Michael Low
Wow, it’s great to be here. I’m humbled by your presence. You know, Pete often says that we we’re here to choking each other’s dust. So I’m glad to be choking in yalls dust. I remember at our last men’s retreat, Justin McDonald said, when I’m around y’all,
I feel like a lion in the midst of Daniels. That’s why I feel when I’m around you, you guys. The Bible says that the word of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, which is instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, through and throughly perfected and all good works. When I’m in your Miss. I thank you guys for reproving me over and over and over because your epistles known and read of all man, most people think that this word reproof is a bad word, reproof, correction. Don’t beat me, Lord. But nothing could be further from the truth. This word reproof means to prove over and over and over God’s power in our lives. That’s what reproof is, and the word correction means to restore to an upright position. So I’m glad to be around all y’all. It’s great to be together in person for a change is good that the courts have recognized that church is actually an essential requirement. We’re no longer any non essential, we’re essential. The Bible says For sake not the fellowship of yourself together as a matter of some is, but assembled together in so much the more as you see the day approaching. So it’s great to be with y’all in person. Normally, when Bill Cabo introduces me, he’ll say, this is Michael Lowe. He’s a son of Edward Lowe. And I’m always honored to be introduced as a son of Edward Lowe. You know, Pete often says that, that men keep a resentment bank because they were wounded by their dads, they have father wounds that go on and on and on, and those father wounds hurt from generation to generation to generation. It’s hard for me to relate to that, because my dad was actually a quote, man of God, unquote, a man of God. I never knew what this word man of God meant, until Pete anointed me with oil, and put this bracelet on my hand, anointed me man of God. Normally, when you call a person, a man of God, they’ll look down in shame and say, Oh, no, I’m not worthy. Don’t call me a man of God. I’m not worthy of that title. But when you think of that term, man of God, well, what does that mean? You know, we speak English. Sometimes, different languages are more precise than English, the term man of God of God. In Latin, that’s what they called. The genitive case is the genitive of possession. What does man of God mean? genitive of possession, means God’s man, Apostrophe S. That’s how we say, Man of God, in English, God’s man, the essence of Christianity is not who we are. It’s who’s we are. That’s Romans 10, nine and 10. Romans 10, nine and 10. If thou
shalt confess,
Jesus is Lord, Lord means owner. Christianity is not who we are. Christianity is who’s we are. Man of God, the genitive of possession. I might get off on a little tangent here. If you guys, any of y’all were present on Wednesday, maybe you heard this message and or variation of this message, and depending on whether God calls an audio audible here, but so if you’ve heard this message before, it’s deja vu all over again. But that’s okay. Because repetition is a good thing. Pete asked me once. What’s the difference between joy and rejoice? I had to think about that one. I said, Pete, I can’t think of anything right now. Let me take that one under advisement. So I thought about that. Then I thought to myself, haha. The difference between joy and rejoice is the same difference between Pete and repeat. Some, sometimes repetition is a good thing. So if you’ve heard it before, I hear it again. And that’s a good thing. Let me get to my notes here. Because I actually did take a few notes. Most of y’all know me as the guy that takes notes. They publish them on the website. Somebody asked me once, why do you take such prolific notes? You know, you write everything down. Why do you do that? And the guy that asked me was actually he was a photographer. So I said, you know, some people have a photographic memory. But mine still under development. So that’s why I take notes. Hopefully, y’all are blessed. And the other thing that comes to mind is, Pete was reading my notes went and he said to himself, I didn’t realize I was that good. Then, of course, Bill Cabo. You know, Bill cobbles. His job is to keep Pete humble. So Bill, cobble said to Pete, no, you’re really not that good. But that’s why I’m here. You know, when I’m around you guys, like I said, y’all reprove me all the time. And I’m blessed to be in your company. I’m blessed to be reproved and corrected by your presence, because we’re all living epistles known read of all, man. And that’s what we do we build each other up in the body of Christ. This morning’s talk is the title if I were going to title it would be the difference between confusion and fusion. What’s the difference between confusion and fusion, there’s so much confusion in this world around us. But before we get into the message this morning, let’s open with a word of prayer because we’d like to put God first. Father, we thank you for this opportunity, this divine appointment to be with you. As pastor Pete says, Father, you can fake hearing that you can’t fake showing up. So thank you, Father, for this divine appointment, where we can worship you truly spiritually, where we can align our hearts with your hearts, where we can build each other up in the most holy faith. Thank you, Father, for these men. Thank you, Father, that the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart may be acceptable, and to the O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. Thank you, Father for this assembly. And this fellowship that we can share one with another, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
So
