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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Heads
Up
Deuteronomy
28:12-13 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to
give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of
thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow. (13) And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and
thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou
hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee
this day, to observe and to do them: (KJV)
It
is the Lord’s desire that you are made the head, Christ like, is another
way of describing it. In order for one to be a part of the body and be an
imitator of Christ it is imperative that they know who the Head is and how
He operates. How about getting into His head, the Bible says we have the
mind of Christ, one that opens the eyes of our understanding so that we can
see beyond the veil of the flesh and into the realm of the Spirit. All the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in Christ; that which is unseen
to the carnal yet readily revealed to the spiritual one.
Ephesians
1:17-23 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know
what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his
power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set
him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (21) Far above all
principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is
named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (22) And
hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all
things to the church, (23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that
filleth all in all. (KJV)
God
set an order to His church and how it would operate. Christ is the Head of
the Church, which you are, and which He should be in order for you to
access all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that are in Him. So where
do you go looking for your answer when in time of need, do you seek first
God’s take on how to handle things or are you standing around the tail end
getting soiled with man’s interpretation of what they think and not what
the Lord knows and what His people should know? If God decided Christ is
the right man to be the Head of the Church isn’t it time you came into
agreement with that plan as well? After all we are either with Him or
against Him, so if any man has not the spirit of Christ and a working
knowledge of Him then they are none of His, which would put them in the
position of antichrist, heading downward instead of upward. Heads we win,
tails we lose, and so does anyone that tries to alter and change God’s plan
of salvation or the order He put His people in.
Acts
4:10-12 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. (11)
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become
the head of the corner. (12) Neither is there salvation in any other: for
there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved. (KJV)
So
many different names that mankind comes up with, so many different
denominations mankind tries to label God with and put Him in their carnal
boxes limiting Him according to their carnal understanding and not the
wisdom available to those in Christ. God has narrowed His path and provided
the one name that will lead to salvation, that being Jesus Christ, while
anything less leaves one in the back of the line and on the outside. There
is no other name under heaven, this is it, the one name above all other
names; one name will get you home and to the Head while anything less will
leave you dead. Are you using this name so that you can go to the Head and
access all God has for you or are you trying some other path that will
leave you short and stuck tail gating another blind person heading for the ditch?
One name, one Lord, one faith, one Head of the Church, it all points to
Christ because that is the way God intended it to be so that you could
partake of all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that He has for His
people.
Ephesians
5:23-25 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as the
church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in
every thing. (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it; (KJV)
What
do you think life on earth would be like if man just followed God’s simple
plan of salvation and didn’t try and alter what He put in place? Like the
old song says, “what a wonderful world this would be”. Again we see a
simple order of what the Lord intended, just as He did back in the book of
Genesis a man and a woman is the only union He blesses and acknowledges,
while anything else and they are on their own, outside the realm where He
blesses. So with all this talk going around about alternative lifestyles,
the only thing being alternated is a lie for the truth, which if continued
will result in hell instead of heaven, an alternative God did not intend
for His people. God is not the author of confusion but of peace. So if you
desire the peace of God in your life then you need to come into agreement
with His plan of salvation and the order He set for His church.
1
Corinthians 12:18-21 But now hath God set the members every one of them in
the body, as it hath pleased him. (19) And if they were all one member,
where were the body? (20) But now are they many members, yet but one body.
(21) And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor
again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. (KJV)
If
God set the members and the order of His body of believers in a way that is
pleasing to Him then who are we to tell Him different? Our physical bodies
can be amputated and certain parts cut off in order to live, but once you
cut the head off it’s all done, and death will be the result. Given the
fact that the spiritual realm is so much greater than the physical one,
would it not do you well to heed to the word of God so that you don’t cut
off the Head of the Church from your life and end up dead also? Heads up
people, our salvation draws near, keep looking above and you won’t get so
entangled with the things below, things below God’s standards.
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