The Spirit and The Water and The 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 Father. We give you thanks. Thank you Father, Amen. We thank you Lord; we bless your holy name! We thank you for this program. Thank you for this day. Father, I pray right now, in Jesus’ name, that you would open our hearts to receive revelation of your love; of the gift of your Son, and what He went through for us. I pray that you would bless this program and bless your Word to our hearts, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Today’s program is called, The Spirit and The Water and The Blood. 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. Verse 12,  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

What does it mean to believe in His name? Let’s turn to Php 2:5, Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in Heaven, and of those on Earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Now let’s turn to Eph 1:3, 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. When you believe in His name, you believe in Him and what He did for you; how He suffered for you upon the Cross, to bear your sins in His own body; how He died and washed you from your sins in His own Blood, so that when you repent and believe in his name, and receive Him into your heart, you may be born of God.  Gal 4:6, And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts crying, Abba, Father. 

Let’s turn to John 3:1, 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 from above, 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, (born from above). 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.  Verse 14, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 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. Verse 3, Jesus answered and said to him, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Verse 5, Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. When you believe in the name of Jesus Christ, you are born from above; born of the Spirit; God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your heart; you are born of God; born from above, and you become His son or daughter in Jesus. Jesus Christ is in your heart and you are in Him. 

What does it mean to be born of water?  Let’s turn to Rom 6:1, What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Verse 4, Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Crucified with Him; buried with Him, and raised with Him through water baptism. Gal 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; 

Are you crucified with Christ, really? Does He truly live in you?,  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. This is what it means to be born of water: you are truly crucified with Jesus; baptized into His death; your old sinful man is crucified with Him, and you are raised with Him, a new creature in Christ, born of water, through the Spirit and faith.  

What about the Blood? It is because of His Blood, that He shed upon the Cross, that your sins can be forgiven. Because Jesus lived as a man and was tempted in every way as we are, Heb 4:15, and He never sinned; He never yielded to the temptations, therefore He is without sin, and He is the only one who could offer Himself upon the Cross for the sins of the whole world. Only the perfect, spotless, precious, sinless Blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Lord, could atone for the sins of the whole world, that whosoever would believe in Him might not perish, but inherit eternal life. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, and you shall no longer be rejected, but you will be accepted in the Beloved, in the One who loved you and gave Himself for you. 1 John 5:1, Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear witness in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one. 

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, (2 Cor 13:14).

 A Psalm And A Teaching / A Habitation For The Lord

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.

Father, we thank you for this day; we thank you for this program. Father, I pray that you would open our hearts to receive your Word this day by the Holy Spirit. Thank you Father, in Jesus’ name, Amen. 

In 1 Cor 14:26 we read, How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. Today we have a psalm and a teaching, both of which are based in Psalm 132, speaking about A Habitation For The Lord.

My Habitation

By David Hickman and Rob Haymes

From Psalm 132 and Zephaniah 3:17

I will not come

Up into my house

Or my bed;

I will not give

Slumber to my eyes

Until I find

A habitation for the Lord

The mighty God of Jacob.

For I have loved

The habitation of Thy house

And the place Thy honor dwells.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee

Is mighty; He will save;

He will rejoice over you with joy;

He’ll rest in His love;

He’ll joy over you with singing.

This is My rest;

Here will I forever dwell,

And I will teach Her My covenant,

And I will clothe Her

With My salvation,

For I have chosen Zion,

And I desire Her 

For My Habitation,

And the place My honor dwells.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee

Is mighty; He will save;

He will rejoice over you with joy;

He’ll rest in His love;

He’ll joy; He will rejoice

Over you with joy;

He’ll rest in His love;

He’ll joy over you with singing;

He’ll joy over you with singing.

He’ll joy over you with singing.

