The New Covenant In My Blood

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! We thank you Lord for this day; we bless the name of the Living God: the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you Lord. 

This program is called, The New Covenant In My Blood. Let’s turn to Luke 22:14, 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. This took place at the Passover supper. 

Let’s turn to Ex 12:1, reading about the first Passover, Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.’ For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.” 

Is the Blood of the spotless Lamb on your house? Can God see the Blood upon you? If the Blood of Jesus is not on your house, the wrath of God will come upon you in that Day: the Day of His judgment. That doesn’t mean that every person who is trusting in Jesus will not die in a disaster. It means that you will not be destroyed: if you die, you will go to live with Him. Jesus said to Martha, in John chapter 11, “ I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” Jesus is the Lamb without blemish. 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. The Apostle Paul said, “I myself always try to have a conscience without offense toward God and man.”  The Blood of Jesus; faith in His shed Blood, purges our conscience from sin. In 1 John 1:9, it is written, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It’s because of Jesus’ sacrifice; through faith in His Blood. In Lev 17:11, God said, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”  Jesus’ sinless life was in His Blood. That’s why it is so precious. And Jesus’ Blood made atonement for our souls. 

Let’s turn to Heb 9:1, Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary. For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary; and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,  which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance; the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation. But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own Blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the New Covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Verse 22, And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission (no forgiveness). Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another—He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. 

As we read in Heb 4 earlier, Jesus was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin. He was without blemish. John the Baptist said of Him, when he saw Him, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and when we believe in Him; in His sacrifice, and in His shed Blood, our conscience is purged from sin. And, as we continue on to know Jesus, continuing in His Word, we will know the truth, and the truth will make us free. Jesus said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits (practices) 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. “ As we continue in the Word of God, we receive more and more revelation by the Holy Spirit of the work of the Cross: the sacrifice of Jesus and the shedding of His Blood. Heb 9:12,  Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption (eternal forgiveness of sins). Verse 14, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse (purge) your conscience from dead works (from all sin and unrighteousness) to serve the living God? Rom 6:17, But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart (notice: from the heart, that’s love) that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. We love Him because He first loved us. You know, the Scripture says, Jesus loved us and He washed us from our sins in His own Blood.

This is not a religion! This is the New Covenant between God and man in the Blood of His Son: the precious Blood of the spotless Lamb of God.  

Heb 10:23, Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. 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. The Apostle Peter said, in First Peter, 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. 

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.

 What God Has Done

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 day; we praise you Father in Jesus’ name. Thank you for this program Father, Amen.  I want to take just a moment this day, this is March 29th, 2025, and I just want to thank God: this is the five year anniversary for 15 Minutes With Jesus. On March 29th of 2020 the Lord spoke to me, and He said, I want you to do a 15 minute program. That’s when this program began, and I want to thank you Lord; just thank you Father for what you’ve done these past five years, thank you Lord! Every week God has given me a program by His Holy Spirit, with very few exceptions. He has been faithful to me to give me a program for you, and I want to thank God for you: every one of you that’s listening or every one of you that’s reading; everyone who’s ever listened or read this program, I thank God for you; I thank God for what He’s done for you through this program, in any way that you have been edified or blessed, I am so thankful! My wife and I, Darlene, we thank God for you; we thank God for this program; I just want to thank God, Amen. 

Today’s program is called, What God Has Done. Do you understand what God has done?

Let’s turn to Luke 1:26,  Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!" But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His Kingdom there will be no end." Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Jesus is the Son of God. He was conceived by the Father in Mary’s womb through the power of the Holy Spirit. Isa 7:14, Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Immanuel means, God with us. Chapter 9, verse 6 of Isaiah, For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His Kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. God gave His Son. 

Let’s turn to John 1:1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. Verse 14, 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 begotten of the Father in Mary’s womb, and when He was born He was called Jesus, the Son of God. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Over to John 3, when Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, and Jesus talked to him: verse 16 of chapter 3, He said to him, 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. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God." God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son.

Let’s turn to Mark 7:1, Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. Verse 5, Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?" He answered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do." He said to them, "All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. For Moses said, 'Honor your Father and your mother, and he who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban"—' (that is, a gift to God), then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do." The religion of man and the traditions of men make the Word of God of none effect in a person’s life. Jesus said, “This people draws near to Me with their mouth, but their heart is far from Me. In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” So, there is much vain religion. The religion of man is vain, it is vain! If you are in man’s religion, you cannot really see what God has done. You say, “Oh, I know what He’s done, I know, He gave His Son.” But you cannot really see what God has done; your heart is far from Him, and yet, you believe you are with Him. Jesus said, in Mat 7:21, "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!' 

