PUMP IT UP FOR JESUS!

TEXT:  MATTHEW 5:14-16 (KJV):  [Matthew shows Christ as our King]!

SUBTOPIC:  “CHILDREN OF GOD” PRIME THE PUMP!

MATTHEW 5:14-16  Ye are the light of the world.  A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Verse 14  Ye are the “light” (to shine, make manifest, to appear, evident, to give light as seen by the eye) of the world (orderly arrangement of men; the false church system).

Verse 15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. (collectively as your household or individually, your temple, the abode of God which consist of the total man:  mind, soul, heart, and body).

First of all let’s take a look at the word “pump”.  When you think of “pump”, it can be described in several different illustrations.  There’s the athlete or body-builder who uses weight to build up and tone his or her muscles with heavy bar bells to develop the body for competition.  In this performance, there are three power lifts: (1) Bench press; (2) Deep knee bends or squats; and (3) Dead weight lifts.

Secondly, let’s take a look at another kind of “pump”, “light or electric current”.  This “pump” is any medium or device used for raising atoms to an excited state, and it provides lasers with the energy to raise atoms in its active medium or excited state.  More simply said, “Lasers” are pumped by a light source or electric current to raise atoms to an excited state.  If a light source or an electric current can raise an atom to an excited state to move it from one orbit to another orbit, how much more the “light” of God’s glory moving us from victory to victory and from glory to glory?  He can move us from a dead state into a place of life and victory!!

Children of God, know that you are the tribe of Christ, which is a tribe of “light”!  We’re the ones encamped toward the direction of the rising of the “sun”, which is the beginning or the dawning of a new day in Christ Jesus!!!

The Possibilities Are Endless!!!!!

The Possibilities are Endless!

Scripture for today is from the 43rd book of the Bible; it has 21 chapters; 879 verses, 19,099 words; 15 OT prophecies fulfilled; 44 new prophecies; 85 verses of fulfilled and 7 verses of unfulfilled prophecy.

John 6:53  Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.

“Man can not live by bread alone; with a bottle of wine the possibilities are endless.”  Anonymous

I look at this plaque every morning when I am eating breakfast, and the more I have looked at it, the more I have been intrigued by its meanings in the natural and the spiritual.  I’m referring to the bread and the wine, which are the elements used in Communion.  

Communion is a celebration and a time of remembrance for Christians.  We celebrate and remember what Christ did on the cross for us when he conquered sin and death and then got up! When we celebrate the selfless act, we “come into union” with God by consuming the bread (or the “bread of life”, which is Jesus’s body or the Word), and the wine or grape juice as symbols of Jesus’s blood.

John 6:53  Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.

The word “life” here is that zoe life.  It means to live, to have vitality.  Andrew Wommack said it is “life in the absolute sense, life as God intended it to be”.  With this zoe life in us, I would say that the possibilities are endless for what God can do in and through us!  Thus the title of this message is The Possibilities are Endless!

WHO IS JESUS?

TEXT:  COLOSSIANS 1:18

And he is the head of the body, the church:  who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead:  that in all things he might have preeminence.

“Preeminence” is from the root word proteu’o, meaning to be first (in rank or influence).  It’s from another Greek word pro’tos, meaning foremost (in time, place, order or importance); chief, first day, former, before, beginning, best.

So, “WHO IS JESUS”?

Actually the answer to this question is limitless.  Because He (Jesus) is everything!!!  There aren’t enough words in our vocabulary to describe Him.  Even now, today, many people still wonder “who He is”!  

If I asked some of you now, “Who is Jesus”, your answers would vary because He presents Himself to many people in different ways.  Some may say, “I know Him as a friend, a Savior, a Deliverer”!  The answers would go on and on and on.  And with every answer He is “all that”!

But, just, “Who is He”?