Alas Sinful Nation!

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2) 

Today’s program is entitled: Alas Sinful Nation! Just as this was Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Isaiah the Prophet, this is America today: Turn with me to Isa 1:1-28, The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, oh Heavens, and give ear, oh Earth! For the Lord has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me. The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, My people do not consider. Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah. Hear the Word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says the Lord. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courts? Bring no more futile sacrifices; incense is an abomination to Me; the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord; though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them. Therefore the Lord says, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies. I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy. I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her penitents with righteousness. The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. 

Verse 2, …I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me; Verse 3, The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not consider. America does not know, nor do we consider. We do not know God, neither do we consider Him. We have rebelled against Him; we have rejected His Word to our own destruction. We do not consider that He is God and our breath is in His hand. Verse 4, we have forsaken the Lord and provoked Him to anger. Verse 13, Bring no more futile sacrifices; I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn meeting. Bring no more empty, vain prayers and religious services. Verse 15, even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Why? YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD !!! Even now we continue to slaughter innocent babies by the thousands, every day !! Let’s go to 2Ki 24:3&4. This talks about King Manasseh who was the son of Hezekiah, a righteous king; but Manasseh did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did much evil, but the worst thing that he did was that he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood. Ladies and gentlemen we have filled our nation with innocent blood with the slaughter of these babies. We call it health care. We call it women’s choice. You can call it whatever you want, but it is murder. It’s murder of innocent babies. They haven’t even had time to do any evil or good, and they are snuffed out like some kind of inconvenience. See what the Lord said about Manasseh in 2Ki 24:3&4, Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon. The Lord would not pardon the shedding of innocent blood. Our land is defiled with innocent blood!! 

This is our diagnosis America, by the Prophet Isaiah, and it speaks still today! There is a cure! There is a real healing: verse 16, wash yourselves, make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, and the unborn, plead for the widow. Verse 18-20, Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. So, repent now! Turn from your evil ways! Come to your Savior Jesus Christ, who suffered and died for your sins, and let Him wash you and make you clean, and give you real life in Him. The only healing for America is to return to the God of our forefathers; to come weeping and mourning to our God whom we have forsaken and to His Son in true repentance, turning from the evil of our doings, being washed in the precious Blood of the Lamb of God. You cannot pick and choose scriptures and songs and try to justify your life of evil. The only way out is repentance; godly sorrow from the heart and returning to God with all our hearts. Then He will abundantly pardon and restore our judges as at the first, and our counselors as at the beginning. Then and only then shall we be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city; then and only then shall we be great again. No repentance; no forgiveness, and destruction will follow. America has been blessed and become great only because of the faith of our founders and the love and obedience which they lived toward our God; the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If we refuse to return to Him there will be no healing, but rather a great purging by Him of those who have rejected His counsel to their own destruction. Verse 28, The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

 

Isa 2:11-18, The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. There is a day coming: The Day of the Lord! For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up—and it shall be brought low—upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan; upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up; upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall; upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the beautiful sloops. The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day, but the idols He shall utterly abolish. So let us humble ourselves now, all of us, before the Great and Mighty God and come to His Son Jesus, who gave Himself for us a living sacrifice for our sins, with fear and trembling and true repentance that we may find grace in His sight; grace to help us in this great hour of need. We must see our need as Jesus said to the church in Laodicea in Rev 3:17-22, Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 

It is not enough to do a little righteousness and pat ourselves on the back while we continue to slaughter innocent babies and commit many other abominations, quoting scriptures and trying to appear to be honorable in the sight of men. That is not going to work! It’s a lie! It’s deceit! We must repent now, while we still have a nation, while we still have breath, and turn from our evil ways with all our hearts, with fasting and mourning and crying out to God, like the people of Nineveh did at the preaching of the Prophet Jonah. Let’s turn there, Jon 3:1-10, Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you. So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown! So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish? Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it. Do not be deceived people! God’s judgement is upon us. If we will turn back to Him, perhaps He will pardon us and repent of the evil that He has planned to bring upon us for our evil ways. But if we refuse and continue in them we will be destroyed. Isa 3:10&11, Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isa 1:9, Unless the Lord of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah. There is a remnant in America, a very small remnant of people who really love the Lord. Thank God for them, otherwise we would be as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

 The Fruit Of The Spirit

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father; thank you for this day, Father; we bless your holy name; we worship you; we thank you for this program. I ask you to bless this program, and that you would grant grace and mercy to every person reading this to be truly edified and to be ministered to by your Spirit the truth of your Word. Thank you Lord.