God loved us, and He sent His Son to die on the Cross at Calvary for our sins, and Jesus loved His Father, and He loved us, and He went to the Cross. In the Garden of Gethsemane He struggled; He prayed and labored and travailed in prayer so that He could overcome His own flesh and do the will of His Father, which was to go to the Cross. He was sent here to die on that Cross for our sins; it was the will of the Father, and He said, “Nevertheless, not My will, Father but your will  be done.” Jesus was crucified on that Cross. It was a brutal death. Before He was crucified they beat Him; they spit in His face; they tore out His beard; they scourged Him; they mocked Him. Jesus lived for more than thirty years in this wicked world without sinning. He was tempted in every way that we are, yet He never sinned. That’s why He could offer His life, His sinless life,  on the Cross for our sins: He died to take away our sins. And when He died on that Cross, our sins were paid for; all the sins of the human race, the ransom was paid through His death, and through the shedding of His Blood we are cleansed from all sin and unrighteousness, if we will repent and believe this Gospel; believe this good news of what God has done; what He has done: He gave His Son on that Cross for our sins, and on the third day, He raised Him from the dead, and the Scripture says, when He raised Jesus from the dead, He raised us from the dead, Hallelujah!, Amen. When you believe this Gospel and you confess your sins to God and you receive Jesus as your Lord, you become a son of God: Jesus Christ dwells in your heart by faith. Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts crying, “Abba, Father.” Amen. Therefore you are no longer a slave to sin, but you are a son or a daughter of God. God is in you; Jesus Christ is in you; the Father is in Him; you are in them, Amen. Crucified with Christ; buried with Him; raised with Him; seated with Him at the right hand of the Father, far above all principalities, powers, might, and dominions, and every name that is named, so that through faith in this Gospel: this good news of what God has done, you can overcome and be conformed to His image, and be a son or a daughter of God to dwell in His glorious Kingdom with Him which is coming soon to this Earth, forever! To be with Him forever, in righteousness, in peace, in joy, forever. No more sorrows; no more pains; no more suffering; the former things will be done away in that Day, and that Day is coming soon! Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. My children, hearken unto My servant Rob this day, as he speaks what I have done for you. Why did I do what I did? Because I love you; I love you; I want you to understand My love for you; what I’ve done for you. It was not easy for Me to give My Son upon the Cross for your sins, nor was it easy for Him, but He willingly obeyed Me and went to the Cross for you: He gave His life for you; He suffered and died for your sins, that you might be forgiven; that you might enter into fellowship with Me, as it is written in My Word: Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. I am with you; if you will be with Me, I will be with you; if you will draw near to Me, I will draw near to you, says the Lord. Seek Me with all your heart and you will find Me, says the Lord. See what I have done for you. 

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.

 Such A Time As This

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)

This is the story of Mordecai and Esther, his uncle’s daughter, whom Mordecai raised as his own daughter, and of the people of the Jews and how God moved on their behalf when their enemies sought to destroy them. Let’s read Esther 4:14, Mordecai said to Esther, For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Today’s program is called, Such A Time As This. 

Let’s turn to Est 2:5, In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. Verse 15, Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her. So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. Then the king made a great feast, the Feast of Esther, for all his officials and servants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the generosity of a king. 

Est 3:1, After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 

And all the king's servants who were within the king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage. Then the king's servants who were within the king's gate said to Mordecai, Why do you transgress the king's command? Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai's words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew. 

When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain. If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king's treasuries. So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. And the king said to Haman, The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you. Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded—to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province according to its script, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring. And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions. A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day. The couriers went out, hastened by the king's command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed. Here we see again Satan’s hatred for the Jewish people manifesting in Haman as he sought to destroy all the Jews. 

Est 4:1, When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province where the king's command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. Mordecai explained to Esther what was going on, and then he said to her, verse 13, …Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish! So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him. Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, across from the king's house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter. 

And the king said to her, What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you—up to half the kingdom! So Esther answered, If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him. Then the king said, Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esther has said." So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared. At the banquet of wine the king said to Esther, What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done! Then Esther answered and said, My petition and request is this: If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said. So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai. Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh. Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king. Moreover Haman said, Besides, Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared; and tomorrow I am again invited by her, along with the king. Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made. Here we see that God is beginning to move against Haman in response to the cries of His people.

