A Doer Of The Work

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

Thank you Lord God! We thank you Lord for this day. We praise you Lord; we thank you for this program: A Doer Of The Work. Let’s turn to Psalm 103:1-22, Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord executes righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and it’s place remembers it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them. The Lord has established His throne in Heaven, and His Kingdom rules over all. Bless the Lord, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His Word, heeding the voice of His Word. Bless the Lord, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His pleasure. Bless the Lord, all His works, in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Verses 17&18, But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them. Jesus said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. In 1 John 5:3, the Apostle John said, For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, or do His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous.

Let’s turn to James 1:21-25, Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 

But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. Amen. 

Chapter 4, verse 17, Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.  Jesus said, I only do what I see My Father doing. So He leads us by His Spirit, and as He is leading us, if we know what He wants us to do and do not do it, then it is sin; we are resisting the Holy Spirit. When we are in a situation, we remember His Words, as the Holy Spirit brings it up in our hearts; we yield to Him to keep the Word of God, and we do that work, and we shall be blessed. 

As I was receiving this program, I was reminded of Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie Ten Boom and her family: her father and her brother and sisters and their families, helped to save over 800 Jews from the Nazis during World War Two. And they ended up being betrayed and sent to the concentration camps in Germany. And while Corrie was in the concentration camp Ravensbruck, they forced the women to strip naked and take showers in front of the male guards. This was extremely grievous for them. It is a long and very important story of what happened to Corrie and her family, and I recommend that you read about it in the book The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom. Also they produced a movie based on the book, The Hiding Place. Years later, as Corrie was traveling around the world and speaking for Jesus, she was speaking at a church in Germany about forgiveness, and after the meeting, one of those men who was a guard at Ravensbruck came up to her and reached out his hand and said to her, “A fine message! How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea! You mentioned Ravensbrück in your talk,” he was saying. “I was a guard in there. But since that time, I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well.”–again the hand came out–“will you forgive me?” Corrie looked at him, and she recognized him, and she could not shake his hand. So in her heart, she asked the Lord to help her, to help her to forgive that man, and as she reached out her hand, the Holy Spirit came upon her and the love of God filled her heart, and she forgave that man. As she took his hand she said to him, with tears in her eyes, “I forgive you Brother, with all my heart!” By the time she took his hand, she had forgiven him. If she had hardened her heart, and refused to forgive him, she would not have been forgiven herself. She remembered Jesus’ Word, Forgive, and you shall be forgiven, and she did it, and the mercy of God came upon her and that man, and they were both filled with His love.

What is your situation? Is there someone that hurt you, or did you wrong, and you know you need to forgive them, but you feel like you can’t? Do you love Jesus? Are you thankful for what He did for you that you might be forgiven? If you will love Him and keep His commandment to forgive, and ask Him for grace to help you to forgive that person, and then take that step and reach out your hand or speak that word, “Father, I forgive them for what they did to me…”, God will help you; His mercy will be with you, and you will be forgiven; you will be freed from your sin of not doing His Word, what you know to do. So it is with all His commandments: Give, and it shall be given, show mercy, and you will receive mercy. If you will not show mercy, as God is leading you in various situations, the time will come when you need mercy, and you will not receive it.  

If you seek after righteousness, you shall be filled. But if you refuse to do His Word; if you willfully forget His work, you will reap the consequences. 

Let’s turn to Mat 18: 21-35,  Then Peter came to Him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times? Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all. 

Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe! So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you all. And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you? And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses. Consider all that Jesus suffered for you upon the Cross for your sins, not for His sins; He didn’t have any; for your sins. He loved you and suffered for you that you might be forgiven and He died for your sins. Will you then refuse to forgive your brother, your sister, your mom, your dad, your teacher, or your friend? It doesn’t matter how much they hurt you or did you wrong, Jesus has suffered much more for all of us. And if you want to save yourself, you better humble yourself now and ask God to help you to forgive that person. If you will be a doer of the Word, in this and every other matter, you will overcome. And if you refuse, to you it is sin, and you will suffer for it. 

