Pursuing Holiness- Part 47

When we walk in Holiness, we will walk in greater faith because we hear GOD’S Voice and respond accordingly!

There are two Greek words that are translated “WORD”: G4487 rhēma and G3056 logos.

When Jesus was tempted by the devil, He spoke in Matthew chapter 4:

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word (G4487 rhēma) that proceeds from the Mouth of God.'”

This rhēma Word is the whole counsel of GOD, eternal, unchanged, complete.  We cannot apprehend the whole counsel of GOD for we have finite minds.  FATHER will speak a rhēma Word for us to receive personally and within our ability to comprehend HIS counsel specific to our lives.

The total counsel of GOD is imparted to us in portions so that we are able to receive it and walk in the rhēma Word we have been given.  HE is well aware of our capacity to receive HIS rhēma Word and will not tell us more than we can handle based on our level of maturity.  HE will impart a rhēma Word each day to develop our capacity to receive greater instructions in our walk.  HE patiently builds up our spiritual maturity so that we can walk in a greater level of power and authority.  HE will correct us as needed; this is what Love does!

Moses recorded by THE SPIRIT in Deuteronomy chapter 8:

1 “Every commandment (rhēma) which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

2 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments (rhēma) or not.

3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every Word (rhēma) that proceeds from the Mouth of the LORD.

4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments (rhēma) of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;

8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,

FATHER instructs us just as HE instructed Israel with HIS (rhēma) Word.  The result of hearing and responding to HIS (rhēma) Word will produce the same benefits HE stated to the children of Israel.

Our faith increases as we hear and respond to the (rhēma) Word of Christ.  The more we hear the (rhēma) Word, the stronger we become.

As Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 10:

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the (rhēma) Word of God.

What should be our highest priority?  It is to hear the (rhēma) Word and respond to It!

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