Sunday Morning Musings...

I love the promises of God and stand on them often; although they are not necessary for my faith, trust, and continuing relationship with my Heavenly Father and Loving Savior any more than my relationship and trust in my natural parents is based on any promise from them… It is because I KNOW them and KNOW they love me; and KNOW their nature and character… My relationship with God is based on a REVELATION in the SPIRIT that was GIVEN me of the LOVE OF GOD FOR ME AND EVERYONE BECAUSE OF “WHO HE IS” Not necessarily what He has said… Words are actually a poor means of communication in its deepest sense and will fail us in explaining God or His infinite being and character. Words can be so easily misunderstood, mistranslated, and misused… - “the letter kills but the Spirit gives Life!” 2 Corinthians 3:6 To have the very deepest Relationship with God and our Savior Christ Jesus we must “Walk in - Live by, The Spirit” Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:18,25 - Not the flesh or any fleshly means… The mind and spirit does not think in words but in pictures, unspeakable thoughts, ideas, logic, emotions, and feelings. When someone says a “tree” you do not see T-R-E-E in your mind but a PICTURE of a tree… When you think of a loved one you do not see their name or words they have said written across a screen or page in your mind but you have feelings, thoughts, emotions and pictures that may be hard to put into words…  Think about it…

Ephesians 4:10 “ FILL UP ! ”

Eph 4:10 (King James Version 1611) He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might FILL “ALL” THINGS.

Eph 4:10 (Jewish New Testament) The one who went down is himself the one who also went up far above all of heaven in order to FILL ALL things

Ephesians 4:10 (The Living Bible) The same one who came down is the one who went back up, that he might FILL ALL THINGS EVERYWHERE WITH HIMSELF, from the VERY LOWEST to the VERY HIGHEST

Eph 4:10 (Bible in Basic English) He who went down is the same who went up far over ALL the heavens so that he might MAKE ALL THINGS COMPLETE. (whole)

In “John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible” says “The Arabic version renders it, "that he might fill all creatures"

In “William Barclay's Daily Study Bible” speaking of Eph 4:1-10 and the purpose of these scriptures he says “the Church is to fulfill her great task of being Christ's instrument of universal reconciliation between man and man, and man and God within the world”.

Whoever you are, wherever you are now; say "The Spirit of Christ has filled me with His presence and made me completely and complexly whole" And the Lord will, as the apostle Peter put it in his first sermon, speaking of God pouring out His Spirit on “ALL” flesh or mankind in Acts 2:28 “You will make me full of gladness with your presence”. David in Psalms 23:5 says his cup is completely full, even to running over! And so are we when we become aware of the presence of the Lord in us and in ALL. There is peace and grace and love within us and with others; that without this knowledge is impossible to experience. First I believed in my mind that these scriptures are true and accepted the fact that the Spirit of Christ fills me. Then mysteriously I began to know these scriptures are true, and so I also affirm "The Spirit of Christ has filled me with His presence and made me completely and complexly whole" PRAISE GOD!  This is a sacred secret; a mystery, God is revealing and will have to be known to the nations, the sacred secret and mystery is CHRIST IN YOU  ALL Col 1:27

Peace, Grace, and Love to you,

Rev. Dennis D. Caldwell

WAITING FOR THE SONS OF GOD TO BE REVEALED?

Rom 8:19 AMP  For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship]. – Waiting for the disclosing of “THEIR” their own realization or revelation of their own Sonship; which will bring us into the next phase of the Kingdom of God on earth.

Luk 17:21 KJV  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. If you look two verses back you will see that Jesus said this to those hypocritical Pharisees…..

2Co 3:17-18 NIV  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  (18)  And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Looking for the Kingdom of God

or the Sons of God to be revealed

or come?

Look no farther…..

Peace, Grace, and Love to you,

Rev. Dennis Caldwell