“THE SPIRITUAL APPETITE FOR
EVERY HUNGRY SOUL”!
BY: J.FARRELL FISHER,JUNE 28-30,2019
YES, IT WAS KING JESUS, THE PROMISED MESSIAH OF GOD FOR ISRAEL & THOSE OF FAITH WHO WOULD COME LATER, WHO IN MATTHEW 4:4 SAID, “IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.” SOME LEARN ETERNAL TRUTH, SOME NEVER HEAR IT, & SOME HEAR IT & WILLFULLY REJECT IT, WHILE OTHERS KNOW, YES, THERE IS A HEART & MIND HUNGER TO HEAR, RECEIVE, & WALK IN THE WORD OF HOLY GOD WHETHER THEY DO OR NOT! BUT WHERE DO YOU SIT, WALK, & STAND CONCERNING ‘YOUR SPIRITUAL APPETITE’?
IN 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 PAUL STATED TO THE CORINTHIANS ‘FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST’ (?), EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YOU BE IN THE FAITH (OR NOT);PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES. KNOW YOU NOT YOUR OWN SELVES, HOW THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU, EXCEPT YOU BE REPROBATES?”
GALATIANS 6:1-9 IS A TRULY CONVICTING, CHALLENGING WORD. IT SAYS,”BRETHREN, IF A MAN BE OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT, YOU WHICH ARE SPIRITUAL, RESTORE SUCH AN ONE IN THE SPIRIT OF MEEKNESS; CONSIDERING YOURSELF LEST YOU ALSO BE TEMPTED. BEAR YOU ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS, & SO FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST. FOR IF A MAN THINK HIMSELF TO BE SOMETHING, WHEN HE IS NOTHING, HE DECEIVES HIMSELF.BUT LET EVERY MAN PROVE HIS OWN WORK, & THEN SHALL HE HAVE REJOICING IN HIMSELF ALONE, & NOT IN ANOTHER. FOR EVERY MAN SHALL BEAR HIS OWN BURDEN.
LET HIM THAT IS TAUGHT IN THE WORD COMMUNICATE UNTO HIM THAT TEACHES IN ALL GOOD THINGS (THERE ARE ‘GOOD THINGS TAUGHT BY ALL MEN BUT ALL MEN WHO TEACH ‘GOOD THINGS’, MANY OR MOST, ARE ‘LOST’, ‘ALIENATED’, ‘SEPARATED’ FROM HOLY GOD, & APART FROM CHRIST’S BLOOD REDEMPTION & THEIR REPENTANCE, THEY MAY LIVE ‘GOOD LIVES’ BUT VOID OF THE PRESENCE OF THE LIVING GOD IN THEIR HEARTS & LIVES THROUGH BIBLICAL REPENTANCE & ACCEPTANCE OF THE GIFT OF TRUE FAITH’, NOT EARNED BUT MERCIFULLY GIVEN BY THE HEART OF GOD!!). BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED; FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP. FOR HE THAT SOWS TO HIS FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION; BUT HE THAT SOWS TO THE SPIRIT SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING. AND LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING: FOR IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP, IF WE FAINT NOT.”
CONSIDER THE VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ‘FARMER’ WHO PREPARES HIS FIELD FOR THE SPRING PLANTING OF HIS ESSENTIAL GARDEN TO SUSTAIN HIM & THE FARMER WHO DOES NOT PULL WEEDS, DOES NOT PLOW, BUT JUST “FEELS”, IF HE GETS SEED IN THE GROUND, WEEDS & ALL, THAT HE’LL BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN HIMSELF & HIS FAMILY! PROVERBS 19:15 SAYS, “LAZINESS CASTS ONE INTO A DEEP SLEEP, & AN IDLE PERSON WILL SUFFER HUNGER.”
WE CERTAINLY KNOW THAT IN PHYSICAL HUMANITY THAT A MAN CANNOT LIVE BY ‘PHYSICAL BREAD’ ALONE & THAT THE BODY, WITHOUT PROPER NOURISHMENT, MAGNIFIES IT’S SOON DEPARTURE – BUT, FAR MORE DISTURBING, IS THE MAN OR WOMAN WHO IGNORES THE SPIRITUAL CRIES WITHIN THE HUMAN HEART, BODY, SOUL, & MIND, NEEDING THE SPIRITUAL PRESENCE & PROVISION & PRESIDING & PRESERVING OF THE LIVING SAVIOR & LORD WHO KNOCKS ON EVERY HEART’S DOOR, YES, ASKING TO HAVE “YOU” OPEN YOUR HEART’S DOOR & ALLOW HIM TO COME IN!
