Adam to Noah

The bloodline of Adam to Noah


God is awesome amen?
His manifested glory and grace is found EVERYWHERE in the bible. For His eyes are on Jesus, and we praise Him. For as Jesus is, so are we in this world.

Jesus... so full of grace and mercy.


want to learn more of His grace?

in the first book of the bible, Genesis chapter 5.
what a lot of words amen?

but in the chapter of grace, in Genesis 5, God used one whole chapter to speak of, to prophesies His coming Son. and in the last book of Revelations chapter 5 again, one whole chapter of how Jesus fulfilled what Genesis prophesised. What began as a prophesy in Genesis 5 is fulfilled in Revelations 5.


now look here:

Genesis 5:3-31 (New King James Version)
3~ And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
4~ After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
5~ So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
6~ Seth lived one hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
7~ After he begot Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters.
8~ So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
9~ Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.
10~ After he begot Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters.
11~ So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
12~ Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.
13~ After he begot Mahalalel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters.
14~ So all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
15~ Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.
16~ After he begot Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters.
17~ So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
18~ Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.
19~ After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
20~ So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.
21~ Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.
22~ After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
23~ So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24~ And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25~ Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.
26~ After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters.
27~ So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
28~ Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son.
29~ And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."
30~ After he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters.
31~ So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
32~ And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

very long huh. lets go through it slowly.




in hebrew:

1. Adam from "'adam" which means "Man"

2. Seth from "shiyth" which means "Appointed"

3. Enosh from "'anash" which means "desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful"

4. Cainan from "qen" which means "nest" or "chamber of dwelling"

5. Mahalaleh from the words "mahalal" and "el" which means "Praise of God"

6. Jared from "yarad" which means "to descend" or "to fall"

7. Enoch from "'chanak'" which means "dedicate" or "discipline"

8. Methuselah from the words "muth" and "shalach" which means "His death shall bring" or "bring forth"

9. Lamech from "Lemek" which likely means "laid low" or "lowly" or "depressed" or "despairing"

10. Noah from "nuwach" which means "rest"

when you put them all together you get:
Man is Appointed Incurable Woe and Sickness, in his Chamber of Dwelling: that is, his Body in where his Soul dwells. But Praise be to God, for God will Descend to earth to Dedicate His Death to bring those who have been Laid Low in Despair to Rest.


HALLEJUAH! as early as Genesis 5, God said He will come for us! He will come! Jesus came, not to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it for us! Jesus came to give not only life, but life MORE ABUNDANTLY.

God is good, and awesome in this place. Awesome and worthy of all praise and glory, amen? Mighty is He to save, blessed are the children of God who trust in Him.




haha... let's take a closer look at the fall of Man.

Man became increasingly wicked from Enosh onwards. from Enosh's time, Man fell even depravity and all wicked things. as was described later in Genesis 6.

Look here:

in Genesis 4:26 (NKJV)
26~ And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.

this is not likely at all! for in the first verse, Eve did call upon the name of the Lord. Adam and Eve were already calling upon the name of the Lord. very likely this was something else.

in hebrew the words 'men began' which carries meanings of 'begin' or 'defiling/profaning'.

later on i'll show what this people were doing.






but see here:
in the SEVENTH generation, in the perfected generation, Enoch was taken by God. He raptured! haha the first person to rapture in the bible. why?

Hebrews 11 (NKJV)
5~ By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6~ But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Enoch PLEASED God. how did he please God? because he had faith, as verse 6 says. how did he have faith? because he dilligently sought the Lord. His name was "discipline/dedicate" mah!

haha but before that, it says "he who comes to God must believe that He is"


He is what?
simply He is. He is the Lord God Almighty. He is. He exists, and He is the alpha and the omega. He is 'Aleph (aw'-lef), He is Thav (thawv).



at this point remember Man had fallen to wickedness. this wickedness is written in Jude.

Jude 1:11-15 (Amplified Bible)
11~ Woe to them! For they have run riotously in the way of Cain, and have abandoned themselves for the sake of gain it offers them, following the error of Balaam, and have perished in rebellion like that of Korah!
12~ These are hidden reefs (elements of danger) in your love feasts, where they boldly feast sumptuously carousing together in your midst, without scruples providing for themselves alone. They are clouds without water, swept along by the winds; trees, without fruit at the late autumn gathering time--(doubly) dead, lifeless and plucked up by the roots;
13~ Wild waves of the sea, flinging up the foam of their own shame and disgrace; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of eternal darkness has been reserved forever.
14~ It was of these people, moreover, that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied when he said, Behold, the Lord comes with His myriads of holy ones (ten thousands of His saints)
15~ To execute judgment upon all and to convict all the impious unholy ones of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the severe abusive, jarring things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

This is what Man who fell from the time of Enosh did!
That the unholy ones were sinning in ungodly deeds, in ungodly ways, and ABUSE of the Lord. probably idolatry and many many more.

they didn't believe that God is.




Enoch was the first prophet too! He was someone who walks with God.
in fact, the bible says He walked with God AFTER He begat Methuselah. somehow He had visions of the Great Flood to come.

after all Methuselah means "His death shall bring forth".
in the old testament, children seemed to be named after events or something.

Eve called Seth, Seth because she said the Lord appointed her another son.
and read Leah and Rachel and you'll see they keep naming their kids after something this way.

that's why names have meanings in the bible. they mean something. they aren't there for show.


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ok so where's the grace you ask?



Noah.

Why was Noah saved?
what was so special about Noah?

Genesis 6:8 (NKJV)
8~ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah found grace!
why?

2 Peter 2:5 (Amplified bible)
5~ And He spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other persons, when He brought a flood upon the world of ungodly people

Noah preached RIGHTEOUSNESS!
therefore,
Righteousness is ONLY through grace then, for if Noah had did not know righteousness, He would not have found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Years before Christ even came to this earth, before Moses even obtained the stone tablets, Noah preached righteousness!





hallejuah!




ok im going to close with this:


if anyone says that there is no grace in the Great Flood, tell them this:

(go ahead and calculate if you dont believe me)


1. it is by God's grace that He withheld the flood till Noah was 600 years old. No one descended direct from Adam died by the Great Flood. all those names here in this chapter: they all died before the Flood even came. God was so gracious to the Sons of Adam that He did not smite them straight away.


2. that Methuselah's death would signal the Great Flood, but God's grace withheld Methuselah from dying. Methuselah lived 969 years old, He is the longest living man in the bible! (Methuselah died on the same year as the flood).


3. that Enoch, SEVENTH generation, 7 being the number of Godly perfection, pleased God for he preached judgement. But Noah, being a preacher of righteousness found grace in the eyes of the Lord!


