Pastor John,
In case I haven’t told you I am loving this Father and Son book. It is changing us! This morning I was praying God I just want to get over me and my flesh to able to do some good for people who don’t know what we have gotten to hear. Most of the things in our lives that we deal with is just our own flesh. We have got to get pasted that to really do so good. We talked about Job and how he was a perfect man (without God’s life) then where are we? I am not saying this in a discouraging way I feel like it is a call to move up. We are learning this for some reason even if it’s just to live a cleaner life. Well just wanted to thank you again.
Jammie
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Pastor John
After Wednesday night I’ve been thinking about Job as well, in particular this verse. “Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” The question I have asked is repent of what? He had not done anything. He was just human and he saw or caught a glimpse of something so much greater – maybe the righteousness of God – and he could not (without the Spirit) humble himself far enough in response.
I have also been thinking about the various abilities to do things we all have. Doing anything is nothing. What is going on in the heart while you’re doing what you are doing? That is the question. The flesh loves making a “fair show” of itself. It makes me pull back and consider whatever I am doing and pray God that there is nothing of me in there.
These things are so good to consider but there is always goodness and severity to behold.
Damien
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Hi Damien.
What Job was feeling, neither he nor anyone else could see and understand until the Son of God came to reveal it to us. It was God’s kind of life. Job was already “a perfect and an upright man.” God said so. But what overwhelmed him in the end was a glimpse of a kind of life that is beyond perfection. God can rebuke even the most perfect man on earth because “the foolishness of God is wiser than man” and “the weakness of God is stronger than man.”
Oh no! I think I just said something that I want to add to the Father and Son book!
jdc
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Hi John,
I don’t know where to start, I have had so many new thoughts and feelings about what the Father did with his Son and what the Son did for us when he came down and secured a way for us here on earth. And all of it is because the Father wanted it to be so for us and his Son.
One thing that I really love about what God and his Son has done with us, through you with this Father and Son book, is how that when he reveals something to us about himself and the Son it redefines everything around us. It helps us to understand how he feels about everything and every being that was created.
It exposes the truth about everything. I am just thinking about how much light he has shown us about his Son and how much that was not known during the old testament times, on earth or in heaven. It gives a whole new meaning to the scripture in Mat 6:10 “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” (After the Son returned and was accepted of the Father of course.)
Wow. We are so blessed. The more we learn about the Father and the Son, the more it reveals about what is godly and what is evil, like Paul said:
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
What we have learned about Satan and the spirit of Satan through what God has revealed to you with this Father and Son book is astonishing John. No books can attain to what has been opened up to you and us. No wonder this book keeps growing. His knowledge and wisdom is endless, and I thank you for coming and taking the time to teach us what he is showing you. What an honor it is to be living during this time in life and to gather together with such wonderful people as God has put us with. Thank you Jesus!
Stuart
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