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 Abide In Him

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Lord! We give you thanks right now in Jesus’ name, Father, for this program that you’ve given me for your people. I pray that you would help us to have ears to hear and hearts to receive what the Holy Spirit is saying. Thank you Father; we bless your holy name.

Today’s program is called, Abide in Him. Let’s turn to 1 John 1:1, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. 1 John 2:1, My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 

How did Jesus walk? He said, I only do what I see My Father doing and I only say what I hear My Father saying. How did He do that? Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit when He was baptized by John The Baptist in the Jordan River, and He was led thereafter by the Holy Spirit, continuing in prayer and obedience to His Father: first, to overcome the devil in the wilderness, being tempted by him 40 days, fasting and speaking the Word of God to him by the power of the Holy Spirit. He said, It is written… He also overcame the world and His own flesh as He continued in the Spirit and in prayer, doing His Father’s will, culminating in the Garden of Gethsemane, when He wrestled and travailed in prayer, and overcame to take the cup from His Father’s hand and go to the Cross, to suffer so greatly for us; to deliver us from sin and death and the power of the devil. He said, If any man will be My disciple, he must deny himself daily, and take up his cross and follow Me. Every day we must lay down our own desires and plans; our own will, and take up our cross to do the will of our Father, following Jesus in the fellowship of His sufferings. If we truly follow Jesus, we will suffer, according to the Father’s will, for our perfection; for our sanctification, at the hands of those who hate Him. He said, They hated me and they will also hate you; He said, They persecuted Me and they will persecute you. You have to trust Him with your life, and He will uphold you and preserve you. 

How did Jesus walk? He trusted completely in His Father, even unto the death of the Cross, believing that He would raise Him from the dead on the third day. If we will abide in Him, we must walk just as He walked. Heb 12:1, Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.

Let’s go to John 14:15, Jesus said, 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. These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

John 15:1, I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.   By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. John 16:33, These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 

As we continue in Jesus, the Holy Spirit will be teaching us and bringing Jesus’ Words to our remembrance. As we continue in His Words, we will know the truth, and He will set us free from sin, and the bondage and torment and tribulation it brings in our lives, and we will know His peace: the peace that passes all understanding. Jesus is the vine; we are the branches. We abide in him by keeping His Words as the Holy Spirit teaches us, and leads us in doing them, in love: loving Him and the Father; loving one another; loving even our enemies, and doing good unto those who hate us; forgiving everyone who sins against us. His Word will bring forth much good fruit in our lives as we abide in Him through the Holy Spirit. For without Him we can do nothing. And we will glorify our Father in Heaven. We must abide in Him! If we don’t abide in Him; if we don’t keep His Words, we will not abide in His love, and we will dry up and be withered, unable to bear fruit, and we will be cast into the fire and be burned. 

Are you abiding in Him? Does His Word abide in you? Are you continuing in His love? 

Jesus said, As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you, abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. When you are tempted not to obey Jesus’ commandments, here is what you do: 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. When you are being tempted not to obey Jesus’ commandments, if you are sincere; if you will love Him, and come boldly to Him and ask for grace, He will help you, and you will find His grace, and He will help you to keep His Words and abide in Him. 1 John 2:28, And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 

Psalm 72:17, His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things! And blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

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 Why The Holy Spirit Is Given

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father, in Jesus’ name; thank you for this day. Thank you for this program, Father, that you have given me by your Holy Spirit for your people. Thank you Father, praise God.

Today's program is called, Why The Holy Spirit Is Given. We’re going to go to John 16:7, Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. John 15:26, But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. John 14:26, But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 

Let’s go to John 8:31, Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered Him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, You will be made free? Jesus answered them, Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin (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. Rom 6:16, Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? Rom 7:6, But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 

Let’s go to Rom 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.   Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 

The Holy Spirit is not given so that you can be a super-spiritual person. He is given to lead you and to guide you into all truth. But you must yield to Him. He will lead you, in the time of trial and temptation, if you will yield to Him, to crucify your flesh, with the affections and lusts, and to keep the commandments of Jesus, the Word of God, in the situation. This is why He is given. The purpose of His gifts is the edification of the body of Christ, and to build yourself up on your most holy faith: faith in the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus, that you may overcome the flesh, the world and the devil; the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. You must overcome these things; you must be cleansed, delivered and sanctified, to become the person God created you to be; to fulfill His purpose in your life. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. 

All things decently and in order, not confusion and wickedness. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth. He will lead you into all truth as you continue steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine, not moved away from the hope of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit is truth and is no lie! The only way you can continue in His Word is with the Holy Spirit teaching you and guiding you. 1 John 2:27, But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing (the Holy Spirit) teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.  And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him. 

The Holy Spirit will lead you in prayer, in tongues and in your native language, what you need to pray. He knows what is coming; He knows what you need; He knows where you need to be; He will guide you in the scriptures, and as you yield to Him, He will enable you to overcome, reaching forward to that which is before; building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping yourself in the love of God. If you love Me, Jesus said, keep My Words. We must overcome sin, the flesh, and the devil, if we are going to be accepted of God. Don’t believe the false prophets that are everywhere, promising you liberty when they themselves are the slaves of corruption.  

