Voice of the Lord

God's voice was heard by Adam and Eve when they actually disqualified to hear it. It was God's grace even from the time of creation. First he initiates his voice and we need to continue it. Disciples on the way to Emmaus did not expect the voice of the Lord but was talking about him. The Lord himself came there and talked to them. (Lk. 24) He initiates. After a while they wanted to stop but he seems to be walking. Now its their turn to continue the talk. They beseech him to stay with them so he did. 

God talked to Cain when he committed sin. Its possible. It doesn't mean the Lord will continue. If he wants to hear it again, he cannot just wait but he need to learn to beseech. After all that is what he failed in. We are like Cain some times. We need to ask God and wait. Often times we do knock the door of the neighbor and then wait for them. When it comes to God we wait without knocking. Its not right. 

Hagar was in the wilderness with her son. Her son has no food or water. Now she could not see his death. She cried. The angel said that God heard the voice of Ishmael her son. Gen. 21:17. I don't think Ishmael addressed Jehovah while he was crying. Yet God heard his voice. Ishmael was not the son of the covenant but connected to the man with whom was the covenant made. If God can hear the cry of those who are connected to you, how much more he inclines to you to whom the covenant was made?

His voice is for teaching and to discipline us. (Dt. 4:36)
His voice is some times not for the ear but for the eye to see. God said to Elijah that he commanded a widow to feed him. Actually she never heard a voice from the Lord. We could see that it just came to happen. She fed Elijah. 

The TRUTH

God is spirit. So the worshiper has to worship him in spirit and truth. The angels who have the spiritual bodies also called as the spirits in Hebrews. Then does God has a body because angels have a spiritual body?

The spirit of God is upon the waters. The word "upon" communicates the location of the spirit where he is working. If the Spirit took a place at that particular time, then where is God? Who is there in the water? How did the water exist?

When God made man with the clay, the man could not move until the spirit is breathed into him. Before the spirit was breathed, the man was still existing in a physical form. Who is that in that man's body at that time and making it hold together?

God is not just spirit he is more than spirit. Something beyond spirit is existing and that is God. We recognize him with name "God" but he is more than God we understood. I think we can recognize him as the TRUTH. 

John the Baptist said that he came to witness the light that is Jesus. Jesus said to Pilate that he came to witness the truth. So you have to worship him in spirit and truth. 

Some said that Jesus is sending out demons by the help of Baelzebool. Jesus said, if I am sending the demons by the help of Baelzebool then how do your sons sending out demons? Even the sons of Pharisees also actually sending out demons by the help of the spirit. But Jesus said that they are under bondage but still say that they will give freedom. Now if they have spirit of God how come they are in bondage? It's because they have the help of the spirit but there is no truth in them. Truth sets them free if they have it. 

Palm Sunday

When Jesus came to Jerusalem we see three towns there related to his triumphal entry: Jericho, Bethphage and Bethany.

He actually came from Jericho. (Matt. 20:29).
First he reached Bethphage. (Matt. 21:1).
That night he spent in Bethany. (Matt. 21:17).

In Bethphage donkey was tied. (Matt. 21:2)
In Jericho a man was beaten. (Lk. 10:30)
In Bethany Lazarus was dead. (Jn. 11:14)

"Tied, beaten and was killed." This is the fate of a man. This is the strategy of the devil for the man whom he caught into his net. When Adam sinned the whole humanity came before the judgment seat of the Lord. They are sentenced to death. But the Judge now wanted to take human form to pay the price to deliver him.

They sung a song. "Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD..." (Ps 118:26). It sounds good but the very next verse says to tie the victim to the horns of the altar. "...bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.(Ps. 118:27). Who is that sacrifice? The same One who comes in the name of the LORD. Now it is his last visit to Jerusalem. He is going to be TIED, BEATEN and then will DIE. This is the payment. 

He is taking the place of the man to pay the price. In resurrection the devil will pay the price for all the things he has done.

In Bethphage donkey was delivered. (Matt. 21:3)
In Jericho a man was healed. (Lk. 10:34)
In Bethany Lazarus was resurrected. (Jn. 11:44)