4. that Lamech prophesised of Noah, "This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed." (Genesis 3:29) that Lamech would live to 777 for if Enoch was 7 in Godly perfection, then Noah was 3 TIMES THE PERFECTION - it being that Noah is the third generation from Enoch, and thus 777!


5. and finally, Lamech was 182 when He gave birth to Noah, and He lived 595 years more to 777. Noah was 600 when the Flood came. 600-595=5. 5 YEARS AFTER LAMECH DIED AT 777, THE GREAT FLOOD CAME!

now tell me that the Great Flood didn't come by grace!
oh HALLEJUAH!

that even the judgement upon the world, came by grace!

my God my God, You're so gracious to us all. so... so... so gracious. hallejuah!



and finally in Revelations 5, the whole chapter was about how Jesus came to fulfill what was prophesied, that the Lamb of God was slain.

Revelations 5:9 (NKJV)
9~ And they sang a new song, saying:
"You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals;
For You were slain,
And have redeemed us to God by Your blood
Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10~ And have made us kings and priests to our God;
And we shall reign on the earth.

Jesus came to earth to fulfill the prophesy in Genesis 5.
and we are all at REST in Him.

amen!



ok one very very last thing:

the last verses in the chapter are these:

Genesis 5: 31-32(New King James Version)
31~ So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
32~ And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

all of them died. but Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Shem in hebrew means "honour/authority"
Ham means "a multitude"
Japheth means "expand"

when God took away our reproach, and we Rest in Jesus Christ, in Grace, we are blessed with:

All those who Rest in God's Grace will have his smallest possesions Expanded, and receive 1st Honour and Authority in the midst of the Multitudes of this world.



hallejuah, blessed night all~










(note: the meaning of Lamech is unknown. it comes from an unused Hebrew root word. it likely means this though:

~Lamech (Gen 4:18)
Lamech the First is the last mentioned father in the line of Cain. Lamech the Second is the father of Noah.
The word lmk does not occur in Hebrew. Jones reads Powerful, from an untreated root meaning strong and robust young man. NOBSE reads Wild Man. But perhaps the name stemmed from the construction of the particle le (1063), meaning to or towards; and the verb muk (1159), be low, depressed, or even the adjacent verb makak (1193), be low, humiliated. The whole name would thus mean For Lowering; For Humiliation. )

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Grace walks with you, Law takes from you.

Grace walks with you, Law takes from you.


as Leah used first, self-effort to produce her sons, and later on mandrakes, which was a picture of negativity or reproach, for mandrake roots are poisonous.

and yet the moment Leah stopped using self-effort, the moment she let go of her bitterness, God listened to her, and she gave birth to the 5th child Issachar.

similarly, why did God use a stone to slay Goliath?
Moses used a staff, Samson used the jawbone of a donkey, but David used a stone?

because grace slew that giant.
when that stone was thrown, it was out of David's hands, and in God's mighty hands amen?

when you let go, when you learn to let go, of every pain, bitterness, every shame or condemnation in your heart, you free yourself.

not saying that those who are in Christ are not free. for Christ had to die but once to save us all. but sometimes we forget... we forget to let go.

to receive that grace, to understand letting go, catch a revelation of this:

Matthew 16:24-25 (NKJV)
24~ Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
25~ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

what does this mean?
how can losing our life for Jesus save our own life? we would be dead!

but this is what Jesus meant: that whoever desires Grace, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me (Jesus). Whoever desires to save his life will die, but whoever dies for Me will live.

do you desire to save your own life? do you save your own life? you'll surely die.

but if you die for Jesus, you'll surely live. i'm NOT talking about matyrdom. im NOT talking about physical death.


what Jesus meant was this! the only way we can save ourself was to die on the cross. but if we did that, it saves nobody. we just die. nothing WE DO will be enough to save ourselves. theres no point trying to save our own life, the only way, the One Way is Jesus, for He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Through Him and only Him can we be saved.

but Jesus said we must die!

Yes we must die, but we must die to our old self.

Romans 6 (New King James Version)
6~ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

and it can happen because:

Romans 3-5 (NKJV)
3~ Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4~ Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5~ For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

when we receive Christ, we died with Him on the cross. we shared His death. when Christ was resurrected, we shared His resurrection.

this is why we are righteous. never forget you're the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!

its all about choice. one of the biggest things God gave mankind was free will. God will always have a choice. NEVER will you have NO choice.

do you choose to die to your old self?
yes you had to die but once, but we forget. God never forgets, but we do.

Jesus said whoever wants GRACE, choose to deny yourself, and choose to take up your cross.

whenever you sin, yes grace grace covers it. but how? but why?
to get a deeper sense of how blessed you are, know this:

say in our lives we sin 100 times.
God exists outside the time-stream, so at one glance, the moment we receive Christ and is considered crucified and risen again, the 100 times of sin are completely forgotten.

BUT because WE exist INSIDE time, so we do not see the 100 times.
say we are at the point of the 34th sin, and we sin the 35th time, Christ has paid for it. it is all paid for on the cross.

do we see this as the 35th? do we know there will be a 36th? we don't know.
what we do know is that we feel terrible for sinning.

condemnation can set in, guilt can set in.
i mean they're people who don't go church because they aren't ready yet. or they are hiding from God.

What are you hiding from? God sees all the 100 sins. you go to church not because you're ready, but because God is ever-ready to receive you. God wants to receive you too, He would RUN to you just to hug you and welcome you home.


does this mean we never sin?

Romans 6:12 (NKJV)
12~ Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

our flesh is lusting to sin.
but guess what Jesus said?

Deny yourself and take up your cross.

Choose to die to your old self, choose to confess your righteousness because you are already crucified. if you realise that all your old self is dead and gone, you are a new person, you are a new creation and all your old self, the disgusting bits of you are gone. you're a child of the Most High God, and He has give you the Holy Spirit.

the Holy Spirit will never come into anyone who is not pure or holy.
in the past, the Spirit came to rest ON people, but today, the Spirit comes INTO us, and dwells in us. How can anyone not declare they are holy? can the Holy Spirit enter anyone not holy? of course not.


and its not only about sinning. its everything. Christ has surely paid for it.

are you bitter in heart?
are you angry?
guilty?


every single negativity, every single thing, all dead, all gone, all crucified.
you're dead!

