Imagination V. Inspiration
“The simplicity that is in Christ.”
2 Corinthians 11:3
Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly without any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear, you have to obey it clear. In intellectual matters you can think things out, but in spiritual matters you will think yourself into cotton wool. If there is something upon which God has put His pressure, obey in that matter, bring your imagination into captivity to the obedience of Christ with regard to it and everything will become as clear as daylight. The reasoning capacity comes afterwards, but we never see along that line, we see like children; when we try to be wise we see nothing (Matthew 11:25).
The tiniest thing we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is quite sufficient to account for spiritual muddle, and all the thinking we like to spend on it will never make it clear. Spiritual muddle is only made plain by obedience. Immediately we obey, we discern. This is humiliating, because when we are muddled we know the reason is in the temper of our mind. When the natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the power of perceiving God's will and the whole life is kept in simplicity.
some scriptures God spoke to heart yesterday:
Isaiah 5:1 - Now let me sing to my Well-beloved a song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard:
Isaiah 1:18 - "Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (19)If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; (20) but if you refuse and rebel....
Jeremiah 7
v.1 - The word that came to (me) from the Lord, saying, "Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of the Lord, all you ... who enter in at the gates to worship the Lord!'" (.... uh, who, me? huh?)
v. 23 - "But this is what i commanded them, saying, "Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.'" (obedience brings peace in the Lord....)
v.24 - "Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed after the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward." (don't do that, lynne... don't listen to the reasoning or rationalizations of you hearts, if you do not obey Me you will be going backwards... obey Me and you are moving forward.)
v.25 "Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them." (... My Spirit has spoken to you early this morning, I am sending you to do this, lynne, obey Me in this.)
v.28b - "This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God nor recieve correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth." (God is directing me in this, if i do not speak what He has given me, He will give me words no more. do not be stiff necked, lynne! be teachable! follow His leading!!!!)
Isaiah 1
v.20b - For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
v.21 - How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice, righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water....
John 2
v.1 - On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
v.2 - Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.
v.3 - And when they ran out of wine.... (no wine left, only water...)
v.3b - ...the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine".
v.4 - Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come." (...establishes this as a prophetic act....)
v.5 - His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it." (...obey His orders, even if it makes no sense, becuase He knows what He's asking of you!)
v.6 - Now there were set there six (the number representing 'man') waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews (the way God dictated He would purify His people), containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
v.7 - Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." And they filled them up to the brim. (... mere stone pots filled with mere water... but filled to the full.)
v.8 - And He said to them, "Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast." And they took it. (...obedience, us taking the little we have, to do something we can't comprehend...)
v.9 - When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from -but the servants who had drawn the water knew-, the master of the feast called the bridegroom. (.... the water is restored to wine.... the servants know it was not their wine, it was the Lords...)
v.10 - And he said to him, "Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!" (.... new wine, a new and better thing....)
v.11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory..... (His FIRST miracle... establishes what He was here to do, restore our water to wine... restore His church, restore His people....!!!)
and shortly thereafter:
v.13 - Now the Passover of the Jews (passover forshadows the work of Jesus on the cross for us) was at hand (near!) and Jesus went up to Jerusalem (His church).
v.14 - And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business.
flashback here:
Isaiah 1
v.22 - Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
v.23 - Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
v.24 - Therefore the Lord says, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, i will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies. I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy." (...refining, think silver (coins)...)
Jeremiah 7
v.9 - "Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,
v.10 - and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, "We are delivered to do all these abominations'?
v.11 - Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of theives in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," says the Lord.
now, back to Jesus:
John 2
v.15 - When He had made a whip out of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables.
v.16 - And He said to those who sold doves ("selling" peace, like 'works' for salvation!), "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"
v.17 - Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up,"
v.18 - So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?"
v.19 - Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
v.20 - Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"
v.21 - But He was speaking of the temple of His body. (physically His body... and spiritually His body - us... He came to restore His church, and raise us up!)
Ezekiel 37
v. 21 - "Then say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Surely I will take the children of Isreal from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gether them from every side and bring them into their own land;
v.22 - and i will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one King shall be King over them all;...
v.23 - They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of the transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
v.24 - David My servant (type of Christ) shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgements and observe My statutes, and do them.
V.25 - Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children, forever; and My servant David whall be their prince forever.
v.26 - Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them, and I will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
v.27 - My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
v.28 - The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Isreal, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."'"
so....
Isaiah 1 - first, His people left Him:
v.4 - Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Isreal, they have turned away backward. (...His people...)
v.5 - Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. (...the body of His people was 'sick', decaying, dying)
v.6 - From the sole of the foot, even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up up, or soothed with ointment.
Jeremiah 7 - the recompense He demanded of us:
v.30 - "For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight," says the Lord. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.
v.31 - "And they have built the hgh places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.
v.32 - "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room.
v.33 - "The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.
v.34 - "Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.
8v.1- "At that time," says the Lord, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of it's princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
v.2 - "They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshipped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth."
Ezekiel 37 - then...promise of restoration!!!!
v.1 - The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
v.2 - Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and indeed they were very dry.
v.3 - And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So i answered, "O Lord God, You know."
v.4 - Again He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!'
v.5 - 'Thus says the Lord God to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
v.6 - "I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord."'"
v.7 - So I prophesied as i was commanded; and as i prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone,
v.8 - Indeed, as i looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over, but there was no breath in them.
v.9 - Also He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live."'"
v.10 - So i prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
v.11 - Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Isreal. They indeed say, 'Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!'
v.12 - "Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Isreal.
v.13 - Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.
v.14 - "I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it," says the Lord.'"
rise up, people! rise up! take your inheritance! we have His Spirit, His breathe, His life... God has restored His temple, He has restored His spiritual nation, now rise up and take the land!!!!!
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