Noah Found Grace

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 Lord for this day! Thank you Lord for this program. Today’s program is called, Noah Found Grace. Let’s turn to Gen 5:28. In verse 1 of chapter 5 it says, This is the book of the genealogy of Adam, and we’re going to skip on down to verse 28,  Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and had a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed." After he begot Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died. And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen 6:1, Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." There were giants on the Earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the Earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The Earth also was corrupt before God, and the Earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the Earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the Earth. And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the Earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the Earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the Earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the Earth shall die. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the Earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them." Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. 

Gen 7:1, Then the Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the Earth. For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the Earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the Earth all living things that I have made." And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the Earth. So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the Earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 

And the rain was on the Earth forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in. Now the flood was on the Earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the Earth. 

The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the Earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the Earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth, and every man. 

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. 

So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the Earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the Earth one hundred and fifty days. 

Gen 8:1, Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the Earth, and the waters subsided.  Noah’s family was saved, his immediate family; his children, because of his righteousness, through the grace that he found in the eyes of the Lord. He was a just man, and a preacher of righteousness. In 1 John 3:7&8 we read, Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 

He who sins, or he who practices sin,  is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Noah was a man who practiced righteousness. Noah walked with God. In the original Hebrew, Gen 6:9, it is written, Noah, a man righteous, was blameless in his generation. In verse 8, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah walked in righteousness. When he sinned, and everyone has sinned, except our Lord Jesus Christ, he confessed his sin; he made an offering; he did not continue in it. He repented and walked on with God in faith. He did not practice sin. He found grace because his heart was toward God: he feared Him, and he obeyed Him. Verse 22, Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. 

Let’s turn to Heb 11:7, By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Notice: faith and the fear of God work together. As we said earlier, Noah’s immediate family: his wife, his sons, and his son’s wives were saved because of his righteousness, his faith, and his obedience in the fear of God. As Peter said in Acts 2:39, For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call. Jesus said, No one can come to Me except My Father draw him. So there is a promise, but there must also be a calling. We must walk with God in faith and righteousness, as we read in 1 John 3:7, He that does righteousness is righteous. We must intercede for our children and teach them God’s good way. Psalm 89:30, If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, if they break My statutes and do not keep My commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the Word that has gone out of My lips. As we continue to walk with God, in fear and love and obedience, doing the work He has called us to, our children will be saved, according to His will; according to His promise, and according to His calling. The promise is there; the calling is there, but they must come to Him. If they reject Jesus, they condemn themselves. 

In Hos 4:6, God has also promised that He will forget our children if we forget His Word; if we reject His knowledge: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. How important it is that we continue in His Word and keep His commandments, reading and meditating in His Word, and doing His Word, as the Holy Spirit continues to teach us and lead us in obedience in every situation! When we reject the true knowledge of God in His Word; when we follow after false doctrines and lies to appease our flesh, not only will we suffer greatly in the end, unless we repent, but also our children will suffer. God is just: He will have mercy on whom He will, and whom He will, He will harden. The promise is for us and for our children, as many as the Lord our God shall call, if we will continue on to know the Lord and walk with Him in the Earth, denying ourselves; taking up our cross every day, and yielding to the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus, to do the will of our Father in Heaven. May your Kingdom come, Father; may your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and you will find grace if you will believe in the sacrifice of God’s dear Son, Jesus Christ for your sins; you will find His grace.

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. (2 Cor 13:14)

 Under Authority

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 called Under Authority. Let’s turn to Mat 8:5-13, Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, saying, Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented. And Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the sons of the Kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then Jesus said to the centurion, Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you. And his servant was healed that same hour. What did the centurion say to Jesus? He said, I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this man, Go, and he goes, to another, Come, and he comes, and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. If a man is not completely submitted to Jesus, who is submitted completely to His Father; if he is not walking with Him in obedience, going where He sends him; saying what He is saying; doing what He is doing; if he is doing his own will, and not the will of the Father, he is in rebellion, and he has no authority to be where he is, in the seat which he has taken, and his words have no authority with them; no power. 

Luke 4, Jesus went into the synagogue in Capernaum, and it says in verses 33-37, Now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God! But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet, and come out of him! And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him and did not hurt him. Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out. And the report about Him went out into every place in the surrounding region. In 1 John it is written, If any man says he abides in Him, let him walk as He walked. How did Jesus walk? He walked as a man under authority. He only did what He saw His Father doing, and He only said what He heard His Father saying. That’s why, when Jesus spoke the Word, it came to pass. He commanded and it was. It was the Father’s will. It was the Father in Him doing the works. The centurion believed that Jesus was a man under authority, and that if He spoke the Word only, it would come to pass. Jesus only went where His Father sent Him, and He went in power and authority to accomplish what His Father sent Him there to do.