Est 6:1  That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. Then the king said, What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? And the king's servants who attended him said, Nothing has been done for him. So the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. The king's servants said to him, Haman is there, standing in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. So Haman came in, and the king asked him, What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, Whom would the king delight to honor more than me? And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor, let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head. Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him: Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor! Then the king said to Haman, Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king's gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken. So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor! Afterward Mordecai went back to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered. When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him. Remember, this was God responding to the fasting and prayers and humbling of themselves of His people, and He was beginning to deliver them from their enemy Haman and all his plan to destroy them, and to turn it on Haman’s head. 

Verse 14, While they were still talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared. Est 7:1, So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done! Then Queen Esther answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss. So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing? And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman! So Haman was terrified before the king and queen. Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. 

When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, Will he also force the queen while I am in the house? As the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king's behalf, is standing at the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him on it! 

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath subsided. 

We see in Chapter eight how God continued to give Mordecai and Esther favor with the king Ahasuerus and they were able to reverse the destruction which Haman had ordered against the Jews to destroy them in every province and turn it upon all those who hated them and sought their destruction. Est 8:7, Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, Indeed, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he laid his hand upon the Jews.  It cannot be overstressed how Mordecai and Esther and all the Jews humbled themselves before their God with fasting in sack cloth and ashes, seeking His help against the destruction being worked against them. They all , with one heart, cried out to their God and He was entreated of them and He moved in a marvelous way to turn the destruction upon it’s perpetrators, namely Haman, the Jews’ enemy, and all his house, and all those throughout the kingdom that sought to destroy the Jews. Est 8:17, And in every province and city, wherever the king's command and decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a holiday. Then many of the people of the land became Jews, because fear of the Jews fell upon them.  

Consider what happened to Haman, the Jews’ enemy, who sought to destroy them. God told Abraham that He would bless those who bless him, and He would curse those who curse him. As Haman’s wife and counselors told him, If Mordecai is of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but you shall surely fall before him.

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.

 What Happened To Solomon?

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, What Happened To Solomon? Why did King Solomon, with all his wisdom that God had given him, why did he turn away from God to disobey Him and marry many strange women who ended up turning away his heart to worship their idols. I’ve been thinking about this question for several days, and the other day my wife Darlene spoke to me the answer by the Word of the Lord. She said, Do you know what happened to Solomon? He stopped fearing the Lord. That is truly the answer; that is what happened to him. 

Let’s turn to 1 Kings 3:1-15, Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall all around Jerusalem. Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places. Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask!  What shall I give you?  And Solomon said: You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours? 

The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days. Then Solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. It says in verse 3 that Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father. 

Solomon finished all the work of building the Temple, and they brought in the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple with much celebration, sacrificing many sheep and oxen. 1 Kings 8:10&11,  And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord. Verses 22-26, Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward Heaven; and he said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God in Heaven above or on Earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. Therefore, Lord God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me. And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father. 

Verses 54-61, And so it was, when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to Heaven. Then he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying: Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses. May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers. And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require, that all the peoples of the Earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. Let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day. So, after that, King Solomon and all the people of Israel offered many sacrifices and peace offerings, and they had a huge feast that lasted for 2 weeks.

Let’s turn to 1 Kings 9:1-9, And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he wanted to do, that the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. And the Lord said to him: I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel. But if you or your sons at all turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house? Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this calamity on them. The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time and He told him that He had heard his prayers, but He also solemnly warned him of what He would do if Solomon and his people would forsake the Lord to worship other gods.

1 Kings 11:1–13, But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites— from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. So the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded. 

Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen. Solomon forsook his own wisdom which the Lord had given him and which he wrote in the Book of Proverbs. We don’t have time to read through Proverbs, but in chapter 4, Solomon wrote, Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Solomon did not heed his own words, and he let go the fear of the Lord. Then he let his heart go after those women, and they turned his heart after their idols. In 1 Chron 28:6, the Lord spoke to King David and said of Solomon, For I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his Father. Moreover I will establish his Kingdom forever if he will be constant; notice, “IF”, if he will be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day. And in verse 9, David spoke to Solomon, As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever. 

