Let Us Be Reminded

Spirit Ears still exists - and we continue to write devotions.  However, since December (which is our last post), we have been working on two e-books.  One is completed - the other is a devotional e-book containing a number of devotions written over the span of 4 years.  It's coming soon.

God's Word is eternal though - He surely does not need man to interpret it for Him - He does all the interpretation/meaning.  We are the receivers and listeners.  God has granted His body to help one another in apprehension of the Truth until we ALL come into unity of the Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God.

It is a privilege to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ AND to know Him.  So, we continue to write/speak as He enlightens.  It is His will to encourage one another DAILY until we see His appearing.  We surely walk by faith, not by sight.  The faith of God is more real than the seen world.  The world we see is the old creation - passed away (not yet fallen) and we are part of Christ, the New Man, the New Creation.

God says continue in our faith - it is NOT without disappointment, for those who believe in Him will not be disappointed as He says.

Below is the latest devotional from last week. 

Let Us Be Reminded

The Word of God refreshes, corrects, keeps, strengthens – the Word of God abides forever.

So what of God’s Word today can refresh, correct, keep and strengthen?  How about this from Romans 5:

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

¹⁵ But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. ¹⁶ The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. ¹⁷ For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ

Simply put, Adam’s transgression brought death to ALL of humanity – no one has a choice whether or not death and sin would be part of them.  Everyone born in the world physically is/was born of Adam – sin and death.

BUT what did Christ bring?  What did Christ do?  Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ – His crucifixion, burial, and resurrection brought us ETERNAL LIFE in HIM!  Once in Adam, now in Christ!  Everyone born of Christ is now TRANSFERRED from death to Life – from Adam into Christ.

The Scriptures are clear that death once reigned over us – but now Christ reigns over us triumphantly in LIFE, in GRACE, in MERCY, in HOPE, for ALL eternity.

We do not have to rearrange this reality.  The reality (God’s Truth) stands forever – we only need to BELIEVE with our hearts the TRUTH!

The TRUTH of God sets us free.   The TRUTH of God gives joy and peace.

The only battle to fight then is the fight of faith – Satan contends to distort, rob and cheat us of God’s powerful Word of Life.  No one has to leave their place to fight this kind of fight.  Ephesians 6 says to STAND with your loins girded about with TRUTH – having put on the breastplate of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Faith in God’s Truth DOES AND WILL AND ALWAYS bring forth real fruit of righteousness.  This is how God made it to be.  The seed of Christ dwells in us – He grows in us – He is formed in us – He reigns in us. 

When the physical body dies – the spirit is only shedding the last of Adam’s creation in exchange praise God, for the promised possession of His glorious body.

Our inheritance in Christ is SO great.  We have not yet seen BUT we have obtained – the Spirit of God is our guarantee!  Our names are in the book of Life and Christ is in our hearts!

Let us feast on God’s TRUTH today until we glow like a 3 way bulb – not 60, not 75, but 150 watt!  J

Hallelujah what a Savior and Lord!

Sue Gaither