Be Still Pt. 4

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble with Pure

Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy.

Before I start, I am going to keep reminding you. We have a

Bible study Wednesday nights, six p m. We meet at Top Hat Pools

and Stoves, twenty two fifty eight Main Street, Wheeling, West Virginia.

You need to come. I mention this on January first, how important it

is for you to sit under anointed teaching. And I even mentioned, you

know, let's just start something new. You know you need to start.

You need to move out of the old end of the new right. So

I want to see you come to Bible study. We'll be waiting on you.

This is part four of bees Still and Know that I Am God.

Last week I talked about Jacob and his wrestling with God. This same Jacob

had another dramatic encounter with God. Again he was alone with God. It

was another be still moment. So let's read in Genesis twenty eight, verses

ten through nineteen about what happened. And this is out of the New King

James. And by the way, everything after this that I read is going

to be out of the amplified version. But this is the new king James,

Verse ten, Genesis twenty eight. Now Jacob went out from Bear Sheeba

and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there

all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones

of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in

that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, ladder was set

up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven. And there the

angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold the Lord stood

above it and said, I am the Lord, God of Abraham, your

father and God and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie,

I will give it to you and your descendants. Also, your descendants

shall be as the dust of the earth. You shall spread abroad to the

west and the east, to the north and the south. And in you

and in your seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and

will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until

I have done what I have spoken to you. Then Jacob awoke from missleep

and said, surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not

know it, And he was afraid, and said, how awesome is this

place. This is none other than the House of God, and this is

the gate of Heaven. Then Jacob rose early in the morning and took the

stone that he had put at his head and set it up as a pillar

as a memorial, and poured oil on top of it. And he called

the name of that place Bethel. But the name of that city had been

LUs previously. So this was a purposeful set aside time that Jacob had,

and you and I have to have a daily, purposeful set aside time with

God. God. As Jacob stayed there, resting with his hat on the

rock and being still, he fell asleep, God gave it a spectacular dream

that you and I would love to have had. Well maybe you wouldn't,

but I'm a dreamer, and that would have been a pretty wow dream.

The covenant God gave to Abraham was once again reiterated to Jacob. So we

see in those set of scriptures the same words that God spoke to Abraham,

and now he's reiterating what he said to Abraham to Jacob, and those words

had to assure Jacob that God was not only with him, but that God

would fulfill everything he said. When Jacob poured the oil on the stone,

this was a sign of consecration. It was a marker of God's faithfulness.

And not only did it mark the peace of earth, but it marked Jacob's

heart. And I would just say this to you when you are in those

be still moments, God's going to mark your heart guaranteed. Now today I

want to conclude the prophetic word for twenty twenty four be still and know that

I am God Psalm forty six ten by sharing another description in Hebrew of that

word still, which means resting place. It even means final resting place and

also cessation. So let's talk about the final resting place. When you hear

that phrase final resting place, you immediately think of some one who has died,

Like we often say, their final resting place is in such and such

cemetery. As we are being still in our quiet place, abiding in God's

presence, I want you to focus on a very important principle that Paul the

Apostle teaches us in Romans six three through six. Not all the scriptures that

I'm going to be speaking about today and concluding this whole thing are going to

be things about literally dying to self and helping you to understand a very important

principle. So here we go. Romans, Chapter six, Verses three through

six. Paul says, are you ignorant of the fact that all of us

who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. We were

buried therefore with him by the baptism and too death, so that just as

Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so

we too might habitually live and behave in the newness of life. For if

we have become one with Him by sharing a death like his, we shall

also be one with him in sharing his resurrection by a new life lived for

God. We know that our old, unrenewed self was nailed to the cross

with him in order that our body, which is the instrument of sin,

might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be

slaves of sin. Listen, if you can wrap your brain around these next

set of scriptures I'm going to be sharing. I mean they're heavy duty,

and sometimes you just you know, you have to really stop and slowly go

over them and slowly absorb what the Holy Spirit is teaching you. But here

it is Paul is really concerned about the Roman Church because he's saying, did

you like forget you know, are you ignorant of that? Did you forget

that you were baptized into Christ and baptized into His death buried with him?

