Suffering releases the divine life

Living in Christ

Christ as life

Christ living in us.

What wonderful expressions!!  Even before we touch the reality of these 3 beautiful states, there is joy in just uttering it or hearing it. 

But will the Lord wish that we know these truths outwardly?  Shouldn't we yearn to know the meaning of these expressions inwardly, as true experiences that lead to true happiness? (Psalms 19:14, Psalms 26:2, Deu 30:6, Psalms 7:10,)

The Lord is in us (2 Tim 1:14, Jam 4:5, 1John 4:12)

The Lord is the life in us (John 1:4, John 5:21, John 5:40, John 14:6, 1 Cor 15:45) and

We are living in the Lord (John 17:21, 1 Cor 1:30, Eph 2:6, 1 John 3:24).

If we say that we are living in Christ, then absolutely nothing can give us a shock (1 Pet 4:12).  Grief, joy, trouble, success, should not be a sudden surprise to us but everything should be for the glory of the Lord (1Pe 4:12).  Rather than being surprised and grieving during troubles and tribulations, the residents in Christ are partakers in His sufferings (Phil 1:29, 2Tim 1:8).  

The Lord knows our heart (Isa 1:20, 29:13), our inward parts more than we do?( Psalms 19:14, Psalms 26:2, Deu 30:6, Psalms 7:10,).  If the He sees trouble in our hearts, what will He do?  Say, if we have problem in forgiving someone, will He not arrange all things for us to learn and forgive someone with His forgiveness (Rom 8:28).  Yes He will.  Hallelujah.

Recently I learned this from the Lord.  Through an incident arranged by Him, He taught me that I lacked forgiveness.  I was offended by a person at my work place.  I was furious at him.  Many portion of the Bible came to my mind at that moment but it was futile.  I prayed but could not bring my heart to peace regarding that bitter incident.  I asked Lord Jesus, “I don’t understand Lord, why such a bitter thing happened?”  I continuously conversed with the Lord and walked with Him though more like a grumbling kid. 

Though I may think that everything is going fine, I lacked forgiveness which was clearly exposed by this bitter incident that happened with me.  It was like a disease being exposed after some tests.  The Lord exposed it and then pursued to quarantine it.  I was trying to forgive the person who offended me with my own natural ability which was impossible for me.  Even if I am able to forgive the person this time, what will happen if the same person does the same offence again?  It was not easy as I thought.  I learnt that my forgiveness should be replaced by Christ Himself that I may forgive a person seven times seventy (Mat 18:22).  This is truly achievable when I am living in the Lord, He is living in me and the Lord is the life in me.  Amen.  Then I produced the right forgiveness which God desired. 

That is our Loving Lord.  He will not give up on us.  He is a conqueror and will not rest until He makes all His overcomers (1Jn 5:4) more than conquerors (Rom 8:37).  Amen.

A couple of days later, I visited a blood bank to donate blood to an acquaintance.  For the first time, I understood that there was an eligibility test before the blood donation.  My blood passed the eligibility test.  Right in that crowded blood bank, I received the dispensation of the Lord.  The whole test procedure turned out to be a pure gospel session which was directly ministered by the Holy Spirit to me.  The test conductor mercilessly pierced my finger and pressed it hard to collect a few drops of blood.  The finger pained for a couple of days after that.  

Not long, I understood the great spiritual truth behind it.  What a wonderful truth it is! 

The finger was a member of the body, just as I am a member of the Body of Christ (Eph 1:22-23, Eph 5:30).  When something pierced me, I cried and complained to the Lord.  I was stuck with the Lord who is the Head of the Body which is His church today.  Though the pain was in the finger, it was the head which calculated and felt the pain and planned the future course of action to comfort the troubled part.  In the same way Christ knows the future course of remedial actions for the piercings that we suffer in Him. 

The needle which was used to prick my finger was for a single use.  It was lifeless and its place after its purpose is in the dust bin.  Today, the Lord uses many needles of the world (unbelievers) for our own good and our being increased with Him.  The people of world may think that they are doing something against you, but it is the Lord who is using all things for good to those who love Him and walk according to Him (Rom 8:28).  Poor unbelievers, they are already dead without the salvation offered by God in Lord Jesus Christ and yet they are laboring so that the Lord’s believers may receive an increase in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Without a piercing, the blood will not flow out of body.  And the world needs only the blood of Christ for their salvation, so this is the standard to qualify.  When the lovers of the Lord suffer and glorify the Lord in the sufferings, they are partakers of the Lord’s cross which is producing life in them.  The world desperately needs this outflow of life, so they test a believer whether he or she really has the life of the Lord inside them.  Our Lord’s blood has passed the test of the righteous requirement of Father God on the cross and now it needs to flow out into the dying people of the world.  So let us not complain, think that something strange has happened when we receive the piercings or sufferings (Rom 8:17, 2Tim 3:12).  It is all for the life of the Lord to flow out of us.  Thank God that we are qualified and passed the eligibility by the blood of the Lord as life in us.  Let us abide in Him to allow the Lord’s life to flow out of us, though for a short while we may suffer if need be.  Endure such sufferings as the soldier of Christ (2Tim 2:3).  Amen. 

Prayer:

Lord Jesus we believe You.  We have passed the eligibility test because of Your work on the cross for sinners like me.  Lord, Your life is in us as the life- giving Spirit and the world around me needs this flow of Your life.  Lord we pray for Your mighty grace to sustain us as means of Your outflow of divine life.  Lord, we were the highway people but now You have chosen us to be Your children.  We thank You so much for the divine life.  Amen.  

JESUS, GOD'S SALVATION

History of man's fall

The Lord is restoring the creation back to its actual condition before the fall of man (Col 1:17).  It was a glorious creation when it was formed out of nothing by the Word of God.  In the beginning, after giving His final touches each day, God took a step back and admired it.  He saw that it was good (Gen 1:10, 1:12).  For the perfect God, to see something as good, meant that it was good indeed.  God’s good would be man’s unimaginable high standard (1 Chron 29:11-13).  At this peak, Satan, entered the scene (Gen 3:1).  He corrupted the rich and glorious creation.  He didn't do this alone, but by partnering with man’s self (Gen 3:1-7).  As for the mankind, they are yet to know to what depths this corruption had destroyed them, with no realization of man's pre-fall glorious state.  This sinful alliance of Satan and man has robbed the entire human generations of many blessings.  A few aftereffects of this mischief was that man lost God’s presence (Gen 3:24), riches, rest(Gen 3:17), and brought upon him pain(Gen 3:16), sicknesses and ‘death’ (Gen 3:19).  Not just man but the entire creation was dragged into the curse.  Today the creation is in bondage.  One life is just meat to another (Rom 8:19-22).  For the first time soon after the glorious creation, thorns started to grow out of the land (Gen 3:18).  Oh, what a fall! 