Today’s program is called, The Fruit Of The Spirit. Let’s turn to Gal 5:16,  I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Amen. 

Jesus loved me and gave Himself for me. He was crucified for my sins and raised again for my justification. He did that because He loved me. Because He loved me, when I was dead in my sins, and gave Himself for me upon the Cross to save me from them, and to give me His righteousness, I love Him. I love Him, and I want to yield to the Holy Spirit every day to keep His commandments. He baptized me in the Holy Spirit so that I could be led by the Spirit; so that I could walk in the Spirit every day, and fulfill the righteousness of the law; so that I could become a son of God. Rom 7:4, Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Now we serve God in the newness of the Spirit, not in the letter. In Christ we receive the Holy Spirit, and He will lead us every day to do the Father’s will; to keep the Sermon on the Mount in every situation. We can do this because we love Him; we love Him because He first loved us.

Jesus is our great High Priest at the right hand of the Father, He has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Heb 4:14, Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Whenever we are being tempted to not keep the Lord’s Word, we can come to Him boldly and ask for grace, and He will grant us grace. He grants grace to the humble, so we must humble ourselves and come boldly, Amen. 

Rom 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. Verse 13, For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  That’s how you do it!, through the Holy Spirit, as you learn to yield to Him and be led by Him every day to follow Jesus and keep His Words. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. As you yield to Him, more and more, His fruit will manifest in your life, more and more. And you will be putting to death the deeds of the flesh: confessing your sins and forsaking them; being forgiven and cleansed by the Blood of Jesus.

It is love that makes the difference. Jesus said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. When you understand how much He loved you, and suffered for you, to save you from your sins, and how much He has given you, you will love Him, and you will want to receive all that He has given you, and you will give Him your life, to follow Him and do His will every day. If you love the world; the things of the world, the love of the Father is not in you, and you will want to do your own will rather than yield to the Holy Spirit every day, denying yourself and taking up your cross and following Jesus. Yes, if you go with Jesus, you will suffer, according to the Father’s will for your life, but it is only for your perfection. The scripture says, He that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. Jesus said, They hated Me, and they will hate you also. People will reject you and despise you, but God has a family!: a wonderful family of people that truly love Him, and they will truly love you. You will not be alone, not forever. 

This is what we’ve got to do if we want to be a real Christian; if we want to inherit eternal life with God. We must deny the flesh and receive the Holy Spirit and walk in the Holy Spirit. In Christ we are dead and our life is hid with God in Him. When we are baptized in water, we are baptized into His death; we are crucified with Him, and we are raised with Him to walk in newness of life in the Spirit. We must then be baptized in the Holy Spirit, and learn to walk in the Spirit, to fulfill the righteousness of the law. The fruit of the Spirit will then be manifesting in us, and against such there is no law.

Every day around here we start by praying in tongues and in English, that we might enter into the Spirit and into the will of God for us that day; reaching forward to that which is before; forgetting what lays behind, and pressing toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, building ourselves up on our most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping ourselves in the love of God, and looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (Php 3:13 & 14, Jude 1:20 & 21) Most of the time it is a struggle: to overcome distractions and powers of darkness resisting us. We just have to keep on until the Holy  Spirit is finished. Jude 1:24, Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. 

Prophecy:

I am God Almighty. My people, I want you to consider these Words very seriously; this is the truth of My Word. My servant Rob is speaking My Word to you. You must bear fruit; you must be led by the Spirit of God in your life for your works to be acceptable to Me. Turn to Me with all your heart; be filled with My Holy Spirit and learn to walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, and you will live, says the Lord.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

 The Lamb’s Book Of Life

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father in Jesus’ name; we thank you for this program; we thank you for this day, Father. Lord we ask your blessing on every one of us to have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying this day.

Welcome! Today’s program is called The Lamb’s Book Of Life. Is your name written in the Lamb’s Book Of Life? Only those whose names are written there are going to be with Him in His glorious Kingdom. Let’s go to John chapter 3. When Jesus was talking to Nicodemus, He said, in verse 5, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Verse 14, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Whoever believes in Jesus: that He is the only begotten Son of God, who gave Himself for us; who died for our sins upon the Cross, and rose again from the dead on the third day, has eternal life; your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. John 1:12, But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. If you are born of God, your name is written in the Lamb’s Book Of Life. But, you must follow on to know the Lord!, to learn His ways and continue with Him, for it to remain there.

