JESUS GEKRUISIG – DIE KRAG EN WYSHEID VAN GOD.

JESUS GEKRUISIG – DIE KRAG EN WYSHEID VAN GOD.

 Broers en Susters

Gisteraand 25/5 toe ek gaan slaap en vanmôre toe ek wakker word, openbaar God weer opnuut en akuut aan my die volgende.

GOD, ONS VADER

GOD is ‘n ware VADER, heilig, regverdig, liefdevol, net goed, rein, voel ook soos ons pa’s oor ons kinders, ens. Hy is jaloers op ons liefde, eer, respek, aanbidding, gehoorsaamheid, ens.

Hy kan sonde nie aanskou en verdra nie.

As ons sonde doen en eerder na Satan en self luister of eerder Satan, self en die wêreld liefhet, ervaar Hy geweldige deurborende, krenkende, verbryselende en dodende pyn. Daardeur word Hy doodgemaak in ons harte en lewens.

Hy het toe self aarde gekom en deur die vervulling van die Skrifte, sy kragte en wonders kom bewys dat dit HY is. Jesus Christus was Sy Eniggeborene wat in sy boesem IS. Hy en die Vader is EEN.

 Hy het vir EEN rede gekom, as Messias, Verlosser, om die Skrifte te vervul nl. om die kop van die Slang te verbrysel, om ons van ons sondes te verlos, om ons waarlik vry te maak van alle sonde, om die werke van die duiwel te verbreek, om ons van alle sonde te reinig, om ons oorwinning oor die Satan te gee, om vir Hom weer ‘n volk te reinig en te heilig  – ywerig in goeie werke.  

 HOE?

Hy het toegelaat dat die mensdom Hom in hulle hande neem en met Hom doen soos hulle wil en dat al hulle sondes op Hom val en Hom pynig, wond en deurboor en vermoor – soos dit in elk geval aan Sy hart en Gees en hulle naaste gedoen het. Wat ons aan die geringste gedoen het, het ons aan HOM gedoen. As ons Sy Woord breek, breek ons HOM. Nou kan ons almal self SIEN met ons menslike en vleeslike oë en VERSTAAN wat sonde waarlik is en aan Hom doen.

 Toe staan Hy op uit die dood om weereens te bewys dat Hy God is. Nou sit Hy aan die regterhand van God om die duiwel en vyande onder Sy voete te verbrysel en die sondaars te oordeel wat aangehou het om dit aan Hom te doen en wie hul nie bekeer het daarvan nie.  

 HOEKOM DIE KRUIS?

Om ons terug te wen van ons liefde vir sonde, self, die wêreldse afgode en Satan – anders gaan ons almal hel toe. Die loon van ELKE SONDE is die doodstraf omdat dit GOD martel en vermoor in ons harte. Om sonde in die vlees totaal en volkome te veroordeel en sonder enige verskoning te laat.

 WAARTOE?  

As ons met diepe berou erken en bely dat elke sonde dit aan Hom doen en Hom laat bloei en sterf het- en ons daarvan bekeer, sal Hy ons vergewe, verlos, reinig, was, vrymaak van daardie sonde en as ons dit volhardend en getrou doen, sal Hy ons volkome verlos, reinig, regverdig en heilig maak deur ons met SY EIE HEILIGE GEES te vul. Dan is ons WARE KINDERS VAN GOD, UIT HOM GEBORE, WAT NIE SONDE DOEN NIE en nie MEER KAN DOEN NIE m.a.w. ons KAN net nie meer met sonde aangaan nie. Dit MOET STOP!!

 ALTERNATIEF:

As ons aanhou met sonde, of dit verskoon, ignoreer en nie met ware diepe berou erken dat ons Jesus deurboor en gemartel en vermoor het met elke sonde nie en ons nie bekeer nie, SAL ONS SKULDIG BLY AAN DIE LIGGAAM EN BLOED VAN JESUS EN ‘N EWIGHEID IN DIE HEL DAARVOOR BOET. Sonder ‘n heilige lewe sal ons Hom aanhou deurboor en sal ons Hom nie sien nie.

 As ons dit nie verkondig nie maar ander dinge praat, dan verwyder ons die struikelblok van die kruis en is daar geen krag en wysheid van God om te red in ons woorde nie. Ons is dan ook medepligtig aan Sy wonde en vermoording.

 SELA EN SELA

As jy ‘n oor het wat kan hoor, LUISTER TOG ASB!

Faan

 

 

Ps 24 and the CROSS OF JESUS - ONTO REVIVAL.

Ps 24 and the CROSS OF JESUS - ONTO REVIVAL.                                                                              

 

Dear Brothers,

 Here is some advice, help and way out of slavery to sin to fulfill the requirements of Ps 24.

Ps. 24 says and Patrick preached clearly on it: We CANNOT enter God’s presence and we CANNOT stand before Him if we do not fulfil His requirements as in Ps. 24. We need clean hands and holy hearts and no idols, no lies and no evil words.

If you now diligently try to do this, you will find you cannot attain to that  – even if you confess and repent and make restitution of all your sins. The Jews did it diligently AND sacrificed – but their hearts could not be cleansed and delivered and sanctified - that sin may stop. They sinned over and over again and had to sacrifice over and over. I also tried for many years EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE to be saved to the uttermost and be set free from sin and be sanctified – but realized I needed something supernatural from God. I needed to be BORN FROM GOD with a totally new heart and mind in order to live that standard. I was not satisfied to sin and confess over and over and over. A truly pure and clean heart WILL NOT produce bad fruit or bitter water – as Jesus said. If sin still pops out, it comes from an evil heart, still needing deliverance. Jesus said Whilst I sin, I remain a slave of sin. Then I am disqualified to enter His holy presence. I tried EVERYTHING to get clean hands and a pure heart, and clean tongue but I always found they remained dirty. I literally experienced Rom 7. The harder I tried, the more conscious I became of my utter sinfulness.

If we were able to obtain clean hands and a pure heart by confessing and repenting, then there would have been no need for Jesus to come and die on the cross.

