The Warrior In His Spirit Final Lesson
Bob Neumann
For years the AMERIKAN CHURCH has been replacing GOD in the hearts and minds of the FLOCK. That is why there are really few sheep out there roaming around grazing freely. Oh yes, there are lots of sheep out there. It's just that they are all safely locked into pens controlled by businessmen who know where there profit margins lies. They know exactly when to fleece the flock, and when to slaughter the best quality lamb or mutton.
From the sheepdog point of view, neither is very supportive of individuals.
The AMERIKAN CHURCH has found the crux of the issue and taken full advantage of it. The GOSPEL of the KINGDOM is not a tool for salvation alone. It is a template of REBIRTH, MATURATION, and eventual CONQUEST. A planned progression of events that would lead a sinner doomed to ETERNAL FIERY JUDGMENT to the paths of SALVATION, SURVIVAL and VICTORY. The KEY is they all start with "FOLLOW ME". We all started with THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT bringing us...knowingly or not even aware...to the point of awareness of personal culpability. Culpability simply means that whatever we have done wrong to ourselves and others is our own fault, and we will be held responsible ...accountable for what we have done.
So we are all brought to the same point. We are all rotten, dirty, sinners deserving of GOD'S WRATH. Now many men say "we weren't that bad"...or "it was not your fault".... Those are LIES. PLAIN...SIMPLE...LIES... THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT says you are guilty...MAN says no you are not. WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?
Now if we are all guilty and doomed to eternal punishment we are in desperate need of a SAVIOR...a REDEEMER...a FRIEND who will take our BURDEN and lead us out of our PERSONAL PIT. The only problem is we have to be aware of our PIT and our coming PUNISHMENT.
So all BELIEVERS have been pulled out of their pits. No one any better or worse than any other. MAN likes self-help books and strategies which tells you how to save and help yourself. TOO BAD they tend to leave JESUS behind.
JESUS said MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE and THEY FOLLOW ME. Sheep that are told the LIE that all they have to do is sit there and listen to, submit to, and give undying devotion to man...will never leave that PIT to follow THEIR SAVIOR.
So all we have are a few scruffy sheep that got loose from their SLAUGHTER PENS and follow hard on HIS HEELS. It is here where the first transformation takes place. The SHEEP who heard HIS VOICE begin to recognize individual WORDS. And "suddenly" HIS SHEEP become LITTLE CHILDREN. Children that listen...learn ... and obey. In the SPIRITUAL as it is in THE NATURAL Children grow up and make decisions. The CHILDREN are given a CHOSE...do THEY SERVE THE GOD WHO GAVE THEM SALVATION, LED THEM THROUGH the WILDERNESS and HAS CLOTHED AND FED THEM IN HIS WORD...or do THEY SERVE THEMSELVES?
They can become HIS SERVANTS...or fall away. Angry, despondent, and quite often vindictive. Spoiled children either grow up and accept responsibility and accountability...or become psychopaths...sociopaths that CALL "GOOD EVIL and EVIL GOOD".
Like the Disciples, all servants can be called FRIEND at some point in their journey. It takes time and lots of healing as we go from GLORY TO GLORY. But when we do this we find others have walked before us. One of The First Was DAVID. And Psalm 18 is his story...his song...of DAVID and HIS GOD, together. 46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. DAVID'S LORD is THE LIVING GOD...THE GOD "I AM"... WHO WAS, IS, and will ALWAYS BE. DAVID BLESSES THE ROCK...that HE STANDS ON...is able TO BUILD ON...THAT SPRINGS FORTH LIVING WATER that gives DAVID LIFE ETERNAL.
Then DAVID EXALTS THIS GOD WHO SAVED HIM.... no big deal...GOD SAVED ME...SO I LOVE HIM...ADORE HIM ...OBEY HIM...FOLLOW HIM FOREVER...SINGING FOREVER.
