Servants To Whom You Obey

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

Thank you Lord! We praise you Lord! We praise your holy name, Father; we bless your holy name. Thank you for this program Father: Servants To Whom You Obey. Let’s turn to Rom 2:1, Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things, referring to Rom 1: speaking about various kinds of sin. And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, notice: the day of wrath, it’s coming, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each one according to his deeds: that includes all of you Christians who are reading this; all of us; all the Christians; all the sinners; every human being who's ever lived: each one, according to his deeds; that is what is written; anything else is a lie; eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,  indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone, that’s everyone, who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. The Scripture says that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, Amen, but that all should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. Rom 3:21, But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Praise God. John the Baptist said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Romans 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. 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. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 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 servants to obey, you are that one's servants 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. In the King James Version it says, servants of righteousness, but slaves is a better word. 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: holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 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. Verse 18, And having been set free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. Are you a servant of sin? Or are you a servant of righteousness? Are you serving sin? Or are you serving righteousness? In John 8:34, Jesus said, Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin, or practices sin, is a servant of sin. If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. He said there in John 8:31, If you continue in My Word you will be My disciples indeed, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Right! The Son will set you free if you will continue in His Word!; if you will continue in Him!

Eph 2:1, 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, 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, Hallelujah!,  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, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. What kind of works are you walking in? If you are a servant of righteousness, then you will be doing righteous works. What are righteous works? Remember, Jesus said, Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, is going into the Kingdom of God, but they that do the will of My Father in Heaven. Many shall say to Me, in that day, Jesus said, Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in your name? And then I will say to them, I never knew you, depart from Me, you that work iniquity. Therefore, He said, whosoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man that built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. The Scripture says, They that are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. Jesus said that they that do the will of My Father are going into the Kingdom of God; they that keep My sayings will not be moved; they will be able to stand when the storms come. Jesus said, My sheep hear My voice, and they follow Me. He said to His disciples, When I go to the Father, I’m not going to leave you alone; I’m going to send another Comforter, that He will be with you forever, and He will guide you into all truth. On the day of Pentecost He sent the Holy Spirit, and He was poured out upon the disciples, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. They began to be led by Him, and He began to work in them and through them. So it should be for every person who believes in Jesus. We must be filled with the Holy Spirit, so we can be led by Him every day to follow Jesus, to do the Father’s will. Then the works that we do will truly be good works, and we will be rewarded accordingly at the final judgment. If we do works that we think are good, or that someone else says are good works, we may find out some day that they were not what the Father willed for us, and they were done of our own flesh: works of iniquity. They will be consumed in the fire that is going to try all of our works. But there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. The righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. If we will be filled with the Holy Spirit and yield to Him to do what He is leading us to do, we will be doing good works; we will be servants of righteousness. Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. Hearken unto My Words. I am with you: those of you who have a willing heart to do good; to do righteous works, I am with you. Hearken unto My Words; seek My face; seek Me with all your heart. I am with you unto the end.  Obey My voice; yield to My Holy Spirit and follow Me. Then you will be doing good works, 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.  

 The Grace Of God Is Teaching Us

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 Father; we praise your holy name! Thank you Lord; we bless your holy name! Thank you Father for this day. Thank you Father for your love, your mercy, your longsuffering; thank you Father for your grace, Amen. Today’s program is called, The Grace Of God Is Teaching Us. Let’s turn to Titus 2:11, For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. We see right here that the grace of God is teaching us. Let’s go to 1 Peter 1:13,  Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart…

Let’s turn to Php 3:7, The Apostle Paul wrote, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. The grace of God has appeared to make us righteous before God. God made Him who knew no sin to be made sin on our behalf, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him, not to excuse our sins, but to put them away. In Titus chapter 2 we read, …denying ungodliness and worldly lusts.. What are some examples of worldly lusts?: the lust for sex, the lust for money, the lust for the praise and honor of men, the lust for power, the lust for houses, cars, trucks, etc. Are these things in your life? Or are you denying them? Examples of ungodliness: the works of the flesh: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, or wantonness; idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, wrath, strife, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like, and the Apostle Paul said, 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. In Titus 2 we read that we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present world: soberly means, with sound mind; moderately. Righteously: the Apostle John said, Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous: the will of the Father; the Word of God; keeping Jesus’ Words. Godly: what is God like? When the Lord passed before Moses in Exo 34:6&7, He said of Himself, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty. This is what it means to live Godly: it means to show mercy; it means to be gracious; to be longsuffering; to have goodness; to have truth, Amen; to turn from iniquity; to turn from transgressions; to repent of your sins; to be forgiven; to walk in forgiveness, and righteousness; to forgive: if you have anything against anyone, forgive them. That’s what it means to live godly, including the fruit of the Holy Spirit manifested in our lives: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, the fruit of the Spirit. The first thing is love. The most important thing is love. Beloved if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. The Apostle Paul said, If I have all understanding; all knowledge; all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but I don’t have love, I am nothing! If I give all my goods to feed the poor, but don’t have love, I am nothing. Love covers a multitude of sins. So walking in love, truly walking in love: love does no ill to his neighbor, is walking godly; walking righteously. 

