Sun.’s Devo - The Kingdom is Here!

Read: Deuteronomy 13:1-15:23; Luke 8:40-9:6; Psalm 71:1-24; Proverbs 12:5-7 God warned them of people who would dream dreams about the future but then try to get them to worship other gods. These false prophets are testing them to see if they would give up the Lord to follow them. They were to put them to death and purge the evil from them. Even if these people were in your family, you were to throw the first stone and not stop till they were dead. *** How does this apply to us today since we live in the dispensation of grace? We stand up to the falsehood of dead religion and tell those trapped in it the truth. Our words are stones. If they won’t listen to us, we pray the Word over them until their old man is dead and they are saved. *** When they began living in the land, if they found out an entire town was worshipping other gods, they were to attack the town and destroy all the people and burn the town as a burnt offering to the Lord. To us, this would pertain to a church or religion that was worshiping other gods. It must be exposed and shut down. We have churches in America that claim to worship Satan. They should be shut down. *** We went over the food they were to eat before so I will just summarize it. The split hooves had to do with rightly dividing the Word of truth to give us balance. Chewing the cud had to do with meditating on the Word and letting it come back up to meditate on again and again. The fins help guide us and keep us upright. Scales cover us like the blood of Christ and the shield of faith. *** Every seventh year, they were to cancel any debts owed and no one should be poor among them. They were to lend to the poor even if they knew they would not get it back because of the Jubilee. God would bless them for being generous. In other scripture we learn that when we give to the poor, we are lending to the Lord. He will repay with interest. *** They were to set their Hebrew slaves free at the beginning of the seventh year. If he wanted to stay with the master, the master was to pierce his ear to the door and he would be his servant for life. We are at the end of the sixth year (the sixth thousand year) and are entering into the Jubilee. We can choose to become God’s slave by piercing our ears to the door. The door is Christ, he is the way to the Father. We commit to hear his voice and obey. It is a covenant we can choose to make. *** We are to give our first and best to the Lord, because he gave us everything. He is always to be first in our lives. In Luke, Jesus healed a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years - the whole lifespan of the little girl who ended up dying. The woman and the girl stood for two generations of Israel. The older generation was bleeding for lack of a healer and the younger generation was going to die for lack of a savior, but Jesus stepped into the scene and stopped both of those outcomes. He healed the older generation and brought life to the newer generation. Twelve is the number for government and the Kingdom of God had arrived, so everything was changing. *** Lord, may we see your Kingdom coming. May we respond to the changes because life and healing is here.