Saturday, October 17, 2015

Blessed Are Your Eyes And Your Ears



In The Beginning was The Word (Jesus Christ), and The Word (Jesus Christ) was with God (God Almighty), and The Word (Jesus Christ) was God (God Almighty).  He (Jesus Christ) was in The Beginning with God (God Almighty).  All Things were made through Him (Jesus Christ), and without Him (Jesus Christ) nothing was Made that was Made.  In Him (Jesus Christ) was Life, and The Life was The Light of Men.  And The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did NOT comprehend it.  That was The True Light which gives Light, to every man, coming into the World.  He (Jesus Christ) was in the World, and the World was made through Him (Jesus Christ), and the World did NOT know Him (Jesus Christ).  He (Jesus Christ) came to His Own, and His Own did NOT receive Him (Jesus Christ).  But as many as received Him (Jesus Christ), to them, He (Jesus Christ) gave The Right to become Children of God (God Almighty), to those who Believe in His (Jesus Christ’s) Name: Who were Born, NOT of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (God Almighty).  And The Word (Jesus Christ) became flesh and dwelt among Us, and We Beheld His (Jesus Christ’s) Glory, The Glory as of The Only Begotten of The Father (God Almighty), Full of Grace and Truth.  And of His Fullness We have All Received, and Grace for Grace.  For the law was given through Moses, but Grace and Truth, came through Jesus Christ.  No one has seen God (God Almighty) at any time.  The Only Begotten Son, Who is in The Bosom of The Father, He (God Almighty) has Declared Him (Jesus Christ).  “Behold!  The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the World!”  Now when He (Jesus Christ) was in Jerusalem, at the Passover, during the feast, many Believed in His Name, when they saw The Signs which He did.  But Jesus did NOT commit Himself to them, because He knew All Men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He (Jesus Christ) knew what was in man.

Jesus said, “Follow Me, and I will make YOU, Fishers of Men.”

The Pharisees said to His Disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and NOT sacrifice.’  For I did NOT come to Call the Righteous, but sinners, to Repentance.”  Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their Synagogues, Preaching The Gospel of The Kingdom.  Then He said to His Disciples, “The Harvest truly is plentiful, but The Laborers are few.  Therefore pray The Lord of The Harvest, to send out Laborers into His Harvest.”

Jesus said, “Therefore, whoever Confesses Me before Men, him, I will also Confess before My Father, who is in Heaven.  But whoever denies Me before Men, him, I will also deny before My Father, who is in Heaven.

Jesus said, “I thank YOU, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that YOU have hidden these things, from the wise and prudent, and have Revealed them to babes.  Even so, Father, for so it seemed Good in Your Sight.  All things have been Delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows The Son, except The Father.  Nor does anyone know The Father, except The Son, and the one to whom, The Son Wills to Reveal Him.  Come to Me, All YOU who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give YOU rest.  Take My Yoke upon YOU and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and YOU will find rest for Your Souls.  For My Yoke is easy and My Burden is light.”

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a Sign from YOU.”  But He (Jesus Christ) answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a Sign, and no sign will be given to it, except The Sign of The Prophet Jonah.  For as Jonah was Three Days and Three Nights in the belly of The Great Fish, so will The Son of Man be Three Days and Three Nights in the heart of the Earth.

And The Disciples came and said to Him (Jesus Christ), “Why do YOU speak to them in Parables?”  He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to YOU to know The Mysteries of The Kingdom of Heaven, but to them, it has NOT been given.  For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does NOT have, even what he has will be taken away from him.  Therefore I speak to them in Parables, because seeing they do NOT see, and hearing they do NOT hear, nor do they understand.  And in them, The Prophecy of Isaiah is Fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing YOU will hear and shall NOT understand, and seeing YOU will see and NOT perceive; for the hearts of this people have grown dull.  Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.’  But Blessed are your Eyes for they see, and your Ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to YOU that many Prophets and Righteous Men desired to see what YOU see, and did NOT see it, and to hear what YOU hear, and did NOT hear it.

Then Jesus said to His Disciples, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and Follow Me.  For whoever desires to Save his Life, will lose it, but whoever loses his Life for My Sake and The Gospel’s, will Save it.  For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole World, and loses his own Soul?  Or what will a man give in exchange for his Soul?  For whoever is ashamed of Me and My Words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him, The Son of Man also will be ashamed, when He comes in The Glory of His Father with The Holy Angels.”

Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, “Which is The First Commandment of All?”  Jesus answered him, “The First of All The Commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, The Lord Our God, The Lord is One.  And YOU shall Love The Lord Your God, with All your heart, with all your Soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’  This is The First Commandment.  And The Second, like it, is this: ‘YOU shall Love your neighbor as yourself.’  There is no other Commandment greater than these.”  So the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher.  YOU have spoken The Truth, for there is One God, and there is no other but He.  And to Love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the Soul, and with all the strength, and to Love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”  Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, “YOU are NOT far from The Kingdom of God (God Almighty).”

So He (Jesus Christ) came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up.  And as His Custom was, He went into the Synagogue on The Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.  And He was handed The Book of The Prophet Isaiah.  And when He had opened The Book, He found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of The Lord is upon Me, because He has Anointed Me, to Preach The Gospel, to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to Proclaim The Acceptable Year of The Lord.”  Then He closed The Book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.  And He said to them, “Today this Scripture is Fulfilled, in your hearing.”  Then He (Jesus Christ) said to them, “I must Preach The Kingdom of God (God Almighty), because for this purpose I have been sent.”

Fellow Believers, make this your motto, “I must Preach The Kingdom of God Almighty, because for this reason, I was created.”

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