I could read that Jesus was specifically sent to save us from our sins, to set us free indeed, to destroy the works of the devil, to save us to the uttermost. If He did it in me, THEN my hands and heart could be clean and pure and THEN I could enter God’s presence. I asked Him over and over for years with much fasting and agony, but sin would not stop. WHY?

Later I saw that THE CROSS AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS was meant to do this in us. There are many Scriptures showing this. Matt. 26:28; Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:25; 5:9; 1Cor. 1:18; Eph. 1:7; 2:13-16; Col. 1:20-22; Hebr. 1:3; 9:12,14,22; 10:10, 14, 19, 22; 13:12, 20-21(see KJV); 1Pet.1:18-19; Rev 12:11. E.g. Hebr 20:20-21 May God…… through the blood of the everlasting covenant,  make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

So, as tradition taught me, I asked Him to wash me with His blood and to cover me with His blood, thanked Him for His sacrifice, accepted His sacrifice, I reckoned myself crucified with Him, denied myself, took up my cross, died with Him in baptism – but sins continued. WHY?

This agony continued for 14 years! I never considered myself saved because the Bible says if I sin, I am a slave of sin. Without HOLINESS, I will not see God! But Jesus could set me FREE INDEED. I always cried to God for mercy and His mighty work in my heart. I believed He could easily do it – for He made the sun and stars and raised the dead. But it did not happen.

Eventually I was totally convinced that there is no possibility that I can obtain to it by ANY FURTHER EFFORT OF MY OWN. It has to be a supernatural work or birth from God. That is what Nicodemus also should have realized as a teacher of the law. He has to be born again of the Spirit of God. HOW?

I also could see that the Cross of Jesus is the key and the means. But I could not find it. What more do I need to see or how does it work, for it is not working in me? I have read everything I could on this, and tried all the advice, but it did not happen. Eventually I was totally at the end of myself and all my efforts. I could not testify anymore for what can I tell people? “Repent and confess your sins, Jesus can deliver you from all your sins, confess all your sins and He will forgive and CLEANSE YOU FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS BLOOD CAN CLEANSE AND SANCTIFY YOU AND MAKE YOUR ROBES WHITE AND GIVE YOU VICTORY OVER SATAN” – but I myself have not found it! So I could not say anything anymore.

I still spoke what I believed the Scriptures say, namely the above and that we need to be and can be holy, but I have not found it myself.  Most believers differed heavily from me stating that we cannot live holy lives. But I could see in Scripture that we can and that Jesus can do it through His cross and blood. Some would argue I needed to accept His payment and finished work and God’s forgiveness and forgive myself and that God does not see me or my sins but only Jesus’ blood and offering, etc. But still sin would not stop, I needed HOLINESS in order to see Him and I would not accept to remain a slave of sin and sinning against God and my neighbour.

All along 1Pet 2:24 and Zechariah 12:10-13:9 were like light beacons in a dark night to me. I read it over and over and over for many years. I read Jesus bore my sins in His body on the cross SO THAT I MAY DIE TO SIN, STOP SINNING AND MIGHT LIVE ONTO RIGHTEOUSNESS, RIGHTEOUSLY AND RIGHT, AND THAT WE WERE HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS. But it did not happen. Why not? What was I missing? What must still happen to me?

 

THE ANSWER:

In mercy undeserved, God then revealed the answer to me and it was before my eyes the whole time, but I could not see it. So it was and will be before your eyes and you will  not see it and will not be helped UNTIL God sees that you truly BELIEVE AND OBEY ALL THE WORDS HE HAS SPOKEN. If you excuse sin and tolerate sin or believe you are going to heaven despite sinning, you disobey and disbelieve GOD’S WORDS and you will NEVER understand or see it – even if someone would rise from death to tell you. If you do not believe the prophets that have spoken all these words, you will not believe me or even Jesus or even if Jesus would appear to you!!

So the answer is this: Jesus bore your sins in his body on the cross. It clearly says you have been and are His murderer with every sin. Your sins made His wounds, pierced and crushed Him, grieved and quenched His Holy Spirit and grieved and crushed God. Therefore you and I deserve death and hellfire. Zechariah says the Holy Spirit of grace pleads with us to look up to Him whom we have pierced and to mourn bitterly for Him – as deeply and bitterly as a mother grieves when her only child died. We need to confess that every sin hurt and pierced Jesus. What we did to or for the least, we did to Him. Breaking the word of God is breaking Jesus. Sins against God fell on Him. It is extremely grievous to God and Jesus if you approach the holy, holy almighty God flippantly, proudly and arrogantly with sin and Satan still in your heart and life. You have been piercing and murdering Jesus all along because of your sins!

Stop and listen and think what I am saying.  

If we receive and obey the Holy Spirit and we look up to Jesus whom we have pierced and we mourn bitterly, – THEN He opens that fountain of His blood that will mightily flow against sins and cleanse you – that sins may stop, that you may live righteously and that the wounds you confess you have made, can heal you. Then the idols, false prophets and unclean spirits, lies, hypocrisy, carnal love etc. will depart from your heart. You will be wounded and persecuted by your own friends, tried and purified and GOD WILL BE YOUR ONLY GOD and you will be His child!! Read Zech 12:10-13:9

THEN YOUR HANDS, HEART, MIND, TONGUE AND WORDS WILL BE CLEANSED AND PURIFIED. THEN YOU MAY ENTER INTO HIS HOLINESS AND LIVE ON HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN.

I have believed, proclaimed and lived the above now since 1997 and have preached it wherever possible - and most learned and scribes and chief priest and leaders rejected it. They made the word of God powerless by their traditions and learning.

In December 2014 God again worked this message deeply in my heart and confirmed it with signs and wonders that followed. So I can now tell you this boldly and fearlessly. I know many will again reject it, but for those who believe, they will truly experience that THIS WORD OF THE CROSS IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD – FOR THOSE BEING SAVED. FOR THOSE GOING LOST IN THEIR SINS, IT IS FOOLISHNESS.

 REVIVAL:

This word of the cross will also bring God’s power and wisdom i.e. revival, in every heart that believes. Many will experience it but others will persecute it.

