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Are You Living for God's Glory?

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The new life Yahshua (Jesus) has given us in the Spirit, accompanied with the gifts He has invested in us, are to be lovingly “poured out as a drink offering” so that others can know Him and live eternally in His Kingdom.
— Philippians 2:17

As Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) redeemed “born again” children, we have been saved by grace and are filled with His Spirit so that we can learn to walk as our Savior walked. We are endowed and entrusted with diverse gifts and talents that come from our Heavenly Father to be used for His praise, honor, and glory and the salvation of many. (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17) Each part of Messiah’s redeemed spiritual body is equally important as the other, just like it is in the natural body.(see 1 Corinthians 12:12-27) The new life Yahshua (Jesus) has given us in the Spirit, accompanied with the gifts He has invested in us, are to be lovingly “poured out as a drink offering” so that others can know Him and live eternally in His Kingdom. (Philippians 2:17)  We have been redeemed to be like our Savior who “emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant.” (Philippians 2:7) Apostle John said, “the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.” (1 John 2:6) Our Savior walked with the compelling desire to manifest the Kingdom of Heaven, to warn people to escape from the wrath of God that is coming, to repent of their sin, be covered in His sacrificial blood, and turn in faith to Him.

We are Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) “ambassadors” to perpetuate the love that was in His heart to come down to earth to bring this good news to us and we are to bring it to others by the power of His indwelling Spirit. This will bring glory to the Father and bring many sons and daughters into the Kingdom. Yahshua (Jesus) has entrusted His heart to us. (2 Corinthians 5:20) The same love that compelled Him to sacrificially give His life for others to live is deposited in our hearts, we read, “the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Romans 5:5) We can’t know the true Yahshua (Jesus) unless we know Him through His written word and the power of His Spirit teaching us how to walk as He walked in obedience to the Father’s will.

“Yahshua died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised”
— 2 Corinthians 5:15

How did Yahshua walk? In all His words and deeds everything was done by the power of the Spirit of truth at any cost. As it is written, “The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own authority, but the Father who dwells in Me does His works.” (John 14:10) Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Master Yahshua [Jesus], giving thanks through Him to God the Father. (Colossians 3:17) It was always in Messiah’s heart that everything was for the glory of His Father. (see John 7:18) “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45) We are to do the same, that is part of walking as He walked. If you are truly born again you are living in the newness of resurrected power in your life to make you into a new creation bearing Yahshua’ (Jesus’s) likeness. “He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised.” (2 Corinthians 5:15) Messiah is “full of grace and truth” and by His grace we are saved to continue to walk and “fight the good fight of faith” against our flesh and its idolatrous desires and preoccupations with this perishing world. (John 1:14, 1 Timothy 6:12) His Spirit of grace trains us to deny ungodliness and worldly self centered passions so that we can live self controlled righteous and godly lives in this present age, as we wait for Yahshua’s appearance.” (see Titus 2:11-14)

A born again spiritual new creation has Yahshua’s likeness, bearing His power, grace, light, and love, that brings the truth to others that they be set free, no longer prisoners to sin and destined to Hell. It will be the same Spirit, the same love, the same burning fire that burns in our soul that does not want others to perish”
— John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Peter 3:9)

It is time to reassess what being “born again” means according to the true heart cry and purpose of our God and Savior, so that we can become a righteous instrument that is used for His holy and noble eternal purposes. Are you really “born again?” Because “if any man be in Messiah, he is a new creation the old things are gone then all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) A born again spiritual new creation has Yahshua’s likeness, bearing His power, grace, light, and love, that brings the truth to others that they be set free, no longer prisoners to sin and destined to Hell. It will be the same Spirit, the same love, the same burning fire that burns in our soul that does not want others to perish. (2 Peter 3:9) Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) love in us causes us to “put to death” our flesh nature and its desires because we desire to be in the Spirit with nothing separating us from our Savior. (Romans 8:13) His redeemed servants allow Him to “seek and to save the lost” through them so that others see and hear only Yahshua (Jesus) exalted through their “crucified lives”. (Luke 19:10, Galatians 2:20) 

