WORD OF LIFE – II

We are alive because God gives life else we are nothing but dead men. Why are we alive then? It must be that God has a purpose for our living anything other than this, death would have been the perfect wages we are to be paid for all we have done against the God who loves us and gives us His only begotten Son. Father of life, we thank you for all you’ve done for us. We are altogether as dungs before you but by your word and mercy, you’ve cleansed us and preserved us as holy vessels meet for the work you wish to do. Oh that we know how to purge ourselves clean and pure for you always without spot, wrinkle and blemish! Holy Father, teach us to live aright pleasing and acceptable unto you. Oh that we have a pure heart and clean hands to conceive and touch you all the days of our lives! Father, help us! We are unprofitable and unworthy to be called your children. Yet you delight in us to have us to be called so. Father, make us worthy by your grace and to stay perpetually so in the name of Jesu Christ. Amen.

THAT WHICH WAS FROM THE BEGINNING, WHICH WE HAVE HEARD, WHICH WE HAVE SEEN WITH OUR EYES, WHICH WE HAVE LOOKED UPON, AND OUR HANDS HAVE HANDLED, OF THE WORD OF LIFE – 1John 1:1.

To an extent we’ve examined hearing the word of life. Now, it is time to see and behold with our eyes. However, we shall not explain much but by the use of some excerpts allowing the Spirit of the Lord minister to us. The explanation shall be in the text part. It is a true saying that much damage has been done to the Bible by explanation. It would have been best reading it and leaving the Bible to explain itself with such a sacred and eternal word written therein. John the Baptist when He say Him said, “Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.” Isaiah, upon seeing Him said this about himself, “…Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” When Moses saw Him, it was written about the man that, “But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off… And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.” John the Beloved from whom we have the above text saw the Word of Life and was afraid due to the appearance and with which form He showed Himself. John said, “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last.”

An excerpt from the lives of those who saw Him, what they sensed or experience and what they uttered thereafter might help us as well:
DANIEL: “Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength… For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.”
EZEKIEL: “So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.”
PAUL: “And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”
PETER: “When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
JACOB: “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
STEPHEN: “But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.”
Perhaps you are a feminist and you said, why is he choosing only men, there is a word for you as well. Are you saying, “since he only mentioned or listed men, it means women are not included and they have nothing to see.” Ha! We aren’t saying that to you because women saw Him too. If not, the writer of Hebrews would not have penned it this way that, “Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.” Women saw Him as well. Listen to the testimonies of some of them and what they did…

SARAH: “And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken… And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.”
ELIZABETH: “Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”
MARY: “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.”
THE SAMARITAN WOMAN: “The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ.”
MARY: LAZARUS’ SISTER: “Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.”
MAGDALENE: “But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,…Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master…Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.”

In order for us not to weary you with much words, however if it be the Lord’s will to bring you to Him with/by much words, we are rightly and eagerly ready to be employed to do so. Nevertheless, we shall not have much explanation but the main question for you is this: “Have you Seen the Word of Life?” We mean, have you seen Jesus Christ? No man ever saw Him and remained the same. At all! They became new immediately. What a transformation! But I am afraid that if you haven’t seen the Word of life you will not see the Kingdom of Heaven not to talk of entering it. Repent!

…to be continued!

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