How many men who claim to be ministers of God are actually sent by Him? How many are walking in Jesus’ authority? When Jesus sent out the twelve disciples, two by two, He gave them authority and power to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out demons, and He told them, Freely you have received, freely give, and preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. He told them what to say, and what to do.  So, if a man is not sent by Jesus, and he is speaking his own words, not the words which the Holy Spirit would give him, and he is doing his own will, and not the will of the Lord, not being led by the Holy Spirit, and on top of all that, he is taking up offerings and charging a price: how evil and vain is that?! The Apostle Peter spoke of false prophets among the people in the last days who will bring in damnable heresies; who, through covetousness, with feigned words, words they make up themselves, will make merchandise of the people. They have no authority or power from God. Many of them walk in witchcraft, seducing the people with lying divination. In this hour, how many are truly sent by the Lord? How many are under His authority, and you can say to them, Speak the word only and it shall come to pass? Jesus only did what He saw His Father doing. So it is with His true disciples; His true ministers. So, if Jesus sends you, and you are doing His will; speaking His Words, what He sent you to do will be accomplished as you continue under His authority, including whatever works of power the Father wills to do through you by the Holy Spirit. You will be speaking His Word by the Holy Spirit, and it will be life to those who have ears to hear and hearts to receive what the Spirit of the Lord is saying, and God will be glorified.

Let’s go to Acts 19:11-20, Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, notice: they took it upon themselves, saying, We exorcize you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you? Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. Notice: the evil spirit said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you? Jesus was under the Father’s authority, and Paul was under Jesus’ authority, but these men had no authority. They took it upon themselves. Paul was sent by the Holy Spirit in Acts 13: Certain prophets and teachers were fasting and praying and ministering to the Lord, and the Holy Spirit spoke, and He said, Separate unto Me Barnabas and Saul for the work that I have called them to do. And then the disciples prayed and fasted again, and laid hands on them, and they were sent out by the Holy Spirit. As you read that account, they continued in obedience to the Spirit, and they only went where He led them to go. Paul continued in obedience and submission to his Lord, and the Lord worked mightily through him. 

The Father is the head of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the head of the man. The man is the head of the wife, and the woman is blessed as she walks in submission to the authority of the man, as unto the Lord, and as she receives from the man what his head has commanded him to give her. As he is in submission to his head, Jesus, he will be keeping His Words: he will be loving his wife as Christ loves the church. Love is patient; love is kind. The man is blessed as he walks in obedience to Christ, his head, serving Him in the newness of the Spirit; following Him to do the will of the Father. Jesus always does the will of the Father, His head; He always does what pleases Him. 

Are you a man under authority? Are you a woman under authority? Are you submitted to the authority which God has put in your life? If you are in Jesus, He is in you, and He is your Lord; He is your head. He said, If anyone will be My disciple, he or she must deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Me every day. We are not our own. We have been bought with a price. The Apostle Peter said, 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. Again, when Jesus sent out His twelve disciples, He gave them authority to speak and to minister. And in Mat 10:14&15, Jesus said, And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city! So, when someone is truly sent by the Lord, people would do well to listen to what they have to say and receive their ministry, because they speak and minister as servants of God in His authority: not so, if He did not send them. If someone is truly sent by God they will be walking in His authority and in His Spirit, and what they say will come to pass. The Bible says, Prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. That which is good is always in accord with His good Word. In verse 19&20 we read, And when they deliver you up do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 

In John 13:20 Jesus said, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. There you see a perfect picture of the authority of God. All authority begins with the Father. All authority comes from God. Amen! This is so important that we understand this! 1 Cor 6:19&20, Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. You are bought with a price! Jesus bought you with His Blood! He is your Lord! You follow Him and He leads you. You are His servant. He sends you with His authority as the Father sends Him with His authority. As you walk this way, doing the will of the Father, He will work through you, but you must have a heart after God, not yourself, truly seeking to glorify Him; loving Him; serving Him, and fearing Him. And you must have the Holy Spirit, and yield to Him, and He will lead you to follow Jesus. 