Man’s present condition

Adam fell in disobedience and in him all died (1 Cor 15:22).  Now all are constituted in sin (Rom 5:19). 

God’s plan after man’s fall

God saw Adam’s disobedience (Gen 3:1-7).  He didn't just wipe-out the disobedient man and create a new one in the his place as it was just the beginning, but instead the Almighty God chose to demonstrate His love and victory by trying to uplift the fallen man (Gen 3:21).  He sent the Spirit of the Son Jesus Christ (Gal 4:6) in the likeness of flesh to make sons (Heb 2:10) out of the fallen man.  For the righteous God, it was the grandest thing to do.  He as revealed in the Bible chose to make the serpent realize what its position is before Him, prior to His great judgment reserved for all evilness.  In His exceeding love for man, He first gave a promise to Adam, “you have brought upon yourselves ‘death’, but I will give you a Seed who will crush the serpent’s head.  The evil one will bruise this Seed a little, but that will be the price for your disobedience, which will be paid in full.   It is a part of my grand plan for your sake” (Gen 3:15).

When man fell, he brought upon himself the wrath of God and Sin entered the world through him and death ruled over him (Rom 5:12).  As the result, the mighty Adam was reduced to a perishable man.  Even before a person's death, the knowledge of his death killed him already by instigating fear in him.  Now death ruled in this manner.  The entrance of sin into the world brought a constitutional change inside all creatures.  The basic constituent of man became sin (Rom 5:19).  We are sinners not because we sinned but we sinned because we are born sinners (Psalms 51:5).  We are a building made of bricks and mortar of sin. 

Why God hates outwardly-ness?

The utmost need of man is to address this grave issue of the corrupted inward constitution.  God now has to recover man and reconstitute him back to his old self in righteousness.  We most often pray and proclaim the need to be in Spirit and walking in the spirit.  Every second of our actually being in the spirit gives room and time to the work of God in our inward parts.  Sin is a sickness which had captivated man and is leading him to death (Rom 6:14).  If a sick person puts a lot of makeup and outward adornments, it will not make him any better but instead he is deceiving himself.  This is what the Lord hates, the pretension and ignorance of Man of his actual sinful state.  Religion, Nicolaitans (Rev 2:6), teachings of Balaam (Rev 2:14), Judaizers (Rev 2:9, Mat 12:34) are all the fruits of this pretension and hypocrisy of the partnership of flesh and Satan. 

The Lord’s focus

The Lord is focused to enter us and reconstitute us that we may not only be rescued, but also reign in life (Rome 5:17).  This is a reward reserved for the overcomers in New Jerusalem- being kings and priests of God (Rev 1:6, 5:10). 

In short

Those who believe in the Lord will not perish but shall have eternal life (John 3:16) irrespective of their works (Ro 11:6 Eph 2:8).  The good works are not securing salvation for  the believers and hence by their works, they will not be condemned either (Joh 10:27-28).   But there is an issue of the inward constitution.  

                  "If you happen to visit a rich and beautiful bungalow, what will you do if your shoes and feet were covered with mud and dirt?  Will you not ask the master of the rich mansion to provide some water to clean up, or will not the master help you out in your cleaning up process?  Yes, Brothers and Sisters we are welcome to the mansion of the Lord irrespective of our filth and sin  by our faith in Him alone, but before entering the mansion there is a cleaning process which are the dealings of the Lord in our lives to transform us today."

The Lord is very clear about this that no unclean thing will enter heaven again (Rev 21:8). Today by the Lord’s mercy our constitution work is carried out by Him like a Shepherd in love and patience (Psalms 23:1, Joh 10:3, 1Pe 2:25).  But if we are not transformed, then this work will continue in the outer darkness (Mt 22:13, Mt 25:30), by the hurting of the second death (Re 2:11, Re 20:14 ) and in the fervent fire (1 Cor 3:15).  There is not much description about this outer darkness in the scriptures except that it will be a place and period of extreme tribulation and grief, a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth.  The Bible  says that the transformation work of the sons of the kingdom (Mat 8:12), Christians without the wedding garment (Mat 22:13), unprofitable servants (Mat 25:30), wicked servants (Mat 18:34), will continue to take place during the millennium age in the outer darkness when the Lord in His second coming, will draw the curtain over this present age of grace.  He will judge the believers and the ones worthy will receive reward from Him(Rev 22:12, Rev 1:7, 1:11, 1:17, 1:26, 2:5, 2:12, 2:21).  He will enter the new glorious millennial age with the saints who were watchful with full of oil in their lamps (Mat 25:1-13). 

No man who believes in the Lord will perish forever (Joh 10:27-28), but if he needs more dealings from the Lord to reconstitute him in the image of God, then he will be cast out prior to the millennial age as part of the believers’ judgment.  The Lord will begin His reign over the earth with his overcomers (Rev 1:6, 5:10) for a thousand years.  The careless believers who were thus punished by the true Judge of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ, will not leave the outer darkness until they pay the last farthing (Mat 5:26); until they are fully transformed.  After the millennial age, the old heaven and earth will pass away (2 Pet 3:10) and every one will enter the eternal life as promised by the Lord.  Hallelujah.

What we can do today

Let us cooperate with the Lord in truth and spirit.  This cooperation with Him is the confession of all our sins and repenting for it.  The Lord is merciful and His love is abundant.  Live, worship, fellowship, converse, pray, praise and walk with Him while He transforms you into His image today.  Have a fresh start with the Lord.  Blessings be upon you.  Hallelujah, Christ is the way.    

Have you experienced such a salvation?

If you have not experienced such a salvation yet, then do understand that the all inclusive and Almighty God is trying to enter you as the overcoming Seed who will crush the sin in you and add joy to your life.  Everything (Col 3:11) is for the Lord and in the Lord and hence He in His sovereignty has arranged everything around us for this sole purpose of entering you and gather you into His household (Joh 10:1-13). 

Let us Pray

Lord Jesus, I love you because you loved me first.  Even when I was an enemy you died for me and reconciled me to You.  Thank You for dying on the cross in my place.  Now Lord I repent for my sins.  I pray unto the Mighty and loving Holy Spirit to bring to my mind all the un-confessed sins of my life that I may confess and repent for it.  Lord I don’t know how to follow You or how to pray or how to read the Bible.  Please guide me and equip me that I may have this joy of Your presence inside me as the overcoming Seed.  Praise You Lord.  Amen.

I welcome your comments, suggestions etc..  Please do write to me. 

