WE ARE THE LIGHT- TOO
16 And he
answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with
them.
17 And
Elisha prayed, and said, Lord,
I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young
man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of
fire round about Elisha.
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2nd Kings 6
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.The gift of prophecy
Behold ye among the
heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not
believe, though it be told you.
NEW [Past teaching- verses below]
I talked about the verses
from the Sunday Mass- and added a few thoughts as well.
When Samuel anointed David as a young boy- this enduement of
power was given unto him- and it was for a purpose.
David prophesied much in the book of Psalms- he revealed
hidden things- things that only God knows.
Yet- thru the gift of prophecy- God also reveals the hidden
things in men’s hearts.
The apostle Paul taught us this in the book of Corinthians-
24 But if
all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is
convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And
thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest;
Cor. 14
When Jesus healed the blind man in John chapter 9-
For the first time- he ‘saw’.
He saw things that he never 'saw’ before.
He did not know who Jesus was- but simply that a man named Jesus
opened his eyes-
John 9:11
He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine
eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and
washed, and I received sight.
When we as the church- speak the word of the Lord- it
reveals things.
Jesus told us to shout the hidden things upon the housetops-
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye
hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
One of the functions of the church is to make hidden things manifest.
That speaks of revealing the things that society prefers
‘not be revealed’.
Jesus and the apostles spoke in the audience of the people-
and at times the rulers were afraid that their misdeeds would be exposed.
The purpose of this ‘revealing' is not for destruction- but
to bring the hidden things to light- and as the apostle says ‘they will fall
down on their knees and say God is in you’-
and so
falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of
a truth. Cor. 14:25b
Because only God truly knows the secret things in the heart-
as the verse from the Mass says-
1Samuel
16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the
height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as
man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on
the heart.
And when those secret things are brought to light- then true
repentance comes.
Yes- Jesus told us he is the light of the world-
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the
light of the world: he that followeth
me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
And because we are his- we too are the light of the world-
Ye are the light of the world.
A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
The anointing upon David as a boy stayed with him for the
rest of his life- he functioned in that gift.
Jesus has given us the Spirt- the Spirit of God is in us-
And like the verse from the Mass said- light reveals stuff-
we are the children of light-
Ephesians
5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for
whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
While ye have light, believe in the light,
that ye may be the children of light. These
things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
PAST POSTS [Verses below] here are my past teachings that
relate to today’s post ‘we are the light too’
KINGS-
SAMUEL 16- Samuel is coming from
the recent ‘hacking incident’ of king Agag, and the Lord tells him to go to Bethlehem and anoint a
new king. Samuel is afraid ‘what if Saul hears about it? He will kill me’.
Notice, Samuel feels intimidated and fearful. When he gets to Bethlehem the scripture says the Elders were
all in a panic, they said ‘are you come in peace’? Hey, they just heard about
the hacking incident, word spreads fast when a prophet straps it on with some
pagan! They must have been thinking Samuel was on a warpath. He tells them he
is come in peace and wants to sacrifice with them and worship. As a little
aside, when you have prophetic ministers in a city, it’s only natural that
Elders [pastors] are going to feel intimidated. Why? Are prophets better men?
No, but the prophetic operates under a different type of anointing. Don’t
forget you already saw Samuel gain a reputation among the people because of his
strong prophetic gift. Sometimes pastors can feel intimidated ‘geez, that guy
hit the nail on the head. I hope he doesn’t call me out by name too!’ Samuel
doesn’t ‘call them out’ but says ‘hey Elders, where all in this together. Let’s
worship God’. Samuel finds David and anoints him. Saul is battling with all
sorts of personal issues [evil spirit]. Even his close associates can pick up
on it. The servants recommend for Saul to get a worshipper who can play music
and minister to Saul. They tell him ‘yeah, there is this guy named David. He’s
real good at playing music. Plus he is a valiant and mighty warrior’. We often
see David as a ‘mamby pamby mamma’s boy’ at this stage of his life. But
scripture says he already built up a reputation as a fighter. David takes the
job and becomes a musician for Saul. A few thoughts. In this chapter we see
Gods Spirit [anointing] leaving Saul and going with David. David himself in
Psalms pleas with the Lord ‘take not thy Holy Spirit from me’ after his sin
with Bathsheba. Let me encourage some of my Pastor friends. It’s easy to read
stuff like this, or for some ‘prophet’ to pronounce stuff like this to a
pastor. I really don’t see applying this scenario to modern day ministers.
