Repent and Believe the Gospel!



REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL!
Jesus said,"The time is fullfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe the Gospel"
The Gospel is that the Word of God became a man; Jesus, the only begotten of the Father, the Son of God, full of grace and truth, and lived in this world with every temptation that you and I face, and yet He never sinned and He gave himself to die on the cross and shed His blood for our sins. God made Him who knew no sin to become sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. He was buried in a tomb, and on the third day the Father raised Him from the dead. He was seen of above 500 witnesses after He arose and He ascended to the right hand of the Father in heaven. He is there right now, alive, making intercession on our behalf to the Father. He is coming again with all the saints and all the angels in great power and glory and all who live and believe in him will be united with him and thus will we ever be with the Lord. I urge you to seek Him now, during this time while the long suffering of God is waiting, for the Day of the Lord is coming soon. He loves you and He will save you to the utter most if you will put your trust in Him.

Saturday, August 26, 2023

 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.


Saturday, August 19, 2023

 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. 


Sunday, August 13, 2023

 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.


Sunday, August 6, 2023

 God Is A Jealous God


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 program. We bless your holy name. Thank you Father. 

I pray that you would give us ears to hear and hearts to receive what You are saying by Your Holy Spirit through me today. Thank you Lord. This program is called, God Is A Jealous God. 


Let’s turn to Exo 20:2-6, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Let’s turn to Deu 6:4&5, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Verse 14, You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you, lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the Earth.

Mark 12:28-34, And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. 

And the scribe said unto Him, Well, Master, you have said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but He: And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said unto him, You are not far from the Kingdom of God. 


Let’s turn to John 14:15-24, If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My Words; and the Word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me. 


Ok, let’s turn to John, chapter 17, this is when Jesus was praying to the Father, shortly before He was crucified, starting in verse 1, Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and 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 go to verse 20, I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. I want to repeat that verse, verse 23, I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. 

Verse 26,  And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. We see here, in John 17, in Jesus’ prayer to the Father, how much the Father loves us; how much Jesus loves us; how much Jesus loves His Father. And their desire is for us to be one in them, and them in us.


In Revelation 2 Jesus was speaking to the Churches, and in verse 12 He said, And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword: I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth. Let’s go to Numbers 25 and read about what Jesus was talking about. Verse 1, And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. And those that died in the plague were twenty four thousand. And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. 


Mal 3:1-6, Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like launderers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, as in former years. 

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away a stranger—because they do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts. For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. Verse 16, Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name. They shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. Then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him. Chapter 4, verse 1, For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, that will leave them neither root nor branch. But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; and you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves. You shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this, says the Lord of hosts. 


God has not changed. He is a jealous God. His wrath will wax hot against those that turn away from Him; from loving Him with all their heart and all their soul, to go after the lust of their heart to serve devils, and to partake of the table of devils. You cannot partake of the Lord’s table and the table of devils. You cannot steal and commit adultery and go into the Lord’s house and raise your hands to worship Him. It is an abomination to Him; a stench in His nostrils. He is longsuffering; not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day will come, just as Jesus said, in Revelation 2 & 3, when He will render to every man according to his works. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. He is a jealous husband with His Bride, the Bride of Christ. He purchased her and washed her with His own Blood, to purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. Shall we continue in sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? God forbid! Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey? After He has loved you so much, that He gave His beloved Son for you upon the Cross to die for you and save you from all your destructions, will you go after another God? Will you serve another God? Will you receive another gospel; another spirit, and think that it will go well with you? Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. But, blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is 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.