Notice the picture above of footprints in the sand and no person. This reminds me of Enoch who walked with God and he was not for God took him. Note the blessings that we receive when we daily walk with the Lord Jesus like Enoch. What a blessing it will be when the christians will be caught up in the clouds in the air to be with the Lord Jesus during the rapture and only footprints will remain on this earth. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 says For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel (this is Michael according to Jude 9), and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. Genesis 5:22 says And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Hebrews 11:5 says By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Enoch's name means dedicated. Let's be dedicated and live holy lives for Jesus. If we are dedicated and live holy like Enoch we will be translated, not see death, and be caught up in the rapture to be with Jesus in the kingdom of God.
Let's be like Enoch and walk daily with the Lord Jesus by daily looking by faith with our hearts to Jesus Christ crucified. Every day tell the devil I am crucified with Jesus Christ and with Jesus' stripes I am healed. Daily thank the Lord Jesus for dying for you on the cross of Calvary to give you hope to overcome this world. According to Psalm 16:8 and Psalm 16:11, if you daily set the Word of God who is Jesus before you, you will not be moved, have fulness of joy, and pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:8 says I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Psalm 16:11 says Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Note the blessings that you receive when you live holy and walk daily with the Lord Jesus. Isaiah 41:10 says Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. David spoke about how Jesus' right hand will save us. Psalm 138:7 says Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. Romans 8:31 says What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 2 Thessalonians 3:16 says Now the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
John 14:23 tells us that if we live holy and walk daily with the Lord Jesus, Jesus will be with us and give us everlasting peace. John 14:23 says Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and will come unto him, and make our (notice it says our and not my because Jesus is one with God and Jesus is God) abode with him. And if Jesus lives with us and makes His abode with us, we have everlasting peace. Jesus said at John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Receive Everlasting Peace With Jesus
Get Saved, Repent, Decide To Stop Sinning,
Confess That Jesus Is God, And Believe The Gospel,
That Jesus Died On The Cross For You, Was Buried, And Rose Again
The Lord Jesus is called the bright morning star. Revelation 22:16 says I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. If you line up 10000 stars, the Lord Jesus is the chiefest among 10000 stars and shines the brightest. Song of Solomon 5:10 says My beloved (Jesus) is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. If you daily walk with the Lord Jesus and live holy, just the brightness of Jesus will destroy the devil and any trouble in this world. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 says And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.
The NIV bible calls the devil a morning star like Jesus in Isaiah 14:12. I suggest that you check this out for yourselves at the website blueletterbible. This is not quoted correctly. The correct KJV reading of Isaiah 14:12 is How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning. how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. There is only one true bright and morning star and his name is Jesus. According to 2 Corinthians 11:14 the devil is only transformed into an angel of light and appears like light but really is a liar and is only called the son of the morning.
Notice the picture above of John the Baptist and Jesus and realize that only the Lord Jesus can take away our sins that separated us from God. John 1:29 says The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Initially sin separated people from God, but now anyone can come to God by faith in the Lord Jesus who removed sin by the sacrifice of Himself at the cross of Calvary. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.
Our sins separated us from God. Isaiah 59:1 says Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that He will not hear. But The Lord Jesus took our sins upon Himself and removed sins with His precious blood shed at the cross of Calvary. Now we can come boldly to the Father with no guilt and enter the holiest throne of grace by the blood of Jesus. 1 John 1:7 says But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. Hebrews 4:16 says Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 10:19 says Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
When Jesus died on the cross of Calvary the veil that separated the most holy place from the holy place was rent from the top to the bottom and Jesus' sacrifice on the cross now gives christians boldness to approach God in the most holy place with no guilt of sin. Matthew 27:50 says Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent. The torn veil symbolized that through Jesus' death, the way into God's presence was now open to all believers in the Lord Jesus, and not just the high priest. Jesus said at John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Study the picture above where Jesus wrote on the ground and then saved the woman taken in adultery from stoning by saying at John 8:7 He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. Since according to Romans 3:23 all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, no person could stone the woman because they were all sinners. But the Lord Jesus who is perfect and could have stoned the adulterous woman showed mercy. 1 Peter 2:22 tells us that Jesus is perfect saying Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. Jesus said to the woman who committed adultery and to all of us who are sinners at John 8:11 Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
What Did Jesus Write On The Ground?
John 8:3 speaks about Jesus writing on the ground and then saving a woman taken in the act of adultery from her accusers. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto Him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting Him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
So when they continued asking Him, he lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again He stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up Himself, and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. and Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
The Lord Jesus wrote the names of the scribes and the Pharisees in the earth who found fault with the adulterous woman, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of Jeremiah 17:13. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. By writing in the dust, Jesus was visually illustrating and fulfilling Jeremiah's prophecy, indicating that the accusers, by rejecting Him (the fountain of living waters mentioned just a chapter earlier at John 7:38) were the very people written in the earth.
Jesus said at John 7:37 If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified. After Jesus spoke about the fountain of living waters that represents Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the scribes and Pharisees brought accusations against Jesus before the adulterous woman. Then Jesus wrote the names of the scribes and the Pharisees in the earth, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of Jeremiah 17:13. The names of the scribes and Pharisees who departed from Jesus were written in the earth because they had forsaken the Lord Jesus who is the fountain of living waters.
I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.
Bob, I think this was one of your most powerful sermons yet. It really blessed me!
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