In Mat 15:8&9, Jesus spoke these words, quoting Isaiah 29:13, These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. I want to encourage you this day to ask the Father to give you a heart like His Son: a heart that is completely submitted to Him, loving Him, and fearing Him, doing what He leads you to do, truly seeking to honor Him. If you will honor God, He will honor you. If you will humble yourself, He will exalt you. Remember, Jesus loved the Father, and He humbled Himself to the death of the Cross, so that we might be saved. Therefore the Father has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name above every name, that, at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, in Heaven, on the Earth, and under the Earth, and Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Amen! See what God will do in your life, if you will do this with all your heart! God bless you.

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty! You who are listening to my servant Rob this day: Humble yourselves before Me, the living God, and I truly will exalt you, if you will do this!

Humble yourself! Seek my face! Seek Me, says the Lord! Seek to please Me; seek to follow Me, and I will bless you, 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! (2 Cor 13:14)

 What Are You Doing?

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 Lord, Amen; thank you Lord, Amen. Praise you Father! We praise you Father! Thank you for this day. Thank you Jesus; thank you for this program that you have given me. We ask your blessing on this program; that you would bless your people: all of us; to hear what you are saying by your Spirit and to understand. Thank you Lord, in Jesus’ name. Thank you Father, Amen.

Today’s program is called What Are You Doing. Let’s turn to Mat 7:21, Jesus said, Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness! In the King James it says, You who work iniquity. Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. 

Jesus came and died to take away our sins and to make us righteous. Let’s turn to 1 John 3:1, Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. This is talking about practicing sin; continuing in sin. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins, or practices sin, is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, or practice sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 

Rom 6:15, What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. 

John 8:31, Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered Him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, You will be made free? Jesus answered them, Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. If you are a slave of sin, you are not free; you are in bondage. Jesus came to set you free from your bondage; to set you free from your bondage to sin and the devil. 

Because the Father and Jesus gave us the greatest love; the greatest gift: eternal life, through Jesus’ sacrifice, we ought to lay down our lives for them, and love them with all our hearts every day forever. This is love: that we do their Words. Greater love has no man than this, Jesus said, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatsoever I command you. 

What are you doing? Are you doing what you want? Are you doing the will of the Father at all? Are you reading the Word of God and doing it? Are you praying? It is not what you know, or what scripture you can quote, but rather, it’s your love; who you love, and what you love, and what you are doing. Are you doing good, or are you doing evil? Jesus clearly said that He is going to give unto everyone of us according to our works. In Rev 2, verse 23, He said that. He also said, in Rev 2&3, I know your works. He knows our works. He loves us. He said there, those that I love , I rebuke and chasten, be zealous, therefore and repent. He is going to give unto every one of us according to our works: what we have done, not what we believe or know, and what we have said. Do you believe that Jesus said,  that every man will give an account for every idle word that he has spoken; He said that. I think that’s one of those verses we tend to ignore.  But there’s no problem: you can humble yourself before Him and say, Lord, I’ve spoken many wicked things. Forgive me now; forgive me, and get ahold of my tongue; change my speech; help me, Lord. He will answer. 

Are you forgiving?  Are you giving?  Are you showing mercy?  Are you doing unto others, in situations, what you would have them do to you?  Or are you just yielding to wrath or strife or lust; the works of your own flesh. It is plainly written, in Rom 8, that if you live this way, after your flesh, you will die (eternally). But if you have love and gratitude to God, for how He has loved you, and you are putting to death those things in your flesh, believing the work of the Cross in your life, through repentance and faith, by the Holy Spirit, you will live. Rom 8:12, 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. As you yield to the Holy Spirit , in the situation, to do the Words of God, you will be putting to death those works of the flesh, Amen; you will overcome. 

When you yield to your flesh; when you sin against someone, in the situation, if you will not harden your heart, but, rather, yield to the conviction of the Holy Spirit: that you have sinned against your brother or sister or anyone, and you go to them and confess your fault, in true repentance to them, and to God, you will be forgiven and cleansed by the Blood of Jesus, of that sin, and you can walk on with a clear conscience, in true love, not feigned love. That’s walking in the light. That’s doing His Word, and as you continue with Jesus in His Word, you will overcome those things in your flesh. They will be put to death as you believe what took place when Jesus died on the Cross for your sins, and rose again for your justification. So you see, it’s not just believing the Gospel, but it’s believing and doing His Word. Jesus said, If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, even as I keep My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 

