“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: to him that overcometh will I give to eat the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saying he that receive it.” Commentary: God speaks to his church! If you are part of his church then you will be reading your Bible regularly and studying it everyday! Before I got saved it just collected dust on my book shelf! I only picked it up on Sunday to carry to church! The word “manna” or bread has a Hebrew root word that means purpose! God fed the Jews manna in the wilderness to preserve them for his purposes to bring them into the promise land! Even though only two made it in of that generation the next generation followed Joshua and Caleb into the promised land! God preserves us for his purposes! To be a witness for him in the earth and glorify his name! Jesus said I am the bread of life! Bethlehem means house of bread! Jesus said you will never thirst or hunger if you partake of me! Hidden manna! We are hidden in Christ! As the world chases after vanity in anxiety and fear we are secure in Christ! He secures us in himself! Jesus said I go to prepare a place for you in heaven! A white stone? Judges of antiquity would drop a white stone in a urn if the accused were innocent! If judged guilty they would drop a black stone in the urn. Purity and innocence is represented by the white stone! White garments of holiness! Then a new name is written! Jesus said we must be born again! A change in name means a change in character! Our character is defined by our name! Who we identify with? Jesus is the name above all names! His name is dignity, power, love, purity, forgiveness, redemption, judgment, faithfulness, patience, eternal life and all the character we ascribe to but cannot be without him! Jesus is sinless because he is more than mortal he is God! The perfect sacrifice and only sacrifice that would satisfy the Father! Only he can raise you from the dead! No mortal is able or willing! Raise you to eternal life or eternal judgment depending on what you do will him! Accept his sacrifice for you or reject him? Do you want him more than your sin? By the way he overcame sin for you at the Cross! You will never be able to do it for yourself! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com
Month: September 2021
Sin & Repentance! Revelation 2:16
“Repent or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.” Commentary: What is the sword in Jesus mouth? Sharper than any two edged sword dividing and separating the truth from the big lie? Surely God has not said? Jesus separates the sheep from the goats! Some are saved by him and others condemned to eternal hell! He judges the living and the dead! He has power over death raising all mortals from the dead to stand before him! With his sword of his mouth he separates those in either heaven or hell! He created the heavens and the earth! He commended the widow but condemned the rich! He warned the religious yet saved the repentant! He condemns the works of men yet rewards those who live by faith! He will lead the last great battle on earth against Satan and defeat him and bind him for a thousand years! He hands out the martyr crowns for believers! He judges those who persecute the followers of Jesus and the persecutor of the Jews! The sword of his mouth is his words! The Word of God found in your Bible! We live and die by his words! If you want to hear God speak read your Bible! Your soul is weighed in the balance! The balance scale of justice! Do you come up wanting? Miss the mark? He writes his own in the Lamb’s Book of Life! Your sin will either condemn you or save you! All depends on what you do with it? Repent or be condemned! This is not rocket science! To tell God you are sorry is to much for you? To reject the Cross and the suffering Jesus made for your sin is even more cruel than his suffering for your sin! Be wise and come into the love of God as he waits for your decision! James & Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
Doctrine of Nicolaitians Revelation 2:15
Commentary: So why did Jesus hate the Doctrine of the Nicolaitians? Sometimes they are called Antinomians a group of people within the church holding a false doctrine opposing Christ! They believed they could freely participate in sin because by grace the law of God no longer applies? So what did Jesus say in John 14:15? Jesus said if you love me keep my Commandments! To honor God is to keep his Commandments! Jesus never broke the law! He was Lord of the Sabbath! We have all broken his Commandments for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God! His love for us in suffering and dying on the Cross for our sin through love for us makes us understand that our breaking his Commandments caused his great suffering and death because of us! So in his love he has forgiven us of our sin and the breaking of God’s Laws so we want to keep his Commandments so not to crucify him again! We ask Jesus to forgive us all our violations of the law and sin against God and man! Even though none of us can keep his commandments his love for us enables us to be sensitive to sin and to repent of any sin past, present or future! Grace is God doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves! We can sin by ourselves and to do this violates the very purpose Jesus came to redeem us! He has removed our guilt and to do the same sin that caused our guilt is blasphemy against the will and purposes of God and his redemptive sacrifice on our behalf! Jesus said the two greatest Commandments is to love God and man! To reject his law is to reject his love because he paid the price of death the penalty for sin that we have initiated against God and man! Forgiveness of sin cannot be a license to sin again under the false ideology of grace! Grace is God doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves! We cannot save ourselves only God has done this for us! To sin again against this grace is separation from God and his love forever! James & Hamsa Sasse.
Divining for Money! Revelation 2:14
Commentary: You maybe familiar with the story of Balak and Balaam? This story is in the Book of Numbers in your Old Testament. Balak was rich and powerful! So he hired Balaam to put a curse on Israel. God had to even enable a donkey to speak to Balaam of his error! Balak tried to buy God off and change his will for Israel! How foolish! It is usually the wealthy that persecute the church! Persecute the followers of Jesus! While ministering in India for 3 years I witnessed the Hindu Priests divining for money! Someone would come to them and put a curse on someone else either their spouse or an enemy to bring sickness and death for money! How different when Jesus says we are to pray for our enemies! It was funny in that the party cursed would go to the same Priest and pay more money to get the curse reversed! The Hindu Priests would tell me that their curses worked on everyone except the Christians! So how does the church today divine for money? Book sales! Get rich selling books! My Bible has 66 Books so do I need millions of Books written about the Bible? I think not! When a church leader gives special priorities to the rich members and neglects the poor he is divining for money! Jesus had a lot to say about this! The widow threw in her two mites and Jesus said she gave more than the rich because she gave her all! I will never forget preaching in a remote mountain village in India. After the service this bare foot lady brought me a skinny little chicken with a string tied around the leg as her tithe offering to me! It was all she had! Inside I wept for she will miss some meals for this offering but the Holy Spirit said receive her gift for it is unto me! God gave his all for you on a Cross for your sin! To reject his gift is the cruelest thing you can do sacrificing your eternity separated from God forever! Pride trapped Satan and Adam and Eve producing death for themselves and future generations! But Jesus conquered death for you! Will you reject him? There is salvation under no other name in heaven and earth! Whose name do you trust today? His or your name? James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com