HOMEWARD BOUND! (John 14:1-4) Athens Filipino Church of God Anniversary (April 18, 2016)

 

“LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED: YE BELIEVE IN GOD BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS: IF IT WERE NOT SO I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM THERE YE MAY BE ALSO. AND WHITHER I GO YE KNOW AND THE WAY YE KNOW.” (KJV) (John 14:1-4)

(1) HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS: LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED!

YOU AND I DO HAVE – MUST HAVE - THE KNOWLEDGE, THE UNERSTANDING, THE WAYS TO KEEP OUR HEARTS IN/ WITH THE PEACE OF GOD! THE MOST THINGS, THE MOST SITUATIONS OF OUR LIVES CAN CAUSE US TROUBLES IN OUR SOULS AND MINDS! FAMILY ISSUES, HEALTH ISSUES, JOB ISSUES, FINANCIAL ISSUES, RELATIONSHIPS FAILURE ISSUES…. MANY ISSUES MIGHT STEAL THE PEACE AND PRESENCE OF GOD’S SPIRIT OUT OF OUR HEARTS. BUT, OUR TRUE GOD, COMES TO YOU AND TO ME TODAY SHOUTING:                                      

“LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED!!!” IN OTHER WORDS, “YOU MUST NOT LET ANY KIND OF PROBLEMS TO TROUBLE YOUR PRECIOUS HEART, WHERE I’M LIVING IN, WHERE MY HOUSE IS, SAYS THE LORD! GUARD YOUR HEART BY THINKING ME AND MY FACE! KEEP YOUR HEART SAFE – PROTECTED - FROM ANYKIND OF STORM, SUCH AS:                                                                                                                                    

(A)   THE STORM OF SICKNESS IS CALMED BY LOOKING AT MY STRIPES AND DECLARING MY WRITTEN WORD:    

“WHO HIS OWN SELF BARE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE THAT WE

BEING DEAD TO SINS SHOULD LIVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED!” (1 PETER 2:24)
 

                                                                             

THE STORM WILL LEAVE YOU AS SOON AS YOU DO NOT REPEAT AND DO NOT SAY AGAIN AND AGAIN THE DOCTOR’S REPORT, BUT YOU INSIST IN MY WRITTEN WORD OF MY ‘FINISHED’ WORK UPON THE CROSS OF CALVARY, THAT I DID FOR YOU, MY BELOVED SON, MY BELOVED DAUGHTER!!!                                             

(B) THE STORM OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS’ PROBLEMS IS CALMED BY SUBMITTING EACH ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS TO ME, SAYS THE LORD! YOUR HUSBAND, YOUR WIFE, YOUR SON, YOUR DAUGHTER. JUST PRAY FOR THEM AND LOVE THEM AND SERVE THEM, AND IN THE RIGHT TIME, BY MY RIGHT WAY, I’LL DO WHAT IS MY WILL AND PLAN FOR EACH AND EVERYONE OF THEM! JUST CONTINUE BEEING A CHRISTLIKE EXAMPLE FOR THEM, AND I MIGHT DO MORE EXCEEDINGLY AND ABUNDANTLY ALL THAT MUST BE DONE, SAYS THE LORD’ S SPIRIT!

(2) HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS: BELIEVE IN GOD!

THAT MEANS, AS IF THE LORD YESHUA AMASIAH (OUR JESUS CHRIST) WANTS TO ENCOURAGE US TO CONTINUE BELIEVING TO THEIR GOD OF ISRAEL! TO NOT STOP BELIEVING IN HIM WHO WAS AND IS AND WILL BE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, OF ISAAK, OF JACOB, AS HE IS THE SAME GOD THAT HE (YESHUA) PROCLAIMED THAT HE IS ALSO HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN!!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL REVELATION!!! HE SAYS TO US, TO KEEP ON TRUSTING HIM AND HIS LAW – TO OBEY HIS ORDERS AND DO HIS COMMANDMENTS – THE HEART OF THE LOW, THAT IS: “TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS, WITH ALL OUR, MINDS, WITH ALL OUR SOULS AND STRENGTH!”

YOU KNOW MY DEAREST BROTHER & SISTER: OUR LORD GIVES YOU EXACTLY THE SAME ORDER: “BELIEVE IN GOD”! DO YOU TRULLY BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF ISRAEL? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN HIM? DOES YOUR LIFE SHOWS THAT TO THE PEOPLE IN ACTION AND IN WORDS? ARE YOU REFLECTING HIS IMAGE AND GLORY AND CHARACTER? 

(3) HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS: BELIEVE ALSO IN ME!

