July 11, 2021
Sunday
Salvation was provided on the cross by the Lord Jesus Christ. It belongs to every man. All they have to do, is believe in their heart and confess with their mouth, and they can be saved. So does healing. Healing was provided on the cross. God wants everybody saved. God wants everybody healed. That’s the will of God. Faith begins where the will of God is known.
Psalm 103:1-5 Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
There are benefits that are provided when you give your life to God and serve Him in His kingdom. Many go after God for what He can give them. But there is a difference in that motivation and going after Him for who He is. When you have great need, you go after Him to get the need met. He will honor that in the early years because that is the maturity level that you have. But, if you want to walk in the best that God has, you come to the place where you go after Him for who He is, and then you enjoy the benefits of just living and loving Him. It’s a higher walk. The benefits really belong to the person who loves and pursues God.
Deuteronomy 30:11-20 “For this commandment which I command you today is [c]not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
Moses gave 613 total commandments. Jesus had 2. Love God, and love people like yourself. The reality is, when you love God with everything in you, and you love people like yourself, you fulfill all the other commandments. The whole book of Deuteronomy is about loving God with everything within you.
Every day you get to choose the life you want. God gave us the right to choose. You can love God, or you can choose to love something else. You can choose to worship Him, or you can worship anything else that you choose. You can go in any direction you want to go. The life you have right now, is the life you have chosen. You are where you are because of your choices. God wants to be known. He does not want you to wait until you get to heaven to get to know Him. He wants you to experience Him in your everyday life. The church, for the most part, has settled for life without God. The choice is yours! You’re the man in the middle. You can choose to go any way you want. Serve and love God, or not, it’s up to you. What you believe, you ultimately become.
Believe/Belief
Be-live
Be-life
When you believe something, you’ll live it. When you really believe something, your life will mirror it. When you were born again, you got a new spirit. But not a new soul, nor body. You have to work at changing your belief system. It needs transformation. You don’t renew your mind from the outside in, you do it from the inside out. If you will set your heart on loving and serving God, you will get there much faster. Get up every day and choose to love God. At the end of the day, your heart is not in, what you heart is not on.
It is God’s will that we walk in health just as it is His will that we are free from sin. God is not withholding anything from us. When you approach God the Father with ANY need, He does not say, “wait a while,” or “not right now.” What transpired on the cross is the will of God. Jesus bore your sins that day. He carried your sickness and diseases to the cross. It is never the will of God for any person to die in sin. Nor is it His will for anyone to die in sickness and disease. You can choose to live in health and the blessings of God, if you want to. That’s good news!
Psalm 127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman stays awake in vain.
You can labor your whole life and work hard to build what society would call a successful life, but if it isn’t what God had planned for you, it was in vain. There is a plan for your everyday life. Every person that has ever been born has a detailed plan for their lives. It was laid out before they were ever born! You have to live with that in mind! Even Christians fall to this. You can be a good person of character and integrity. You can work hard and love your family, but if you didn’t accomplish what God had planned for you, it was in vain. The sinister part of it, is that the kingdom of darkness will cater that life to you. To get you to accept that over the plan of God for your life. You think because you have been good and done what the world teaches as a good person, that you’ve done the right thing. But God, says unless He has built your life, it was all in vain. You will stand before God at the end of your life. Don’t you want to be able to say you accomplished what He had for you? God’s will, and God’s way is the best and highest plan. The best that the world can give you, it does not compare to the best that God can give you! God will make a way for you when there seems to be no way! You need provision? He will provide! You need healing? He will be there! When God is there, all of His benefits come along with Him! There are benefits to wanting Him! You have as much of God in your life, as you want!