Forgetting God Is With Us
SIN LESS Part 8

October 12, 2014
MF Blume


Law of works in the Old Testament had a FLAW IN IT.

Hebrews 8:7-10 KJV  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.  (8)  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:  (9)  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.  (10)  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

That flaw is repeated by Paul in Romans.

Romans 7:12-14 KJV  Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.  (13)  Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.  (14)  For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.



The flaw was intentional to teach man that we can do nothing without the Spirit’s empowerment.

Like Israel facing the giants, OUR OWN FLESH is something that can be BIGGER THAN our will power.

Our flesh cannot overcome something as powerful as sin, either. 
•    But God was with Israel! 
•    Look at how Israel thought and analyze the response by Caleb.

Numbers 13:30-31  And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.  But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

Numbers 14:6-9  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:  And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.  If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

When Israel doubted God, He told them they would remain in the wilderness until their deaths. 
•    Until we learn to trust in the Spirit to handle things that we cannot deal with on our own, then we will live in a spiritual wilderness.
•    No true Kingdom living.
•    Then Moses said they’d die, so they did something foolish on the opposite end of the spectrum.
•    They felt it was better to risk it and enter the land to fight the giants rather than die. 
•    God told them not to go. 
•    They went anyway, and look what happened.

Numbers 14:44-45  But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.  Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

It is frightening to face enemies that are stronger than us, after we have only known the way of dealing with only the things we can personally handle alone.
•    But we will never really live by faith that way.
•    We can be saved and go to Church every week, but spiritually be very dry.

Genesis 8:7-8  And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.  Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

Would Noah depend upon the message the raven would relate, or the one from the dove?
•    Like Noah we Christians have TWO sources of leading in our lives.
•    The RAVEN that feeds upon dead bodies stands for the flesh.
•    The DOVE, as with the Baptism of Jesus, speaks of the SPIRIT OF GOD.

Romans says there are two elements that can direct our lives, too.

Romans 8:5-7 KJV  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.  (6)  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  (7)  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.


We find that if Noah followed the raven he would have died.
•    He relied upon the DOVE.
Like the SPIES OF ISRAEL IN CANAAN, Noah sent the dove see what the new world he would enter was like.

Genesis 8:9  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

Since the dove could find no rest, this man who was named “rest” would follow its lead and remain in the Ark as well.  We must feel at home where the Spirit is at home, and not where our flesh feels at rest.

The dove indicated by its return or absence whether Noah should leave the ark yet.

Genesis 8:10-11  And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;  And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

After having sent the dove a second time, Noah saw it return with something in its mouth. 
•    He received a message, word, as it were, from the mouth of the Spirit! 
•    A foreshadow of a Word from God! 
•    Since it was an olive leaf, we see the relationship to the olive tree that supplied the anointing oil for kings and priests in the Old Testament. 
•    Oil represented the Spirit’s empowerment!
•    KINGDOM.

It was a message that said there was a whole world of anointing waiting for Noah! 
•    As the raven fed on death and found comfort there, the dove showed the indication of anointing, and it would lead Noah to that sort of destination and place of rest. 
•    People who walk after the Spirit are drawn to a life of anointing, which is empowerment of the Spirit. 
•    Grace! 
•    They rest where the Spirit rests.

The MESSAGE of the OLIVE LEAF is like the MESSAGE in Song of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 2:10-14  My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.  For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;  The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.  O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Genesis 8:12-13  And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

A veil in the Bible was referred to as a COVERING.
•    Rebekka COVERED with a veil herself when she saw Isaac.
•    The veil in the temple covered the most holy place.
•    So, it was literally an unveiling of the new world, like opening up the veil of the most holy place when Jesus died on the cross.

IT IS NEWNESS OF LIFE.

The new world and all the plants out there was newness of LIFE.

Romans 6:4 KJV  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

To walk in newness of life is to walk a life led by the Spirit dealing with things our flesh is too weak to handle.

The year was the 601st year of Noah’s life.
•    Man was made the sixth day.
•    The seventh was when God rested.
•    6 represents man in the bible.
•    Did you know it was SIX CLAY JARS that were used in the wedding at Cana where Jesus did His first miracle?
•    They were DIPPED IN THE WATER and the water was TURNED INTO WINE!
•    Water baptism and Spirit baptism.
•    God does His first miracle in us with WATER AND SPIRIT when we’re born again into the KINGDOM.

7 is REST.

If we have a sets of TEN apples in front of us, the first SET has TEN.

                            11th is first of SECOND TEN.

•    The eleventh is the beginning of the SECOND SET of TEN.
•    Similarly, a CENTURY is when you have ONE YEAR and 99 more. 

                    11th set is FIRST OF 2nd 100

The NUMBER 100 is the FIRST SET CALLED A “CENTURY.”
•    FROM 1 to 100.
•    Not 0 to 100
•    0 is nothing.
•    The first year that makes up the SECOND CENTURY would be 101!
•    The LAST DIGIT 1 always indicates the beginning of the next set.
•    Many people misunderstood the logic in using the term NEW MILLENNIUM.
•    The NEW MILLENNIUM did not start in the year 2000.
•    The Number 2000 is actually the LAST number of the century that started in 1901.
•    You start with 1 and end with 10.
•    Or 1901 and end with 2000 for a millennium.
•    So since Jesus Christ, the SECOND MILLENNIUM ENDED in 2000.
•    The THIRD millennium started in 2001.
•    The NEW THIRD millennium started in 2001.
•    2000 is the last year of the SECOND MILLENNIUM.
•    200 is the last of a complete set, not the first of an additional set.

That means the 601st year of NOAH’S LIFE STARTED HIS SEVENTH CENTURY!
•    The seventh CENTURY of his life would END on 700.
•    NOAH LEFT THE CENTURY OF HIS FLESH AND HUMANITY, figuratively speaking, and ENTERED THE CENTURY OF REST!
•    The FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH OF THE 601st year of his life!!

Everything about NOAH speaks of REST!
•    His name means rest.
•    The dove found REST for her feet.
•    The ark RESTED on Ararat the SEVENTH MONTH.
•    The dove came back he waited 7 days.
•    Let dove out again and it came back with leaf, waited seven more days.
•    7 days, plus 7 days, and that second 7th day was first day of the 7th century!
•    7 – 7 – and a big 7!

Peter spoke of NOAH and the flood like baptism today.

1 Peter 3:20-21 KJV  Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.  (21)  The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Jesus went into the KINGDOM!

1 Peter 3:22 KJV  Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

1 Peter 4:1-2 KJV  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;  (2)  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

No coincidence baptism is associated with NOAH and mentions Christ resurrected to sit at the right hand, having suffered in the flesh ONCE, which is the concept we must to ARM OUR MINDS WITH!
•    We cease from all the slaving works of fleshliness and REST IN KINGDOM ENTHRONEMENT WITH HIM!


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