Luke
19:41. Now as He
(Jesus) drew near, He saw
the city and wept over it, 42. saying,
"If you had known, even
you, especially in this your day, the things
that make for your peace! But now they are
hidden from your eyes. 43. "For the days will
come upon you when your enemies will build an
embankment around you, surround you and close
you in on every side, 44. "and level you, and
your children within you, to the ground; and
they will not leave in you one stone upon
another, because you did not know the time of
your visitation.''
Acts
13:46. Then Paul and
Barnabas grew bold and said, "It was necessary
that the word of God should be spoken to you
first; but since you reject it, and judge
yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold,
we turn to the Gentiles.
Give
this some thought, if your neighbor or some
other young man you knew, started a ministry,
making himself to be the Christ, could you
believe him. What if some miracles was done
through him, somewhat secretly, but word got
out, could you then believe him or would you
think that there must be some sort of a hoax to
this thing. Think about what a difficult task
this must of been for those who knew Jesus, to
believe that this common carpenters kid, without
any outstanding physical features, talent or
education, could possible be the Christ.
Consider all the years that their religious
leaders was prophesying of the coming of this
Messiah, and all the heart felt anticipation
they experienced for this coming divine event,
and then a common carpenters Son took claim to
be Him? How could this be? They know Joseph,
and his Son, There was nothing divine here that
they could see.
I think
for us, today, it is much easier for us to
believe, because we were not there to experience
the commonness of this situation. It’s much
easier for us to read about it and believe, than
to have lived it, and believed. The point I’m
trying to make here is that the religious
leaders was foretelling of this God promised
event, but they were looking for some great
physical evidence of man to determine the
validity of Jesus being the Messiah rather than
realizing that God sent His Son in the
commonness of man so that the Fathers
relationship to all could be first manifested
through His Son. God used a common man Moses to
show the world, in that day, that He wanted to
be an awesome God for them. Then God the Father
sent His Son, so to demonstrate to all, that His
Lordship, could be heart felt and personal.
Acts 3:22. "For
Moses truly said to the fathers, `The Lord your
God will raise up for you a Prophet like me
from your brethren. Him you shall hear in
all things, whatever He says to you.
This was His
foretelling of this close personal
intimate relationship within the fullness of
God, that was to be given to anyone, that wanted
to be included into His righteous and loving
kingdom.
Now
lets take this same scenario and apply it to
today. God once again promised us through the
prophet, Joel, His outpouring of His Holy Spirit
to all flesh.
Joel
2:28. "And it shall
come to pass afterward that I will pour out My
Spirit on all flesh …
What
could be more common than that, His Spirit
poured out on ALL flesh. That means everybody
that has a heartbeat has that outpouring of
God’s Spirit. Doesn’t mean that they all have
accepted it but it’s there for them. If “all
flesh” every day, wore white t-shirts, they’d be
even more common than they are now. “All” is no
doubt “common”. The blood that was shed for this
relationship is certainly not common, but the
relationship that it purchased was to be for
all.
What
I’m saying is that God’s Holy Spirit is poured
upon every soul today so that they can find
life. Regardless if you’re that real nice
person next door or if you're someone that's
extremely wicked, it doesn’t matter, God’s
directing Spirit has been poured out on you.
That "promise" was not to be given, to just
those, that meet a certain criteria, but to all,
even to those that do not even know Him. For
this promise is to “all” flesh and it was
delivered to all mankind on the Day of
Pentecost. In other words, after that
first day of Pentecost, all are born into this
common promise, again it does not mean that
they've accepted this promise for just as Jesus,
the common carpenter's Son, was rejected in
their time of visitation, today, many do not
recognize their time of visitation, as Christ
knocks on the door of the hearts of all men.
This knock is so common, many can not accept the
validity of this close intimate relationship
within the fullness of God, as many continue
looking to get into His presence in a place
rather than to accept His presence in their
heart, giving them direction and comfort in
their daily lives.
Acts 2:14.
But Peter, standing
up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to
them, "Men of Judea and all who dwell in
Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my
words.
15. "For these are
not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the
third hour of the day.
16. "But this
is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17. `And it shall come to pass in the last
days, says God, That I will pour out of My
Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall
see visions, your old men shall dream dreams.
18.
and on My
menservants and on My maidservants I will pour
out My Spirit in those days; and they shall
prophesy.
One
does not get into the presence of God in a
corporate church or some other place or by doing
some spiritual ritual. The only place to find
the presence of God is upon repenting, the act
of turning to God and accepting His "Way" to
salvation, therefore, recognizing your time of
visitation
1
Corinthians 3:16. Do you
not know that you are the temple of God and that
the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1
Corinthians 6:17. But he
who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with
Him.
Time is
not a friend to anyone apart from Christ
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