REVELATION 3:20 TELLS US, JESUS SPEAKING, “BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR & KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE & OPENS THE DOOR, I WILL COME IN TO HIM & DINE WITH HIM, & HE WITH ME.” OH, & HEBREWS 12:25 SAYS, “SEE THAT YOU DO NOT REFUSE HIM WHO SPEAKS,” & THE RESURRECTED, REIGNING CHRIST, THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRIT, KNOCKS & HE KNOCKS, & HE KNOCKS – HE LONGINGLY DESIRES TO ENTER & BLESS YOUR LIFE’S JOURNEY WITH, YES, HIS RESURRECTION PRESENCE!!!
THERE IS AN “ETERNAL MYSTERY” THAT, SADLY, TOO MANY WORLD-BOUND PEOPLE HAVE NO DESIRE TO HEAR ABOUT, UNDERSTAND, & BE BLESSED BY: COLOSSIANS 1:24-29!! “I NOW REJOICE IN MY SUFFERINGS FOR YOU, & FILL UP IN MY FLESH WHAT IS LACKING IN THE AFFLICTIONS OF CHRIST, FOR THE SAKE OF HIS BODY, WHICH IS THE CHURCH, OF WHICH I BECAME A MINISTER ACCORDING TO THE STEWARDSHIP FROM GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN TO ME FOR YOU, TO FULFILL THE WORD OF GOD, THE MYSTERY WHICH HAS BEEN HIDDEN FROM AGES & FROM GENERATIONS, BUT NOW HAS BEEN REVEALED TO HIS SAINTS (OR ‘SET-APART-ONES’!). TO THEM GOD WILLED TO MAKE KNOWN WHAT ARE THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY: WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY. HIM WE PREACH, WARNING EVERY MAN & TEACHING EVERY MAN IN ALL WISDOM, THAT WE MAY PRESENT EVERY MAN PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS. TO THIS END I ALSO LABOR, STRIVING ACCORDING TO HIS WORKING WHICH WORKS IN ME MIGHTILY.”
THE QUESTION OF THIS VERY MOMENT IS: IS YOUR WALK IN THIS MODERN WORLD A WALK OF A “HUNGRY LIFE KNOWING ITS NEED TO BE FAITHFULLY ‘FED BY GOD HIMSELF THROUGH HIS HOLY WORD’ DAILY?” IN MATTHEW 4:4 THE LORD JESUS, CHALLENGED BY SATAN HIMSELF, SAID, “IT IS WRITTEN, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.” [IN THAT HISTORIC TIME PERIOD, IT WAS ONLY THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT PRAISE GOD, GOD PRODUCED THE NEW TESTAMENT THROUGH OBEDIENT SERVANTS WHO HEARD HIS VOICE & OBEYED FOR THE WRITINGS OF EVERY NEW TESTAMENT BOOK & ALL ITS CHAPTERS!]
THE LORD JESUS, IN JOHN 6:60-71,SPOKE TO, YES, MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES THEN, WHO “CHOSE” TO WALK AWAY FROM HIM! THE WORD SAYS: THEREFORE MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES, WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, SAID, ‘THIS IS A HARD SAYING; WHO CAN UNDERSTAND IT?’ WHEN JESUS KNEW IN HIMSELF THAT HIS DISCIPLES COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS, HE SAID TO THEM, ‘DOES THIS OFFEND YOU? WHAT THEN IF YOU SHOULD SEE THE SON OF MAN ASCEND WHERE HE WAS BEFORE? IT IS THE SPIRIT WHO GIVES LIFE; THE FLESH (‘OLD SIN-NATURE’) PROFITS NOTHING. THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU ARE SPIRIT, & THEY ARE LIFE. BUT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU WHO DO NOT BELIEVE.’
FOR JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING WHO THEY WERE WHO DID NOT BELIEVE, & WHO WOULD BETRAY HIM. AND HE SAID, ‘THEREFORE I HAVE SAID TO YOU THAT NO ONE CAN COME TO ME UNLESS IT HAS BEEN GRANTED TO HIM BY MY FATHER.’ FROM THAT TIME MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES WENT BACK & WALKED NO MORE WITH HIM. THEN JESUS SAID TO THE TWELVE, ‘DO YOU ALSO WANT TO GO AWAY?’ BUT SIMON PETER ANSWERED HIM, ‘LORD, TO WHOM SHALL WE GO? YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE. ALSO WE HAVE COME TO BELIEVE & KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.’ JESUS ANSWERED THEM, ‘DID I NOT CHOOSE YOU, THE TWELVE, & ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL?’ HE SPOKE OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, THE SON OF SIMON, FOR IT WAS HE WHO WOULD BETRAY HIM, BEING ONE OF THE TWELVE.”
