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Good Morning,
I have been thinking on this fact, that being a doer of the Word of God could be very simple, and that we have made it quite complicated. We tend to major on the minors, and vice-versa. This tends to give us great difficulties with simple truths. Let's go back to the foundation of the Word and build from there, stone by stone. But before I do, I will read the verse that keeps coming back to my mind over and over again. "Enoch walked in habitual fellowship with God after the birth of Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. And Enoch walked in habitual fellowship with God; and he was not, for God took him home with Him." (Genesis 5:22-24) Enoch's tests, trials, tribulations, had to be similar to ours. He lived and dealt with some of the same difficult people that we have to deal with. He had to be kind, gentle, patient, he had to forgive and let things drop as well. He was a human living in this world of sin, yet he was able to live his life pleasing God, to the point that God took him out. A rapture! The Bible connects and explains his life by saying; "Because of faith Enoch was caught up and transferred to heaven, so that he did not have a glimpse of death; and he was not found because God had translated him. For even before he was taken to heaven, he receive testimony (still on record) that he had pleased and been satisfactory to God, but without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out.' (Heb. 11:5-6) So, Enoch was a man of faith, and we know that,' faith works, (operates, is activated, energized and expressed) through love'. (Gal. 5:6) Enoch was a great man of faith whose life of faith was expressed and operated by love.
So, the generation that God will rapture out of here must be great lovers. This is why, it is really quite simple, let's build upon the foundation the way the Master Builder designed it to be built, on love. Enoch's faith operated by love and brought so much pleasure to God, that He could not resist his company. I want to be that irresistible to God too. So, I must simply become a lover. Let's major on the major and all the minor things will follow, like things do. Blessings follow the faithful, signs and wonders follow those who believe. Things follow.(Prov. 28:20; Mk. 16:17) The question was asked of Jesus, which is the great commandment? "Jesus replied, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment and a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as you do yourself. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Matt. 22:37-40) So then everything in the Word depends upon us getting this great foundation of 'love'. Everything that you confess for your life from the promises of God's Word hinges on us walking in love. Enoch's life became a pleasure aroma to God as he walked in love by faith, or walked by faith in live. Either way, this is the irresistible perfume to our God. We must let this love, which has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, grow in us, by watering the seed of it moment by moment everyday. Now that erases so many principles, steps, and books upon books, that we get to see if someone else has found the way to make it easier for us to get what we have been in pursuit of. As I grow in the Lord and as I mature, I realize that I must 'fly' lighter, yet all around in the Christian arena, somebody is always giving out a new plan. This simple design from God has always been the way to please His heart and by pleasing His heart we then receive the rewards that come from doing so. Let's get back to the original intent and purpose of our Father. Seek first the great commandment. Put first things first. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matt. 6:33)
Love,
Pastor D.
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