Let’s turn to Rev 3:1,   And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. We must overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil by continuing in Jesus’ Words with the Holy Spirit teaching us and leading us in doing them every day, denying ourselves; our own desires, taking up our cross, and following Jesus. We must continue to follow Jesus in the Father’s will for our name to remain in the Book Of Life. Don’t believe the prophets of false grace, promising you liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of corruption. 

Let’s turn to Ex 32:30, this is in the wilderness, when Moses brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt, Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin. Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written. And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. Moses boldly interceded for Aaron and the Children of Israel at this time, and he found grace in God’s sight, and God had mercy and grace upon them, but, He told Moses, Those that sin against Me I will blot out of My Book. You may say, “That was the Old Covenant. Now we are under grace in Jesus.”  Remember, Jesus plainly said that He could blot out a person’s name from the Book of Life. 

Heb 10:26, For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. If we continue in sin and will not repent, God will blot out our name from His Book of Life. 

Let’s go to Rev 20:11, Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the Earth and the Heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. At the final judgment, we will all stand before the Lord Jesus Christ, and God’s Books will be opened. Everyone will be judged according to his works, and the Book of Life will be opened, and whoever is not found written in the Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire. Rev 20:4, And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the Word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. The Apostle Paul said in Php 3:7, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. We must continue to exercise ourselves daily, like the Apostle Paul, to have a conscience void of offense toward God and man. Do you have offense in your conscience toward God or man; toward anyone? You must deal with it now! 

1 John 1:1, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  Come out into the light!, the truth of His Word; confess your sin to God and man; be cleansed and return to fellowship with the Father and with His Son and with your brother and sister. If we say that we have fellowship with God or with one another and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. If you have anything against anyone, forgive them now, that you may be forgiven yourself. 

Rev 21:1, Now I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for the first Heaven and the first Earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Then He who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Verse 22, But I saw no temple in it, (in the New Jerusalem) for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

 The Lord Is My Shepherd

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Thank you Lord! We thank you for this program Father; we thank you for this day; we worship you; we praise your Holy Name! Father, I pray that you would bless your people, every one of us; open our ears; open our hearts to receive the things that you are saying by your Holy Spirit. Thank you Father. Today’s program is called The Lord Is My Shepherd. So let’s turn there, to Psalm 23, verse 1, The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 

He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. If the Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not want. In John 6:35 Jesus said,... I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Let’s turn to John chapter 10, verse 1, Jesus said, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them. Then Jesus said to them again, Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd. Let’s go down to verse 25, Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me. 

But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one.  The hireling does not care for the sheep. He is only in it for the money. When Satan comes to destroy you, the hireling will not stand with you, but he will flee, because he is a hireling. Not so with Jesus! He is the good Shepherd. He knows His sheep, and His sheep know Him, and He laid down His life for His sheep. He said, I will be with you always, even unto the end.  Is He your Shepherd? Really? Be honest with yourself: are you really following Jesus, or are you following a hireling, a businessman, who cares nothing for you. If Jesus is your Shepherd, you belong to Him, and He will care for you! He bought you with His own Blood, and no one can take you away from Him! Glory to God! Praise God!  

Psalm 23, verse 2,  He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He is leading you there; you are following Him, and you shall never hunger; you shall never thirst. Verse 3,  He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. You are following Him, and He is leading you in righteous paths to deal with you and to restore your soul. Verse 4, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You are not afraid of deadly situations and places; you are not afraid of death because you are following Him, trusting in Him, and He promised you that He will never leave you. You fear no evil! His rod and His staff: His authority and power in every situation, comfort you! Glory to God! He has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love and of power and of a sound mind! Verse 5, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; If you will truly follow Jesus, He will bless you, right in front of your enemies! You anoint my head with oil… that is the anointing: Jesus will baptize you in the Holy Spirit if you truly follow Him. If you don’t want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, you’re not following Him! Shall not the Father, Jesus said, give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him? And He will fill you to overflowing with His joy and His presence. Jesus said, If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself, every day, take up his cross and follow Me. The Holy Spirit will lead you to follow Jesus to do the will of His Father, and He will lead you into all truth. And if you will love Him and keep His Words, you will abide in Him and He will abide in you, and you will bring forth fruit in your life, and His goodness and His mercy shall follow you all the days of your life, and you will dwell in the House of the Lord forever! You will inherit eternal life! Glory to God! That’s what that verse is talking about: dwelling in the house of the Lord forever: you are with Him in His glory; you shall never perish; you have eternal life!  All of this is if He is truly your Shepherd; if you continue in His Word and in His Holy Spirit to deny yourself and follow Him to do the will of your Father in Heaven every day. 

