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"But if the servant says: I love my master, my wife and my children do not want to go free" (Exodus 21:5). For this servant no dilemma, there is nothing to choose from. Their decision was never in doubt. His love was his world. The serf was tied to it with everlasting chains of love. He would not be able to leave your love or your home.
servant's life revolved around her love for his master, like Paul, he considered everything else as "dung" in order to win her love. He was the kind of person willing to be neglected so that others could get to know love of his Lord.
This servant valued intimacy with his master over any earthly blessing. Who could care herds, the fields, or wine and oil, when you can have an endless communion and intimacy with the master? His heart overflowed with tenderness for her master and he said it clearly: "I love my master, no I want to be free."
servant What this is saying is simply this: Christ is enough! Nothing in this world has the courage to lose the feeling of his presence. All the wealth and prosperity of all land not can be compared to having a day with him. The pleasures that are at his right hand vastly exceed any ecstasy known to man. Know him, to be where he is, sit together in heavenly places, is more than life itself. Serving, be guided by it, come and go according to its mandate, is to live life at its highest level.
Do I remember you being a child and not a servant? Then I also gently remind him that Jesus was a Son, who "being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant and the likeness of men "(Philippians 2:6-7). He may have been as powerful Prince of the Most High, destroying all enemies, however, Christ chose to come as a servant, totally committed to his Father's business.
this dedicated servant we read in Exodus, I thought I had one mission in life, and this was to serve his master. He was not looking for the inheritance, although it is written, "A wise servant shall be imposed unworthy son, and the brothers share the inheritance" (Proverbs 17:2). The love that had made him follow easily from morning till night, every moment he was awake, he lived in voluntary servitude to his master. He was driven only by love - not guilty, nor sense of obligation. No wonder Jesus could say, "If you love me, obey me."
God's ways seem to be paradoxes for the human mind. He says, "For life, you die. To find your life, you lose. To be safe, you must first be weak. "
Of all the paradoxes, one of the biggest is this:" To be truly free, must be tied. " To achieve the highest freedom in God, one must terminate all their rights and become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ for life. There is a glorious slavery of love that leads to the highest form of freedom and liberation. It is a voluntary submission born of love and affection which in turn causes one to consider the above to be considered bonded child.
At a time when God's people are obsessed with claiming their rights and focused on the Lord's blessings and benefits, would be of great benefit to allow the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to see a place in God that is more Beyond all that we have discovered so far. It is in perfect divine order to receive all good things come from the hand of God and no child of God should feel guilty for the blessings and benefits bestowed upon him.
But we need to see that there is something better than blessings and prosperity, something much more rewarding than all the other benefits he gives us daily.
A servant is someone who has entered into a sacrament of service to his master. This is beautifully described in the following scripture:
"If buy a Hebrew servant, six years will do, but the seventh will go free, for nothing. If he came alone, just leave if he were married, his wife go out with him. If his master gave him a wife, and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and children shall be her master, and leave alone.
But if the servant says: 'I love my master, my wife and my children do not want to go free,' then his master shall be brought before the judges, leaning against the door or to the post, and bore his ear through with an awl. That will serve him for ever "(Exodus 21:2-6).
This passage is much more than a representation of what God lays on the servants and masters. Here is clearly set Jesus Christ as servant.
Christ is the master in this passage and we are the slaves whose freedom has been purchased. The cross is the sabbatical year of freedom for all prisoners, captives, slaves, and servants, and us who were sold under the Act, have been released for the fun!
We have been freed from sin but we are servants to Christ for eternity and by choice.
"But we all with unveiled face looking and reflecting in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed from glory to glory in his own image, the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18). We become what we see! The focus of our attention spreads its influence throughout our lives. What we see with our spiritual eyes, haunts us - takes over! Paul chose to be obsessed with Christ. El Salvador became the sole object of his thoughts, his preaching, his teaching. "For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2). He kept his eyes on the head and body and not of the same problems.
God's desire for us is that we dress with the presence of Christ. Do you want victory over sin and be rid of all the power of the enemy? Then pray diligently for a demonstration of the presence of Christ. If you do seriously, loving eyes of Christ will melt and will take you to a place of brokenness and contrition.
That same gentle presence of the Lord will become the heart and life of his own soul. You do not want to leave His presence. You will lie on your arm and all fear disappear and will be replaced by a break and a perfect peace. Coated glorious power of His presence, you can confront sin and Satan. The Word of God promises, "He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and will not erase his name from the book of life, I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels" (Revelation 3:5).
The church is in the last days as "a woman clothed with the sun ..." (Revelation 12:1). This is Christ, our white dress! We have put on Christ and we are abiding in His presence above all principalities and powers.