what’s the difference between confusion and fusion? You know, there’s so much confusion in this world. There’s a pro fusion of confusion in the world around us. We were praying this morning about the divisions in politics, and how our country is turning his back on the foundations upon which our country was founded, you know, our country was actually founded as a Christian nation. There’s a book called the light and the glory if you’ve never read that book, tremendous book about the founding of the United States, and why people came to the United States. Pete often says that there were only two countries in world history that were founded on the principles of the Word of God. One was Israel, and the other words the United States of America, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You know, the founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, in firm reliance on divine providence. They understood this word Providence, we don’t understand that don’t understand this word, Providence, you need to read the Valley of vision, because it’s a book of Puritan prayers. They understood this thing about God, you are our inheritance, you are our Providence, you’re our best portion by night. And by day, they understood the providence of God. They wrote the Declaration of Independence. It’s called the Declaration of Independence, because we were declaring our independence from Great Britain. But if you read the Declaration of Independence is actually the Declaration of Independence. In from reliance on divine providence, we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. That was the reason that the United States of America was founded. The Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Independence upon Almighty God, they knew the word God. Now, there’s so much confusion in this world. The adversaries job is to divide and conquer. That’s what he does, he splits things apart. He blows things up. He atomized this thing’s His job is to destroy, steal, to kill and to destroy. We’ll get into that a little bit later as far as what that means what take that apart. Because the devil came, the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I, Jesus Christ and come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. How does the devil divide and conquer? With this profusion of confusion?
Well,
it’s easy to look around this. It’s easy to become a quote news, junkie, unquote, and find out well, what is it that we’re against, but that’s what the adversary does he he gets us into this mentality of us against them. Somebody said that the problem with the United States is that there’s too much E Pluribus and not enough Unum. For you Latin scholars, too much E Pluribus and not enough Unum? Well, the adversary is the God of E Pluribus. He’s the one who divides he’s the one who separates our hearts one from another. That was ploy. He pits competing factions against each other. So people split apart and fight each other. There’s rich against poor, educated against sun indicated husbands against wives, parents against children, boomers against millennials, men against women, Democrats against Republicans, liberals against conservatives, workers against management. Sunni’s against Catholics against Protestants, citizens against aliens, Trojans against ruins. Are we stepping on any toes here? Catholics, Protestants have that against they have not. And the list goes on and on and on, ad infinitum. Because that’s the devil. His job is to divide and conquer. And that’s exactly from Scripture, James 316 says, For where there is envying, and strife, there’s confusion and every evil work. The word confusion is a Greek word. Aqa to stasia if I’m pronouncing it right, in Florida, we have a guy named George, you’re gay. He speaks Greek. He’s from Greece. So he’s always correcting me on the Greek. He says, you know, if you want to understand Greek, come talk to me, because Greeks very precise language, unlike English, English, oftentimes is subject to interpretation. But Greek is very precise. It’s made up of root words and, and prefixes and suffixes, and extremely precise language. That’s one of the reasons the Greek was the New Testament was written in Greek, because it’s not subject to quote, interpretation, one’s own interpretation. It says what it means and it means what it says extremely precise language. But this word, strikes strife and confusion. Confusion is this word, it’s a Greek word, and it means instability, a state of disorder, chaos and confusion. And confusion is a result of strife, contentions, and competing factions. Now, when you read this verse in James, James is a great button. James is about faith, and the things that we do to reinforce our faith. And it starts with this thing that we were talking about in prayer this morning tribulation trials, we think the trials are a bad thing. But trials have to do with this reproof word. Try means to essay, it means to prove. Ultimately, it means to prove God’s character within those verses says, silver is for the crucible, and the furnaces for gold, but the heart is for the Lord. The heart is for the Lord. trials are to refine us, tribulation worketh patience and patience, experience, and experience, hope and hope make it not a shame because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us. The word experience is the word character. These assez these trials, these temptations, the the tribulation proves God’s character in us. Because what’s going to burn up? All that is done nothing in this world that that is done matters. Only that which is done in Christ will last. Everything in this world will pass. Only that which is done in Christ shall last. So we’re gonna look at the difference between confusion and fusion. And what’s the difference? So confusion is we’re talking about chaos and disorder, but God is a God of order. There’s a word vs says order my steps in my word, because God is a God of order.