IT WAS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, IN HIS WRITING “MACBETH”, (ACT 1, SC.3,L.74), WHO SAID OF HIM, “STANDS NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF,” WHICH IS, SADLY, SO TRUE OF MANY PEOPLE WORLD-WIDE! IN HIS WRITING “THE ESSAYS: OF ATHEISM”, SIR FRANCIS BACON WROTE: “THEY THAT DENY A GOD DESTROY MAN’S NOBILITY; FOR CERTAINLY MAN IS OF KIN TO THE BEASTS BY HIS BODY; & IF HE BE NOT OF KIN TO GOD BY HIS SPIRIT, HE IS A BASE & IGNOBLE CREATURE.” WELL, THAT CERTAINLY DOESN’T SIT WELL IN AN ‘ATHEISTIC COMMUNITY’ OR STRICTLY UNBELIEVERS IN BIBLICAL SALVATION THROUGH CHRIST IN HIS CALVARY CROSS DEATH & THREE DAYS LATER HIS GODLY RESURRECTION! EXAMINE MARK 9:14-29! IT SAYS: AND WHEN HE CAME TO HIS DISCIPLES, HE SAW A GREAT MULTITUDE AROUND THEM, & SCRIBES DISPUTING WITH THE. IMMEDIATELY, WHEN THEY SAW HIM, ALL THE PEOPLE WERE GREATLY AMAZED, & RUNNING TO HIM, GREETED HIM. & HE ASKED THE SCRIBES, “WHAT ARE YOU DISCUSSING WITH THEM?”
THEN ONE OF THE CROWD ANSWERED & SAID, “TEACHER, I BROUGHT YOU MY SON, WHO HAS A MUTE SPIRIT. & WHEREVER IT SEIZES HIM, IT THROWS HIM DOWN; HE FOAMS AT THE MOUTH, GNASHES HIS TEETH, & BECOMES RIGID. SO I SPOKE TO YOUR DISCIPLES, THAT THEY SHOULD CAST IT OUT, BUT THEY COULD NOT.” JESUS ANSWERED HIM & SAID, “O FAITHLESS GENERATION, HOW LONG SHALL I BE WITH YOU? HOW LONG SHALL I BEAR WITH YOU? BRING HIM TO ME.” THEN THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JESUS. & WHEN HE SAW JESUS, IMMEDIATELY THE ‘SPIRIT’ CONVULSED HIM, & HE FELL TO THE GROUND & WALLOWED, FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. SO HE (JESUS) ASKED HIS FATHER, “HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN HAPPENING TO HIM?” & HE SAID, “FROM CHILDHOOD. & OFTEN HE HAS THROWN HIM BOTH INTO THE FIRE & INTO THE WATER TO DESTROY HIM. BUT IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, HAVE COMPASSION ON US & HELP US.” JESUS SAID TO HIM, “IF YOU CAN BELIEVE (TRUST, STAND ON, RELY UPON), ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES.” IMMEDIATELY THE FATHER OF THE CHILD CRIED OUT & SAID WITH TEARS, “LORD, I BELIEVE; HELP MY UNBELIEF!”
WHEN JESUS SAW THAT THE PEOPLE CAME RUNNING TOGETHER, HE REBUKED THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT, SAYING TO IT, “DEAF & DUMB SPIRIT, I COMMAND YOU, COME OUT OF HIM & ENTER HIM NO MORE.” THEN THE ‘SPIRIT’ CRIED OUT, CONVULSED HIM GREATLY, & CAME OUT OF HIM. & HE BECAME AS ONE DEAD, SO THAT MANY SAID, “HE IS DEAD.” BUT JESUS TOOK HIM BY THE HAND & LIFTED HIM UP, & HE AROSE. AND WHEN HE HAD COME INTO THE HOUSE, HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM PRIVATELY, “WHY COULD WE NOT CAST IT OUT?” SO HE SAID TO THEM, “THIS KIND CAN COME OUT BY NOTHING BUT PRAYER & FASTING.” SO IN OUR MODERN-DAY CHURCHES, WHO IS IT WHO PRAYS & FASTS FOR THE HEALING & DELIVERANCE OF SIN-BOUND, DEMON-BOUND, WORLD-BOUND MEN OR WOMEN? IS IT HAPPENING AROUND YOU?
IF IT IS TO BE A PART OF A MODERN-DAY DISCIPLE’S WALK OF FAITH, WHAT IS INVOLVED IN TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF DELIVERANCE, HEALING, &, YES, A TRUE SALVATION MESSAGE? AND, “IS THERE FOR EVERY HUMAN SOUL AN APPETITE FOR, YES, THE GOOD, THE ACCEPTABLE, OR THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD?” DARE I SAY IT? BELIEVE I WILL! “”ALL” THAT MATTERS IS “THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD”! THAT MEANS SEVERAL THINGS OF ETERNAL IMPORTANCE!