Actually this is not complicated. In fact, we can summarize in four words: STAY CLOSE TO JESUS! Live in his presence and by faith take a seat next to him in the heavenly places. Contémplelo while he remains at the right hand of the Father for his own benefit and nothing can be a hindrance. You will be above all and as Stephen, you can include it in heaven (see Acts 7:56).
"Your right hand, Jehovah, has magnified their power. Your right hand, Lord, has crushed the enemy "(Exodus 15:6).
While some Christians know they have been forgiven and saved, they lack the have the power to fight against the flesh. They have come to the knowledge of "full release" of his sinful nature. Christians, for their blood he saved us with his mighty hand and breaks the power of sin over us. Certainly sin still dwells in us, but it does not govern us!
"Freed from slavery by the power of his hand." What word is so encouraging in this time of disappointment and super-human effort to deliver the power of sin! However, we are still so reluctant to recognize the handiwork of God. It goes against our pride, our sense of justice, our theology, to accept the truth that our liberation from the dominion of sin comes from a power alien to us. Look at the example of Israel: Israel went armed, but all the battles were the Lord. "The Lord saves not with sword or spear, because the Lord is the battle" (1 Samuel 17:47). It was written in Exodus that "... the children of Israel went out with a mighty hand" (14:8). And they sang praises to God after having passed safely through the Red Sea.
blood saved Israel from the divine view, but the mighty hand of God delivered power of meat. They had experienced security and had rejoiced in it. Now they need power! Power to dispose once and for all the old enemy and be able to arm themselves against the new enemies to come. That power is in the hand of the Lord powerful and sublime.
We have been given precious and great promises which have surpassed those that were given to Israel. God has promised to deliver us from all unrighteousness and sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, free from the dominion of sin.
But first we must learn to hate the sin - do not make promises or commitments with him. Treat your sin, play with him, leave to remain, refusing to demolish - and one day become the subject more painful in life.
not pray for victory over the sins of the flesh until you have cultivated a hatred for them. God does not tolerate our excuses and our appeasement. Are you enslaved by a secret sin that causes anxiety and agitation, both physically and spiritually? Do you hate with a passion? Do you feel the holy wrath of God against sin?
Until you do, victory will never come.
Blood Christ cleanses from all sin - it is our atonement. But above all, is our security. It's the way God makes sure to have a people ready to be fully released. Remember the night of Passover, the Israelites were saved but had not been released yet. They still had to face a Red Sea, a desert, a war against giants, imposing city walls, and some enemy strongholds.
I am convinced that fight before postestades and principalities, to be able to resist passions and temptations (our giants today), I have learned that to be covered by the blood I'm sure. Therefore, despite not being fully released, I am safe from the trial. The enemies of the flesh await me threatening, but the blood has made me a soldier safe.
You can not fight giant down strongholds, or face overwhelming circumstances unless you have absolute certainty of being covered with blood. No matter what I say my heart, no matter how I feel guilty or condemned, no matter the voices that whisper me, I should know, without doubt, I am saved! I will not go to trial because the blood on the door of my heart keeps me safe in His sight.
We're always doubts about our safety. If God had based our security in the love we have or our good deeds, we would be in greater danger than those who have broken the law because under grace there is a higher demand. God must take away our security hand so that it is based solely on his mercy and his grace. A segurirdad not based on our devotion, or obedience, or our goodness - but only in His mercy. Obedience and devotion are the result of our love for Christ.
It was the unleavened bread that saved the people of Israel but the blood. No Israelite "was in and out" protection of any personal failure. All were safe until it became the trial. Obedience was to put the blood on the doorframe. To us we are called to confess and trust in the atoning blood of Christ.
was never God's intention that His children live in fear, anxiety or guilt. He has prepared for them a break, the perfect and absolute safety of the blood of his beloved Son. With this act of grace, God was saying to Israel, "Now you see that I have secured and out of fear I believe I let free their bodies. I gave that assurance to make them saints. "
The unalterable fact is that there is not something that can be added to the blood of Christ to make us safer. The blood protects us making perfectly acceptable to God and escape their wrath. The apostle Paul says, "Much more, having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath" (Romans 5:9).
I'm being guided by the Holy Spirit to write to you about opening doors are closed. Anyone reading this can relate immediately to this because it is dealing with one or more closed doors. Is there front of you, a door that appears to be continually closed. It can be a serious financial situation and to which you have prayed that a door that gives solution to your problem is open. But everything that you try to do seems to fail, the doors are simply not open.