It is deceit to take Psalm 23 unto yourself and say, “The Lord is my Shepherd”, if you are not hearing His voice and following Him. The Apostle Paul said, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. His servant you are to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. Are you obeying Jesus? Are you really following Him? Are you in His fold, or are you hanging out with the goats? Remember, Jesus said, Not every one who says, Lord, Lord, is going into the Kingdom of Heaven, but they that do the will of My Father, He said. Are you yielding to the Holy Spirit every day, denying yourself, your own desires and plans, taking up your cross: the fellowship of Jesus’ sufferings, and yielding to the Spirit to follow Jesus? He leads us by His Spirit to do the Father’s will. Jesus only does the Father’s will.  

God created you, and you fell into the traditions and sins of your fathers; you were defiled in all your transgressions, and He, in His great love, sent His Son to die for you a brutal death upon the Cross to save you from your sins, and He raised Him from the dead to justify you and to give you eternal life in Him, and He brought you to Him. No one can come to Me, Jesus said, unless My Father draws him. And what are you doing now? Are you following Him? Do you think you can stay with the goats and everything will be ok? The goats are going to the Lake of Fire! Jesus said, in Mat 25, that when He comes in His glory, He’s going to sit on His throne, and He’s going to set the sheep on His right hand, and the goats on His left. And He’s going to say to the goats, Depart from Me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels… The goats are going into everlasting punishment: they would not show mercy; they would not have compassion. Are you a goat, or are you a sheep? If you are a sheep, then you need to be with Jesus’ sheep, following Him. Stop chumming up with the goats! Evil communications corrupt good manners! Bad company corrupts good morals. Remember: Lot was vexed with the things he saw and heard every day while he was living in Sodom, with their evil deeds and their evil conversation. But Abraham, his brother, interceded before the Living God for him, and God remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of Sodom before He destroyed it.  Make no mistake! Just as Sodom was destroyed, so this evil world is going to be consumed by fire. 

I want to intercede for you right now. If you are a sheep who is hanging out with the goats, and you know you need to return to Jesus’ fold: those who are truly following the Good Shepherd, I want you to do all you can do to receive this prayer and agree with me now. So let’s pray. Pray with me,  Father, in Jesus’ name, I pray for everyone reading this message. I know you have given this program by your Holy Spirit, and there are some who are reading this, you know who you are: you’re hanging out with the goats; you’re delighting in things you ought not to be doing, and they are having an effect on you, and you need to return to Jesus, and the Lord is pleading with you right now. Father, in Jesus’ name, have mercy on them; have mercy on them. We pray: you said you would have mercy on whom you would have mercy, and whom you will you will harden.  So we pray right now, for whoever it is, that you would help them; that you would soften their hearts; that they would humble themselves and come back to you with weeping and mourning, confessing their sins, and turn to you and be washed in the Blood of the Lamb, and return into your fold, Jesus! We pray this, Father, in the name of your Son Jesus. Glory be to God! 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. 

 My Grace Is Sufficient For You

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes with Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father. We thank you Lord; we bless your Holy Name: blessed be God Almighty! Today’s program is called, My Grace Is Sufficient For You. The other day I was coming through something very difficult in my life; I had been struggling for several days, and Jesus spoke to my heart, “My grace is sufficient for you.” At the same time He ministered to me by the power of His Holy Spirit and delivered me out of the affliction. I was overwhelmed with the goodness of My Lord. When the Apostle Paul was being afflicted because of the abundance of his revelations he had received, he sought the Lord three times to be delivered and the Lord spoke to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Paul wrote, Therefore I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.  Heb 4:14  Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, and that is the Throne of Grace. 1Pe 5:5, Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Let us therefore come boldly… Humility and boldness go together, because of Heb 10:19, Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. We have boldness with humility because of the Blood of Jesus, and we will find grace to help in the time of need. His grace is sufficient for us, even in our suffering. Because His grace is sufficient, I can rejoice, even as I suffer: His grace will bring me through.