Jesus said, Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. As we continue in Jesus’ yoke, and learn more and more of Him, we shall be conformed more and more to His image: more and more like Him. If we will seek after righteousness, we shall be filled. As we deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and follow Jesus, continuing in His Word, crucified with Him and raised with Him and seated in Him at the right hand of the Father in Heaven, far above all principality, power and might, and every name that is named, being set free more and more in the truth of His Word, putting to death the deeds of our flesh through the Holy Spirit, we will be living more and more soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, and we will be looking more and more for that blessed hope!: the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. We will be doing more and more good works, according to the will of the Father and the leading of the Holy Spirit.  

As Paul said in Php 3:8,  Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 

if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 

Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.  Are you eagerly waiting for Jesus?! Are you looking for Him?  Are you preparing to meet Him? Are you purifying yourself? The Apostle John said, If any man has this hope in him, let him purify himself even as He is pure. Peter said, …purify your souls by obeying the truth through the Spirit. If we are to attain to the resurrection from the dead and eternity with Jesus, we must be thus minded. Many do not walk this way. We have to walk this out ourselves with Jesus. No one can do it for us: no preacher, no teacher, no man or woman of God. We have to stay in Jesus’ yoke, walking with Him,  following Him unto the end of our days, faithful to Him unto death, remembering His death; His sacrifice for us; His love for us, and His resurrection and victory over death, Hell, and the grave! Hallelujah! 

Heb 4:14,  Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. You say, I can’t do this! I’m too weak! No! Paul said, When I am weak, then I am strong. Why? Because Jesus told him, My grace is sufficient for you; My strength is made perfect in weakness. He is our strength! He will strengthen you, if you will come to Him, in your time of temptation, and ask for His grace. Amen, thank you Lord! Amen, Father!

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty! Those of you who are listening to My servant Rob this day speak of My grace, hearken unto these words: My grace is sufficient for you. I love you. If you are willing, I will help you. If you will call upon Me, you will find grace in your time of temptation. Call upon Me; I will help you to overcome. I already made the way for you through My death, burial, and resurrection. I am with you, says the Lord. Come unto Me; call upon My name and see My salvation, 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.

 A Broken And A Contrite Heart

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.

Amen! Father in Heaven, we thank you for this day; we thank you for this message that you have given me. Thank you Lord! Praise God! We pray that you would bless every person reading; that you would truly open hearts. Give us ears to hear and hearts to receive what you are saying by your Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ name. Thank you Father, Amen. Today’s program is called, A Broken And A Contrite Heart. Let’s turn to 2 Sam 11:1. Before I go any further with this, I just want to remind us that King David was a man after God’s own heart. He loved God; he served God; he loved God with all his heart, and yet this happened in his life. It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. 

And the woman conceived; so she sent and told David, and said, I am with child. 

Then David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered. And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet. So Uriah departed from the king's house, and a gift of food from the king followed him. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. So when they told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Did you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house? And Uriah said to David, The Ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go to my house to eat and drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah, Wait here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die. So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men. Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also. Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war, and charged the messenger, saying, When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king, if it happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you: Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?—then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him. And the messenger said to David, Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field; then we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate. 

The archers shot from the wall at your servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. Then David said to the messenger, Thus you shall say to Joab: Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it. So encourage him. We see very clearly right here that David had hardened his heart. When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

2Sa 12:1, Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him: There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him. And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him. So David's anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity. 

Then Nathan said to David, You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more! Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 

For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun. So David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die. 

Let’s turn to Psalm 51. David wrote this psalm at this time in his life. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise... Contrite means, deeply affected with grief and sorrow.  In verse 4, David said, Against you and you only, have I sinned and done this evil in your sight. In Psalm 38:18, David wrote, I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. That is godly sorrow. Psalm 32: David said, I acknowledge my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 

Let’s turn to 2 Cor 6:17, Wherefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 2 Cor 7:1, Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Open your hearts to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one. I do not say this to condemn; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were troubled on every side. Outside were conflicts, inside were fears. Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; (In the King James Version it says, not to be repented of) but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter. In 1 John 1:9, the Apostle John said, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. When David sinned with Bathsheba he hardened his heart against God, and against Bathsheba and Uriah, even to the point of having Uriah killed with the sword of the children of Ammon. God, in His great love, sent Nathan the prophet to rebuke him and to chasten him and to show him his sin. Then David was sorry for his sin, and he acknowledged his sin to God. He truly had a broken and a contrite spirit before Him, and God accepted his repentance: he did not die. But God still pronounced judgment upon him. Nevertheless, godly sorrow works repentance not to be repented of. David truly repented and he turned from his sin, and he never went back to it again. He went on to serve God with all his heart, all the rest of his life. 

