 and 1 Samuel 2:33-34 and 3:12-13, as the original text understands, it is impossible for the Heavenly Father, through the Holy Spirit, to warn me to prevent God’s wrath from coming into my Father’s house. This is completely impossible to understand in this way from a theological point of view. But for this “wrong” concept for Christians all over the world, and the Heavenly Father let the Holy Spirit showed me that it was right. Also, He wanted to excite me, to fill my heart with godly fear, and to prevent God’s wrath from coming for the sake of that unknown fear. But what is wrong in our perception can be right in God’s hands. On the contrary, the Bible records that self-righteous religious leaders often use what God has said to men, and although they teach the world to learn righteousness, some of them follow their own selfish desires to achieve their own goals, turning the words of the true God who created the heaven and the earth into ways to think they are right or self-interested. I give you two examples. God once asked Abraham and his descendants to squat down for generations to be circumcised as evidence of God’s covenant with them, but the words God had left in the Bible— to be circumcised—were later used by the Jews to use all kinds of deceitful means to prevent gentiles from accepting God’s gospel of setting people free, which fulfilled what the Lord Jesus said in John 16:2-3 and Apostle Paul said in Romans 19:2-3.
“They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.
These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.”
“For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.”
What’s more, God once said to the Jews that committing adultery should be stoned to death, but the Jewish leaders used what God had said, and used the woman who was caught for adultery to try to frame the Lord Jesus. What they said was right, the woman was indeed committing adultery, and God had said that she should be stoned to death. But they will use it to achieve their goals, eradicate dissidents, and kill the Lord Jesus, the Son of God. Therefore, things that were originally right were wrong under the influence of mankind’s darkness and deceit, and in the eyes of God. This cites Ecclesiastes 7:29 as a reminder from God to all of us, including Christians:
“Behold, I have found only this, that God made people upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Son, well remember what God left us Christians through Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 3:3-6:
“revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such is the confidence we have toward God through Christ.
Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
May you be sure in your heart that the Holy Spirit will call you in different ways. Don’t be afraid of the call of the Holy Spirit in your heart, even if it is something that is not related to the context of that passage of the Bible, but it touches the depths of your heart, or something that you don’t like to know. Don’t be afraid or uneasy about things, you must know that He loves you and will call you in your heart. In your heart, answer the call of the Holy Spirit and say to Him, “Lord, what do you want to say to me? I am here, please say it to me.” The Holy Spirit will surely answer the prayers of those who are humble before Him.
I used to wash the outside of my cups and dishes, but I was still arrogant inside, thinking that no one knew what I was thinking, and that the true God who created all spirits was inspecting me every day. The truth is that I have been blinded by the evil one, and I am far away from the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is alive, forever alive. A lot of time, He does not need human being to spread His presence with our own knowledge and understanding. He only needs us to say plainly what He had done for us and it is what He is asking us to do.
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