I will not come

Up into my house

Or my bed;

Until I find

A habitation for the Lord

Let's turn to Psalm 132, Lord, remember David and all his afflictions; how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house, or go up to the comfort of my bed; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the Lord, a habitation for the Mighty God of Jacob. Verse 13,  For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation: This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.  I will also clothe her priests with salvation, And her saints shall shout aloud for joy.  Let’s turn to 1 Ch 17:1, Now it came to pass, when David was dwelling in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent curtains.  Then Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you. David had it in his heart to build a house for the Lord: a glorious Temple in Jerusalem, but God sent the prophet Nathan to tell him in verse 10, …furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you a house. And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My Son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.  Clearly God was telling David about Jesus, the Seed of David, that He would build the Temple of the Lord. In verse 13, He said, I will be His Father and He shall be My Son. 

Let’s turn to Zec 6:12, Then speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Behold, the Man whose name is the Branch! From His place He shall branch out, and He shall build the Temple of the Lord; yes, He shall build the Temple of the Lord. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His throne; so He shall be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. 

Isa 9:6, 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, the 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. 

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.  

Let’s turn to Eph 2:19,  Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy Temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit. This is the New Testament fulfillment of Psalm 132.

2 Cor 6:14, Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 

And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they shall be My people. Therefore, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Chapter 7, verse 1, Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. It is a holy Temple: a holy Habitation of God. Glory to God! 

God is making a holy people; He is purifying unto Himself His own special people: lively stones, that He is building together upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone, into a holy Temple in the Lord: a spiritual house; a holy priesthood, that we may offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Unholy sacrifices, in the flesh, are not acceptable to Him; He will not accept them. Nor will He inhabit an unclean house. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, in the light. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and don’t do the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with Him, and with one another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. God desires a pure Temple: a holy habitation to dwell in, and He will have it!, through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, and the work of the Cross in our lives: the breaking down of our hard, stubborn, rebellious hearts, that we may love Him and one another with a pure heart fervently.  Psalm 16:11,  You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 

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.

 Married To Another

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 for this day! Thank you Lord for this program. Father, we thank you; we bless your holy name, thank you Lord! Today’s program is called Married To Another. Let’s turn to Rom 7:4, Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. Jesus Christ dwells in our hearts by faith through the Spirit, and through our union with Him, in His love, we bring forth fruit unto God unto His glory. Verse 6, But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Rom 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit: married to another; serving in the newness of the Spirit. Verse 4, That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. How are we walking?  For they that are after the flesh do mind, (set their affection on), the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Verse 8, So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Verse 10, If Christ be in you, (married to Christ), the body is dead because of sin, (crucified with Christ; baptized into His death), but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Rom 8:4, …the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Verse 12, Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. If you are being led by the Spirit; if you are denying your flesh every day, taking up your cross, and following Jesus to do the will of the Father, you are walking as a son or a daughter of God. You cannot say so if you are walking after the flesh to do your own will. 

Let’s turn to Gal 5:16, I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Verse 16, This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh…verse 18, But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Verse 24, And they that are Christ's…  are you Christ’s?  Do you belong to Jesus?  …they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

Let’s look at Romans, chapter 6, verse 1, What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Verse 14, For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. Verse 22, But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Let’s look at 1 John 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Verse 16,  And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.  

The only way that we can do this; the only way that we can truly walk in the Holy Spirit and overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, and overcome our own flesh, is in the love of God. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation, or atonement, for our sins. We desperately need a revelation of the love that God has for us: that He would do this, and the love that Jesus has for the Father, and for us: that He would take that cup that the Father gave Him, in the Garden of Gethsemane, and go to the Cross, to suffer so greatly, in His body and His soul, though He had never done anything wrong, for us; to become sin upon that Cross; all the sins of the human race being laid upon Him, and to be separated from His Father for the first time in all eternity, and to die for our sins and shed His precious Blood to fully atone for them before the Father.  When the Father separated from Jesus, because He cannot fellowship with sin, that’s when Jesus cried out, My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me? 

Let’s turn there, Psalm 22:1, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning? O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent. Verse 11, Be not far from Me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have surrounded Me; strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me. They gape at Me with their mouths, like a raging and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; it has melted within Me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death. 