Two weeks ago, as I prayed with three brothers, God impressed on my heart to proclaim the following to help those who truly want revival:

1.       CONFESS THE CROSS OF JESUS – admit and confess with deep sorrow and grief that every one of your sins pierced, crushed and murdered Jesus and REPENT from all sins that pierce Him. If they do this, they have received the Holy Spirit and they will receive the full gift of the Holy Spirit which God promised if they faithfully do this. Then they will be forgiven, delivered, washed and cleansed from all sin and be made righteous and holy.

2.       TEACH / PROCLAIM THE CROSS OF JESUS – preach that Jesus is crucified by every sin of omission and co-mission and therefore people need to obey every word God & Jesus have spoken.

3.       STAND UP AGAINST ALL SIN AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH CRUCIFIES JESUS.  What is done to the LEAST, is done to Jesus. What is done to God’s Word, is done to Jesus.  

 

For those with an ear to hear and an eye to see, you will realize that this is the message that will bring revival to those who believe. It will fulfil in the believing hearts all the Scriptures we have been quoting all along i.e. 2Chron 7:14, Ps. 24,

We will fulfil the last command of Jesus in Matt 28.

Is 35. He will make us walk on the HIGHWAY OF HOLINESS where not even a fool will err anymore.

It will make us live Is 58 – crying out, sparing not, telling God’s people their transgressions if they seek Him daily and fast but they care not for the oppressed, lowly, poor, hungry, naked, wicked words, criticism, afflicted. If they repent, THEN God will restore them and they will restore and rebuild their cities.

It will work in us to live the Beatitudes (Matt 5) from our hearts. Seeing the cross of Jesus correctly, we can never be proud or boastful anymore, we will mourn for sins, we will be meek - for what we do to the least we do to Him, we will hunger and thirst like dying men for RIGHTEOUSNESS, we will be merciful for we have obtained mercy, our hearts will be purified through and through, we will make peace for enmity hurts our Father, we will stand up for righteousness against sin so firmly that persecution will follow, we will be FALSELY accused for HIS SAKE, and we will be filled with joy to do this for our Lord and Saviour whom we have once persecuted. GLORY TO GOD for HIS POWER THROUGH THE CROSS AND HIS WISDOM IN THE CROSS OF JESUS.  

It will have the effect in us what we read in Acts 2-4. How can a man still be rich and keep back far more than he needs and live sumptuously whilst his neighbour and the least are suffering – and Jesus also as a result? A man keeping back for himself more than what he needs and splashing thousands on himself whilst closing his heart to the needs around him, has NEVER seen the truth of cross of Jesus. He CANNOT be saved – unless God performs a mighty miracle to change that evil heart and remove his god Mammon from his heart.

Written for JESUS’ NAME’S SAKE, for your deliverance from sin and for your revival - that you may stop piercing Him ever again.  

 Yours truly in Jesus Christ.

FROM SIN CLEANSED BY HIS BLOOD & HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS

FROM SIN CLEANSED BY HIS BLOOD & HEALED BY HIS WOUNDS

“He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we may die to sins and live onto righteousness; by His wounds you were healed.” 1Pet. 2:24

Zec 12:10 And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers / supplication. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born. In that day shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, ….. And the land shall mourn, each family apart; all the families who remain, each family apart and their wives apart.
Zec 13:1-9 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more. And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. Zec 13:3 And it shall be when any shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him then, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall thrust him through when he prophesies. And it shall be in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision, when he prophesies. And they shall not wear a hairy garment to deceive. But he shall say, I am no prophet; I am a man, a tiller of the ground; for a man taught me to buy from my youth. And one shall say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of those who love Me. Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My companion, says Jehovah of Hosts; strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones. And it shall be in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Without the remorseful admission and confession that your sins have wounded Jesus and have shed the Messiah’s blood, there is no forgiveness or deliverance from that sin Hebr. 9:22. According to Jesus’ words, those who deny that they are guilty of all the righteous blood ever shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah killed in their churches, even to the blood of Jesus, are thereby witnesses and proving against themselves that they are the sons of those who murdered the prophets Matt. 23:29-32. Because they do not confess that they shed Jesus’ blood with every sin and on top of that they blame God falsely for punishing Jesus in their place for their sins, there is no forgiveness for or deliverance from those sins for them… 
If however you are obedient to the Holy Spirit who pleads with you to look up to Him whom you have pierced with every sin and to bitterly mourn for Him, His blood from His pierced and crushed heart because of your sin, will work mightily against your sin and unrighteousness. It will drive out the idols, false prophets, unclean spirits, it will end carnal relationships, stop lies, deception and pretence, bring humility and honesty about true condition of heart, it will bring persecution for Christ’s sake, refining as silver and full consecration to God – and God will own them!! Then holiness to God will follow – without which no one will see Him.
The opposite is also true! If you resist the Holy Spirit pleading you to look up to Him whom you have pierced, and you do not mourn for Him and repent deeply, there is no forgiveness for the wounds your sins have caused and there is no blood or power from God to cleanse and deliver you from sin. Then you will die in your sins and never see God i.e. you will go to hell…. For without holiness no one will see God. SELA!

WHO CRUCIFIED THE MESSIAH?

WHO KILLED JESUS? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS SUFFERING AND MURDER?