Psalm 103:17&18, But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to such as keep His covenant, (remembering His sacrifice on the Cross; the forgiveness of their sins), and to those who remember His commandments to do them. This is love, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous. Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Lay down your hurt at Jesus’ feet; lay down your pride; your pain; your resentment, and forgive them from your heart, and you shall be forgiven. Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.

Eph 4:29-32,  Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. In the King James Version it says, …even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. It is for Christ’s sake that we are forgiven. When we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. The only reason that we have forgiveness of sins is because of the sacrifice of Himself that Jesus made upon the Cross: His suffering for our sins in His own body and the shedding of His precious, sinless Blood, for it is the blood that makes atonement for sin. 

Jesus was tempted in every way that we are, and yet He never sinned; He never yielded. He is the spotless Lamb that was offered upon the Cross at Calvary, and with His shed Blood He made atonement for the sins of the whole world, that whosoever will come to Him, believing in Him, and confessing their sins, shall receive forgiveness and shall be cleansed in His Blood, through faith in His Blood, from all unrighteousness. This is His Covenant in His Blood.  And then we must follow on to love Him and know Him and do His Words, being not forgetful hearers, but doers of the work, denying ourselves, taking up our cross, and following Him every day. 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.

 Founded On The Rock 

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

 

Thank you Lord, Amen! We thank you Lord, Amen! Thank you Father! Father, I want to thank you for this program that you’ve given me this week: Founded On The Rock. 

I thank you for it. I pray that you would open our eyes; open our ears; help us to hear and understand what you are saying, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Let’s turn to John chapter 3, verses 14-31, Jesus said,   And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 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.

Let’s turn to 1 John 1:1-10, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. 

1 John 2: 1-6, My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 

He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Verses 15-17, Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. 

Let’s turn now to Mat 5:1-20, and read from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount,  And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. You are the salt of the Earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven. 

Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till Heaven and Earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 

After this statement Jesus taught us many things, which, if we will do them, our righteousness will exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, and we will be able to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. At the end He said, in Mat 7:12-14, Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. There is a way which leads to destruction, and most people are going that way, and there is a way which leads to life and few people even find it. Then Jesus spoke about false prophets who come in sheep’s clothing: they are speaking the Word of God, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. They don’t care about you; they come to devour you; to make merchandise of you, as the Apostle Peter said. Then Jesus said some very interesting things in verses 21-23 of Mat 7, 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! These are Christian people who call Jesus Lord. Not only that, but they have the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives: doing wonderful works, prophesying, and casting out demons in Jesus’ name. These are Christian people, and yet they are practicing lawlessness in their lives. They have sin in their lives and they have not repented, and Jesus said that He will say to them in that Day, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. He said they that do the will of His Father in Heaven shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Then in Mat 7:24-27, He finished His message by saying, 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. Christians like to say that Jesus is their rock and they are going to make it through the storm because He is their rock. That is not what Jesus said here. He said if you hear what He said, and if you do what He said, then, and only then, is your house founded on the rock. Do you see Brothers and sisters? It’s what you do! What are you doing? Are you doing these things which Jesus spoke in His Sermon on the Mount? Do you want to? You can if you want to. Remember Jesus said, Blessed are they who seek after righteousness for they shall be filled. He said, Seek and you will find, knock and it shall be opened, ask and it shall be given, for everyone who asks receives!

Will you come out into the light? Will you come to Jesus and confess your sins? If you will confess your sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive you of your sins, and to cleanse you in His precious Blood of all your unrighteousness, if you will come to Him, like the woman who came weeping to Jesus and washed His feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair and kissed them and anointed them with precious ointment. Jesus said to Simon the Pharisee, who was judging her in his self righteousness, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. How much do you love Jesus? How much does He love you? Do you know how much He loves you; how much He suffered for your sins that you might be set free from them and be made righteous in Him? You who say you love Him, what are you doing? Are you keeping His Words and walking in His love, or are you trampling Him under your feet and doing despite to the Spirit of His grace by continuing in your wicked deeds and refusing to repent; believing the lies that the false prophets are telling you: that everything is going to be ok. If this is you, it is not going to be ok. 

