THE BLESSEDNESS OF A BELIEVER
There’s a blessedness for those who have believed. Blessings that stems from our new birth into the body of Christ.
We don’t go about laying foundation of repentance from dead works. Those are foundational doctrines which are of course important (Hebrews 6:1) but we have moved on from there.
What the people of Israel were bragging about was that they were the ones to whom the law was given. They saw themselves as the people that were first choice, God’s best but they left their jobs, left the ‘duty post’.
ROMANS 3:1-6
So what difference does it make who’s a Jew and who isn’t, who has been trained in God’s ways and who hasn’t? As it turns out, it makes a lot of difference—but not the difference so many have assumed.
2-6 First, there’s the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God’s revelation, these Holy Scriptures. So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn’t abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness? Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same:
Your words stand fast and true;
Rejection doesn’t faze you.
But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God’s right doing, shouldn’t we be commended for helping out? Since our bad words don’t even make a dent in his good words, isn’t it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn’t do the straightening
People say “if there’s no sin, then where is the place for mercy?”
In other words, they feel they are helping God by keeping on sinning so that His mercies keeps on flowing.
The beauty of Grace is that it aims not just to raise us to a standard, but to make us a standard.
Jesus Christ has put an end to the ability of sin in man. He removed the nature of sin and has placed us above the standards of the law.
When a man does not open up to Grace, he can never be free.
We do not take lightly the grace of God, else we put ourselves to bondage again.
God isn’t pleased about being ignored. The whole essence of the law even, was to point man to His creator, Jehovah God.
The old way is gone and the new way has come. Those that look on Jesus experience change. As they behold, effortlessly, the change occurs.
It was by mercy that Israel was blessed. They were murmuring and speaking against God and His sent yet He kept on blessing them. It was when they began to boast in their abilities that things changed.
God has blessed us IRREVERSIBLY.
It is madness to try to CURSE the people that God has BLESSED. Peter called it “the madness of the prophet “
Numbers 22:1-1; 23:1-30; 24:1-25
Baal is a picture of the devil.
Balak brought Balaam to the place where the devil had the highest CHANCE OF ACCUSATION to curse God’s people.
The tool with which the devil condemns man before God is the law.
The place where the ark that Noah built rested was called MOUNT ARARAT which is interpreted “where the curse has been reversed”
The blessings has come and cannot be reversed. (Numbers 23:20)
Verse 21 of Numbers chapter 23 says that “... God has not beheld iniquity in Jacob”
Does this mean that the whole of that day when God looked, nobody AT ALL sinned?
We have to understand the way God sees and works.
Just imagine that this was the same camp where they had just spoken against God and Moses (chapter 21:5), and yet He says He hasn’t beheld sin in them. Hayah! Glory to God forevermore! He didn’t find sin in them because they had, before leaving Egypt observed the Passover which was a picture of the sacrifice of Christ in shadow form. He does not see sin because Jesus our lamb has been sacrificed for us.
Exodus 12 verse 13b says “When I see the blood, I will pass over you”
God does not see sin in our camp because the blood of our lamb SPEAKS BETTER THINGS. It speaks that these ones have been declared NOT GUILTY because Christ, our Passover lamb has taken away the sin problem.
We are blessed IRREVERSIBLY.
Our strength is like that of the Unicorn, we will overtake the chariots of kings by the strength of our God.
Romans 8:35, 39 makes it clear that nothing CAN separate us from the LOVE of Christ.
The blessings pronounced by the prophet in chapters 23 and 24 are a present day reality unto us and we are living in the blessedness vitally...
This post highlights my deductions and understanding of the message “THE BLESSEDNESS OF A BELIEVER” as was preached by Pastor Emmanuel Duru, the resident pastor, Streams of Grace Global Ministries, Sapele Branch.
There’s a blessedness for those who have believed. Blessings that stems from our new birth into the body of Christ.
We don’t go about laying foundation of repentance from dead works. Those are foundational doctrines which are of course important (Hebrews 6:1) but we have moved on from there.