This is the compelling love of our Savior’s heart that lives in those who are truly “born again” “new creations” filled and led by His Spirit. (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17) Anything less is a carnal believer who “does not have the interests of Yahshua (Jesus) at heart”, who loves to satisfy their flesh and its insatiable worldly desires. (Philippians 2:21) These “professing believers” are twice deceived by calling Him, “Lord and Savior” when in reality they are still walking under the bondage of the flesh ruled by Satan whom Yahshua (Jesus) proclaimed is “the ruler of this world”. (Matthew 7:21, John 12:31) It is written, “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves!” (2 Corinthians 13:5) It is time to prayerfully examine ourselves, personally inquiring, “Am I truly born again bearing the fruits of Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) Holy Spirit?” (Galatians 5:22-23) The “fruits of the spirit,” cannot be produced, only counterfeited by the flesh. The flesh’s self-seeking nature cannot bring forth the truth in love by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Galatians 5:17) Stop “confessing Him with your lips if your heart is far away from Him”. (Matthew 15:8) Stop playing church! “Find out what pleases Him.” (Ephesians 5:10) Find out who your Savior really is according to His perfect will manifested in His perfect word. Ask Him to forgive, cleanse, purify, and fill you with His Spirit so that you can truly say, “it is no longer I who live, but Messiah [Christ] [the hope of glory] lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me [so that others can know His life changing glory].” (Galatians 2:20, Colossians 1:27)

Yahshua (Jesus) in us, loves through us. He came to “snatch sinners from the wrath of Yahveh” and the fires of Hell”
— 1 Thessalonians 1:10

We are to serve Yahshua (Jesus) with all of our heart and “consider others as much more important than ourselves” because they need what we have; eternal life. (Philippians 2:3) May the fruits of our “born again” lives be the fruit of having many lives come to know Yahshua (Jesus). (John 3:3) May they see and witness that He lives in us and be drawn into His kingdom through the truth and the love that is “shed abroad from our hearts” to them, that they might not perish but come into the eternal Kingdom of Heaven. (Romans 5:5) We have all been entrusted to bring the truth to perishing souls that our Heavenly Father puts in our path. They are entrusted to us and we need to “be instant in season and out” ready to “speak the truth in love” to them, because their souls are more important to us than our comfort zone and our own self-centered temporal preoccupations. (2 Timothy 4:2, Ephesians 4:15) Yahshua (Jesus) in us, loves through us. He came to “snatch them from the wrath of Yahveh” and the fires of Hell. (1 Thessalonians 1:10) Messiah’s love burns like a fire in those who have “denied their flesh to follow Him” in obedience on the “straight and narrow path”. (see Matthew 16:24, 7:14)

Sadly, so few believers are being taught uncompromised biblical truth. Therefore, they do not intimately know their Savior and how He walked as magnified through His word. Without having His example to follow, many grievously continue to live in the flesh with its incessant desires for the world, erroneously thinking they have an insurance policy to heaven. Apostle Paul wrote, “For you were called for freedom, my brothers and sisters. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh [and its self serving nature]; rather, serve one another through love.” (Galatians 5:13) We have been redeemed and our lives are not our own. We were bought at a price with the blood of Yahshua (Jesus); therefore we are to glorify God in our body and in our spirit, which are God’s. (see 1 Corinthians 6:19-20) As stated, we are to continue where He left off, “to seek and to save the lost” and to humble ourselves as servants who pour out our lives that others can know Him, compelled in word and deed to glorify the Father and bring in redeemed sons and daughters to inhabit His eternal Kingdom. (Luke 19:10)

Yahshua (Jesus) will not be looking at how many gifts He has chosen to give us, but what we do with this stewardship to exemplify and glorify Him, His Kingdom, and to bless others”
— Ephesians 4:8

We must be trustworthy stewards of our lives and our breath. Everything that Yahveh God has given us is a gift and each one has a different measure of diverse gifts, that have been given to us for His holy and noble purposes. Yahshua (Jesus) will not be looking at how many gifts He has chosen to give us. He is looking to see what we do with this stewardship of all that came from Him and is given to us to exemplify and glorify Him, His Kingdom, and to bless others. Will we invest it into His kingdom and bring Him dividends, a harvest of righteous souls that brings glory to the Father? Or will we bury it in the earth preoccupied with our everyday temporal lives and vain glory because our love for Yahshua (Jesus) was overcome with the love of self and the love of the world?

Our Savior gave us a parable regarding the entrusting of talents and gifts to three different servants. The two servants who invested their gifts to bring dividends to their master were pleasing in His sight. Yahshua (Jesus) said to them, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter the joy of your master.’ (Matthew 25:21,23) But one servant “hid his talent in the ground. His master answered and said to him, ‘You worthless, lazy servant! … take the talent away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’… And throw the worthless servant into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 25:25,26,28,30) Yahshua (Jesus) made it clear there is righteous indignation and judgment that leads to eternal suffering for those who refuse to take what has been entrusted to their stewardship and invest it in His glorious kingdom. 

