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Wednesday, July
9, 2008
Heads Up
Deuteronomy 28:12-13 The LORD shall open
unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in
his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend
unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. (13) And the LORD shall make
thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou
shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD
thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: (KJV)
It is the Lord’s desire that you are made
the head, Christ like, is another way of describing it. In order for one to
be a part of the body and be an imitator of Christ it is imperative that
they know who the Head is and how He operates. How about getting into His
head, the Bible says we have the mind of Christ, one that opens the eyes of
our understanding so that we can see beyond the veil of the flesh and into
the realm of the Spirit. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid
in Christ; that which is unseen to the carnal yet readily revealed to the
spiritual one.
Ephesians 1:17-23 That the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge of him: (18) The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And
what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe,
according to the working of his mighty power, (20) Which he wrought in
Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand
in the heavenly places, (21) Far above all principality, and power, and
might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world,
but also in that which is to come: (22) And hath put all things under his
feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (23) Which
is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (KJV)
God set an order to His church and how it
would operate. Christ is the Head of the Church, which you are, and which
He should be in order for you to access all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge that are in Him. So where do you go looking for your answer when
in time of need, do you seek first God’s take on how to handle things or
are you standing around the tail end getting soiled with man’s
interpretation of what they think and not what the Lord knows and what His
people should know? If God decided Christ is the right man to be the Head
of the Church isn’t it time you came into agreement with that plan as well?
After all we are either with Him or against Him, so if any man has not the
spirit of Christ and a working knowledge of Him then they are none of His,
which would put them in the position of antichrist, heading downward
instead of upward. Heads we win, tails we lose, and so does anyone that
tries to alter and change God’s plan of salvation or the order He put His people
in.
Acts 4:10-12 Be it known unto you all,
and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him
doth this man stand here before you whole. (11) This is the stone which was
set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. (12)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (KJV)
So many different names that mankind
comes up with, so many different denominations mankind tries to label God
with and put Him in their carnal boxes limiting Him according to their
carnal understanding and not the wisdom available to those in Christ. God
has narrowed His path and provided the one name that will lead to
salvation, that being Jesus Christ, while anything less leaves one in the
back of the line and on the outside. There is no other name under heaven,
this is it, the one name above all other names; one name will get you home and
to the Head while anything less will leave you dead. Are you using this
name so that you can go to the Head and access all God has for you or are
you trying some other path that will leave you short and stuck tail gating
another blind person heading for the ditch? One name, one Lord, one faith,
one Head of the Church, it all points to Christ because that is the way God
intended it to be so that you could partake of all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge that He has for His people.
Ephesians 5:23-25 For the husband is the
head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the
saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ,
so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. (25) Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for
it; (KJV)
What do you think life on earth would be
like if man just followed God’s simple plan of salvation and didn’t try and
alter what He put in place? Like the old song says, “what a wonderful world
this would be”. Again we see a simple order of what the Lord intended, just
as He did back in the book of Genesis a man and a woman is the only union
He blesses and acknowledges, while anything else and they are on their own,
outside the realm where He blesses. So with all this talk going around
about alternative lifestyles, the only thing being alternated is a lie for
the truth, which if continued will result in hell instead of heaven, an
alternative God did not intend for His people. God is not the author of
confusion but of peace. So if you desire the peace of God in your life then
you need to come into agreement with His plan of salvation and the order He
set for His church.
1 Corinthians 12:18-21 But now hath God
set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. (19)
And if they were all one member, where were the body? (20) But now are they
many members, yet but one body. (21) And the eye cannot say unto the hand,
I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of
you. (KJV)
If God set the members and the order of
His body of believers in a way that is pleasing to Him then who are we to
tell Him different? Our physical bodies can be amputated and certain parts
cut off in order to live, but once you cut the head off it’s all done, and
death will be the result. Given the fact that the spiritual realm is so
much greater than the physical one, would it not do you well to heed to the
word of God so that you don’t cut off the Head of the Church from your life
and end up dead also? Heads up people, our salvation draws near, keep
looking above and you won’t get so entangled with the things below, things
below God’s standards.
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