Did you forget that your old man, that old unrenewed self was nailed to

the cross with him. So that's a really powerful visual if you think about

all of your sin being nailed to the cross and thinking about being buried with

him, and then thinking about being raised from the dead with him. I

mean, it's it's pretty awesome. It's it's very powerful. Philippians one twenty

one. Paul says this, for me, to live is Christ his life

in me, and to die, to physically die is gain gaining the there's

the gaining of the glory of eternity. So that's what happens when we when

we live for Christ, we are recognizing that that old man and all the

sin has been nailed to the cross. When we physically die, when we

leave this earth, we're going to be gaining the glory of eternity. Paul

goes on. He says, for for I, through the law, under

the operation of the curse of the law, have in Christ's death, for

me myself died to the law and all the laws demands upon me, so

that I may henceforth live to and fore God. Okay, let me make

a little more sense of that. Paul's just saying this. He said,

when I was under the law, I was under the operation of the curse

of the law. But now that I've died to the law, in all

of law, the law's demands upon me. Now now he's saying, I

can live to and fore God. Verse twenty, he says, I've been

crucified with Christ. In him, I've shared his crucifixion. It is no

longer I who live at Christ. The Messiah lives in me and the life

I now live in the body. I live by faith in, by adherence

to and reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God who loved me

and gave himself up for me. Again, think about that, he says,

in him, I've shared his crucifixion. Well, if Paul shared in

the crucifiction of Christ. You and I shared in the same crucifixion. Dead

dead. We are dead to sin, We are dead to the flesh.

We are dead to ourself. Because Paul says it no longer I who lives,

but Christ in me. You don't have to worry about living. You

have Christ in you and now because we shared in His crucifixion. Aha.

That is the crux of the crucified life. See understanding that we shared in

his crucifixion and the life that you and I now live in this present physical

body. We are going to live by faith in number one, and reliance

on number two, and complete trust in number three. In Jesus, who

loved us and gave himself up for us. That's a game changer. That's

a game changer, you see, because we are in Him. Ephesians one,

says Paul, writing to the church at Ephesus. He says, in

Him, in Christ, we have redemption. What's redemption, deliverance and salvation.

In Him, we have redemption through his blood, the remission of our

sins, the removal of our sins in accordance with the riches of His grace

which he made abound toward us. Now that's good news, right. Think

about that, Because we're in him, we have deliverance and salvation through His

blood, through the blood he shed on the cross, which removed our sins,

and with the riches of his grace which he made abound to you and

I, that wonderful grace, that unmerited favor is abounding toward us. Hallelujah.

Ephesians one four says, just as he chose us in him. Do

you realize that the scripture says, they're in Ephesians one that before the foundation

of the world, he chose us in him. He already knew us.

He knew your name, He knew all about you before you were even a

thought in your mother and father's mind, before you were ever even a thought,

he already chose us in him. M I tell you, Paul goes

on for in him the whole fullness of deity. Now this is this is

this is heavy duty. You're going to have a hard time wrapping your brain

around this. For in him, the whole fullness of deity, the Godhead

continues to dwell in bodily form, giving complete expression of the divine nature.

And you and me are in him made fool and having come to fullness of

life in Christ, you too are filled with the Godhead, Father, Son,

and Holy Spirit and reach full spiritual spiritual stature. And He is the

head of all and authority of every angelic principality and power. Oh my goodness,

for in Him the whole fullness of the Godhead dwells, continues to dwell

in bodily form. That's you and I are filled with the Godhead. We

have the fullness, the fullness of life. The fullness of the Godhead is

in us, the fullness of God the Father, the fullness of the Son

Jesus Christ, the fullness of the Holy Spirit Verse eleven. In him.

Also, you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in

a spiritual circumcision performed by Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh,

the whole corrupt carnal nature with its passions and luss Holy Moses. So we're

not talking about physical circumcision which men undergo. We're talking about spiritual circumcision that

God does in us. And Christ does a spiritual circumcision when we are in

Him by stripping off the flesh. Think of that picture, Just think of

the picture of your flesh being stripped off. See when you're in the be

still moment, when you're in that bee still place and you read these scriptures,

you're going to see. You're going to see the old man being stripped

off of you. Off of your flesh, your corrupt carnal nature, with

its passions and luss are going to be stripped off of you. Verse twelve.

Thus you are circumcised. When now this is when you were circumcised.

You're wondering when when did that happen? Oh, Paul says, you were

buried with him in your baptism, in which you were also raised with him

to a new life through your faith in the working of God, as displayed

when he raised him up from the dead. And you who were dead in

trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, your sensuality, your sinful carnal

nature, God brought to life together with Christ, having freely forgiven us all

our transgressions. Man, you ought to be shouting, look look at what

he did here, Look at what He did for you and I. We

were dead. Listen, before you knew Christ, before I knew Christ,

we were dead in sin and we were dead in the uncircumcision of our flesh,

all that sensuality, all that carnal nature, all that corrupt passions and

luss. But God circumcised us when we were buried with him, and then

we were raised with him to a new life. Wow. And he brought

to life together with Christ. He brought us to life, having freely forgiven

us all our transgressions. You didn't pay a dime to get born again.