LISTEN TO JESUS’ OWN WORDS:

Mat 16:21 From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Mat 17:12 But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they desired. Likewise also the Son of Man shall suffer from them.
Mat 17:22 And while they stayed in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Mat 17:23 And they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised again. And they grieved exceedingly.
Mat 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death. Mat 20:19 And they shall deliver Him to the nations / Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He shall rise again.
Mat 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. Mat 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Mat 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Mat 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Mat 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mat 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Mat 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed because of / through many for the remission of sins.
Mat 26:45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Mar 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mar 9:12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. Mar 9:13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Mar 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
Mar 10:33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: Mar 10:34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Mar 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. Mar 12:7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. Mar 12:8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed because of / through many.
Mar 14:41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Luk 9:22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Luk 9:44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. Luk 9:45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying. Luk 11:46 And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens grievous to be carried, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Luk 11:47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Luk 11:48 Truly you bear witness that you consent to the deeds of your fathers. For they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. Luk 11:49 Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute, Luk 11:50 so that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; Luk 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation. Luk 11:52 Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you have hindered those who were entering in. Luk 11:53 And as He said these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw Him out concerning many things, Luk 11:54 lying in ambush for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, so that they might accuse Him.
Luk 13:34 Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.
Luk 17:25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.
Luk 18:31 And He took the Twelve and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. Luk 18:32 For He will be delivered to the nations and will be mocked and insulted and spat on. Luk 18:33 And they will scourge Him and put Him to death, and the third day He will rise again. Luk 18:34 And they did not understand any of these things. And this saying was hidden from them, nor did they know the things which were spoken.
Luk 19:14 But his citizens hated him. And they sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this one to reign over us.
Luk 20:13 And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him when they see him. Luk 20:14 But when the vinedressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours. Luk 20:15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then shall the lord of the vineyard do to them? Luk 20:16 He shall come and destroy these vinedressers and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard this, they said, Let it not be! Luk 20:17 And He looked at them and said, What then is this which is written, "The Stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the Head of the corner?
Luk 22:20 In the same way He took the cup, after having dined, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is being poured out beause of / through you.
Luk 24:6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, Luk 24:7 saying, The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again? Luk 24:8 And they remembered His words Luk 24:25 And He said to them, O fools and slow of heart to believe all things that the prophets spoke! Luk 24:26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which bears / taketh away the sin of the world.
Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Joh 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Joh 7:19 Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you seek to kill Me?
Joh 8:37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill Me because My Word has no place in you.
Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Joh 12:32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to Myself. Joh 12:33 But He said this, signifying what kind of death He was about to die.
Joh 13:18 I do not speak of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me."
Act 9:4-5 And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? And he said, Who are you, lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goads. (Jesus charged Saul for His suffering and His death because of his sins against the believers).
Psa 69:9 For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me. Rom 15:3 For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me."(Our sins against God fell on Jesus and wounded Him)
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not. Isa 53:4 Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (Mankind despised, rejected and caused Him sorrow, grief, and wounds but by mistake said it was God.)
Isa 53:5 But He was wounded because of (not for) our transgressions; He was bruised because of our iniquities; the correction / instruction for our peace was because of Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed. (See Gesenius’s Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Strong’s no. 4480 (e)) and it is in harmony with all the former.

JESUS NEVER SAID HIS FATHER WILL PUNISH OR KILL OR DESERT HIM AS PUNISHMENT FOR OUR SINS OR IN ANGER.
Isa 53:10 The correct translation according to Gesenius’s Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Strong’s no. 2470 & 1792.
Yet it pleased Jehovah to be crushed; to be made weak / grieved; (God did not crush Jesus, we did but He allowed us and was willing to be crushed by us. It is in perfect harmony with all the above scriptures.)
Psa 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me, (It’s not a song about being abandoned. It’s a song about vindication, domination and glory. http://skipmoen.com/2007/07/29/times-two/
http://skipmoen.com/2009/07/02/victory-song/
According to Lamsa’s translation from the Aramaic of the Peshitta, the Peshitta text reads: “Eli, Eli, lemana shabakthani! My God, my God, for this I was spared.” That is shown in Mark 15 and Matt. 27.
Psa 22:24 For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.
Psa 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psa 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Jehovah will take me up.
Psa 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my cries, when I cried to You.
Joh 8:16 And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me.
Joh 8:29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things which please Him.
Joh 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works. Act 9:4 And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?
Joh 16:32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
Heb 5:7 For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

JESUS SAID OVER AND OVER, WE (MEN, GENTILES, NATIONS, THE SINNERS, WORLD, ELDERS, PRIESTS, AND SCRIBES) KILLED HIM – BECAUSE OF AND THROUGH OUR SINS. He NEVER said it was God who did it. He was and is God and He did not do it to Himself. We killed Jesus (and all the prophets) through every sin.
Jesus said those who deny they killed the prophets (and Jesus) prove thereby against themselves that they are same as the ones who did it and never realized or confessed it. All the righteous blood ever shed on earth will be required from them!!
The ones who see the truth admit that they are the same as the ones who killed the prophets and Jesus. They confess it with sorrow and repent deeply – and they are forgiven.
Those who get angry because of these words thereby prove that they are indeed the same as the murderers of all the prophets and of Jesus because they got angry at Jesus and Peter and Stephen in Acts 2-4 when they told them the same things.

SELA.

MY TESTIMONY OF REVIVAL

MY TESTIMONY OF REVIVAL.

In 1983 I said to my wife: “We are not enjoying the world or the Christian life. We do both half-heartedly. Let us must make a decision now. We must either wholeheartedly do everything the Bible says, or, if we are not willing, we will throw all our Bibles and everything about it in the dustbin and live just as we like and know we are then going to hell.” Well, by God’s grace we chose the Bible.

 
Then serious problems began. I could not find or live what the Bible says despite every possible human effort. I fasted and prayed, repented, confessed, made restitution, reckoned myself dead to sin, etc. but I found myself in Romans 7. I always found evil in and with me in whatever I did and tried. I also cried like Paul, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” He found deliverance through Jesus Christ for he managed to live according to the Spirit and no more according to the flesh and was set free from sin and the flesh. He could fulfil the righteous commands of the law.

I believed in the Deliverer who would deliver His people from their sins and who was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, I took my cross and followed the crucified Messiah – but deliverance from sin, self and the world would not come for me. His blood was supposed to wash me from all my sins, make my sin stop, make me righteous, make me holy, make my clothes white, give me victory over Satan, and His wounds were supposed to heal me, etc. - but it did not happen in me and I could not understood why not.

He created the universe and mighty sun and raised rotten Lazarus with a word. He could surely and easily cleanse my heart and set me free from all sin and make me holy – but why does it not happen?

