Why HE+ Could Do Two More Miracles, After Feeding the 5,000 ~ Interactive LENTEN Meditation #12 ~ John 6: 15- 21

 

John 6:15- 21

Why Did They Follow JESUS ? ~ Interactive LENTEN Meditation #8 ~John 6: 1-4

 

John 6:1-3

After these things JESUS went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.  And a great multitude followed HIM+,  because they saw His+ miracles which HE+ did on them that were diseased. And JESUS went up into a mountain, and there HE+ sat with His+ disciples.

HIS EYES Are upon Us From CONCEPTION ! ~ ADVENT #21

What Did He+ Come Here TO DO ? 

The LORD JESUS came to show us

the WILL of HIS+ FATHER.

ASCENSION DAY !

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And 
no man 
hath ascended up to Heaven, 

but HE+ 
that came down from Heaven, 

even the SON+ of Man

which IS in Heaven ! 

Words of JESUS
before HE+ was crucified
and Resurrected, 

as recorded in John 3:13


Now that

HE+ 

ascended, 

what is it 

but that 

HE+

also descended 

first 

into 

the lower parts 

of the earth ? 

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HE+ 

that descended 

is the same also that ascended 

up far 

above all Heavens, 

that 

HE+ 

might fill all things. 

Ephesians 4: 9, 10

... Go to MY+ Brethren and say unto them,  

I+ ascend unto MY+ FATHER 

and your FATHER   

and to MY+ GOD 

and your GOD. 

John 20: 17b

...What and 

if ye shall see 

the SON+ of Man 

ascend up where 

HE+ 

was before ?

John 6:62

My Brethren, 

You watch all things temporal but you need to watch things in Heavenly places. Times are changing. Soon, life will not continue on as it has been. Times are changing.  Take heed, lest your heart be over-charged with surfeiting and entanglements of your temporal existence. It will be gone in an instant. 

You do not need new "THINGS;" rather, you need an intense focus upon ME+.

In the days coming, I+ AM the only ONE+ Who+ will be able to keep you safe.

Discard the frivolous, the superficial, the external.... all those things which distract you from ME+. Burn them or give them away. Only you, My+ Brethren, can draw close to ME+. It is not given to those outside of ME+ to be able to draw close to Our FATHER WHO art in HEAVEN. 

Draw close to ME+... close to ME+... to ME+.  

Passover Meditation #23 for the Lenten Season 2012

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Peter said:

And we,

we have believed

and have known that YOU+ are The CHRIST The SON+ of The Living GOD.

John 6:69 Green's Greek Interlinear

And Martha said:

Yea, LORD: I, I believe that

YOU+ are the CHRIST

The SON+ of GOD

which should come

into the world.

John 11:27 Green's Greek Interlinear

And JESUS said:

Truly, truly

I+ say to you,

the one

who hears MY+ Word

and believing

the ONE having sent ME+,

has Everlasting LIFE,

.

and does

not come into judgment,

. 

but has

passed out of death

into LIFE.

John 5:24 Green's Greek Interlinear

We believe The FATHER has sent HIS SON+, JESUS the CHRIST, into the world to give LIFE unto "whosoever will come" to HIM+.

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We come on His+ terms with a Godly sorrow that:

• leads unto  repentance 
• which leads unto conversion
• through to the sanctified waters of Holy Baptism
• that leads unto our New Birth from above into CHRIST... making us New Creatures in CHRIST.  

Henceforth, we live unto CHRIST and die unto Self, through the means of our cross and through the Power of His+ Cross. 

To those who come on His+ terms, this entity called LIFE totally changes. Not only do we become New but all of LIFE becomes new to us.

We learn to do all sorts of new things:

• love others because HE+ first loved us,
• associate with the Lowly because HE+ associated with us,
• hate evil that we see in ourselves, instead of hating our neighbor.