What are you doing?  Are you being led by the Holy Spirit every day? Are you denying yourself; taking up your cross, where you suffer for doing the will of the Father, and yielding to the Holy Spirit, as He leads you to follow Jesus and do the Father’s will. Don’t think you won’t be rewarded! If you will deny yourself, your own desires, and yield to God to do His will, and keep His Words, and continue with Him, all your days, you will be rewarded, according to your good works, with the honor of God, and you will inherit whatever He has prepared for you in His Kingdom. But if you choose to deny His will and do what you want, seeking to gratify your own desires, your love of yourself and your pleasures, you will be rewarded according to your evil works, when you stand before Him. And you will stand before Jesus in that day. You will be greatly grieved when He shall say to you, Depart from Me into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, all you who work iniquity. He will recount to you then those situations when you had opportunity to do good; when you had opportunity to repent and turn from your wicked ways, and you would not. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

So consider now, what you are doing. Don’t believe the false prophets who are lying to you, telling you, It doesn’t matter; it’s all covered. That is a lie, straight from Satan. You will be judged for what you have done, all of us will, good or evil. The true grace of God is available to you now, through Jesus Christ, to depart from the evil in your life; to overcome it, and to do good.    Ask. Jesus said, Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened. Ask for grace to do His Words; seek after His righteousness and you shall be filled.

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. (2 Cor 13:14)

 Not My Will

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, Amen. Thank you Lord, Amen. We bless your holy name! We thank you Lord for this day. Thank you Lord for this program that you’ve given me, that you’ve given for your people, to edify your people, Father; we just thank you Lord. Today’s program is called, Not My Will. 

Let’s turn to Luke 22:39-46, Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. When He came to the place, He said to them, Pray that you may not enter into temptation. And He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying, Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done. Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. Then He said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation. 

Let’s turn to John 5:30, Jesus said, I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. Mat 12:46-50, While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. Then one said to Him, Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You. But He answered and said to the one who told Him, Who is My mother and who are My brothers? And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in Heaven is My brother and sister and mother. 

Mat 7:21-27, At the end of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said, Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness! Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 

Let’s go to Rom 8:1-8, 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. Verses 12-14, 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. 

Love is doing the Father’s will; keeping His Words. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me, Jesus said, every day. Taking up your cross: the Father’s will for you, not your will, is love. Self love, self will, the love of money, the love of pleasure, the love of the world, that’s what we have today, as Paul said it would be in the last days. Jesus said, Because iniquity shall abound, in the last days, most people’s love shall grow cold. This is love: deny yourself, take up your cross: the Father’s will, and follow Jesus; yield to the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus to do the Father’s will every day. You want to watch a football game, and the Holy Spirit is leading you to go to a prayer meeting. Because you love the Father and Jesus, you yield to the Holy Spirit and go to the meeting, denying yourself the pleasure of watching the game, and you meet someone there who later becomes one of your best friends. It was a struggle to deny yourself, and to do the will of God, but it resulted in very good things happening in your life. If you had chosen instead to gratify your desire to watch the game and did not obey the Holy Spirit, you would perhaps have never met that person and you would have missed the blessing. It was a much greater struggle for Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane to deny His flesh and to do the Father’s will and go to the Cross for us. We overcome when we deny ourselves and do the will of the Father. Not my will, but yours be done Father. 

Are you doing the Father’s will? Eph 5:17, Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. We find the will of the Father through prayer with the Holy Spirit. We find the will of the Father in the Word of God with the Holy Spirit: the Sermon on the Mount. He will lead us to do His will; we must receive Him, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and learn to yield to Him, to be led by Him to do the Father’s will; to follow Jesus every day. He said, My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me. How do we hear His voice? He speaks to our hearts by the Holy Spirit. In Acts 13 they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, and the Holy Spirit spoke and said, Separate unto Me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them to do. They were sent forth by the Holy Spirit; they did the Father’s will, and much fruit came from their obedience. 

Sometimes you have to fast to hear His voice; to understand what the will of the Lord is. If you love Him, you will always want to do His will. Paul said, I die daily, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, (not my will), but Christ lives in me, and the life that I live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. Jesus loves the Father; that’s how He was able to go to the Cross. He loves you; that’s why He suffered and died there. Beloved, we love Him because He first loved us. Loving Him is keeping His Words; doing His Father’s will, denying ourselves; crucified with Him; dead to the world, all it’s pleasures, and the glory of man; looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before Him, endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Father. There is great joy and pleasures forevermore at the right hand of the Father. In His presence is fullness of joy! Eternal glory is set before us if we will do the Father’s will!: deny ourselves, take up our cross every day, and follow Jesus! A heart that would chose the pleasures of sin for a season; the glory of this present evil world, over the eternal glory and pleasures of God Almighty in the Kingdom of His beloved Son; a heart that will not humble itself to do the will of the Father; a heart that cannot, or refuses to see that they are bought with a price: redeemed, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from their vain behavior, received by tradition from their fathers, but with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish; without spot, who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own Blood, is blind!, and they have forgotten that they were purged from their old sins, and they have gone astray as a dog returns to his vomit. Unless God decides to have great mercy on them, they will utterly perish, no matter how much they say, Lord, Lord. Not my will, Father, but yours be done!