May the Lord’s name be glorified, Amen.  

O Father Thou art evergreen

Praise the Father for His everlasting love.  He is ever new; ever fresh.
Hallelujah He lives forever. Amen.

1.  Our Father, as the evergreen,
Thou art forever new;
Thou art the ever living Lord,
Thy freshness as the dew.

O Father, Thou art unchanging,
Thou never hast grown old;
Thru countless ages, ever fresh,
Thy newness doth unfold.

2.  O Thou art God, and Thou art "new";
Without Thee all is worn,
But all with Thee is ever fresh,
Though many years have gone.

3.  Each blessing Thou hast given us
Thy newness doth contain;
Thy covenant, Thy ways are new,
And ever thus remain.

4.  Now we Thy new creation are
New spirit and new heart;
We're daily from the old renewed,
New life Thou dost impart.

5.  The earth and heavens will be new
And Thy new city share;
New fruits each month will be supplied,
For all is newness there.

6.  O Father, Thou art ever new,
And all is new in Thee;
We sing the new eternal song,
New praise we give to Thee.

Love one another

Let there be no divisions among us.

I beseech you brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no division among us (1Co 1:10).  Let no one bisect the church which is the body of Christ.  The church is universal.  There is only one Body and it is the universal Body of our Lord Jesus Christ comprising all the believers (Ro 12:4-5).  As we all know that there is no separate Christ for Protestants or Catholics or Presbyterian or Brethrens.  Let us ask ourselves who created the denominations, and the divisions among the believers.  The Bible clearly says that there should not be division among us.  We should not be called as of Apollo’s or of Paul or Cephas or of Christ (1Co 1:12).  It is Satan with the help of immature man.  There is one Lord (Eph 4:3-5) and His body is universal.   Bible even forbids divisions in the name of Christ. 

Let us ponder upon an illustration.  Say a group of believers have come together in the name of the Lord and sometime later they give a name to that group and call it a ‘so and so’ church.   Then after a while the same group becomes successful in establishing a group of believers elsewhere and gives the same name, ‘so and so’ church to it.  Now it is obvious that this particular group of believers want others to know that they are separate from the other Christians.  For example, ‘Church of Christ’ is a phrase which explains the universality of the church.  Now if we take this phrase and claim it to be ours and name our church then it becomes a group out of the universal church who has separated themselves with the name ‘church of Christ’.  If you still don’t get it then my question for you to think about is ‘Will this group of saints name the church established through them in another locality as ‘church of Lord Jesus’ whereas the meaning is the same as that of ‘Church of Christ’.  The saints don’t do that because they have their own little ambition behind it.  They want ‘their church’ to grow and become great among the many groups of Christians. 

Do not name the church as the church is universal and we the believers are the members of the same and the only Christ.  It is the Lord who calls individuals into the sheepfold.  As the saints come together, they try to give an identity to their church.  The church is and should be identified by its locality.  By learning the scriptures we understand this great truth that there is one universal body and it is identified with each locality.  For example church in Rome, Church in Ephesus, Church in Smyrna, church in Corinth and so on. In Revelation 2, the Lord Himself identifies seven churches according to the locality and this is the church ground, Amen Lord for this great vision.  Church is identified with locality.  We don’t say church in Asia, but churches in Asia (1Co 16:19).  No matter who you are, if you do not see this vision of the universal body, then you are one among the divided group in Christianity.  It is not the Lord’s work but the work of men.  The Lord when he sees a locality, He will not see separately at the Pentecostal Christians and Methodist Christians, but He looks in the locality (Rev 2:1- 3:22) and the church in the locality which is beyond all this denominations and divisions.  There may many dramas going on in the name of the church, but our dear Lord who looks into the hearts of men (Ac 1:24, Pr 21:2, Mt 9:4) has an account of His true lovers (Joh 10:3), cares and nourishes them in the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:23-28).  Hallelujah.

Faith initially is produced by the working of the Triune God.  God the Father chose His sons before the foundation of the universe (Eph 1:4), God the Spirit sanctified the chosen ones (Joh 14:26, Ro 8:14) and God the Son made His home in the chosen ones (Ro 8:9, Gal 2:20).  But over a period of time, the church is corrupted by satan, man’s natural self, and the world.  I will try to give two illustrations to enlighten you. 

1)       If by the love of the Lord and my love for Him, I get up at 0430 am for worshipping, praying, and praising God or for a quiet morning fellowship with the Lord.  It is a very good blessed thing which the Spirit has revealed to me.  Now this is grace, a free gift of the spirit.  We do things in the liberty of the Spirit because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2Co 3:17).  I do it willingly because the Lord’s grace.  If I tell the next generation to get up 4:30 am, this is my addition to the Spirit’s revelation.  This becomes an act of my Self.  Not only that but I progress in my Self and lay down rules and procedures for this morning spiritual time.  Though this was a Spirit’s revelation to me and I used my natural mind and made it into a tradition.  The next generation gets up 4:30 and does the worship as I had instructed them to.  And then they pass it on to the next generation.  They too get up in the morning and do the rituals.  By this time men do this as a tradition or as a ritual without exercising the spirit.  There is not fruit in such a thing as it is not in the Spirit.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth (Joh 4:24).  Then a few more generations later, this becomes a full-fledged religion.  The people start to think that if they didn’t get up 4:30 am, they have wronged God and God will hate them.  They will condemn one another and starts to persecute one another.  Lord the Spirit is inexhaustible.  Let us worship Him in love, even if we follow the traditions of the fathers, let us be in the Spirit then there will be life and no burden; love, no condemnation; peace, no guilt.  Everything happens for good to those who are in Spirit (Ro 8:28). 

2)      This was an actual experiment performed to study the behavioral pattern of an intelligent species of monkey.  A cage had seven of these monkeys, a water sprinkler on the top of the cage and some bananas hanging next to a ladder inside it.  One monkey jumped up the ladder to grab a banana but suddenly the water sprinkler was operated inside the whole cage.  The monkey was frightened jumps down the ladder.  A few times more, the monkeys understood that something was wrong when they climbed the ladder to pick the bananas.  Now the water sprinkler was disabled and a monkey out of the seven was also replaced with a fresh one.  This new monkey when it saw the banana unaware the previous sprinkler ordeals, tried to climb the ladder, but the remaining 6 pulled him down and thrashed him.  Then a little later another old monkey was replaced with a fresher.  This one too tried to climb up the ladder, but the remaining monkeys thrashed the hell out of him.  Then another fellow was replaced and he too had a similar fate.  Then it happened after sometime that all the monkeys were replaced progressively.  At this point the scene was such that there was bunch of ripe colorful bananas hanging near to a ladder.  None of the new monkeys knew anything about the sprinkler.  No monkey dared to climb the ladder.  They knew one think, if anyone tried to climb the ladder, he should be thrashed. 

