Unlocking the Reservoirs of Power Within Our Lives
March 23, 2014
MF Blume
Heb 10:19-23 Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
(20) By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through
the veil, that is to say, his flesh; (21) And having an high priest
over the house of God; (22) Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (23) Let us hold
fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful
that promised;)
Verse 12 mentions boldness to enter the most holy place.
Verse 22 mentions full assurance of faith to draw close to God.
These two qualities are lacking in many Christians.
- It is because they don't really have a grasp on something.
All of us would like to have such strong confidence and faith in our
position with God that we have this kind of boldness that takes us into
the very holiest presence of God.
- The key lies in the word "therefore" in verse 19.
- Whatever was written before verse 19 is grounds to provide us with this kind of confidence.
- Whatever it is that is written before verse 19 is absent from our
understanding if we lack this kind of boldness and full assurance of
faith.
The information before verse 19 is about how Jesus Christ's sacrifice
was so perfect and complete, and finished the job in dealing with sins
that had to be done, that it renders us absolutely forgive of the very
thing that keeps us away from God's holiest presence--sin.
We need to learn what is written before verse 19.
Before we get into that, notice this Proverb from Solomon.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Our own understanding needs to be replaced with His understanding.
Pro 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Verse 13 mentions wisdom as though it was a woman.
Pro 3:18-26 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and
happy is every one that retaineth her. (19) The LORD by wisdom hath
founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
(20) By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop
down the dew. (21) My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep
sound wisdom and discretion: (22) So shall they be life unto thy soul,
and grace to thy neck. (23) Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and
thy foot shall not stumble. (24) When thou liest down, thou shalt not
be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. (25)
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked,
when it cometh. (26) For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall
keep thy foot from being taken.
Notice that the earth and heavens were made by God.
- His wisdom made them the way they are.
- Speaking of both heaven and earth, we read the earth's DEPTHS are broken up by HIS WISDOM.
- The Heaven's CLOUDS drop down dew.
- These clouds and depths were there by God's design when He made the heaven and earth.
- But He chose for a certain time for these to open up and dispense their contents.
- The same words are actually found in the story of Noah and the flood.
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains
of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Compare:
Proverbs 3: (20) By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Genesis 7:11 ...all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
God stored precious things in the heavens and earth when he made them that He planned to burst open one day.
Adam was made in the day when God made these things, and Noah was in
the day when God loosed these things from the heaven and earth.
Noah's day saw the loosing and his name means "rest."
- There is a message here.
- When we see our depths loosed and the windows of heaven opened up, a rest and comfort will come to our lives as Christians.
- Something is locked up inside us.
- We have the potential to see great wonders occur in our lives.
- But it's all locked up inside us.
- And the key top unlocking these things is the KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD.
Just as the flood of Noah saw earth opened and Heaven loosed of their
contents that flooded and washed away the sinfulness of the world, a
lot of junk in our lives will be washed away when our depths are broken
up and Heaven rains down it's goodness.
Notice the confidence that comes when knowledge breaks these things open.
Proverbs 3:21-26 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep
sound wisdom and discretion: (22) So shall they be life unto thy soul,
and grace to thy neck. 23) Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely,
and thy foot shall not stumble. (24) When thou liest down, thou shalt
not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
(25) Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the
wicked, when it cometh. (26) For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and
shall keep thy foot from being taken.
What is wonderful is that heaven and earth are the two sources from which God made us.
- Dust of the ground and breath of Life from Heaven.
- When He made us a new creation, He made us with these depths and wonders full of great things in the Spirit!
- Knowledge is the key He designed to open these things up.
Proverbs 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Paul said the same thing in Ephesians 1 when he wrote of the power that works towards us that we need a revelation about.
- It's power that God used to resurrect and enthrone Jesus!
- That is a lot of power!
Ephesians 1:16-17 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of
you in my prayers; (17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of him:
If we learn these things and receive KNOWLEDGE about them, we will gain
such a confidence in ourselves that the sky will be the limit.
When the flood burst forth, look what happened.
Gen 7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth,...
All flesh died.
In our lives is a loot of fleshliness.
- Bad behaviour and things we do that hinder God's will in our lives.
- Knowledge will break open the floods that destroys all of this flesh.
- It gives us FAITH!
- Faith explodes out of our lives.
Look at the emphasis Paul placed upon what God can do by a power that is INSIDE US NOW.
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in
us,
Something lies with in us RIGHT NOW.