FIRST, AS A PHYSICAL DOCTOR EVALUATES YOUR PHYSICAL CONDITION, DO “YOU” ALLOW GOD AS “THE GREAT PHYSICIAN” TO DIAGNOSE YOUR SPIRITUAL STATE OR CONDITION? HIS CONCLUSION? ROMANS 3:23, “FOR ‘ALL’ HAVE SINNED & FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD!” & WHAT DOES ROMANS 6:23 TELL US? “FOR THE WAGES OF SIN “IS” DEATH…! BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.” (BUT HOW MANY PASTORS, CHRISTIANS, CHURCHES ARE THERE WHO TALK ABOUT, YES, “FORGIVENESS NOW – BUT ABIDING PRESENCE IN THE FUTURE”? THEY SAY, “GOD’S GIFT OF CHRIST IS KIND & GRACIOUS, BUT HE KNOWS OUR WALK (IN OURSELVES IN ‘BEST EFFORT’ WILL STUMBLE AT TIMES!”)” NO! A THOUSAND TIMES, “NO”! GALATIANS 2:20-21 SAYS, “I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME; & THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE (FLESHLY BODY) I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, & GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD.” UNDERSTAND! THE ONE “TRYING HIS BEST” HAS NOT CHOSEN THE GRACE OF GOD BUT HIS/HER ‘GRITLINESS’!
IN GALATIANS 6:14-18 PAUL WROTE: “BUT GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GLORY SAVE IN THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM THE WORLD IS CRUCIFIED UNTO ME, & I UNTO THE WORLD. FOR IN CHRIST JESUS NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANYTHING, NOR UNCIRCUMCISION, BUT A NEW CREATION.
AND AS MANY AS WALK ACCORDING TO THIS RULE, PEACE BE ON THEM, & MERCY, & UPON THE ISRAEL OF GOD. FROM HENCEFORTH LET NO MAN TROUBLE ME: FOR I BEAR IN MY BODY THE MARKS OF THE LORD JESUS. BRETHREN, THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOUR SPIRIT. AMEN.” WERE “YOU” CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST ON THE CROSS?
SECOND, THERE MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & ACCEPTANCE PERSONALLY OF YOU IN YOUR FLESHLY HEART, MIND, & SPIRIT AS, YES, ‘THE SINNER’ SEPARATED FROM HOLY GOD! IN GALATIANS 5:19-21 PAUL UNVEILED THE DANGER OF “THE WORKS OF THE FLESH” WHEN HE SAID, “NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST (UNVEILED), WHICH ARE THESE: ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS, IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, & SUCH LIKE: OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”
DIDN’T PAUL ALSO SAY IN 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9, “KNOW YOU NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?” WHAT YOU HEARD IN GALATIANS UNVEILED AS “THE WORKS OF THE FLESH” IS THE NATURALLY BIRTHED PHYSICAL EXISTENCE IN NEED OF BEING MIRACULOUSLY “BORN AGAIN”! PAUL TOLD THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH, (1 CORINTHIANS 15:50), “NOW THIS I SAY, BRETHREN, THAT ‘FLESH & BLOOD’ CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD; NEITHER DOES CORRUPTION INHERIT INCORRUPTION.” IT IS A DANGEROUS, DEFILED, SIN-SICK LIFE THAT WILLFULLY DENIES, REFUTES, LIES ABOUT HOLY GOD’S CLEAR EXPOSURE OF A SIN-PRACTICING LIFE!
THIRD, IT REQUIRES “SPIRITUAL MEDICATION” FROM THE ETERNAL “GREAT PHYSICIAN”, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! IN MATTHEW 9:1-8 WE FIND OUR LORD’S HEALING MINISTRY AMPLIFIED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT! IT SAYS, “AND JESUS ENTERED INTO A SHIP & PASSED OVER, & CAME INTO HIS OWN CITY. & BEHOLD,THEY BROUGHT TO HIM A MAN SICK OF THE PALSY, LYING ON A BED: & JESUS SEEING THEIR FAITH SAID UNTO THE SICK OF THE PALSY, ‘SON, BE OF GOOD CHEER; YOUR SINS BE FORGIVEN YOU.’ & BEHOLD, CERTAIN OF THE SCRIBES SAID WITHIN THEMSELVES, ‘THIS MAN BLASPHEMES’. & JESUS KNOWING THEIR THOUGHTS SAID, “WHEREFORE THINK YOU EVIL IN YOUR HEARTS? FOR WHETHER IS EASIER, TO SAY, ‘YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU; OR TO SAY, ARISE & WALK?
BUT THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS, (THEN SAID HE TO THE SICK OF THE PALSY,) “ARISE, TAKE UP YOUR BED, & GO UNTO YOUR HOUSE.” & HE AROSE & DEPARTED TO HIS HOUSE. BUT WHEN THE MULTITUDES SAW IT, THEY MARVELED, & GLORIFIED GOD, WHICH HAD GIVEN SUCH POWER UNTO MEN.”