Jesus said who ever dies for His sake shall live.
you died. you're dead. and a new creation now. amen and hallejuah!


so make your choice. in everything, make a choice to die to your old self. make a choice to be crucified with Christ. when you confess, you just feel the old self melting away. you just feel a strength confirming that yes, you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. that yes, you are His beloved child. yes there is no sin, and no lust of the flesh you have to fulfill. you dont have to listen to sin, you died to that. you're alive unto God.

let it go.... let your past go away. let it all go away because its dead now. dead and crucified with Christ. the life you live now is alive unto God. its all about Jesus now... now more the old man, but the new creation.

to receive His grace, deny yourself, your old man: deny him, your self-effort: deny him, your past: deny.

DENY THEM ALL, and take up your cross, take up your RIGHTEOUSNESS.

blessed night all~

GRACE;be with you all.
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Leah and her sons

Leah and her sons (part 1)

Genesis 30 (New King James Version)
16~ When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with her that night.
17~ And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18~ Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband." So she called his name Issachar.

how many people understand grace means to receive? a life of receiving many many blessings from God? we don't work, we don't struggle to obtain blessings amen?
we RECEIVE by grace because we are righteous in Christ, and being made righteous, am RIGHTEOUS THEREFORE TO RECEIVE.

now see here: God listened to Leah, and she gave birth to Issarchar.

now before this Leah gave birth to 4 other sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah. how did Leah first get her sons?

Genesis 29 (New King James Version)
31~ When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; ...

God SAW that Leah was unloved.

and He is such a loving, and merciful God, that He blessed Leah by opening her womb. Leah, by GRACE, gave birth to her first 4 sons. she didn't do anything! but God SAW that Leah was unloved. and thats the grace we have!

that God sees us, and gives us blessings.
not that WE see ourselves, not that WE see how much we've done, how righteous our actions were today, but that it is God who sees, and it is God who blesses us amen? now i rather live a life by grace, where God sees me, not i look to men, or look to the natural, or even my circumstances.

God sees us in Christ Jesus, for the bible says we were crucified with Him, we were risen with Him, and we are seated in heavenly places with Him. no longer i that live, but Christ that lives in me, amen? therefore, God sees us so righteous, so perfect, so holy that He can't help but bless and bless and bless and give and give and give. and our job is just to receive and give thanks to the Lord.

but many times, we feel so happy, so blessed, that when bad things happen we start to look to our own natural efforts. its can be condemnation, it can be feeling unloved, or it can be jealousy, whatever.

now look here (Genesis 29):

Leah gave birth to Reuben, and she first says,

"The LORD has surely looked on my affliction".

then she gave birth to Simeon, and she says

"Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved".

third she gave birth to Levi, and she says

"Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons."

finally she gives birth to Judah, and she said,

"Now I will praise the LORD."

now in hebrew:
Reuben is

"reh-oo-bane'" which means

"see (a son)"

Simeon is

"shim-one'" which means

"hearing/heard"

Levi is

"lay-vee'" which means

"attached"

Judah is "yeh-hoo-daw'" which means

"Praise/Celebrate"

and isnt that so us?
that when we start to receive blessings, we get so excited, that we say, "wah! God is so good! God saw how i suffered, God heard my prayer, God is attached to me, because I did this i did that. Now i want to praise Him!"

its always about us us us! its always because I, because Me.

when is it ever about Jesus? only when we are satisfied then we say, "oh yeah! God is good, praise God!"

LOOK at LEAH! Leah was blessed, but she was somebody who saw only herself. she said, "NOW i will praise the Lord" only when she was satisfied that her life will be good (that her husband will be attached to her).

when is it ever about Jesus? about Jesus and what He did on the cross? about how His love and sacrifice set us free? does God bless us because we are afflicted? because we cry day and night and then He hears us?

YES HE SEES our pains. YES HE HEARS OUR CRIES. but He blesses us because JESUS died and rose again, and all those who believe in His death, burial and resurrection are thusly blessed! its because of JESUS that we are blessed. without Jesus, what blessing can we get? without His grace, what can we receive from God? oh hallejuah for Jesus!

the chapter then ends that "Leah stopped bearing."

now in the next chapter, chapter 30 we start to see the two sisters start competing to give birth for Jacob. haha Jacob happy man la, He slept with 4 people la. ok no im just kidding.

now Rachel and Leah were using nonsense ideas like taking their maids and giving them to Jacob.

i mean what is up with the people in the past? first sign of trouble then give the maid liao. Sarai also like that!

but anyway back to here, Leah started to use self-efforts to produce babies for Jacob. she gave Zilpah the maid to Jacob and begotten Gad and Asher.

ok look here people this is very interesting.
Gad means "fortune" and Asher means "happy".

now these two were not Leah's children, they were born of Zilpah. Leah having used SELF-EFFORT to try to get blessings, FORGOT GOD.

Genesis 30:11, 13 (NKJV)
11~ Then Leah said, "A troop comes!" So she called his name Gad.
13~ Then Leah said, "I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed." So she called his name Asher.

she didnt praise God, she didn't even mention God's name anymore!
in fact, how did she credit the two sons?
she said, "a troop comes!"

now the direct hebrew translation here means "fortune".
LEAH credited her children to fortune, GOOD LUCK and then she still had the cheek to say she's happy. you know Christians should never say, "wish me luck"?

to wish me luck is to negate God's blessings and His favour. to wish me luck means to give praise to the world, and the world blesses nobody at all amen?

don't give thanks to Lady Luck or Duck or whatever. instead say, "God blessed me" or "to God be all the praise and all the glory". don't say, "oh lucky la".

oh man Leah Leah Leah, what nonsense you say!

"Good luck comes!"
"I am happy! for the daughters will call me blessed."

daughters call you bless, i call you not blessed at all. why should she want to be called blessed by MAN? shouldnt it be God who blesses? it is not Man who blesses, but the Spirit of God working in us! amen?

ok i'm gonna close soon.
He who has a ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit has said and is saying!

Genesis 30 (New King James Version)
16~ When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with her that night.
17~ And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
18~ Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband." So she called his name Issachar."

now only Issachar is named the fifth son. you can go read, all the other children are all called, "a son". only Issachar was special enough to be called the fifth.

why?

Because, Issachar was gotten by grace. for the bible says, "she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son".

5 is the number of grace. Issachar is born out of grace.

but but Issachar is the 7th son! Gad and Asher came first!


NO, did you know God didn't count Gad and Asher?

17~ And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

IF the bible had said, "she conceived and bore Jacob a seventh child" then yes, God has counsidered Gad and Asher. but you know what? Issachar is Jacob's 7th child! He is Leah's 5th child, and Jacob's 7th child! but God specifically wants the record to be Jacob had his 5th child.


how many can understand that?


