Inheritance of the saints
John {13:1} Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
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Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father
Having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end.
Jesus knew that He was leaving this world. His father wasn't in this world. He didn't find *His Father* on earth. He didn't try to find Him on earth. He didn't try to bring Him to earth. Jesus didn't try to remake the world into a world for His Father. Jesus knew that the world as it was could not be the world of His Father. He knew that the world was too corrupt. He knew that He came to save people from this world, and there were people in this world (that wasn't His Father's world) that He loved.
We can argue that God made the world, of course it's His. I won't say no. God did make the world and the world as He created it was meant to be sinless.
It's like making a beautiful sculpture gorgeous and absolutely amazing, only to have time pass and the sculpture is suddenly covered in an unsightly fungus. That sculpture wasn't created to be covered in fungus and yet there it is, filled with the stuff. The fungus has taken over. Sure you can try to get rid of the fungus by washing the sculpture and it even appears clean for awhile but then the fungus quickly returns and once more the sculpture is corrupted. Maybe there is some way to get rid of the fungus once and for all, but it'll take eradicating all the fungus from existence because as long as it exists it will find a way to cover that sculpture.
God didn't create the world to be filled with sin, nonetheless sin filled the world and was corrupted, no longer a world where God could dwell fully, no longer a world He ruled. Having made a contingency plan to save the world should sin take it over the plan was put into action, and because He didn't want all the sin-filled people simply eradicated, He made a way for them to escape their sin problem.
Just as a sculptor might argue that the sculpture is no longer his because it was changed in a way he never intended, this sin-filled world the way it is, is not God's, not until the sin is gone and it is once more the way He created it to be. Just as a scupltor making his sculpture once more pure and the way he created it, the claim that *this is* the scuplture he made would be wholly true. Do you see? It happens all the time in the world. Someone creates something and another person corrupts it, the corruption changes it from being what was intended.
Our sin-filled world is no longer a world of God's dwelling, rather than destroy the entire thing He made an escape route for all that see the world as He does. For all that see the sin-filled world isn't how things were meant to be, it isn't how things were intended. Those who choose NOT to be a part of this world are promised a much better world, a sinless world the way God intended it to be.
An escape route!
Freedom!
If people are looking for instantaneous escape however they won't find it because the way to escape from the slavery of this sin-filled world is to have faith in Jesus and His promises of the world to come. There is no instant change comparable to a person enslaved by another person finding themselves free. Being freed from a sin-filled world is a *hope* we have, and one we have to have faith in as we endure the life we are given in this sin-filled world. Perhaps we are to help others, maybe just a single other person, find the way to escape, or maybe we're called to help thousands, who knows. Once we accept the truth that this isn't the world we belong to, but a foreign world invaded by sin, and that we have a way to the world we do belong to, we will be guided by the Holy Spirit who will keep us safe as we live in this sin-filled world until we are either called to our rest, or until Jesus returns to take us to heaven with Him.
Jesus didn't claim the sin-filled world as His Father's, though He did claim that there were those in the world that could be His Father's.
There were those Jesus loved in the world...
John {13:1} Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
He loved His *own*... he loved them unto the end.
Is this world your world?
It's not my world.
I want to be one of *Jesus's own* in this world. I don't want to be one of this world's.
John {14:6} Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me
John {14:28} Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come [again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John {16:16} A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father
John {16:28} I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Eph. {2:18} For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Eph. {3:13} Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
{3:14} For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
{3:15} Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
{3:16} That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
{3:17} That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love
Col. {1:12} Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
My world is with the Father through Jesus Christ my Lord and my Savior now and forever. Praise, glory, honor, and thanks to the Father who has made it possible for us to be partakers of the world to come, the world He intended, the world we long for.
All Glory to God in the Highest!
Amen.
12/08/09
Psa 51:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psa 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psa 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Psa 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Psa 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psa 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Psa 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psa 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psa 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psa 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psa 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Psa 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psa 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Psa 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Psa 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psa 51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Psa 51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
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After David had sinned grievously his remorse, his repentance was great. When we sin it should be the same. David had the concept of right and wrong, he knew what he was doing was wrong and he did it any way. He was overcome by the flesh, serving his flesh.
We need the mercy of God. We need to have our sins blotted out by God's mercy. All our sinning is against God. We hurt God when we sin and yet sin is part of our existence from birth itself. God would have us filled with truth, He would have us know His wisdom- to understand the seriousness of our sinning and our need of Him as Creator and Redeemer.
Dictionary Definition for hyssop-
2. An unidentified plant mentioned in the Bible as the source of twigs used for sprinkling in certain Hebraic purificatory rites
Psa 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
David longed to be purified by God. He knew he was filthy inwardly, spiritually from sinning. He knew only God could clean Him. He wanted God to blot out ALL his sins. He needed God to create a clean heart and a right spirit in Him. His spirit was no longer right. Our spirit is no longer right when we sin, we need the forgiveness of God to make our spirit right with Him again. David cried out for God to cast him not from his presence, to not take the Holy Spirit from him. We need to cry out the same.
Psa 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Psa 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
With our spirit broken we realize our need to have a right spirit renewed in us. With our hearts broken and contrite we realize the need of God's healing love. Jesus died so we could have this love fully and it's to Him we cling as we seek forgiveness and pleade for a right spirit within us.
By the mercy and grace of our Lord and Savior now and forever.
Amen.
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