And when we do these things,which is our part to do, the promise of GOD is this:

• We pass out of JUDGMENT and into Eternal LIFE, like the greatest insurance policy ever written because it is SURE and CERTAIN to occur. 

The vital point, though, is this: GOD knows when we believe unto obedience of heart instead of with our mind only... or because our culture makes us "christian...." or because our church or community membership makes us "christian..." 

No mind only, no culture only, no church only , and no community only constitutes faith in His+ eyes.

HE+ wants your heart.

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HE+ will not accept a substitute.

HE+ will allow you to experience everlasting death if you don't offer HIM+ the real thing: your total heart. 

HE+ will not accept a substitute, a decoy, a hollow commitment, a phony , a part of your life; HE+ wants it all... just like HE+ gives all of His+ heart to you. 

And if you try to deceive yourself, pretending you have given HIM+ all of  your heart,  you will receive your part in the Lake of Burning Fire and the Second Death with the devil, the false prophet, the beast, the fallen angels... and all those who love and make a lie, those who reject His+ Lordship over their lives. You cannot deceive HIM+.  

 

...HE+ 

will  not accept

a substitute

for your heart.

Passover Meditation #22 for the Lenten Season 2012

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Then Simon Peter answered HIM+,

LORD,

to whom

shall we go?

THOU+

hast the words

of Eternal Life.

John 6:68

To Whom do we  go ?

We go to jobs, vocations, careers.  We go to schooling, education, classes, in-services, seminars, conferences, and training.

We go to the bank. ( That's why we go to schooling, careers, etc. ) We go to the store. ( ditto ). 

We go to reunions, parties, get-togethers, festivities, and many, many activities.   Sometimes we even go to church. 

Then, we go to the doctor, the dentist, the therapist, and oftentimes the masseuse. 

We go and go and go,

don't we ? 

To whom do we go ?

One thing is necessary: and Mary has chosen that GOOD part which shall not be taken away from her, Our LORD JESUS said.

What part ?

She sat at JESUS' feet because HE+ was her LORD.

She sat at JESUS' feet because HE+ filled her heart.

She sat at JESUS' feet because HE+ was her Life's breath and she

could not go on 

without being near to HIM+... constantly.

To whom do we go ?

  



Passover Meditation #21 for the Lenten Season 2012

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Then said JESUS

unto the twelve,

"Will you,

you also 

go away?"

John 6:67 Green's Greek Interlinear

The LORD'S sorrow was real. HE+ knew the hearts of men. HE+ knew their frame, their weaknesses. HE+ knew their vacillating wills...

HE+ still knows.

HE+ knew how easily they were swayed by their own thoughts and feelings, easily influenced by those around them.

HE+ still knows.

HE+ also knew exactly how abhorrent it would seem to the Jews to think of eating human flesh and drinking human blood. 

HE+ still knows how abhorrent dying to our Self is, how we don't want to join HIM+ in picking up our cross,  how we want HIM+ to do His+ part... and our part too!

Yet, Our LORD persisted in making the path harder, the door higher, the way more narrow for those coming to HIM+ for Eternal Life.

Will you also go away?

Countless others have.

Countless others have, from those who walked with HIM+ in person along with the twelve 2,000 years ago... much to their un-ending sorrow and constant bitterness now... to those who are playing fast and loose with HIM+ today, thinking they can repent fast on their death bed...  if they have a death bed, that is.

Will

you also

go

AWAY

?

Away... to count JESUS a stranger rather than friend... to count JESUS as someone to ignore, to take or leave until a more convenient time.

NOW is the day of Salvation,

while it is called TODAY.

Tomorrow is not promised
for anyone...
neither is a tidy,
orderly death bed.
( Sudden accidents happen daily.) 

Harden not your hearts

as in the day of provocation. 

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O LORD GOD, Who+ knows our weaknesses and our frame, look upon this Thy+ servant. I bring my Self, kicking and screaming, unto THEE+.