I do not know what your camera, but for many it appears that the doors and windows of heaven are closed. The skies seem to be of bronze and you can not seem to penetrate. This closed door to which I refer is a problem, a situation, a need that has been praying a lot. It may be a crisis that requires nothing less than a miracle. And you has not yet received an answer to their fervent prayers and petitions to the Lord has made.
In Revelation, Christ refers to himself as he opens and closes doors (3:7). This was in a letter to the believers of the old Philadelphia, a church that the Lord commended for keeping his word and never deny his name. That is, in the hardest times, these people remained faithful to the Word of God. They did not accuse the Lord of neglect or a deaf ear to their cries.
Obviously, Satan had to come to them with lies. His principalities and powers of darkness, lying spirits emerged from the bowels of hell say that God has closed all doors, that he is not worthy of worship or faith. But these believers, of whom Jesus said he had little strength, kept hoping, waiting patiently for God placed the key in the door open. He holds the key to every door closed - and only he sets before us the gates open.
Here is what the Lord promised to them and this is also our promise
"Because thou hast kept the word of my patience [no you gave during your trial], I keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on earth "(3:10).
this hour of trial is upon us. Brings incredible test of faith so big and so strong that many will fall into mortal disbelief. Indeed, now the world is a big drop of that faith strong.
But you - because you still trust your promises, and is willing to die in faith, even if you do not see the promises fulfilled - you will be saved from the temptation to come upon the whole world to fall into disbelief . God heard their cry and he knows the time, the same time it opens all doors. So never give up. Never doubt. Remain firm in your promises. He will not fail.
I have a short message for those who are experiencing a painful situation and overwhelming. I'm not speaking to those who now enjoy some time off after suffering, who are not under pain or sorrow. Thank God for those times of quiet and rest.
I get a large number of letters of precious followers of Jesus, who are living with deep sentences and incredible crisis: divorce, children on drugs or in prison, the death of a spouse. A woman who is so in love with Jesus has just lost her three children who suffocated in a fire. A shepherd grieves for his wife who left him and their children for a lesbian lover. There are many godly people are overwhelmed with grief and pain.
I have a message for you who are suffering pain and sorrow, you are living with regret and pain. In Psalm 40, David cried, "I have been surrounded by innumerable evils ... Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver: the Lord make haste to help me" (Psalm 40: 12-13). "Rejoice and be glad in you all who seek you ... But I am poor and needy, Lord thinketh upon me. My help and my deliverer art thou, my God do not delay "(40: 16-17).
I've been so blessed and comforted by this line in verse 17: "Lord thinketh upon me." Imagine that. The Lord God who created all things, the God of this universe is thinking about me.
Even now, at this very hour, his thoughts are about you, in your hour of need.
When Israel was captive in Babylon, lamenting the loss of homes and families, enduring grief and trouble, God sent word through Jeremiah: "For I know the plans I have for you saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11). God told his people, "Your nightmare will end. I have only good, loving thoughts toward you, and if you seek me with all your heart, you will find me "(see Jeremiah 29:11-13).
God is not angry with you. Saintly persons afflicted, so do not waver in their confidence in him. In times of stress and feelings of loneliness and sorrow, pray. Spill your heart to the Lord. He is thinking of you - and he is working for you.
As I read Psalm 13 I saw the need to send a few words of encouragement I received personally from this blessed chapter.
David wrote the words in this Psalm. He asked, "How long Lord will you forget me? Is it forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long resguardaré sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? "
David's words seem to indicate that he felt abandoned by God to the suffering and to awaken each day with a black cloud over his head. For a while David spoke with despair, "God, do I have to always this feeling of isolation? When will my prayers answered? "
When troubles assail us, although we know the love of the Lord - when our freedom seems distant and hopeless - we sink to the stress generated by these conflicts. Right now someone is reading these words. is falling apart by the terrible pressure generated by a situation that seems hopeless. That person is on the verge of total despair waiting for a momentary calm that gives temporary relief to your test.
In her own trouble, David asked, "How long will continue to uphold my soul?" He had devised a plan after another, trying to find a solution to your problem - but all his plans, all his arrangements had failed. Now he no longer had ideas, or any solution that worked. He had reached the end of everything.
How disconcerting is starting to see a ray of hope, a little light, and suddenly return despair. Keep in mind that all this happened to a devout man, someone who wanted to please the heart of God. David was a man who testified have great confidence in the Lord. But, like us, David went through hard times, as described in this Psalm.
How David got up from this pit of despair? "But I have trusted in thy mercy ... sing to the Lord."
