Holy Week Monday

On this second day of Holy Week, we give unstinting praise to our Risen Lord and King, Jesus Christ, whose faithfulness we celebrate. We again are held fast in His Authoratative, bold forthrightness, as He cleanses His Father’s House against the enemies who desecrate it and continue to do so.

Here is, Today’s Jesus Experience.

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. It is written, he said to them, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers. Matthew 21: 12 – 13.

Holy Spirit, make me brave and bold as Jesus, so that I will not be afraid to stand up for You, in thought, word and deed. Amen!                             

 Now we continue in this magnificently honouring and praising Psalm of David, as he, with ease and precision, exposes and publishes attributes of Sovereign, Creator God. He begins by addressing the Majesty, Sovereignty, Supremacy and Intimacy of God. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Psalm 8: 1

Then David unleashes, with unrelenting force, the Omnipotence of the One, Holy, True and Living LORD. This is what he announces up front, giving all honour, might, merit and power to God. Listen with the ears of faith.   

Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. Psalm 8: 2

In this one verse we are given a whole host of living, flourishing snapshots of our God, the One and Only True Triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit - forever faithful God. It is a picture of your heavenly Father and mine, as well. Perhaps all that you are about to hear, you already know, but do you publish them all in your daily living, not just with your lips, but with your life?

For others who are not aware or conscious of these facts and God, will you, by faith and in faith, listen and feed? Will you accept every single one, asking the Holy Spirit to have them all shed abroad in your everyday living, to the honour and pleasure of Father God? He will hear you.

We are told first of all that God has enemies. Who or what is an enemy?  Dictionary meanings tell us that an enemy is a person who hates or opposes another person and tries to harm or stop that person from doing something. The enemy can also be something that is deadly or harmful. Here are some simply interesting and life-energizing facts about the enemy, as brought to us in the infallible and most trusted Word of God.

When God had liberated His children from Egypt and they were on their way to the Promise Land, He had an angel lead them at one point and this was His command to them. If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. Exodus 23: 22. Does this not surely remind us of much?

First and foremost, we are shown that we do have enemies, whatever and whoever the enemies are and they are not sleeping. They are attacking us all the time and we are to know that God knows them, sees them and is prepared to be an enemy to our enemies. In short, He will deal with them on our behalf, as long as we are obedient to God’s commands. We can safely say that as long as we are following our Lord, He will fight and face our enemies for us. He will never ever allow us to face any foe or adversary on our own strength. That is sure and certain victory for the enemy. On the other hand, it is sure and certain victory for Jesus and all who abide in Him. If all who abide in Him are God's temples, then He will certainly cleanse them from all unrighteousness and keep God's temples Holy onto Him.

Let’s reason together here. God the Son, who came to us in mortal flesh, fully human as we are, faced the same trials and temptations as we do, making Him our perfect High Priest. Hebrews 4: 15 – 16 tells us this. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Tomorrow, we want to spend a little time on some sound advice and warning words, to which we need to hold fast.