After 14 years of agony, one day in 1997 I once again read 1Pet. 2:24 and stood for the thousandth time (in my mind) at the cross of Jesus and looked and looked at His terrible wounds and crushed body and wondered why I do not experience what the Bible says. Peter said: “He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we may die to sins and live onto righteousness; by His wounds you were healed.” Why can I not die to sin and live right? Why does His blood not cleanse me from all sin and give me victory over Satan? Why do His wounds not heal me from my leprosy of sin? Why am I still going astray? 

Suddenly He "spoke" to me and revealed to me that I am the one crucifying, piercing and crushing Him - with every sin. Every sin is extremely painful to Him and it breaks His heart and quenches and grieves His Holy Spirit. When I rather listen to Satan and self than to Him, the Holy One, His heart is crushed. Whenever I break His Word, I break Him because His word became flesh. What I did to the least, I did to Him. I was utterly shocked and realized I was damned and doomed for He was martyred, mutilated and crushed beyond recognition – BY ME – through each of my sins over several decades! Every sin had made a fatal wound in His loving heart. That is why the wages of sin is death and why we will not see Him without holiness. And whilst I hurt Him like this, He spared my life and still fed and blessed me!! O my guilt and evil reached the heavens!

 
I cried out for mercy and forgiveness – but more now than ever for cleansing and deliverance from sin so that sin may stop and that I may live holy and righteous and sin no more - and that I may wound Him no more. In view of the Messiah crucified by my sins, sins are now totally inexcusable. Sin is now absolutely condemned in the flesh. “O Jesus, how can I be totally cleansed and sanctified that I may pierce and crush You no more with my sins?” I cried.

He led me to Zachariah 12:10 – 13:3 and I saw what I must do. If I now, in obedience to the pleading of the Holy Spirit, look up to Him whom I have pierced with every sin and mourn bitterly for Him and confess what each sin has done to Him and repent, He will forgive me for that, AND He will then open that fountain of His blood to wash and cleanse me from all my sins and unrighteousness. So He will drive out the idols, false prophets and unclean spirits from my heart. If I so confess the wounds I have made with each sin – His wounds will heal me from the sickness and incurable leprosy of sin!! So He will make me holy and righteous; then the weakest will become like David who killed Goliath with a small stone and David will be like God! Then we can live the life of Jesus!

 
And I confessed and repented with deep mourning and bitterness and for the first time I truly experienced God-given forgiveness and deliverance from sin. I was forgiven hundreds and thousands of terrible wounds and He washed me with the blood I confessed. Now I love Him much for I have been forgiven very very much and because I was set free from many things no human effort could ever remove from my heart and mind. I knew I can and may never do the things I used to do.

 
And it is now 14 years since He revealed it to me and He has ultimately really done what He promised – through the blood of the Lamb slain by my sins – just as it says in Revelations. All God’s wonderful words and promises became true. “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.” “Blessing and honour and glory and power be to Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever” because He “loved us and washed / freed / delivered / cleansed us from our sins in His own blood.”!! He has indeed revived me from my body of death.

 
Friend, your sins are also piercing and crushing Jesus’s holy and loving heart and his heart is truly broken and bleeding because of your sin. Your sins grieve and quench His Holy Spirit. You deserve eternity in hell for it. Admit it, confess it, repent deeply, let it break your heart; mourn bitterly for what you have done to Him over all these years. Do it with every single sin and He promised He will forgive you for all the terrible wounds you inflicted on Him. He will even use that blood to wash you clean from your filth and those wounds to cure you! Oh, His profound mercy. From then on, love Him much because you have been forgiven much and do not allow anything at all that may pierce His loving heart ever again. Follow the Lamb slain by you and be willing to bleed for Him because He has bled through you. Then you will also be revived.

 
Without the remorseful admission and confession that you have shed the Messiahs blood with every sin, there is no forgiveness or deliverance from that sin. According to Jesus’ words, those who deny that they are guilty of all the righteous blood ever shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah killed in their churches, even to the blood of Jesus, are thereby witnesses and proving against themselves that they are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Because they do not confess that they shed Jesus’ blood with every sin and on top of that they blame God falsely for punishing Jesus in their place for their sins, there is no forgiveness for or deliverance from those sins for them… For these words I also have been and will be killed by many of you and so you will again give witness against yourself that you are indeed murderers of Jesus and all the prophets who spoke these things.

 
SELA (pause and think). AMEN (so be it)

DIE KRUIS VAN JESUS CHRISTUS EN DIE VERVULLING MET DIE HEILIGE GEES

DIE KRUIS VAN JESUS CHRISTUS EN DIE VERVULLING MET DIE HEILIGE GEES.