Leah only gave birth to 5 children so far, the other two were by the maid and Jacob. so technically, Leah had 5 children, and Jacob has 7 children!

but the Holy Spirit has omitted Gad and Asher, instead saying that JACOB HAS 5 CHILDREN! NOT SEVEN!




oh this is significant! why is Issachar so special?




(do you want to learn more? then continue reading the next post.
if you're falling asleep or losing interest, its ok, God loves you~
read on next time or something.)

GRACE;be with you all.
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Issachar and Leah

(continued from part 1: Leah and her sons)


Issachar and Leah (part 2)

Genesis 30 (NKJV)
14~ Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
15~ But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" And Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
16~ When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with her that night.

now Reuben, Leah's son found mandrakes and gave them to his mother. Rachel wanted the mandrakes for herself, but apparently they were precious to Leah, for she likened her mandrakes to her husband. she said, "is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband?" obviously it mattered alot to her that Rachel has snatched Jacob away.

in fact, despite the birth of Gad and Asher, Jacob still didn't like Leah.

Rachel's 2nd son: Naphtali, which means "my wrestling" was named because Rachel struggled with Leah, and the bible says in verse 8, that Rachel won the wrestle.

and then the next few verses say that Leah used her maid to give birth to Gad and Asher. she claims she's happy la, but obviously these two children didn't win back Jacob's affection, for Rachel has already prevailed in verse 8, and because Leah said in verse 15 that Rachel snatched Jacob away.

now Leah placed a high value on the mandrakes, for the way she said things was like this, "you snatched my husband away, and now you want to snatch my mandrakes too?" it sounds as if mandrakes are all she had left, so those mandrakes meant something to Leah. indeed mandrakes are used as an aphrosidiac, so likely Leah was planning to use it to seduce Jacob or something.

now did Leah succeed? no, she didn't even use the mandrakes at all!

Rachel desired the mandrakes so much that she said she'll let Leah sleep with Jacob for a night if Leah gave her the mandrakes, so of course Leah happy la. grace grace Leah! wooo, jiayou, nevermind if you're ugly. at night cannot see anything de... haha.. oh man just joking.

*ahem*

16~ When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he lay with her that night.

Leah didn't use her mandrakes, she decided to give up her mandrakes, which were regarded as precious to her. the bible said she HIRED Jacob with her mandrakes, so obviously she traded mandrakes for Jacob, with Rachel for the night.

wah if i Jacob i'll just slap the two girls and say, "ooi im not a prostitute la!" but then maybe Jacob secretly happy la. he shiok what, so many girls. haha but erm. just joking.

anyway, that night was the night God listened to her:

Genesis 30 (NKJV)
17~ And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

now why did God listen?
because:
1. Leah was now using herself. she wasn't using her maid now. she gave up self-effort.
2. she surrendered to the Lord. she didn't use the mandrake to boost her vitality, she decided to use her natural self, meaning that she surrendered to God's will. Leah was barren, remember? so its natural to want to try using mandrake. but that she would surrender instead, God loves it.

for out of weakness is strength found through grace, amen?
God heard her giving up her mandrakes, heard her giving up her self-effort, and surrendering to His will.
and thus Issachar the fifth child WAS BORN! oh hallejuah!

haha ok im going to close with this.... yes its quite a long post so i did my best to cut it short.


now these two sotong ar, Rachel and Leah, go about giving birth, then naming their sons this that this that. but you know what? Only 3 times, ONLY 3 times, was God really blessing the girls.

the first was in chapter 29 verse 31: "When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb;"

the second you just saw: "17~ And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son."

the last time was:

Genesis 30 (NKJV)
22~ Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

only these three times was God mentioned in the giving birth of the children. the others were just the two girls naming their kids.


now see here:

Genesis 30 (NKJV)
20~ And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun.
21~ Afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

now this is what happened. that Leah's 6th son was called Zebulun. notice that after Issachar was born, she went back to involve God?

20~ And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun."

remember, the last time Leah counted her sons she said,

"Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." (Genesis 29:34)

she "self-efforted" herself? she praised herself for her husband's attachment?

she said that her husband will be attached to her, because SHE BORE HIM 3 SONS.
but praise God, Leah changed her mind. NOW the first thing she says is: "God has endowed me."

in the original hebrew, the direct translation of "endowed" is "zeh'-bed" which means "a gift". God gave Leah her 6th son Zebulun. but 6 is not a complete number, its not a perfect number. 6 represents labour, for God laboured till the 6th day to create the earth, but on the 7th he rested.


So Leah ended with a daughter called Dinah. Dinah means "Justice". and Dinah is the 7th child (minus Gad and Asher for if God will not include them, then neither will I)

7 is the number of perfection for God perfected the world on the 7th day and He then rested.

so, God finished His work with "Perfect Justice" for Leah. What started as God seeing Leah was unloved, ended with God listening to Leah, and finally after "Perfect Justice" has been done, then God rememberd Rachel, and came to listen to her and open her womb.



(still reading? God blessed you :p )

GRACE;be with you all.
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Rachel and her firstborn

(continued from part 2: Leah and Issachar)

Rachel and her firstborn (part 3)

Genesis 30:22 (NKJV)
22~ Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

now before this, God didn't hear Rachel.
if Leah "self-efforted" herself, then double so for Rachel!

in hebrew, Leah means:

"lay-aw'"

which means "weary".
and Rachel means:

"raw-kale'"

which means "ewe" or "sheep"

at first Rachel and Leah were competing with one another.
in fact Rachel proclaimed that she wrestled with Leah and prevailed.

but is that right?

do sheep wrestle? what more an ewe? Rachel Rachel you're a lamb of God, not a wrestler of God. why are you struggling so hard? why are you wrestling against a woman called "weary"?????

Rachel wrestled against weary, until she became weary too. oh hahaha...
ohmyJesus God really has a sense of humour!

Rachel used self-effort to the point that she desired Leah's mandrakes.

now Leah means weary. maybe thats why she needed mandrakes, haha.
ancient day viagra or tongkat ali.
but see? Rachel became weary too, so she also wanted mandrake.

tsk tsk. hahaaha!

But Rachel was a beautiful woman, she is described as

"yaw-feh'"

in hebrew, which means "beautiful" both literally and figuratively.

not only was Rachel beautiful, Jacob was attached to her instead of Leah!

but for all her beauty and her husband's love, for all that she was blessed with, when she saw that Leah was producing babies, she started to envy her sister. Envy and jealousy makes a woman ugly, and makes her do ugly things, amen?

Genesis 30:1-2 (NKJV)
1~ Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die!"
2~ And Jacob's anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

Give me children or else i die!

what she crazy ar? no children will die is it?
i mean wow! like hello? you aren't going to die just because you're barren right?