Don’t let the enemy of your soul deceive and rob you of eternal blessings by enticing you to pour out your life and gifts into the flesh and “the world ruled by Satan” and his cohort of demons”
— 2 Corinthians 4:4

We are at a critical juncture, at the end of the age before our King’s return. The prophets and apostles all pointed to the day that the earth would be destroyed with fire.” (1 Peter 3:10-11) “Yahshua (Jesus) is coming for those who are eagerly waiting for Him” as they serve Him in humble gratitude and obedience. (Hebrews 9:28) What are you going to do with the rest of your time, the rest of your days on earth? Don’t let the enemy of your soul deceive and rob you of eternal blessings by enticing you to pour out your life and gifts into the flesh and “the world ruled by Satan” and his cohort of demons.” (2 Corinthians 4:4) “Satan is raging, he knows his time is short”, and he is working through a progressive agenda to deceive, kill, and destroy multitudes, including many superficial compromised professing believers. (Revelation 12:12, John 10:10)

Yahshua (Jesus) withheld nothing from us, He gave His all in all and we must withhold nothing from Him and give our all in all to Him”

Open up your ears to hear what the Spirit is saying in these last days. The gifts and talents can be easily summarized as, our whole lives poured out. As Apostle Paul said, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God [to give His Son to die for your sins that you would be cleansed in His blood and become a born again new creation], to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.” (Romans 12:1) Your whole life, that is the utmost call in surrender and sacrifice, which is the highest form of worship, giving Him everything in return for Him giving everything to redeem our wretched souls. Yahshua (Jesus) gave His life, He poured out His blood, He was crucified in our place so that we could live. We are to be “crucified to the world and the world to us” because we were purchased to belong solely to Him as vessels of honor and glory for His holy and eternal purposes; the advancement of His righteous Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. (Galatians 6:14) Yahshua (Jesus) withheld nothing from us, He gave His all in all and we must withhold nothing from Him and give our all in all to Him. “Those who belong to Messiah Yahshua [Christ Jesus] have crucified the flesh [denied and rejected its continual rulership] with its passions and desires.” (Galatians 5:24) If we are not living in this way, then we must get it right with Yahshua (Jesus) now. Come to Yahshua (Jesus) and repent before it is too late. The Kingdom of Yahveh is at hand and the message of salvation is still available, but soon “now, is the day of salvation” will no longer be, because it will be the day of “the judgment seat”, and the books will be closed. (2 Corinthians 6:1, 5:10)

The good news is we are still on this side of the judgment seat. Apostle Paul encourages us with these words, “So then, be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of Yahshua is.” (Ephesians 5:15-17) Let us present ourselves as living sacrifices made holy and acceptable to Yahveh, which is the least we can do for all that He has done for us.

Prayer

Heavenly Father,

I confess that I have lived most of my life with selfish interests and desires consuming my time, focus, and affections for the momentary pleasures and preoccupations of this passing world. Yahshua (Jesus) You poured out Your life to redeem me to be a spiritual born again new creation, bearing Your identity and no longer living for the things of this earth, but for Your glory and eternal purposes. I repent, please forgive me, I  need the help of Your Holy Spirit to wholeheartedly live my life surrendered and centered around You, instead of myself. 

Yahshua (Jesus), please cleanse me with Your sacrificial blood and wash my sins away. Have mercy on me and fill me afresh with Your Holy Spirit’s grace and power to deny my self centered sin nature. May Your unfailing love draw me so close that I spend the remainder of my life developing a personal relationship with You. Please help me to have Your interests and the interests of others as more important than what pleases and preoccupies myself.  I give You my life and my gifts to invest them in the Kingdom of Heaven. Please help me to spread Your love and truth to many perishing souls that they, too, might receive You into their heart and have the gift of eternal life.

I am compelled by Your Spirit to place my life on Your heavenly altar as a living sacrifice in loving obedience for Your life given to redeem mine. Thank You Yahshua (Jesus) for loving me so much that You died in my place, bearing my sins in Your own body on the crucifixion stake at Calvary. I owe You everything. You have spared me from my sinful self nature, the wrath of God, and eternity in Hell. I am Yours, use me from this point on for the fullest measure of praise, honor, and glory that can be accomplished in and through my surrendered life that belongs to You alone. I humbly and gratefully pray in Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) name. Amen