Selfless Faith

In Matthew 10:27, Jesus says to the disciples “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.”

We are not to be ashamed of the salvation we have in Jesus Christ by the grace of God through our faith in Him. The Lord did not and does not want us to stay quiet, being afraid to share the glorious revelations, the mysteries of God manifested through Christ, that has been made known to us. This is truly the Good News, and with all good news, we are to share it with others. This is why the Lord Jesus Christ commands us to speak it in the light so men can see, and preach it on housetops so men can hear with the hope that they may repent of their sins and be saved.

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In Matthew 10:26, Jesus says to His disciples “Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.”

We must continue walking in the strength of Jesus Christ, not fearing the persecution of the world, continuing to be God-fearing strong believers. All that the world tries to cover up with the politics, culture, society, false religions and doctrines will be revealed for what they really are; false idols or great nothings. They can throw dirt as much as they want on their sins and on the Lord Jesus Christ, but if the boundaries of Hell could not contain our Lord and Savior King, what makes them think their petty little dirt is strong enough to hold down the Lord Jesus Christ. Do they not know He has already risen, ascended into Heaven to reign, given dominion over all things by the Most High? The saying is true, “you can run but you can not hide.” Whenever we try to get as far away as possible from God, He is still be there to address us face to face so we can move on. Let us be children of the Light to live in the Light of Truth. Amen!

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So, your body is a temple for God. You will not eat certain foods, get certain markings or piercings. Is the “body” the real temple for God? How quickly we get misled by the flesh. God is more concerned with your spirit as His temple. Once you leave earth, your flesh will not go with you.

Jesus said, “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.” In essence, we can try to keep our flesh as clean and holy as we possibly can, but God does not see how any of us look in human form before He sees how we look in spirit form. If our spirit does not look appropriate, He will not even see the flesh. We are a multitude of spirits, His spirits, which He created, walking the earth to do His work. However, this condemned world leads us astray into the hands of the enemy.

But thank God, the One higher than all the Heavens and Earth that He sent His Son to redeem us so that we may know him once again! He is our Savior King!

When we take the literal approach to our body being a temple for God, we are easily led astray and continuously fall victim to the enemy’s attack. Our body is a temple, but if we only focus on the physical, it only becomes a temple for ourselves. We will set restrictions on our diet, how we exercise, and whatever else we feel is right to keep OUR temple beautiful.

I say, if we truly want our body to be a temple for God, we need to cleanse our spirit. Our spirit belongs to Him. There is nothing more that displeases our God than an unclean spirit. Without a clean spirit, nothing we do is in his name. Just look when Jesus cast the unclean spirits out of the men in the cave; they went into the pigs and the pigs preferred to die than be possessed by the unclean spirits.

So we don’t feed ourselves a certain type of food, but we feed our soul and spirit with hate and envy. We don’t listen to music too loud to preserve our hearing, but the music we listen to are filled with lustful, evil, and/or heinous acts. We don’t strain your eyes in the dark, but in the light, we watch movies that are filled with sex, murder, and hate. The list can go on and on.

My friends, if our temple belongs to God, then we must rid ourselves of the things that breaks the heart of God. Jesus freed us from the slavery we were in caused by our sinful nature. Now with this idea, we have freedom through Christ to do anything we want, but that will only lead us right back to the slavery we were once in! Let us not abuse the freedom He died for.

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In Matthew 10:25, Jesus says to the disciples “It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!”

Now it is only natural and logical if they love the Master, they will love His servants; if they hate the Master, they will have His servants. If they hate the parents, they will hate their children; if they love the parents, they will love their children. We are only a reflection of whom we serve (in which some of us need to clean up our mirror to project a cleaner reflection). Often times, when a child turns out a certain way, it is looked back upon the parents to see if they shared a similar situation in their lifetime. Just as we resemble our parents, we must do our best to resemble the Lord, our God, Jesus Christ. Yet the world might hate us, remember they hated Him first. We do not live for the world, but for the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

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In Matthew 10:24, Jesus clearly states to the disciples (which we should also pay close attention to), “A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.”

One of our worst problems is our flesh always seems to get the best of us when it comes to understanding and accepting authority and hierarchy. It happens daily with the law, our jobs, our marriages and relationships, children to parents, and so on and so forth. We may not always agree with what we are supposed to or asked to do, but that is what we are commanded to do (unless it results in sin against God). However, let us not allow our wants and desires to be used as the word of God. The reason God puts authority and hierarchy on earth is to test us, to see if we are worthy to be welcomed to His kingdom, lest we get there and dispute His perfection and become unwilling to bow down to the Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting to authority is not being submissive to that particular authority, it is being submissive to God and His glorious will for us. Let us soften our hearts and weaken our knees so we can easily bow down to the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

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