The Lord’s Work – Part 2
Now, today, in the NT, there IS a way to “do the Lord’s work”. Not carnally!! But spiritually…
John 4:31-34 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
“My meat is… to finish His work”, Jesus says. If that can be taken in reverse… “my meat” is to finish His work.
So…. to EAT – or to HAVE or to GIVE “my meat” is to finish His work.
Jesus said, “My meat is… to finish His work”. So to eat Jesus’s meat is to finish His work.
John 6:35, 54-56 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. … 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
IF: To eat His meat is to believe on Him.
AND: His meat is to finish His work.
THEN: To believe on Him is to finish His work.
So, if you’ve believed on Jesus, you’ve finished the same work that He finished. You’ve done the Father’s will, and finished His work. You’ve eaten His finished work.
His work, His words, eternal life is completed and manifested in you just like that blind man.
You don’t have to do what Jesus did. You don’t have to open the eyes of the blind.
You don’t have to walk as he walked. You don’t have to be a good little soldier and obey your whole life. You don’t have to endure the cross! You just have to eat.
1 Corinthians 10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
Everything he did and everything He is, you are partaker of, by eating of His meat.
IN JESUS, you went to the cross and died, you were buried and rose again, you ascended on high, “now no more to return to corruption.”
Jesus has already finished the works. Jesus was the work of God! Jesus is the finished work of God.
He became meat, and broke His body. By eating his meat, one is made a partaker of His work, His sacrifice. One not only does, but finishes, the work of Christ by eating Jesus’s meat, His own body.
We can talk about serving the Lord as a Christian and doing “the Lord’s work”, but unless you have done this thing, you cannot and have never worked the Lord’s works.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
This is not a work we do, but what He does in us.
To eat that spiritual meat is to (1) finish His work (2) to have His work in you.
Not only has a Christian done His work, and possessed His work, but he/she IS His work.
Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Nothing you do, of yourself, is His work. Those are your works.
You don’t do your work to get saved. You become His work in the Spirit.
To eat that spiritual meat is to (1) finish His work, (2) to have His work in you, and (3) to BE His work.
This is the Lord’s work… what HE works.
Isaiah 49:20-21 The children which thou [Zion] shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Who are those children? That’s us!
Isaiah 29:23 But when he [Jacob] seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
Remember this?
Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
God did just that, literally!
John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1 Peter 2:4-5 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Jesus is a living stone. The people, the living stones, are the work of God.
These are HIS works. He makes them with HIS own hands.
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
The building of the city of New Jerusalem is His work.. made by His hands.. and yet, made “without hands”.
“without hands” appears 4 times in Scripture. Each time it stands in opposition to a work of man’s hands. Each time it refers to a work that the Lord does.
Daniel 2:34,45 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. … 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, …
That stone was Jesus. The Lord made a body for himself “without hands”.
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Israel circumcised his children “with hands” under the old covenant. We are both born and circumcised without hands (i.e., with the hands of God).
Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
The true vine and the branches that abide in it are the work of His hands. You are the work of His hands.
A Christian (brother) is the work of the Lord.
Romans 14:20-21 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Your Christian brother is the work of God. Love your brother. Don’t offend those that would become brothers. And don’t offend those that are.
Paul’s sermon in the synagogue at Antioch: after preaching Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Acts 13:38-41 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
The work of God is something that is to be believed. The work of God is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The work of God is not something we must do. It is something you must believe, or perish.
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
His work is truth! This poor world is so deceived…
Psalms 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
The Lord works salvation. He saved his people Israel from their enemies in the flesh, and today He saves His people Israel (in the Spirit) from their enemies in the spirit. Eternal salvation is His work.
The Lord also works desolation. Salvation to the righteous, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
In both cases, if He does the work, He does not fail, he does not mess up, he does not come short. He does exactly what he purposes to do.
So does America’s military really do the Lord’s work?
Does Black Lives Matter do the Lord’s work?
Do the liberal media and politicians do the Lord’s work?
Do the conservative media and politicians do the Lord’s work?
Do the police officers do the Lord’s work?
Do the the doctors do the Lord’s work?
Do the construction workers do the Lord’s work?
No. No. and No!