Let share with you reasons to continue to trust in God while going through their problems:
• No matter how strong the storms, our precious Lord will still be feeding the fowls of heaven, wearing the lilies of the field, and supplying an ocean full of fish of their daily needs. "Your heavenly Father feeds them ..." Not one bird falls to the ground without the Father's eye is on it.
• What kind of Father would feed all the creatures of land and neglect their children? Jesus exhorted us to "not worry" by the needs and everyday problems, "because he cares for us."
Truly the Lord loves, and he will not turn a deaf ear to their cries. Hold on to your promises. Go forward in faith. Wait for it patiently. He never let you down.
Somebody reading this, you need Jesus to touch. When the Lord ministered here on earth, he healed and restored to the afflicted by simply touching them. When Jesus touched Peter's mother, "the fever left her." He touched the coffin of a young died and he returned to life. Jesus touched the blind eyes and they could see. He touched the ear of a deaf, and he could hear. Parents brought their children to Jesus to touch them. " His gentle touch changed everything. Multitudes brought their sick, and Jesus took the time to reach out, touch them, heal them.
If you truly know the Lord intimately, you have known and felt the touch of the hand of Jesus. In times of loneliness, times of discouragement in times of confusion, so painful and uncertain times, you cried from the depths of his soul: "Lord Jesus, I need your touch. I need to feel your presence. See Jesus and touch my thirsty soul. "
Some need a touch of Jesus on their minds. Satan has come with his evil principalities to harass and burden the mind with thoughts that are hellish - unbelieving thoughts, thoughts that do not make us like Christ, fearful thoughts, thoughts of unworthiness, thoughts of God's displeasure. Honest believers will tell you they have experienced these attacks on their minds. Satan is determined to destroy our faith and dependence upon the Lord.
In the Scriptures, touch of Jesus came in response to a clamor. There is no evidence that he ever rejected a lament. And he will not give back to him but mercifully respond to your needs. In Matthew 8 we read of a leper came to him saying, Lord, if you can make me clean. "Jesus reached out and touched him saying," I will, be thou clean. "" And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. "
Find a place alone with Jesus today and tell him what the leper said, "Lord, you can. Cleanse me. "Then the expectation is that no respecter of persons will touch and heal the mind, body, soul and spirit. The Lord's arm is outstretched to you but he waits for that cry of need, the cry for help that is also a cry of expectation.
"And the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage. And cry unto the Lord God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our labor and our oppression, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders , and brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey "(Deuteronomy 26:6-9).
God has given us an infallible promise for life on this earth. He says that when our enemy tries to crush us, "My people know my name on that day, because I myself I speak, I'll be here this" (Isaiah 52:6). In other words, God says, "When you're in your darkest test, I'll come and speak a word. Hear me say, 'I, Jesus, your Savior. Do not be afraid '. "
In Matthew 14, the disciples were inside a boat during a storm, being whipped by the wind and waves. Suddenly, the men saw Jesus walking toward them on the water. The Scriptures say, "And the disciples saw him walking on the sea, were troubled, saying: A ghost! And they cried with fear "(Matthew 14:26). What did Jesus at that time for fear unfounded? "But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer, I'm not afraid! (14:27, italics mine).
I have wondered why Jesus used these words in particular, "Take courage." Why what would you say these words to people who thought they were going to die?
The word translated "spirit" means "to be relieved, happy, freedom from fear." And here in the first trial of the disciples, Jesus tied the word to their identity. Remember, these men knew him personally. And he expected them to act in faith according to his word. He was saying, "The Father has promised that I will come to you during the storm. It is written, 'Therefore my people shall know my name on that day, for myself I speak, I'll be here this' (Isaiah 52:6). Now I come to you in your storm. I, Jesus, here with you in the middle of everything. So, take courage, be glad. "Likewise, our Savior expects to have the same reaction of faith in our times of difficulty.
God has always wanted a people who walk completely dependent on him in the eyes of the world. So he took the insignificant little nation of Israel and isolated in a desert. He placed it in a series of tests in order to produce a people who trust him under any circumstances. God wanted Israel could testify, "I can pass any test, any difficulty, even those that go beyond my abilities. How? I know my God is with me on each occasion. He carried me across. "
Consider the statement of Moses to Israel:" [God] humbled you, made you go hungry "(Deuteronomy 8:3). God was saying, "I orchestrates your test. It was the devil. I had all the bread and meat would need. I was ready to send it the sky at any minute. Everything was stored, waiting to receive him. But I kept it for a while. I did this for a period. He was waiting for you max out your unit yourself. I wanted to bring to a crisis point where only I could deliver. I allowed you to experience the limits of your wits, a human impossibility. This would lead to a miracle of deliverance from me. "
Today the Lord is still looking for people who depend entirely on him. He wants a church to testify both in words and actions that God is all powerful for them. He wants to see a lost world he works powerfully for those who love Him.