Girls, please don't be like her. don't go about threatening your husband with suicide or dying or nonsense. Jacob is absolutely no-nonsense. he didn't even bother to entertain Rachel, instead he got angry and rebuked her.

what my fault ar? God made you barren not me what!

then Rachel got a 'brilliant' idea.

oh ya! im barren but not my maid!

so Rachel gave her maid to Jacob.
then Leah saw what Rachel was doing, so she started to copy her. Leah gave her maid to Jacob too.

and when Leah had mandrakes, Rachel saw what Leah was doing, and she wanted the mandrakes too.

now the turning point came after the mandrakes story.

Who did God listen to? was it Leah or Rachel?


Leah, for Leah gave birth to Issachar.


now why did Leah give birth?

because Rachel gave away her husband what!

what kind of dumb idea was it?
you know that at first, Jacob was more attached to Rachel than Leah? for Leah said to Rachel, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?"

than what did Rachel do?

in the very same verse (15) Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes."

Rachel traded away her husband for some lousy mandrakes?
people listen up, don't discount the blessings we have. that Rachel was blessed with Jacob's love wasn't enough. she traded away her blessings for mandrakes.

you know sometimes we can get caught up in our 'brilliant' ideas that we forget our blessings? is it Jacob's fault? or God's fault that Rachel couldn't conceive? Jacob dearly loved Rachel, but what did Rachel do? she traded her husband for some silly mandrakes!

a classic example of when 'brilliant' ideas got too brilliant.

you know because of her self-effort, God didn't listen to her?

now the trade was for only one night, that Leah can have Jacob for one night. but God can perform miracles in even such a small window of opportunity. if Rachel can tell Leah that she can have Jacob for a night, it must have meant that most of the time Jacob went to Rachel instead of Leah. but was it enough for Rachel? should we forgot what we're blessed with just because others are just as blessed? Rachel succumbed to envy!

God listened to Leah and blessed Leah with Issachar, the fifth (grace) child? now Leah was barren and she sought to use mandrake root to boost herself, but by NOT taking the mandrakes, God was able to use her. for God gives grace to the humble. out of her barren womb, God gave her Issachar.

but God is a just God. after Dinah (justice) was born to Leah:

Genesis 30:22 (NKJV)
22~ Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

now the last two children born in this story here were Dinah and Joseph.
Dinah was the 7th child of Jacob. in the last post i said that Justice was perfected.
Joseph is the 7th child born in this chapter. the first child born was Dan, which means "Judge" in hebrew.

what started with a Judge, ended with Justice, and thus Joseph was born.


now people look here:

God listened to her AND opened her womb, meaning to say He did both at the same time amen? God wanted to hear what Rachel would say if He opened her womb.



And this is what God heard when He opened her womb ~~


the very very very first words that Rachel spoke were:
"God has taken away my reproach." (Genesis 30:23)


oh hallejuah!

God has taken away my reproach! has God taken away your reproach?

God has taken away every single reproach from us! Because Christ bore all our sins and suffering, and God took them, and nailed it unto the suffering Lamb of God! oh hallejuah, hallejuah!

and Rachel named her son, Joseph, which means "He will add" or "Let Him add".

the chapter started with Judge, ended with Justice, and ended with "He will add"!
this is a picture of Jesus Christ! God judged Jesus, extracted divine justice upon His Son, and made us righteous so He can add... add what?

Rachel says, "add another son"! (Genesis 30:24)


and who was that son? Benjamin, which in hebrew means "Son of the Right Hand: the son of grace!"


God adds grace to us now!


isn't it amazing that when we realise that God has taken away our reproach, that God condemns us no longer for any and ALL of our sins, that we start to receive His grace?

hahahaha grace He has given unto us, grace by which we live, in Jesus's name, amen.
do you feel blessed for reading all 3 posts? do you have a deeper insight of grace now?

God blessed you! hahaha oh man im feeling so joyful ((((:

blessed night everyone!~

GRACE;be with you all.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The story of David and Goliath

The story of David and Goliath

1 Samuel 17 (NKJV)
38~ So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail.
39~ David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, "I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them." So David took them off.
40~ Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine.

wow. David power hor.
He's going to fight Goliath but he refused to wear armour and use a sword.
why?


because if David had used his armour and sword, it speaks of self-effort. for by his own strength, he must fight Goliath.

in fact the hebrew word for sword here is

"kheh'-reb"

which means drought. Drought is a picture of self-effort - weakness of the flesh.


David cast off drought, instead choosing what?
a shepherd's staff and 5 stones from.... a brook!

He found GRACE, for 5 stones means grace, and he found grace in a brook, a place with running water!

haha instead of self-effort to fight, instead of using a strength that will dry up and become drought, he chose grace out of living waters. and this is God's grace: it flows, like a bubbling brook amen?

no grace is found when self-effort exists amen? just as no water is found when there's a drought. grace is given only to the humble - those who say: Lord, i cannot. just saying that - and grace will start flowing.

where does this grace we get come from?

notice that it says "...and put them in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch which he had..."?

why mention it two times? pouch is pouch, but the Holy Spirit wants us to know the pouch was actually a shepherd's bag.

grace is from a certain shepherd that we know (:
that grace is found in Jesus, shepherd of our hearts.
Grace is not a doctrine. Grace is a person.

when David was going to fight Goliath, he took his stone (grace) from where? his shepherd's bag. Receive your grace from Jesus! Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ amen?


Do we want to strive so hard? when we work and work, we get burned out amen? our spirits become dry and our joy dries up. our energy is burned up. thats a spirit of depression.

there are so many people out there in the rat race, whether for studies or career, just working and striving so hard. so many people falling into depression, because their inner man - their soul - has been burned up by their self-effort works until they are "kheh'-reb". they know not what they work for, why they must work so hard, for they know not the grace of our daddy God amen?

really God wants us to live by grace, and to live by grace means God gives us that grace and favour. who wants to live a life where everyday is fight fight fight? run run run? struggle and strive and work until one feels so tired of life?

God gives. God gives grace for us to do His will. so why struggle for those exam results? or for that promotion? or to obtain favour amongst Man?

rather let God's mighty hand raise you high and uphold you and KEEP you up there!

i mean they're young people who feel jaded and tired of life and suicidal! i was like that once!

but praise God that like David, i choose my weapon to be Grace flowing out of living waters from my Shepherd. go with the flow amen?



now look here - Goliath is a picture of the people of this world.

1 Samuel 17 (New King James Version)
5~ He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
6~ And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.
7~ Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.

He protected himself with bronze. He armed himself with a bronze javelin. Bronze, also known as brass, is a base metal, as compared to gold or silver. its not a good metal.

