maandag 31 augustus 2015
Days of AWE 2015 - Like No Other
Days of AWE 2015,
Like No Other –
Dear Friends -
Brother Scott has shared an audio file of the message he
was given to preach yesterday, A YOM KIPPUR LIKE NO
OTHER. It is EXCELLENT and will help you in fullness of
understanding of that which you are about to read. http://gjigt-radio.com/podcast/audio/Yom_KippurLikeNoOtherSR2.mp3
The saints scattered abroad are being tested, and tried, and
refined by the fires of tribulation. Many saints scattered
abroad do understand the DAYS of AWE. Many saints
scattered abroad in past years have tried to properly
observe this most solemn season beginning with the
Feast of Trumpets, September 14, 2015, through The Day
of Atonement, September 23, 2015. This year indeed it will
be like NO OTHER and perhaps the most important in all history.
It may be wise to seek the Lord for His leading to see if
perhaps it would be good for you and me to begin the Days of
Awe, EARLY this year. For me and my house, it is already
settled. It is never too early to seek God's grace evidenced in
PERSONAL Repentance. One can only be too late in diligently
seeking His GRACE, which is only evidenced in PERSONAL
Repentance and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The 10 days beginning with Feast of Trumpets and
concluding with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, are
the Days of Awe, and the Feast of Day of Atonement is
the only biblically required fast day of the year. The Jews
have a tradition that begins this season of seeking God's
GRACE to be found only in repentance a month early
with the fast of the FIFTH MONTH as Zechariah calls
the Ninth of Av.
This is the season of Tsheuva or REPENTANCE. The
10 Days of Awe begin with the Feast of Trumpets, and
this feast of The Lord Jesus Christ is HIS CALL to HIS
PEOPLE to repentance. This feast of the Lord, known
as the Feast of Trumpets, also celebrates the Day of
the Return of the King of Kings, to tread out the wine
press of the wrath of God Almighty and set up His millennial
reign of righteousness where Satan will be bound for
1000 years. The Feast of Trumpets is the ONLY feast of
the Lord of which the day and hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Yes, the Feast
of Trumpets is that day, of which and that hour knoweth no
man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the
Son, but the Father.
Brethren, we are not to have this judgment of God Almighty
rising up in wrath, overtake us as a thief, as it will overtake
the world. 1 Th 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a thief.
These 10 Days of Awe are about the last call, the FINAL
CALL, to find the grace and mercy of God in REPENTANCE.
Returning to God, coming into agreement with God, to be
able to receive His mercy, is what the season of TESHUVAH
(Repentance), concluding with the Fast of th-e Seventh Month,
The Day of Atonement, is all about.
REPENTANCE is CENTRAL to the Gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Any gospel without repentance being
central to the message, is Another Gospel. Such will be
cursed Gal 1:8-9.
Who needs to repent? Me and you need to repent. For whom is it
impossible to repent? Me and you, unless we find the grace of God.
No one can repent apart from the grace of God. In Fact, repentance
is the expression of one who truly finds the grace of God. Repentance
is not a one-time deal. Repentance is a way of Life, to one who truly
finds the Way leading to eternal life, to KNOW the One who IS The Life.
Do you remember the flood of the LOVE of God, which
came on you when you FIRST found the forgiveness for
your sin, through the grace of God, when you first really
understood what God did for you through the Cross of
Christ? Then, "Remember your FIRST Love."
Indeed the True God sets free from bondage and every
false god is a
control freak. God will have PERFECT ORDER in His kingdom,
yet that perfect order will be through the freedom to choose His
right and proper way, rather than the self-way of destruction.
Am I as aware of God's presence as I once was? Am I more
aware of God than I ever was? Do I expect God to be kind to
me more than for me to be kind to God? Is God well pleased
with everything in my life, or do I constantly complain because
things do not seem to be going my way? A person, who has
forgotten God's great expression of love toward him, will not be
filled with joy.
It is wonderful to remember that Jesus Christ has needs
which we can meet—"Give Me a drink" (John 4:7). How
much good service, or kindness, or even thoughtfulness have
I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection
on His reputation? Could God be saying to His people, "You are
not in love with Me now; but, I remember a time when you were."
He told Jeremiah to tell that to His people. In Jeremiah 2:2, God
told Jeremiah to Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying,
Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth,
the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the
wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Will we hear Him? We will IF we are His people. Am I as
filled to overflowing with love for Jesus Christ as I was in the
beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my devotion to
Him? Or do I try to impress the church folk with my knowledge
of religious or spiritual stuff? Does He ever find me considering
the time when I cared only for Him? Is that where I am now, or
have I chosen man's wisdom over true love for Him? Am I so in
love with Him that I take no thought for where He might lead me?
Or am I watching to see how much respect I get as I measure
how much service I should give Him?
As I think what God knows and remembers about me, I
may also begin to realize that He is not what He used
to be to me. When this happens, I should allow the shame
and humiliation it creates in my life. That shame and humiliation
will bring godly sorrow, and godly sorrow is a good thing,
because it produces repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10).
Yes, we do seek that GODLY sorrow that leads to
REPENTANCE. We are not seeking the worldly sorrow
that just gets embarrassed because it gets caught. That
worldly sorrow worketh death. When we are more
concerned about what the other church folk think, than
what God thinks, that worldly sorrow works death. When
we can rejoice in the love of God, that He loves us
enough to chasten us, that is Godly sorrow, that leads
to the walk of repentance IN The Way that leads to life eternal.
Alleluia Yeshua.
The Word or name Yeshua actually means SALVATION
in Hebrew. That, all by itself, is something to think about.
