The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want. Psalm 23:1.
It is June and our monthly fellowship in the Spirit is coming up on the third Sunday of the month, which is June 21, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Hawaii time. We are meeting again on Zoom.
What an amazing meeting we had last month with friends from as far away as Japan and Singapore and as close as California and Hawaii! Zoom has made it possible to all be together sharing God’s Word and worshiping together in various time zones all at the same time, in the same place in the cloud of cyberspace. It is like accessing the Kingdom within our hearts and being surrounded by a cloud of witnesses as we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus and run together, cheering each other on! Together, as living stones, we are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:5. Please come join the fun as we are missing a precious stone for building the edifice in love if you do not show up. And it as easy as a click on the link and you are with us.
Here is the link for the meeting on June 21, 2020, it will not be available for a meeting before that:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
That should take you right to the meeting, but if you need a meeting ID or password (you should not with that link) here they are
Meeting ID: 860 1804 1940
Password: 767191
This link will only take you to the meeting on Sunday, June 21, 2020, from about 12:45 pm all the way to 3:00 or 3:30 pm, depending on how long we stay on. Officially the time for the meeting is 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Hawaii time, but some stayed longer to hear more Word last time because it was just so good. Taste and see the goodness of the LORD! The Word of God is life to those who find it and health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:22. If you are having trouble getting into the meeting, please call me at 808-228-4402 rather than texting or emailing me during the meeting because I do not look at texts or emails while I am teaching but I do pick up my phone for those who need help to get in the meeting or are still in the waiting room.
The LORD has been showing me some extraordinary things from His Word. And it has been about the amazing precious Blood of Christ, resulting in three wonderful teachings on how forgiven and loved we are, which led to a new teaching on forgiveness of self and others that I have never heard before. He also has been leading me on the way to freedom with our good Shepherd which has resulted in numerous teachings feeding on and digesting each line of Psalm 23, including teachings on the LORD of Hosts and that out of the wilderness comes a worshipper.
Let me share just one insight that may free you from so much oppression of guilt and shame for past or even present faults and failings that somehow you did though weakness, ignorance, failings, and whatever other reason. No matter what you did, it is not YOUR fault. You may be thinking that it was your fault. And your next thought may be, “If it is not my fault, whose fault is it?”
Now you will have to ponder this but I think you will understand it. It was your fault, your sin, your debt, your mistake, your illness, your shame, your pain, but when you took Jesus as your Lord, all Scripture tells us that He took your fault, your sin, your debt, your mistake, your illness, your shame, and your pain. It was no longer YOUR fault, it became HIS. And then He took care of it by shedding every drop of His Blood in payment for it, He paid in full and more on top of that. Grace on top of grace. It was your sin but when you received Jesus as Lord it became HIS. He took ownership though He and never sinned, and then He took care of it by His Blood.
This does not mean He is to blame or that He caused it. No, it means that He took it away from you and He took care of it, so it is over and gone as if it had never been before God. So now He presents you holy, blameless, and beyond reproach before the Father. Colossians 1:22. Get it out of your head that you are forgiven but your guilt remains. Go to the mirror right now, stare in your eyes, and tell yourself out loud, “It is not YOUR fault. He took it and He took care of it.” You do not own it anymore.
Now, please go deeper. If someone told you they took your debt, but they never paid it, then you still owe the creditor and the creditor has not been made whole. And neither have you. You would still avoid him if you could not pay. But if someone took your debt and paid it, your creditor is whole and so are you. You do not avoid your creditor; it is like it never happened because it is all paid in full. And what if the one who took over your debt even paid more than you owed? Then the creditor is blessed beyond merely what was owed and shows you favor.
We each owed God a huge debt for our sins and lawlessness. But Jesus took that debt away from you as if it were His own debt and He paid it in full, plus a bonus to the Father. He paid it by nailing it to the Cross and shedding every drop of His Blood to redeem you from your debts. One drop would have done it, but He gave it all.
But keep going. The apostle Paul wrote, “if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.” 1 Corinthians 15:17. Why? Because that would mean the Father had not accepted the payment as sufficient. But the Father raised Him from the dead and that is your receipt for payment in full. He was delivered over because of your transgressions and was raised because of your justification. Romans 4:25. The Father found the Blood of His Son more than sufficient to take away the sins of the entire world. Jesus paid the ransom for all. 1 Timothy 2:6. Whether you accept that forgiveness is up to you, but it is there for all to receive, for from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
Do you see why His death was your death, and His resurrection is your victory? It is not just His private death and His victory. He did it bearing your faults, sins, debts, failures, diseases, and any other evil work in your life, He became a curse for you so that you are redeemed from the curse of the law, and when the Father raised Him, He raised you with Him, free and whole. Like if sin had never been. Not just forgiven, but as pure as the whitest snow. Pure light. Though your sins were as scarlet, He made them white as snow.
How? Jesus took them on Himself and gave you His purity, and when He paid the divine sentence for your sins and offenses, the Father accepted the payment, and raised Him up to the Father’s throne from the depths of hell. And you came up in Him. The Father accepted Jesus’ payment of your sins and everything else that enslaved you and divided you from Him. It not just forgiven, it is gone. All those who are baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves in Christ– the garments of Salvation (Yeshuah) and the robe of righteousness, God’s own righteousness. Galatians 3:27; Isaiah 61:10; 2 Corinthians 5:21.