Dear JESUS, I don't want to be a stranger to you anymore. Help THOU+ my unbelief and rebuke the hindering spirit keeping me from THEE+. 

I will to close the gap , O Great REDEEMER+, because THOU+ hast promised to receive sinners and backsliders ... if they repent. I'm sorry I've hurt THEE+, dear JESUS.  

O LAMB+ of GOD I come... I come.

Passover Meditation #20 for the Lenten Season 2012

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From that time

many of His+ disciples went away

into the things behind

and no longer walked

with HIM+.

John 6:66

Green's Greek Interlinear

Look at that chapter and verse number: 6:66.  Does that strike fear into your heart? Look what some who loved HIM+, who ate His+ Bread and Wine, who were trained by HIM+ did:  they returned back to the things they once left behind for His+ sake. 

When they returned to the world .... the things and ways  they had once forsaken for CHRIST JESUS... then they no longer walked with CHRIST, the SON+ of the Living FATHER.

They no longer walked with The FATHER, who is  only  known by man through CHRIST, HIS Eternal SON+ and WORD+ .  

So, who DID

they walk with ?  

6  6  6

O GOD, WHO knows the end from the beginning, help me to be faithful. Help me never to return to my old way of life, like a dog to its vomit. 

Help me never to turn back to the world so that I "feel good" about myself... for a few short-lived points in time. 

I do love THEE+. I do not want to follow the devil nor 6 6 6, the number of man. 

I do NOT want to hear,

" Depart from ME+,

ye workers of iniquity; 

I+ never knew you."  

Have mercy on me, LORD JESUS. Help THOU+ my unbelief . Turn away from me the awful spirit of discouragement and strengthen my faith. This I ask as a needy, humble child, O GREAT REDEEMER +.

LORD, have mercy upon us.

CHRIST, have mercy upon us.

LORD, have mercy upon us...

And let not the enemy exact upon us.

Passover Meditation #18 for the Lenten Season 2012

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The SPIRIT is the ONE making life; the flesh profits not, NOTHING!

The Words which I+,

I+ speak

unto you

are Spirit

and are Life. 

John 6:63 Green's Greek Interlinear

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. (Psalm 94:11).  

Vanity... fantasy... emptiness... un-profitable...  useless... futile... the thoughts of man are fantasies... here today and gone tomorrow. 

Every person who has "fallen in love"  discoveres an end to that fantasy, sooner or later. "Love" , for the Christian soul, means taking Self to the Cross. 

Every person who buys a house or land, works a career, invests funds knows a certain amount of fear.  

Why?

Because EVERY LIVING PERSON knows these earthly things last for only a temporary amount of time.

Like youth.

Like health.

Like our bodies of clay.

The only thing that is NOT TEMPORARY is death. Our "changed state" lasts forever.  All else are subject to vanity, to fantasy.

A person wears fashionable clothes, buys the "in" vehicle and gadgets, and lives in a certain neighborhood.  

Why ?

To feed his fantasy of how great, knowledgeable, cute, or secure he is... in this world.

In whose eyes? Mankind? Nobody really cares, beyond a passing thought. His own eyes ? What good is a pile of chaff on Judgment Day ? 

All... yes, all... temporal things will eventually burn. All ashes look alike: the rich houses and the poor houses all look alike when reduced to ashes.

BUT... the Good News is there is a better way ! The LORD JESUS said.

His+ Words

are not simply marks

on  paper.

NO.

His+ Words are SPIRIT-filled... meaning, His+ Words have power to give Life, to feed your soul, to nourish your innermost being.

His+ Words are un-like any other words spoken on this planet.  His+ Words attract that hungry, empty heart like a powerful magnet. That hunger fastens itself with great gladness upon those Anointed Words because HE+ is there. 

HE+ can be found in His+ Words. His+ heart is revealed in His+ Words. His+ Life is shared through His+ Words. His+ Will is discovered through His+ Words. 