Jesus said, in Mat 7, let’s go there, verse 21, Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!

We must believe the love that God has toward us and receive it into our hearts, as we believe the Gospel, believing and understanding how much He loves us, that He, the Father, would give His only begotten, beloved Son to suffer so much for us, to deliver us and save us from all the things that separate us from Him: the sin which so easily besets us, that we may be washed and cleansed through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus and His shed Blood, and enter into fellowship with Him and with His Son and with one another, as we walk in the light, confessing our sins, being forgiven, and forgiving and loving one another. It is a total abomination to teach that Jesus paid it all so that the sins in my life are covered, past, present, and future, and therefore sin is not imputed to me, because of what He did.  He suffered so much to take those sins away!, even the very conscience of sins, so that we could overcome, through repentance and faith toward Him, and walk in holiness, without spot! He is not coming back to this Earth to receive some whore for a wife, No! He is coming back for a spotless, holy, beautiful bride, who has been washed and purified; who loves Him and obeys Him with all her heart. Holiness, without which no man or woman will see the Lord! The Holy Spirit is holy, and He will make you holy, as you learn to yield to Him and follow Jesus, in the Word of God, doing the will of His Father. They that are led by the Spirit of God are the sons and daughters of God.

If you have been born from above; you have believed in Jesus, and confessed Him Lord of your life, you need to be baptized in water for the remission of your sins, and then you need to be baptized by Jesus in the Holy Spirit. Let’s go to Mat 3:11, John the Baptist said, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. You say you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, and you speak in tongues, and you have done all these things, well, are you denying yourself every day, as Jesus said, taking up your cross and following Him? Are you being broken of your self-will and rebellion, learning to yield to the Holy Spirit as He leads you in Jesus? Or, are you doing your own will every day, and asking God to bless you. Are you submitted, truly submitted in love, to your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as He leads you by His Holy Spirit to do the Father’s will? No, you cannot live after your flesh and go to Heaven because you have been born again. That is the lie! The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, and you must love the truth and obey it if you are going to be with Jesus in His Kingdom. Remember, we read in Rom 8:13, For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)

 Our Blessed Hope

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Today we’re going to talk about Our Blessed Hope. Let’s turn to Mat 24:1-4, Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age? And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you. I don’t have time to quote all of this, but Jesus went on to describe the different things that were going to happen before the end of the age, and in verses 29-35, He said, Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When it’s branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. Verses 40-44, Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.  Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Watch! Keep awake! Stay vigilant! We’re talking about Our Blessed Hope: the blessed hope of Jesus’ returning. He’s coming in the clouds. Amen. Thank you Lord. 

Let’s go to Col 1:21-23, And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel; what is the hope of the Gospel?: the blessed hope; which you heard, which was preached to every creature under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. Tit 2:11-14, 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. Amen. Jesus is purifying for Himself His own special people, Amen, and our blessed hope is that He will be coming in the clouds, and we will see Him; that we will be raised incorruptible and carried by the angels to meet Him in the air, and thus shall we ever be with the Lord. 

1 John 3:1-3, Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure: our blessed hope: we shall be like Him. Let’s turn to 1 Th 4:13-18, But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. Verse 13…. lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. We have this hope! Jesus is coming in the clouds, Amen! 

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! Oh death, where is your sting? Oh grave, 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. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!  In verses 42-44 of the same chapter we read, So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 

Let’s go to Jude 1:20&21, But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Keep yourselves in the love of God, praying in the Holy Spirit. In Mat 24, Jesus said that because iniquity shall abound in the last days, most people’s love will grow cold, but he that endures to the end shall be saved: he that shall keep himself, or herself, in the love of God until the end, praying in the Holy Spirit; building ourselves up on our most holy faith; continuing in the Word of God, (faith comes by hearing the Word of God), yielding to God; denying ourselves and taking up our cross, (whatever suffering He has ordained for us to purify us), dying daily to our fleshly desires and ambitions and yielding to the Holy Spirit to be led by Him to do our Father’s will; looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 

Let’s turn to Php 3. In chapter 3 the Apostle Paul listed his accomplishments in the flesh. In verses 7-14, he said, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, 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. Verses 10&11, 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, whatever it takes, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the Earth. We have to follow Paul’s exhortation and example in Php 3 if we are going to attain to the first resurrection. We have to press on: to count all things that we have achieved as nothing; as loss, that we may gain Christ. Paul said, in Gal 6:14, But God forbid that I should boast except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. If we have this hope in us, we should be purifying ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit. Don’t think that you can live in the flesh, pursuing the desires of your flesh and mind, and make it. There is a price to pay. You say, “Jesus paid the price!” Yes, Jesus paid it all, but you must meet His conditions to receive His promise. And you can, if you are willing. But if you love yourself and your pleasures; if you love this present world, you won’t make it. Php 3:20&21, For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  If you are eagerly waiting, you will be getting ready to meet Him: putting on your best clothes, so to speak, and purifying yourself as He is pure, because you want Him to receive you, 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. Php 4:1, Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved. Rev 1:7&8,  Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. 