- But until we learn some things, it is untapped.
- Since we were first made new creation, we had these in us, but we never knew them.
- I saw people healed from cancer as the result of my prayers.
- People who would be dead today are alive.
- I saw financial help come in utterly miraculous ways as the result of prayer.
- I prayed for a woman whose child died in birthing and was dying herself due to Toxemia.
- She was bloated beyond recognition and her organs were shutting down.
- No neurological response was detected by the doctors.
- We prayed and her finger moved.
- They ran to her and asked her top move them again if she could hear them, and she moved her fingers again.
- She lost all that fluid and returned to her slim normal size.
- A turn for the worst occurred the next day and we rushed to see her again.
- Her eyes went blind.
- We prayed and commanded the will of God to be done.
- The doctor told us moments later that her sight returned.
- She was healed!
I prayed for a woman who testified of a lump forming on her side, and I ran to her and commanded it to go right there.
- She physically felt it turn soft and vanish!
I saw many wonderful things occur.
- And I am no better in God's eyes than any of you, for God is not a respecter of persons.
- It's just that power was tapped into because I learned truth about my self from the word of God since I was saved.
Hebrews 10 has the truths that verse 19 say will cause us to be bold
and fully assured with faith to enter God's holiest presence.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Notice that we read of THOSE sacrifices from the Old Testament.
- People always remembered sin and God remembered sin every year!
- Their atonement for sin occurred every year at the same month and day.
- So sin was a never ending struggle.
But that is contrasted in Heb 10 with these words:
Heb 10:16-18 This is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and
in their minds will I write them; (17) And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. (18) Now where remission of these is, there is
no more offering for sin.
God remembers NO MORE our sins and iniquities, like He remembered Israel's sins even after they offered sacrifices for sins.
- The difference was in what they offered for sacrifice and what is offered for us for sacrifice.
Heb 10:5-10 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared
me: (6) In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
pleasure. (7) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (8) Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou
wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the
law; (9) Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
the first, that he may establish the second. (10) By the which will we
are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all.
The will that the son of God was foretold to say was the Father's will that He came to do was the sacrifice of Himself.
- His sacrifice was so perfect that He only had to be offered ONE
SINGLE TIME compared to the centuries of sacrifices that the Old
testament adherents offered continually year after year.
- THAT is the key truth behind our ability to have full assurance of faith and boldness to enter the holiest.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
He so perfected US by HIS OFFERING that we need no more sacrifice for
our sins as opposed to Israel needing them every year for centuries.
Heb 10:15-19 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after
that he had said before, (16) This is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into
their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; (17) And their sins
and iniquities will I remember no more. (18) Now where remission of
these is, there is no more offering for sin. (19) Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Jeremiah prophesied that the new covenant involves causing God to forget our sins and iniquities.
- Verse 18 says that when such a thing occurs and we have REMISSION OF SINS, there is no more need for an offering for sin.
- ON THAT BASIS we can have boldness.
- The only thing keeping you from the deepest presence of God is your sin.
- And if you were baptized into His death for remission of those
sins, then YOU DID NOT GET WHAT THE BIBLE TAUGHT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO
YOU.
- You have not grasped it.
- You have so much power inside you now that you are saved, but it
remains UNTAPPED because YOU ARE SIN-CONSCIOUS when you shouldn't be.
You need to instead be REMISSION-CONSCIOUS.
We act like Jesus' sacrifice was no better than the old testament
offerings that can never take away sins when we hesitate to enter the
most holy place.
- The whole difference between them and us is that we have a
perfect sacrifice that perfected US as far as dealing with what keeps
us away from God's presence.
- Notice we do not read that we need this quality or that quality to achieve the kind of boldness we require to enter the holiest.
- WE SIMPLY NEEDED HIS SACRIFICE TO REMIT OUR SINS.
- Whatever else you are looking at aside from the fact that your sins are remitted are NOT the factors you should be looking at.
- God only looked at the sins that the sacrifices of old could not remit.
I don't care and God doesn't care WHAT your sins are.
- If you were baptized into Christ's death then THEY ARE REMITTED.
- GOD FORGOT THEM.
- Get that, and you can have boldness and full assurance of faith.
This is the knowledge you need to unlock your depths and release the
power of God within you and His blessings from heaven upon you to flush
away all the fleshliness that hinders your life.
A huge part of your fleshliness is your ignorance of what Christ's sacrifice meant to God.