He, we can make all the plans we want. That’s what he says. He says, You know, I make a strat plan every year at the beginning of the year, about the third week of a new year, I throw my strat plan out the window because God obliterates it. It has nothing to do with reality. So we’re to order our steps in the Word of God, it’s one thing to plan. It’s another thing to order our steps in the word, because God is a God of order, not disorder. So, if you’re looking at this word, confusion, confusion is a great word. It’s made up of two words as well, two English words con and fusion. And it reminds me of something that Will Rogers had said he was talking to a crowd of people, you know, Will Rogers was a humorous to satirise for many generations ago. But he said some incredible things. Because truth is truth. Whoever says it, and Will Rogers was talking to a crowd, and he says, you know, what? Do you know what the opposite of progress is? So nobody raise their hand. But somebody here in the crowd remembers a quote, The opposite of progress is Congress. So what’s the opposite of confusion? Con means against an fusion. So the opposite of confusion is fusion. If you’ve ever studied nuclear physics, not many people do, I mean, I mean, if you’re gonna go off on a tangent, said, study a little bit of nuclear physics that’ll blow your mind literally and figuratively. But in nuclear physics, there’s one type of nuclear reaction is called a fission reaction. Efficient reaction is like an explosion. Efficient reaction, you take an element, this radioactive uranium or plutonium, and you split that atom, you split the nucleus of the atom, the protons and the neutrons. And when you do that, when you split the atom, it releases tremendous energy. They say that efficient reaction, the energy released is about a million times more than is released in a chemical reaction, an atomic bomb produces a million times more energy than a conventional chemical bond. So there’s tremendous power in efficient, efficient is this explosive reaction, nuclear fission. But then, there’s another type of nuclear reaction is called nuclear fusion. In fusion, what you do is you take two atoms of hydrogen and fuse those atoms together. And then the fusing of those atoms, even more energy is released to the nuclear fission. So the power of fusion nuclear fusion releases four times as much energy as nuclear fission. And when you look at that analogy, this is the same analogy about confusion versus fusion. The difference is, were to be fused together in the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, the power of fusion of coming together is much greater than the power efficient division, confusion against fusion. Greater is He that is in you, and he that is in the world. And you know, the devil tries to divide people, especially in the church. He’s already got the guys that are outside of the church, they’re subject to His will. But when he gets churches and believers
to split apart denominations, and we talked about Catholics versus Protestants, you know, Pete says that one of the things that influencers is is a quote, para church organization. Para means to come, come alongside the churches to help the churches. But then, there’s another thing about influencers as well. We’re not a parachurch organization, we are the church, because the church is the body of Christ. And Jesus said, We’re two or more gathered together in my name, there Am I in their myth, this word church is the Greek word ecosia. Meaning out from among an extra sia means to call out from among the darkness of this world so that we can be fused together in the unity of the Spirit of the bond of peace. In our we have a small group that meets on Thursday, you That’s a remnant of an old journey Group, a bunch of guys and we’re studying First Corinthians, the theme, one of the things of First Corinthians because for reading First Corinthians is like reading first California. Corinthians is a book of reproof. reproof means where you’re, there’s doctrine, which is how to believe rightly, then there’s reproof, which tells us where we’re not believing rightly. One of the things of First Corinthians is this unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace, because it talks about being like minded. So, this morning, we’re going to talk about how do you get this fusion instead of confusion? How do you counter the confusion of this world? And bear with me while I log on to my thing a year, so I don’t get too far off on a tangent. So what what does God teach us about fusion versus confusion? And how do we counter the confusion of this world?