What the people of Israel were bragging about was that they were the ones to whom the law was given. They saw themselves as the people that were first choice, God’s best but they left their jobs, left the ‘duty post’.
ROMANS 3:1-6
So what difference does it make who’s a Jew and who isn’t, who has been trained in God’s ways and who hasn’t? As it turns out, it makes a lot of difference—but not the difference so many have assumed.
2-6 First, there’s the matter of being put in charge of writing down and caring for God’s revelation, these Holy Scriptures. So, what if, in the course of doing that, some of those Jews abandoned their post? God didn’t abandon them. Do you think their faithlessness cancels out his faithfulness? Not on your life! Depend on it: God keeps his word even when the whole world is lying through its teeth. Scripture says the same:
Your words stand fast and true;
Rejection doesn’t faze you.
But if our wrongdoing only underlines and confirms God’s right doing, shouldn’t we be commended for helping out? Since our bad words don’t even make a dent in his good words, isn’t it wrong of God to back us to the wall and hold us to our word? These questions come up. The answer to such questions is no, a most emphatic No! How else would things ever get straightened out if God didn’t do the straightening
People say “if there’s no sin, then where is the place for mercy?”
In other words, they feel they are helping God by keeping on sinning so that His mercies keeps on flowing.
The beauty of Grace is that it aims not just to raise us to a standard, but to make us a standard.
Jesus Christ has put an end to the ability of sin in man. He removed the nature of sin and has placed us above the standards of the law.
When a man does not open up to Grace, he can never be free.
We do not take lightly the grace of God, else we put ourselves to bondage again.
God isn’t pleased about being ignored. The whole essence of the law even, was to point man to His creator, Jehovah God.
The old way is gone and the new way has come. Those that look on Jesus experience change. As they behold, effortlessly, the change occurs.
It was by mercy that Israel was blessed. They were murmuring and speaking against God and His sent yet He kept on blessing them. It was when they began to boast in their abilities that things changed.
God has blessed us IRREVERSIBLY.
It is madness to try to CURSE the people that God has BLESSED. Peter called it “the madness of the prophet “
Numbers 22:1-1; 23:1-30; 24:1-25
Baal is a picture of the devil.
Balak brought Balaam to the place where the devil had the highest CHANCE OF ACCUSATION to curse God’s people.
The tool with which the devil condemns man before God is the law.
The place where the ark that Noah built rested was called MOUNT ARARAT which is interpreted “where the curse has been reversed”
The blessings has come and cannot be reversed. (Numbers 23:20)
Verse 21 of Numbers chapter 23 says that “... God has not beheld iniquity in Jacob”
Does this mean that the whole of that day when God looked, nobody AT ALL sinned?
We have to understand the way God sees and works.
Just imagine that this was the same camp where they had just spoken against God and Moses (chapter 21:5), and yet He says He hasn’t beheld sin in them. Hayah! Glory to God forevermore! He didn’t find sin in them because they had, before leaving Egypt observed the Passover which was a picture of the sacrifice of Christ in shadow form. He does not see sin because Jesus our lamb has been sacrificed for us.
Exodus 12 verse 13b says “When I see the blood, I will pass over you”
God does not see sin in our camp because the blood of our lamb SPEAKS BETTER THINGS. It speaks that these ones have been declared NOT GUILTY because Christ, our Passover lamb has taken away the sin problem.
We are blessed IRREVERSIBLY.
Our strength is like that of the Unicorn, we will overtake the chariots of kings by the strength of our God.
Romans 8:35, 39 makes it clear that nothing CAN separate us from the LOVE of Christ.
The blessings pronounced by the prophet in chapters 23 and 24 are a present day reality unto us and we are living in the blessedness vitally...
This post highlights my deductions and understanding of the message “THE BLESSEDNESS OF A BELIEVER” as was preached by Pastor Emmanuel Duru, the resident pastor, Streams of Grace Global Ministries, Sapele Branch.
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