Judging Him Faithful Pt.2
I CORINTHIANS 10:11-13
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. (In other words – we are at the end of history looking back on all the examples of what was written of other people who have lived out their lives in past ages, and so we have the advantage of hindsight – many of their lives were prophetic of this hour)
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (Don’t rely on your own strength)
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man (We think that our struggles are unique to us – not realizing that there are a few billion other people on earth right now with exactly the same problems): but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
(God has the destiny of your life under His full control)
LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23
22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
(In other words – God’s mercies begin afresh every morning. This is why we must not accumulate in our minds the guilt of our past mistakes – because if we have confessed our sins, then God has been faithful to forgive us as He promised He would. And so, at the start of each day, everything for you is a perfectly fresh and sinless start (that’s according to the word of God) because God does not accumulate and carry over all the memories of past sins as we mostly do)
HEBREWS 11:11
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Woman in the bible represent the church, and Sarah is no exception – she was an example for this end time age.
*She lived in a time of when a sodomite condition existed on the earth.
*She witnessed a man who could reveal the secrets of her heart with his back turned to the tent.
*Then she was turned back into a young woman again because Abimelech (the king of Gerar in Genesis CH:20) thought she was so young and so beautiful.
And so in Hebrews 11:11 – it tells us how that Sarah had come into a deep trust in God under seemingly impossible circumstances. Circumstances that any reasonable thinking person would have had to acknowledged as being humanly impossible – and yet it was under those conditions, that Sarah (a type of this last day bride) Judged Him (who had made her the promise for that hour), faithful.
Judging Him Faithful Pt.2
We are still dealing with our underlying theme that we began this series with many weeks ago of “Questions and Answers”.
*And we have approached this subject from a different viewpoint in that we haven’t tried to answer a long list of questions one by one in the traditional way, but we have been trying to elevate our thoughts into a higher realm of where the thoughts of God dwell. Because many of the answers that we seek become clear in the realm of the higher thoughts of God.
*Because this is the age of where the mind of Christ is to be connected to the body of Christ.
*The Pentecostal age represented the mouth that could speak in tongues. Then as the body was being formed higher, the prophetic eyes came on the scene in the form of a Malachi 4’s ministry. But as you keep going higher above the eyes, then there are no more moving facilities, but you come to the realm of the thoughts of the mind, and this then become the highest level, because your thoughts are connected to your character.
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113 Then, when we let His character be in us, then we have become sons, by having the mind of Christ, mind, which is His character. Your mind makes your character.
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165 … Yes, sir. I did lose my mind; I had to, to find the mind of Christ. Every other believer has to, that's right, has to find the mind of Christ, by losing our own mind. (How? By casting down your humanistic reasoning against the thoughts and ways of God)
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190 Heavenly Father, search our hearts, in this minute. It only takes a moment of time, a change. Let the mind of Christ come into us. The Bible said, "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." That changes our character.
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…Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word.
*So when you know what He wants done with the word of this hour, then that is His thoughts in you
*The mind of Christ is simply the thoughts of God’s mind coming into your mind, and that’s what true oneness with God looks like, that’s what marriage looks like, and that was the relationship of what Adam had with God before the fall. Adam could walk with God because his thoughts were the same (and in perfect agreement) with God’s thoughts.
*Having the mind of Christ means that you have become connected to the great fountain of all wisdom and knowledge of where He is able to lead you into all truth.
*And this connection to all knowledge is also the goal of what they are trying to do artificially with all this Artificial Intelligent stuff (AI).
**They want to connect your mind so that you can have access all the answers to all your questions so that your life can become so much greater through a higher level of thinking. But all that is just a perversion of what God is now achieving with a people who have received His thoughts in this hour by the opening of the seven seals.
The opening of the seven seals has unlocked the mind of Christ to us. This is why we need to be in the word of the message that God has sent to us for this day, because that is His thoughts for this hour – and what we read and listen to is what changes our thoughts.
**And so when we look at Sarah of whom Roman’s 11 tells us that the reason that she became pregnant and had a child (when she was passed 90 years old), was because she judged him faithful who had made her the promised.
*But if the thoughts of her mind had been that of a humanistic level of thinking, she would never have judged Him faithful with that level of thinking, because her thought wouldn’t have been aligned with the higher thoughts of God – and so her mind had to be elevated into a higher realm of thoughts and of the reasoning of a greater intelligence, into the mind of Christ of where all things are possible, because faith is not blind, faith is having knowledge of something that you are sure of, and of which there is no doubt in your mind.
**When you have doubt in your mind about something, it is because you are not yet sure.
There is a certain level of faith that is to be restored to a people in these last days by the ministry and message of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 that is of a much higher and more focused purpose than that of any other age.
Because like Sarah in the bible, we have been promised great things in this hour.
*We have been promised a resurrection of 2000 years of sleeping saints.
*We have been promised by God that our bodies are going to be changed from mortal to immortal.
*And then we have been promised to be literally raptured off the earth and go into a new world and into the presence of God.
But all these things can only become a reality when (like Sarah), we come into a higher level of thinking of which we can judge Him faithful who has made us these great promises of these last days.
HEBREWS 11:11 our opening scripture…
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age (Notice – she was at her most weakest time of life, and God made sure that the thing that needed the most strength was left until the weakest time – but this is an example to us in this hour, because it shows us that it is not by might nor by human power, but by the spirit of revelation), because she judged him faithful who had promised.
