SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Matthew 7:29 KJV
For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

OBSERVATION!

So many believer’s are falling short of utilizing their gifts to the fullest of their potential, mainly in the areas of healing and deliverance!

The question then is it a lack of faith? “NO”, what we see as the problem is the spirit of “non belief!” What is being revealed is man believing in the wrong teachings or more simply put belief in worldly teachings which in the spiritual realm hold no weight!

This brings forward a deep concern. How do you unteach improper teachings that have become a stronghold in the minds of the believers?

We must place the true word of God over and over, saturating the mind with the truth! The misinformation must be driven out of the mind by truth

COMMENTARY!

There may be a faith of miracles where there is no justifying faith none of that faith which works by love and obedience.

Gifts of tongues and healing would recommend men to the world, but it is real holiness or sanctification that is accepted by God. Grace and love are a more excellent way than removing mountains or speaking with the tongues of men and of angels,

1 Corinthians 13:1,2. Grace will bring a man to heaven without working miracles, but working miracles will never bring a man to heaven without grace.

Observe, That which their heart was upon, in doing these works, and which they confided in, was the wonderfulness of them. Simon Magus wondered at the miracles (Acts 8:13), and therefore would give any money for power to do the like.

Observe, They had not many good works to plead: they could not pretend to have done many gracious works of piety and charity one such would have passed better in their account than many wonderful works, which availed not at all, while they persisted in disobedience. Miracles have now ceased, and with them this plea but do not carnal hearts still encourage themselves in their groundless hopes, with the like vain supports?

They think they shall go to heaven, because they have been of good repute among professors of religion, have kept fasts, and given alms, and have been preferred in the church as if this would atone for their reigning pride, worldliness, and sensuality and want of love to God and man.

Bethel is their confidence (Jeremiah 48:13), they are haughty because of the holy mountain (Zephaniah 3:11) and boast that they are the temple of the Lord, Jeremiah 7:4. Let us take heed of resting in external privileges and performances, lest we deceive ourselves, and perish eternally, as multitudes do, with a lie in our right hand

The rejection of this plea is frivolous. The same that is the Law-Maker (Matthew 7:21) is here the Judge according to that law (Matthew 7:23), and he will overrule the plea, will overrule it publicly he will profess to them with all possible solemnity, as sentence is passed by the Judge, I never knew you, and therefore depart from me, ye that work iniquity

Observe, (1) Why, and upon what ground, he rejects them and their plea–because they were workers for iniquity. Note, It is possible for men to have a great name for piety and yet to be workers of iniquity, and those that are so will receive the greater damnation.

Secret haunts of sin, kept under the cloak of a visible profession, will be the ruin of the hypocrites. Living in known sin nullifies men’s pretensions, be they ever so specious

(2) How it is expressed I never knew you “I never owned you as my servants, no, not when you prophesied in my name, when you were in the height of your profession, and were most extolled” This intimates, that if he had ever known them, as the Lord knows them that are his, had ever owned them and loved them as his, he would have known them, and owned them, and loved them, to the end but he never did know them, for he always knew them to be hypocrites, and rotten at heart, as he did Judas therefore, says he, depart from me.

OBSERVATION!

When he came in the flesh, he called sinners to him (Matthew 9:13), but when he shall come again in glory, he will drive sinners from him. They that would not come to him to be saved, must depart from him to be damned.

To depart from Christ is the very hell of hell it is the foundation of all the misery of the damned, to be cut off from all hope of benefit from Christ and the mediation.

Those that go no further in Christ’s service than a bare profession, he does not accept, nor will he own them in the great day. See, from what a height of hope men may fall into the depth of misery! How they may go to hell, by the gates of heaven!

This should be an awakening word to all Christians. If a preacher, one that cast out devils, and wrought miracles, be disowned of Christ for working iniquity what will become of us, if we be found such? And if we be such, we shall certainly be found such.

At God’s bar, a profession of religion will not bear out any man in the practice and indulgence of sin therefore let every one that names the name of Christ, depart from all iniquity.

COMMENTARY!

The general scope of this parable teaches us that the only way to make sure work for our souls and eternity is, to hear and do the sayings of the Lord Jesus, these sayings of his in this sermon upon the mount, which is wholly practical some of them seem hard sayings to flesh and blood, but they must be done and thus we lay up in store a good foundation for the time to come (1 Timothy 6:19) a good bond, so some read it a bond of God’s making, which secures salvation upon gospel-terms, that is a good bond not one of our own devising, which brings salvation to our own fancies.

CLOSING OBSERVATION!

In the following verses, you will find your God-given authority the same as our Lord Yeshua received from our Heavenly Father! Have you claimed it?

Mark 11:23,24. Whosoever shall say to this mountain, this mount of Olives, Be removed, and be cast into the sea if he has but any word of God, general or particular, to build his faith upon, and if he shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith, according to the warrant he has from what God hath said, shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith” Through the strength and power of God in Christ, the greatest difficulty shall be over taken, and the thing shall be effected. And therefore (Mark 11:24), “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye shall receive them nay, believe that ye do receive them, and he that has power to give them, saith, Ye shall have them. I say unto you, Ye shall, Mark 11:24.

Verily I say unto you, Ye shall,” Mark 11:23. Now this is to be applied,

[1] To that faith of miracles which the apostles and first preachers of the gospel were endued with, which did wonders in things natural, healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out devils these were, in effect, the removing of mountains. The apostles speak of a faith which would do that, and yet might be found where holy love was not, 1 Corinthians 13:2 [2] It may be applied to that miracle of faith, which all true Christians are endued with, which doeth wonders in things spiritual. It justifies us (Romans 5:1), and so removes the mountains of guilt, and casts them into the depths of the sea, never to rise up in judgment against us, Micah 7:19.

It purifies the heart (Acts 15:9), and so removes mountains of corruption, and makes them plains before the grace of God, Zechariah 4:7. It is by faith that the world is conquered, Satan’s fiery darts are quenched, a soul is crucified with Christ, and yet lives by faith we set the Lord always before us, and see him that is invisible, and have him present to our minds and this is effectual to remove mountains, for at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, the mountains were not only moved, but removed, Psalms 114:4-7.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen in the name of Jehovah our creator and provider of all things righteous and Holy!