To those who have repented of their sins and continued in the light with Jesus, being cleansed by His Blood, and led by the Holy Spirit in doing good: eternal life. To those who have been contentious and would not obey the truth, but obeyed unrighteousness: indignation and wrath. (Rom 2:5-12) Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that does evil, or practices sin, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile, but glory, honor, and peace to every man that works good, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.

For there is no partiality with God. 

I want to encourage all of you to take time to read the Sermon on the Mount in Mat 5-7, and meditate on the things Jesus said, and ask yourself, “Am I doing these things?” “Do I really love my enemies?  Is there someone I need to forgive?” Ask the Lord to grant you grace to understand His Words and to do them in your own life, that you may truly be founded on the rock; that you may be able to endure the things that are coming on the Earth and that you may stand before Him in that Day with joy and confidence. Mat 7:24&25, 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. 

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.

 Lovingkindness, Judgment and Righteousness

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

Thank you Father! Blessed be your holy name! Thank you Father! We bless your holy name! Thank you Lord for this message that you’ve given me: Lovingkindness, Judgment and Righteousness. Lord, I pray you would open our hearts to receive the truth of your Word this day. Thank you Lord. I pray you would open hearts. I pray you would bless many people, by your Word and by your Spirit, for your Word with your Spirit is life. Amen, thank you Lord. 

Ok, let’s turn to Jer 9:23&24, Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the Earth. For in these I delight, says the Lord. …let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the Earth.  John 17:1, Jesus was praying to His Father right before He was crucified; He said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify You. As you have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as you have given Him. And this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. Let’s turn to Php 3:7-11, the Apostle Paul said, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ; notice: righteousness is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. So here we see already God working righteousness: exercising righteousness through faith, from God by faith. Righteousness is imputed to us when we believe on Jesus. Verse 10, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Amen. Paul said, Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. Amen.

Let’s turn to Psa 107:1-22, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city for a dwelling place. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness. Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons—because they rebelled against the Words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High, therefore He brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two. Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted. Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. I recommend this to you: those of you who are reading this who are in trouble; who are in darkness, who are in desperation, I recommend, cry out to the Lord in your trouble, and He will save you out of your distresses! If you will come to Him in humility and repentance, and call upon Him, He will save you out of your distresses. He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare His works with rejoicing. I’m not going to quote all of this psalm. Let’s go to verse 43, Whoever is wise will observe these things, and they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. His lovingkindness is with His judgment, as you can see in these things. Jesus said in Rev 3:19, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. 

If you take away His judgment, you take away His fear, and all the blessings that come with His fear. If you fear Him, you don’t have to fear His judgment. Let’s turn to 1 Cor 11:31&32, For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 

Do you see that? Do you see His lovingkindness with His judgment? It’s His lovingkindness to judge us; to chasten us, amen, that we may not be condemned with the world. The question is: how will we respond? Heb 12:1-14, Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 

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 has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. Do you see that: the lovingkindness of the Lord with His chastisement; with His judgment? If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 

Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 

For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Do you see that: the chastisement; the judgment of the Lord? It’s His love that He chastens us, ok, and afterwards it yields

the peaceable fruit of righteousness. So, right there in these verses, we God exercising lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness. Therefore, it says in verse 12,  strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Amen,  Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. Amen, praise God! God is making a holy people. How’s He doing it? with His lovingkindness, His judgment and His righteousness. So you want to know Him! You want to glory in that you know Him; that He exercises all three of these things, not just His lovingkindness. His lovingkindness cannot be separated from His judgment and His righteousness. Hos 2:19&20,  I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and judgment, in lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. Remember, Paul said, …that I may know Him: the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! God wants us to know Him, people! He wants us to know Him! He wants us to fellowship with Him! In 1 John it talks about our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son! In order to fellowship with the Father and with His Son, and with one another in truth, we need to walk in the light! We need to forsake the darkness! Forget those sins that you love! Repent of them! They’re only going to work destruction and eternal damnation in your life! Turn to the Lord with all your heart! Come to Him! He wants to make you righteous and holy, that you may commune with Him in His glory and in His joy forever! Hallelujah! Amen! Praise God! 2 Cor 5:10, For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. The judgment of God is in the Earth! If you do evil, you will bear your judgment. If you do good, you will be rewarded. We will all stand before Jesus in the end and give an account for our life. 

