Psalm 119
Blessed By God, Blessed In God
ALEPH
(Psalm 119:1, 2)
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. (Psalm 119:1)
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. (Psalm 119:2)
The revelation of God is the continuing unction of the Spirit’s voice. The apostle John through the Holy Spirit, teaches us in his first epistle, Chapter 2, verse 27. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. The Spirit of God is explaining His unction to those who are born of the Spirit. Verse 20 calls this marvelous gift an unction from the Holy One. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
The Holy Spirit: Tutor and Mentor
Men continually portray the work of the Holy Spirit as a past work when it comes to inspiration, however, the Holy Spirit can take His work from two, or three, or even from four thousand years ago or more, and speak to the heart of man upon this very day as plainly as when the words were first given to Moses, or to the prophets, or to the beloved psalmists. He will guide you into all truth (John 16:13), is not a phrase from the imagination. It is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that He will lead (and guide) His children (whether they are babes, or sons, or fathers) in all truth. This is the reality of His presence in the heart, soul and spirit of every believer. Those who have confidence in man will not obey this truth because they erroneously believe that their opinions, their rationalizations, and their thoughts are far above the thoughts of God. The Holy Spirit is the only Tutor, and the only Mentor of God’s holy Word. Every thing derived by man is of man, and allows the deceiver to play them like a fine instrument that is out of tune.
The Holy Spirit: The Great Divider, The Great Teacher, The Great Preserver
Our Savior was the great divider, so why is denominationalism the great uniter? Denominationalism is the great divider because it does not agree with Christ. There is one faith, there is one Savior, there is one GodMan, and His Person and name is Jesus Christ. It is He who sent the Spirit into the world to teach us ALL — ALL truth, therefore, making the Spirit of Christ (the Spirit of God) the great divider of the world. It is His ministry to the world to divide it by the righteousness of God which is in Jesus Christ. The division was first to the Jew. Now it is to the whole world. And it is the Spirit of the Son of God who is the great divider of mankind. This is the fulfillment of the wheat and the tares, a continuous action until the very end, when the wheat and the tares are divided. Let them grow together, yet, they are divided. Who has been the great divider between good and evil throughout the whole history of mankind? It has only been the Lord Jesus Christ. By the preserving power of the Spirit of God we have before us the untainted, the unmodified, and the unchanged Word of God. It is the Holy Spirit (through the Word of God) who maintains us, keeps us, and teaches us. The Spirit of God will never pass away, so therefore, we have the eternality of the Word of God that Christ’s Word will endure forever. Consequently, in our salvation, and in the Spirit’s teaching by the Word of God, we are truly blessed by God Almighty.
The Holy Spirit’s Continuous Power in Eternity
The work of the Holy Spirit is not new in relationship to the conception of the Church. The Holy Spirit is first mentioned in Genesis 1:2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. This shows His continuous power and ministry through the course of humanity. Many of the works of the Holy Spirit have been done by giving the Word of God to the prophets, to the psalmists, and this course of the Spirit of God (as the course of God the Son) goes back before the foundation of the earth. The complete Godhead is One as a whole, do not try to divide the body of the Godhead because man is not able to divide His Creator. It is the fullness of the Godhead bodily that determines all the determinate counsels of God so that all the Old Testament and New Testament truths apply to all saints in one way or another. Even if they are not partakers of the Church of God, they are seen in the finished work of Christ, they without us should not be made perfect.
The Importance of the Walk of Enoch
Enoch walked with God, and God took him home before the flood. He walked in the way of the undefiled for he had this testimony that he pleased God. (Hebrews 11:5) 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. Now, let’s consider the distance in the time of mankind from Enoch walking with God till the Spirit of God declared that Enoch pleased God in Hebrews 11:5, or the prophecy of Enoch that is recorded in the book of Jude verses 14 and 15. How did Enoch profit from the writings of the Holy Spirit in Hebrews Chapter 11 and Jude verses 14 and 15? It was not for his profit, but for ours. God took the age of Enoch and opened a window for us so that we could understand the faith of others, to increase and to encourage our own faith in God. Again, you must see and feel the depth of Hebrews 11:40, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. There is no mystery here. The fullness of time had come in Jesus Christ, the perfection of God had come in His Son both by Him and in Him, thus, capturing the past before the cross, and taking us back to the cross to show us the value of the sacrifice of Christ, and the abundance of grace both past and present. In the sacrificial death of Christ perfection was sealed by God’s perfect Lamb, by God’s perfect Son, by God’s perfect Savior, and by God’s perfect Priest made higher than the heavens.