WHY THIS SEPERATION COMING OUT FROM THE MOUTH OF THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD? WHY DOES HE SAY: “BELIEVE IN GOD, AND IMMEDIATELY WITH HIS SAME BREATH HE SAYS “BELIEVE ALSO IN ME”? IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM – YESHUA, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST – AND THE GOD FATHER? IS THE SON OF GOD, OUR SAVIOR AND LORD AND COMING KING SOMEONE WHO IS A LITTLE OR MORE INFERIOR TO GODHEAD? NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT! THE BIBLE ABSOLUTELY CLEARLY STATES:

(a)    “WHO ARE ISRAELITES TO WHOM PERTAINETH THE ADOPTION AND THE GLORY

AND THE COVENANTS AND THE GIVING OF THE LAW AND THE SERVICE OF GOD AND THE PROMISES WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS AND OF WHOM AS CONCERNING THE FLESH CHRIST CAME, WHO IS OVER ALL GOD BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN.” (ROMANS 9: 4-5)

(b)   “AND WE KNOW THAT THE SON OF GOD IS COME AND HATH GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING THAT WE MAY

KNOW HIM THAT IS TRUE AND WE ARE IN HIM THAT IS TRUEEVEN IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.”  (1 JOHN 5:20)

(c)    “TAKE HEED THEREFORE UNTO YOURSELVES AND TO ALL THE FLOCK OVER WHICH THE HOLY GHOST HATH MADE

YOU OVERSEERS TO FEED THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH HE HATH PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD.” (ACTS 20: 28)

(4)    HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS: IN GOD’S FATHER HOUSE THERE ARE MANY ROOMS/ MANSIONS!

THERE ARE NOT FEW, OR SOME JUST FOR THE PROPHETS OR THE APOSTLES, BUT THERE ARE MANY ROOMS FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, EVEN THOUGH WE ARE MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT WILL LIVE THERE IN ETERNITY!!! IN THE MOST WONDERFUL – AWESOME – BRILLIANT AND GLORIOUS HEAVENLY MANSIONS THAT OUR IMAGINATION ONLY BY THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRTI MIGHT CATCH JUST A WEAK GLIMPSE OF THEM!!!

(5)    HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS:  I – CHRIST – PREPARE THERE A PLACE FOR YOU!

PLEASE GO AND READ REVELATION CHAPTER  21 AND SEE EXACTLY WHAT THAT HOUSE LOOKS LIKE! 

(6)    HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS: I’ LL COME AGAIN TO TAKE YOU IN MYSELF! HOW THAT WILL HAPPEN? 

 

“BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT BRETHREN CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP THAT YE SORROW NOT EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE. FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM. FOR THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP.

FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST- THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.”  (1 THESSALONIANS 4: 13-18)

 

“FOR OUR CONVERSATION IS IN HEAVEN FROM WHENCE ALSO WE LOOK FOR THE SAVIOUR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST: WHO SHALL CHANGE OUR VILE BODY THAT IT MAY BE FASHIONED LIKE UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY ACCORDING TO THE WORKING WHEREBY HE IS ABLE EVEN TO SUBDUE ALL THINGS UNTO HIMSELF.” (PHILIPPIANS 3: 20-21)

(7)    HOMEWARD BOUND MEANS: YOU KNOW THE WAY, WHERE I’M GOING!

(a)    TO LOVE HIM, DAY BY DAY MORE AND MORE, WITH ALL OUR HEARTS, WITH ALL OUR MINDS, WITH ALL OUR SOULS, WITH ALL OUR STRENGTH!

(b)   BY TALKING TO HIM. BY WORSHIPPING HIM. BY DOING HIS WILL – LISTENING TO HIS VOICE, SEEING HIM WHAT HE SHOWS US TO BE AND TO DO. BY EXECUTING HIS ORDINANCES WILLINGLY!

WE KNOW HOW TO WALK WITH HIM, SIDE BY SIDE, OR BETTER BY FOLLOWING HIM, HIS FOOTSTEPS BY DOING EXCTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING WHILE ON EARTH, AND SURELY COMMANDS US, YOU AND I, TO DO THE SAME: MARK 16:15-19!

“AND HE SAID UNTO THEM GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. HE THAT BELIEVETH AND IS BAPTIZED SHALL BE SAVED BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT SHALL BE DAMNED.

AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE IN MY NAME SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS THEY SHALL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES THEY SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS AND IF THEY DRINK ANY DEADLY THING IT SHALL NOT HURT THEM THEY SHALL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK AND THEY SHALL RECOVER. SO THEN AFTER THE LORD HAD SPOKEN UNTO THEM

HE WAS RECEIVED UP INTO HEAVEN AND SAT ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. AND THEY WENT FORTH AND PREACHED EVERY WHERE THE LORD WORKING WITH THEM AND CONFIRMING THE WORD WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING. AMEN.”