His+ Words... and His+ Words alone... are SPIRIT and they are Life.

O LORD JESUS, O THOU+ Who+ art the very WORD of GOD-Made-Flesh and dwelling  among us, bring forth in me New Life every day. I love THEE+ , LORD ; help me to attach myself to THEE+ , Who+ art Reality and Truth. 

Strengthen me to forsake all fantasy of this life, of my emotions, of my heart... all fantasies which have one thing in common: they pull me away from THEE+.

Bless my struggle, O LORD, and hear the cry of my heart. And, should I fainting be, LORD let me never, never outlive my love for THEE+.

Passover Meditation #17 for the Lenten Season 2012

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As

the Living FATHER hath sent ME+,

and I+ live

through The FATHER:

also ,

the one eating ME+,

even that one

will live

through ME+.

John 6:57 Green's Greek Interlinear

Want to be sent out by The FATHER ?

Then learn to live through HIM. 

The things you see your Heavenly FATHER do, you must do.

Haven't seen the Heavenly FATHER,

you say ?

Have I+ been so long time with you, and yet you have not known ME+, Christian ? He that hath seen ME+ hath seen My+ Heavenly FATHER, also.

Do you not believe that  I+ AM in The FATHER and The FATHER in ME+? The FATHER that dwelleth in ME+, HE doeth the works.

O LORD, I confess that I leave THEE+ out of so many parts of my life, out of so many decisions, out of so many reactions.  I see I control. I see I am headstrong. I'm going to live life "my" way... to my destruction and regret. 

Help me, O CHRIST, the Helper of the Weak, to release my life to THEE+ that I may become strong in THEE+. Help me , O SAVIOR, the Deliverer of the Poor, to learn to live through THEE+ so that I may become rich in THEE+.

Please help me not to live my life in futility and vanity, O CHRIST. Please send me forth as Thy+ Representative, as Thy+ Emissary  so that ~ without a word spoken ~  others may see THEE+ and be drawn unto THEE+. Then, my life will be worth living.

Passover Meditation # 15 for the Lenten Season 2012

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The one eating

of My+ Flesh

and drinking

of My+ Blood abides in ME+

and I+ in him.

John 6:56 Green’s Greek Interlinear

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Abides =

remaining UN-changing in a sphere or realm,

continuing...

Remaining in a fixed state,

stable ,

stays,

remains...

Continuously.

On-going.

In the present...

.

If ...

you join The LORD JESUS at the table of His+ death

daily...

partaking of HIM+,

uniting with HIM+

in His+ sufferings

(persecutions or discipline),

an amazing thing occurs:

You live instead of die !

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Slowly, another amazing happens: You find yourself stable, fixed, not tossed to-and-fro with torments.
.
Your pet fears back away.
.
Your besetting sins find no energy to lure you.
.
The fog clears and you can hear His+ leading and feel His+ nearness.

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Solid in CHRIST JESUS, you will actually be abiding in a house made of ROCK+ … the Rock+ of Ages. And that home is continuously on-going, in the present, secure and lively.

Simultaneously, a third thing occurs: Amazingly enough, The LORD of the Universe is so near that HE+ begins to abide in YOU ! You yourself provide a home for HIM+.

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Is your home “secure” for HIM+ ?

. 

Can HE+ trust there is a place

for HIM+ with you ?

.

A place where HE+ can abide

...without sorrow...

for what HE+ sees you doing,

saying, thinking, reacting ?

.
Is there Time in your home

to listen to HIM+

and His+ concerns ?

. 

Uncluttered Time 

to hear His+ heart?

. 

Is there quality Time

to have

heart-to-heart sessions

with HIM+ ?

.

Is your home quiet enough to sit with HIM+ in stillness, at times, without the hustle-bustle of every day chores constantly in the forefront, demanding more than their fair share of attention, and keeping a constant stream of interruption going ?