So, with Enoch, we are blessed by God in God’s perfect Son. God, in the work of salvation, saw Enoch in his walk. Enoch walked by faith in God, and his faith presented him to God, and in God. Like Noah, Enoch was a preacher of righteousness. He was a prophet of God, therefore, he had an eternal standing with God. The proof of this is that God and Enoch ascended into glory, God took him, but before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God. This brings in the complete counsels of God whether Old Testament or New Testament, one cannot be blessed of God unless they please God. And the pleasure of God is His beloved Son. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. This is the pleasure, this is how Enoch pleased God by God’s dear Son in whom the Father is well pleased. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, and Enoch was blessed of God, for he walked not in the counsels of the ungodly, he walked with God, and separated himself from sinners. Separation from an evil world is a good thing, even for the saint in the New Testament. We are called to separate ourselves unto Christ from this evil world. We are called to heaven to love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Enoch knew of the judgment to come, and yet, he walked and obeyed the Almighty God. He lived a life of separation unto God so that he would be the voice of God in his prophecy to the world. Not only in his day, but his walk still testifies to us this day, and will continue to testify until the Lord comes in judgment with ten thousands of His saints. Can your walk hold up under these conditions? Have you ever walked in the presence of God, and in God? We are called to turn away from the world. This is the definition of the world in Psalm 24, verse 1. <<A Psalm of David.>> The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. The ‘they’ here are the children of Adam. They dwell in the world as man under sin and death. They are without hope and without God in this world. Only divine intervention can pluck them out of the fire. The child of God has been given the Spirit of Christ, as the Spirit declares in Romans Chapter 8. And according to Hebrews Chapter 5, verse 14, the Spirit of God is given so that we can discern both good and evil. This takes us all the way back to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil where sin came into the world, and death by sin. This is where it all began. And it finished at the cross of Christ. In Hebrews 5:14, it is the discerning by the Spirit of Christ that we are able to discern both good and evil. This modern age has robbed Christ, and robbed His people. The Spirit of God is going to turn the tide on the deceivers, and Christ is going to maintain an open door to the truth of God. We have no treasure on the earth, we have no treasure in the first and second heaven, all our treasure is in Jesus Christ in the third heaven. Heavenly treasure is possessed today in the hearts, in the spirits and in the souls of every believer, for we are a heavenly people. We are completely out of sync with this evil world. We are not compatible with this world. Just as our Savior was not compatible with this same world. The world cannot understand me, however, through the Spirit of God, I can understand more about them, then they would like me to. I understand more about my own being, then they do about theirs. They only want to rob me of Christ, however, greater is He that is in me, then all those who dwell in this evil world. The world lost its power at the cross. Satan lost his power at the cross. I acquired power at the cross: the eternal power of the Son of God.
God was in Enoch directing him, and guiding him, and walking with him, then, as an example of a future time when the Church will be called home by Jesus Christ and translated out of this world, therefore, Enoch was translated as a testimony to us of the assurance of God’s grace, and as an example of the entire Church of Jesus Christ being translated into glory before the seven years of judgment of the tribulation. (Remember, in the final judgment of man, the last three and a half years are called, the great tribulation.) In Enoch’s day, the great flood was approaching. He warned the world of the coming disaster, the coming judgment of God.
Others Who Walked With God and the Lessons in Their Walk
Noah also not only fulfilled his own preaching, but fulfilled Enoch’s preaching as well. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua (and many others) all walked with God. They knew the presence of God, and they walked by faith with God. God in His love saw them in Christ before the cross. (Hebrews 11:40) This verse has been hacked to death by the deceivers, but still, God resurrects this verse to bring it before us when man would delete it, God will reveal it. As Abraham walked before the Almighty God, he walked before God at the command of God. God told Abraham, in Genesis, Chapter 17, walk before me, and be thou perfect. Is it any wonder that we receive a wonderful lesson from Abraham, God is not asking something of Abraham that he cannot do, for God, Himself, was looking forward to the fullness of time in His Son, Jesus Christ. All the lessons that Abraham learned were to confirm his faith, and reveal Christ to him. How can we say that? Because in John 8:56, the Lord Jesus confirmed His personal relationship with Abraham. Abraham saw the day of Jesus Christ and who could have shown him that day except the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. (John 8:56) Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? (John 8:57) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (John 8:58)
Two Sides of the Same Window
Christ opened windows for us to look back into time past to see the examples of faith in His saints, so He opened windows for them to see the coming of God’s Christ, and confirmed His grace to them so that they would rejoice in the day of Christ even though they were thousands of years away. As God walked with Enoch, and gave him the prophecy of the end times, so the Holy Spirit confirms his prophecy in the book of Jude, the finality of the New Testament writings before the special testimony of the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto Him to show His servants’ things which must shortly come to pass. So Enoch’s prophecy becomes a revealed truth in The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
In Abraham’s walk with God, he submitted himself and obeyed his Creator in taking his only son to a specific mountain in the land of Moriah. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (Genesis 22:2) It was to confirm in Abraham the cross, and the death of God’s own Son. Abraham (the servant of God) watched as Isaac carried the wood for his own sacrifice. Abraham held the knife that was to take the life of his own son, the son of his love. He held the fire that was to bring judgment and consume the sacrifice. Isaac turned and looked into the eyes of his father, and he saw the depth of sadness of heart, and the trouble of Abraham’s spirit. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? (Genesis 22:7) Abraham (speaking by the inspiration of the Spirit of God) said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (Genesis 22:8) Abraham learned by faith how great God was for the cross of Christ would thud into the ground at that very spot on mount Moriah. And it was there where Abraham built an altar to God. The whole symbolism is prophetic, he laid the wood on the altar, he lashed his son, his only son to the altar, and the marvel here is that Isaac submitted himself without a struggle, but completely obeyed the will of his father. Abraham also obeyed the will of God. He unsheathed his knife, and raised it over his son with a broken heart in what he was about to do. God had tested him to very end of man’s understanding.