For dogs have surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. This is clearly talking about our Lord Jesus Christ as He suffered on the Cross.  He took it all;  Jesus took it all,  even separation from His beloved Father,  for one reason:  the love that God has for us,  that whoever lives and believes this report: that Jesus was crucified for our sins, and that He was raised again by the glory of the Father for our justification; that He overcame Hell and Death, and the grave; that He is at the right hand of the Father right now, alive forevermore, making intercession for us,  they shall be saved and inherit eternal life in Him. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 John 4:16, And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. Do you know this love? Do you have understanding and revelation from God of His great love for you: that He gave His Son for you upon the Cross. Do you know this love? Do you believe the love that God has for you? God is love, and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in 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.

 The Golden Candlestick

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, Amen! Thank you for this day; thank you for this program that you have given me, Father. We praise you. Father, I pray in Jesus’ name that you would bless this program. I commit it to you. Bless people to hear and to understand in our hearts what you are saying, Father. It’s so important. Help people to take it seriously. Thank you Lord. 

Today’s program is called, The Golden Candlestick.  Let’s turn to Rev 1:17, And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hell and of Death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches. Chapter 2, verse 1, To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; 

and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your candlestick from its place, unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. 

Let’s turn to Mat 24:3, Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age? And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.  1 John 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 

In John chapter 3, Jesus said to Nicodemus, 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. Jesus said, Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. When the Gospel was first preached to us; when we first realized the love that God has for us: when He gave His Son to suffer so greatly and die upon the Cross for our sins; when we realized the love that Jesus has for us: that He went to the Cross; suffered so much and died for us when we were dead in our sins; when we first came to Him and gave ourselves to Him, and received Him into our hearts,  we loved Him.  We loved His Words, and we sought to follow Him and keep His ways, and to love one another. We worshiped Him in Spirit and in truth.  Where are we now?  Do we still have that same love for Him? For the most part, in the Church today, because iniquity and evil is abounding so much, every day, in every part of the world, our love has grown cold. We see and hear so much evil every day, and we talk about all the evil things, and think about them, and we don’t spend enough time in the precious Word of God; in the Words of Jesus, doing them; thinking on them; speaking of them, one to another, when we sit down; when we rise up, and when we go in the way. When we, as a church, leave our first love, if we do not repent and turn back to Jesus, He removes our candlestick. The light is taken out of our fellowship, and we begin to walk in more and more darkness; more and more worldliness and sin, until we are not a true church anymore. The seven golden candlesticks are the seven churches. When Jesus removes the candlestick, it is no longer a church; just a religious gathering. How many dead religious gatherings do we have in the Earth? We are no longer a habitation of God; a holy temple in the Lord. This is happening today to many churches. It is called the great falling away.

Let’s turn to 2 Th 2:1, Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 

Things are so bad now in many, many churches, that if we do not repent, with all our hearts, and begin to cry out to God for deliverance and cleansing, and return to Him; to our first love, there is a great danger that many will be swept away when the man of sin is revealed and begins to operate in this world. He is going to be operating in all the power of Satan; in great deception and power. As we just read, if we don’t receive the love of the truth; if we don’t return to our first love for Jesus and for His Word, God Himself is going to send us strong delusion, that we might believe the lie: that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. We must repent now!, and return to our first love. The time is now! Don’t believe the lie that Jesus is coming for His Church before this happens. Read the Words of Jesus in Mat 24  and believe them: Mat 24:15, Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened. 

Can you see: the elect are in the great tribulation? Read Daniel, chapters 9-12, and believe it. Repent for believing wicked lies, and believe the truth; love the truth. Turn back to your first love! Fall on your face and repent of the hardness of your heart, and cry out to God to pour out His love in your heart by His Spirit, Amen! Believe what is written in the Word of God over what any preacher has ever spoken! His Word, God’s Word, is the truth! And the truth will set you free!, if you will continue with Jesus and with the Holy Spirit teaching you and leading you in doing it.  Will you repent? Or will you continue to harden your heart?  Remember, Jesus said, Unless we humble ourselves and become as little children, we will in no way enter the Kingdom of Heaven. He that shall endure in love unto the end, the same shall be saved. 

