The Boldness of the Righteous

Monday, September 4, 2023 – The Heavenly Gaps

During the Feast of Sukkot, Tabernacles, the people dwell in a temporary dwelling called a sukkah. When you build your sukkah, you leave gaps so that when you sit underneath it, you can see the sky, clouds, the moon and stars at night. In life there are gaps. Some of these gaps in your life are actually heavenly. When you look at what’s missing: money, comfort, success, strength, abilities, friends, family, marriage, health, youth, whatever it is, it’s not always bad. If you had everything you wanted, if your life was a complete dwelling on earth, you wouldn’t need God and you wouldn’t see heaven. But the very gaps you want closed are often there for your own good. They’re the gaps in the roof of your sukkah, so you don’t forget the most important things. They’re there so you might see through the earthly things which pass away, beyond to the skies, to the stars, to the heavens, to the face of God. So rejoice in what you have and rejoice in what you don’t. For in the absences and the gaps of your sukkah… there’s heaven.

You know, in in in Exodus, when they’re they go, you know, they’re the time of the Red Sea, they sing that song of the lord, and says the in in Hebrew, the lord is my strength, or the lord is my o’s.
The word for strength, o’s My lord is, but it also means boldness. The lord is my boldness.
You know, strength and boldness go together.
A person who’s bold in the lord is gonna be strong in the lord.
not saying bold in their ego in the lord. Bold in the lord. They will be strong in the lord.
Listen to this proverb. Proverbs 28, it says this. First one, the wicked flee when nobody’s pursuing them.
but the righteous are as bold as a lion. Bold as a lion. Why?
Messiah is a lion. He’s the lion of the tribe of Judah. He’s a lion.
Messiah is also a lamb. Behold the lamb of god. Why both? A lamb represents his nature.
Good, secure, sacrifice. giving, love, blameless, lion. Lion. That’s a that’s a lamb.
Lion power might almighty king.
God is good, righteous love lamb, but he’s also powerful mighty, the king of kings.
lion needs to be both needs to be both.
You know, it’s not a lion without a lamb, and it’s not a lamb without a lion.
god is love. Lamb, but love cannot be weak. Lion. Or it’s not love.
It’s not gonna be God is good all the time. Lamb. Pure.
But goodness has to be strong like a lion. You don’t want goodness to be weak.
You don’t want you don’t want love to lack strength. You don’t want god’s mercy to be weak.
You don’t want god’s protection to be weak. You want god you want love to be almighty.
You want goodness to be the king.
You want the lamb to be the lion and the lion to be the lamb. That’s Messiah.
He came first as the lamb. He’s coming the second time as the lion.
That is the nature of god, and it’s and you are of god. You’re a child of god.
You’re a you’re a disciple of Messiah.
So you have to have the nature of the line and the lamb too. What what’s that?
The lamb, you are to be righteous, good, pure, giving.
Everything that’s good and beautiful, you are to be like that.
But you’re also to be strong like the lion.
because if you’re good, but you’re not strong, then your goodness is gonna be weak.
If you’re loving but you’re not strong, your love is not gonna last.
If you’re righteous, but the righteousness is not powerful, then your righteousness is gonna be wiped away.
It’s not gonna be able to hold.
If you got faith, but your faith isn’t strong, what good will your faith be? Hi.
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