People Need You

Today’s Bible Reading:

Deuteronomy 16:1-17:20,  Luke 9:7-27,  Psalm 72:1-20,  Proverbs 12:8-9

Revelations 1:5-6  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Amen!  You are a King & Priest!  A Minister of Reconciliation!  Go and lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.  You have the authority of a King because you are seated in The King on the Right Hand of The Almighty God!  You have been anointed with the Holy Spirit to preach the gospel to the poor;  to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised!  You are able to minister, don’t let fear stop you.  God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of Power, Love & a Sound Mind!  These people are waiting for you to share!  They are hungry!

Deuteronomy 17:15-20  Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

16  But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17  Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18  And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

19  And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

20  That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

Since we are Kings here, we need to notice some things in today’s reading.  In this scripture God is warning us not to return to our old system of bondage to the enemy.  The horses from Egypt were war vehicles and He didn’t want Israel to put their trust in their fleshly strength and He didn’t want them to become dependent upon Egypt with a long term trade relationship.  In our New Covenant with the Lord we read:

2Peter 2:20-22  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

When you read about King Solomon you will see how he did not obey these warnings that God gave his father King David about Horses, Wives and Silver & Gold.  He was the most wealthy king in all of history.  God was warning Solomon and us too, not to return to bondage.  King Solomon was led astray with idolatry, sensuality and following other pagan religions:  

Exodus 34:12-16  Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:  But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:  For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:  Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;  And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

So we need to be diligent not to let the enemy to get a foot in the door because we can see especially in today’s society what he can do to people when they “return to their own vomit”.

Deuteronomy 17:18-20  And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:  And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:  That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

God’s Word Never Fails!  When you study it every day, and Do The Word, you humble yourself and you, and your children will be blessed beyond measure.  

James 1:25  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Do The Word!  They are Hungry!

Pastor Luke Willis