Liewe Vriend,
Luister na die Woord van God uit die volgende gedeeltes:
“Toe die HERE sien dat die boosheid van die mens op die aarde groot was en al die versinsels wat hy in sy hart bedink, altyddeur net sleg was, het dit die HERE berou dat Hy die mens op die aarde gemaak het, en daar was smart in Sy hart.”
“I was hurt / broken / crushed by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done.”
“Hoe dikwels was hulle wederstrewig teen Hom in die woestyn, het hulle Hom gegrief in die wildernis; en hulle het God opnuut versoek en die Heilige van Israel gekrenk.”
As God se skepsele en eie kinders Hom nie volkome liefhet nie, Hom ongehoorsaam is en teen Hom sondig, grief en krenk dit God geweldig en dit veroorsaak berou, groot smart en verbryseling van Sy hart. Hy is ons Vader en ons is na Sy gelykenis geskape. Hy voel ook as Vader bittere pyn in sy hart as sy kinders eerder na die Satan luister as na Hom.
God het toe sy hart, sy enigste geliefde Seun wat in die boesem van die Vader is, aarde toe gestuur om God se wil, genade, liefde, krag en waarheid te kom illustreer. Toe Jesus sy werk voltooi het, het Hy homself oorgegee in die hande van ons almal - die mense , heidene, sondaars , ouderlinge, skrifgeleerdes en owerpriesters - dat hulle /ons aan Hom doen wat ons wil . Al ons smaadhede en sonde teen God het op Jesus geval. Hy het ons sondes in sy liggaam aan die kruis gedra , . Ons sonde het Hom deurboor en verbrysel. Aan die kruis van Jesus sien ons sonde duidelik voor ons oë en wat sonde waarlik is en doen. Dit vermoor Hom!So het Jesus sy Vader se deurboorde, gebroke en verbryselde hart weens sonde duidelik aan ons kom illustreer, bekend en sigbaar maak.
God het deur die profeet Saggaria gesê:
“Maar oor die huis van Dawid en oor die inwoners van Jerusalem sal Ek uitgiet die Gees van genade en smekinge; en hulle sal opsien na My vir wie hulle deurboor het, en hulle sal oor Hom rouklaag soos ‘n mens rouklaag oor ‘n enigste seun en bitterlik oor Hom ween soos ‘n mens bitterlik ween oor ‘n eersgebore kind. In die dag sal die rouklaag groot wees in Jerusalem… en die land sal rouklaag by geslagte, elke geslag afsonderlik; …Al die ander geslagte – elke geslag afsonderlik, en hulle vroue afsonderlik. In dié dag sal daar ‘n geopende fontein wees vir die huis van Dawid en vir die inwoners van Jerusalem teen sonde en onreinheid. En in dié dag, spreek die HERE van die leërskare, sal Ek die name van die afgode uit die land uitroei, sodat aan hulle nie meer gedink sal word nie; ook die profete en die onreine gees sal Ek uit die land laat wegtrek.
Nou kom die Heilige Gees vol van genade en met smekinge na jou, elke keer as jy sonde doen, en smeek jou om op te kyk na Hom vir wie jy deurboor het met daardie sonde en om bitterlik te rou en te ween oor wat jou sonde Hom aangedoen het, want Jesus het al jou sonde in sy liggaam aan die kruis gedra.12 Wat jy aan die geringste gedoen het, het jy aan Hom gedoen. As jy God se Woord breek, breek jy ook vir Jesus, want die Woord het vlees geword. Elkeen van jou sondes pynig en grief die hart van jou eie liefdevolle Vader, dit deurboor en verbrysel Jesus Christus, en dit bedroef en blus die Heilige Gees van God uit! Die Heilige Gees van genade smeek jou daarom om Jesus / Hulle ontwil - en om jou eie ontwil - om op te kyk na Hom vir wie jy deurboor en jou te bekeer en te stop met jou sondes, want Hy ly bitterlik daardeur en jy gaan in die ewige hel daarvoor betaal as jy daarmee aangaan!!
Jesus het ons sonde so in sy liggaam kom dra, “sodat ons die sonde kan afsterwe / kan stop daarmee en vir die geregtigheid kan lewe” en om sonde total te veroordeel en sonder enige verskoning te laat. Dit was presies die boodskap van die Heilige Gees op en na Pinkster. Dit het hulle diep in die harte getref, hulle het hul bekeer toe hulle dit besef en so het God hulle gereinig en gevul met die HEILIGE Gees. Sonde het gestop en selfs ‘n leuen is met die dood gestraf!
O, vriend kyk tog op na Hom vir wie jy deurboor met elke sonde en rou en ween bitterlik oor Hom. Stop en bekeer jou daarvan dat jy genade mag ontvang. As jy dit nie sien nie, kyk en kyk en kyk weer totdat jy dit sien en besef en die bittere berou ervaar oor wat elkeen van jou sonde Jesus aangedoen het. Dan, in genade op genade belowe God dat Hy jou sal vergewe - as jy ware berou het, jou sondes en skuld teen Jesus bely en jou bekeer daarvan en dit alles regmaak met Jesus en jou naaste. Meer nog, Hy sal jou dan ook was, reinig en verlos van jou sondes met die bloed van Jesus wat jy bely jy gestort het. In nog groter genade sal Hy jou ook genees deur die wonde wat jy in ware berou en geween bely jy deur jou sondes gemaak het. O, sy oneindige genade!
Dan sal jy Jesus baie liefhê, want Hy vir wie baie vergewe is, het baie lief.
Deur dit te doen, gehoorsaam en ontvang jy die Heilige Gees. Dan open God daardie stroom van Jesus se bloed wat kragtig vloei teen sonde en onreinheid, en wat die afgode, valse profete en onreine geeste uit jou hart uitdryf. Op díé dag word die swakste soos David en Dawid soos God / Jesus. So word jy verlos en gereinig van elke sonde deur Sy bloed en word jy vervul en vol gemaak met God se Heilige Gees en met die Here Jesus self. So ontvang jy die gawe van die Heilige Gees wat God belowe het aan die wat Hom gehoorsaam is en kan jy ‘n heilige lewe lewe waarsonder jy God nie sal sien nie.
So reinig die bloed van Jesus jou van elke en alle sonde en maak jou regverdig en heilig. As jy dit volhardend glo en aan God gehoorsaam bly, skenk Hy jou ook hierdie wonderlike beloftes uit sy groot genade en liefde – terwyl jy die doodstraf verdien het! O, Sy groot liefde en genade! Hoe sal ons ontvlug as ons dit verag?
As jy egter die Heilige Gees weerstaan en teen Hom sondig deur nie op te kyk na en in berou te ween oor Jesus vir wie jy met elke sonde deurboor nie, sondig jy teen die Heilige Gees en jy bly skuldig aan die liggaam en bloed van Jesus. Dan is daar geen vergifnis of verlossing van daardie sonde moontlik nie. Sonder die erkenning en belydenis in diepe berou van die bloedvergieting van Jesus deur elke sonde, is daar ook geen vergifnis of verlossing van daardie sonde nie. Die fontein van Jesus se bloed gaan nie vir jou oop nie en daar is geen ander manier om verlos en gereinig te word nie. Al die afgode, valse profete en onreine geeste word dan ook nie deur God uitgedrywe nie, jy bly ‘n slaaf van sonde en hou aan sondig - al wil jy nie meer sondig nie. Die woord van God is baie duidelik dat jy nie hemel toe sal gaan as jy aanhou sondig nie. Moet jouself nie bedrieg nie en laat niemand jou hieroor bedrieg nie. Sonder ‘n heilige lewe gaan jy God nie sien nie. Geen ongelowige, gruwelike, moordenaar, hoereerder, afgodedienaar, leuenaar of onreine sal die hemel ingaan nie en niemand mag iets van hierdie woorde in Openbaring byvoeg of wegneem nie.
As jy egter getrou doen wat die Heilige Gees jou leer, sal God doen wat Hy sê Hy sal doen. Dan sal jy uiteindelik ervaar God bewaar jou van struikeling en stel jou sonder gebrek (faultless) voor Hom met gejuig (exceeding joy)! Dan lewe jy ‘n heilige lewe en die bose het geen vat op jou nie. En die heilige bly steeds heilig en die regverdige bly steeds regverdig. Sulke mense, wat die gebooie van God so doen, het reg op die boom van die lewe en om in te gaan deur die poorte van die hemelse stad. Dan sal jy nou al en in die hemel kan uitroep en sing: “… Jesus Christus… Aan Hom wat ons liefgehad het en ons van ons sondes gewas / verlos / vrygemaak het in sy bloed en ons gemaak het konings en priesters vir sy God en Vader, aan Hom die heerlikheid en die krag tot in alle ewigheid! Amen.” Dit alles doen Jesus vir ons deur sy bloed en kruis alleen.
AMEN!
Met liefde vir Jesus Christus.

