We have an immense responsibility! What are we doing here? Each and every one of us has a very short time on this earth. Don't you feel the eyes of Yahweh, the God of Israel, the God of creation watching you?
Proverbs
15:3
The eyes of Yahweh are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the
good.
Zechariah 4:10b
They
are the eyes of Yahweh, which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.
What do we stand for? What do you stand for? What do I stand for? There is no time left for fooling around any longer! All of us have to wake up, get smart, and outsmart!
Ephesians
5:13-18
But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for
whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep.
Arise from the dead, and Messiah will give you light." See then that you
walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time,
because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the
will of Yahweh is. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation [reckless
selfishness]; but be filled with the Spirit.
What is the will of Yahweh? His Word is His will! What does His Word say to do?
2
Timothy 4:1-7
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Yeshua
Messiah, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom:
Preach the Word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke,
exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching. For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because
they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will
turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you
be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist,
fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering,
and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the faith.
We are to be Messiah's representation on earth. We were given the gift of the holy spirit which completes us as human beings and children of God. How many times does the Word tell us to be wise? Yeshua Messiah of Nazareth, our Lord was smarter and wiser than his adversaries. That is why no one was able to gainsay against him. We are to be exactly like that:
Luke
6:40
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly
trained will be like his teacher.
Luke
21:15
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your
adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Matthew
10:16
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be
wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Matthew
10:19
But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what
you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak.
However...
2
Timothy 2:15
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.
There is no contradiction there. We are to study the Scriptures, rightly dividing the Word of truth; however, when you are in a situation, speak boldly, for the spirit will REMIND you of the Word!
John
14:26
But the Helper, the holy spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
the same will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things
that I said to you.
Where am I going with all this? I am trying to say that we believers have got to shake off our complacency, our lethargy, take a deep breath, get some oxygen in our brains, learn, grow and get smarter!
Luke
16:8b
...for the children of this world are in their generation wiser
than the children of light!
That was not meant to be a compliment! However, Yahweh meant to choose the unwise people in order to shame the wise. Now that we have been chosen, it is time to become wiser than the people of this world!
Matthew
11:25
At that time Yeshua answered and said, "I thank You, Father, Lord
of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent
and have revealed them to babes.
1
Corinthians 1:26-29
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise
according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise,
and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which
are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised
God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that
are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
All I am stressing here is that we all can use a mental upgrade. It is possible to become smarter. People have been shown in scientific studies to be able to actually improve their IQ score! Well, if people of this world can do it, how much more can the children of God?
James
1:5-8
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally
and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith,
with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed
by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from Yahweh;
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
It says, only with "no doubting..." Do you think you lack enough believing to receive more wisdom from God? Then you may ask for more believing! See for yourself:
Mark 9:23-24
Yeshua
said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord,
I believe; help my unbelief!"
Yeshua did help his unbelief, because the child was healed!
O.K. Let's say that you have now been transformed into a virtual genius! Now what? Fill your head up with information! Knowledge is power!
Hosea
4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you
have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because
you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Put the Word of God
on in your mind:
Romans
12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
Colosians
3:16a
Let the Word of Messiah dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching
and admonishing one another...
See how it said, "be not conformed to this world?" This is very relevant to our times today! With all this television garbage, and to a lesser extant magazines and movies, people's minds are turning to MUSH! Forget about the militant leftist, anti-religious, anti-Christian, immoral propaganda that is spewed out of those media outlets, think what it does to your physical brain. Forget about the fact that it encourages people to break up their families, and brainwashes people to hate authority, and makes fathers and husbands look like childish idiots, think about the "would be men" who are allowing themselves to turn into childish idiots by watching that manure day in and day out. That is not the way your heavenly Father wants you to live! He wants you to now be "transformed by the RENEWING of your mind." Renewed with what? With "the Word of Messiah," which is the whole Word of God!
O.K. Let's say that you have become a virtual genius and that you also got for yourself the Bible on CD or tape and you have been playing it in your car, at your home and at work for months and you have listened to the whole Word of God over and over and over again. Let's say that you have also been studying the Word for years anyway and that you have recently learned a ton of stuff that you never knew before, and that you have grown and that you are still growing spiritually and knowledgeably in leaps and bounds, now what?
Now go out there and be as wise as serpents, but, as gentle as doves, and preach the Word in season and out of season. Go out there and get into the fray, get your hands dirty with the work of Yahweh! Give the devil some hell! He gave you plenty. Are you going to let him get away with that? It wont be easy, they will hate you if you take any kind of stand at all, but let me tell you, God willing, your bold stand on issues may be able to help save marriages and families and the quality of lives of many children and many people. Do you know that Satan and his helpers go from house to house trying to break up families?
2
Timothy 3:1-9
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness
but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are
those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded
down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do
these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the
faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest
to all, as theirs also was.
Micah
7:2-6
The faithful man has perished from the earth, and there
is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait
for blood. Every man hunts his brother with a net, that they may successfully
do evil with both hands. The prince [politicians] asks for gifts, the judge seeks
a bribe, and the great man utters his evil desire; so they scheme together. The
best of them is like a brier! The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge!
The day of your watchman and your punishment comes. Now shall be their perplexity!
Do not trust in a friend! Do not put your confidence in a companion!
Guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom. For son dishonors
father, daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
a man's enemies are the men [people] of his own household!
Jerimiah
5:8
They were like well-fed lusty stallions; Every one neighed after his neighbor's
wife [Prophets often spoke in past tense concerning things in
the future].
Our society is SICK! When are we so called servants of God going to actually stand up for something and serve? I want you all to go house to house mending families by teaching the healing power of Yahweh's Word!
Peace!