Hos 10:12, Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and rains righteousness on you. You have plowed wickedness; You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your own way; in the multitude of your mighty men. This is the church today. We trust in our own way; we trust in our mighty men: our strong preachers. We must overcome to return to our first love; to do the first works. We have trusted in our own way and in strong men, and we have forsaken our first love: our love for Jesus, and for the Father. 

Father, I pray, in Jesus’ name, that you would break hearts; that you would open hearts; that you would remind us; that you would help us to remember our first love, that we would humble ourselves and repent and return unto you Lord with all our hearts. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. My children, hearken to My servant Rob this day, for I have sent him to you with My Words in his mouth: I love you! I love you! I proved My love for you when I gave My Son Jesus to suffer so greatly and die a brutal death upon the Cross. I gave Him for you; for your sins, so that you could fellowship with Me forever in My Kingdom; so that you could be made clean, holy, and righteous before Me, through faith in His sacrifice; in His shed Blood. Return to Me! Return to your first love! Return to Me with all your heart, and I will receive you, says the Lord.

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

 He Shall Bear The Glory

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, in Jesus’ name, we thank you; we bless your holy name, Father; we thank you for this program this morning. I pray that you would help all of us to understand what you are saying by your Holy Spirit through me, Amen. 

Today’s program is called, He Shall Bear The Glory. You cannot bear it! Let’s turn to Zec 6:12, Then speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: Behold, the Man whose name is the Branch! From His place He shall branch out, and He shall build the Temple of the Lord; Yes, He shall build the Temple of the Lord. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His throne; so He shall be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. He shall bear the glory. Let’s turn to Acts 3:1, Now Peter and John went up together to the Temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the Temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the Temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, asked for alms. And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, Look at us. So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the Temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly amazed. So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 

Let’s turn to 1 Cor 3:1, And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 

Let’s turn to Isa 14:12, How you are fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into Heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, on the farthest sides of the north; 

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. It is pride!, the same pride that the devil had when he said, I will be like the Most High. It is pride for any one of us to try to receive the glory that only belongs to Jesus; to take on the glory that is only His. Satan has been doing this for centuries with men whom God uses: they begin to get lifted up in their heart, and they start to take on the glory that belongs only to Jesus, and they fall. No man can bear that glory. It belongs only to Jesus because He is the only one who went to the Cross and died for our sins. Because He humbled Himself to the death of the Cross, The Father has given Him the name above every name: Php 2:3, Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. How many of us are doing that?  Seriously, how many of us consider that our brother or our sister is better than ourself? Verse 4, Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the Cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in Heaven, and of those on Earth, and of those under the Earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. You didn’t go to the Cross and bear the sins of the whole world. The glory belongs to Jesus. 

The Holy Spirit always glorifies Him. John 16: in verse 13 Jesus said, However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 

All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.  If any man is ministering by the Holy Spirit, he will always glorify Jesus, not himself, just as Peter glorified Jesus and His holy name, when the people were looking to Him and John as though they of themselves had anything to do with the healing of that lame man.  1 Pet 4:11, Peter said, If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Notice: the glory belongs to Jesus forever! Hallelujah! You know, the Apostle Paul said that he was nothing. If the Apostle Paul was nothing, then who are we?

1 Pet 5:1, The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away. Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 

casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.  You have to resist Satan when he tempts you, through flatteries or the honor of men, to exalt yourself and take on some of the glory that belongs only to Jesus. If you will truly humble yourself and honor God in your life, and in your ministry, He will honor you in due season. Jesus said, How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only.

Col 1:15, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him (Jesus) all things were created that are in Heaven and that are on Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.  No man may have the preeminence! It belongs to Jesus! Verse 19, For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on Earth or things in Heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. 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. You have to humble yourself; then God will exalt you, according to your ability and according to your service which He has ordained for you. Always give Jesus the glory due unto His name. Never let men glorify you, or exalt you! If you will truly humble yourself, and if you will truly honor God in your life, He will honor you.  Remember: it was because Jesus humbled Himself, though He was the Son of God, to the death of the Cross, that His Father exalted Him. 1 Ti 1:17, Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. 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.

