Clean Zeal

The Perfect Fire of Jealous Monotheism

The Clean & Jealous Fire of Perfect Inspired/Sinless/Divine Monotheism

Fire of Clean Jealousy

The Burning Fire of Clean, Perfect, Infinite Zeal of God

A Bible study about having The Fire of God

Key Words: Salt-Purified, selfless (non-pentecostal), "please another", house Zeal, fire that saves, zeal that saves

 

Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org

2/26/04; 4/9/04; 10/24/05; 2/21/06; 8/5/09 A-D; 2/26/10; 3/4/10; 4/23/10; 6/26/10; 11/11/10 (Exuberance of Zeal); 11/14/10; 12/5/10; 12/11/10; 2/10/11; 3/14/11; 5/25/11; 9/24/11 (Phinehas additions); 5/26/12; 6/18/16 (Luk_1:8)

 

>> TODO/ Additions!

RepentOfZeal

Shortest Path To Zeal

 

These are unpublished personal notes for our community.

Like usual, in cases like this, you should contact us so that we can teach you all of these exciting and helpful things.

 

Shorthand Notice: Because these are my personal notes on the Fire of God, many things are very condensed, and many things are not self-explanatory (being without explanations). If you would like any part of this bible study explained or clarified please feel free to contact us.

 

Contents

Part 1 – Get God’s Fire. 3

1. What is ‘having the Fire of God?’ 3

The BIG Picture. 3

The Detailed Picture in Languages. 4

2. God is Fire. 4

A. Consuming Fire. 4

B. Light 4

C. Abrahamic Covenant 4

D. Burning Bush. 4

E. Mt. Sinai (Mosaic Covenant) 5

F. “Pillar of Fire”. 5

G. Holy Spirit / Jesus’ Eyes of Fire. 5

H. More “God = Fire” verses: 5

I. God likes things to be HOT.. 5

J. We Should be like Him.. 5

3. We must have God’s Fire. 5

Salt, Light, City, Lamp. 5

John the Baptist! 6

Filled with Holy Spirit 6

Zeal 6

Fervent in Spirit 6

Always Zealous/Right Zeal 6

Call on God! 6

Awake and Shake ß. 6

Fire Makes or Breaks You. 6

So God’s Fire Means…... 6

Ax, Holy Spirit, Fire!, Purification. 7

Trials That Purify. 7

Division. 7

4. Examples of Fire. 7

Peace Keepers vs. Peace Makers. 7

John the Baptist 8

Jeremiah. 8

Road to Emmaus. 8

Paul & Epaphras - Zealous/Jealous for the Body of Christ 8

Fervent Prayer 8

The Apostle John. 8

Kamikazes For Jesus. 8

Jesus’ Anger Foreshadowed in the Psalms. 8

This Means Jesus Got Angry. 9

Jesus Got Angry Over Their Unwillingness for Him to Heal 9

Summary of Anger 10

Elkanah. 10

Wasted Without Fire. 10

5. The Salvation of Fire. 10

Test Your Salvation in General 10

So how Does “Testing” Relate to FIRE?. 10

They are not Zealous. 11

Why are they not zealous?. 11

Other Repentance References. 11

The Extreme Devotion of Fire. 11

Jesus Doesn’t Jive With Quick Shallow Commitments. 11

Remnant Mentality. 12

6. Summary of this Salvation. 12

Fundamental Call 12

The Wrong Question. 12

Be Ready. 12

Only Option. 12

Few answer this call… Few will Make it! 13

7. Enemies of Fire. 13

A. Examples: 13

B. TV.. 13

C. Lack of Love for Holiness. 13

8. Fake, Strange Fire. 13

A. Self/Demon-generated. 13

B. Doesn’t last 13

C. It allows Sin. 14

D. Loud people, 14

9. Repent Of Zeal 14

Summaries of Huge Passages. 14

“Zeal” – Used as (bad) Jealousy. 14

Warning Examples Of bad Zeal 14

Be Warned! 14

Good And Bad Passion. 15

Same word used for sorrow... 15

Good Zeal 15

Summaries. 15

10. True Fire. 15

A. It burns bugs (Exo_3:2) 15

B. Jeremiah’s Fire/Zeal 15

C. It is deep and It remains: Joh_15:16. 16

Part 2 – Fire & Spiritual Understanding. 16

1. The Proper Use Of Emotion. 16

A. David Had Emotion In Worship. 16

B. A Man After God’s Own heart 16

C. So what do you think God is like??. 16

D. And what did He command for us to do?. 16

E. Self Control! 17

2. Two Goodly Fires. 17

A. Two Well-established, Conversing Principals: 17