What is it that unifies and teases us together in the body of Christ? So we’re gonna read a passage out of Colossians? And we’re gonna go to Colossians 312 through 17. But the question is, what is it that unites and fuses us together within the church, the body of Christ? Well, the answer, I’m going to read the answer, and then we’re going to get the context of the answer. So how you counter confusion is in Colossians, chapter three, verse 14, and this verse says, reading from the King James now, and above all these things, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness charity, if the love of God, the unconditional love of God, the Greek court, I got paid. That’s what George told me how to pronounce it, because he’s a native Greek speaker. And of course, I do it with this, y’all Southern pronunciation thing, so forgive me. So Above all, these things put on charity, the unconditional love of God, in the renewed mine, in manifestation, this charity, the love of God, which is a bond of perfectness. That’s how we get this unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace. So I’ll read the context here. This is, again, Colossians, chapter three, verses 12, through 17. In the King James, put on there for as the elective God, holy and beloved vows of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mine, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing, one another, and forgiving one another. If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do Ye, and then this verse, and above all these things, put on charity, which is a bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you’re called in one body, and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. So, what is it the fuses together? What does it mean, to be joined together in the unity of the Spirit of the bond of peace, the thing that joins us together is charity, the love of God and the renewed mind and manifestation. And it says, In the peace of God, the past solid understanding, that’s the result of this unity. That’s the result of fusing our hearts together in the love of God, because the love of God is a tie that binds us together. In Christian charity, the love of God, because we are the body of Christ and in the body of Christ. What binds us together is this love of God, and the love of God is associated with this word, peace, the peace of God. You know, you can look up the word peace in Merriam Webster’s dictionary or funk and wagnalls, or dictionary online, and that will give you the world’s definition of peace. But the problem with the world’s definition is the devil the adversary calls good evil and evil, good. The world the definition of peace means the absence of war. But that’s not the biblical definition of peace. That’s why I like to read the King James Version because it uses all these obscure terms. It’s not written in the common vernacular. So it makes me look up the words. When you read the Bible, one of the first things you recognize is that the Bible is its own dictionary. It’s its own quote, data dictionary, unquote. If you’re going to do an IT project a systems project. Develop a relational database. It starts with a data dictionary. You have to define the term first. And the Bible is its own dictionary. It defines its own terms, this word peace. It’s not the worldly definition of peace. Why did Jesus say, he said, in john, Chapter 14, verse 27, my mom’s favorite verse, by the way, it says, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as a world Give it, give it to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let it be afraid. worldly peace is different from the peace that we have. Because of Jesus Christ, you can’t have peace, until you have the Prince of Peace. That’s the key, this thing about confusion, to counter confusion. It has to do with reconciling our hearts back to God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. We get the peace of God through Jesus Christ, reconciling us through the sacrifice of his innocent blood on our behalf. Peace means the end of all strife and contention between God and man, in order to reconcile our hearts with God, and with our brothers and sisters in Christ, we need to meet each other at the foot of the cross. Why? Because there’s one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. So how did we get to the place that we needed to be fused and reconciled and made peace with God? Well, it goes back to the original sin in the Garden of Eden. Because, remember, the adversaries purpose is to steal, to kill and to destroy. The adversaries purpose is to divide and conquer. The main thing that the adversaries job is, is to separate our hearts from God’s heart. You know, in the Garden of Eden, God only gave one command, there was only one command only one thing that Adam and Eve needed to do you remember that one thing was the one command that God gave Adam and Eve was of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Thou shalt not eat of it. For on the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, one command, only one command, don’t eat it the tree of knowledge of good and evil, on the day thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die. That was God’s command to Adam and Eve, they could do anything else. Don’t do that one thing. Well, what did the adversary do? How did he get them to disobey God’s command? There were two things that God did to divide Eve’s heart from God’s heart. First, he questioned the love of God. Did God really say what she knew exactly what God said? Did God really say? The devil says, God doesn’t love you. He doesn’t want what’s best for you.
