SEEK JESUS:THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE BIBLE STUDY OCTOBER 30, 2013 LETS PRAY: DEAR PRECIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY LORD. HELP US TO LIVE OUR LIVES ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL FATHER. WE SUBMIT OUR SPIRIT, BODY AND SOUL TO YOU LORD.MAY WE BE WILLING VESSELS FOR YOU AND YOUR KINGDOM. WE HAVE EARS TO HEAR AND WE COME BEFORE YOU WITH TEACHABLE SPIRITS. IN JESUS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN! TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO REVELATION 21:1-8 CHAPTERS 21 AND 22 ARE THE FINAL TWO CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND PRESENTS THE FUTURE WHICH AWAITS EVERY BELIEVER OF ALL DISPENSATIONS AND THE AGES. REV. 21:1: AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY, AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA. VS. 2: AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. VS. 3: AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. VS. 4: AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES, AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN: FOR THE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY. THE PASSING AWAY OF THE FIRST HEAVEN AND EARTH OCCURS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. IN MATTHEW 24:35 JESUS SAID: HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY. IN REVELATION 21:1 IT MENTIONS THAT THE SEA WAS NO MORE. IN THIS NEW WORLD THE SEA IS ELIMINATED, POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF ITS CONNECTION WITH WICKEDNESS. ISAIAH 57:20 STATES: THE WICKED ARE LIKE THE TROUBLED SEA, WHEN IT CANNOT REST, WHOSE WATERS CAST UP MIRE AND DIRT. WE SEE HERE THAT GOD HAS SO STRUCTURED THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE THAT THERE WILL BE NO REAL PEACE FOR THOSE WHO LIVE WICKEDLY.THERE WILL BE NO INWARD PEACE AND NO OUTWARD PEACE FOR THE WICKED. AS LONG AS THEY SIN, THEIR LIVES WILL BE LIKE THE TROUBLED SEA, FULL OF MIRE AND DIRT. GOD IS OPPOSED TO THEM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE DESIRES THEY REPENT AND BE SAVED. ANOTHER REASON THE SEAS MAY BE ELIMINATED COULD BE THAT OCEANIC VEGETATION IS NO LONGER NECESSARY. THIS WORLD HAS NOW BEEN TRANSFORMED AND REDEEMED AND NOW IT IS WHERE CHRIST NOW LIVES WITH HIS PEOPLE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS WITH PERFECTION. TO ERASE ALL TRACES OF SIN, THERE WILL BE A DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH, STARS AND GALAXIES, HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL BE SHAKEN AND WILL VANISH LIKE SMOKE, THE STARS WILL BE DISSOLVED AND THE ELEMENTS DESTROYED. THE NEW EARTH WILL THEN BECOME THE DWELLING PLACE OF BOTH HUMANS AND GOD ALL THOSE WHO ARE REDEEMED WILL POSSESS BODIES LIKE CHRISTS RESURRECTED BODY, ONE THAT IS REAL, VISIBLE AND TANGIBLE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS A BODY THAT IS INCORRUPTIBLE AND IMMORTAL! VERSES 2 AND 3: TWO JERUSALEMS ARE MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE. ONE IS THE EARTHLY HOME OF THE BELIEVERS DURING THE MILLINNIAL PERIOD. THE OTHER IS A HEAVENLY NEW JERUSALEM, OR CELESTIAL CITY. THE NEW JERUSALEM IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE ONE CHRIST HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS, FOR JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14:2 IN MY FATHERS HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS, IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. THIS PHRASE CLEARLY REFERS TO HEAVEN, AS JESUS IS GOING THERE (AFTER HIS DEATH, RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION) TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR US. GOD HAS A HOME WHERE THERE ARE MANY ROOMS AND TO WHICH THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD NOW ON EARTH WILL BE TRANSFERRED; HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY. BY THE VERSES