Its from the hebrew word

"nekh-o'-sheth"

which means fetter (chains).

the very weapon Goliath chose is also described as a staff, but of a weaver's beam. beam in hebrew is

"maw-nore'"

which means yoke. as in yoke of bondage.

His weapon and armour are weighing him down! they are fetters and yokes of bondage!!!

the Goliaths of this world, terrible ar! work and work, placing themselves under the a yoke of bondage. i mean Goliath carry so many dead weight, that he can't even carry his own shield. he needs a shield-bearer. like hello???

maybe if he had dumped some of what weighed him down and carry his own shield then maybe he won't die. no shield means he couldn't block David's missile. see la, big shiny armour, big shiny spear, end up die a stupid death.

praise God that i'll rather be a David than a Goliath. i mean i want everything by grace grace and not be like Goliath, so burdened and fettered.

David fought without armour! using grace flowing from living waters amen?

Would you like to learn more about David's victory?




look here i'm going to close with this:

1 Samuel 17:45-47 (NKJV)
45~ Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
46~ This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
47~ Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD's, and He will give you into our
hands."

this is all David fought with! He understood the grace of the Lord is mightier than self-effort and works. He fought the enemy with the Word of God, He declared victory with the Word of God. for he realised that "the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD's".

it isn't strength and self-effort that is what wins the battle, it is knowing and believing that the Lord has already won the battle.

Did Jesus obtain victory on the cross?
Absolutely!

Romans 8:37 (NKJV)
37~ ...we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

We are already victorius. nevermind how big the enemy's armour is. how shiny the armour looks. how gigantic the weapon is. know only that it is not spear or sword that wins, it is the Lord that wins the battle.

Jesus has already conquered this world.

John 16:33 (Amplified)
33~ I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have perfect peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer take courage, be confident, certain and undaunted! For I have overcome the world. I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.

Jesus came, Jesus died, Jesus rose, and the Almighty Father placed all things into His hands. As Jesus is, so are we in this world. We are made more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Fight the enemy with the Word of God! pray from victory for Christ has delivered into our hands a land overflowing with milk and honey! it is a grace and a rest we have in Him. so pray FROM victory, not into victory. if we labour it is to enter rest, not like Goliath, to carry gigantic bling blings.

honestly i can't. the more i think about it, the more i really want, the more i really need to have God's grace to live in this world.

and so do you too? amen?
Grace grace beloveds.

GRACE;be with you all.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Perfection of Love

(first posted Thursday, 28th September 2006, 7.50am)


Perfection of Love




how can we know (test) if we're in Christ? that we can say yes we are Christians?

1 John 2:5-6 (New King James Version)
5~ But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.


the love of God!
it doesnt say "whoever keeps His word, the bible of God is perfected!"
it doesnt say the grace of God, or the mercy, or the blessings, or EVEN RIGHTEOUSNESS is perfected in him!!

why?

because all these were already perfected by His work on the cross.
Jesus did a perfect work.

His grace was absolute, His mercy forever, His blessings super-abounds and righteousness perfected.

so then we know that we CANNOT perfect these by keeping the Word.
by following God's word are we therefore more righteouss than our sister or brother saints?


or are pastors more blessed?
more righteous perhaps?


NO!

these are not perfected by keeping His Word. for doing so spells self-effort and works of the Law. but rather realise that Jesus died on the cross, dying doing a perfect work.
that it is HE who perfects the Word, and the righteousness and blessings and grace.

so what we have is a commandment of Love. to perfect His love to keep His Word.

the verse didn't say:
"to keep His Word, and perfect God's love"

but rather that whoever can keep His Word, God's love has been perfected!
Perfecting Gods' love first, and then you'll be able to keep His Word easily.


if we keep His word, keep His commandment, then surely it is the love of God that has been perfected in us.

Love conquers everything.
it was love for us that drove Jesus to die on the cross, and subsequently rose again, and it was His love that conquered even death in this world.

so when the love of God is perfected, and we keep the Word: "we know we are in Him." and to be in Him means to abide in His love, for God is love amen? its a simple test to see if we abide in Him: keeping the Word by having, and letting God's love be perfected in us.







ok something extra:

Matthew 5:43-46 (amplified)
43~ You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy;


Yes this is worldly wisdom!
but God's wisdom sayeth:


44~ But I tell you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45~ To show that you are the children of your Father Who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers alike.
46~ For if you love those who love you, what reward can you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?



this world's wisdom and God's wisdom are worlds apart. (haha funny punny)


why?

Confucius says, "it is not good to repay evil with good, for if you do, then with what do you repay good with? it is better to repay good with good and evil with justice."


but God, who knows all things, and holds all things in His hands, says to His beloveds, ".... love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you..."

why???

what COnfucious says makes sense too!

but why is God's 'proverb' so different?

because He is far far far wiser than any any any man on earth. and He knows all things, He knows where all things go, and He holds all things in His mighty hands.

He is mighty to save us, mighty to bless us, mighty to deliver us from the wicked.
we have no need to fear about us dishing out justice.

Vengeance is of the Lord, amen?
but rather since we are children of God, show it by loving your enemies and praying for those who persecute you, as written in verse 45.


WHY?


is says in these verses that, "....for He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and makes the rain fall upon the upright and the wrongdoers alike."

God is our justice. though it says "He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good", though HE judges all, but we have already been judged on the cross, and are now judged as righteous in Christ Jesus.


we have NOTHING to fear, but the wicked have everything to fear! let Love therefore be our only commandment in life! Remember perfect love casts out fear of punishment!


so therefore.... what wisdom do you follow?

worldly wisdom with no understanding of where things go and how events will turn out?
or the wisdom of God, who knows all, sees all, hears all, and understands all?

GRACE;be with you all.
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Praying for Leadership

(first posted Thursday, 21 September 2006, 11.25pm)


Praying for Leadership

1 Timothy 2:1-4 (NKJV)
1~ Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
2~ for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

Pray for those in authority... who ever is in charge.
governements, teachers, principals, leaders, pastors, etc...

the bible says

"for kings and all who are in authority"

and we pray this for what?

in the amplified it says that

"outwardly we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life and inwardly a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way"

in every single one of our ways,if we desire such a peaceful life, then one must have capable authority. a capable and uncorrupted government is essential to a country.

Pastor once said that a church will not rise above its leadership. similar with anything else, country, company, classroom.


without order, how can one lead a peaceful life?

God is a God of order, not of chaos.

