Wednesday, March 20, 2013

03-20-13 Release - Pain Part 3

2 Corinthians 7:10 "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.."
 
So, we left off yesterday putting our faith in the facts (Truth) and not so much in our emotions.  I explained that emotions are good, they let us know when some is wrong and can even be rather pleasant at times. 
 
If we haven't really didn't have that great of an upbringing, we need to be careful that we don't associated ALL emotion as being 'bad' or painful - therefore, we make a 'vow' that we aren't going to 'feel' anymore.  We just walk around in life like little robots - maybe even slipping into apathy.  Apathy is indifference - not feeling one way or another - neither sorrow, nor excitement; neither happy, nor sad.  Doesn't sound like LIFE, does it?  That's not how our lives were designed to be. 
 
That's the thief coming to steal the the joy in Jesus that is rightfully ours, to kill (or deaden) our ability to receive or give love, to destroy (or shred) our minds and hearts towards any sort of sense of peace.  BUT Jesus came to give LIFE and to give LIFE in abundance (to the full) - John 10:10.
 
So, what is the Truth?  We will focus on one today.  When we've done our part with God and man and still 'feel' guilty over what was done in the past - that's the accuser of the brethren (Revelation 12:10).  It's demonic influence whispering in our ears that we're still stained and dirty. 
 
I'm reminded of Isaiah 6, the Word says, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.' At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.  'Woe to me!' I (Isaiah) cried. 'I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.' Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, 'See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.'
 
I thought about why these verses were brought to my attention, and this is what my thoughts turned towards...  Isaiah was repenting of sin.  Having 'seen' the Lord - he came to believe, in a very dramatic experiential way, in The Only Power greater than himself.  Other versions say 'I am undone', which signifies humility and brokenness.
The seraphim to a live coal from the altar.  Altars were for sacrifice - the coal was burnt.  I thought about Jesus on the Cross was The Sacrifice for our sin.  I thought about coal - coal gives heat, fire, power.... Jesus sent us Holy Spirit cleansing fire.  The coal touched his lips.  Matthew 15:11 "What goes into someone's mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them. Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. " When the burning coal - the cleansing fire of Jesus' sacrifice by the Power of the Holy Spirit - touched his lips and made him CLEAN!
 
When we repent and turn our eyes to Jesus and accept His cleansing fire in our hearts and minds, we are clean.  John 8:36 "So if (since)the Son sets you free, YOU ARE FREE INDEED."

The only thing that we need to do is accept that Truth and the lie of the accuser that says we are still 'guilty' is obliterated.
 
Set Me Free - Casting Crowns
 
Be free of guilt in the Name of Jesus!

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