B. Two Altars. 18

The Example of Jeremiah. 19

The Example of Isaiah. 19

The Example of The Apostle John. 19

Remember the Road to Emmaus?. 19

D. A Comparison of the two altars. 19

3. General Admonitions & Summations. 20

4. More Scriptures/ Extra Thoughts. 20

Israel Consume Esau. 20

Shake and Awake. 20

God’s Jealousy (Zeal) Makes Hell 20

References. 21

The Shortest Path to Zeal 23

Zeal Helps Perception. 23

The Path. 23

The Extended Path. 23

Zeal is The Answer 23

“The Shortest Path” in Action... 24

Enter Into The Agony Of Anointed One. 24

Zealous Fighting or Lazy boy Religion?. 25

You Are Pathetic. 25

Re-Titling. 25

 

 

Part 1 – Get God’s Fire

 

1. What is ‘having the Fire of God?’

The BIG Picture

A. What do you think the Fire of God is?

B. Having the Fire of God is being deeply and completely zealous, passionate, desperate, hungry, and fervent for Jesus by the power of the One Spirit who is Holy.

C. True spiritual Fire is a chemical reaction of 1. God’s touch on a person’s life and 2. their reaction/dedication to it

D. Having the Fire of God necessitates continually and repeatedly stirring up zeal for God

E. Having the Fire of God means giving the only reasonable response to the extreme call to give everything.

F. What is Fire, what is it about, what does it look like, and why is it important?

-It’s not just emo

-Let me wet you appetite…

-It’s about being jealous for God (zeal for house)

-Getting a hold of that passion in life that we were all made for

-What’s it look Like? Enthusiastic, but different and better

enthusiastic” [en_thu_siastic: meaning, “God-possessed.”]

-Having God’s Fire suggests that you are being consumed (Rom_12:1; Mk 9:49-50)

Having God’s Fire means being consumed for Jesus

 

God’s Fire answers the demand for zeal for the infinite God

 

The Detailed Picture in Languages

Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, and Latin are all alike: jealous/zealous = same word (unlike English):

 

Hebrew: “קנא (qânâ') G2205

Greek: “ζῆλος” (zēlos); G2205 (often: ζηλω);

Spanish: “Selo” (SRV);

Latin: “zelo” (Latin Vulgate)

 

2. God is Fire

Having The Fire of God becomes significantly more important when we see what God is like

 

A. Consuming Fire

Deu_4:24 KJV-Based For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

 

Heb_12:29 KJV For our God is a consuming fire.

 

Isa_42:13 Brenton  The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war: he shall stir up jealousy [LXX: ζῆλον (zahlon) - zeal], and shall shout mightily against his enemies.

 

Eze_36:5 Brenton  therefore, thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken...

 

B. Light

1Jo_1:5 KJV …God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Jam_1:17 KJV/WEB Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Isa_42:6 WEB I, Yahweh…. give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles

 

Question: Where do you think that the light comes from? –We’ll come back to this…

 

C. Abrahamic Covenant

Gen_15:17-18 KJV And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram…

 

[Animal parts, covenant: Jer_34:18-19]

 

D. Burning Bush

Exo_3:2 KJV And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. (Also see: Angels ministering spirits/fire Heb_1:7; Rev_10:1)

 

E. Mt. Sinai (Mosaic Covenant)

Exo_19:18 KJV And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

 

Exo_24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

 

F. “Pillar of Fire”

4 Places: Exo_3:21-22; Exo_14:24; Num_14:14; Neh_9:12; Neh_9:19

 

G. Jesus’ Eyes of Fire & Seven Lamps Of Fire

Rev_1:12-16 KJV-Based And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shinning in his strength.

