Nebuchadnezzar
challenging the faith of the three Hebrew companions
Today,
the reply is on the many demonstrations of divine power and purpose
provided by divinity using “weak” Christian believers and sinners
on the earth. To accomplish salvation a believer must walk in the
divine strength demonstrated by Christ, rather than his own human
knowledge and willpower. Christian believers are endowed with holy
boldness and spirit power that permits them to exist as a conquering
army. To fulfill the eternal purpose of the Creator, operations of
the inborn spirit, the flesh, and the mind may not dominate human
awareness and self-will (willpower). GOD appears to those on the
earth primarily through operations of spirit character, process and
substance. It is written: 2nd
Corinthians 4: 5-11, King James Version (KJV): 5 For we preach not
ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for
Jesus’
sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8 We
are
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we
are perplexed, but not in
despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord
Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
body. 11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for
Jesus’
sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
mortal flesh. The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” Religion &
Spirituality who uses the ID “shoeshopper3” (Level 3 with 1,242
points) posted the following:
Why
do you have to become wreak in order to be a Christian, and why does
the personality become so boring?
Updated
24 mins ago: Weak.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the
people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside
the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the
north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And the
LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are
with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into
their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine
own hand hath saved me. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of
the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him
return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the
people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. And
the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are
yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try
them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto
thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of
whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same
shall not go. So he brought down the people unto the water: and the
LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of
the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by
himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to
their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people
bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the LORD
said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save
you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the
other people go every man unto his place. (Judges 7: 1-7,
KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Resurrection Of Christ (04/16/2020); New Birth By
Resurrection (09/27/2019); Flesh As Divine Vessels? (01/14/2018);
Testing and Divine Process (06/12/2017); On Weakness? (07/03/2014);
The Spirit is Willing (10/20/2012); Spirit Matter (10/21/2012)
“shoeshopper3”,
the work of a Christian is never showing independence or
self-promotion so much as it is the demonstration of interdependence,
obedience, respect, and reverence. Mature Christian believers agree
that necessary aspects for a full relationship between divinity and
the created beings and living creatures on the earth require that the
living acknowledge inseparable sacred properties and aspects of
consecrated expression such as covenant law, divine prerogative,
eternal purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD. The character,
process, and substance of divine fullness (we also say, Deity; the
Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) is active presence
appearing as “spirit” (i.e., breath; life essence;
utterance; word). To exist having discrete and separate being, the
living must receive fresh endowments of spirit substance from the
makeup of GOD that include balance, commitment, faith, holiness,
longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood,
righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Through the elements
regarded by some as “weakness” (e.g., forgiveness, gratitude,
humility, mercy, nonviolence, patience, restraint) the living become
capable of acceptable responses to divine dominion, glory, grace,
judgment, immortality, invisibility, perfection, and purity. Rather
than continue focused by pursuits in the world system for human
survival that depends on the finite tools of carnal reason,
intellect, logic, and science, Christian choose to undergo operations
by the imparted, indwelling Spirit from GOD that transform ones
nature. As vessels of divine substance and the offspring of GOD upon
the earth, believers all are to display the image of GOD, and are to
resemble, reflect, and reveal the character and likeness of Jesus
Christ. Consider again the instruction to sinners who turn to GOD
through the ministry of Jesus that uses language from the Bible, and
a selection from the music prophesies of Steve Amerson:
(1.)
Judges 6: 13-16, King James Version (KJV): 13 And Gideon said unto
him, Oh my LORD, if the LORD
be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his
miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD
bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath
forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14
And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in
this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the
Midianites: have not I sent thee? 15 And he said unto him, Oh my
LORD, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my
family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be
with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
(2.)
Daniel 3: 14-17, KJV: 14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them,
Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve
my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? 15 Now if
ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute,
harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye
fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but
if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a
burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver
you out of my hands? 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered
and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to
answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we
serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he
will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
(3.)
2nd Corinthians 12: 6-10, KJV: 6 For though I would
desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth:
but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that
which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of
the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might
depart from me. 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for
thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ’s sake:
for when I am weak, then am I strong.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVM8eD-4pag.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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