Isn’t this today’s scenario in our churches with denominations.  “Everyone is doing and so I am doing” attitude is the experimental monkey’s attitude.  It is just plain ignorance.  The priest wearing fancy robes and peculiar accent doing some acts in front of the altar is more like a drama than a desirable worship for God.  These altars are immediately covered with veils after the so called worship which is a complete eye was.  The actual veil is rent by the Lord Almighty at the cross, and now who are these men to put new veil between the altar and the Lord’s believers.  They do certain priestly acts in a particular way.  Ask them why they do it, you will hear reply like a heathen temple priest.  Praise the Lord, for we are recovered from such futility and bondage.  Hallelujah, now we can enjoy and experience God, Amen.  Hallelujah our God is enterable, experiencable and enjoyable, Amen.

Divisions are from Man

God unifies His beloved and scatters the unrighteous.  He is our Almighty Father who has chosen us before the foundation of the universe.  Unrighteousness and ungodliness has caused separations and divisions among the Christians right from the Apostles time.  This is the work of Satan who is the father of deception and lies.  Sin and Satan divided mankind from God right from the beginning in the Garden of Eden.  Cain was scattered because he was deceived by Satan and made him want independence from God.  He didn’t care about God’s need and his upliftment from the fallen state and worshipped God according to his way.  He didn’t offer sacrifice like Abel.  Then the next fall came when people built the tower of Babel, the ultimate proclamation of independence from God.  By this time you know what God would have done; He scattered them. 

There is one body, one church, one baptism, one Lord. (Eph 4:4-6) Do not say that you are of Apollo’s or of Paul’s or of Christ (1Co 1:12).  For Christ is not divided.  If you try to raise a building independent of the universal body, then it is your tower of Babel and you will be scattered shortly says the Bible.

God’s way is recovery.  He recovered the Earth from the waters (Gen 1:2).  He recovered Israel from Egypt.  The church from the apostle’s time until this day travelled through persecution and corruption (the Greek mythology mingling with the pure word of God soon after Constantine became a Christian).  Though the church suffered yet it marched even through the Dark Age by the grace of our dear Lord Jesus Christ.  It was a period when the scripture was locked up by the enemy for nearly 400 years.  All the while the Lord worked, spoke and moved to unify and raise His beloved church.  But Satan created more and more divisions through man’s self and sin.  When persecution and killings couldn’t deter the move of the Lord through His beloved saints, he posed as a friend of the saints.  Even to the extent in the last days, when he will understand that this tactic also failed, he would post as an Angel of light (2Co 11:14).  Hallelujah the church will march because the Lord is marching.

The Scripture is opened to all today more than any time of the history.  The truths are manifested for all to see; it is no more a mystery or pieces of puzzle.  The word is in abundance and the means are numerous.  There was a time in History when dear saints waited for years and walked miles to get a hold on a copy of Bible.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jones_and_her_Bible) Now I have at least more than a couple of dozens of Bible in different formats all around me.  O Lord how blessed we are! This is the age of grace, abundance and oneness.  The Lord in these last days is recovering the church.  There are no natural qualities or worldliness in the recovered saints, but they share the divine quality of the Lord who is in them.  These dear saints have very thin outer shell which had been broken (Read this wonderful book ‘The breaking of the outer man and the release of the Spirit’ by Brother Watchman Nee http://www.ministrybooks.org/books.cfm?id=26EA)

There outer man of these broken saints does not prevent the Christ in them to flow out into others.  It is no longer they live but Christ living through them and in them, Amen.  This is the ultimate purpose of God’s creation, God and man mingling together in their spirits.  These are the ones who had undergone the sanctification of the Holy Spirit and have been dealt with their sinful and worldly part.  They love the Lord and His body which is the church.  They are builders of the church.  When I say they are ‘builders of the church’ do not think that these builders are architects, brick layers or building constructors.  They are the church builders.  Church is the spiritual home of our God in the world.  The church is the dwelling place of Lord Jesus.  What works of hands can accommodate this great God.  Is there s a building which can contain God? (1Ki 8:27)  So it is a spiritual home, the church. If the members are gathered in the name of Lord Jesus in a football ground, then it doesn’t mean that there is no church but the gathering is the church.  The church is the group of vessels holding the Lord coming together.  This is the work of the Lord (Mt 21:42) and how marvelous it is to behold when men come in Spirit to worship the Almighty in spirit and truth (Joh 4:24).  ‘In spirit’ does mean that everyone shout and jump and also ‘in Spirit’ doesn’t mean that everyone shout and jump.  In spirit is in spirit with the Lord’s Spirit and enjoy the liberty that it brings forth (2Co 3:17).  There is no hypocrisy in it.  It isn’t a tradition or a law.  We are joined to the Lord’s Spirit (1Co 6:17).  The worship will be God led. 

The ones of God will be in the Body caring for the unity of the Body in these last days.  Our churches may be many because of Satan’s intervention, but the saints wherever they are should come to the Lord in prayer, praises and worship.  Our King will break gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron and flow into us the ultimate joy and abundant life (Psalms 107:16).  Any so called Christian seeing other brothers and hates him have not God in him (1 Joh 4:20).  Your knowledge in the doctrines may be superior and you may talk in tongues, but if you don’t have love.  You are inferior to all.  Love is above all.  Let us love one another. 

Let us talk of the recovery; Let us talk of the Body of Christ.  Let us be in the unity of the Spirit.

From the comfort of the pastures through the Calvary,
Shepherd, Lead us while we sing the song of eternity,
To the mountain of pleasing breeze and life shining,
sons and the hosts sing glory to the everlasting king.
Amen

May the Lord’s name  be glorified.  Amen

A Triumphant Entry

 

A colt’s Story

The Lord instructed His disciples to bring a donkey and a colt to Him (Mat 21:7) for His triumphal entry to Jerusalem before the Passover.   A colt is a young foal of an ass (Zech 9:9, Mat 21:5).  Riding on a colt, the Lord displayed His meekness and lowliness to His creation.  In a Broader sense, the Lord Almighty left His eternal abode descended in to the midst of mankind and displayed His love and meekness.  His deeds and words were according to His great wisdom (1 Cor 1:24) for the glory of the Father.  The Lord could have just entered the city of Jerusalem riding a shining white horse followed by thousands of white horses.  The religious disbelieving Jewish people would have wanted to see such a spectacle while they sought signs from Him (Mt 12:39).  Instead the Lord chose a colt as His ride during His triumphal entry.  He gave no signs to mere amusers and faithless spectators (Mt 16:4).  Man is in a fallen state and his salvation is the Lord.  The Lord and His crucifixion is his only cure (Nu 21:9, John 3:14).  Looking unto the Lord alone will alone remove many veils from his heart blinding him from seeing the glory of God.  The Lord has reserved the shining white horse's part for the future (Re 19:11) and He attended the immediate need of man that is to dispense Himself to man.   Our need today is this pure and holy Heavenly Portion without any element of religion, law or burden which is the Person of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Hallelujah. 