 

Rev_4:5 KJV And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

 

(Also in: Rev_2:18; Rev_19:12. Jesus the same as yesterday & forever: Heb_13:8)

 

H. More “God = Fire” verses:

2Sam_22:9; 2Ch_7:1-3; Rev_20:9

 

Transition…

I. God likes things to be HOT

Rev_15:2 – Sea of glass mixed with fire

 

Rev_3:15-16 WEB "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

 

J. We Should be like Him

Not only is He fire, and not only does He like fire, but He wants us to be like Him in fire

 

1Jn_4:17 NKJV Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness ß on the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (Conversely: 1Jn_3:2-3) ß

 

3. We must have God’s Fire

Salt, Light, City, Lamp

Mat_5:13-16 Salt…You are the light of the world, city, lamp (all light was made by fire!!) ß

(“Salt” necessitates “Fire”: Lev_2:2-16, Ezk_43:24, Mar_9:49-50. Also Read Luk_4:33-35)

 

John the Baptist!

Joh_5:35 WEB

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

 

Filled with Holy Spirit

Act_2:3-4 MKJV-Based And tongues as of fire appeared to them, being distributed; and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

 

Zeal

Psa_69:9 WEB For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. [see: Psa_69:7-12]

 

After driving out the money changers:

Joh_2:17 CAB Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal for Your house will consume Me."

See: Jesus Got Angry

 

Fervent in Spirit

Rom_12:11 not lacking in eager/diligent/business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

 

Always Zealous/Right Zeal

Gal_4:18

 

Remember Phinehas Num_25:5-13,

Others: 1King_19:10, Pro_23:17, Tit_2:14

 

Call on God!

Isa_64:7 CAB  And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You…

Ý

Awake and Shake ß

Isa_52:1-2 WEB Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments… 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

(Also: Samson Jdg_16:20.)

 

Fire Makes or Breaks You

Mar_9:49-50 WEB For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

(and compare previously: Mar_9:41-48 - Gehenna Fire)

 

Mat_3:11

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Luk_3:16

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Mar_9:49

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Deu_32:22

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Jon_2:1, etc.

NETS 804

 

Rev_20:11

 

Mat_25:1

 

Pentecost had fire!

light of the world

Testing

 

So God’s Fire Means

Either get jealous for God, or get jealously consumed by God!

Purification or Punishment… It will Make you or Break you

See: What it did to Edom

See: God’s Jealousy Makes Hell (Deu_32:9-23)

 

Ax, Holy Spirit, Fire, Purification!

Mat_3:10-12 MKJV And now also, the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. But He who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire; 12 whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Also Luk_3:16-17)

 

Trials That Purify

1Pe_1:7 KJV That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

 

Division Fire

Luk_12:49-53 WEB "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled. 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! 51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. 52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

 

Note: if you are not getting persecuted by the church (at least eventually), you can be sure you are not proclaiming the Division Fire of Jesus’ Truth to them.

 

4. Examples of Fire

Other dates

 

Peace Keepers vs. Peace Makers

Other dates; 1/23/18

>> comp. TOC

 

Phinehas

Num_25:10-13 CAB  And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,  11  Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused My wrathH2534/G2372 to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealousH7065 [ζηλωσαιG2206 / ζηλονG2205] among them*, and I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousyH7068 [ζηλωG2205]. 12  Therefore say, Behold, I give to him My covenant of peaceH7965 [εἰρήνηςG1515, as in peacemaker: Mat_5:9-12: εἰρηνοποιοίG1518];  13  and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealousH7065/G2206 for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

 

*Greek: ζηλῶσαίG2206 μου τὸν ζῆλονG2205 ἐν αὐτοῖς

Hebrew: Same Hebrew >>and Greek?? word used for jealousy! (Examples: Gen_30:1; Num_5:14 & Num_5:30)

 

Psa_106:30-31 CAB  30  Then Phinehas stood up and made atonement, and the plague ceased.  31  And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever.

 

(Also compare the actions of Nehemiah: Neh_13:23-25)

 

Phinehas was a real peace doer like Mat_5 says! You want real peace??

>> DO a peace that was not there before!

 

Mal_2:6  The [a] law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity [lit. unrighteousness, or as NETS has it, “injustice”] was not found in his lips: he walked *before Me directing his way* [NETS: “uprightly with me”] in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness [ἀδικίας – same word as before]. 

- Have salt in yourselves (as seen previously under “Fire Makes or Breaks You”)

- through fire on the earth! (as seen previously under “Division”)

- not like the world gives…

- john the bap…

 

>> most church people think you should “have SUGAR in yourselves and be at peace among yourselves” but the Bible says…

>> Have SALT in yourselves (like Phineas) and be at PEACE with one another

 

John the Baptist -- Wild & Burning!

