Worship call 0649 My Food

Friends, where are your accusers?

John 8:3-5, 10-11 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." Yeshua (Jesus) knew the heart of every man and woman. As a totally pure and righteous human being, His experience of every other sin-filled person is really impossible for us to imagine. He knew that every repulsive thought, attitude, and action of every person in the world would soon fall on Him and that He would carry them...away. And so Yeshua did not come with a spirit of condemnation -- but with a spirit of grace and truth. Caught in the very act of adultery, and brought into His presence, the woman's sin was immediately exposed and her conviction was absolute. The sin was condemned.... but not the sinner. Her accusers wanted to stone her, sacrifice her life, and use the law of Moses to condemn Yeshua, out of their jealous hatred of Him. But the Lord, in His beautiful, understated way, quietly wrote in the sand and then turned their hatred into deep conviction. The whole world is convicted in Yeshua's presence. But only the ones who really appreciate His grace are filled with amazement and gratitude. Can you imagine how this woman must have felt? Her mind had been filled with voices of accusation, rejection, and condemnation. Yeshua didn't feed the frenzy, but calmly observed, "He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone." When no one did, the Lord freed the convicted sinner and restored her life, saying, "Go and sin no more." Robert, voices of accusation, rejection, and condemnation will rise against you in the presence of your sins -- but Yeshua will write in the sand and expose the hearts of your accusers. Confess your sin, and stand amazed and grateful, for His grace. Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah (George, Obi and Elianna, Baltimore, Maryland -- Baht Rivka, Israel)

And this is another fine day in the Lord!!

Worship call 0649

Tuesday May 9, 2022

My Food

The woman was passing the word around about Jesus. Giving her witness and asking the question,

You do not think that this is the messiah do you.

Coming into view out from the city was a procession of men coming out of the Samaritan city to confirm for themselves and to see the Messiah.

The Passage does not indicate that he was busying himself healing them and chasing out unclean spirits. But they were coming.

It would seem that though Jesus was not putting his trust in the Jews, (John 2:24) he was himself believing or trusting the faith of the Samaritans

John 4:31–34 (NASB95) — 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?”

Just as he did with Nicodemus and as he did with the woman at the well, Jesus used the physical reality of the things in this world to explain the spiritual. With Nicodemus it was the Wind.

John 3:8 (NASB95) — 8 “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

With the woman, it was the water in the well.

Now with the disciples it is eating.

These are things that these people were very familiar with and it is that Jesus uses these illustrations to bring his audience to a spiritual understanding.

And in each case, there was the initial misunderstanding and confusion. But the Rabbi is a patient and expert teacher drawing his audience in to ask more questions to seek more answers making inquisitive disciples as He goes.

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

βρῶμα [broma /bro·mah/] n Food; nourishment for the body

On the Scale of values, the Lord’s word must be at the top, not putting the physical body first but the spiritual agenda first and foremost.

In the wilderness, having fasted for forty days the Lord was physically hungry, not just hungry but starving. And then the tempter offers

Matthew 4:3 (NASB95) — 3 “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

But the Lord did not succumb to the temptation. His answer was

Matthew 4:4 (NASB95) — 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ ”

First Jesus says to accomplish the will of the one who sent me.

The one who sent Jesus is God who loved the world so much that he sent his son into the world

Hebrews 10:5–7 (NASB95) — 5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me; 6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. 7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.’ ”

It is not that Jesus is never going to eat, but it is not on the Lord’s highest scale of value. The men that were in is periphery was coming with needs, the highest to be brought out of the darkness of their own depravity and into the light of Salvation.

The Lord was not going to say

“Look fella’s its dinner time, come back later. “

That of course would be setting aside the work of the Father to tend to the flesh. That would be putting a priority over the bodily needs than to do the work of the father.

Along with doing the work it is to accomplish His work.

τελειόω teleioō 23× to execute fully, discharge, Jn. 4:34; 5:36; 17:4; to reach the end of, run through, finish, Lk. 2:43; Acts 20:24; to consummate, place in a condition of finality,

there is the purpose to the life of Christ. there is a purpose to accomplish for this life. and ultimately it will end with the cross.

John 5:36 (NASB95) — 36 “But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.

Might I ask in the way of application, does the work that you do, testify about the father?

Matthew 5:16 (NASB95) — 16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus praying to His Father in Heaven

John 17:4 (NASB95) — 4 “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

The Cross was the finality of his work while on the earth

John 19:28 (NASB95) — 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.”

and then the mission accomplished statement

John 19:30 (NASB95) — 30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

We are talking about Jesus doing the will of the Father.

We are talking about Jesus accomplishing the work which the Father sent His son in this world to do.

“Jesus worked hard so we would not have to.”

WRONG!

Jesus not only died on the cross that our sin debt might be paid; but Jesus lived his life as a prototype of Christian life that we are to follow in order to be imagers of Him.

Jesus said

John 14:6 (NASB95) — 6 “I am the way,

ὁδός hodos which not only means the path or the journey as we find the narrow way into the kingdom through Christ but it is also the conduct or behavior.

Jesus the head the leader the one who traveled the narrow way first demonstrated by his life, the conduct by which we as the body the followers are to live our lives.

As the Lord came to do the fathers will, the body, You and I are brought into full time Christian service to do the Fathers will and accomplish the work that the Father has assigned us to.

Ephesians 2:10 (NASB95) — 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Titus 2:14 (NASB95) — 14 who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good works.

Note the attitude that comes with the good works.

ζηλωτής zēlōtēs 8× pr. a generous rival, an imitator; in NT an aspirant, 1 Cor. 14:12; Tit. 2:14; a devoted adherent, a zealot, Acts 21:20; 22:3; Gal. 1:14 [2207, 2208]

It is Paul who writes to the Philippians

Philippians 2:5 (NASB95) — 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

There is a will of God for our lives that we must accomplish a head of the work.

That is for our sanctification

1 Thessalonians 4:3 (NASB95) — 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification.

That is the being made holy in Christ. Having been positionally brought into the family of God we are to be holy as God is holy (1 Peter) it is to grow in the receptation inculcation and metabolizing and application of God’s word, under the filling ministry of God’s the Holy Spirit.

Our growth comes through the scriptures.

And from the sanctified life as we are putting on Christ ( Gal 3:27) and putting to death the deeds of the flesh (Romans 8:13)

From that sanctified life will come the production of good works which honors God.

As we mature in the faith so does our value systems Change. So does our view on life changes. So does our goals and our aspirations change.

One morning you wake up to realize that your bread, your sustenance, the meaning of life itself while in the body is doing God’s will and accomplishing the work that God has given you.

The words of Paul in life.

Philippians 1:21–22 (NASB95) — 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose.

And Labor Paul did. Does not seem that Paul ever took a vacation day or called in sick. And then when his time was coming to a close Paul wrote his closing statement.

2 Timothy 4:7–8 (NASB95) — 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.