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Is it free of un-necessary commitments, ballgames, entertainments and other social activities that are not worth the distraction they cause, distraction that leads away from YOU+ ?

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O LORD, make my heart your home.

.

I’m sorry for the cluttered closets in my mind, the unclean rooms of my emotions, and the unruly atmosphere of constant activities abounding here.

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I’m sorry for yesterday’s meals lying about... the world still being savored in me... as well as the dirty laundry of incomplete repentances in my heart... my unkempt life, not ready for Your+ visitation.
. 

LORD JESUS, I want YOU+. I want YOU+ to come and find a home in my heart. Clean me up, LORD, and I will set my priorities according to YOUR+ will, this time. Thank YOU+ JESUS, my LORD.

Passover Meditation # 14 for the Lenten Season 2012

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Storms prevented posting on time but BLESS GOD, HE+ kept them from hurting us... just as HE+ said HE+ would do.

The one eating
of My+  flesh

and drinking of  My+ Blood

has Eternal Life

and I+,

I+

will raise him up at the Last Day.

John 6:54 Green’s Greek Interlinear.

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The Greek is pointed. The eating and drinking activities remain IN THE PRESENT and are CONTINUOUS, REPEATED, ON-GOING actions.

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The person continuously joining Our LORD at the table of His+ death --- doing the same things HE+ does: dying to Self to bring Life unto this world --- is doing so IN THE PRESENT.

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There is no pot of manna that can be kept from yesterday’s meal; it will turn wormy and putrid. (See Ex. 16:20).

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Likewise, there is no Living Bread that is effective from yesterday; you must join HIM+ anew every day at the cross … in order for you to have Life.

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And daily, then, you will taste a portion of that Eternal Life --- also in the present tense --- that is promised.

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Remember: CHRIST’S words here have NO past tense. It is not a one-time-then-finished activity. It is on-going every day.

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Meet HIM+ at the table of HIS+ death. Join HIM+ in the fellowship of His+ sufferings, and you will have Life… and Life abundantly.

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Just like HE+ said.

[ PS… If you are not suffering for CHRIST in the Persecuted Church, then join HIM+ “ in the fellowship of His+ suffering” by disciplining yourself with daily prayer-closet prayer times, fasting days, and seasons of Holy Silence.

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Do SOMETHING.

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Practice daily denying yourself pleasures, entertainments, and self-indulgences. Walk instead of nap, eat rice and beans instead of pizza’s and steak, drink water instead of cola’s, tea or coffee. If you do such denials already, then ask HIM+ what other things you can do to practice putting Self to death in these areas.

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Do SOMETHING.
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Dress somberly instead of like a flower-lily. Sisters, cover your heads and drop your eyes and watch your tone of voice in the home.

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Endeavor to keep a cheerful spirit for The LORD'S sake. 

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Attempt to keep the prayer stations even for 5 minutes and TEACH the youngsters at home to do the same. It will not upset your "important" schedule to at least read and recite a Psalm outloud at 9 a.m., noon, and 3 p.m.

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Do SOMETHING.

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Brothers, cover your bodies just as well and vest up. Watch your slang ( and GOD forbid, filthy talk or jesting ) when with your buddies and your attitudes in the home, likewise. Take that tongue to the cross and issue hearty thanksgivings instead of complaints. 

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Daily share with your offspring about The LORD, what HE+'s done for you, and question them about what HE+'s shown them every day. Then they will realize it is important to Dad; it must be important to GOD, also.

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Do SOMETHING.

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Do SOMETHING that curbs your desire to look cute to the world and acceptable to conservative America. Your dress and demeanor should give a silent VISIBLE witness that you are of CHRIST and NOT of this world so that everyone seeing you must receive a witness for CHRIST... whether he likes it or not. 

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Do SOMETHING to show which side you are on.

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Do SOMETHING, both private and public.

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Do SOMETHING

simply for the sake

of The LORD...

to show HIM+

you love HIM+.