He wants to leave you ignorant of this
knowledge of good and evil. He doesn’t love you. He questioned the love of God. God’s purpose. He questioned who God is, because God is loved. In Him, there is no darkness at all. Satan said to Eve, God doesn’t really love you. He wants you to remain ignorant of the knowledge of good and evil, gigabyte. God doesn’t love you. Love yourself. Don’t love God. He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t. He’s not deserving. One thing the devil did separated Eve’s heart from the love of God. One second thing, the devil did. Question the Word of God. When you question the love of God, and the Word of God, you’re pretty much fine. At that point. When you doubt the Word of God and the love of God. You’re no longer under God’s domain, you’re in the devil’s ballpark, you’re under the domain of the devil. The original sin was this thing with doubt. You doubt the Word of God and you doubt the love of God. The devil is got his hook in you. All he has to do is reel you in. inevitable at that point, the fall of man was doubting the love of God. And the word of God. Did God really say? God’s not faithful to His Word? She knew exactly what God said when she considered the devil’s lie. That was the fall of man. confusion. If you no longer have God’s word, You only have the devil’s word, because the devil is this the God of the world, whose eyes the god of this world has blinded lets the glorious light of the gospel of truth should shine unto them. When Adam and Eve’s sin, what they lost that day, because it says on the day that thou, etc, thereof that day, Hebrew toh yom the very day, on the day, thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die. Well, what died that day? If you read Genesis, it doesn’t seem like they died that day, you know, they went on and on, they got kicked out of the garden, they had children, they live generations and generations longer, as far as children and children’s children. And that, so the question is, Did God really say, on the day thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die seen as a i, there’s a contradiction there. But when you read the Scripture, what died that day was your spiritual connection with God spirit? Because God is spirit, there were three acts of creation. The first act was, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, everything that the earth is matter, space, time, and energy, all interrelated. We were talking about this fusion thing before. You know, fusion is the power that power is the sun and the stars. Fusion is the energy of a black hole where everything implodes continuously. Vision is according to this equation, equals mc squared. Fusion is what converts matter into energy. That’s this fusion thing, like the adversary’s a God of confusion, what died the day that they hated the Tree of the Knowledge, because God made man, body, soul and spirit. Body is this earthen vessel soul is our biological life. But it says, there’s a verse in Genesis where God said, Let us create men in our own image, in the image of God created them, male and female created he them, Well, what does the image of God, God is spirit. Spirit has no form, or colinas. Spirit is who God is God’s Spirit. That’s what died, the day they ate the tree, the knowledge of good and evil, the Spirit of God, and without the Spirit of God, you can’t understand the things of the Spirit. That’s what First Corinthians is about. The natural man, the man of body and soul, without the spirit of god understand it, not the things of the Spirit of God, because they’re spiritually discerned. That’s how we got to the place that we needed to be reconciled. That’s the that’s where we got to the place that we needed Jesus Christ.
Because what’s
the essence of salvation? You know, you look up this word, salvation. There’s one verse, a script in the talks about salvation. That’s Romans 10, nine and 10, that thou shall confess with my mouth, the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. The Greek word for saved is this word shozo. If you study systematic Matic theology, you can look at the whole subject of quote, soteriology, unquote, that’s about this Greek word shozo. This Greek word so so again, it’s a biblical definition. It’s not the vernacular, Merriam Webster, and funk and wagnalls definition, this word shozo, the essence of the word needs to be made whole. The implication is, if you’re not saved, you’re not whole. If you’re saved, you’re born again. Not of corruptible seed, not a body and soul that you inherited from Adam and Eve, ultimately, from your mom and dad, through Adam and Eve seed, not a corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. So, the reason Jesus came was your redemption in mind, we had to be redeemed, we had to be reconciled to God, through the Spirit of God in Christ in you. That’s what Romans 10 nine is about. That’s what salvation is about Jesus Christ. The word Jesus means Savior. Savior, needs to be made complete, to be made whole report. So So that’s how we got to the point that we needed to be
fused
together with God through His Son Jesus Christ, in the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace. That’s the difference between confusion and fusion. The devil divides and conquers. He separates our hearts from God’s heart primarily. Jesus Christ came so that we might have life We might have it more abundantly in the life that he’s talking about is the life of God in Christ in you, the Spirit of God, the hope of glory, Christ in you the hope of glory. So, there’s one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. If you look in the book of Ephesians, it talks about this word reconciliation, another great word. What does reconciliation What does redemption, we talked about salvation. Boy, these are great terms. These are foundational concepts of who we are in Christ, and who’s we are in Christ, who’s we are, Jesus is Lord doesn’t mean Lord means owner. We don’t have a concept of slaves and masters. But a master is an owner, a lord is an owner. And this master slave relationship, we think, because we were brought up in the United States where we had slavery and that sort of thing. But slave slavery, and in the Old Testament, didn’t mean that you own somebody physically, or you owned them as a factor of production, you own the fruit of their labor. That’s what this master slave relationship was. And that’s what Jesus says, He owns who we are, he owns the fruit of our labor. Because we’re in this together, it’s God who worked within you to willing to do of His good pleasure, this reconciliation thing. We needed to be reconciled to God, because Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus said to the disciples, who say ye that I am, and they said, you know, some say that you’re one of the prophets come back from the dead, some say your john the baptist reincarnate. And then he says, well, who say ye that I am? Peter jumped up of course, and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus said, Blessed art thou, Simon bar, Jonah, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father which is in heaven, that word, the Christ, the Son of the living God, Christ means Messiah ever looked up that word, Messiah. Here’s another great word. The word Messiah is the quote, Anointed One, unquote. Well, now you have to look up this word anointed. There’s no way this is one of Murphy’s laws. corollaries. Murphy’s Law says, if it can go wrong, it will go wrong. Murphy’s Law corollary says, There’s no answers only cross references. How true. How true. Because the cross of Christ is the crux of history, the cross of Christ, because Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the anointed one, this word anointed, it literally means the smear with oil. There are two reasons for anointing one was for ordination, or to identify a person who’s been ordained, inaugurated to a particular position for a particular function by his superior, the anointing, it identifies you as having a particular position to fulfill an inauguration. And having conferred upon that individual, the power and authority that comes with that position for which you’re being anointed. That’s one reason for anointing is an ordination or an appointment. The other thing with anointing has to do with reconciliation. If you’ve ever looked at, you know, they used to have these, these cartoons that we used to teach our kids when they were in elementary school, one of those cartoons is Schoolhouse Rock. And one of those cartoons is this thing called Conjunction Junction. What’s your function? Conjunction Junction? What’s your function? Well, this anointing thing, Jesus Christ Himself is our Conjunction Junction.