From God’s Side of the Window
How could this be? A Son, the Son of my love, that I waited so long to be displayed before man, now I, a holy and righteous God must take the life of my Son upon the cross. There was no voice from the thicket to relieve God the Father of this burden. Abraham heard the voice, and God provided a ram in the thicket. But when it came to the Son of God’s love there was no reprieve. Christ, the Son of His Father’s love, must enter into the entire judgment of God against all mankind. He must enter into death to defeat death. He must take upon Himself sin, He who knew no sin, He must give Himself and His soul as an offering for sin.
God’s Time: The Fullness of Time
This all took place in the fullness of time. Out of the text of Galatians Chapter 4, verse 4, we read, But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, this text reveals a time period of fulfillment. This was when God divided in time the age of sin, and the age of grace. We see this even in the beginning of our time period that God divided sin and death, life and peace by the sacrifice of His Son, thus, the time period of grace would begin as A.D., this began a new history of mankind under the dispensation of grace.
For at the cross all the foreknowledge of God, all the determinate counsels of God, all the purposes of God, and the promises of God were fulfilled in the fullest way on the cross in the fulness of time. God from the beginning, knew this moment, and He will always see this moment (the moment at the cross) as the fullness of time. No matter how long the history of mankind, God will always look to the sacrifice of His Son as the fullness of time. We can, therefore, say in the dispensation of grace, Christ in me the hope of glory.
Our Window: The Past and The Future Connected
Again, the Spirit of God takes us to the summit of Pisgah and allows us to see into the future, step by step, He opens New Testament prophecies and then presents the completion in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. He leads my thoughts to see the end time and the approaching doom of the world. As Abraham witnessed the destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plains, so too, God allows us, with the eye of the Spirit, to see the rising smoke and the ashes of Babylon the Great. Revelation opens all the final judgments of God upon Adam and his race. In the destruction of Sodom, Lot was a figure or type of the remnant of Israel who will come through the fire in the final days of God’s judgment upon the Gentile world. God will bring 1/3 of the nation of Israel through the fire.
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them. (Zechariah 10:6)
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. (Zechariah 13:8)
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.(Zechariah 13:9)
This will be the people out of Israel who will call on the name of the Lord. They will see Jesus Christ as their Messiah. They will see the Lord of glory as their King and their eternal Priest. They will look on Him whom they have pierced, and mourn as one who mourns for an only son. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10) From the depths of their hearts they will cry out, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. (Matthew 23:39)
His glory will come from the east as a mighty warrior out of Edom with dyed garments of Bozrah with the blood of His enemies upon His garment. He will redeem Israel out of all their woes and troubles. Finally, the blood of Israel’s enemies will be trampled under foot, no longer will the blood of Israel, or the blood of God’s dear Son be trampled under foot by His enemies. His hosts will be victorious that come with Him. Enoch’s voice and his prophecy will be heard for the Lord will come with ten thousands of His saints.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 14, 15)
This judgment includes not only the present time of this action, but all the years from the cross that ungodly men have uttered hard speeches against the Lord, and against His anointed. He will come. And after all His enemies are subdued, His glory shall fill the temple of glory and His throne. The Israelites will finally say, The glory of the Lord is upon us, and blessed are they who walk in the way. He will justify them through the cross, and they will be undefiled in the way in Him.