Are you hardening your heart? Have you hardened your heart to believe everything is ok, when you know in your heart of hearts that you have sinned against God and not repented? Are you comforting yourself with the false doctrines and lies that false preachers are telling you: Satan’s ministers; ravenous wolves, who are devouring you, preying on your guilty conscience, to make merchandise of you; promising you liberty while they themselves are the slaves of corruption? Turn from these men! Turn from these lies! Come clean before your God. Come boldly before Him, confessing your sins; turn to Him with all your heart, and be washed in the Blood of the Lamb! His mercies are great, and if you will sincerely repent and acknowledge your sin, He will abundantly pardon. Don’t think He won’t blot out your name from the Lamb’s Book of Life if you won’t repent; if you keep hardening your heart.  Jesus said that in that day there is going to be weeping and gnashing of teeth, but a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 

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. 

 By Your Words

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 Father for this program. Thank you for every person reading this: I ask you to bless them. I ask you to give us ears to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Today’s program is called, By Your Words. Let’s turn to Mat 12:33-37, Jesus said, Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Just let that sink in; just consider those Words that Jesus said. Let’s turn to James 3:1-18, My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, and reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both saltwater and fresh. Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Chapter 4, verses 4-12, Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.  Therefore submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? 

Here is the answer: All of us have some evil in our hearts. Our hearts have been corrupted by the evil and the lust of this world. The scripture says, The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. The answer, as James says, is to humble ourselves before God. Don’t run from Him. He is not looking to condemn you. He sent His Son Jesus into the world to save sinners from their sins. Draw near to Him and confess your sins to Him; the wickedness of your heart. Humble yourself before Him and be honest and ask Him to grant you His grace that your heart may be changed, and He will lift you up! He promised that if we will seek after righteousness, we shall be filled. He promised that if we will seek Him and His Kingdom first, He will add to us everything we need. We don’t need to be stressed by the cares of this life. He will give us what we need. He knows what we need. We don’t need anything else. We need righteousness; we need peace, and we need joy. Phil 4:6&7, Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

Let’s turn to Eph 5:17-21, Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God. Verses 25-27, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. Jesus said, If you continue in My Word, you will be My disciples indeed, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. He said, Truly, truly I say to you, whoever commits sin (or practices sin), is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed! Jesus came to take away our sins and to purify us to become His spotless bride. But we have to do something: We have to continue in His Word, with the Holy Spirit teaching us; revealing His Word to us; leading us in doing it, and letting His Word wash us and cleanse us, with all humbleness of mind and heart, drawing near to Him; confessing our sins, and believing His sacrifice for us on the Cross; faith in His Blood washing us white as snow. If your tree is corrupt, and you want to change, if you will do this, God can make it good, and cause you to bring forth good fruit and glorify Him. But you have to have a willing heart. If you are stiff-necked and proud, and will not humble yourself, you won’t find His grace, and you will continue as a corrupt tree. Jesus said, You will not come to Me that you might have life. 

Let’s go to Mat 15:8, Jesus said, These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, Hear and understand: Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man. Verse 15, Then Peter answered and said to Him, Explain this parable to us. So Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding? Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man. 

Friend, Jesus loved you, and gave Himself on the Cross for you to wash you from your sins in His own Blood. He gave His life for you. Will you love Him? Will you give your heart to Him, and let Him walk you in righteous pathways to break it and purify it and change you to be like Him?, that He might bless you in turning you from your iniquities, and that you might bless others, as the Holy Spirit pours out His love through you? As your heart changes, so will your words change. His Word will be in your mouth, and His Spirit will be with you to bless others and do them good. And you will give praise and thanksgiving to the Father for all His goodness to you. You will honor Him, and He will honor you. Out of the abundance of your heart your mouth will speak, and by your words you shall be justified, or by your words you shall be condemned. So guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. If you will not guard your heart from the evil things of this wicked generation, your heart will be defiled. If you entertain evil, it will move into your heart and begin to come out of your mouth and defile you. 

But if you will repent and turn from the evil and seek the Lord and His Kingdom, continuing in His Word, you will be cleansed more and more, and more and more good will be coming out of your mouth. The Word of God in your heart and in your mouth will bless you and your family and the people in your life, and you will be a blessing. Also, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. As you continue in the Word of God, faith will come into your heart and out of your mouth, and good things will happen in your life and in the lives of others. God will hear your prayers, and He will answer. 

Remember Jesus said that we will all give account for every idle word that we have spoken on the day of judgment. We need to do something about our words now! Don’t ignore what Jesus said. He spoke the truth. Continue in His Word; let His Word wash you and cleanse you and purge you; let the Holy Spirit teach you His Word and reveal His Word to you, and lead you in doing it, and you will be cleansed more and more. 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. Consider the words of My servant Rob this day that I have given him to speak to you to warn you about your words; about your heart. Turn to Me! Come to Me! Draw near to Me, and I will draw near to you, and you will be changed, as you draw near to Me with all your heart. If you will humble yourself and seek My face, and turn from your wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and I will cleanse you and wash you and purge you and sanctify you, and you will be a blessing; you will inherit a blessing! 

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.