This oil
is what lubricates our relationship between God and man, one God, and one mediator, the Conjunction Junction between God and man is Jesus Christ Himself. That’s the definition of this word, Messiah. So if you’re going to look at this unity of the Spirit of the mind of peace, the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace has to do with our having been reconciled. If you want to know what this word reconciliation means. It’s also that’s King James English again. It’s usually translated reconciling Asian reconciliation means to bring together that which has been separated. We were separated from God, because on the day that Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they died that day. They were separated from God because their spirit died. That’s what died. That’s what Jesus Christ came to make available, was the Spirit of God in Christ in you, not from Adam seed that we inherited from Adam, the Word of God or the word of man, the word of man is DNA, passed on from generation to generation. The DNA is actually a message, it’s a word of life, a biological life. But we’re not talking about biological life, we’re talking about the Word of God, being born again, not of corruptible seed, DNA, but an incorruptible, not by the word of biological life, but by the word of God, that limit and divided forever. When we confess Jesus as Lord, he’s our Conjunction Junction. He’s what reconciles us to God, he’s what gives us peace to God. If you look at this word reconciliation, it’s also translated into King James does the word atonement. atonement means at one mint. At one mint, is this word reconciliation, making of Twain one new man. And you can read that in in Ephesians. Chapter Two. In the book of Ephesians, is a tremendous book. There’s two great books of doctrine, doctrine is, is right teaching how to believe rightly. When is the book of Romans, it talks about salvation. We already quoted Romans 10, nine and 10. That’s for the individual believer, to reconcile us to God individually as in individual believers, when you read the book of Ephesians. Ephesians is about collectively the body of Christ, who we are in Christ, who we are the church, of the living God, God’s variegated message in the church, the collection, the body of Christ. That’s what fuses us together in the body of Christ is the love of God, and the Word of God. Two things fuses together. In the garden, the adversary tempted Eve, he said, God doesn’t love you. And God’s word is not true. But Jesus together back with God, is Jesus Christ, the love of God, made manifest, not because we were deserving of love, not because we were deserving of nurse mercy. Because love and mercy are the nature of God Himself. We can’t love God until he first loved us. Because until we had the Spirit of God, we didn’t have the capacity to love because that’s a spiritual thing. The love of God is a spiritual thing. The theme of Ephesians is the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace collectively, because collectively, we’re the body of Christ. We’re the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. We’re God’s dwelling place here on Earth. The journey to the inner chamber is a journey to the heart of God. You know, people read the Old Testament and they think, well, you know that I’m gonna condemn myself now because that’s the law of sin and death. It shows me how far short of of God’s righteousness I fallen. And when you read the 10 commandments. The first commandment is tied to the first and great commandment thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength. The first of the 10 commandments says, Thou shall have no other gods before me. That’s the English translation from the Hebrew. You know, king, king james is a literal translation, word for word from the Hebrew into the English. The King James says, Thou shall have no other gods before me. But if you read the Aramaic text, Aramaic is an ancient dialect,
it actually proceeds the Hebrew, the Aramaic text, literally translated means, thou shall have no other gods between your face and my face. That’s the Aramaic text. You know, people think that God gave the 10 commandments, so that Israel can understand that they’re in sin that they can’t make, they can’t do these things on their own. But really, what the 10 Commandments were, were God’s Terms of Endearment with Israel. They were actually God’s wedding vows to Israel. wedding vows are Terms of Endearment, what are the terms of God’s endearment God I’d said, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Why? Because I love you. We’re bound together by this bond of love. Charity, you didn’t need the Spirit in the bond of perfectness. That’s why God gave Israel the 10 commandments. It was his wedding vow, his Terms of Endearment. I’m a jealous God, because I want to be your sole provider, and your sole provider. So le n s o ul, has to do with this divine providence thing, because I’m here. Don’t go outside of the canopy of my protection. I’m not giving you these laws to restrict you, and to keep you on a short leash, so that I can cast my wrath on you when you step out of line. That was not the purpose