God’s Spirit in the Old Testament was operating differently than today. Only
one king at a time could have the ‘kingly anointing’. When the Spirit left Saul
for David it was because God was only anointing one person for the job. Today,
while it’s possible for a pastor/minister to mess up and ruin his ministry, I
still wouldn’t apply stuff like this in too much of a personal way. Sort of
like ‘The Lord must have left me and now he’s chosen so and so on the other
side of town’. The Lord ‘doesn’t leave you’ in this way under the New Covenant.
Paul said the gifts and callings of God are without repentance, in context he
is speaking of natural Israel ,
but you can also apply it to believer’s gifts today. How much God uses you does
depend on your willingness and obedience to his call, but don’t think he left
‘your church’ and went to the other one down the street! [he hasn’t written
‘Michelob’ on your door! See entry 887]
John 8-9 [radio # 592] before I cover this, last night I was
watching a preacher from a classic type ministry. Not the flamboyant
‘prosperity’ type with gold hanging off and all. I was a bit surprised [let
down] to hear him teach the classic errors of the prosperity movement. He took
the verse in Corinthians where it says ‘though he was rich yet for your sakes
he became poor’ and taught that Jesus died to make you rich financially [ a
direct violation of 1st Timothy 6]. He went to Genesis and showed
how Abraham was rich, then jumped to Galatians 3 and taught ‘we are Abrahams
kids, therefore we get his blessings[stuff]’ a classic mistake in doctrine. I
explained this in the book ‘House of Prayer or Den of Thieves’ in the chapter
‘The Abrahamic Blessing’[you can read this book on this site!]. This stuff
shouldn’t have been coming from this program, they are not the type that teach
this stuff. You could tell from the look on the faces of the audience that they
were feeling uncomfortable with what this guy was teaching! Now John 8-9. Jesus
says ‘you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth that I heard from
God’ often times when people are reproved, they don’t like it. It’s not that
what the ‘reprover’ is saying is wrong, it’s just we don’t like being
confronted with truth. We usually take it out on the messenger. Jesus says
‘before Abraham was, I AM’ this is the name of God in the Old Testament ‘the I
AM’. Jesus is the ‘I AM’ in Johns gospel. I AM the door, I AM the resurrection,
I AM the way and the truth and the life. I believe you find 7 different ‘I
AM’s’ of Jesus in this gospel. Jesus now heals the man who was blind from
birth. They ask him ‘who sinned, this man or his parents’? They had a mentality
that always wanted to place blame on someone for sickness, sort of like some in
the healing movements of today. Jesus said ‘neither’. He simply said ‘this
happened to him so I would heal him and God would get glory’. He heals the man
and the leaders are mad. ‘Who healed you’? A man called Jesus. They get the
guys parents and say ‘you say he was blind, then how come he can see?’ They say
‘ask him’. They go back and ask again. The healed guy answers ‘how many times
do you want to hear it, I told you already’. Though the man still doesn’t know
Jesus is the Messiah, yet he starts to defend him, and even prophesy! ‘We know
that if any man be a worshipper of God, and does his will, him God hears’ good stuff
coming from an ‘unsaved’ guy! Jesus hears that they rejected him, he tells the
guy ‘I am messiah’ and the guy believes. Jesus says ‘I come to give sight to
those who are blind [admit they need help] and to take away sight from those
who see’ [think they know it all]. We often can’t receive correction because of
religious pride, we think we ‘see everything’ someone comes along and shakes
the cart, our first response is ‘who does he think he is, doesn’t he know that
we all know more than him’. Quite often whole groups of leaders have the same
blind spot. This is what enforces the belief that they must be right! Jesus
told them ‘you guys are blind, if you could just admit you didn’t know it all,
then I could show you some good stuff, but because you think you already ‘see’
everything, then you are gonna miss out’. Pride is destructive, it keeps us in
the dark spiritually. NOTE; Let me give an example. I remember reading an
article on tithing from one of the best Christian historical review magazines
in print. They do exhaustive historical research on many subjects. To the
surprise of the readers, this well respected historical magazine, read by many
theologians, showed that all the historical evidence points to the fact that
the churches of the first century did not practice tithing! This seemed to go
against the grain of what many of the theologians believed, who regularly read
this magazine. But you could have easily come to this same understanding from
simply reading the New Testament in context. I have basically taught you guys
this for years, from scripture. Yet this ‘blind spot’ was an area where many
intelligent ‘religious leaders’ were all wrong. They ‘corporately’ were wrong
on this subject. It took a ‘jolt’ from true historical evidence before they could
‘see’ the obvious! It would be too humbling to have seen it from a ‘layman
firefighter’ who has a web site. NOTE; Tithing as a practice for Christians
developed at the same time as ‘the church building’ and the office of ‘Priest’
and eventually the altar [in the Catholic system] and the mass. The church got
away from the family/community mindset and took on more of the ‘church
building’ form. Tithing fit in easily into an idea of church that asked ‘how
much should we put in the offering basket on Sunday’. The whole language and
style of church called for the doctrine of tithing to be taught, sort of like a
‘tax’ on the people of God to support ‘the church’. Now, there are some good
things that came out of the ‘dark ages’ of Christianity. The ‘desert fathers’,
the Catholic mystics and other good spiritual disciplines. I don’t want to fall
into the category of those who see the dark ages as a time of no good
whatsoever. But we also need to see how the church during that time was very
legalistic in the sense that the Mass and Altar and 'Priest’ presiding over the liturgy were all
forms of Christian service that were absent from the churches in Scripture. The
tithe was just one added aspect of this legalistic approach that seemed to make
it all the way into the Protestant churches of today. All these churches are
good Christians in my view, but we need to be open to change and reformation as
the Spirit leads.
VERSES-
Ephesians
5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as
children of light:Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Ephesians 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Ephesians 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
1Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
1Samuel 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
1Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
