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December 29th 2020

David_Orr • December 29, 2020
ENLIGHTENMENT
'having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ' Ephesians 1:18 https://my.bible.com/bible/59/EPH.1.18 We see what we choose to look at. When David said “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me.” He knew exactly where he was and what was going on around him but his focus was Jesus. “HOW COULD HE KNOW JESUS? HE HADN’T EVEN BEEN BORN YET?” Wow, his faith must have been better focused than yours. He wrote more prophecy about Jesus in Psalms than Isaiah ever did… Isaiah knew Jesus too! Job said in the worst of his anguish “I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVETH And will someday walk this earth!” We all see the bad but staring off into the darkness screaming LA LA LA won’t make it go away. Focusing on Jesus for the instruction of every step OVERCOMES it and works victory in us. The Christians we know about from the past all lived their faith in bad situations. I knew very few of the founding members of our church and it was founded around 1960. But names like Wycliffe and Tyndale, John Bunyan, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther, Dwight L. Moody and Billy Graham ring true. Tyndale was martyred and they dug up Wycliffe’s bones and burned them for translating the New Testament into English. John Bunyan wrote the Pilgrim’s Progress in the cell of England’s dungeons for being a preacher of an unsanctioned church. Charles Spurgeon traveled this world preaching the Gospel as did Moody and Graham. Martin Luther stood firm on what God’s Word actually says against the excommunication of the Catholic Church. The enlightened disciple of Christ knows ahead of time that right choices are going to be the toughest way. They also know that those right choices are completely necessary and they are the will of God for them. They see the Heavenly equation that Salvation = changed heart = changed ways = changed world. Why did David hide in the caves from Saul? He could have just left and he finally did but even in that wrong decision God had anointed David to be KING. When David kept Jesus in focus the Salvation God worked in him testified to evil Saul his heart was pure. David loved the man who had made himself David’s enemy because seeking God’s heart showed him God’s reality. God’s LIGHT helps us keep our heads and work His will in the most fearful circumstances. 35 years ago this coming February 18th I was carrying out my righteous death sentence for my crimes. But the only true Judge intervened and sentenced me to “LIFE” lived His Way. It’s been a “Wide-Eyed-Ride” ever since with Awesome things and bad things: you will never have “Boring” seeking Jesus. God showed the Adrenaline Junkie that his death defying stunts were nothing compared to walking in His Spirit. Yeah I have been through the “Valley of the Shadow” bunches of times but the Enlightened in Christ walk through. Jesus didn’t save us to hide in our church buildings: He saved us to go out and rattle Satan’s cage and free his prisoners. Get that Gospel armor on and pick up your sword and shield and open blind eyes to seeing Jesus! (Be sure to wear a mask and wash your hands too.) Oh… Read Ephesians 1: it’s AWESOME!

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