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Thursday, May 28,
2009
Hot Or Cold
Hebrews 3:5-10 And Moses verily was
faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things
which were to be spoken after; (6) But Christ as a son over his own house;
whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the
hope firm unto the end. (7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if
ye will hear his voice, (8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,
in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (9) When your fathers tempted
me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. (10) Wherefore I was grieved
with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they
have not known my ways. (KJV)
When going through your Bible (as we have
this week) it becomes much more real and alive if you can see your own walk
and how spiritually you relate to the same situations that we see took
place all through it. This week we have been comparing Moses, representing
our new life in Christ, and Pharaoh as our old fallen nature which wanted
to keep the people of God in this bondage and not walking forward to the
promised land. As we see, it is up to us personally not to allow our heart
to become hardened by sin or by our lack of vision into the realm of the
Spirit; but now we must learn how to walk by our new Spiritual senses that
we have inherited in Christ.
John 12:39-40 Therefore they could not
believe, because that Esaias said again, (40) He hath blinded their eyes,
and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor
understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
(KJV)
Thayer’s New Testament definition
for ‘hardened’:
4456
poroo-
1) to cover with a thick skin, to harden
by covering with a callous
2) metaphorically:
a) to make the
heart dull
b) to grow hard,
callous, become dull, lose the power of understanding
When one becomes hardened they are
blinded by their carnal sight, and are no longer looking into the realm of
the Spirit or walking by faith. When you became born again you began a life
that is now based on your Spiritual senses, learning to walk more by faith
and not by your outward vision. Many begin with a hot burning desire the
serve our Lord, then it cools off as they look back to the flesh thinking
that what God began in them could be perfected by their own thoughts and
desires. In essence, if one chooses to walk in the Spirit then they have to
learn to ignore the desires of the flesh; however, when one chooses to
return back to the realm of the flesh they then ignore God’s desire for
them to walk in.
Galatians 3:1-3 O foolish Galatians, who
hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes
Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (2) This
only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith? (3) Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (KJV)
You know, the more you ignore the Lord
you can pretty much expect the same in return as well. Once you have made
that commitment with our Lord, similar to Pharaoh agreeing to let God’s
people go, there is or should be no going back again. As big and powerful
as Pharaoh appeared to be and thought he was, once he agreed to God’s terms
and conditions, and then decided that he was going to take matters in his
own hands, well in the end he was overwhelmed to say the least with the
consequences of his actions. You too have agreed to allow a new man within
you to be set free, to show you a new path and way of escape from this
present evil world, and it is up to you to follow through so that you can
make it to the intended destination that our Lord has for you.
Galatians 3:4-6 Have ye suffered so many
things in vain? if it be yet in vain. (5) He therefore that ministereth to
you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of
the law, or by the hearing of faith? (6) Even as Abraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him for righteousness. (KJV)
This path that you have chosen, are you
going to find your way by your carnal sight, or is it going to take insight
into the realm of the Spirit if you are actually going to make it home?
Revelation 3:15-17 I know thy works, that
thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. (16) So then
because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out
of my mouth. (17) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: (KJV)
Some people think that they have all the
answers, and that they have gotten to the point where they don’t think they
need God anymore. Just like with Pharaoh in the Old Testament, when the
heat is off for a season then they change their mind and the process of
disobedience starts all over again, which will eventually result in death
if not corrected. You definitely want the Lord to be confessing your name
before your Father and His angels, and acknowledged as one of His in the
end rather than having your name leave a bad taste in His mouth and being
spewed out.
Hebrews 5:11-12 Of whom we have many
things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. (12)
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach
you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are
become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. (KJV)
Hear ye, hear ye, hearing people, giving
ear to the voice of God and then following through with what He is asking
of you will keep your heart from hardening up and becoming dull and
useless. As quickly as a hardening of the arteries will shut you down
physically, the same premise holds true Spiritually. God bless and stay
hot.
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