My Words Shall Not Pass Away

Brenda Davis

“Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:35

Mini vision this AM...

White envelopes pouring down from heaven akin to dumping a full mailbag, loads of them, bookoos of them. The word revelation was written on each one. There was a sense of touching them, like touching rich fabrics, velvet, satin, microfiber, unique special feeling on the fingertips,  a virgin luxury never experienced before.

This may be a vision of what I've been sensing in the spirit.

I think I must’ve opened one of those envelopes of revelation this morning. The men walking down the road with Jesus after He had resurrected sad “He OPENED the scriptures to us.”

Well…He just did that to me too…

Maybe you already know this but it’s time to pulling out the Biblical foundation for examination and make some solid decisions as to what Jesus wants us to do as His followers.

There are people using the scripture “TOUCH NOT MY ANOINTED” as an excuse not to judge error. The Bible clearly, even KJV, tells us to RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD as well as to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.

When a person declares himself as anointed, or even begins that way, as Judas did, functioning in healing and deliverance along with the rest of the apostles, we can wind up with an unchallenged Jim Jones.

Now in my way of thinking…the Old Testament is like elementary to High School. And the New Testament gospels are like college. Then comes the Pentecost graduate school bringing apprenticeship. Now you may disagree and that’s OK. This is merely a visualization aid and not a doctrine, God forbid! I don’t think I’m speaking out of line here, as it seems that making doctrines is a favorite pastime.

WE Christians agree that Jesus changed some things from the Old Testament right? Atonement is one of the biggies. Then there was divorce and an eye for an eye. There’s a bunch of them if we want to count.

So let’s take a look at what Jesus had to say about the “anointed” of the day.

So in Mark 7, Jesus lashed out. He called them hypocrites, said they laid aside the commandment of God and established their own traditions instead. (Nicolaitans? I wonder)

Then there’s the story in Mark 3, which was in the synagogue, and instead of rejoicing over a man being healed, they were incensed.

In Matthew 25: Jesus tells them gently....in HIS KINDEST VOICE? “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

And MANY FALSE PROPHETS SHALL RISE, and deceive many. Matthew 24. Now I submit...how are you going to recognize them if you allow them to throw up the “Touch Not” shield and not test their words or actions? Jesus made it clear how He felt about us tolerating Jezebel and the Nicolaitans in Revelations.

Check out Matthew 23 for Christ’s scathing rebuke of the so called anointed of the day. He called them fools and blind and damned and children of hell. WHEW! Glory!! He was addressing those that sit in Moses seat. That is important to notice.

In Matthew 15, Jesus said they honor Him with their lips but not with their hearts and that they worship in vain!!! Replacing the commandment of God with their own tradition. He also called them blind leaders of the blind.

And said they would fall into the ditch.

Jesus told us to “Beware of false Prophets, that we would know them by their fruits.” Matthew 7.

Now biblical fruits are:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23

That is contrary to worldly thinking which would present works akin to how big is the church that one built as fruits,… How many people establish a person’s following? How easy or hard is one’s life? In my mind I see the difference between Cain and Abel’s offering. So it appears that we need to look past the product that struts before us to the character that illustrates biblical fruit.

Note: there is some controversy as to the definitions of hypocrites. This is the one Jesus gave in Matthew 6:5; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.

In Mark 12, He said they devour widow’s houses, love to wear robes and big introductions.

Luke 11:44; You are as GRAVES …and verse 47..You build the sepulchers of the prophets and you fathers killed them!! 52; you have taken away the key of knowledge, refused to enter and tried to stop others who were entering.

Luke 19:46, My house is the house of prayer but you’ve made it a den of thieves. We all know the popular story of running off the moneychangers.

So by these scriptures we can see that rather than lambast the sinners as is the focus of church leaders today, Jesus lambasted the priest and the theologians…who were ‘The Anointed of God” . He may have even “touched” them when He ran them out of the Temple.

So the dilemma is “exactly HOW CLOSELY DO WE FOLLOW Jesus?” Ok so the bible says that He is the express image of God and teaches us that He is a part of the Holy Trinity, that He is perfect, without sin and that He is actually GOD INCARNATE! Do we trust Him to be our example?

Lets look at all those wonderful characters in the Bible…there’s Abraham, Moses, Daniel and David And Isaiah, Isaac, Elijah, Jonah, Solomon and Paul, Peter and John….just to hit some of the highlights. We agree that these are accomplished servants of God and they are to be admired and listened to and appreciated however…not one of them is perfect, sinless or part of the Godhead. They of the Old Testament were lead by the Holy Spirit ON them not IN them as we are today. Jesus said the least of us is greater than John the Baptist and the new covenant, the Holy Spirit within us makes that difference. They didn’t give us that gift. Jesus did. We respect them but Worship Jesus…their words do not usurp Jesus.

Jesus said He does only what He sees His father do. So is that bad advice? Do we do what we see our Jesus do and thereby become wrong? Personally I think Jesus/God knows more about Father/God than any other person. Like He said the greater than Solomon is here. The greater than Jonah is here. If we are a followers of Christ (Christian) do we do as Christ did? Can we follow His example?

Brenda Davis

12/14/07