Verwysings:
Gen 6:5-6
Eseg 6:9
Ps. 78:40-41
Joh 1:18
Joh. 1:18 verklaar = declared / revealed / made known / made clear
Matt. 17:22-23; 21:33-46. Mark. 9:31; 12:1-12, Luk. 9:44; 20:9-18.
Matt. 26:45, Mark. 14:41, Luk. 18:32-33; 24:7
Matt. 20:18-19, Mark. 8:31; 10:33-34, Luk. 9:22; 24:20
Matt. 17:12, Mark. 9:12-13,
Ps. 69:10 & Rom 15:3
1 Pet. 2:24, Joh 1:29. wegneem = arron in Gr. = wegdra. Ook soos in Lev. 16:21-22, Hebr. 9:28 en 1Joh.3:5.
Rom 4:25 Jesus… wat oorgelewer is as gevolg van / deur (Gr. dia) ons misdade
Jes. 53:5 Korrekte Hebreeus is: Maar Hy is deur / as gevolg van ons oortredinge deurboor, deur / as gevolg van ons ongeregtighede is Hy verbrysel. Sien Gesenius’s Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Strong’s no. 4480 (e). Al die voorafgaande pas hierby in. Jes 53:12, Jes 53:11 (skuld is “iniquities” = sonde)
2 Kor. 5:21, Gal 3:1
Joh 1:18 verklaar = declared / revealed / made known / made clear; 14:7, 9
Sagg 12:10 - 13:2
Matt. 25:40 & 45
Joh. 1:14;
Efes 4:30, 1Thess 5:19
1Pet 2:24
Rom.8:3
Hand. 2:22-23, 36; 3:13-19; 4:10-11; 7:52.
Hand. 5:1-11
1 Joh 1:9, Matt. 5:23-24
1 Joh 1:7
1Pet. 2:24, Jes. 53:5
Luk 7:47
Sagg 13:1&2
Sagg 12:8
Efes. 3:19; 4:13
Hand 5:32
Hebr. 12:14
1 Joh 1:7
Rom. 3-5; Hebr. 3-5
1Kor. 11:27
Hand 7:51, Efes 4:30, 1Thess 5:19, Matt 12:32, Mark 3:29, Luk 12:10
Hebr. 9:22 (sien Ampl. Gr. Aphesis = vergifnis en verlossing
Open 21:27; Gal. 5:19-21, 1Kor 6:9-10; Kol 3:5-6; Efes. 5:5
Hebr. 12:14
Open. 21:8 & 27
Open. 22:18-19
Judas 1:24-25
1Joh 5:18
Open 22:11
Open 22:14
Open 1:5-6
Matt. 26:28; Hand. 20:28; Rom. 3:25; 5:9; 1Kor. 1:18; Efes. 1:7; 2:13-16; Kol. 1:20-22; Hebr. 1:3; 9:12,14,22; 10:10, 14, 19, 22; 13:12, 20-21(sien KJV); 1Pet.1:18-19; Open. 1:5-6; 5:9-10; 7:14; 12:11.

THE LORD'S SUPPER - ITS ORIGIN AND TRUE MEANING

The Lord’s Supper – its origin and true meaning

When Adam and Eve chose to listen to the snake rather than their Creator and loving Father, they wounded, crushed and broke the heart of God (Gen. 6:5-6). That is why God said that they will surely die when they eat of that tree. Ever since then every sinner with every sin does the same to the holy and loving Father – mercilessly, heartlessly, inconsiderately, over and over (Ps. 69:20, Ezek. 6:9). That is also why God said that the soul that sins will surely die, why the wages of sin is death and why we will not see God without a pure heart and without holiness.

With perfect love, God repeatedly sent His prophets to call His children back to Him, but they were all treated the same as the One who sent them and whose words they spoke. Which one was not rejected, stoned or killed? Matt. 21 & 23.

Finally, in an ultimate act of love, God Himself came down to earth as Immanuel, in Jesus Christ, from the bosom of the Father – to visibly and personally show the world His life, perfect love, patience, grace and power and to speak His words to them.

Then He handed Himself over into the hands of His children, his people, mankind, the sinners, the Scribes, Chief priests and Pharisees to do to Him what they chose – and they rejected, martyred and killed Him by crucifixion. Matt. 16:21; 17:12, 22-23; 20:18; 21:33-46 in the parable of the farmers. Mark.14:41; Luke 9:22, 44; 17:25; 18:32-33; John 1:11; 7:19; 8:37-40.

After three days Jesus rose to prove that He was indeed God, the Creator, who was murdered. He will now return to judge ever man for every thought, word or deed that went against His holy, righteous will and commands and that wounded His loving heart.