WE JUST READ HERE IT IS THE NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN.THE NEW JERUSALEM ALREADY EXISTS IN HEAVEN, IT WILL SOON COME TO EARTH AS THE CITY OF GOD FOR WHICH ABRAHAM AND ALL OF GODS FAITHFUL WAITED, AND OF WHICH GOD IS ARCHITECT AND THE BUILDER OF. THE NEW EARTH WILL BECOME THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD, AND HE WILL REMAIN WITH HIS PEOPLE FOREVER. IN REV. 21:24 IT STATES: AND THE NATIONS OF THEM WHICH ARE SAVED SHALL WALK IN THE LIGHT OF IT: AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH DO BRING THEIR GLORY AND HONOUR INTO IT. THEY THAT LIVE ON THE EARTH,LIVE IN AND UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE HOLY CITY. BUT THE GREATEST AND BEST THING ABOUT THIS ENTIRE SCENE IS THAT GOD DWELLS IN THE MIDST OF HIS PEOPLE; FOR A VOICE CRIES: BEHOLD THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH THEM, AND WILL DWELL WITHIN THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. VERSE 4 TELLS US THAT THERE SHALL BE NO PAIN, SORROW, CRYING AND DEATH. THEY ARE ELIMINATED FOREVER IN THIS LAND OF ETERNAL LIFE! THE EFFECTS OF SIN ARE GONE FOREVER, FOR THE EVIL THINGS OF THE FIRST HEAVEN AND EARTH HAVE COMPLETELY PASSED AWAY. NEVER AGAIN WILL A LOVED ONE DIE,NO DEATH, NO MORE FUNERALS,NO MORE SORROW. THE LAST ENEMY HAS BEEN DESTROYED. EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH DEATH IS ELIMINATED FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY! PRAISE GOD! READ REV. 21:5-6 AND HE THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE: FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL. VS. 6: AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE. I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY. GOD SAID IT IS DONE. WHEN CHRIST COMPLETED HIS REDEMPTIVE WORK FOR SINNERS ON THE CROSS, HE CRIED IT IS FINISHED. NOW GOD HAS MADE ALL THINGS NEW,HE AGAIN ANNOUNCES IT IS DONE, OR FINISHED! GOD ADDS I Am THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. ALPHA AND OMEGA ARE THE FIRST AND LAST LETTERS OF THE GREEK ALPHABET., HENCE THE EXPLANATION, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. WHAT IS GOD REALLY SAYING HERE? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? UNDERSTAND THAT IN CHRIST, ALL CREATION BEGAN WITHOUT SIN, NOW IN CHRIST, IT HAS ENDED WITHOUT SIN! HENCE THE BEGINNING AND THE END! PRAISE GOD! IN THE CITY- THE NEW JERUSALEM, THE SPIRITUAL THIRST OF GODS PEOPLE IS SATISFIED FOREVER. WHILE ON EARTH, JESUS SAID TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL IN SAMARIA: WHOSOEVER, DRINKETH OF THIS WATER(IN THE WELL), SHALL THIRST AGAIN: BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM, SHALL NEVER THIRST, BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL BE IN HIM, A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE.(JOHN 4:13-14) THE WATER GIVEN BY JESUS IS SPIRITUAL LIFE. TO PARTAKE OF THIS LIVING WATER ONE MUST DRINK. THE ACT OF DRINKING IS NOT A MONETARY SINGLE ACT, BUT RATHER A PROGRESSIVE OR REPEATED DRINKING OF THIS SPIRITUAL WATER.DRINKING THE WATER OF LIFE REQUIRES REGULAR COMMUNION WITH THE SOURCE OF THAT SPIRITUAL LIFE,JESUS CHRIST, HIMSELF, AND THEN WE WILL THIRST NO MORE! NO ONE CAN CONTINUE TO DRINK THE WATER OF THE RIVER OF LIFE IF THEY BECOME SEVERED, OR CUT OFF FROM ITS SOURCE. PETE DESCRIBES IT LIKE THIS ABOUT THOSE WHO DO BECOME SEVERED FROM THE SOURCE OF THE LIVING WATER: THEY BECOME WELLS WITHOUT WATER. WE WILL LIVE IN AND UNDER HIS LIGHT AND WE WILL HAVE A CONTINUOUS COMMUNION WITH THE SOURCE HIMSELF AND WE WILL THIRST NO MORE SPIRITUALLY. THIS TIME HAS COME IN VERSE 6 WHEN GOD STATES: I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY. IT IS YOURS TO POSSESS THROUGHOUT THE AGES. THE ETERNAL PRIZE OF BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE NEW JERUSALEM, WHERE THERE IS NO MORE DEATH, SORROW, CRYING, PAIN OR