 Zeal For Your House

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! We thank you for this day; we praise your holy name Father; we thank you for this program, Amen! Thank you Lord. I just ask you to open our hearts and our minds; to speak to our hearts by your Holy Spirit the truth of your Word. Amen Father, in Jesus’ name. 

Today’s program is called, Zeal For Your House. Let’s turn to John 2:13, Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. 

And He said to those who sold doves, Take these things away! Do not make My Father's House a house of merchandise! Then His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for Your House has eaten Me up.  That was written in Psalm 69. Verse 8, I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children; because zeal for Your House has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on Me. Verse 19, You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adversaries are all before You. Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They also gave Me gall for My food, and for My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink. Clearly King David was writing by the Holy Spirit about Jesus. This is Jesus! Is Jesus in you? 

2 Cor 13:5,...Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?... Do you not share His zeal for His Father’s House? John 2:16, Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s House a house of merchandise! Mark 11:17,...Is it not written, My House shall be called of all nations a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves! King David had that zeal. He wrote Psalm 69; he also wrote Psalm 132. He desired with all his heart to build a glorious Temple; a holy Habitation for the Lord. Psalm 132:1, Lord, remember David and all his afflictions; how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: 

Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house, or go up to the comfort of my bed; I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the Lord, a Habitation for the Mighty One of Jacob.

Josiah had great zeal for the Lord God of Israel, and for His House. 2 Kings 22:1, Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Now it came to pass, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the scribe, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the Lord, saying: Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people. And let them deliver it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the overseers in the house of the Lord; let them give it to those who are in the house of the Lord doing the work, to repair the damages of the house—to carpenters and builders and masons—and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. However there need be no accounting made with them of the money delivered into their hand, because they deal faithfully. Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. So Shaphan the scribe went to the king, bringing the king word, saying, Your servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of those who do the work, who oversee the house of the Lord. Then Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, that he tore his clothes. Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Michaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying, Go, inquire of the Lord for me, for the people and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us. So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter.) And they spoke with her. Then she said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man who sent you to Me, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read—because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath shall be aroused against this place and shall not be quenched. But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, in this manner you shall speak to him, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Concerning the words which you have heard—because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you, says the Lord. Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place. So they brought back word to the king. 

2 Ki 23:1, Now the king sent them to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him. The king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord. Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant. And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. And he brought out the wooden image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people. Then he tore down the ritual booths of the sodomites that were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image. Verse 12, The altars that were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron. Verse 24, Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the House of the Lord. Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise like him.  As I said, Josiah had a great zeal for the Lord God of Israel, and for His House. And he cleansed the Temple; he purged Judah, of all idols; of all iniquity. 

1 Pet 2:1,  Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as lively stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Eph 2:19, Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a Habitation of God in the Spirit. 

Saints! Jesus is building a holy Temple: a holy Habitation of God His Father. He is purifying those of us who are willing; those of us who love the truth of His Word; who love Him and the Father with all our hearts, and He is building us together a glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing.  He is zealous for His Father’s House. Are you? Do you have enough zeal to put away and destroy every idol and every defiling thing out of your life? Do you seek to purify and cleanse His Temple, which Temple you are, that He would be pleased to inhabit it and manifest His glory in you and through you, and that you may become a part of His royal priesthood; His holy nation; His own special people, that you might show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light? The churches today, in many cases, have become dens of thieves; houses of merchandise. Does this concern you at all? Do you have that desire for God the Father to have a place with His people where we are walking in holiness and offering Him acceptable spiritual sacrifices, that He might inhabit our praises, and we might fellowship together with Him and with His Son and with one another in the truth; in the light, and in the Holy Spirit? Glory! Have you ever been to such a place? Can there be such a place on the Earth? I believe it is possible. All things are possible if we can believe. Have you ever truly been in His presence? In His presence is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore. 

Isa 57:15, For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Draw near to Him with all humility and singleness of heart, and He will draw near to 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.