Mar_1:2-6 WEB As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face… 3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness… 4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. 5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him… 6 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.

 

Joh_5:35 WEB [About John the Baptist…] ß ß

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

 

Jeremiah

See Jeremiah’s persecution below

 

Road to Emmaus – Does the “Opening” of the Scriptures Burn in You?

Luk_24:31-32 KJV And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

 

Paul & Epaphras - Zealous/Jealous for the Body of Anointed One

2Co_11:2 KJV For I am jealous2206 [zealous] over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

 

Fervent Prayer

Col_4:12-13 KJV Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

 

(compare earlier in chapter 4: Col_4:6 - From Favor to Fire)

 

The Apostle John

(Remember? Rev_1:12-16)

 

Kamikazes For Jesus?

 

Kamikazes always produce fire! (911)

 

But for us…

 

“…the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, (2Co_10:4 MKJV).”

 

And there is a right and a wrong way to burn…

Let’s compare Kamikazes with getting angry… Did Jesus ever Get Angry?

 

Jesus’ Anger Foreshadowed in the Psalms

Psa_69:7-12 CAB  For I have suffered reproach for Your sake; shame has covered my face.  8  I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.  9  For the zeal of Your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached You have fallen upon me.  10  And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.  11  And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.  12  Those that sit in the gate talked against me, and those that drank wine sang against me.

 

Repeated in Psalm 119

I had to correct this translation from the Greek LXX:

 

Psa_119:139 CAB  Your [the] zeal [ζῆλοςG2205] [for your house]* has quite wasted me; because my enemies have forgotten Your words.

 

[* “ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου σου” – same as Psa_69:9]

 

This Means Jesus Got Angry

Joh_2:14-15 CAB And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there.  15  And having made a scourge out [ἐκ] of cords, He drove* [ἐξέβαλεν (exe-ballen) – lit. threw out (fig. drove)] them all out [ἐκ] of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and He poured out [ἐξέχεε] the coins of the moneychangers, and He overturned the tables.

 

* “Cast Out” Analysis

This “Cast out” word is extremely stoked with connotations beyond even the provocative astonishment its literal (actual) rendering causes:

 

·          It may be somewhat spiritual (and or “so-to-speak”) as in: Mar_1:12; Mat_9:25; Gal_4:30; Mat_9:38; Luk_10:2; Jam_2:25; Luk_6:22; Mat_12:20; (from Isa_42:3); Mat_12:35; Luk_10:35

·          It can even be a kind act (i.e. when the “exit” (εξ) is shared (εξαγει/εμπροσθεν) with the “caster” Himself): Joh_10:3-4

·          Or it could be literal and or figurative at the same time, as in: Joh_9:34-35; Act_16:37; 3Jo_1:10 (stronger literal in this case); (compare Mar_9:47) 

·          But it may very well be literal as in “He overturned the tables”;

·          this is very powerfully seen in the following examples where this word is used: as in Mar_1:12]

·          Particle out of eye: Mat_7:4-5; Luk_6:42

·        Demons: Mar_16:9; Mar_7:26; Mat_7:22; Mar_1:34, Mar_1:39; Luk_9:40

 

 

Mar_11:16-17 CAB And [He] would not permit that anyone should carry a vessel through the temple.  17  And He was teaching, saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a 'den of thieves!' " [also in Mat_21:13]

 

Joh_2:16-17 CAB And He said to those selling the doves, "Take these things away from here! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"  17  Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal for Your house will consume Me."

 

Jesus Got Angry Over Their Unwillingness for Him to Heal

Mar_3:4-5 CAB Then He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent.  5  And looking around at them with anger [οργηςG3709], being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

 

G3709 ὀργή orgē or-gay'

From G3713; properly desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), that is, (by analogy) violent passion (ire, or [justifiable] abhorrence); by implication punishment: - anger, indignation, vengeance, wrath.

 

Summary of Anger

·        Jesus flips over the tables, (Joh_2:14-17; Mar_11:16-17) and gets mad over unwillingness to approve of healing on the Sabbath (Mar_3:1-5). We should be like this too.