Now let’s pray together:

Give us this hope, oh Lord God, and give us grace oh Lord, to purify ourselves as we eagerly wait for our Savior Jesus Christ. The work that you have begun in us Lord: complete it unto that day, that we may be found worthy to attain to that first resurrection; that we may meet you in the clouds and not be ashamed before you; that we may see your face, and that we may be with you and the Father and all the blessed saints of God forever in your glory, Amen. 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am coming, says the Lord. I am coming in the clouds with great glory; with all the Heavenly angels and all the host of Heaven, and all My saints are coming with Me, says the Lord. Are you getting ready?! Are you ready to meet Me? I’m coming, says the Lord Jesus: your Lord; your Savior. Get ready My children! Be prepared to meet Me! Be looking; be waiting for Me, for I am coming, says the Lord!

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)

Our Blessed Hope

 

 Down In The Mulligrubs

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes with Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2) 

Today’s program is called Down In The Mulligrubs. What is the mulligrubs? There’s an old expression: “Down in the mulligrubs”. Well I want to tell you today that’s where Satan wants you to remain. He wants to get you down in the mulligrubs, and he wants to keep you there. I looked it up in Webster’s, and it means despondent, or loss of hope, dejection, depression. That’s where Satan wants you. If you’re a believer in Jesus Christ, he wants to do everything he can to keep you in the mulligrubs. 

Let’s turn to Phillipians, chapter 1. The Apostle Paul said in verse 2, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Let’s turn to chapter 3, verse 7, 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. 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. 

Let’s turn to Jude 1:20&21,  But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Rom 8:31-39, What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord! Jesus loved us, and He washed us from our sins in his own Blood! He Himself bore our sorrows, our pains, our sicknesses, all of our torments; everything was laid on Him on the Cross, and He overcame it all when He rose from the dead! Hallelujah! Hallelujah to our God! We worship you Jesus! We worship you Father! We thank you for what you’ve accomplished through your death, your burial, and your resurrection, Lord! Hallelujah! Thank you Lord! Thank you Lord! Glory to God! 

Let’s turn to 1 Peter 1:3-9, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 

that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. Verses 13-23,  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, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever. OK, let’s go to Phil 4:4-7, Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 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. 

The mulligrubs: as I said earlier, that’s where Satan wants to keep us, with loss of hope and despondency. You go to bed rejoicing in the Word of God and his glorious promises, full of hope and faith and love. You wake up in the morning completely engulfed in thoughts about sins you committed and repented of 20 years ago. You are starting to feel guilty and despondent. What do you do? Get up off the bed, and go to your place of prayer. Read the Word of God out loud. Speak the things that the Lord has spoken; the things that the apostles and prophets wrote concerning you, and concerning the Lord Jesus. Believe those things and do them, forgetting those things that are behind. Reach forward unto those things that are before; building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. This is so important! The Holy Spirit will lead you forward in prayer as you pray in faith, believing what Jesus did for you on the Cross: that all your sins which you have confessed to Him have been washed in His precious Blood. If the Holy Spirit shows you a sin, confess it to the Father and believe 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Ask Him to completely cleanse you of all unrighteousness. If He shows you that you need to go to another person and make things right, don’t wait to do it, as soon as you can. Satan wants to get us under guilt, and keep us there, because when we are guilty our faith will not be working, and he can push us down into those mulligrubs where we can’t fulfill the will of God.  If you have confessed your sin to God, you are not guilty! If you truly repented from the heart, you are not guilty! If you have confessed your fault to your brother; if you have made amends with he or she, do not allow anyone to make you ashamed. Have faith in the sacrifice of Jesus! Believe in His precious Blood cleansing you of all sin and unrighteousness! Forget what lays behind and reach forward in prayer to that which is before, and press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus!

If Satan can’t get you under guilt, or keep you there, then he will bring up all kinds of cares, worries, or fears. Remember Phil 4:6! Speak it and do it! Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving; don’t forget, give thanks to God, right in the middle of your trial; don’t complain or murmur, let your requests be made known unto Him, and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus. Remember, God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love and of power and of a sound mind. Speak it and believe it and don’t yield to fear! Ask the Lord to deliver you from it. Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If you are in Jesus you don’t have to put up with any of these things, but you must read and speak and obey what is written to overcome Satan. Remember what Jesus said to him in his hour of temptation, He said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. He overcame Satan by speaking the Word of God to him by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Then, finally, stop spending hours and hours looking at, listening to, and meditating on all the evil things that are going on in the world, and begin to read the Bible more and more. Take more time for the Word of God, and meditate in the good things of God. Phil 4:8&9, Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you have learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. Those things that you have both learned and received and heard and seen in the Apostles’ doctrine, the New Testament, do; do those things, and the God of peace shall be with you.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)