The HOLY FIRE of GOD

THE HOLY FIRE

Commentary by Samson7able

One receives the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT when one repents and is Baptized.  It burns within the person as a HOLY FLAME which gives Light and Life. 

As one walks with The LORD JESUS CHRIST, obeying His+ Voice and keeping His+ Words, this HOLY FLAME burns brighter and brighter. 

The HOLY FIRE

THE HOLY FIRE
By Samson7Able
One receives the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT when one repents and is Immersed / Baptized. It burns within the person as a HOLY FLAME which gives Light and Life.

DELIGHT in AGREEMENT with The LAW+ INCARNATE !

O, HOW I LOVE THY LAW+ !

ADVENT MEDITATION

2016

JESUS CHRIST

/ Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+

The Law Incarnate+

 … Versus …

[ "Now I'm saved; I can sin all I want to." ]

GOD FORBID!

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  But the hour cometh,

and now is,

when the true worshippers

shall worship The FATHER

in Spirit and in Truth:

for The FATHER seeketh such

to worship HIM.

GOD is a Spirit:

and they that worship HIM

MUST

worship HIM in

Spirit and in Truth.

The Words of Our LORD,

John 4: 23-24

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His+ DELIGHT sits upon us

when we agree

in Spirit and in Truth

with The FATHER. 

Here is a Divine Law, the Law of Acceptable Worship of The ELOHIM.

The FATHER seeks those who will worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth, Scripture tells us. 

Human beings cannot make

their worship

"acceptable" to GOD

in any other way.

Unless we come to HIM in Truth and in the Spirit, our worship will simply NOT count.

What  is Truth ?

someone in history

once asked The LORD. 

The Law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by JESUS CHRIST/ Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+ .  So, we know TRUTH when we know JESUS / Y'SHU+. 

How do we know CHRIST / The M'SHIKHA+ ?

We know CHRIST / The M'SHIKHA+ when we OBEY HIM+.  When we love our neighbor as ourselves. When we turn the other cheek and go the 2nd mile ... following all examples laid down for us by The LAW+ INCARNATE. 

What counts as "obedience" ? 

Obedience hurts. Obedience COSTS us something … when we do it the right way. Obedience goes AGAINST our flesh, our natural man. Obedience involves self-denial.

Obedience counts when we follow Our LORD to the Cross.  We pick up our Cross in order to follow His+ Law of submission, making our flesh "mind" the Law of the SPIRIT instead of the law of Self and self-indulgence.

Worldly people know how to deny their flesh, also. 

Many  souls work many hours a week, denying their flesh in many ways in order to achieve something they want ... usually something in this world. Houses, lands, bank accounts, careers, positions, fame.
  

All these things require an extraordinary amount of self-denial until they are achieved.
 

SO …

what is the difference

between denying the flesh

for the world's goods

versus

denying the flesh

for CHRIST JESUS /

 Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+ ?

The difference is CHRIST / the M'SHIKHA+ Himself+. HE+ intervenes for His+ Followers  in the situation requiring obedience and self-denial. 

As the Followers of JESUS / Y'SHU+ turn the other cheek, return good for evil, deny Self, The LORD is pleased with this kind of obedience. HE+ involves Himself+ in the equation, to the good of the Obedient Followers. 

All things --- yes, ALL THINGS --- work to the good for the one who will obey CHRIST / the M'SHIKHA+.

HE+ will see to it HIMSELF+.

And we know that

all things work together for good

to them that love GOD,

to them who are the called

according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

JESUS / Y’SHU+ takes the sting

out of obedience ! 

However, HE+ does NOT intervene for the disobedient.

They sow to the flesh. They may continue to deny their flesh  in order to achieve their worldly goals, but the consequences will bring death to their souls. 

If they ignore His+ Call to repent and come to HIM+, away from the world, they will die in their sins. They will drown in their worldliness. 

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Let us pray:

Dear Heavenly FATHER,

Hallowed be Thy Name, O HOLY FATHER, and the Name of Thy HOLY SON+, The LORD JESUS / Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+. 

I thank THEE+ for Thy Law, for giving forth the Divine Standard of Right, for teaching me what is wrong, and that Thy Standard does not change. 

And, I thank THEE+ for the Divine Example Who+ went before us. 

So many times I have not wanted to obey Thy Word.  I thought it would bring me more pain and sadness if I obeyed. Correct my thinking, O CHRIST / M'SHIKHA.

Help me to see Thy+ Hand of chastening in the obediences THOU+ hast called me to do. I humble my willful Self, LORD, in order to have Thy+ Presence with me and Thy+ pleasure sit upon me.

