Monday, May 8, 2023

Messiah was to be crucified. Roman soldiers took thorns, wove them into a crown for His head to mock, torture and humiliate Him. We know the crown of thorns as a horrible thing, but there’s another side to it. In Genesis, the curse of the fall is epitomized by thorns. “The ground shall bear thorns for you.” So why did Messiah wear a crown of thorns? Because He was becoming the King of the Curse. The power of Messiah is so strong that He can even make thorns into a crown. He can take your sorrows and wounds and make them beautiful and glorious. Give Him every part of your life even the worst part, and thank Him for it. Because even the hard things, in His grace, will be used for your good. He is a King that not only wears a crown of thorns but wears the thorns that are turned into a crown. If you follow Him, then all the things in your life that make you say, “Why God?” will be turned around. He will take your thorns and weave them into a crown of glory.

You have what they need.
So he pours out, he sees the man all beaten up and wounded and all broke it and, and he, and he pours out oil on him and wine on him.
Why? Well, wine disinfects because it’s got alcohol, oil, soothes. We use it today.
We still use, we use alcohol and we use ointment. So that’s what he had.
But notice both of those things are symbols of the Holy Spirit, the new wine, the spirit and the oil, the anointing of the spirit.
Both are links, you know, sometimes people give me vessels to carry oil, to anoint all over.
That’s a good thing and I appreciate it, but I can’t always carry oil with me, but I can always carry the spirit with me.
You can always be carry the spirit with you and you’re always to be walking in the spirit with the spirit and the spirit is supposed to be flowing.
You know, the crippled man in the book of Acts asks for money and Peter says, I don’t have money.
But what I do have I’m giving to you now get up and walk in the name of Jesus and he rises by the, he had the spirit in him.
You have the spirit in you, which is more powerful than any substance and more valuable than any amount of money.
That’s what you’ve got, you’ve got a power. If you don’t use it, you’ll never see it.
But to use the spirit, a spirit here, see, here are two symbols of the spirit of the spirit.
And we, you know, people talk, they have ideas about the spirit filled life, you know, and sometimes people come up to you and say, yeah, but are you spirit filled?
Are you now? Listen, listen, we are to be open to everything God has, you know, but the focus is the Lord.
The focus is his love. The focus isn’t the gifts God will impart whatever He has for you as long as you’re open.
But the thing is the idea of this, the Samaritan.
When he saw the man on the road, he didn’t start speaking in tongues and I’m not, I am for tongue, I’m for whatever God has for you.
But that wasn’t, they are of God, but that’s not what he did.
He didn’t start dancing around the holy hop. He didn’t start doing that.
He wasn’t, he didn’t start prophesying over the guy and it could have been God could have told him to, but he poured out his wine and his oil on him.
He gave the man what he had the sign of the spirit is a life that is giving and flowing and overflowing and blessing.
And you have the spirit of God that’s compassion, generosity giving because the spirit pours.
And I’ve seen a lot of people claiming to be spirit filled with no real love or compassion.
But pride don’t claim to be filled with the spirit.
Unless you’re filled with compassion and love and generosity.
You can hold on the tongues and hold on the prophecy, hold on all that and learn mercy and compassion and giving and that’s, that’s the spirit of God and then do all the other things that’s fine.
If you truly have the spirit of God, you’re gonna have the heart of God and that goes for everything else.
There are believers on the other side of the spectrum in the camp in, in Chris and or the believers who say, you know, we, we, we’ve got the right doctrine and we have the exact word and we judge everybody else by having the slightest trace of the heart of God.
And it brings death instead of life. Believers speak of the spirit filled life.
You know, the spirit filled life is a life of giving abundance, love, healing, meeting needs, acts of heal the book of acts, people were healed throughout the whole thing.
People were blessed and touched. If you have the spirit, you are to be an agent of that.
And when you are giving and blessing and loving the spirit can flow the wine.
That’s a symbol of sacrifice that you know, that’s a symbol of communion.
That was, this is where he said this is my blood. This is the cup of the covenant.
The sacrifice, you know, when did the spirit of God come?
It came only after the Lord gave his life on Calvary.
Notice that did not come before poured out only after it’s kind of like when they offered up the sacrifice of the temple and then the glory of God came down.
But the glory, the spirit follows the sacrifice.
The spirit follows Messiah follows that the spirit, the spirit cannot flow in selfishness.
The spirit will always flow in giving, loving and even sacrificial love.
It says you shall love your neighbor as yourself. That’s what, that’s what brought this whole parable about.
Well, you can’t love your neighbor as yourself without some sacrifice. You can’t really love anyway without some sacrifice.
But we are. But there’s power in it.
More and more pulpits in America are shying away from talking about the cross because it’s not seeker friendly.
It’s not politically correct. It’s not, it’s not, hey, it doesn’t make you necessarily feel good every second.
But you know what, without the cross, there’s no power, there’s no gospel, there’s no redemption, there’s no healing, there’s no restoration, there’s no resurrection.
All the miracles of God are based on the cross and what he did for us.
And in that sacrifice, the spirit pours and the miracles happen.
And, but then it means in our life, you know, the love of God is not always easy and, but especially when it’s a sacrifice of love, that’s when it’s most powerful and the spirit will anoint that when you bless, when you don’t feel like it, when you love your enemy, you don’t feel like it.
That’s what the spirit is gonna anoint when you’re afraid to spread, to spread the word of God to somebody.
But you go against your fear because of His love, the spirit will anoint Him.
The Samaritan has oil and wine, but it’s not enough.
He’s got to pour it out, pour it out even, you know, believers and even many spiritual believers think, well, I have the spirit.
It’s all about I have the spirit.
Well, yeah, I have the spirit but it spirit is not supposed to be something that you just have.
It’s supposed to be something that’s flowing from your life and pouring out.
When you pour out God’s love, the spirit flows, you pour out in joy, you pour out in blessing somebody to find out how you can receive more of Jonathan’s teachings to receive special free gifts or get in touch.
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