The Bible very clearly teaches us that Salvation is for
WHOSOEVER WILL. We have quite a battle being the born sinners
and vain creatures that we are. We are required to choose to WILL
to do the Will of God. Salvation is for whosoever will. Yeshua
showed us the way. Always He was in FULL and PERFECT
submission to the Will of the Father. Yes, He did really sweat
blood in bringing His will into submission to do the Will of
the Father. For it was the Father's will to send Yeshua to be the
Propitiation, the payment, the sin-offering, for the sin of sinners.
He, who knew no sin, who knew with fullness of understanding
the HOLINESS of God, would have to be made to be the sin-offering
for us sinners, in order that we MIGHT be saved. Thinking about
that should help us in this season of repentance.
Have we really and fully surrendered our self-will to do the will of
God? Maybe someone really has. If that be so, then after surrender,
then what? Jesus IS THE Way, and Jesus demonstrated and
lived the way. We see in John 17:4 that He said to the Father,
I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. Yes
LOVE is an action word, and a DOING thing. Alleluia Yeshua.
Faith works by love.
The submission to God, or surrender of our self-will to DO the
will of God, is not just surrender of our life, which the church folk see.
The submission to God that causes the devil to want to flee from us, is
more a matter of the thoughts and intents of our heart. For as a man
thinketh so is he. It is the mind that is the battlefield. It is there where
we must get victory for the flesh to really shape up. We seek this
fullness of surrender of our self-will to DO the will of God.
The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will. Yet
God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs.
He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. And
once that battle has been fought, it never needs to be fought again.
Sadly, in today's strong delusion, people are lulled and dulled so that
most never come to that point of crisis in their life.
1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world
lieth in wickedness. Satan has the majority so consumed and lulled
into such a state of spiritual slumber that most will never awaken to
the crisis at hand until it is too late.
This willful and voluntary surrender or submission to God is
absolutely vital to victory in spiritual warfare. We must be
submitted to God to see the devil flee from before us. It is the
mystery of the Ages, this positional authority which we do have when
we are IN Christ, fully submitted to the will of God. In Matthew
11:28 Jesus said, "Come to Me … and I will give you rest." It is
only after we have begun to experience what salvation really means
that we surrender our will to Jesus for rest. Whatever is causing us
a sense of uncertainty is actually a call to our will. Will we come
to Yeshua? God insists that it be a voluntary coming. Satan, the
control freak, will seek to use any means to get control of our will.
We simply must learn submission to God for victory in this
antichrist war on the saints. Jesus said, in Matt 16:24, "If anyone
desires to come after Me, let him deny himself." We see that the
submission to God is a denial of self-will. The surrender here is of
myself to Yeshua, with His rest at the heart of my being. It is NOT
inactivity or passivity. Rather it is His empowerment that brings the
rest, even though we are battling the devil more fiercely, and powerfully
than ever before, there is TRUE REST in that battle. There is heart
quietness and peace. Jesus clearly explains to us that if we will
truly be His disciples we must choose to yield and give up our self-
will and self-righteousness, and surrender our self-will to His
perfect will. Once this is done, the remainder of our life will
exhibit the evidence of this surrender, and you never need to be
concerned again with what the future may hold. Whatever our
circumstances may be, Jesus is totally sufficient.
2 Cor 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for
thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
may rest upon me.
Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Phil 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his
riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Please do NOT misunderstand this. This next statement
is true; but, can be very easily misunderstood. We are not
saved by believing: but, we simply realize we are saved by
believing. Yes, even in this late call to repentance, we must
be sure that we understand, it is not repentance that saves us.
Repentance is only the sign that we realize what God has done
through Christ Jesus. If we fail in this understanding the devil can
overwhelm anyone with counterfeit deceiving spirits. That is the
danger of putting the emphasis on the effect, rather than on the
cause.
Is it my obedience, my Torah observance, my dedication,
my observance of commandments, and/or my good deeds,
that makes me right with God?
That is a serious question and if we MISS this understanding,
this paradox, you very well may have religious counterfeit spirits, that
one may think is the Holy Spirit, that need to be cast out. It is NEVER
that we are made right with God, by our repentance, or by or obedience
to His commandments. We must understand that prior to all of that,
Christ died. When we turn to God, and by belief, accept what God
reveals, that miraculous atonement by the Messiah on the Cross,
instantly places us into a right relationship with God. The evidence
we have, of this miracle of God's grace, is a hunger and thirst after
righteousness, AND a hunger to KNOW what God has said, AND a
full determination to do what God has said, just because God said so.
One can not help but wonder, regarding the genuineness of
the faith, of one who claims to have been a Christian for many years,
and yet, IN FACT, has never even read, one time, the KJV Holy Bible
the way one reads any other book. Sadly, the majority of so-called,
and/or used-to-be Christians, in this great falling away from the faith,
have NEVER read the word of God, the way that God told us to
read it. That means precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, and line upon line. Yes, straight through, every word
IN ORDER from Gen 1:1 to the Amen of Rev 22:21. How else would
one dare to presume to think one may rightly divide the word of
truth? There is not another way without that necessary context.
God said that precept MUST be upon precept. Things taken out of
context become pretexts for anything, and especially divisions
within the Body of Christ.
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to
them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation,
and that of God. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all
the children of light, and the children of the day: we are
not of the night, nor of darkness. For the great day of his
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. Pray Psalm 83 every
day. Only be very strong and of good courage. Stay IN
the Word.
From Chittim, Isa 23:1,
Shalom & Simcha,
Jim Searcy
woensdag 26 augustus 2015
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