Prov 15:15, All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. When you are in faith, through His grace, you are always rejoicing, because you know you have the victory. When you take your eyes off of Jesus and look at the waves, you begin to doubt and you begin to sink and let go of your victory. Mat 14:22, Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there. But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid." And Peter answered Him and said, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water." So He said, "Come." And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. Then those who were in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, "Truly You are the Son of God." When you repent and believe, you rejoice again, and you’re on top again; you are the head and not the tail. If you continue to believe in Jesus and keep your eyes on Him, you will overcome Satan, and the world and your own stubborn flesh, and you will have a continual feast. You already have the victory; you already have the overcoming, you just need to stay there until the end: till you get back to the boat, and then, till you are standing on the shore.

The scripture says, you have been crucified with Christ, if you have been baptized, and you have been raised with Him and you are seated in Him in the heavenly places at the Father’s right hand, far above all principalities, powers, and dominions, far above all: you are on top! God put them all under your feet, that’s why they have to bow when they see you, if you are walking in faith. You are like Joseph. He was in prison, in shackles and in pain, and in one day, God made him the ruler of the whole land of Egypt, and everyone had to bow and give him honor, second only to Pharaoh, in one day! In one day God made you a ruler in His Kingdom, under Him and subject to your brethren, and in Him you are at the Father's right hand! Is there something you need? Is there something He can’t do if you believe? If it is His will for you to continue to suffer, His grace is sufficient for you; His grace will get you through to the victory. His grace is His great strong hand and arm reaching out to lift you back up on the top of the water, and get you back to the boat; His grace will uphold you until you reach the shore. 

My grace is sufficient for you.

My grace is sufficient to bring you through;

Bring you through to victory,

And bring you safely to Me.

Though waves be high,

And valleys be low,

My grace is sufficient for you.

Though you are weak, 

I am strong;

My grace is sufficient for you;

My grace is sufficient for you.

Eph 2:4, But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. The Father loved us and He gave His Son; Jesus loved us and He gave His life. His grace is the gift of God.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 

Heb 12:14  Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. 

People sell their birthright to have their wicked pleasures; to continue in their fornications; they accept false grace. When you accept false grace and live accordingly, you fail of the true grace of God. Heb 12:28, Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. 

See how the grace of God is coupled with the fear of God. God is greatly to be feared; He is a consuming fire, and yet He, in His great love wherewith He loved us, has granted us grace through the gift of His beloved Son. The grace of God enables us to serve Him acceptably, which is with reverence and Godly fear.

1 Pet 1:13, Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever. 1 Pet 5:12, By Silvanus, our faithful brother as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. 

My Grace is sufficient for you.

Though you are weak, 

I am strong.

My Grace is sufficient for you

On a previous message about grace, the Lord spoke at the end of the program, and He said, “My Grace is sufficient for you. I love you. If you are willing, I will help you; if you will call upon Me, you will find grace in your time of temptation. Call upon Me; I will help you to overcome. I already made the way for you through My death, burial, and resurrection. I am with you, says the Lord. Come unto Me; call upon My Name and see My salvation, says the Lord.

Thank you for listening to 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)

 What I Know About Jesus

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Thank you Lord! We give you thanks Lord! Thank you for this day. Thank you for this program. Thank you Lord. Today we’re going to talk about what I know about Jesus. I’m going to share some things with you that I know about Jesus. That’s what He told me this morning: He said He wanted me to talk about what I know about Him. 

I’m going to read Mat 11:28-30, Jesus said, Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. What I know about Jesus: I know He loves me. How do I know He loves me? Not only by what is written in His Word, that He has done for me and you, but by experience  I know His love: by the things He has done in my life. And so I know the Father’s love, and that is everything: to know His love. Praise God! Jesus has told me several times, over the years, just when I really needed to hear it, that He loves me. Last night He told me, “Don’t be afraid Rob, I love you.” I’m telling you it made all the difference. This is not just a story written in King James English; this is the truth; this is love: the love of God poured out on the human race, that God so loved us that He gave His only beloved Son to suffer unbelievable torment and pain on the Cross at Calvary for us, when we were dead in trespasses and sins, and we did not care about Him at all, to pay for all our sins, and to deliver us out of darkness and bring us out into His marvelous light; to wash us and cleanse us in His own Blood and change us into holy people, so that we could be with Him. Do you know that God wants us to be with Him? He loves us! He is not willing that any of us should perish, but that we all might come to repentance; that we all might come to Him and take His yoke upon us and learn of Him. For He is meek and lowly of heart, and we shall find rest for our tormented souls, our weary souls, when we know Him. He wants us to know Him! He wants us to fellowship with Him in His joy and His glorious Kingdom forever! He wants that so much; He loves us so much, that He gave His Son to die for us. And Jesus loved the Father so much and us so much that He did it! He did it! He died for us and He rose again from the dead! He overcame sin and sickness and death for us; for all of us who will repent and believe what He has done!, and come to Him. I know He loves me; He has proven it to me many, many times.