Job said, "He know my way: if you test me, come forth as gold "(Job 23:10). Here is an incredible statement, especially when we consider the context in which Job said. Job
suffered one of the worst trials that a human being could happen. She lost all her children in an accident, then his wealth and possessions were gone. Finally, Job lost his physical health. All these things happened in a short period of time and therefore, we were greatly overwhelming.
However, God had placed on that road Job. And only the Lord knew where it would eventually. The plan was so divinely God orchestrated that even allowed Satan to afflict Job. Job's why I could not see God in anything that happened: "If I go forward, I find, if the West, not discover. If he shows his power in the north, I do not see, nor do I see if it is hidden in the south. Plus he know my way "(Job 23:8-10).
Job was saying, "I know that God knows what I'm enduring. And he knows the way to go. My Lord is testing me right now. And I am confident he will bring me out the other side and I will have a stronger faith. Come clean and purified, with a faith more precious than gold.
Nobody on earth can put in the ministry. They can give you a diploma from a seminar, can be ordered by a bishop, or receive a commission from a denomination. But the apostle Paul reveals the only source of true call to ministry: "I thank you strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, since, keeping me faithful, put me in the ministry" (1 Timothy 1:12).
What does Paul mean here when he says that Jesus was strengthened and had the faithful? Think of the time the conversion of the apostle. Three days after that event, Christ put Paul in the ministry - specifically in the ministry of suffering: "For I will show how much he must suffer for my name" (Acts 9:16). This is the ministry to which Paul refers when he says, "Therefore, having this ministry ..." (2 Corinthians 4:1). He continues adding, "... as we have received mercy, we faint not." He is talking about the ministry of suffering. And he makes clear that it is a ministry we all have.
Paul is saying that Jesus gave a promise for this ministry. Christ promised to be faithful and to strengthen it through all its trials. The Greek word equivalent to enable means "a continuous supply of strength." Paul says, "Jesus promised to give me more strength I need for the road. He enabled me to stay faithful to the ministry. Thanks to him, I do not give up on me swoon. I emerge with a witness. "
A transfiguration is happening in our lives. The truth is that we are changed by what haunts us. We become like the things that occupy our minds. Our character is being influenced and impacted by what has captivated our hearts.
I thank God for every person who feeds your mind and your soul with spiritual things. Such servants have set their eyes on what is pure and holy. They keep their eyes on Christ, spending quality time worshiping it and built up in faith. The Holy Spirit is working in these believers to continually change its character to the likeness of Christ. These believers will be ready for hard and intense suffering to come. Believers lazy, careless and without prayer suffer heart attacks or depression. Their fears overwhelm because they have the Holy Spirit working in them, transfiguring. When hard times come, they just do not have the force.
Here is Paul's final word on this subject: "We do not give anybody any chance to stumble, that our ministry is not discredited. Rather, we encourage all ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in prisons ... as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich "(2 Corinthians 6 :3-5, 10). How "many rich? Shining into out the hope of Christ in the midst of our suffering. We offer true riches when we cause others to ask, what's your secret? Where can I find such peace?
Contentment was a great test in Paul's life. After all, God had said he would use greatly, "this is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel" (Acts 9:15). When Paul first received his commission, "We immediately began to preach in the synagogues, saying that this was the Son of God" (9:20).
Paul was in no hurry to see that all be fulfilled during his lifetime. He knew he had a promise from God immovable and clung to it. Paul was pleased at the site included ministers, a guard, a sailor, a few women on the banks of a river. This man had a world commission, but remained faithful to preach Christ individually.
Paul was not jealous of young men who seemed to pass. As they traveled the world by winning both Jews and Gentiles to Christ, Paul was in prison. He had to hear reports large crowds being turned by men with whom he had to contend about the gospel of grace. But Paul had no envy of those men. He knew that a man surrendered to Christ knows so much lowered as honor, "But great gain in godliness with contentment ... having food and raiment [clothing], and we are satisfied" (1 Timothy 6:6, 8)
The world today might have said to Paul, "You're at the end of your life now. You do not have savings or investments. All you need is a change of clothes. "I know what Paul's response had been:" Oh, but I won to Christ. Let me tell you, I am the winner. I found the pearl of great price. Jesus has given me the power to give everything and take it again. I've given everything and now a crown awaits me. I have only one goal in life: to see Jesus face to face. All the sufferings of this present time can not compare with the joy that awaits me. "