I want to worship THEE+ in Spirit and in Truth; Thy Word is Truth. Amen

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In the Name of The FATHER,

Who created us;

And HIS HOLY SON+

 JESUS / Y'SHU+ ,

Who+ saves us;

And The Blessed HOLY SPIRIT

/ RUACH ha KADOSH,

Who sanctifies us.

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HE+ 's Coming ! HE+ 's Coming !

 Christmastide Meditation

Nativity and St. Jerome's Cave

Oh My+ Children! How often would I+ have gathered ye under My+ wings, but ye would not.  You wanted nothing to do with My+ ways, My+ values, but rather have chosen the world. 

With the world , then, you shall go. 

Have I+ not told you to FORSAKE the ways of the world and come and be full time for My+ Kingdom?  To spend your days full time WITH ME+ ... and ye would not ? 

Have I+ not told you to make NO PROVISION for the flesh... but instead, ye have made plenty... to live a life-style far above My+ Presence ? 

Have I+ joy in half-step obedience ? Have I+ joy in your following the example of other "good Christians" ... yet not following MY+ Example ? 

I+ had no pillow for My+ head; you have several. 

I+ had no animal to ride; you have two vehicles. 

I+ had no silver or gold; ye have both. 

FOCUS your heart upon ME+, 

not upon things of this world. 

Lay up, lay up for yourselves TREASURES IN HEAVEN; no moth nor man can steal those. Your treasures in Heaven, committed unto ME+ will give you the best return of any investment you could make in the Mammon fields.

For Mammon is about to fail. 

All will fall with it, whose hand is upon it.  

Mammon will not keep you;

 I+ will. 

And I+ say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Luke 16:9


Invest your treasures in Heaven; divest your keepings for the Eternal Habitations. You cannot out-give ME+. 

Be prepared for My+ Coming. 

Few were prepared for my first Advent. Fewer still are prepared for My+ second. Hide yourself in ME+. Learn to live by My+ Voice. I+ will direct you. 

Prepare for My+ Coming. It will be soon... sooner than you think. 

O My+ children... My+ children !

Advent Meditation #21

Behold, The LAMB+ of GOD!

The soldiers... plaited a crown of thorns
and put it about HIS+ Head...

And the mercy of HIM is

unto generations of generations,

to the ones having feared HIM.

Luke 1:50 ( literal Gk)

Fear is the assurance that GOD is bigger than I am. Fear is the assurance that I cannot hide my thoughts or motives from HIM.

Fear is the absolute assurance that HE is not going to excuse my disobediences just because HE loves me !

My parents loved me, but they exacted disciplinary measures when I needed to be corrected and WORDS were not bringing forth the desired obediences. 

HIS WORD does not always change us,

does it ?

His WORD will not change us if we refuse to be corrected by it. 

• If we refuse to line up our lives according to HIS WORD...
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• if we set at naught the instructions HE has written in His inspired Word...
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• if we think HE will set aside His written Word and not hold us to obeying it...
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• if we think HE will excuse us from following the words of The Living WORD+ made flesh...

... then we are headed for disciplinary measures.

Those measures will not be comfortable nor will they stop until the corrections are thoroughly in-grained in us and we have developed the proper fear of GOD. 

As a matter of fact, every facet, every group, in the entire Christian church system will not be excused for teaching as doctrines ANY THINGS that go against HIS WORD or HIS SON+ 'S Words. 

And, there are many. 

JESUS said, " .... Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 

" But I+ will forewarn you WHOM ye shall fear:  Fear HIM Who, after HE hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I+ say unto you, fear HIM."

Luke 12: 4, 5 and Mt. 10:28 

MEDITATION

Gracious and Most Merciful GOD, Our FATHER, extend Thy mercy unto me.

I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.

I have ignored Thy Word and refused to apply it to myself. I have refused to be changed by Thy Word and lightly tossed it aside.

I have done the things I ought not to have done and did not do the things I should have done, and there is no righteousness in me.

Behold, THOU desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part THOU shalt make me know wisdom, which begins with the fear of THEE, O GOD.

O LORD, I call upon Thy mercy to wash me so that I shall be whiter than snow... then the bones which THOU hast broken may rejoice.

Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy SPIRIT from me. Create in me a clean heart, O GOD, and renew a right spirit within me.

These things I pray in the Name of the Un-Blemished LAMB+ of GOD, Who+ taketh away the sins of the world.

Behold, The LAMB+ of GOD!

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