The donkey signifies the church (entire believers of the Lord).  The colt is a foal of ass signifies the Overcomers produced by the church.  The Lord chose the colt not directly, but by sending his disciples in search of it.  Even in this age, we received Lord's word through some disciples who are sent by the Lord.  This is known as election.  God’s elect throughout ages are chosen according to His foreknowledge (1Pe 1:2).  The Lord sends the word through His disciples to bring the elects to the triumphal entry throughout the centuries and He is still doing it.  So becoming the Overcomers of the Lord does not mean that believers are chosen by the merits of their labor, but they are simply chosen by the Lord.  And this position of being the Lord’s choice will produce the required merits.  These are the people who…. overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death (Rev 12:11).  So to be the Lord’s Overcomer is to become His choice and to become His choice we need more and more grace and cover ourselves with the blood of the Lamb.  Second is to have a strong testimony for the Lord and third is not to love one’s life even unto death.  Hallelujah what an election!

The Lord’s triumphal entry to Jerusalem highlights that how in a short while He was about to put an end to all religious and satanic rule with one strike on the Cross.  It is a celebratory march to mark the beginning of the new age of grace, Hallelujah.  Young colt, the Lord’s Overcomers which He produced through the church are the undefiled ones which the Lord chose to enter into the city.  The Lord was not ashamed of the colt because He knows who He is, a triumphant King.  He is beautiful without any outward make up.  He is the real royalty without outward proclamations.  His Overcomers are not defiled by the idols of the world.  No man has ever sat on it means that for this Lord’s chosen group, there is absolutely no one, no saints, no statues, no rituals, and no religion other than the Lord Jesus Christ.  The young colt and the overcomers of the Lord today are the same.  The Lord loves them and chooses them out of the world.  When they (disciples) said to the people that the Lord has need for this colt, no one opposed.  The Lord’s chosen ones are separated from the world in such a wonderful manner.  There is no one in between the Lord and his loved ones.  They are a mingled spirit born to be glorified.  Hallelujah.

When the Lord entered Jerusalem, the people welcomed Him laying their garments and olive and palm leaves.  The Lord was not actually walking on their garments, but the colt.  If the Lord is in us, people may receive us just like this.  We should understand that we are just His colt and the glory is to the Lord who is in us.  Today many priests and pastors are praise themselves and boast as though they had done something great for such praises.  They are forgetting that they are just the colts and the actual glory and praises are for the Lord if they believe that the Lord is in them.  People are singing to welcome the King who is great and powerful and not the colt.  The Lord’s chosen never boast and they know that the glory and praises belong to the Lord.  Likewise the Overcomers of this age carry the Lord in their hearts and their spirits is regenerated and give Him glory.  When the Lord will come again at the end of this age, the Lord will be on a white horse (Re 19:11).  Hallelujah, the colt is transformed into a shining white horse.  Likewise the Overcomers of the Lord too will put on (1Cor 15:53-54) glory along with the Lord in His second coming through living a life of colt undefiled by the world in this age.  They too will shine (Re 5:10; 20:6).  Hallelujah. 

Let us desire to be the colts of the Lord and carry Him in our hearts wherever we are.  Let the Lord’s name be glorified always.  Let nothing other than the Lord enter us and we may be the Lord’s ride when He enters triumphantly the New Jerusalem.  When the colt is ready the Lord can enter Jerusalem triumphantly and we know that the colt is nothing and King is everything.  In the same way, in Rev 12:5-10, there is a mention of a man-child which is the Overcomers. Here after the man-child is raptured, the woman, signifying the church during the tribulation period, is driven to the wilderness.  There she is being protected and nourished by the Lord (Rev12:14).  Soon after this Satan is thrown out of the Heaven permanently (Rev 12:9).  The Last time when he was thrown out, he however had an access to the Almighty along with the sons of God when they reported to God (Job 1:6).  Hence the Overcomers are a bad sign for Satan.  Whoever Satan is threatened of being an Overcomer today or has a potential to become one in the coming days, then don’t be surprised when he frustrates and demoralizes this person.  But Hallelujah like always after the negative things, God brings His blessings and recovery.  After the old serpent that is Satan is thrown out of the heaven, Christ is glorified and the Kingdom is God is come. Hallelujah.  See what a colt can do to Satan.  Let us live a life of purity and holiness resisting the flesh and soul.  We are chosen by the Lord not because we were different or talented but we were simply His choice.  Let us overcome by the blood of the Lamb, have a great testimony and not love our soul life even unto death.  This is grace.  Oh what a grace.  Hallelujah.  Amen.  

The Living Bread

God’s Invitation to the disciples and the multitudes to His heavenly feast

The feeding of the five thousand

The feeding of the five thousand is an amazing incident in the Bible which always has something new to offer every time one reads it.  There is grandeur in this portion of the scriptures where the King is out in the middle feeding the multitude.  There is no mention of what the Lord exactly taught the people.  For whatever He taught was for the multitude present at that time since it is not mentioned for us.  But what we have here is the Lord’s work which gives glory and eminence to the Person of Christ Himself.  So the events in this riverside deserted place with our dear Lord as the centre unveils the wisdom and purpose of the Holy Spirit to put it on record for us who are reading today.  The whole incident is a prophecy of the coming grace age where we will feed upon the heavenly bread (John 6:35) until the Lord’s second coming.  It was a foretaste of the Heavenly feast with the King of kings. 

The Background

the world today

The Lord withdrew along with his disciple to a deserted place after the religious people rejected him and the death of the forerunner, John the Baptist.  The notes from ‘The Holy Bible the recovery version’ give us a good understanding about the significance of the Lord’s withdrawal from the city to a deserted place. 

Matt. 14:13 ‘withdrew’

                Because He had been rejected by the people in religious, cultured, and political circles, the heavenly King departed from them and withdrew to a deserted place privately. This indicates that thenceforth He would hide Himself in a deserted place, in a place without culture, away from the religious, cultured, and political circles. He did this by means of a boat, implying that He would do this through the church. Because He has been rejected by the civilized world, the Lord, through the church, has always hidden Himself in a realm without much culture, away from religious and political circles.

