Do Not Eat Of The Lamb Raw

Our Lord Jesus was the Lamb of God, the Lamb that took away the sins of this world as proclaimed by John the Baptist.  In the Old Testament, God instructed Moses and the Israelites not to eat their lamb raw during the Feast of Passover.  In their dispensation, God was using the Feast of the Passover to point them to Jesus’ finished work at the cross. Jesus Himself was the Lamb of God to be burnt at the cross. He was the Burnt Offering...

Incidentally, the word "LAMB" in the Chinese Character is actually showing us the picture of a  lamb being burnt by fire. The strokes that made up the word "LAMB" in the Chinese Character is depicting a young sheep that is being roasted by fire.

The word "LAMB" in Chinese Character

The upper part of this character "LAMB" is a picture of a young “sheep” and the lower part is the picture of “fire”. It indicates a young sheep is being roasted by fire. This combination of a young sheep on top and fire at the bottom is depicting a "LAMB".

This young Sheep was roasted at the cross. This young Sheep was judged at the cross. This young Sheep was the Burnt Offering prepared by the Heavenly Father.

Exodus

12:8 ~ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 

12:9 ~ Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts. 

12:10 ~ And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

As a New Covenant believer, do not eat of the Lamb raw… Do not meditate on the Jesus that was before the cross. We are to meditate on the Jesus that is after the cross… after He was being roasted... after He was being burnt... after He was being judged... after His Finished Work.  We are to listen to the word of Christ, because Apostle Paul revealed that our faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ. When we listen to the Word of Christ, we are not eating the Lamb raw, we are eating the well roasted Lamb. We are eating the Lamb Who was being completely judged. We are eating the Burnt Offering well pleasing to God...

Do not eat of the Lamb raw...!

The Air That I Breathe

The system of Hebrew numerals  is a quasi-decimal  alphabetic numeral system using the  letters  of  the   Hebrew  alphabet. The  Hebrew   Numerical  5,  is  Hei  ה  in Hebrew.  The image of the  letter  Hei ה  is a window. The  picture of a window is in the sense of allowing air and light to come into our life.  It is an opening by which the  light and the  air outside  can reach us. The  letter  stems from  a root that means "to breathe", and to be able to see and to breathe are indeed,  two vital aspects of life. These vital aspects of life are gracious gifts given by the Creator of this universe…  and subsequently,  Hei  ה also carries the meaning of God's grace.

Hei ה is BREATH, and Hei ה is also GRACE...

Ephesians 2:8 ~ For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

When we believed in Jesus, we also believed that He had provided a death for us and therefore, we believed we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life. We are born again in the Spirit; and we are now in Christ who is seated at the right hand of the Heavenly Father.

John 3:5 ~ Jesus answered; Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. (Romans 6:8) And for we died, and our life is hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3) Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)  And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Romans 8:10)

We are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Unless we have the revelation that we are dead to law and alive in Christ... This Hei ה, God's breath, is not for us to enjoy because we are still struggling in our flesh to breathe our own breath. Our struggles actually cause us to fall away from grace!

Galatians 5:4 ~ You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grcae.

All the epistles written by Apostle Paul are talking about the spiritual truth. They are written for the spiritual being like us, the Church or the born again believers. We are unable to appreciate His grace because we do not believe that we are already dead with Christ and alive in the Spirit. We are still struggling with our own efforts to please Mr. Law, our first husband. The truth is... all believers are breathing His breath and are judiciously married to Mr. Grace!

Romans 7:4 ~ Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 

When we do not have the revelation that we are already dead with Christ two thousand years ago, we are unable to understand that we are actually breathing His breath. But when the Holy Spirit quickens us to understand this precious truth, we will begin to understand that we are living in His grace and breathing His breath.  It is His breath that keeps us alive… It is His grace that keeps us alive!

Galatians 2:20  ~ I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

His breath is for the dead while His grace is also for the dead.  His breath is for those who walk in the Spirit and His grace is also for those who walk in the Spirit. While His breath enable us to walk in the Spirit... His grace also enable us to walk in the Spirit!

His breath is the air that I breathe... and His grace is also the air that I breathe... Hei ה

JESUS ~ The End Of Your Struggles

Do you find yourself doing what you don't want to do, and not doing what you want to do? Apostle Paul had this struggle too, but he finally found the answer. It doesn't lie in a "what" but "who"—Jesus! Join Joseph Prince as he delivers a powerful message on how your struggles finally end only when you come to the end of yourself and humbly receive Jesus as your true identity. Learn what your "flesh" is and what being "in Christ" means. Let Jesus Himself set you free and end your struggles as you discover who you really are in Him!

Pastor Joseph Prince 

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-02-12 JESUS – THE END OF YOUR STRUGGLES [Ncc first service notes by Gav !]

Rest And Receive At Jesus' Feet

Come boldly to Jesus, rest at His feet and receive all that you need today! Joseph Prince shows you how you can receive effortlessly when you seek Jesus Himself instead of just His blessings. Learn from the Old Testament love story of Ruth and Boaz the power of resting at Jesus' feet and allowing Him to deal with your problem. When you rest, He works—and He will not stop until He has resolved your matter! Be encouraged as you see His love and care for you, and His willingness to protect you, provide for you and redeem you out of all your troubles!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: REST AND RECEIVE AT JESUS’ FEET [Notes of 1st service of 5 Feb 2012]

The Root Of A Prosperous Life

What are the two or three things that concern you the most right now? Do they involve your finances? Your health? Your family? Are you troubled by mistakes you made in the past? This may surprise you, but the devil understands something that most Christians don't. 