John 4:34, Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. John 5:19&20, Then Jesus answered and said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does… John 5:30, I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. John 6:40, And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. John 7:16-18, Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him. John 8:49, Jesus answered, … I honor My Father… Jesus only did the Father’s will, and He thereby truly honored Him. 

Jesus overcame in the Garden of Gethsemane to do the Father’s will and go to the Cross, to suffer there and die for our sins. There He said, Father, if it be your will, take this cup from Me! He knew what was in that cup. Nevertheless, He said, not My will, but thine be done. Because He humbled Himself to do the Father’s will, even unto the death of the Cross, the Father has given Him a name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, in Heaven, on the Earth, and under the Earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. The Father said, Those that honor Me, I will honor. The way that we can honor the Father is to follow His Son to do His will; to deny ourselves every day, take up our own cross, and follow Him. If we will be faithful to Him, even in suffering, even unto death, to do the Father’s will, 

in this way we will honor Him, and Jesus said He would honor us: He will give us a crown of life, Hallelujah! In John 12:26 Jesus said, If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. 

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. (2 Cor 13:14)

 “If…”

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. Thank you Lord. We thank you for this program. Thank you Father, in Jesus name! Bless this program to your people, Amen; give us grace to hear what you are saying by your Spirit.

Today’s program is called “If…” In John 15:10, Jesus said, If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. If you keep My commandments you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. Let’s go to 1 John 1, ok, verse 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. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin, If we walk in the light. If we don’t walk in the light, you see, we don’t have fellowship with God, or with His Son, or with one another, and we won’t be cleansed by Jesus’ Blood.  Verse 9, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That is walking in the light: the Holy Spirit is leading you to keep Jesus’ Words; you are walking in the Word of God, and He convinces you of a sin; the light exposes a sin in your life; you confess it to God, and He forgives you, because of Jesus’ sacrifice upon the Cross for your sin, and His Blood cleanses you and washes you, through faith in His shed Blood, and you walk on, justified from that sin, with a conscience void of offense toward God and man.  If you have sinned against your brother or sister, you must go to them and confess your fault; make it right with them. Then you can walk on together in the light with Jesus. If you say that you have not sinned, when you have, you deceive yourself, and the truth is not in you. You are not walking in the light, and you don’t have fellowship with God, or with your brother. You can go to a fellowship and smile and talk and sing, but it’s not true fellowship. It’s deceit, and you will not be edified, nor will you be able to edify your brother, until you go back to the “If”; until you fulfill the condition of God’s promise. If you walk in the light, you will have true fellowship; if you confess your sins, you will be forgiven. If you keep Jesus’ commandments, you will abide in His love. He said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. The Apostle John said, For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous.

Jesus said , in John 8:31, If ye continue in my Word, then are you my disciples indeed; 

and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Continuing involves reading and meditating in His Word, with the Holy Spirit leading you into all truth; teaching you all things, and leading you in doing His Words in your everyday walk. You have read that Jesus said, in the Sermon on the Mount, (Mat 5:43), You have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy, but I say unto you, love your enemies; bless those who curse you; do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in Heaven, for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in Heaven is perfect. 

So then, one day, the Holy Spirit, as you are denying yourself, taking up your cross, and yielding to Him to follow Jesus and do the will of your Father in Heaven, He brings someone across your path that has been your enemy: someone who hates you, and the Holy Spirit is leading you to love them; to keep Jesus’ Words. If you will do it; if you will yield to the leading of the Spirit, and love that person, and do them good in the situation, then you are loving Jesus; you are continuing in His Word, and His truth will set you free. As you obey, you will overcome, and He will set you free. But, if you refuse to love that person and do them good, you will not be loving Jesus, and you will not be set free. If you want to love that person and obey the Lord, but you feel like you can’t, you can come boldly to Jesus’ throne of grace and ask for grace to help you to love them. If you are willing, and you will humble yourself before Him, He will help you, and you will be able to love your enemy, and you will overcome and be set free. Remember: this is all as you continue to yield to the Holy Spirit, as He is teaching you and leading you in the Words of Jesus.

