"He Chooses Our Inheritance"

"He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom He loves."  (Psalm 47:4, NASB)

 

I'm sitting on our front porch this morning, enjoying one of our rare, perfect temp, sunny days------------- surveying a part of my inheritance.  Just look around you; that's a part of yours also, child of God.  Is not, "the earth...the LORD's, and all its fullness," and are we not, "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together?"  Yet the sobering thought for us is that whatever money we have, the house we have, the family we have, the church you think you "have," the blessings, the anything you and I have, well, "He chooses our inheritance for us."  

 

Some translate our text, "will choose," others, "chose," and still others, "chooses."  Well, there we have it, don't we?-- past, present, and future, or in Biblical Theology, Eternal.  Whatever the fullness of the meaning, "He (and, "He," alone) chooses our inheritance for us."  We come into the Inheritance of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ, His Blood, His New Birth, His Water Baptism, His Baptism in the Holy Spirit.  And, we are sustained in, "our inheritance," in obedience to the Breath of God, the "God-Breathed" Word.  A warning here from two examples: The prodigal lost his inheritance by disobedience.  He regained it by obedience.  Concerning the Jews, Paul said, "....They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith (obedience).  Do not be conceited, but fear...." 

 

Some things in life are really quite simple, are they not?  According to our text, the inheritance which the Holy Trinity has for us is His, and He has allowed us to be graced with the stewardship.  It was His idea, His initiation, His to give, His to keep, His to sustain.  You and I did not create it, we cannot control it, nor can we give it to others, as much as we might want.  No amount of money can buy it, nor tithes and offerings to "great ministries" accrue it for you.  "It is by grace...and...not of yourselves."

 

Father, in Jesus' Name, I thank You that you have included me in, "The glory of Jacob...."  Grant me the grace to live in, "our inheritance," and declare Your open invitation to all, "Come and dine!"   Amen. 

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Yes, I Know-- I'm Flooding Cyberspace-- But So Is The Deceiver; Therefore......

"Knowing therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences." (2 Corinthians 5:11)

 

The Bible says of our witness, "we persuade men."  Yet some call what we do, "propaganda."  Propaganda is defined as "ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also, a public action having such effect."  I can accept that.  Anyway, it is fairly similar to the word for, "persuade," in our text, "'to apply persuasion, to prevail upon or win over, to persuade,' bringing about a change of mind."

 

Now I know some people wonder if what I put on our Blog and my political/ social/cultural commentaries embedded in the devotionals, have anything do with the Gospel.  No, they don't.  They have everything to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Reigning and Soon Coming King, King of, "the city of the Great King," Jerusalem.  Christians must simply get over this religious confine of "churchianity."  Jesus came to, "save ('deliver or protect, heal, preserve, make whole, prosper') His people from their sins," now, not just in the future.  Ours is an eternal salvation, which includes every aspect of life, yes, political, social, cultural, not just the "altar call" life.            

 

The Bible says that our, "purpose is that...they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.  I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments."  Make no mistake; "fine-sounding arguments," are deceptive, illusive, disguised as unrelated to evangelicalism's limited view of the cosmos.  But I do not argue with people.  I attempt to, "persuade men."  I will have nothing to do with arguing's fruitless endeavor.  I do pray, however, for persuasion skills.

 

Father, in Jesus' Name, in the power of the Holy Spirit, knowing, "the terror," and the coming Judgment, grant me persuasion anointing.  Amen.

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Hebrews 12:2

Unparalleled

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1)

I think we all need to be careful what we pass on over the Internet.  Today I received a forward from a Christian who quoted the eldest son of the founder of the Bahai Faith.  The Bahai Faith website states that "Baha'u'llah claimed to be nothing less than a new and independent Messenger from God.  His life, work, and influence parallel that of Abraham, Krishna, Moses, Zoraster, Buddha, Christ, and Muhammad."  Sorry; Jesus has no "parallel." 

Our text states that, "many false prophets have gone out into the world;" and they continue to go, "out into the world."  To "test the spirits," one must consider their belief about and submission to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.  He dominates the early creeds.  Our Father and the Holy Spirit were not so maligned by false prophets as was, and is, Jesus Christ.  The Bible is clear; Jesus is, "Immanuel, God with us."  If Jesus Christ is not affirmed and declared as, "God with us," if Jesus Christ is not declared as the Sole Claimant to, "the way, the truth, and the life," that which is behind such denial, "is the spirit of the Antichrist."   

The Bible declares throughout that the days leading to the culmination of the age will be full of growing deception.  There is something in wishful-thinking humanity which wants all religions to contain truth.  It is driven by the humanist song, "I want the world to sing a song in perfect harmony," harmony defined as that which does not affirm, "Jesus Christ is Lord."  No religion or philosophy affirms or believes that only Jesus Christ is, "the way, the truth, and the life."  Paul says, "have nothing to do with them."  Truth is not a statement of facts.  Truth is a Person, unparalleled, unequaled.  "For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens."  

Father, in Jesus' Name, I trust Your "testing."  Amen.
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Declaration and Prayer for Israel and The Church

"The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving refuge of His anointed.  Save Your people, and bless your inheritance; Shepherd them also, and bear them up forever." (Psalm 28:8, 9)

 

In our text we have a declaration of Who the Living Triune God is, and a prayer for His People.  Indulge a little word study here--V. 8: "strength"--"force, security, majesty, praise," translated elsewhere, "boldness, loud, might, power, strength, strong"-- "saving refuge"-- "a fortified place, a defense, something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity," translated elsewhere, "force, fortress, rock, help, salvation, health, welfare."  Here we have the Indwelling Lord Jesus Christ, our "force, security, majesty, praise, boldness, loud declaration to the universe, might, power, strength." 

Whatever is going on in your day, this should take care of you.

 

Then the psalmist prays what Jesus Christ is, always has been, and ever shall be in His People--- "save"--"to be open, wide or free, to be safe, to free or succor, translated elsewhere, "avenging, defend, preserve, be safe, get victory"-- "shepherd"-- "to tend a flock, pasture it, to rule, to associate with (as a friend), translated elsewhere, "companion, keep company with." 

 

Alright, I'm ready.  On this "International Day of Prayer for Jerusalem," I pray for, "The City of the Great King" Jesus Christ, and for us, His Church-- Father, in Jesus' Name, make Israel and Your Church "open, wide, free, safe.  Succor us, avenge us, defend us, preserve us, keep us safe, grant us to walk in You, Our Victor.  Tend Your flock; pasture it, rule it, associate with us as Your friend, companion, and by all means, Father, "KEEP COMPANY WITH" us eternally.  Amen.

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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

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Hebrews 12:2