Jun 28 2020
The Lord’s Work – Part 2
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The Lord’s Work – Part 2
The Lord’s Work – Part 2
Now, today, in the NT, there IS a way to “do the Lord’s work”. Not carnally!! But spiritually…
John 4:31-34 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
“My meat is… to finish His work”, Jesus says. If that can be taken in reverse… “my meat” is to finish His work.
So…. to EAT – or to HAVE or to GIVE “my meat” is to finish His work.
Jesus said, “My meat is… to finish His work”. So to eat Jesus’s meat is to finish His work.
John 6:35, 54-56 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. … 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
IF: To eat His meat is to believe on Him.
AND: His meat is to finish His work.
THEN: To believe on Him is to finish His work.
So, if you’ve believed on Jesus, you’ve finished the same work that He finished. You’ve done the Father’s will, and finished His work. You’ve eaten His finished work.
His work, His words, eternal life is completed and manifested in you just like that blind man.
You don’t have to do what Jesus did. You don’t have to open the eyes of the blind.
You don’t have to walk as he walked. You don’t have to be a good little soldier and obey your whole life. You don’t have to endure the cross! You just have to eat.
1 Corinthians 10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
Everything he did and everything He is, you are partaker of, by eating of His meat.
IN JESUS, you went to the cross and died, you were buried and rose again, you ascended on high, “now no more to return to corruption.”
Jesus has already finished the works. Jesus was the work of God! Jesus is the finished work of God.
He became meat, and broke His body. By eating his meat, one is made a partaker of His work, His sacrifice. One not only does, but finishes, the work of Christ by eating Jesus’s meat, His own body.
We can talk about serving the Lord as a Christian and doing “the Lord’s work”, but unless you have done this thing, you cannot and have never worked the Lord’s works.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
This is not a work we do, but what He does in us.
To eat that spiritual meat is to (1) finish His work (2) to have His work in you.
Not only has a Christian done His work, and possessed His work, but he/she IS His work.
Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Nothing you do, of yourself, is His work. Those are your works.
You don’t do your work to get saved. You become His work in the Spirit.
To eat that spiritual meat is to (1) finish His work, (2) to have His work in you, and (3) to BE His work.
This is the Lord’s work… what HE works.
Isaiah 49:20-21 The children which thou [Zion] shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Who are those children? That’s us!
Isaiah 29:23 But when he [Jacob] seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
Remember this?
Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
God did just that, literally!
John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
1 Peter 2:4-5 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Jesus is a living stone. The people, the living stones, are the work of God.
These are HIS works. He makes them with HIS own hands.
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
The building of the city of New Jerusalem is His work.. made by His hands.. and yet, made “without hands”.
“without hands” appears 4 times in Scripture. Each time it stands in opposition to a work of man’s hands. Each time it refers to a work that the Lord does.
Daniel 2:34,45 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. … 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, …
That stone was Jesus. The Lord made a body for himself “without hands”.
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Israel circumcised his children “with hands” under the old covenant. We are both born and circumcised without hands (i.e., with the hands of God).
Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
The true vine and the branches that abide in it are the work of His hands. You are the work of His hands.
A Christian (brother) is the work of the Lord.
Romans 14:20-21 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Your Christian brother is the work of God. Love your brother. Don’t offend those that would become brothers. And don’t offend those that are.
Paul’s sermon in the synagogue at Antioch: after preaching Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Acts 13:38-41 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
The work of God is something that is to be believed. The work of God is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The work of God is not something we must do. It is something you must believe, or perish.
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
His work is truth! This poor world is so deceived…
Psalms 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
The Lord works salvation. He saved his people Israel from their enemies in the flesh, and today He saves His people Israel (in the Spirit) from their enemies in the spirit. Eternal salvation is His work.
The Lord also works desolation. Salvation to the righteous, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
In both cases, if He does the work, He does not fail, he does not mess up, he does not come short. He does exactly what he purposes to do.
So does America’s military really do the Lord’s work?
Does Black Lives Matter do the Lord’s work?
Do the liberal media and politicians do the Lord’s work?
Do the conservative media and politicians do the Lord’s work?
Do the police officers do the Lord’s work?
Do the the doctors do the Lord’s work?
Do the construction workers do the Lord’s work?
No. No. and No!
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