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Beloved every day we can enter into that very death of Jesus Christ. He paid the price for us. And the price is right. All we need to do is trust in him to perform his wonderful work in us through the Holy Spirit. In time we will be willing and obedient to his voice. As Isaiah 1:19 says, if we are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. So praise God, his Holy Spirit can and will sing in and through us, if we allow him to. And he can show us the mighty things God has ready for those who trust in him, for he takes what is in God's heart and reveals them to us. So when we are dwelling in his presence, we will be singing his praises all the daylong. And it is not judge by our experience, but by the word of God, if we choose to believe we can have what God says is for us.
Psalms 84:4 says Blessed, happy, fortunate, and to be envied are those who dwell in your house and your presence; they will be singing your praises all the day long.
I know that it is not impossible, because there is a song that he puts within us and many see that song, and they begin to trust the Lord. In fact we can be in him all the days of our lives.
Back in 1971 I decided to become a praiser of our Lord Jesus Christ, the devil came back with, you are going to look stupid praising God over something you don't like doing, but I didn't listen to that voice, I didn't know many Christian songs, so I said to myself I will sing hallelujah to all the songs that I knew, and before long praising was so natural to me, and it was so wonderful, and the Lord would give me songs to sing, songs no one else knew. And I was so happy, and beloved it is worth every minute of your time to be for the Lord Jesus Christ, because of who he is and what he has done.
So our voices should be for the Lord and not used for the flesh and the devil. Let not the devil have rule in you through your flesh. It is not worth it. You will be miserable creatures. Because God created us to praise him, and to fellowship with him, and the devil hates us because we belong to God, and we are Gods treasures for God has put a special Mark of ownership upon us, by giving us his Holy Spirit, and the devil wants to mar that image. But if we will continue to flow and follow the Holy Spirit we will never be disappointed.
Did you know that our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that we are going to be judged for every idle word that we have spoken? Now before you get all up tight
Let us look at Matthew 12:35-37
V.35. The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth-good things, and the evil man out of his inner storehouse flings forth-evil things.
V.36 But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle [inoperative, non-working] word they speak.
V.37. For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.
No one can tame the tongue, as Spirit of God says in James 3: the whole chapter is on the tongue, and how the tongue is set on fire from hell itself, and how we can tame everything, but the tongue, but if we surrender our tongues to the Holy Spirit we can speak with new tongues.
Mark says in 16:17, And those who believe shall use my authority to cast out demons, and they shall speak with new languages,
V.18. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them, and they will be able to place their hands on the sick and heal them.
So back to the tongue, it can destroy the whole body, not only your body, but the fellowship of believers you belong to. The Pharisees were always after Jesus, and when Jesus spoke about the blaspheming the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ was saying it to those Pharisees, that were calling his works of the devil. They were blaspheming the Holy Spirit. They were speaking against the Spirit of his Father, and when we do works in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of his Holy Spirit and someone says that we are doing the works of the devil. It is just like the Pharisees who were calling what Jesus Christ was doing the works of satan, many because of ignorance and because of false teaching will accuse someone of doing works from the devil.
Jesus even tells us in Matthew 10:24-25 A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant or slave above his master,
V.25. It is sufficient for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant or slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they speak evil of those of his household?
And that person is going to be judged by those words. It will be words that will condemn you, if you do not repent from the wickedness of calling the works of the Holy Spirit of the devil.
The devil hates it when Christians speak in new tongues because it is a mystery, and so he tries to discredit it and stop God's people from speaking in tongues.
You see everything that God has, the devil has a counterfeit of it, and tries to stop the one whom the Spirit of the Lord gave a prayer language to. You see, when we speak in an unknown tongue by the Spirit of the Lord we are edifying and improving our selves, we can't edify a church by speaking in tongues, unless it is interpreted, but we edify and improve the church when we prophesy. It is just like a person building up their physical body by lifting weights, and something does happen to their muscles, so in the spiritual, when we edify and improve ourselves, by speaking to God in our spiritual language, something happens to us, we get closer to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Look at what Jude says in verse 20. But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith, make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher, praying in the Holy Spirit, v.21] guard and keep yourselves in the love of God; expect and patiently wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, the messiah, unto eternal life.
Let us look at Ephesians and see how we can offend the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:29-31. You will see that it is the tongue again. Let no foul or polluting language nor evil word, nor unwholesome or worthless talk ever come out of your mouth; but only such speech as is good and beneficial to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace to those who hear it.
V.30. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, (do not offend, or vex, or sadden him) by whom you were sealed (marked, branded as God's own, secured) for the day of redemption of final deliverance from evil and the consequences of sin.
V.31. Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling, (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will or baseness of any kind).
You know the word of God states, that what is in our hearts is going to come out, we really show whether we really belong to Christ Jesus or not. You can tell by one's speech who they belong to.
You see you can't say Jesus Christ is your Lord, but by the power of the Holy Spirit. And if Jesus Christ has your tongue, you are not going to curse one of God's children and make fun of them. And call them all kinds of satanic names. All who are born from above love God and his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous. If we say we love God, then we are going to love those who are begotten of God.
You know the word of God tells us not to sit in the seat of the scornful. And when you hear someone running one of God's precious children down, or making fun of them, [because they are believing what God has to say in his word]. We should immediately leave that place.
There is coming and it is here, vicious lies from the pits of hell against God's anointed ones. Look how David would not even dare to touch Saul when he had the chance. He said how can I touch God's anointed; you must remember Saul lost the anointing, but David would not dare to even lift a finger against him. When I read that, I said but he's not God's anointed, he lost it, but David didn't see it that way, how much more should we be with the people of God, and those who have fallen, we should cry out for mercy and grace for them, unless they committed the sin that can not be forgiven.
1 John 5:16 If you see a Christian sinning in a way that does not end in death, you should ask God to forgive him and God will give him life, unless he has sinned that one fatal sin. But there is a sin that ends in death and if he has done that, there is no use to praying for him.
The Holy Spirit must lead us into all truth. And he is the very holiness of God within us, if we belong to God, then his Holy Spirit is within us. We carry the Holy Spirit within our bodies. We must allow him his rightful place, and not mock him with the devils crowd. The Holy Spirit knows those who belong to Jesus Christ, and who have surrendered their lives to him. And he is the one who disciplines us and makes us see the light, if we are willing to listen to him. He is the one who makes us present when Jesus Christ comes.
That is why we can't offend him in any way. The way we offend him is to speak against his work that he is doing upon this earth. Many of the devils crowd try to discredit the works of the Holy Spirit, but praise God the Holy Spirit is there to destroy the very works of the devil, and get that person that the devil is using saved out of the kingdom of darkness. That is what he has done in our lives; he has saved us from the very pits of hell, and of corruption. We were doomed with damnation on our way to hell when the Holy Spirit came and took us out of the very pit we were in so deep, and he has crowned us with his loving kindness and tender mercies.
You see the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts of sin, and he will even come and convict the one who the devil will try to use to discredit one of God's children. I grant you there are some that are doing the works for money sake and for self-glory, the Lord knows those and they will be taken out of the way in time, but in the mean time there is works and gifts that the spirit of the lord gives, for the benefit of the church. And we must always look to the giver instead of the one whom he is using the gift through. You see many got their eyes upon the vessel instead of upon the giver of life. Many Pharisees have done just that, and they were the self righteous ones. They could not stand Jesus Christ, because he was altogether someone different from what they were.
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