You didn't pay a dime for all your sins, your transgressions to be forgiven.

No, it was freely given. It was a free gift from Christ

to you and I. You paid nothing to be free of all that ugly,

filthy sin and all that carnal nature. Freely Jesus forgave you and forgave

me. Wow, Holleylujah, thank you Jesus. Colossans two, verse twenty.

If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things,

and have escaped from the world's crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism,

why do you live as if you still belong to the world. Why

isn't that a sixty thousand dollars question. Paul's asking the question, And I'm

asking the question, so I hope you're paying attention that if you died to

Christ, and you died with Christ, which you did, which means that

you died to all the material ways of looking at the world and all the

worldly desires and passions, then why are you. Can you explain to me

why you are still living as if you belong to the world. Interesting,

Paul says, why do you submit to rules and regulations such as do not

handle this, do not taste that, do not touch them, which is

referring to all the things which perish which are being used to do this is

to follow human precepts and doctrines. He's talking about religious rules and regulations that

are foolishness. I have nothing to do with a spirituality. Their flesh.

They don't honor God God, they serve only to indulge the flesh. They're

just outward appearances of doing you know this rite and every you know, this

day we're going to fast, you know, every day we're going to just

we're just not going to eat meat. Come on, where's the spirituality in

that? It's just an outward appearance. Christ cares about the heart. He

doesn't care about the outward appearance. He's always looking at your heart. Colossians,

Chapter three, Verse one. If then you have been raised with Christ

to a new life, thus sharing his resurrection from the dead, here we

go aim at and seek the rich eternal treasures that are above where Christ is

seated at the right hand of God. So if you've been raised with Christ

to a new life, and you are sharing in the resurrection from the dead,

then you know, pay attention to the things that are above, spiritual

things, kingdom things. Okay, forget this nonsense on the earth. For

as far as this world is concerned, you have died verse three, and

your new life, your real new life, is hidden with Christ in God

verse four. When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you

will also appear with him in the splendor of his glory verse five. So

this is what we're going to do, Paul says, so kill, so

kill deaden deprived of power, the evil desire lurking in your members, those

animal impulses, and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin.

Okay, that's a commandment. Do it. Kill it. Kill sexual

vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed. I

talked about all the women with the greed for money last week. And coveteousness.

Coveteousness is when you see something somebody else has and you want it.

For that is idolatry, the deifying of self and other created things instead of

God, who Paul's on a war path. Here he says in verse six,

it is on account of these things, these very sins, that the

holy anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of disobedience, those who

are obstinately opposed to the divine will. Let me tell you, I don't

want to be obstinately opposed to the divine will. I hope you don't either,

Because he said, among whom you also once walked when you were living

in and addicted to such practices. But now put away, put away,

and rid yourselves completely of all these things anger, rage, bad feeling toward

others, curses and slander, and foul mouthed abuse, and shameful utterances from

your lipsh He's given it to us. Verse nine, do not like to

one another, for you have stripped off the old, unredreadt unregenerate self with

its evil practices. And I love this. Excuse me and verse ten,

having clothed yourselves with the new spiritual self, which is ever in the process

of being renewed and remodeled into fuller and more perfect knowledge upon knowledge, after

the image, the likeness of Him who created it. I'm going to read

that again. See, this is the hope we have. This is the

this is the positive charge for us. And have clothed yourselves with the new

spiritual self. That's what we are. We are a new spiritual self,

and we're clothing ourselves with the new spiritual self, which is ever in the

process of being. It's that word sanctification, or in the process of being

renewed and remolded into the fuller and more perfect knowledge. And that knowledge is

after the image and the likeness of Him who created it. Wow, you

know this colaution, this chapter three one through ten is just it's just a

mouthful, it's just a it's heady. I want to leave you with this.

We have a whole year left ahead of us. It's going to be

a long year, twenty twenty four. And this is a prophetic word that

the Lord gave me. I hope that you heed this word. Be still

and know that I am God. Write that scripture down. Would you?

Would you just write it down and put it in ten places so that you

see it every day and then and then be discipline to daily go find that

quiet place, that be still place, and get into God's presence, because

I told you in part one that when you continue to do that, you

will begin to experience God's glory. And that's what's going to carry you through

twenty twenty four. And see, this is all a process, this is

all working together everything that I've shared with you, especially what I've shared with

you today, of understanding that you are in Him, that He's in you,

that you are brand new, and that you put off the old man

and the old nature. Amen. So I just want to leave you with

this, remember to be still. Amen. Well, this is Don Noble.

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