·        In all of this remember: be angry, and don’t sin: Eph_4:26 [Moses struck the rock (Num_20:7-13)]

·        Right anger is a critical sign of Biblical zeal. (Compare: Luk_6:22, Luk_6:26)

·        Also See: Paul’s anger over idols (Act_17:16 – G3947 παροξύνω)

 

 

Elkanah

A Hebrew name “Elkanah = “God has possessed” or “God has created”” (BDB)

אלקנה from H410 [El] and H7069 [Kanah]

 

H7069 קנה qânâh kaw-naw'

A primitive root; to erect, that is, create; by extension to procure, especially by purchase (causatively sell); by implication to own: - attain, buy (-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess (-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.

 

Wasted Without Fire

If you do not yet have the Fire of God, If you have been settling for less, then the sad news is that you’ve been duped to giving your life away to worthlessness. But the good news is, you don’t have to stay that way!

Is what your living for worth dying for? If not, then it’s not worth living for either. Jason Dueñas recently spoke on “wasted” (Don’t waist your life)

 

Guard against getting wiser than your youthful zeal. Any “wisdom” that casts scorn on more zealous beginnings is a purest form of utter foolishness.

 

5. The Salvation of Fire

Add: Solomon showed that the proof of a real mother was that she could not bear to see her child cut into.

the proof of a real christian works the same way...

How emotional are we about the truth of Jesus? To this same degree we are real christians. But so many want to come along and claim relation to Jesus and we act like we are wise if we condemn Solomon's skepticism!

12/17/10

 

Test Your Salvation in General

--fromFear God” in the “Repent of Words” Bible study--

2Co_13:5 WEB Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified G96. [αδοκιμοι G96 (adokimos) – that is, “not” (a) “aproved” (dokimos)]

 

Ú Don’t be too offended and proud than to examine your Salvation!

Ú He’s not asking you to do anything that he’s not willing to do himself (Compare Gal_2:2; 2Jn_1:8-9)

 

1Co_9:27 WEB but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected G96. [αδοκιμος G96 (adokimos) – that is, “not” (a) “aproved” (dokimos)]

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So how Does “Testing” Relate to FIRE?

Rev_3:14-20 EMTV  "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, 'These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God:  15  "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot.  16  Therefore, since you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth.  17  Because you say, 'I am wealthy, and have become rich, and have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,  18  I counsel you to buy from Me gold having been tried by fire, so that you may become rich; and white robes, so that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and eye salve, so that you may anoint your eyes, in order that you may see.  19  As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.  20  Behold, I stand at the door and I am knocking. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and I will dine with him, and he with Me.

 

[Entire context: Rev_3:14-22]

 

They are not Zealous

Rev_3:15 - works not hot or cold

Rev_3:16 - lukewarm = spit out

Rev_3:19 - be zealous [“ζηλωσον” (zḗleue); Greek: Imperative V-AAM-2S or V-PAM-2S] & repent

 

Why are they not zealous?

Rev_3:17 - they say they are rich: but they are blind!

(Rev_3:18 - how to see)

 

Other Repentance References

Rev_2:4-5, Rev_2:16, Rev_2:22; Rev_3:3; Rev_9:20-21; Rev_16:9; Rev_16:11

 

Act_17:30-31 - everyone should repent

Mat_24:48-51 / Luk_12:45-46 - lack of zeal makes one sin

 

The Extreme Devotion of Fire

Luk_14:25-27 WEB Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

READ Verses 28-32

 

Luk_14:33-35 MKJV So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple. 34 Salt is good, but if the salt has become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? 35 It is not fit for the land, nor for manure, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. -Read: Mat_10:31-39-

 

Mat_10:37-39 WEB He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. 38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

 

Jesus Doesn’t Jive With Quick Shallow Commitments

[Taken from “Connection” teaching]

 

Mat_8:19-23 WEB A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." 20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." 21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." 22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead." 23 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.

 

Eat flesh drink blood, Joh_6:1 (ect)

 

Remnant Mentality

[from “Foundations” teaching]

 

Rom_9:27 WEB Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved; [See Isa_10:22]

 

Remember He says later:

Isa_64:7 WEB There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you

 

[The remnant is specifically mentioned 16 times as a theme throughout Isaiah. Do you see that the remnant is the few who stir themselves up?]