                   The Lord though rejected by the religious hard nuts was a joyous and mysterious person who attracted crowd like a magnet.  His yoke is easy to bear and His presence so warm and loving.  His words were few but full of life and grace.  What a wonderful person is our dear Lord!!  His life was not only words and doctrines, but full of wisdom, love and glorious deeds.  The Lord took a boat ride towards this deserted place with His chosen disciples.  When the people came to know about this, they followed on foot from the cities to meet Him.  This is an excellent prophetic message from God the Spirit for this generation.  Today the Lord is in a deserted place withdrawn from the religious society and the sin infested world along with His disciples.  Hallelujah, people from the city are on the foot to meet the Christ who is in the deserted, lowly place.  The city is a worldly place full of earthly entanglements and sin.  Satan has penetrated every system of the city.  This was already left by the Lord and His few faithful lovers.  The city people are leaving on foot (paying the price) to meet this great Christ who is full of grace and joy on a daily basis.  Mark 6:33 says that people ran to meet the Lord.  We need to run to meet this great Lord who is the only meaning in this futile fallen world.  People speak about investment and security for future while there is no surety about their tomorrow.  What meaninglessness!

                The King of kings seeing the multitude moved with compassion because they were like sheep without Shepherd (Mark 6:34).  He began to teach them and heal them out of His great compassion.  Time passed by and the hour became late.  The hour was late signifies the age of darkness and dangers with scarcity of food.  In such a critical situation, the disciples suggested the Lord to let the people go, but the Lord sought earnestly to glorify God the Father, told the disciples to give the multitude something to eat.  He was not mocking the disciples as He knew the disciples ability.  Today the Lord instructs us in the same way as He told the disciples.  He wants His disciples of today to feed the multitude of this age.  You might think that He knows my ability and then how can He ask such a formidable thing from me.  Hallelujah, because He knows our ability He asks this from the disciple.  It is never the ability of the disciples but His strength and power of the Triune God behind the disciples.  Amen. 

                The disciples gave some brilliant suggestions to the Lord which He discarded immediately.  The Lord is steadfast and stuck to His demand.  He said to disciples, “You give something to eat.” Mark 6:37.  Let us see the abilities of the disciples when the Lord said that.  They had 200 denarii.  It was definitely not possible to feed a multitude.  Their second ability was finding a boy with 5 loaves and 2 fishes which was again meager.  The Lord didn’t permit the disciples to go to the market to buy food for 200 denarii and then do the miracle with it.  It was already late.  The real need of the multitudes of all the ages (John 6:31) was the pure heavenly bread which is the Lord Jesus Christ (John 6:33-35, 6:48) without the mixture of any human elements.  He didn’t directly make bread and fish out of nothing.  But instead He took the five loaves and two fishes, blessed it and broke the loaves of the bread and then gave the pieces to the disciples.  Then the disciples gave it to the multitude.  The Lord’s earthly life was sacrificed to give us our real food in such a manner to feed the multitude.  His body that was broke is our heavenly manna which will give eternal life (John 6:54).  This is particularly mentioned in all the gospels that the Lord made the disciple distribute the bread to the multitude (Luke 14:15).  The disciples of today are filled with the life giving Spirit (1 Cor 15:45 Rom 8:9)

                The Lord gave thanks to the Father and broke the bread which signifies that the Lord is the living bread (John 6:51) who had broken Himself willingly (John 6:51) on the cross to be distributed because they were like people without a Shepherd.  He also instructed to break bread in remembrance of Him (1 Cor. 11:24, Mark 14:22).  The Lord gave thanks to the Father for the glory He is about to receive from the creation.  The hour was late indicates that there was still time for the feast to take place before the actual darkness.  The green grass and the orderliness indicate how the Lord recovered the same rest and orderliness which Adam through sin had lost.  The multitude for ages were wandering and seeking the Lord.  They travelled from the city to the wilderness.  Finally they met the Lord and now they were orderly seated in the green pastures in the deserted place.  It was a grand event.  Food came from nowhere in abundance.  The multitude was filled, every one of them.  In this age the gospel will be preached throughout the world, and they will be filled until the Lord will outweigh the multitude.  The Lord is infinite and inexhaustible.  Who ever goes to Him will never go hungry (John 6:35) and He will never drive anyone away even though the hour is late (John 6:37).  The bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. 

                Today He is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven.  He is giving the bread to the multitudes through his lovers.  He needs disciples to fulfill this task, a few ordinary people who will set this heavenly bread before the multitudes.  Our ability is just 5 loaves and 2 fish which is nothing when you have some 20,000 mouths to feed.  So when He breaks our effort which is almost nothing, it is increased by a 10,000%.  His riches will never get exhausted, but after everyone ate and filled, they still gathered many baskets of bread in abundance.

                The faster we realize we don’t have a Shepherd, the faster we will run for Jesus.  The faster we reach Lord Jesus (on foot, effort) the sooner the Son of God will have compassion on us.  The sooner His healing work and the feeding of the heavenly bread begins through His disciples of this age whose ability is nothing.  The sooner you ate and get filled, the quicker the abundance of the Lord can be seen when the baskets of fragments of heavenly bread is left in excess. 

Now you don’t stop there, but answer the heavenly calling and love the Lord (disciple), the sooner you admit that all you have is a portion which is nothing compared to the portion the Lord needs, the sooner you take it to the Lord, the sooner He breaks it and give it back to you.  You will distribute it to the multitude for their salvation.  At the end you will still be carrying the remaining baskets of heavenly bread.  The Holy kingdom is a place of abundance, and The Lord’s hands will never cease giving.  You will be tired taking the bread from Him, but He will not be tired giving it to you. 

Disciples said to the Lord

This place is deserted and there is a multitude without Shepherd and the hour is late.  The hour is late means there will be a time of darkness soon, but still there was time when the Disciples of Christ realized this.  The hour is late but there will be time ahead, which will be full of dangers from beasts, and robbers.  If they don’t act now, they will be exposed to dangers, will not find a place to sleep and will not find food.  The hour is late now, but it will be too late soon.  The fig tree (Israel) has blossomed; the summer is going to come (Mt 24:32, 33; Mark 13:28; Lu 21:30).  Are we a Christian with great doctrinal knowledge without love or deeds of Christ?  Our Lord was a person with warmth and love.  Are we like the Lord or are our words full of condemning doctrines without love?  When it comes to the real life situation do we behave like the worldly people? 

The end is nearing, let’s be filled with the bread from heaven, be it one from the multitude or the disciples let us be filled.  Let us love with the love of our Lord.  Let us not condemn one another but build one another with pure heart full of our dear Lord Jesus Christ.  