I also know that He is a righteous judge, and that He is going to reward every one of us according to our works. After He has done so much for us; loved us so much; suffered so much to save us from our sins and our destructions, if we turn away from Him; if we refuse to come to Him; if we will not serve Him; if we choose to continue in our sins and reject His righteousness, we condemn ourselves, and He will carry out His righteous judgment upon us. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. This is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil. Jesus said, Everyone that does evil hates the light and will not come to the light, because his deeds will be exposed and reproved, but he that does truth comes to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are worked in God.

Let’s turn to 1 John 1:1-10,  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.  Because He so loved us, we also ought to love Him and love one another. We ought to walk in love, denying ourselves every day; taking up our cross and following Him. If we love Him, we will yield to His Spirit as He leads us to keep His Words and do the Father’s will every day. And we will love others; we will forgive others. I know Jesus wants us to love one another: to give each other some grace, and learn to walk together with Him. 

Some other things I know about Jesus: He loves His Father; He only does what His Father wants Him to do. He is faithful. What He has promised He will do, if we will meet His conditions. He is definitely patient and longsuffering with us. He knows our hearts, and He will wait until He can have mercy on us. Just think about that for a minute: He will endure our wicked ways until such a time as He can bring us to repentance and cleanse us of the evil, so that He can bless us with His righteousness. I know He loves us. I know He has been through a lot of suffering for us, not only on the Cross, but also dealing with our stubborn, stiff-necked, rebellious ways. I know that any person who will humble themselves before Him, and come honestly before Him, and ask for mercy: I know that He will grant it; He will help them. I also know that those who will not humble themselves before Him will not find His grace, and will ultimately be destroyed if they do not repent. I know He will help you if you will ask Him. He will show you how to do things. He will give you understanding; He will bless you with many good things, even in this life in this evil world, if you will humble yourself and ask Him. He said, Ask, and you shall receive; seek and you will find; knock, and it shall be opened! For everyone who asks receives, and to him who knocks, it shall be opened, and he who seeks Him with all their heart: they will find Him!

I know that Jesus is a great King: the King of kings, and that He will soon be returning to this Earth to establish His throne in Jerusalem and He will reign over the whole Earth until all His enemies are put under His feet. I know also that He is our great and merciful High Priest who presently is at the right hand of the Father on His throne in Heaven, and He makes intercession for us before the Father. I believe with all my heart

that there have been critical times in my life that He has prayed for me to the Father, and interceded for me, and the Father listened to Him and decided to grant me mercy, and that’s the only reason that I am alive upon the Earth today, and that I still have hope of eternity with Him. I know that He is soon coming in the clouds in all His glory, and the glory of the Father, with all the Heavenly angels, and those who have died in Christ shall hear His voice and be resurrected from their graves into a glorious, eternal, incorruptible body like His body, and we will be carried by the angels to meet Him in the clouds. Hallelujah! I have this hope, this blessed hope!, and I am purifying myself, that I may be counted worthy to attain to that first resurrection. How about you? 

Let’s turn to Php 3:7-13, the Apostle Paul said, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  I want to skip down to verses 20&21, For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,   (Are we eagerly waiting for Jesus? Are we preparing ourselves to meet Him? We’re going to meet Him!)  who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. 

Thank you Lord. Father, we give you thanks for this message today. If you have anything that you wish to speak, Father, Amen. Thank you Lord, Amen! We worship you; we praise you; we thank you. Praise God, Amen.

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I Am God Almighty. Those of you listening to My servant Rob this day, know that I love you! I proved My love for you when I gave My Son Jesus to suffer for your sins on that Cross. That’s how much I love you. Meditate on that! Think about that! Understand My love for you! Turn to Me with all your heart; turn to Me now! For the day is soon coming when My wrath is going to be poured out on all the unrighteous; on all those who have rejected My Son. So turn to Me now, says the Lord. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.