 

Rom_11:5 WEB Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

 

2Th_2:3 WEB Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

 

1Ti_4:1-2 WEB But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

 

Mat_24:12 WEB Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love 26 [αγαπη] of many G4183 [πολλων; the greater part] will grow cold.

 

6. Summary of this Salvation

 

Fundamental Call

Fire is at the very core of the basic fundamental call to follow Jesus

This Basic Call to discipleship, the only way to not be “spit out”

 

The Wrong Question

So many ask the wrong question: “Are you saved?” “Are you Born Again?”

When we should be asking, “Are you completely burning hot for the real Jesus, and are you and purified from all sin?”

 

Be Ready

Be ready, or get cut into pieces (Mat_24:40-51)

 

Only Option

Fire is not optional. It’s not just something cute that youth groups get pumped up about.

 

Going extreme for Jesus is the only way to live

 

“The church has been sub-normal for so long that when anyone gets up to a healthy normal temperature, they think he’s got a the flue!”

(Lenard Ravenhill)

 

Few answer this call… Few will Make it!

Luk_13:23-24 WEB; also think Joh_12:39 “Could not believe…”

>> Remnant!

 

[repeat]

Isa_52:1-2 WEB Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments… 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

(Also: Samson Jdg_16:20.)

 

7. Enemies of Fire

A. Examples:

Laziness… Complacency… .

 

B. TV

Don’t expect God to give you that truly adventurous life of his fire if you are still filling Your mind and desires with its counterfeit portrayed on TV!

we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spirits and powers and…” (Eph_6:12)

ð Samara Story: “why do some parents lie to their kids about Santa Claus?”

[Because they are not living the adventure of Jesus]

 

C. Lack of Love for Holiness

Heb_12:14 ISV “Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.”

(Similar to Principal: “The Holy Spirit never makes light of sin.”)

 

Don’t think that you are going to get the real fire from God without holiness;

You won’t even see Him

 

Kid’s Quest Story (“Without holiness…”)

 

8. Fake, Strange Fire

Lev_10:1-3 WEB Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. 2 And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh. 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, "'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, And before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.

 

A. Self/Demon-generated

Often burns solely off of emotions, not the reality of obedience to God. · Often puts value on your loud personality instead of the depth of True fire.

 

B. Doesn’t last

(“they look like they are on fire!” – But they soon “burn out” )

Mat_13:5-6 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. [Not remaining fruit: Jn 15:16]

 

C. It allows Sin

When someone is “On Fire!” and they have sin in their life, then it is the fake defiling fire based on sinful man. Unredeemed emotions quickly and easily counterfeit God’s Holy Spirit, in an unholy way.

Think: Vega Story in Puerto Rico (Kissing in basement then… “God really moved today in church!”)

 

D. Loud people,

especially former drug addicts/street people are much more prone to it

 

9. Repent Of Zeal

 

Summaries of Huge Passages

1Co_13:4 - Love is not zealous?? Now what does that mean?

> 1Co_14:1 – “be zealous”: so how is love to be zealous and not be zealous?

1Co_3:3 – Where there is zeal (ζηλοςG2205) among you = fleshly (2Co_12:20)

Gal_5:20 – Works of the Flesh (ζῆλοι, θυμοί,)

Jam_3:14-16 - Bad Zeal is, selfish, soulish, demonic

Jas_4:1-2 - Lust makes bad zeal: "ἐπιθυμεῖτε" (v. 2a) > "ζηλοῦτε" (v. 2c)

Jas_4:5 - God's Passion (ἐπιποθεῖG1971) vs. your zeal:

See: Heb_10:27; Zep_1:18; Zep_3:8;

Rom_10:1-3 - Israel's Zeal (and see Saul's: Phi_3:6)

2Sa_21:1-11 – Saul’s Punished, wicked, Counterfeited Zeal

Gal_4:17-18 - Zealously affected in Good thing (Mat_23:15)

Rom_16:18; Phi_2:21; - Religion of own belly (Luk_14:25)

 

“Zeal” – Used as (bad) Jealousy

Act_5:17; Act_13:45; Rom_13:13;... Gal_5:20;... Gal_5:20

> From: “...meaning envy, jealousy, anger (Act_5:17; Act_13:45; Rom_13:13... Gal_5:20... with éris (G2054), contention... Gal_5:20).”

(Word Study excerpts on G2205)

 

Warning Examples Of bad Zeal

Gen_4:1-16 -