Hallelujah, Christ is the way.  Amen

As in the days of Noah

Scripture readings: Mat 24:37-38, Gen 6:5-14, 2 Cor 5:1

         My burden in this message is to tell you about how the time of the second coming of the Lord is so near.  And how man needs the ark, the church for his salvation.  The Ark accomplishes two great things - 1) Salvation from God's judgment.  The Lord as the coming flood will save us (1 Pet 3:20) from today's world of wickedness, continual evil (Gen 6:5), fleshly corruptions (Gen 6:12), violence (Gen 6:13) 

2)   Escape from the terror of the Lord(2 Cor 5:10-11) 

          Our days are similar to the days of Noah.  We have to watch eagerly for the Lord's coming.  The signs for the Lord's coming is ripe and all the events told by the Lord has come to pass.   Let us all who are believers of the eternal hope come together in love of the Lord which is pure and kind (1 Cor 13:1-13)

The Lord's coming like a flood.

Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Mat 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying  
                and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they  

                sold, they planted, they builded;

Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven,   
                 and destroyed them all.

Luk 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

            The coming of the Lord is likened to the flood that took everything away (and raining fire and brimstone from heaven, which destroyed the wicked people in Luk 17:29).  Since the Lord Himself has given us a hint that His coming would be so abrupt like the flood in the days of Noah, Let us take a closer look at the lifestyle of the people during Noah's time.  Why is Noah's story so important to us? What is significant about the ark itself whose dimensions were revealed by God, the Almighty to Noah personally.  

Lord Jesus, our Ark of salvation

           When the flood came Noah, his family and all the living creatures chosen by God in the Ark were saved.  The Ark typifies Christ as the full embodiment of God the Father (Col. 2:9) - For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,. Today if the Lord comes, Hallelujah, don't worry, there is an ark which will save us, The Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  He is the Ark which saves not only us but our entire household (Heb 11:7).  By faith Noah entered the ark and by faith we enter Christ.  Amen.

            Our eternal salvation is secured by the Lord's atoning death for us.  This we proudly call 'saved by grace'.  This work of God is once and for all.  Absolutely nothing can change this.  We need yet another salvation, which is our daily salvation from the wicked, continually evil generation. Noah walked with God and found grace in the eyes of God.  It means he had already secured his eternal salvation, but he still needed an ark during the days of flood.  So Praise God for His wisdom, Noah received an ark in addition to his eternal salvation.  Amen.
         There is mind blowing wisdom of God behind this great truth.  The eternal salvation is purchased by the Lord's own effort and there is absolutely nothing for humans in that area, where as our daily salvation is bought by the Lord through us, our workings, our labors, our gifts etc.. (Phil 2:12)  God revealed and Noah built.  The revelation mingled with human efforts gave shape to the ark.  The church is God's revelation and the foundation is our Lord Jesus Christ, the cornerstone.  Now whoever is building, he or she is building over this foundation (1 Cor 3:9-14), Amen.  Are we building or just throwing hay or grass over the Cornerstone?

We, the believers in Christ build the Ark

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

          We are saved by only and only by the blood of Christ from eternal perdition and we have to apply this blood daily. We brag about our salvation by grace which is indeed a thing to be bragged about 24 hours all the days of our life.  But at the same time we should never forget that we need our daily salvation from this present perverse and wicked generation (2Pe 2:5).  This too is achieved by the blood of Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.  The Lord God waited during the days of Noah.  His long suffering was available to mankind even when the ark was being built by Noah.  But alas! they utterly disappointed Him.

Are we today in the last days of what the Lord prophesied?  Are our days like that of the days of Noah?

          (Gen 6:1-2) The sons of God refers to the fallen angels mingled with the daughters of men.  Sexually immorality grew and the generation was perverse and wicked.  Jehovah's Spirit Who was striving with man ever since the first fall (Gen 3:1) decided not to strive with man forever(Gen 6:2).  The sin was great, hence the Lord had to mow them down by reducing their life span to 120 years.  Imagine Hitler living for 900 years what havoc he would have created.  There were giants in those days which came out of the illegal union of the fallen angels and the daughters of men which was against God's original design.  Man's wickedness was great and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually(Gen 6:5).  All these things led God to repent and grieve for making man on earth.   The Lord decided to end all flesh (Gen 6:13).

God's repentance and grief


           When God created the beasts, the creeping things and the cattle, He saw them and said that it was good(Gen 1:25).  Then God created Man on the sixth day in His own image and then said that it was good (Gen 1:27).  How amazing this creature 'Adam' would have looked before his fall!  It is still a mystery.  It is a wonderful feeling to go to a gathering where everything is arranged for you and all are waiting for your arrival.  What glory and honor!  Almighty God Jehovah gave such a honor to  'Adam' when He created him on the sixth day.  On the seventh day, God rested.  So the first day of man was God's rest day.  Man entered the rest of God.  (He was designed originally for resting until his fall when his labor and unrest began)  God planted a garden in Eden.  What a garden this would have been, since it was built by the greatest Architect of the universe!!  He created Man to rest and have dominion over the other creation.  But you know what man did! he fell (Gen 3:6), then again fell(Gen 4:8) and fell again (Gen 6:1-8:3).  How much the loving God would have grieved to strike off the creation which He made out of great passion.  I felt a small micro part of that grief and tears swelled when I was writing this exact line.  The Spirit was showing me how true and great the grief was that God faced.

Church is the Ark today


         This is an era of grace which began after our Lord's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.  Bible says that the days of this era will also end in such an abrupt fashion.  That Christ like flood will descend upon earth, upon all the generations.  Hallelujah, If Christ is coming like a flood then there must be people whom God has appointed for the ark building(2 Cor 5:1).  Let us look at today's world; and see that there is only one ark that is being built now which can save us from the judgment of God, the church of the living Christ all over the world.  The local churches around the world put together will become the one Universal Church and this Universal Church is our Ark today.


(All the believers who belong to a particular locality constitute the church of that locality.  And all the localities put together will constitute the ONE UNIVERSAL CHURCH.  Today though we do not gather as per this plan due to man-made divisions (1 Cor 1:10-13) and traditions, the Lord do not see this division (Col 3:11))
     
Signs of the Lord's coming


              Today is just like the days of Noah, sexual immorality is at the peak.  Switch on the television for one minute and see for yourself how the bad has become the new good today.  The generation is perverse and wickedness is all around us.  There are giants today, these giants have taken more refined form.  They are intellectual giants who use their brains to do corruption and all kinds of evilness.

