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Instead of laughter, we should be turning it into mourning…humbling ourselves in the sight of the Lord so that He lifts us up. We are to humble ourselves….and not be found laughing. Woe unto those who laugh now.
James 4:8-10 KJV
(8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
(9) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
(10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Luke 6:25 KJV
(25) Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
The LORD God has compassion on His people and sends His messengers to speak His knowledge from Heaven to His people so that they may hear, understand, and depart from their own thoughts and ways and return to Him.
2 Chronicles 36:15-16 KJV
(15) And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
But in the past they also mocked His servants and despised His words…..until there was no remedy.
(16) But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
These things are written in the Scriptures so that we may understand today and repent and no longer follow after their evil example.
For if we sin “willfully”….that is, continuing to sin…after we have received the full knowledge (3) of the Truth, there will be no more remedy. There remains no more sacrifice for sins….no remedy. “It is finished” .
Hebrews 10:26-31 KJV
(26) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
The only thing remaining for such people who will not repent of their continued sinning is a fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
(27) But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
(28) He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
We are reminded to have brotherly love….the blood of the covenant….and not count it is an “unholy”…that is, a common thing to be broken.
His sacred covenant is to have love for one another as He loved us and gave His life for us and we must keep it with all priority. We must show that we know Him by the doing of His covenant and not just in words but in actions. Faith is active.
(29) Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
(30) For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
(31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
We are to hear the voice of the Son of God and awaken to His righteousness…showing forth the evidence of our faith…..having good works (peace, love, kindness, patience, etc). Professed faith without the external evidence of that faith is dead.
This was and is the problem with the church in “Sardis”…meaning “red ones”. They said that they were alive but were dead.
Their works were not God’s righteous works. They professed that they were “alive”….they professed their faith…but they were “dead” in their works. They did not have good works in the presence of His messengers sent out to speak His words of life and spirit to the churches.
They did not hear what the Spirit was saying as they did behave with the works of darkness instead of receiving the complete knowledge of the Son who has the fullness of the Spirit.
Revelation 3: KJV
(1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
“Be watchful”….that is, awaken to His righteousness and strengthen the things which remain…putting on Christ…and walk with Him in the Light of God. Putting on the outer garment of Christ is the external doing of good works which is the evidence of our professed faith. It is the righteous acts of the saints of God...the putting on of the white garment....putting on Christ.
(2) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
(3) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
(4) Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment as they will put on Christ (like an outer garment) by the showing forth of the external good works that are evidence of our inward faith.
They will walk with Him in white…..that is, in Light. They will enter in to know all of His knowledge while those who continue to do the works of darkness shall not understand. Outside in the darkness will they be left.
(5) He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches.
(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Sardis = “red” ones. Adam means “red” also.
The eyes of both Adam and Eve were opened….as they received the knowledge of the Son of God and they knew that they did not have any good works.
They reacted to the knowledge of the Son by sewing fig leaves together and made themselves aprons….that is, they said “Lord, Lord” but did bear forth any fruits of righteousness. They felt secure in their profession of faith. They felt like they did not need anything.
But faith only is dead without the accompanied good works of it.
This is the meaning for us today….to bear the fruit of God’s righteousness (the figs) and not just profess our faith in words only (the “fig leaves” only) especially after the receiving of the full knowledge of the Lord as spoken by the Son.
Genesis 3:7-10 KJV
(7) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the “cool”…that is, Spirit…of the Day (the Day of Judgment). They are reminded to keep His commandments.
Yet, they hid themselves from the face of the LORD God.
They did not show that they knew Him as they did not keep His commandments.
This is how we show we know Him…by the keeping of His commandments. (1 John 2:3 KJV) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.) Let us not hide from His face behind words only and found not keeping His commandments when He comes walking in the Light.
They hid among the TREE (singular in Hebrew) of the garden. This “tree” is the Tree of Life.
That is, they hid behind their reputation of being “alive” (hiding in the Tree of Life) but through the lack of good works of that faith (bearing fruit and not just leaves only) were dead as Christ told the church in Sardis (“red”).
They that are still dead in Adam (“red”) who do not show forth that they know God by the keeping of His commandments at the hearing of His voice in the Spirit of the Day of Judgment shall have their names blotted from the book of life.
Again, "trees" is singular in Hebrew as they hid in the Tree of Life...professing themselves "alive" (dressing themselves in leaves only) but had no fruits of righteousness.
(8) And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
“Where are you”? Where is your faith….where is the evidence of your faith? He feared...and fear has to do with punishment. But good works completes our faith. The love of God is then completed when we keep His commandments.
(9) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
(10) And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Who told you that you were naked and now are speaking evil in judgment (eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil = speaking evil of a brother in judgment and doing so supposedly in God’s name as “wise” judges) upon a brother?
We must not, with the same mouth, bless God and speak evil of others. We are not blessing God by doing so. Either make the tree good or make it evil.
(11) And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
It is the Son of God who speaks to us and tells us that we are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” in the Day of Judgment (“Loadicea” = “people of the Judgment”). This is for today. Adam and Eve made "aprons"...they felt secure in their own works of supposed "righteousness". They had no need of nothing in their own estimation.
Revelation 3:17-20 KJV
(17) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
We are counseled to have faith…which is tried in the fire of His rebuke of us…and put on white raiment which is the righteous acts of His saints so that we may be clothed and that the nakedness of our shame (speaking evil of others of what one hears him saying)….and readily receive the Bread of Heaven so that we may “see”…understand.
The word “eyesalve” is kollourion.... made up in the shape of a cake of bread - collyra. It speaks of receiving His knowledge...the Bread of Heaven..which enlightens the eyes of our understanding.
(18) I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
(19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
(20) Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Love not “sleep”…the behaving in envy, strife, wrath, hatred, etc…but awaken to His righteousness (open your eyes) and receive the Bread of Heaven…the knowledge of God that we are to “eat” something that truly satisfies and it fills us with joy, peace, love, et.
Proverbs 20:13 KJV
(13) Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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