What a view we get from this Pisgah of faith. We see way back into the past to the age of Adam. The Spirit of God has revealed to us (with our eyes wide open) the present evil world in which we dwell. He then casts a line into the future, and allows us to see both the judgment and the glory of God, and unfolds to us the eternal state of the new heavens and the new earth.
The Kingdom and the Paradise Revealed
Blessed are the undefiled in the way. This is the way of everlasting, and they walk in the law of the Lord. And blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. (Colossians 1:13) Well Enoch, what do you think now? You have company. We, the children of God, the poor in spirit, have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love. As the dying thief said to the Lord Jesus, Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:40 – 43)
Also notice the words of the Holy Spirit in verse 44, And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. (Luke 23:44) It was about the sixth hour, this was the hour of man. We see two men, one railed upon the Lord in his hard speech, the other (like Mephibosheth) could only cry out for mercy, and he would sit at the king’s table. Two wonderful things are revealed here: first, a kingdom; and secondly, the paradise of God. The kingdom is the finality of man. The paradise is the new beginning of a new creation. For the thief (now like Enoch) would be translated through death into the kingdom of God’s dear Son. In the two men, one on each side of the Lord, we have the wheat and the tares, the goats and the sheep, the hireling and the good shepherd of the sheep. The good Shepherd of the sheep hung between these two thieves, he who was poor in spirit acquired the kingdom of heaven, and he who was proud in spirit received the wages of sin, and the eternal fires of hell. This is hard, but nevertheless it is true. The Lord Jesus proclaimed to the dying thief, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. And this now takes us to Revelation 2:7, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Another Window Opened: The Tree of Life
This verse in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ opens a completely new window for the saint today, for we see vividly that it is Christ who is the tree of life, and the tree of life was sealed at the cross. Paul said this of himself in Galatians 2:20 that he reckoned himself dead at the cross, and alive in Jesus Christ. Christ had become the tree of life for him, as he could say that the Son of God loved him, and gave Himself for him. In the case of the dying thief, he had to go through his own crucifixion along side of the Lord Jesus Christ, as he passed from this world he passed into the bosom of the Father in Jesus Christ. He had found grace, and grace led him through the veil of death. He died, nevertheless, he lives in paradise, and has partaken of the tree of life in Revelation 2:7.
We have the tree of the world, and that was the cross; then we have the tree of life. In Revelation 2:7, the very next verse, verse 8 brings us to resurrection. And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive. We have the tree of life, and then we have the resurrection in Jesus Christ: both life and resurrection are owned by Jesus Christ. How good is God for the highest Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the first tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the last tree of life in the paradise of God. And between them both He took on Himself the form of a servant and went into death, even the death of the cross. He took the tree of death, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and made it in His own Person, the tree of life. So that we can say with Paul in Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Out of death came the honey, the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God, truly blessed by God, and blessed in God. Blessed by God is the action of the Almighty for our souls on the cross. Blessed in God is the ever abiding presence of God within. As the Lord Jesus said, I in them. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23) The presence of the Spirit of God within brings the blessed in Christ for He abides in every child of God.
The children of this world are very boastful, for they sing that they are truly the children of the world, however, the child of God sings of the heavenly glories of Christ. We declare and sing that we are the children of God, and we are of the heavenlies, and as the stars sing of the glory of God we join with them in the heavenly anthem to our Savior. Christ in me, the hope of glory, blessed is God, and blessed is the Son of His love. This is the way everlasting, so Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD blessed by God.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. (Psalm 119:2)
Blessed in God, the new creature in Christ now wants to please his Creator, so he keeps the testimony of Christ, and he seeks the will of Christ with a whole heart. This is the blessedness of God’s rest: the abiding presence of Christ Himself within. Christ lives in me. The tree of life is Christ, and it is He who has the power of an endless life. Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16)
The Breath of Life: Then and Now
Christ is the power of all life and it was so from the beginning. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) Dust became man, but it was God’s breath that made man a living soul. Man was formed from dust, the lowest part of matter. He was given an image before life, and to this image God breathed life into his nostrils. No other beast created by God received the breath of God, and only this act of God’s gift of the breath of life gave man (and made man) a living soul. Notice here in Genesis there is no mention of the heart of man, or the spirit of man, it is the soul that received life! Now the soul that sinneth shall die, this gives us a connection with God’s command to Adam that he should not partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For in that day thou shalt surely die, then Adam partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin came in like a flood, and robbed man of life in his soul. He went from being a living soul to a dying sinner. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. (Romans 5:12)
