Here,
I will insert some background on Saul, who we now know as Paul, to
aid our understanding of his personality, and how he knew those who
oppose God and His kingdom, and the revelation of the Christ centered
Gospel of this kingdom.* But before I do I want to share with you
something that the LORD showed me early this morning in what He said
as recorded by John in chapters 6 and 10, first 6 where it states
this in verse 57: John 6:53-59 “Jesus
said to them, Verily,
verily, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and
drink His blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever
eats My flesh, and drinketh My blood, has eternal life; and I will
raise him up at the last day.
For
My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
He
that eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, dwells in Me, and I in him.
As
the living Father has sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that
eats Me, even he shall live by* Me.
This
is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did
eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live
forever.
These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.”
And
then in John 10 it states this in verse 9: John 10:6-19 “This
parable spoke Jesus to them: but they understood nothing of what
things they were which He spoke to them. Then
said Jesus to them again, Verily,
verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
All
that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did
not hear them.
I
am the door: by* Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall
go in and out, and find pasture.
The
thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: (mere
natural man has the character of Satan with the poison of asps under
the tongue)
I am come that they might have Life, and that they might have
it
more
abundantly.
I
am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the
sheep.
But
he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are
not, seeing the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees: and the
wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.
(todays
divided churches in denominationalism of mans Religion in what ever
form it maybe and in hypcrocy, these people are like onwanted weeds
that spring up everywhere)
The
hireling flees, because he is an hireling, and cares nothing for the
sheep.
I
am the good shepherd, and know My
sheep,
and
am known of Mine.
As
the Father knows Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My
life for the sheep.
And
other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: (not
of Israel, as the gifts and callings of God are irrevockable Romans
11:29)
them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall
be one fold,
and
one
shepherd.
(Not
a house divided and in strife caused by that dividision.)
Therefore
does My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take
it again.
No
man takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to
lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. This commandment
have I received of My Father.
There
was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.”
*In
both passages the word “by” has the meaning of through, as for
the specific reason and ground of Me.
Paul
in Romans 11:29 makes a statement which has caused many to be in
confusion and turmoil, to get the flow I will pick up his thought
beginning with verse 25 through to verse 36: “I
would not, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you
should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And
so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out
of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is
My covenant to them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning
the gospel, they
are enemies
for your sakes: but as touching the election, they
are
beloved for the fathers' sakes. For
the gifts and calling of God are
without repentance.
(Acts 10:34, “God
is NO respecter of persons”)
For as you in times past have not believed God, (being
the pagan gentiles)
yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:(this
is Israel)
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy
they also may obtain mercy. (all are
now on the same playing field of life, NO one is better than his
neighbor)
For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy
upon all. (This
is the greatest of mercies and ultamitely reward, our trust as
Abraham trusted unto righteousness.)
O
for the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are
His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who has known the
mind of the Lord? or who has been His counsellor? Or who has first
given to Him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? For of Him,
and through Him, and to Him, are
all things: to Whom be
glory for ever.”
Now
here is what I was shown; if I confess a faith in Him, or a belief of
Him, do I have access to the Father? NO! Access is only through Him,
this being both clothed with and indwelt by Him. You
see the demons and devils confess a “belief in” and some
even, “I believe,” but they have NO through Him, granted to them.
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