His lovingkindness is that God so loved us that He gave His only beloved Son on the Cross at Calvary to die for our sins and raised Him from the dead to justify us, just as though we had never sinned, to walk in Jesus; in the Holy Spirit, fulfilling the righteousness of the law; hearing His voice; denying ourselves; taking up our cross and following Him, Amen! Do you understand and know God: that He is exercising lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness in the Earth? Do you want to know Him? 

Or do you want only to know His lovingkindness, leaving out judgment and righteousness? It won’t work! And you won’t know Him. God so loved you that He gave His only begotten Son for you, that you may not be condemned in judgment, but that you may glory in Him that you know Him. Through His lovingkindness and His judgment and chastisement, God is working righteousness in His people, that they may stand in the final judgment and serve Him in righteousness, peace , and joy forever. Let us not glory in our wisdom, our strength, or our riches, but let us glory in the true knowledge of God Almighty, who exercises lovingkindness, judgment and righteousness in the Earth. He delights in these things, and through these things, and His great mercies all working together, He is making a holy people; a spotless bride for His beloved Son, to dwell with Him forever in His glorious Kingdom.

Thankyou 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 Will You Do in the End Thereof ?

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. 

This message is a warning to the Church of Jesus Christ in America and the world, What Will You Do In The End Thereof ? This is not something I found in the Bible and now I want to talk about it. This is something I experienced for over twenty years in my own life. I have been down this road, and it is only the mercy of God in my life that He brought me out of it. I am bringing you a warning from God in the name of Jesus Christ.  

Let’s turn to Jer 5:1-3, Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; see now and know; and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth, and I will pardon her. Though they say, As the Lord lives, surely they swear falsely. O Lord, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return. Verses 22-31, Do you not fear Me? says the Lord. Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though it’s waves toss to and fro, yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; they have revolted and departed. They do not say in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withheld good from you. 

For among My people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as one who sets snares; they set a trap; they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. They have grown fat, they are sleek; yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless; yet they prosper, and the right of the needy they do not defend. 

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord. Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end thereof ? This is the situation in most of the Church of Jesus Christ in this day. These men rule by their own power. God has not sent them. They exercise dominion over the people with fear and domination. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. And My people love to have it so. Isa 30:8-11, They say, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things; prophecy deceits.  Have you considered the end thereof ? Are you walking in this way? Are you in a house full of deceit and you are loving it so? Jer 6:16-19,  Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it. Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet! But they said, We will not listen. Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O Earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people—the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not heeded My Words nor My law, but rejected it. 

You who reject the good Words of the Lord; His good ways, to walk in deceit; to walk in darkness and pervert the right ways of the Lord: consider your end! The Lord will bring evil upon you- you bring it upon yourselves. The Lord has loved us and given His beloved Son Jesus Christ to us, to live in this world as a righteous man, to bring us the good news of His salvation, deliverance from sin and destruction, and to give us eternal life by sacrificing Himself and dying upon the Cross for our sins. All our sins, sicknesses, and pains were laid upon Him and He was made a reproach for us, that we, through repentance and faith in His shed Blood might enter into His glory. He loved us and washed us from our sins in His own Blood. Jesus said, Come unto Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me. For I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. We love this verse. But have you done this? Have you come to Jesus and laid yourself down at His feet in true repentance and taken His yoke upon you? Is His yoke upon you? Are you walking with Him in His good way? Are you laboring with Him with your whole heart? Is He your Lord, really? Are you hearing His voice and following Him every day, denying yourself and taking up your cross and following Him as He leads you by His Spirit to do the Father’s will? Or are you one of those who say, “Lord, Lord”, but your heart is far from Him? You love being ruled by a false prophet; you love the deceit, the darkness that you think makes a way for you to serve yourself and gratify the lusts of your own heart.

Jer 7:8-15, Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know, and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord. But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 

I have been there. My wife Darlene and I went to Israel several years ago. I have been to Shiloh, and it is a ruin to this day. And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer, therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren—the whole posterity of Ephraim. Verses 23&24, But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. 

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. 