But do not stop at the Cross and wallow in your sins, go on to the Resurrection, with all sins gone, but do not stop there. Go on to Pentecost, for as Peter told the astonished crowd, what they heard and saw meant Jesus was no longer forsaken, as He cried carrying your sins on the Cross, He was home in Glory with all sins gone and paid. Acts 2:32-33. And then what happened? All those who had been freed from the slavery of sin and led out to freedom got filled with the Holy Spirit! Acts 2:38. But do not stop there! Where do you get access to by the Spirit through the new and living way that Jesus opened for you who believe by His Blood? Into the Holy of Holies in fellowship with the Most High God, the Father of Glory! Ephesians 2:18; Hebrews 10:19-22. Jesus took your faults and sins to not just get you free, holy, blameless, and without reproach, but to bring you into intimate fellowship with the Father in the secret place of the Most High, His very throne room, and seated you with Him there. Ephesians 2:6; Hebrews 4:14-16.
This is amazing and our hearts should overflow with gratitude for the new creation God has made us in Christ! Colossians 2:7, 2 Corinthians 5:17. We are now ONE with the Father in Jesus, co-heirs with Him, in the everlasting Covenant of love. 1 Corinthians 6:17; Romans 8:15-17. You must understand this to never again torment yourself with fear of rejection by God due to your sins, faults, omissions, and whatever else you have done or do on any particular day through weakness or by walking in the flesh instead of the spirit for a moment. Like David. Try to avoid these things and stay close to God and you will, but if you do fall into fault, confess your sins to God and He is faithful and true to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9. And how does He do that? He takes them off you and puts them on Jesus and cleanses you in the Blood of Jesus, which is on the altar in Heaven speaking eternal redemption for us. 1 John 1:7; Hebrews 9:12-14. Paul wrote this message to you, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21. He is the scapegoat. It is as if you were innocent and He is guilty. He gets punished, because He took your fault, your sin, your failing, your unrighteousness, and every other evil deed or thing. For you who receive Him, it is no longer your fault. He took it and set you free. And whom the Son sets free is free indeed! You are not just forgiven, your sin is gone. Isaiah 44:22.
If Jesus took all your sins but was never punished, they would still be running around, but they were punished severely in Him and He was raised up sinless. He got rid of them and when He did, they were gone completely. No longer on Him, they are no longer on you. They are gone. Blown away like the ashes from the burnt offering. Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 6:10-11; Hebrews 10:4-14. You have beauty now instead of ashes. Isaiah 61:3. For by the one offering of Himself, Jesus has perfected for ALL time those who are sanctified. Hebrews 10:14. For by the Father’s doing, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to you wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that is not of ourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8. He took what was your fault and made it His own, and He took care of it as we never could have and still cannot. John 15:5. Draw all you need from Jesus. John 15:4; Colossians 2:6-10.
It is not your fault. It was, but He took it away from you and made it His. And then He took care of it. He paid for it with His own Blood. Ephesians 1:7. The life is in the blood. Leviticus 17:11. The Father has forgiven you all your transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees that were hostile against you by nailing it to the Cross and taking it out of the way. Colossians 2:13-14. He has opened to you a new and living way to enter the holy place by the Blood of Jesus so that you have confidence to enter into the secret place of the Most High in full assurance of faith to fellowship with Almighty God, your Father, who loves you with an everlasting love that is beyond all you can fathom. Hebrews 10:19-22; Ephesians 3:19.
Come join us on June 21, 2020 at 1 pm Hawaii time on Zoom and out of the wilderness will come worshipers. And remember what happens when your good Shepherd leads you out of the dark valley of the shadow of death? You find a table set before you in the sight of your foes. Psalm 23:4-5. A feast of righteousness, reconciliation, deliverance, forgiveness, healing, provision, peace, and joy. And His banner over you? It is love. Song of Songs 2:4. Abide in His love and know the peace that surpasses understanding, for our great good Shepherd carries the lambs in His bosom, as He rescues us out of the wilderness of the realm of darkness to the beauty of the Kingdom of light. Isaiah 40:11; Colossians 1:12-14; Philippians 4:6-8. Even now. He gives His sheep eternal life. John 10:27-30; John 17:3.
Marana tha Ministries continues to spread the Gospel and to gather the faithful to come up higher in Christ as we stop looking back and look forward to a new day. We continue our ministry to help those in need with a place to live and thrive. Please join with us so that together, as the Body of Christ, we can continue to save souls for the Kingdom.
The LORD is pleased when you see Him as your helper and deliverer, especially from your own sins and failings, and not as your judge who is displeased and disappointed in you. He did not send Jesus to judge you but to save you and give you eternal life. John 3:16-17. And He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrews 13:8. Abide every day in His love. John 15:9. It is no longer YOUR fault, He has made you holy, blameless and beyond reproach. Colossians 1:21-22. He made peace through the Blood of His Cross. Colossians 1:20. His plans for us are Shalom! Jeremiah 29:11.
Shalom,
Bonnie
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