Let’s turn to 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, notice: 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. As we have said, the Holy Spirit will be leading you to deny yourself in the situation, and keep the Words of Jesus. And as you yield to the Spirit to do so, you will be putting to death the works of the flesh that are in your members. As you yield to the Spirit to love your enemies, you will be putting to death the hatred that may still be in you.

If you will show mercy, the Scripture says, you will receive mercy. If you will forgive, you shall be forgiven. If you will not forgive, you will not be forgiven. If you will give, it shall be given to you. If you will seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, then all your needs will be added unto you. If you will humble yourself, you shall be exalted; you shall receive grace. If you ask, you shall receive, if you believe. If you will confess Jesus as your Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. If you call upon the name of the Lord, you shall be delivered.

2 Chr 7:14, If My people who are called by My name shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Our land will not be healed if we will not do so. God is not a respecter of persons. If you will meet His conditions, you will receive His promise in your life, and if you refuse to meet His conditions, you won’t receive the promise. It is a false gospel in the Earth that ignores God’s conditions, and He is not unjust that He would require you to do something you are unable to do, with His grace, in order to receive His promise. If you love Him, you will keep His Words, and we love Him because He loved us and gave Himself for us. Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends, Jesus said, and you are My friends if you do whatsoever I command you. God bless you.

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. Those of you listening to My servant Rob this day, hearken to My Words that I have given him to speak. Obey My voice and you will receive the promise.

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. (2 Cor 13:14)

 The Bread 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 Heavenly Father! Thank you for this day; thank you for this program that you’ve given me Father. Praise you Heavenly Father! Praise you Jesus! Thank you Lord, Amen! Today’s program is called The Bread Of Life.

Let’s turn to John 6:1, After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?" But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do. Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little." One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him, "There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?" Then Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted. So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost." Therefore they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world." Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. 

The Next Day

Joh 6:24, When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when did You come here?" Jesus answered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him." Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." Therefore they said to Him, "What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do? Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'" Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from Heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world." Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread always." And Jesus said to them, "I am the Bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. For I have come down from Heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." 

The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, "I am the bread which came down from Heaven." And they said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, 'I have come down from Heaven'?" Jesus therefore answered and said to them, "Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the Bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from Heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." 

The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?" Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from Heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever." These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. 

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can understand it?" When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, "Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. And He said, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father." From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?" But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve. Jesus said, “He who eats My flesh and drinks My Blood dwells in Me and I in him.” 

Let’s turn to Luke 22:14, this is at the Last Supper on the Passover, When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. Then He said to them, "With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes." And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.” 

Jesus was born of the virgin Mary; conceived by the Holy Spirit in her womb. Therefore, as the angel Gabriel said to her, that holy Thing which was born of her is called the Son of God. In John chapter 1, verse 14, it is written, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Jesus was tempted as a man, in every way as we are, yet He never sinned. Heb 4:15, 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. Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness; he tried to get Him to sin, because he knew that if Jesus sinned, one time, just once, He would no longer be the spotless Lamb; He could not be offered upon the Cross for our sins. We would all be lost, without any hope of salvation. But Jesus overcame him, Hallelujah!, speaking the Word of God to him, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and He continued to overcome every temptation, even in the Garden of Gethsemane: the temptation to not go to the Cross, and to not enter into that great suffering and death for our sins. He overcame there because He loved the Father and He loved us, and He said, over and over, three times, “Not My will Father, but Yours be done.” When His suffering was completed upon the Cross, He said, “It is finished”, and He gave up His Spirit to the Father: He died. He died for our sins. The penalty for sin is death, and Jesus gave His flesh, His body, upon the Cross, to die for our sins. He paid the full price for our sins. His body was the final sacrifice for sin for all time. And His Blood was shed there on the Cross to atone for all our sins. If He did not love the Father; if the Father did not love us; if Jesus had not loved us; if He had not given His flesh and His Blood for us, we would all be doomed to pay for our own sins with our own eternal damnation and torment. We have been deceived by religion for so long, that we don’t realize how serious this is. The penalty for sin against our holy God is death and damnation. When Jesus said, in John 6:53, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you have no life in you,” this is what He was referring to. He said, in verse 54, “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” He said, in verse 63, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” 

Jesus is that living Bread. He gave His flesh and His Blood when He died on the Cross, and the Father raised Him from the dead on the third day, that those of us who believe in Him might be delivered from sin and death and live forever with Him in His glorious Kingdom. In verse 45, He said, “It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.” 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 from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

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. (2 Cor 13:14)