29/11/10

The curtain is now open

1 John 5:20 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.


Yesterday we received the message how God is surrounded by good plans for us and how the Heavens are a curtain that does not let people know Him. In today's message the Lord is telling us that things have changed. In today's message the Lord God has changed in His master plan.

The word translated as 'understanding', takes away a great deal of understanding of the scripture. Understanding is mostly for the result of the process of wisdom working on knowledge. The word used here is not more of the result but the engine that does this process. The more correct translation would be 'mind'. And the word translated as 'true' comes from the root meaning 'not hidden'.

When we are baptized in Jesus the Son of God and in His Spirit we receive the mind to know Jesus Christ and who we are in Him. This mind also has the capacity to reveals to us God the Father and what it means to have eternal life.

Now that we have this machine let us put the input which is the Word of God and start the process which is meditating on the Word and we are sure to get the result - understanding.


[ Prayer Starter ]
Lord, we thank You for the mind You have given us when we were renewed in You. Help us Lord to put this machine in process unceasingly. Help us mediate on your Word and receive the great treasures of your Kingdom. These treasures change life and understanding of life, for the Truth which is You gets known to us...

We thank and receive in Jesus' Name, Amen.


[ Reference Scripture ]
Isaiah 40:21-23
21 Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Mark 15:37-38
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
38 And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.

Mark 8:33
33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get you behind me, Satan: for you mind not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Romans 7:25
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

1 Corinthians 2:16
16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

The Word of God was given free to us, therefore we should also share it freely with others. (All rights are with God)