Saturday, June 29, 2019

Your feet are the part of you which keep in daily contact with the earth. Scripturally, earth can represent fallen flesh - since our flesh is made of dirt "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground" - this, incidentally, is why our feet must be "shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace" i.e. we must always be ready to invite the to join us - to rise with us. This is also why Jesus washed our feet and commanded us to do likewise for each other - "let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit", because we live in a fallen world, we are constantly coming into contact with filthiness, so we need a constant cleansing - and when we do this for each other, righteous flesh cleanses righteous flesh, by washing with water, so can we cleanse one another by speaking His Word to each other - "that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the the Word" - just as the priests of old had to wash in the "water of separation" , so has the Word become our "water of separation", for we must maintain a separation from the filthiness of sins all around us, yet at the same time we must come into contact with "filthy flesh" that we may extend God's love to them, preaching as we go this "gospel of the kingdom" and demonstrating the kingdom that they may see and be saved.
Miracles are "dinner bells to salvation", especially the miracle of prophecy "but if all prophecy (stop right here - what a clear expression of God's desire for his people! Wouldn't it be wonderful to attend a fellowship where 'all prophecied'? I'm with Moses "would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put His spirit upon them!" Joshua represents leadership with the wrong heart and attitude - "My lord Moses, forbid them!" Moses had God's heart, as did Paul - "and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned (again, let's pause for a moment because "unbelievers" and believers who are "unlearned" in the ways of God's Spirit are kind of in the same boat here - there are countless "Christians" today who are "unlearned", who know the Word but do not know the Spirit) "he is convinced of all, he is judged of all, and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth"). When was the last time this happened in your church's service? Probably never.
Don't be satisfied with the status quo, with less than your full inheritance that Jesus died to give you, child of God. I want unbelievers to declare "of a truth, God is in YOU", not just your pastor or elders. I want YOU to prophecy - I want all to manifest His mighty Spirit.
Just as Christ washed his disciples feet then, so does He now. Ask him to wash your spiritual feet and cleanse you from all contact with "spiritual wickedness in high places". These "high places" are the mountain thrones in men's hearts - the highest seat of honor, which they refuse to give to God, instead, sitting there themselves, keeping all authority and glory for themselves. This is "the abomination that causes desolation", for when we choose to rule ourselves, when we make Christ bow before us in our own hearts, we become desolate, void of His presence, we become "anathema" (a person accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction) - God himself will write "MENE MENE TEKEL" on the door of every heart that does not open to Him, and as he leaves that door wherein he is unwelcome he will wipe the dust from his feet (dust we should have washed off his feet ourselves, after having invited him in to sup with us) "woe unto thee Chorazin! Woe unto thee Bethsaida! Woe unto you America! for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon ,they would have repented long ago.

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