          The Lord said that no one knows the exact hour or day when His second coming is except the Father in heaven.  When Noah started building the ark, he didn't know the exact date and time of the flood, but he knew one thing that flood was inevitable.  We don't know the time of the arrival of the Lord but it is inevitable.  The signs the Lord has told to watch out for has come to pass.  Many have been deceived and many Christs are in the world today.  Some of these shameless children of devil have proclaimed themselves to be 'avatars' of God.  (1 John 3:10) What judgment God has reserved for these filthy creatures.  It is sad to see many getting deceived by these children of the serpent.  What more evidence for perverseness should I give when it is for all to see that today, there are temples for serpent.  Oh Lord come quickly. Amen. People have lost their sense and their hearts are hardened with foolishness.  Some of these so called 'avatars' have gasped for breath in the hospital for all the world to see before they died.  Recently when such a filthy one died and I thought, 'It is time for him to meet the real Avatar.  What will he say to Him?'  Thank You Lord for reducing our lifespan; otherwise how these serpents would have filled the whole earth with deception and filthiness. I am 33years old and  how I am already frustrated every day living in this world and groan unto the Lord to come quickly and release me from this corruption.

Age of wars and rumors of wars


     This is exactly the age of wars and rumors of wars.  The world is at the brink of war and destruction.  See the Lord have comforted us that these rumors or wars will not affect us and nor will it bring the end of the world because the Creator and the Destroyer is One, our Lord Almighty, the Triune God.
        Earthquakes are so common nowadays that I myself felt a tremor a couple of months back.  When the tremor hit my place, every one quickly ran out to the open roads.  I became joyous thinking about the signs of the Lord's coming.  At the end of this period, the persecutions of Christians will commence.  Beloved everywhere, do not consider it strange when people persecute you for being a Christian, for our Lord have told about this thousands of years before.  They will think that killing or persecuting you is a service to God (John 16:2)

Preaching of the gospel as a witness

          The gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nation.  Then the end will come.  Today the gospel has reached to the ends of the earth.  Workers and labors of God around the world are burdened and spreading the word fervently.  Kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence and with such aggression it is marching forward for the KING's arrival.  It is progressing in such a way that it seems that it will be established with you or without you. The Lord has uttered the word that the gospel will be preached to all creatures and hence today all kinds of media, and all kinds of means are used for this purpose.  Today all the internet facilities, mobile with sms services, e-book readers, videos, youtube video sharing are all for the Lord's purpose and increase.
          In this context I would like to say something.  Satan has a talent; he reaches a particular place first thinking that he will get something first.  In the garden of Eden he was first to be there before God came to deceive Eve.  Now all the media services, even a small text message service is immediately captured by Satan before the Lord makes His grand move.  We can see how filthy jokes and other messages are a common part of the text messaging among many people. But hallelujah, all things are for the Lord and the Lord is all (1Co 15:27 )

          The Lord's word is not just mere words but power.  When He utters something, it will be formed even out of nothing.  Amen.  Heaven and Earth will pass away but the words of the LORD is for ever.  (Mat 24:35)

As in the days of Noah
          As in the days of Noah, that were before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriages until the day Noah entered the ark(Mat 24:38).  Today is one of the days like in the days of Noah, there is eating and drinking, all kinds of merry making.  All kinds of cuisines and cocktails are a part of the great modern lifestyle.   Now if we are in the end times, we need to be already building some Ark.  This ark is not the requirement of others but you.  If you want to save yourselves and your family members then you will have to get an entry into the ark.  I remember a movie called 2012, where the world was coming to an end.  There was one secret facility where a couple of arks were built after the specialists from around the world knew that some catastrophe was about to happen.  Then we see a scene where people from around the world were trying hard to get on to that ark.  Some of them paid hefty prices while others found some other means to get inside the ark.  Yes they made it at the end and they were saved while others perished.  Today In a sense we are openly building an ark and also we are already inside the Ark.  It is our Lord Jesus Christ.  we are in Him and He in us (1 Joh 2:27-28).  Amen.

All creatures are groaning for their glorious liberation


          In the beginning Adam fell from all authority and dominance which God had assigned for him and when He cursed Adam, He cursed all living creatures.  Hence after the sons of God are revealed in the day of the glorious redemption, all the creatures too will received the glorious liberty.  They are earnestly groaning for this(Rom 8:21) Here Noah's ark depicts how the wise Father though grieved want to give back the right place for man according to the prupose he was created-dominance and authority.  God set up a mini Eden garden inside the ark with many different species and gave the authority to Noah and family.  The ark though was built by him was a salvation for all kinds of creatures during the flood.  How accurate when the Bible says in Rom 8:21 that the creatures too will be liberated gloriously along with the sons of God.

Church the body of Christ


         What ever the Lord has told has come to pass.  We are at the threshold of a new era when this perverse, wicked generation is swept away by the flood.  A new age will begin when the Ark, our Lord saves us from such a devastating judgment.  Abide in the Lord(1 Joh 2:28).  The Ark is the church today as the church is the body of Christ  (1Co 12:27, Eph 4:12) whose head is our Lord Jesus Christ (Eph 1:10, Eph 1:22-23).  We are building each other  (1Th 5:11) means we are building the body of Christ and we are building the ark.  Noah's ark had a window on the top of it to let the light from heaven inside the ark.  The light we have in the church is the heavenly light, our Lord Jesus Christ (Joh 1:4-5).

           Noah sweated out there in the field for 120 years, suffering all mockeries and doubts while he was building the ark. The task given by God was Noah's practical experience and by the great wisdom of God, our spiritual message of the coming era and the building of His ark, God the Son.  We need to build Christ as revealed by God, and not driven by our own natural abilities, and likes and dislikes.

        Let us therefore not be in the world full of deception and wickedness, laboring for it but understand the revelation of God for this generation which is at the brink of termination and the immediate start of a new era.  Do not become dis-similarly yoked with unbelievers.  You have become righteous by Christ's blood ( Heb 9:14 ) and now what is your partnership with lawlessness? (2 Cor 6:14).  We are the temple of the living God(2 Cor 6:16).  For we alone have the privilege of calling the Lord Almighty our FATHER (2 Cor 6:18).  So let us be wary and work out our salvation (Phil 2:12) which is the Ark of God, the Christ whom we adore and love, who will save us from the judgment and the eternal perdition.

FINAL WORD
These are the last days, brothers and sisters.  We are nothing and our life is like a vapor (Jam 4:14).    We are going nowhere with the wealth that we are amassing or the worldly accomplishments and fame that we are laboring for.  The future financial security or the investment for a bright future is for this worldly folks.  We don't know whether we will be alive tomorrow to see this investment.  There is only one real and strong security for us, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Come beloved and come share the love of Christ, and let us build together the great ARK, the body of Christ.  The King's arrival is at hand.  Our days are just like that of the Noah's.  Amen.