GRACE;be with you all.
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The Law is fulfilled for us in Christ Jesus

(first posted Saturday, 21st September 2006. 12.24am)


The Law is fulfilled for us in Christ Jesus

Galatians 2:20 (New King James Version)
20~ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

beautiful verse amen?



now read this verse:

Romans 7 (Amplified Bible)
1~ DO YOU not know, brethren--for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law--that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive?
2~ For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is loosed and discharged from the law concerning her husband.
3~ Accordingly, she will be held an adulteress if she unites herself to another man while her husband lives. But if her husband dies, the marriage law no longer is binding on her for she is free from that law; and if she unites herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.
4~ Likewise, my brethren, you have undergone death as to the Law through the crucified body of Christ, so that now you may belong to Another, to Him Who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

the apostle Paul is speaking to men who follow Law.
He explains the marriage law.
As long as a man is alive, he is BOUND to obey law (as shown in verse 1)

beautiful story of how Jesus died to set us free.

in verse 2, married woman refers to us, who were sinners once. when we were sinners, we were married to the law. we were BOUND to the law and must work to obey His laws.
Unless the husband dies, otherwise we're still bound. but God's law IS Holy.

so knowing that the Law can't be removed - for either the wife dies and frees herself, or the husband dies and she is fres - is there anymore hope?

who wants to die?
and yet the Law cannot be destroyed too.

Hope is in Christ Jesus, for Jesus didn't come to destroy the Law: rather He came to fulfill it!

in Galatians, it is said we are crucified with Christ!

beloveds, you were crucified with Christ.

YOU died.

You were the one who was supposed to die, but Christ died instead. He died, so that you can be BORN AGAIN!

so He died in YOUR place, therefore satisfying this law and setting us free from our 'husband': the Law!

and when we were born again, guess who we remarried?

Jesus Christ, dearest lover of our hearts.

and God is legal to bless us, and make us righteous.


this answers how, and WHY, the cross works to remove us from bondage of law and place us under the resting of grace.

Galatians 2:20 (NKJV)
20~ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

beautiful beautiful beautiful (:

GRACE;be with you all.
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Let our love for God grow

(first posted Thursday, 21st September 2006. 12.24am)


Let our love for God grow



i think we should all give thanks to the Lord we belong to Pastor Prince's ministry. His ministry has impacted and blessed so MANY lives.

how can one man amount to so much? only if HE speaks the Word of God, the Word of Truth. i tell you, Pastor is so full of the Word amen? and the same Spirit dwells in each of us.

John 14:6 (NJKV)
6~ Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

i tell you Pastor speaks the Word of God with full accuracy. in this i know:

John 1:17 (New King James Version)
17~ For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

if grace and truth came through Christ, then whosoever preaches Jesus will inadvertantly talk about grace and truth amen?
and Pastor preaches the gospel of grace, the gospel of the good news.



how do i know that Christ is the Word to preach?

John 1:1-14 (Amplified Bible)
1~ IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.
2~ He was present originally with God.

Christ is the Word, and He was present originally with God. Christ didn't pop out of nowhere. Can you imagine God already planned on sending His son for us, even before He formed the earth?

haha Pastor preaches the gospel of Christ, and Christ is the Word, so therefore Pastor preaches the Word of God with full accuracy. easy to understand? haha~


ok anyway look here:

John 3:16 (NJKV)
16~ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

it says that God so loved us, that He sent His Son to us, to impute righteousness upon those who believe in Him.

God so LOVED us FIRST! And THEN sent His Son to make us righteous.


it doesn't say, that God sent His Son to make people righteous BEFORE He will love them. no no, it says God so loved the world that He sent His Son to make people righteous. for God loved us whilke we were still sinners. He punished Jesus Christ for our sins.

aww... how great is God's love.
its so tender and sweet amen...?

1 John 4:16 (New King James Version)
16~ ....God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

God is LOVE! how great the love of God to send His dearest most prized possession to reclaim His even more dear and even more prized possession?


the amplified bible says in the same verse John 3:16:

16~ For God so greatly loved and dearly prized [you] that He even gave up His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in, trusts in, clings to and relies on Him shall come to destruction and be lost but have eternal & everlasting life.

God prizes YOU so much that He can send Heaven's greatest treasure, the darling of Heaven to die for our sins. when He comes back and stands before us, i know He'll tell us it was all worth it, that WE are WORTH it. amen?



so know that we know that God LOVED us first, and sent His Son to die for us, imputing righteousness upon us, so that we are now in Christ.

and what does being a member of the body of Christ mean?

1 Corinthians 12:27-31 (NKJV)
27~ Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
28~ And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
29~ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
30~ Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31~ But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

God made us members of the body of Christ, each with different gifts, to serve Him better. can you imagine if everyone ran about with the gift of prophecy. then who listen?

but read the last line again.


what is the "more excellent way?"
its explained more clearly in the amplified what is the more excellent way:

1 Corinthians 12:31 (Amplified)
31~ But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces - the higher gifts and the choicest graces. And yet I will show you a still more excellent way one that is better by far and the highest of them all-- Love.

One Way that is better by far, and the highest of all the ways, even those of the ways of the Spirit! Being an apostle, being a prophet, being a teacher, speaking in tongues, interpreting, gift of healing ,etc etc?!?

The One Way that is far better and higher than these paths, is simply Love.

the way of Love.

Why is Love so powerful? why does the apostle Paul value Love so much?



Because:

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (NKJV)
1~ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2~ And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3~ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

You can be a great man of the Spirit. You can move mountains with faith, you can speak in tongues of men and even angels, you can be rich and mighty and glorious in this world, but without God's love in you, you are nothing. how many times is "God's love in me/us" mentioned?

In all the passages?

and how many times are we reminded "i am/gain nothing"?

In all the passages too.

this is important then! Realise first God's love is in you, for without revelations of His love in you, you can't amount to anything.

Seek first the kingdom of Heaven, seek His beloved righteousness. How to seek? By soaking in His love for you. and in this you know you understand how much He loves you:

1 John 4:18 (amplified)
18~ There is no fear in love and dread does not exist, but full-grown complete, perfect love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love and is not yet grown into love's complete perfection.

Beloveds, What do you fear? what do you dread? God's punishment?


were we put on this earth to wander aimlessly? surely not.
We have much to grow up to... but i'm sure we all want to grow up in an enviroment of love. and it is HERE.
therefore nurture within you a thought of Love, pure, complete, perfect, dying for you on the cross, knowing that all punishment has been exacted on His body.

isn't it interesting it says that:

"...he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love and is not yet grown into love's complete perfection..."

it doesnt say that God's love needs to grow, but rather OUR love for God needs to grow.
Nothing we can do can make Him love us more, and nothing we can do will make Him love us less. He loves us to the max.