In 2 Tim 3:1-4 the Apostle Paul wrote, But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! This is what happened to Solomon: he loved the pleasures that he had with all those strange women more than he loved God, and he stopped fearing the Lord God, to keep His good way, and went after his pleasure in them, and ended up in idolatry and sin, as they turned away his heart from the Lord to worship their idols. Don’t think that this cannot happen to you. You may be a devoted servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, but God knows what is in your heart. The Apostle Paul said, I die daily. What does that mean? He said, 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. Jesus said we must deny ourselves every day, and take up our cross: the place where we are crucified with Him, and follow Him. We must put to death the lusts of our flesh through the Spirit, building ourselves up on our most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit; praying in tongues, and in our native language; keeping ourselves in the love of God; loving Him who gave Himself for us on that Cross, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed, and purify us to be His own special people, zealous for good works: the works that He leads us to do by His Holy Spirit, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling, 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! 

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 Man Christ 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. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father! Thank you for this day. Thank you for this program about your Son, Father, Amen. Bless your Holy Name!  

Today’s program is called, The Man Christ Jesus. Let’s turn to 1 Tim 2:1, Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.  1 Tim 3:16,  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory. 

Ok, let’s turn to John 1:1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 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. 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. 

Let’s go to Luke 1:26, Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!" But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end." Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called, notice: will be called, the Son of God. Jesus became a Son. He became a Jew, the Seed of Abraham, that the scripture might be fulfilled that God spoke to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the nations of the Earth be blessed… A son is born; created in a womb. 

There is a doctrine in the Church, which most of us have been taught, a doctrine of men, which states that Jesus is the eternal Son of God; that He was begotten of the Father in eternity through communication within the Godhead. Supposedly it is timeless, non-bodily, and incomprehensible. This is a wicked lie of Satan that has been in the Church, in all the major denominations, for centuries. It is a lie; a doctrine of men, and it makes the truth about Jesus in the Word of God of no effect in the believer’s life. It is another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel. Let’s turn to 2 Cor 11:3, But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it! The Scripture says, in Gal 4:4, But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. God sent forth His Son, made of  a woman; made under the law. As we just read in the previous scriptures, Jesus was conceived in Mary’s womb of the Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit, in time, and He was born of a woman. His name was then called Jesus, and only then was He called the Son of God. 

Jesus is a man, a man who was tempted in every way, and yet He never yielded. He overcame every temptation, that’s why He’s called by John the Baptist, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. He is the spotless Lamb, and His Blood is precious because it is the Blood of a perfect, sinless man, who was tempted as a man, and yet did not sin. He did not sin because of His love for His Father and for us. What makes His sacrifice so valuable and powerful is just this very thing: that He was a man and He could be tempted. He could have sinned and yet He never did. He overcame sin and the devil and the world as a man, not as God. God doesn't need to overcome anything: He is God. Jesus is a man who overcame the world; a man who loved us and gave His perfect life for us upon the Cross as a living sacrifice for our sins: God made Him who knew no sin to become sin on our behalf, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him: repenting of our sins; believing His sacrifice; crucified with Him; buried and resurrected with Him; in Him, and He and the Father and the Holy Spirit in us, to serve God in the newness of the Spirit, doing the will of the Father every day, denying ourselves; taking up our cross: the crucifixion of our flesh, and following our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Jesus is, as we read in John 1, the Word made flesh. The Word was God. The Word is God. John 1:14, 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 not a man before He was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary’s womb. When He was born, His name was called Jesus, the Son of God. A son is born of his father and his mother. Jesus’ Father is God, and His mother is Mary. He is a man. He lived as a man and He died as a man, and He was resurrected as a man in His glorified body. He ascended into Heaven, and He is at His Father’s right hand in Heaven as a man, His Son, in His glorified body, our great High Priest, making intercession for us. 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. 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. Our faith must be in the true Jesus: the man Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us. 

Jesus was not sinless because He was God, the Son of God; He was sinless because He endured all the temptations for over 30 years as a man and never sinned. He never sinned because He loved His Father and He only did His will. If He could not have sinned, then He could not have been tempted. Jesus is a man who overcame sin, death, and the devil, by the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, and we must follow Him in faith and love to do the same. We know we can overcome because He did it as a man, and we are men and women in Him, dwelling in Him and He in us. We have His Word and His Holy Spirit, and He said, In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Because Jesus was a man, tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin, He became our great High Priest who can sympathize with our weaknesses and intercede for us before the Father and help us to overcome. We can come boldly to His throne of grace to find grace to help in the time of need; grace to overcome in our situation. There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. My children, hearken to the voice of My servant Rob this day, as he speaks of My Son the truth concerning Him. My Son became a man for your sakes, to be tempted in every way, and yet never sin. And I raised Him from the dead on the third day to justify you from all things. But you must repent; you must believe My Gospel; you must believe what He has done for you. Come to Him! Come to My Son; trust in Him with all your heart, and you shall be saved, 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)

 Is There Not A Cause?