1Samuel 16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1Samuel 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.
1Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
1Samuel 16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1Samuel 16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
1Samuel 16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
1Samuel 16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
1Samuel 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
1Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
1Samuel 16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
1Samuel 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
1Samuel 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
1Samuel 16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
1Samuel 16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
1Samuel 16:20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1Samuel 16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
1Samuel 16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
1Samuel 16:23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
John 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
John 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
John 9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
John 9:8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John 9:9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
John 9:10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
John 9:11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
John 9:12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
John 9:13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
John 9:14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
John 9:15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
John 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
John 9:17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
John 9:18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
John 9:19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
John 9:20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
John 9:21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
John 9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
John 9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
John 9:25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
John 9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
John 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
John 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
John 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
John 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
John 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
John 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
John 9:36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
John 9:37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
John 9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
John 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
36 And one of the
Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the
Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
37 And, behold, a
woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in
the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his
feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe
them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with
the ointment.
39 Now when the
Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This
man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this
is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
40 And Jesus
answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith,
Master, say on.
41 There was a
certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and
the other fifty.
42 And when they had
nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them
will love him most?
43 Simon answered
and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him,
Thou hast rightly judged.
44 And he turned to
the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine
house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with
tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
45 Thou gavest me no
kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
46 My head with oil
thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
47 Wherefore I say
unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to
whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
48 And he said unto
her, Thy sins are forgiven.
49 And they that sat
at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth
sins also?
50 And he said to
the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
Luke 7
He hath shewed thee, O
man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
thy God?
2
Kings 6King James Version (KJV)
6 And the
sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell
with thee is too strait for us.
2 Let us
go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us
make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
3 And one
said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I
will go.
4 So he
went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 But as
one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and
said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
6 And the
man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a
stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
7 Therefore
said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
8 Then the
king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants,
saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
9 And the
man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such
a place; for thither the Syrians are come down.
10 And the
king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him
of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice.
11 Therefore
the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called
his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the
king of Israel?
12 And one
of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in
Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy
bedchamber.
13 And he
said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told
him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14 Therefore
sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night,
and compassed the city about.
15 And when
the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host
compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto
him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he
answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with
them.
17 And
Elisha prayed, and said, Lord,
I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young
man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of
fire round about Elisha.
Kings
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound withthem; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
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