Entry 17
2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters, also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.
Who Sends? .... The King, The LORD Sends
Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from from where he was taken.
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
Abram had his part to do and as he did it, God would do his. Now understand, even Abram's part is of God and of faith which brings grace or enabling and empowerment. Why? Abram heard God. Gen 12:1 "Now the Lord had said to Abram."
Remember faith comes by hearing God. Do you hear God? My friends we must hear the Lord. To be called, to be sent to be received up into glory, we must hear the Lord.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Rom 10:17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Remember what we noted in 2 Chronicles 29:15?
2Chr 29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
It starts with knowing Jesus and knowing who He is. Do you know that Jesus is God? If you do, then you have heard from the Father for no one can know who Jesus is unless it be revealed directly from the Father who, also draws us to Christ.
Let us see it as it it is written.
1) John Chapter 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me.
2) Matt 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Matt 16:14 And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Matt 16:15 He said to them, But whom say you that I am?
Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Matt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven.
Matt 16:18 And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Our walk begins here and by this same manner, we continue in our walk of faith.
So my friend if you are saved, you have heard God and must continue to hear Him, the one who sends you into the same world He called you out of. To do what? Bring the message, of the same call you have by the authority and command of the King Himself.
John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Who Sends? .... The King, The LORD Sends
Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from from where he was taken.
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
Abram had his part to do and as he did it, God would do his. Now understand, even Abram's part is of God and of faith which brings grace or enabling and empowerment. Why? Abram heard God. Gen 12:1 "Now the Lord had said to Abram."
Remember faith comes by hearing God. Do you hear God? My friends we must hear the Lord. To be called, to be sent to be received up into glory, we must hear the Lord.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Rom 10:17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Remember what we noted in 2 Chronicles 29:15?
2Chr 29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
It starts with knowing Jesus and knowing who He is. Do you know that Jesus is God? If you do, then you have heard from the Father for no one can know who Jesus is unless it be revealed directly from the Father who, also draws us to Christ.
Let us see it as it it is written.
1) John Chapter 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me.
2) Matt 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Matt 16:14 And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Matt 16:15 He said to them, But whom say you that I am?
Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Matt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven.
Matt 16:18 And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Our walk begins here and by this same manner, we continue in our walk of faith.
So my friend if you are saved, you have heard God and must continue to hear Him, the one who sends you into the same world He called you out of. To do what? Bring the message, of the same call you have by the authority and command of the King Himself.
John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.