*To all the senses of man’s human reasoning, it looked like the promise of God has completely failed for Abraham and Sarah.
**And that is often a crossroad time of when many people will accuse God of not being faithful, and this explains to us why so many people go on (after encountering situations in their lives that look to them like God has failed them) to live out the rest of their lives convinced that God (if they still even believe that He exists at all) is at the best untrustworthy.
And then this can create a cycle of doubt and unbelief that can spiral downwards to the point that people will even walk completely away from their faith. We have seen that happen throughout history amongst great tragedy and loss
**And so we see the effects of this in many people’s lives – of where they have felt let down by God over something the had prayed about that never came to fruition. And the reason for this is that their thoughts are at a level that is a much lower level then the thoughts of God, and so they can’t find or even fathom the answers to their questions
**Even the psalmist speaks about this very real human struggle of when we are in need of God, it seems like he is far far away.
We read these scriptures last week…
PSALM 10:1
1 ¶ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me..
Brother Branham’s came to this place in his life of where he confessed that he almost walked away from the Lord when God sent the black sheet down at the death of his baby daughter Sharron Rose.
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E-114 And I said, "Know, daddy, honey?" and her little lips trying to speak to me like this, "goo" to me, and they were quivering; she's a dying. I put my hand over on her; I said, "O God, please God, don't take her. You took my wife; You took my daddy, and You've took... O God, isn't there forgiveness in Your great heart?" I said, "Please, dear God, please spare my baby." I thought, "Whatever I've...?..." I said, "Won't You do it, Lord? Looked just looked like a black sheet begin to unfold, coming down. Oh, I knowed she was gone.
Look at the Holocaust of how the Jews died by the millions…
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44 Heavenly Father, we--we by faith look towards the future. I'm looking now, by faith, towards a coming something, Lord, upon the earth, that's going to draw Thy people together. When we see the denominational churches so pinning down and getting so different, it's really pushing the people out; just as it was in Egypt, a pharaoh rising, who knew not Joseph.
45 As it was in Germany, and--and up into Russia, and Italy, the people raised up Josephes, Hitler and Stalin, Mussolini, who hated the Jew. They had to go back to their homeland. God, You got ways of doing things, that we don't understand. And You pressed them. No home in Germany; everything taken away from them. Also, in Italy, Russia, no place to go. And they were sent back to their homeland, just to fulfill the Word.
46 Oh, the loving hand of God! How, sometimes, it looks cruel, the way that people suffer, but it, still, it's the tender hand of Jehovah, leading His little children. We thank You, Lord.
47 Now I pray, God, as I see the day. That, the denomination is pressing the believers, excommunicating them, saying, that, "Their name must be upon their book, or they're lost. Have nothing to do with the other group." It's only the tender hand of Jehovah, leading them to the Tree of Life.
*When we think of all the prayers that the Jews would have prayed to God for deliverance from their suffering of Nazi death camps during WW2, none of those prayers seemed to have been answered by God. God had appeared to them to have been far away, yet He did answer their prayers, far more than they could have ever have imagined, because when the fifth seal opened in Revelation 6:9, we see that they were all gathered together immortal, with the promise to go on to receive white robes of immortal bodies.
It was a far greater deliverance than what they had ever thought.
**And so when we get to the story in John 11 of Martha and Mary at the death of their brother Lazurus, it was the same thing, because it was like the Lord had totally let them down in that He had not answer their request of coming to them of which they knew that He could have if He had desired to. Can you even imagine the damage that that could have done to their relationship with the Lord had they taken a wrong attitude towards this event.
JOHN 11:21-22
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
(Under the first and second pull ministry of Jesus, they had seen him discern the thoughts of the heart and heal the sick. But they did not realize that there was yet to be another advancement of Jesus Ministry, of an even greater ministry of a third pull of which they had not seen yet. A ministry that could speak a word that would bring forth someone from the grave of which corruption had already set into their bodies.)
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
This is showing us the level of faith that we are to come into in this day before the resurrection can take place in this hour – a faith that can judge Him faithful and believe in a resurrection of 2000 years of sleeping saints under some of the most unreasonable conditions of the human condition of which many would accuse God of being unable to fulfill His word. Why have so many walked away from the greatest message that God has ever sent to the earth?
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224 …It's always in the weakest moments, when it looks like the true message is about defeated; that's when God steps in. He--He let's the message and the messenger get to the end of the road (See?), then He comes in, and He rides the high waves.
This was also Paul’s experience in the bible… The first church age messenger.
II TIMOTHY 4:16a
16 ¶ At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: *We would ask ourselves – how could this be good if everyone forsakes you?
*How could it be good for six million Jews to be slaughtered unjustly in the Holocaust?
*How could it be good for Lazarus to die?
*How could it be good for little Sharon Rose to die as a little baby?
*How can it ever be good when we pray for our loved ones and they die?
*When Brother Branham had the car accident that eventually claimed his life – everyone all over the world was praying desperately for his recovery, but he just died as if God had taken no notice of all those prayers – but God had something far greater for us. And this is always the case, because His “no’s” are just as great (if not greater) than His “yeses” – and we must learn to trust Him in that.
**God cannot fail to keep His promised word to us – but we have to understand that the way He does that may be very different to our humanistic level of thinking – and this is where many become disappointed in God, because we think we know how things should look like when God keeps His promise – but that is often just our human imagination.
**God is always faithful to keep all of His promises, but He does it at a much higher level to our human level of reasoning.