of the 10 commandments, the purpose of the 10 Commandments were bound together in the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace, because I’m your God, and I love you, and we’re bound by this law of love. That’s the 10 commandments, thou shalt have no other gods before me. first and great commandment, the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. So how do you counter confusion? fusion, the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace, read Ephesians chapter two about this reconciliation thing, and then read Ephesians chapter four, about the Unity’s within the church. Ephesians four talks about well, how do we keep the unity of the Spirit in the mind of peace. And it says, God has given to us certain gifts within the body of Christ so that we can be fused together. And he gave some apostles, some prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying the body of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro, by every wind of doctrine and by the sleight of men and cutting craftiness. We’re in the lion wait to deceive. So he’s given us these ministries, men of God within the church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, that we confuse our hearts together in the love of God in the renewed mind and manifestation. How do we fuse together one with another in the body of Christ? Jesus said, in the second commandment, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. That’s how we manifest the love of God. That’s how we fuse ourselves together in the body of Christ. Why? Because Jesus said, in that thou has done it unto the least of these, my brother, and you’ve done it, and to me, there’s two ways to counter confusion. One is with the love of God, because God is love. The other is with the Word of God, because God is His Word. And Jesus Christ is the word of God made flesh, the love of God, and the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. That’s how we fuse our hearts together with God’s heart. You know, the purpose of prayer. In the United States, when we pray, we say, Please, God, please meet my needs. It’s all about me. You’re here to meet my needs God, didn’t you say that? whatsoever yet shall ask him for believing you shall receive. Well, God, I’m coming to you and believing, and it’s all about me. So you’re here to meet my needs. So please, please, please, please, please me. That’s the line from a Beatles song. They didn’t they didn’t speak the Queen’s English. They spoke Cockney. But that’s the way we think because we, we think in English, and English says please, please, please, please please me. It’s all about me. What’s in it for me? The prosperity gospel. But, you know, if you speak French, they say the French is a language of diplomacy.
It’s hard to say anything mean if you’re speaking proper French proper Finch. Proper French is sanctified by law Academy fall says proper diplomatic French. In French they don’t say Please, Please Please Me. They say she route play. Shoe the play means If it pleases you, because not about me. Prayer is not aligning God’s heart with my heart. Prayer is aligning my heart with God’s heart. Seeking First, the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these other things shall be added unto you. The first and great commandment, the first commandment. Thou shalt have no other gods between your face in my face. You do that one thing because of the love of God, the other nine are automatic. Because you’re doing it with the love of God. You love God above all, don’t worry about those sins of commission. worry about that sin of omission, not loving God above all. When you love God above all, all the other things fall in line, the counter confusion, the love of God and the Word of God, because God is love and God is His Word. Therefore, God’s word is love. Jesus’s prayer in the garden of get get seminude with Stephen play, not my will, but Thine be done. If it pleases you. The essence of the abundant life is not in stuff. It’s not in possessions. Ryan Van dusen did a tremendous series about treasuring treasures in heaven and not upon Earth. Because where your treasure is, there will your heart be also to counter confusion. We have to fuse our hearts together with God’s heart with the love of God, and the Word of God. Because it’s not about who we are is who’s we are. The greatest blessing is not in seeking the blessing. The greatest blessing is in seeking the Bible.
So thank you
guys for letting me share this morning. It’s an honor and a privilege, a humbling experience. Because
prayer
is the outpouring of a thankful heart.
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is tuning our hearts to sing thy praise. That’s the one thing that Sam taught us. That’s who we are what we do. tune my heart to sing I pray. Thank you guys.
Thank you for this man of God,
the son of Edward Low. And Father we just ask that you would continue that his word would go forth which is your word, Lord, and he would continue to be a blessing to us. Lord, continue to bless you Lord, thank you so much for today in this beautiful message in Jesus name,
amen. Amen.
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