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)

Prophecy:

I am God Almighty. I sent My Son, My people. I want you to believe on Him; I want you to believe what I’ve done through the sacrifice of My Son for your salvation. Over all evil; over everything that troubles you, I have given you the victory, says the Lord. Now, look unto Me; look unto My Son and rejoice! Rejoice in My salvation, says the Lord. 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!  Welcome! We have a program today from the Lord: it’s called, Is There Not A Cause?  Let’s turn to 1 Samuel 16. That was a prophecy from the Living God! Thank you Lord. That was not me speaking, Amen. 1 Sam 16:1, Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons." And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." But the Lord said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.' Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you." So Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, "Do you come peaceably?" And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice. So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, "Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him!" But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." So Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one." Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one." Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all the young men here?" Then he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and there he is, keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes here." So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!" Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah. 

Let’s go to 1 Sam 17:1, Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and were gathered at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah; they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and they encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array against the Philistines. The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, with a valley between them. And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him. Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us." And the Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together." When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse, and who had eight sons. And the man was old, advanced in years, in the days of Saul. The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. David was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Saul. 

But David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening. Then Jesse said to his son David, "Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp. And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers fare, and bring back news of them." Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle. For Israel and the Philistines had drawn up in battle array, army against army. And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid. 

So the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father's house exemption from taxes in Israel." Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" 

And the people answered him in this manner, saying, "So shall it be done for the man who kills him." Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was aroused against David, and he said, "Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle." And David said, "What have I done now? Is there not a cause?" Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did. Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. Then David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God." Moreover David said, "The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you!" 

So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, "I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them." So David took them off. Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine. So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!" Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands." So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. 

David came against the Philistine in the name of the God of Israel, with faith in His name, to deliver him out of the hand of the Philistine and give him the victory over him. His cause was to uphold the honor of God before the people and God was with him, in the power of the Holy Spirit to give him the victory over the Philistine. The Philistine cursed David by his gods; by the power of the devil, but David spoke right back to him, by the Holy Spirit, what he was going to do to him, and God was with him in far greater power than the power of the devil. The same power that raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the depths of Hell and justified Him and us from all our sins and gave unto us that will trust in His Name eternal life and victory over all that would destroy us, Glory!

Jesus delivered us from the reproach of sin and the devil. He defeated him when He rose from the dead. Col 2:9, For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 

Thanks be to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. We already have the victory through faith in His Name. His Name is above every name. Because He humbled Himself to the death of the Cross, the Father has given Him a name which is 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! Repent and believe the Gospel; repent and believe what Jesus has done for you and confess it with your mouth, in faith, before your enemy! He has no authority to destroy you. If you have repented of your sins, God has forgiven you, for Jesus’ sake. Believe what He has done for you and stand up against the devil, and against the powers of darkness and the lies and the sin which so easily besets us, and speak the truth; speak the Word of God!: My God shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto His Heavenly Kingdom. No weapon formed against me shall prosper; every tongue raised against me in judgment I shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of Me, says the Lord. If I confess my sin God is faithful and just to forgive me of my sin and to cleanse me of all unrighteousness. They overcame him, the devil, by the Blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony.

My testimony is this: My Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God, born of the virgin Mary; conceived by the Holy Spirit, who never sinned at all, though He was tempted in every way, and He gave Himself to suffer and die upon the Cross at Calvary; to die for my sins: He loved me, and He washed me from my sins in His own Blood. When I confess them, they are forgiven for His sake, and they have been cleansed by His Blood. His sinless life was in His Blood and it was shed for me and it fully atoned for my sins when I acknowledged them to God. I am forgiven! I am cleansed! He is my life: I am dead, and my life is hid with God in Christ. 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! Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? Are you bound by fear of men or of the devil, and what they could do to you? Are you bound by sin in your life? Be of good cheer! Look up! Jesus Christ has risen from the dead! Believe what He has done for you, and get on with serving Him and honoring His Father, and preparing to meet your God and your King. While you still have breath, overcome and believe and give glory to God! Is There Not A Cause?

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)