Love isn't a dead thing. Love doesn't go "I love you" and then it stays there at that level.

No, for Love is alive! Love will grow. it is like a living thing, it will grow and it will mature and when it has been grown up completely, no fear or terror of punishment shall be left.

GRACE;be with you all.
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Redemption and the added fifth

(first posted Saturday, 16th September 2006, 11.30pm)


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Redemption and the added fifth

Leviticus 27:1-7 (Amplified Bible)
1~ AND THE Lord said to Moses,
2~ Say to the Israelites, When a man shall make a special vow of persons to the Lord at your valuation,
3~ Then your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4~ And if the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5~ And if the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for the male twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.
6~ And if a child is from a month up to five years old, then your valuation shall be for the male five shekels of silver and for the female three shekels.
7~ And if the person is from sixty years old and above, if it be a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels and for the female ten shekels.

Pastor shared that Moses is a picture of the Law, for the bible says the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

The reason for males being more 'valuable' was not about sexism, but rather because God valued strength - Strength to work, to fulfil God's law. Its not to say that male and female were created unequal or that females are weak, but they were created for different purposes (obviously).

Males having more 'strength' were thusly valued higher because they are valued to have more personal strength.

But no matter how strong, how religious, how devout we are, we cannot, absolutely cannot match up to God’s standards. Only Jesus could fulfil the Law.

Praise God then for the Redeemer!

Leviticus 27:8 (Amplified bible)
8~ But if the man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

Hence when a man can't pay, he is presented to the priest. The priest is a picture of the grace of Christ that works within us. The priest then shall set a value upon the man.

Leviticus 27 (amplified)
11~ If it is an unclean animal, such as is not offered as an offering to the Lord, he shall bring the animal before the priest,
12~ And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so shall it be.

Pastor shared on how we are made kings and priests in this world or something like that right? yeah, then he preached on how we can set a value on ourselves....

But you know what else I found?

Leviticus 27 (amplified)
13~ But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to your valuation.
15~ If he who dedicates his house wants to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
19~ If he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the money of your appraisal to it, and it shall remain his.
27~ If it be of an unclean animal, the owner may redeem it according to your valuation, and shall add a fifth to it;
31~ And if a man wants to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.

In this entire chapter, 5 times redemption was mentioned, and each time a fifth must be added. 5 is the number of grace! Benjamin received by grace 5 times more than what his brothers got.

So if a man brings his moo moo cow and it is valued at S$100, then the redemption price is like S$120!!!

Therefore, if we go to Christ crying out for redemption, what is our price of redemption?

A fifth must be added for God to redeem us!
So when you come to Him seeking redemption.... how great was your price....?

How this works is like that:

Leviticus 27:8 (Amplified)
8~ But if the man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

Think about this: you had nothing to give to the Lord. You were poor, weak, defenceless as a babe. but you know what? He loves you so much... and his tender mercies endure forever that He knew you had no 'money' or 'strength' to redeem yourselves.

"...he shall be set before the priest..."

So God having seen you, and considered your ability, and then values you.

But this means that we are valued like s***!

Ya, of course we are. We were but worthless sinners before we were saved by God's grace!

But you know what, if we had been so precious, if we had been so holy that we can fulfil God;s law, meaning we don't need grace, then

no.1 Christ died in vain,
no.2 God would not have been glorified,
and 3. His love would not be evident!

If WE were so worthless, so valueless, that God would send His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased, the treasure of Heaven, the precious Son of God to come and to die for us, and to make us righteous, then it speaks VOLUMES of God's amazing love for us!

That yes, while we were still sinners, God loved us then, and loves us now, and sent His Son to die for our sins!

He redeemed you through the cross on Calvary, through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus!

And not only that! Jesus gave His all, and paid the extra one-fifth to redeem you.
And God is mightily pleased with His Son, for know having more redeemed souls, means His Kingdom is made even richer.

God is a lot richer than before Christ came and redeemed us by the added fifth, by the added GRACE.

Hallejuah!
Jesus truly truly loves us all.

Ok let me close with this: (oh, I LOVE to type that :p )

Leviticus 27 (amplified)
13~ But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to your valuation.
15~ If he who dedicates his house wants to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
19~ If he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the money of your appraisal to it, and it shall remain his.
27~ If it be of an unclean animal, the owner may redeem it according to your valuation, and shall add a fifth to it;
31~ And if a man wants to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.

What's another constant here?
That
1. if he wishes to redeem
2. if he dedicates his house to redeem
3. if he dedicates the field to redeem
4. owner may redeem
5. if a man wants to redeem his tithe
that all the times we have the choice to redeem or not!
God made us, and gave us free will.
We can choose to accept His Son or not.
Thusly we can choose to sin, or not.

Many think the gospel of grace will cause many to sin.

Well let me say this: yes God gave us the freedom to choose, and also gave us freedom from sin, that if I go out to sin, God will NOT condemn me (Romans 8:1) but know this, that God sees all, and hears all, and knows all.

I can sin, but the consequences are mine to bear. Not God, not Jesus.
Right believing will lead to right living amen?

Anyway, back here. That we have a choice to be redeemed.

Do you want to know how to receive even MORE grace from God?

Ephesians 1:7 (New King James Version)
7~ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

Ephesians 3:16 (New King James Version)
16~ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,

Philippians 4:19 (New King James Version)
19~ And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

3 times it is used "according to the riches of..."
not "out of the riches of..."

why?

if something is according to, it is of a higher level than out of.

ok think of it this way.

i have $100.
i bless someone according to $100.
so my level of blessing is $100.

if i bless someone out of $100,
then the maximum i can bless is below $100.
blessing<$100.

understand?

out of $100 but cannot exceed or reach $100. the most $99.

understand?

so knowing this that God blesses ACCORDING to HIS RICHES, then better make God rich!

Value yourself, and add the fifth to it!

Redeem anything! Go ahead and value it, for Christ has died and risen again and His blood has made us Kings and Priests to our God.

(Revelations 5:10 (NKJV)
10~ And have made us kings and priests to our God; )

So knowing you are a priest, and knowing the priest can set a value, go ahead and set the value upon yourself.

Set $100, you get $120!
Don't be afraid of setting high high high value!

For know that Jesus has paid the price of redemption. Whatever you set now, it is already paid for

The higher you set a value upon yourself now, the higher the added fifth, and the happier God is - for He is made ever richer and richer.

And the more you set, the more the added fifth, and thusly the more GRACE is added unto you ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES WHICH IS RICHER AND RICHER!

AMEN! HALLEJUAH!
To God be all praise and all glory!

GRACE;be with you all.
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