On the cross, God, through Jesus, physically and openly displayed what mankind has been doing to Him through sins from the time of Adam and Eve and what His loving heart feels when we sin. Spiritually He was and is still given into the hands of every man to do to Him what they choose - and with every sin He is martyred, crushed and pierced. Peter said: He bore our sins in His body on the tree 1Pet.2:24. Isaiah said: But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was bruised because of our iniquities Is. 53:5. (“min” in orig. Hebrew is “because of” – see Gesenius’ Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon to the O.T, Strong word no. 4480 (e)). For he shall bear their iniquities and He bare the sin of many Is. 53:11 & 12. David and Paul said: The insults with which we insulted God, has fallen on Jesus Ps. 69 & Rom. 15:3. Paul says: “He was delivered (to be killed) because of our offences /transgressions” (Gr. dia = because of) Rom.4:24. And our sins grieve and quench the Holy Spirit of God and of Jesus (Eph. 4:30, 1Th 5:19). Jesus said what we do to the least, we do to Him. By ill-treating and disregarding the least, we do the same to Jesus and so grieve and wound Him again. If we hate anyone, we are his murderer and therefore also Jesus’ murderer. This is spiritual murder and before God it is the same as physical murder. The Word also became flesh and dwelt amongst us. By breaking the Word of God, we also break and wound Jesus.

Zechariah said, God will, through the Holy Spirit of grace, plead with us to look up to Him whom we have pierced and to grieve and mourn bitterly because of what we have done to Him (with every sin), every nation, tribe, man and women by themselves (Zec.12:10-14).

It is undeniably clear: Every man with every sin breaks God’s loving heart, martyrs Him and Jesus and is the murderer of Jesus Christ. We made and caused His wounds through our sins. We all broke his heart and His body and spilled His blood.

That is what Jesus showed and demonstrated at the Eucharist. “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed because of many for the remission / forgiveness / deliverance / release (Gr. Aphesis) of sins. (Gr. Huper / alt. peri = because of and as a quotation from Is. 53:5 and in line with all the abovementioned scriptures). Every time we break the bread and pour the wine, we remember, admit, confess and demonstrate how our sins wounded and broke Him and how we shed His blood. The covenant in His blood is this: If we admit and confess with deep bitterness and remorse what our sins did to Him and if we repent from our sins, our sins will be forgiven and He will wash, cleanse, free and deliver us from our sins by His blood. Is there greater love than this? But if we continue in sin (or uses the bread and wine unworthily) and we do not confess and repent, we are guilty of His body and blood.

And God keeps His covenant. That is why they praised Him and sang in Rev. 1:5; “Unto Him that loved us, and washed / freed / cleansed / delivered us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” That is how the devil is overcome and how we can live victorious lives – by the blood of the Lamb! Thanks and glory to God.

Jesus was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Ever since Adam and Eve He is slain Rev. 13:8. God demonstrated it before the eyes of Adam and Eve when He tore apart and pealed the goats’ skin and dressed their nakedness. And they were reminded of that every time they had to put on new skins again. But He promised that Someone will crush the head of the serpent – obviously in our hearts. All excuses, love and consideration for or lies and deceptions of Satan are crushed and destroyed when we realize the Lamb of God is slain when we sin.

The sacrificial lambs in the O.T. and the scapegoat (Azazel) (Lev. 16) signified to the Jews exactly the same truth. The scapegoat bore the sins of the people into the wilderness and there it died a terrible death. Most Jews knew everything about the sacrifice but did not realize what it truly signified and meant and they kept on sinning – and God hated their sacrifices. Those who realized it pointed to what their sins did to God and the Messiah – was in the same way as us forgiven and washed by the blood of the Lamb.

The brazen serpent of Moses in the wilderness confirmed this message. Look at Jesus on the cross, admit and confess your guilt of His death and you will be cured of the sicknesses caused by the bites of the serpents.

David realized and experienced the same when he was told that the child born from Uriah’s wife will die because of his sins. He stopped eating and was ready to die because of that. Later he said: “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,” Ps. 51.

John the Baptist saw and recognized this Lamb of God that bore the sins of the world. That is why he spoke the way he spoke. No sin is excusable or may be overlooked because the Lamb of God bears it. He attacked even kings and said to the religious people: “Do not even think to call yourself a child if God if you do not bear fruit worthy of repentance. If you do not bear good fruit, you will be cast into everlasting fire. He will thoroughly purge his floor.” Graciously, He can even make a stone a child to bear the acceptable fruit. There is therefore much hope for me and for all of us.

Paul also received this great light when he was told that he was all along persecuting Jesus, the Messiah, through his sins against the believers. He was so overwhelmed with grief and bitterness because of that, that he stopped eating and drinking for three days and he was set to rather die than live with what he has done. He constantly prayed, confessed his great sin and pleaded for mercy and forgiveness – and God heard him and sent Ananias to help him. We must all see this great light.

Therefore Peter clearly wrote that Jesus bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we may die to sin (stop with sin) and live for righteousness. By his wounds we are healed from (the leprosy and sickness of) sin 1Pet. 2:24.

Isaiah said: By this knowledge of Him, My righteous Servant shall justify many, because He will bear their sins. Is. 53:11. By knowing and believing that Jesus bears any sin that I might commit as wounds in his blessed loving heart and I am therefore guilty of murder and deserve hell for it, will make me truly repent and confess it with deep remorse. Then God forgives, His blood washes and He makes me just and righteous and my sin stops – and so I love Him very much because I have been forgiven very very many death-deserving sins. So, by this knowledge I am justified i.e. made just and righteous.

Everyone who denies that he, because of his sins, is guilty of the blood of all the prophets, from Abel to Zechariah and of Jesus, proves thereby that he is a child of those who killed them. The blood of all the prophets and of Jesus will therefore be required from his hands.

But if we acknowledge and confess that we, through every sin, have broken the body and spilled the blood of the prophets and of Jesus and if we repent from all sins, we can be forgiven and cleansed - that our sin may stop. So His blood cleanses us from all and every sin. Zechariah said that, when we look up to Him whom we have pierced and mourn and grieve bitterly for Him, then that fountain (of His cleansing blood) will open and flow mightily against sin and unrighteousness.

Then, at the Lord’s Supper, we take the bread and break it and pour the wine and drink it and so remember and signify His death until He comes. This is the true meaning and origin of the Lord’s Supper.

SELA.