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10/13/2012 recording date. audio/video is 13 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. A Place of Preparation I am your host Christina Farris coming live from turtle30cshell.com. Today I am talking on the place of Preparation. Jesus prepares a home for us. Yet He comes in and makes a home in our heart while we live on earth if we invite Him. Jesus can not come into our heart unless we invite Him. God has invited everyone to live in heaven, however not everyone has the golden ticket. To get in you have to have a golden ticket. The golden ticket one must receive Jesus as Lord. That golden ticket gives us the ability when we die to walk on the streets of gold. It gives us a new home a place for our soul to dwell. A place for our soul to dwell in a incorruptible body. If we are resurrected our body will change instantly to incorruptible body. If we die and go on to be with the Lord our soul is given a new body in which to live in. Let us begin reading today’s passage. John 14:1-31 KJV (1) Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) 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. (3) 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. (4) And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. (5) Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? (6) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (7) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. (8) Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (9) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (11) Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. (12) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (13) And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (14) If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (15) If ye love me, keep my commandments. (16) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (17) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (18) I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (19) Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. (20) At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (21) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (22) Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? (23) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (24) He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. (25) These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. (26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (27) Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (28) Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (29) And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. (30) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (31) But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. One of the greatest mystery of God has to do with our spirit and His Spirit living within our hearts and communing with us upon salvation. It not mystery in the since of trying to figure out how it works, but a mystery of God that keeps us intrigued tell we join Him in heaven and continues on through out life. Christ was fixing to die and he was talking to his disciples about spiritual things and the fact they will not be left alone. One must remember that John is writen to the Gentiles. Gentile people unfamiliar with the Holy Spirit yet he speaking to people that were of the Jewish faith. It is teaching of the Jews long before the New Testament. When a Jew came to repentance God did not leave him without the ability to follow Him. In fact God anointed his people for his service. If God anoints you for his service He will not leave you without the ability to perform the task He has planned for you to do. The regeneration of the Holy Spirit from generation must be ignited in each believers life. What I mean is, without the knowledge of the Holy Spirit it leaves people without knowing that God is leaving a communication device with them to comfort them by bringing sweet assurance by His Word. Jesus in the passage is providing the comfort the disciples need for the days head. When a love one passes the recall of their memories stay with us. That the easy part to understand, but it is the hope that continues with not so much new wording, but the prophecy or foretelling of certain events in one’s life. It something that has to be experienced but can not be explained. However it like God speaking to Joseph to take Mary to be his wife or to go to Egypt to protect Jesus. Another example is Peter going to speak to Cornelius being prepared in his heart for the task. In Service for God is about preparation. Anything God has not prepared and God is not in is not of God. Evil is not of God. If we love God we will keep his commandments. If we don’t we will keep on sinning. Yet even sinners know to do good and maybe not have faith. That how the devil trap of deception. Man even after salvation is still with fault, the difference is faith. Deception is the greed for money and lust there of. Doing anything to get it even putting on a smile and demonstrating love to causing someone harm. When a person goes to be with God all evil is put away, and life continues in new incorruptible body in heaven. When Christ comes into the heart, sin is put away, but it still creeps in because we live in this world, but the power of the Holy Spirit is given to over come sin. Jesus in the passage when speaking to the disciples claimed to be the Father. Yet many say how is Christ the Father. In the beginning of this message we talked how Jesus’ Spirit came and lived in our hearts and communed with us. Christ’s Spirit is the same as the Holy Spirit and the Holy is the Spirit of Jehovah. In physical form we see a Father and a Son. We understand children are made up of both dna of both parents. Christ conception was not normal birth. He was conceived by the power of God by the Holy Spirit. Mary received the Holy Spirit giving God the ability to be born in human form. This has only happened once. For the soul purpose of redeeming us. Coming to teach to preach and to heal his people. Let us look at another passage that explains the Godhead bodily. Colossians 2:9 KJV (9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And also in this passage Matthew 1:23 KJV (23) Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Emmanuel being the Greek and Hebrew with different spelling, meaning God with us. That how the Father and the Son are one, though we see them as two different persons like the Holy Spirit being the third person of the Trinity, yet each part acting in unity with the other parts, within the body of the Godhead bodily. Jesus being the word which as been discussed in other lessons and the Spirit going forth yet dwelling in us and with us in our hearts, but it does not make us equal, for His Spirit is not ours. Our spirit is different. However our soul was made in the image of God to live with him for eternity, but if we choose not God we find we are not part of the family of God facing a life of torment because of our sin in this life. Are you standing half in hell already wanting to be consumed or are you going to reach up and take the gift God has graciously give which is salvation through Christ Jesus. |