Jer 8:9, The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the Word of the Lord; so what wisdom do they have? 

Jer 5:31,   The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end thereof ? 

Jer 6:13-15, Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. 

They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, saying, 'Peace, peace!' when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the Lord. 

Jesus said, This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Mat 16:27,  For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward every man according to his works. Don’t be deceived people! Will you continue to love deceit and lawlessness and not even consider what will be your end? Jesus plainly said in Mat 7, Not everyone who says, to Me “Lord, Lord” shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but they that do the will of My Father. He will say to many Christians at that time, Depart from Me into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels- all you who work iniquity. In 1 John 3:7, the Apostle wrote, Little children, let no man deceive you, he who does righteousness  is righteous, even as He is righteous; he that practices sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.  Heb 10:26&27 plainly states what is awaiting Christians who practice lawlessness: For if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth (that’s Christians), there remains no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries. Verse 31, It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

Isa 3:10&11, Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 

It’s not Christians and sinners; it’s the righteous: those who practice righteousness, and the wicked: those who practice sin: those who are truly of the Son of God and those who are not. Blessed and holy is he who is counted worthy to be a part of the first resurrection, on such the second death( the lake of fire) has no power. Holy is he! Unholy Christians won’t make it! Holiness, without which no man will see the Lord. Let him who has this hope in him purify himself even as He is pure! Purify your souls by obeying the truth through the Spirit.

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. As you listen to My servant Rob this day, what’s in your heart My children? What are you thinking? Are you listening to My Words out of his mouth, or are you hardening your heart, as you have for many years? Turn to Me now, while it’s still called today, says the Lord, that I might show My mercy upon you; that I might give you My grace, that you might be saved from the destruction that is going to come very soon, says the Lord. Look unto Me now; humble yourselves before Me and turn to Me with all your heart, that I may show you My mercy, 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.

 Believe What Is Written

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.

Praise God, Amen! We worship you Lord; we thank you Lord for this day. Thank you Lord. This is the day that you have made; we will rejoice and be glad in it! Father, I thank you for this program that you’ve given me this morning: Believe What Is Written. 

I pray that you would open the eyes, the hearts, and the ears of all of us to hear what you are saying and to understand it, in Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. 

We’re going to start in Psalm 12:6&7, The Words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. You shall keep them, O Lord; You shall preserve them from this generation forever. God has preserved His Word for generations; for generations He has preserved His Word, and it is pure. Let’s turn to Psalm 1:1-6,  Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, (the Word of the Lord), and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law, or, in His Word, he meditates day and night. Do you want to be blessed? Let’s turn to 2 Pet 1:19-21, And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 

Let’s turn to 1 Cor 15:1-4, Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. John 3:1-21, There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him. Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be? 

Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to Heaven but He who came down from Heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in Heaven. 

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 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. 

The first and most important thing we need to believe, that is written in God’s holy Word, is that God so loved us: not only me and you, but the whole world, that He gave His only beloved begotten Son a living sacrifice for my sins and your sins, and the sins of the whole world on that brutal Cross at Calvary, that whosoever of us that would hear this Good News and believe it, might not perish, but be saved from our sins and from this present evil world, and inherit eternal life with Him in His glorious Kingdom.

Eph 1:3-23, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on Earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. (That’s the First Resurrection: the redemption of the purchased possession). Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, Hallelujah! and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Glory! Eph 2:1-8, And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, Do you see that? Do you see that, Children?: His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 

This is the Word of God, people! We need to believe these Words! We need to believe these Words! We need to take the Word of God and read it, and read it, and meditate in it, and cry out to God for understanding. We need to believe what is written and repent of our evil, vile ways, and turn to God with all our hearts and believe what He has done for us, in His great love for us through the sacrifice of His beloved Son on that brutal Cross, and through raising Him from the dead. We need to be crucified with Him and buried with Him and raised from the dead with Him, and be seated with Him at the right hand of His beloved Father, far above all powers of darkness, principalities, and every name that is named, in Heaven, in the Earth, and under the Earth! We need to be cleansed! We need to overcome the devil and the world through believing in the shed Blood of Jesus and His resurrection from the dead! We need to overcome death!