This brings us to the very work of Christ on the cross. Christ must once again breath life into the soul to give God’s Spirit into the soul of man. We have an example of this when He revealed Himself to His disciples in the gospel of John, Chapter 20, verse 22: And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Christ breathed the power of God upon them that they might receive the Spirit to give them new life in their very souls. Now let’s go to Acts 9:17: And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Although it is not mentioned here, it was the breath of the Holy Ghost that filled the soul of Saul with new life.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:7)
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)
The Spirit of God does not take dust, He does not rely on the blood, or the will of the flesh, or the will of man, but He takes the soul and creates a whole new being within it, and gives unto it eternal life in Jesus Christ. The new creature is not born of the earth, earthly, but is born of the Spirit.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13)
We are heavenly, and there is no dust, only Spirit, and through the Spirit of God we have a new form to be conformed to the image of Christ and not conformed to Adam and to dust. The dust must stay behind so the image of Christ in us may be glorified. Adam and all the dust, the old life of death, are past at the cross. (Galatians 2:20) The new soul and spirit are alive for Christ lives in me. Adam gave his soul for sin and death. Christ gave His soul as an offering to God to remove death. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10)
This gives all true believers a life beyond this world, a life in the presence and in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. This gives the soul of man new life in the highest Himself. For Christ saw the travail of His own soul, and was satisfied. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11)
His Righteous and Holy Soul Offered For Your Soul
This is one of the most marvelous mysteries that God gives to the soul, for He offered His own soul for me and for you. This adds to His name, and the wonder of the wonderful name, for the name of Jesus Christ is most wonderful. This was the most wonderful act that God could ever do that He, not knowing the depth of death, entered into death and offered His own soul for an offering for sin. This gives us a whole new aspect of the love of God. We will always have the reality within, whether on earth or in heaven that God loved me and He loved you, and gave Himself for us. (Galatians 2:20) When thou shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. Thank you my Lord and God, Jesus Christ. Thank you, thank you, thank you, blessed are they who keep His testimony, and seek Him with a whole heart. Heaven came closer and bowed its ear to hear our whimpers, our praise, and our prayer. The prayer of thanksgiving is our prayer that ascends to meet in the heavenlies as an offering to God for this offering is glory to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Man in heaven took our sorrows, acquainted Himself with our grief, and bore our iniquities in His own body on the tree. He gave His soul an offering for sin, He bore the travail of His soul so that we, our souls, might be able to stand justified before the Almighty God. He offered His soul for the soul that was lost in the garden of God, and to justify many souls who have partaken of the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God. After He purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. (Hebrews 1:3) Our souls have new life in Him. Our hearts are made whole. He has breathed His Spirit within us so that as a divine living soul we seek Him with a whole heart as He sought us with His whole heart from forthwith came blood and water. This love of God in the Son of His love brings us to proclaim as the apostle John wrote in his first epistle, Chapter 3, verses 1 through 3.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (1 John 3:1-3)
No other blood could cleanse us from all sin. No other soul could be offered as a sacrifice for sin. No other body could take away sin. No other spirit could give eternal life. No other love, but God’s love could make the sinner pure, therefore, the Spirit of God says to us, Purify yourselves as He is pure, and seek Him with a whole heart.
Two Pillars: The Pillars of Boaz and Jachin
In the first two verses in Psalm 119, we pass through the first two pillars (Boaz and Jachin) in the temple of God’s Word. These first two verses in Psalm 119 are the pillars of truth as the pillars of Solomon’s temple in 2nd Chronicles 3:15-17.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. (2 Chronicles 3:15)
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. (2 Chronicles 3:16)
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. (2 Chronicles 3:17)
Read these verses very closely, on the right hand you have Jachin or ‘he will establish.’ In Psalm 119:1 it is the Word of God, the living Word, that establishes the undefiled in the way. The Lord Jesus stated, I am the way. He established our walk (for we walk according to and in His Word) for we walk in the law of the Lord. Then on the left hand, we have Boaz, ‘it is His strength;’ and we have verse two of Psalm 119, Blessed are they that keep his testimonies. He shall give strength to keep His testimony. This is confirmed in Revelation 3:8, 9. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8) Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Revelation 3:9)
Our little strength in this day is overshadowed by the strength of our Boaz. It is He who has opened the door, and it is the power of Boaz (the pillar of all truth who gives us strength). These two great pillars in God’s Christ begin Psalm 119. Each of these pillars is capped with the sweetness of the pomegranates. This is the blessedness of He who is all blessing. The spiritual blessing, and spiritual wealth of the child of God is not with the ungodly, nor comes from the way of standing in the way of sinners, or from sitting in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night. We have passed through these pillars and stand here once again with the quote from 1st John 3:3. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Amen
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All Scripture references are from the Authorized King James Bible. (KJV)