Perhaps you've noticed that the Bible doesn't call him the enemy of all prosperity. The Bible doesn't call him the enemy of all health. The Bible doesn't call him the enemy of all peace. Or the enemy of all wisdom…or of all love…or of all joy. 

But the Bible does call him the enemy of all righteousness (Acts 13:10). Why is this? Because the devil knows that righteousness is the key to all victory in our lives.

And that's why the devil spends all his time attacking the gift of righteousness in your life — trying to put inferiority back on you and trying to keep you thinking lower of yourself than what God says about you. But I'm not going to let that happen in your life, because I've learned that you cannot experience all that God has for you until you are established in righteousness.

Righteous means you have “right standing.” It means you have the right to stand in the presence of God — without a sense of guilt or shame or condemnation, without a sense of inferiority, without a sense of fear. In other words, it means that God is pleased with you! It's a gift, of course — made possible by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Think about that for a moment — God is pleased with you! You may have tried to convince yourself in the past that you're pleasing to God, but until you receive the gift of righteousness, you'll never truly feel like you're pleasing to Him.

But when you receive the gift of righteousness by faith, you'll understand that you're not in the process of being made the righteousness of God — but you're in the process of learning about that righteousness and in the process of living out that righteousness.

Righteousness is the taproot to all other blessings —

• the taproot to favor (Psalm 5:12).

• the taproot to prosperity (Proverbs 13:22).

• the taproot to healing (Malachi 4:2).

• the taproot to victory over sin (1 Corinthians 15:34).

• the taproot to wisdom (Proverbs 2:7).

• the taproot to spiritual growth (Ephesians 4:14-15).

Righteousness is a gift that will protect you and provide you with favor, wisdom, insight, power, authority and the anointing!

Is it any wonder why the devil has declared war on righteousness?

He wants to defeat you. He wants you to be influenced by your feelings and your image of yourself — and to be controlled by people and what they think about you. He's the enemy of righteousness.

The Bible says we can be established in righteousness (Isaiah 54:14). The gift of righteousness will provide an unshakable foundation for our lives — a rock to stand on in the midst of every storm.

Jesus never said that the wise man wasn't going to have storms. He just said that the wise man built his house upon the rock — this man was established in righteousness because he built his life upon the rock of God's Word.

What about you? Is your life built on that rock? Is your life firmly established in righteousness? Are you confident that God is pleased with you right now?

If you have any uncertainty about this, if there's any question at all — or if you're experiencing any kind of lack in your life, let me encourage you right now to do these three things:

First – Recognize that you need to get understanding. You need a revelation of who you are and what God has done for you. We will not reign in life without the gift of righteousness, and we will not reign in life without understanding the gift of righteousness.

Second – God wants our minds filled with a consciousness of righteousness because He knows that the devil gains access into our lives when we lack confidence in who we are in Christ.

Third – Sow into righteousness. Plant your best seed toward a harvest of righteousness in your life. Isaiah 32 says, “And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness is quietness and assurance forever…When it shall hail, coming down on the forest, and the city shall be low in a low place, you'll be blessed because you sowed beside the waters” — you'll be blessed because you sowed the seeds of righteousness!

Your life will be changed completely as you receive the Word of God — as you go through the Bible allow God to show you His promises of what happens when you know you're the righteousness of God…

P.S. Satan is not stupid. He knows the source of your power — righteousness. The devil is working overtime to undermine your confidence, your stability, the security that comes from knowing who you are — the righteousness of God! Once you understand what it means to be established in righteousness, I guarantee that your life will be changed forever!

A Facebook Note By Daniel Mentz.

How To Meet Jesus In The Word

God wants you to receive from Him every time you go to His Word! Let Joseph Prince show you, through the beautiful Old Testament story of Ruth and Boaz, how much our Lord Jesus wants to meet with you, show you His grace and feed you Himself as you study His Word. Discover how, like Ruth, you can go from just gleaning blessings to having personal, intimate and life-transforming encounters with the Blesser Himself. And like Ruth, you can't help but experience His kindness, walk in His favor and see Him turn all your troubles around for you!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: HOW TO MEET JESUS IN THE WORD [29 January 2012 - 1st service notes by Gav !]

He Qualifies The CALLED

Noah was drunk

Abraham was old

Sarah was impatient

Jacob was a cheater

Tamar was a prostitute

Moses was a stutterer

Miriam was a gossiper

Gideon was insecure

Rahab was a prostitute

Elijah was moody

Ruth was a Moabite

David had an affair

Jonah ran from God

Martha was a worrier

Lazarus was dead

Zacchaeus was short

Simon Peter was wavy

John had a temper

Matthew was a tax collector

Thomas was a doubter

Paul was a Pharisee of Pharisees 

and Moses, David and Paul were once a murderer too....

God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the CALLED.

The Chinese Character On The Word "GOD" Is Depicting Jesus ~ The Slideshow

The Chinese Character On The Word "GOD" Is Depicting Jesus ~ The Slideshow