Revelation 1:15
Preface
During my prayer and meditation time yesterday, I was reminded by my study in Deuteronomy 6:10-25 to always be forever cautious against willful disobedience toward God. The passage of the Holy Scripture that illuminated off the page was Deuteronomy 6:24:
“And the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.”
Today’s blog post is a survey of findings that were taught to me during my study, prayer, and the meditation of the Lord God, that may assist you in how to effectively respond to the uplifted voice of God Almighty.
Beware, lest you forget
The initial finding in my time with the Lord was the loving way that He reminds His people about His faithfulness in keeping His oaths, promises, and covenants for all generations.
He then purposefully illuminates that all of the blessings that His people are benefactors of are possible by His power, will, providence and sovereignty over all creation.
Our wise and all-knowing Creator delights in conveying to His people about His saving power of delivering humanity from sin, evil, bondage, and more importantly, ourselves to re-establish a permanent wholesome covenant relationship with His people.
The quintessential lifetime prerequisite that God’s commands from our free will are unwavering reverence and loyalty to the covenant relationship. To effectively respond to the uplifted voice of God Almighty, He constantly reminds His people to diligently keep the commandments, testimonies, and statutes that reveal His divine design associated with His kingdom.
The visible confirmation that His people are in a genuine spiritual union of love and communion, God promises to prosper His people’s inner soul-care needs and their earthly material substance and provisions throughout their time on earth.
There is a mournful warning from God to His people throughout all past, present, and future generations, He is a jealous God, nothing else in our lifetime should supplant the reason for our creation as human beings. We were created as “living souls” to commune and to maintain spiritual union with our Creator for His will and delight.
No reasonable people would want to fall into the peril of the anger of the Lord God. As the Scriptures state v.15, “lest the anger of the Lord your God is aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth“.
Being Forever Obedience Toward God
And Lord, the voice of God, is lifted to each of us to keep and take heed all these decreed limits, or portions to regard with awe and great respect the Yahweh, God the object of our worship, for our functional desirable qualities always, the He might give, protect, to keep up, and keep us from decay as it is this day. Deuteronomy 6:24
The above version is my reinterpretation of the Scripture after the examination of the original meaning of some of the terms of the highlighted words in the featured Holy Scripture selection in our Preface.
Brief Interpretation/Application
Throughout all generations, people who faithfully take heed to God’s commands, will not only have favor but they shall be blessed with God as their primary source of provisions during their journey on earth.
1 Samuel 2:8. “He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the ash heap To make them sit with nobles, And inherit a seat of honor; For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, And He set the world on them.”
1 Chronicles 29:12. “Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule overall, and in Your hand is power and might, and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.“
Believers also must use studying and learning of the entirety of the Holy Scriptures as a form of worship while the practice of its principles and spiritual virtues during one’s lifetime. This practice is an expression of obedience and witness in the broken world. Blessings of this form of worship unto God, assure that individuals, families, and nations will be enriched by God in the temporal, spiritual, and eternal life to come.
Peter 1:23, says, “For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable, but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God.” Not only is the word the seed itself, but the agency which conveys that seed. The word of God produces life. … The word of God does; therefore it is alive.
Genuine submissive reverence toward our Creator ensures that believers’ wants and provisions will be fulfilled according to His covenants, providence, and perfect will. The Lord will not withhold good things from those who deliberately seek after Him.
Psalms 34:9 Fear the Lord, for you, His holy people, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
God promises that He will preserve us alive, as it is at this day, in every area of our humanity, our bodily, mental, and soul-care needs. We likewise are to embrace and enjoy our daily portion and the good of the land, with all blessings and benefits associated with our union and covenant relationship with God.
Psalm 16:1 Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.
Sanctified for God’s Holy Purpose
In His priestly prayer to His Father, Jesus, as the Son of Man asked God to “set apart” [sanctify] His selected disciples, [past, present, and future] for God’s Holy purposes. This is done through spiritual regeneration as a direct result of perfect sacrifice and spirit-giving blessings toward humanity’s soul redemption. John 17:17ff.
It goes without saying that throughout Biblical history, sinful flesh, or human effort or will can never effectively communicate or respond to God’s commandments, laws, or ruling other than by repentance. The initial commandments were never intended to justify or sanctify us. The physical law itself was not given by God to remove our condemnation or to conquer our flesh. [Romans 8:3-7]
What the physical law of God is successful in revealing is the holiness of God and His longsuffering, grace, and mercy that is extended through the ages in His effort at releasing His total plan of redemption based upon His sovereignty and eternal covenants.
The oftentimes underappreciated roles or titles of Jesus is Him as the “Last Man.” In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that “as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive,” while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the “last/ultimate/final Adam.” Jesus is the holy head of a new humanity.
The Son of Man is a new Adam, who reigns over a lasting kingdom. Jesus accomplishes salvation in the Gospels as a representative man who overcomes the sin of the first man. Jesus binds the strong man by his obedience, freeing those who are in bondage to the devil and offering forgiveness of sins.
The results of His priestly prayer and His sacrifice to God on our behalf is that we are as stated in verse 21ff of John, “that they are one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may know that Thou did send Me. And the glory which Thou has given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one“.
Christ is a superior and prophetically fulfilled covenant that calls to the wholeness and love that is effectively communicated from Deuteronomy 6:1-25, the Shema, the command to love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart…, now is possible through our union with Christ.
Through spiritual regeneration, the practice of spiritual disciplines, and God’s promise to “put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” Jeremiah 31:33, living souls can effectively respond to the uplifted voice of God Almighty like never before. Amen.
Prayerful Thankfulness
I dedicate this blog post to Lord Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, and He has made us be a kingdom of priest to His God and Father, to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Revelation 1:5-6 Amen