47It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. David removes himself from hard feelings for his foes, his enemies, the wicked types that plotted and planned his destruction...WHY? It is not natural for man to want to get even...pay back... Of course it isn't if all you see is you against them. One of THE FIRST THINGS GOD REVEALED to David was that David was not ALONE. That HE had a GOD that was very close and personal. AND DAVID SAW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO MEN WHO HAD TO GET TO HIM THROUGH HIS GOD. SELAH PEOPLE...SELAH LONG and HARD. TO GO AFTER DAVID....you had to go THROUGH HIS GOD. NEVER HAPPENED... and THE PRICE YOU PAID WAS ENORMOUS... GOD PUT DAVID'S FOOT ON YOUR NECK...again and again.
WHO IN THEIR DOUBLE MINDED INSANITY wants THE LIVING GOD wanting HIS VENGEANCE ON YOU?
again SELAH.
48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. David does not hide the fact that it WAS GOD who delivered him, pulled him out of bad situation after bad situation. But he also tells us that it is GOD that LIFTED HIM UP as in "out of the pit"...the trap enemies both natural and spiritual built to destroy him. David ends this by distinguishing it is from VIOLENT MEN that GOD has saved him from . Men like NIMROD...ESSAU... GOLIATH...even ABSALOM...his own son.
Who has set traps for you that GOD has saved YOU FROM?
49Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
ONCE AGAIN DAVID uses all of this to stand up and sing...to sing his THANKS for THE DEEDS GOD HAS DONE FOR HIM...ever try it yourself? NO?....pity... Now DAVID says that he does his singing "among the heathen". DAVID does not worship in the CHOIR LOFT... he goes out where there are goats who have no inkling how GREAT HIS GOD IS....except that DAVID IS STILL STANDING AND SINGING...and all THE VIOLENT MEN LAY SLAUGHTERED all around. So imagine DAVID standing and singing...I SING PRAISES TO YOUR NAME, OH GOD, PRAISES TO YOUR NAME, OH LORD...FOR YOUR NAME IS GREAT...AND WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE. That is THE SECRET OF REVELATION KNOWLEDGE... GOD REVEALS HIS NAME TO YOU...AND THEN SHOWS YOU WHAT IT MEANS...IN EXTREME DETAIL...UP CLOSE... AND VERY PERSONAL.
anyone getting this?
regretfully I doubt it... because the final verse is a WOWSER...
50Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
VERSE 50 is MESSIANIC PROPHECY. THE "HE" HERE is DAVID'S GOD...who gives unto HIS KING....GREAT DELIVERANCE... Isaiah 9 says THAT A CHILD WOULD BE BORN... BUT A SON GIVEN...ON WHOSE AUTHORITY is our SALVATION. OUR SAVIOR...and our KING.. THIS KING IS GOD'S ANOINTED ONE...MESSIAH...WHO HOLDS GOD'S MERCY...unto DAVID and his "seed" """"FOR EVERMORE"""... ETERNAL COVENANT.
DAVID KNEW THAT THIS WAS WORTH SINGING ABOUT. THE PROMISE OF GOD...UNTO DAVID...AND DAVID ALONE... because DAVID LOVED GOD...and GOD LOVED DAVID.
>From Jesse's pasture where THE PROPHET found him with THE SHEEP...to the THRONE over JERUSALEM...was a long hard JOURNEY. IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE ANYTHING ELSE... the MAN or WOMAN that FOLLOWS THE ANOINTED ONE FROM PIT TO ETERNITY must be of THE SAME STUFF that was in DAVID.
Willing to LOVE and to WORSHIP with all HIS HEART, HIS SOUL, HIS MIND, and HIS STRENGTH...
David may have fought numerous battles and won many campaigns. BUT he know GOD WAS HIS SOURCE OF VICTORY.
SALVATION...SURVIVAL...VICTORY...DOMINION... a simple path for a simple shepherd boy...because it was never the shepherd boy...it was ADONAI ELOHIM ELYON.
ALWAYS WAS...ALWAYS WILL BE.
THAT IS HOW 'we' BATTLE. THAT IS HOW 'we' WIN. WE FEW...WE BAND OF BROTHERS... WARRIORS in HIS STRENGTH and HIS SPIRIT. DEAD MEN...one and all.
who SING PRAISES TO HIS NAME...
baruch ha ba BASHEM ADONAI...
Selah
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