THIRST, IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO TRUST ON THE SHED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE THE ONES WHO WILL REAP ALL THE MERITS. ARE YOU DRY AND THIRSTY, PERHAPS AT ONE TIME YOU HAD COMMUNION WITH GOD, YOU WENT TO THE WELL OF LIVING WATER, BUT PERHAPS SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED AND YOU DONT SEEK HIM OUT LIKE YOU USED TO. PERHAPS YOU ARE BECOMING LUKEWARM IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST. JESUS SAID I WOULD RATHER YOU BE COLD OR HOT THAN LUKE WARM. HE SAID HE WOULD SPITE YOU OUT OF HIS MOUTH! ARE YOU YEARNING TO BE CLOSE TO HIM, THE ONE WHO SHED HIS BLOOD FOR THE REMISSION OF YOUR SINS, THE ONE WHO MADE A WAY FOR YOU TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HIS PRESENCE? IF YOU WANT TO RENEW YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, JUST PRAY THIS PRAYER NOW: DEAR PRECIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER FORGIVE ME FOR NOT SEEKING YOUR FACE, YOU PRESENCE. LORD MAKE ME ON FIRE FOR YOU! RESTORE ME TO THAT SAVING, LOVING RELATIONSHIP I ONCE HAD WITH YOU. YOU ARE THE DESIRE OF MY HEART,AND EACH AND EVERY DAY I WILL GROW TO LOVE YOU MORE AND MORE, AND SEEK TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE. IT IS IN YOU WHERE MY TRUE PEACE IS FOUND, IT IS IN YOU WHERE I FIND REST FOR MY WEARY SOUL.IT IS IN YOU WHERE STRENGTH IS FOUND, IT IS IN YOU WHERE MY TREASURE IS FOUND, YOUR TREASURE IS MY PEARL OF GREAT PRICE AS YOU ARE.. I LOVE YOU LORD AND I WILL SEEK YOUR FACE IN THE MORNING, AT NOON TIME AND AT NIGHT, BECAUSE I CANT LIVE ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT YOU.THANK YOU FOR YOUR MERCY AND GRACE AND FOR BEING LONG -SUFFERING. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY, AMEN! IF YOU DONT KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND YOU WANT TO BE MADE NEW AND TRULY ALIVE,AND DRINK FROM THE WELL OF LIVING WATER HE CAN MAKE ALL THINGS NEW,HE WILL REMEMBER YOUR SINS NO MORE, YOU WILL NO LONGER BE UNDER CONDEMNATION,BECAUSE WHOM HE SETS FREE IS FREE INDEED! PLEASE PRAY THIS PRAYER NOW WITH A BELIEVING HEART: DEAR PRECIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS YOUR ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN BIRTH, THAT HE LIVED AND DIED SHEDDING HIS BLOOD FOR THE REMISSION OF MY SINS. JESUS FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND NOW RESIDES AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER IN HEAVEN, EVER INTERCEDING FOR ME. THANK YOU JESUS FOR FORGIVING ME OF MY SINS, AND I BELIEVE THAT I TOO NOW WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE WITH HIM ONE DAY. THANK YOU JESUS THAT YOU HAVE PLACED WITHIN ME A NEW HEART, AND THAT I AM NOW A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS. I LOVE YOU LORD AND YOU ARE NOW THE LORD OF MY LIFE. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY, AMEN! IF YOU PRAYED THE FIRST PRAYER FOR RESTORATION PLEASE LET ME KNOW. IF YOU PRAYED THIS PRAYER WITH A BELIEVING HEART KNOW THAT YOU ARE TRULY SAVED. GO AND TELL SOMEONE TODAY WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU. JESUS SAID THAT IF WE CONFESS HIM BEFORE MEN HE WOULD CONFESS US BEFORE HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN. HE ALSO SAID THAT IF WE DONT CONFESS HIM BEFORE MEN, HE WOULD NOT CONFESS US BEFORE HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN. IF YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER OF FAITH PLEASE LET ME KNOW, BY MESSAGING ME OR JUST CLICK ON COMMENT AND SHARE WITH OTHERS HERE WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU. REMEMBER TO CLICK ON SHARE AND SHARE THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST WITH OTHERS. EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY IN THE LORD! VICKIE CAUDILL
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:06:35 +0000
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