1 Cor 15:50-58, Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory! O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in 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. 

 Beyond What Is Written 

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

Thank you Father. Thank you Lord. We praise you; we thank you Lord. Thank you for this program that you’ve given me Father. I pray that you would open the ears of your people, and open our ears, to hear what your Holy Spirit is speaking. Thank you Lord. Your Word is the truth. Today’s program is called, Beyond What Is Written. 

Let’s turn to 1 Cor 4:6&7, The Apostle Paul said, Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other. For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? Let’s go to 1 Cor 2:1-5, And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. This is what we are to know: Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and the power of His resurrection; the exceeding greatness of His mighty power which the Father worked in Him when He raised Him from the dead. For He was dead, but behold, He is alive forever more!

2 Pet 1:19-21, And so we have the prophetic Word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 

2 Tim 3:16&17, All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 

Ok, let’s go to Deut 13:1-8, (This is under the Law of Moses), If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods—which you have not known—and let us serve them, you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 

But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst. If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 

of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him. 

If your dear brother speaks and shows power and says to you, Come, let us worship other gods, or a more subtle version: “ I have a word for you…”, or “God told me…”, or “An angel spoke to me…” , contrary to the Word of God,  Don’t listen to him or her! Stay in what is written.

Let’s turn to Mat 4:1-11, Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 

and said to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: He shall give His angels charge over you, and in their hands they shall bear you up, unless you dash your foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God. Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, Away with you, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve. Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him. When Jesus was contending with the devil, He stayed in what was written: He said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. If Jesus had to stay in what is written with Satan’s temptations, the Son of God; the Word of God; do you presume to think that you can keep from being deceived by him any other way? It was a fight! Jesus had to be ministered to by angels after it was over. He overcame Satan by speaking the Word of God to him by the Holy Spirit: the sword of the Spirit. If you are thinking beyond the Word of God, you are puffed up; you are in pride, and the devil will bring you down if you don’t humble yourself and repent and come back to Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

We all would do well to have a real Holy Spirit revelation of the Cross of Jesus Christ, for to us who are being saved it is the power of God!; a revelation of the Father’s love for us that He sent Jesus to die for our sins; not head knowledge; a revelation from the Holy Spirit! - the kind that breaks our hard, stubborn, prideful hearts, that we might become again as little children, loving Him and trusting Him. Remember, Jesus said, …unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

Ok, let’s go to Luke 22:24-30, This was at the Last Supper, Now there was also a dispute among them, as to which of them should be considered the greatest. And He said to them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors. But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as  One who serves. At the Last Supper, the disciples were still striving over which one of them was the greatest, and Jesus got up from the table, took off His garments and girded Himself with a towel like a servant, and began to wash the disciples’ feet. Let’s read about it in John 13:1-17, Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, Lord, are You washing my feet? Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this. Peter said to Him, You shall never wash my feet! Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me. Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head! Jesus said to him, He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you. For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, You are not all clean. So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. He showed them how to walk. We are called as servants to God and to one another, not as “great men of God”. Jesus said, I am among you as one who serves. A man of God is a servant of God, and of His servants. Jesus said, How can you believe when you seek honor one from another, and not the honor that comes from God only. Seek the honor of God; seek to be honored by Him by serving Him and the people He has in your life, by giving Him honor in their presence. Jesus said, For whoever is ashamed of Me and My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels. Satan offered Jesus all the glory and honor of this world, if He would bow down and worship him; he said it was given to him and he gives it to whoever he wills. Jesus didn’t deny that, but He said to Satan, Away with you Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve. And He overcame the world right there!

Stay with what is written in the Word of God! Seek Him for revelation and understanding of His Word, that you may overcome and do it in your every day walk, as the Holy Spirit leads you, leaning not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledging Him, and He will be directing your steps, and you will honor Him, and you will be a blessing in the Earth, Hallelujah! 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I Am God Almighty. These are My Words. Those of you who are listening to My servant Rob this day, consider carefully these words that I have given him. You must stay with what is written. You must stay within my Word. Do not listen to those who go beyond; to those who speak things that are not written. Stay with Me; follow Me, says the Lord God, and you will prosper.

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.