This young man came to Jesus and asked a monumental question.
It is without doubt a crucial question for all men and women.
His opening address reveals a deep understanding and manifestation of his heart. This man knew that a good teacher was needed to be the one who answered this question. And his subsequent moral conduct reveals the reason why he ran unto Jesus with this question, this man gravitated to a teacher who upheld and taught goodness as defined by the moral codes given unto men by God.
The gospel narratives are not per chance events. They are Gods sovereignty being outworked through a mans life so that all men may understand Him. This encounter is after the mount of transfiguration where Moses & Elijah fellowshipped with Jesus concerning his departure from this earth.
Moses knew the commandments, God had given them to him.
And the ministry of a prophet is to testify of Jesus, and Jesus worshipped God, he worshipped his Father as a living sacrifice.
Prophecy is speaking of things that shall be fulfilled and brought to pass through God fulfilling his own will and purposes – all things are possible with God. Therefore prophecy entails worship, as God will not enforce his will against the will of man. Gods power, authority and Will are not reduced through Worship.
God is able to fulfill his own will without the cooperation of any man & God is able to enforce worship upon all his creation.
However, God has made man in his own image and within the union of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit is a unison of bestowing love one upon another.
The initial fall of man, came when Man broke the only commandment that ensured perpetual and eternal life.
‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life’?
God gave man a direct commandment to preserves eternal life and the generational blessing of God, unto their children.
Directly after commanding man not to eat of the tree of ‘good’ & evil, the Lord God declared truth that it was not ‘Good’, that the man should be alone. Followed by the express ‘WILL” of God to provide a helper fit for that purpose.
Eve, was created to make Good the commandment for enduring life and the generational blessing of God. Eve was conceived & designed by the very WILL of God to fulfill and enable the preservation of all Gods goodness and blessing. Without her God saw no purpose that was good.
Therefore, Eve, was an integral part of the testimony of Jesus.
All that God had created was good. But when God said it was not Good that man should be alone, it was a prophetic statement & Eve was the revealed will of God to fulfill all that God saw as Good.
Masculine & Feminine is GOOD – No wonder Satan wants to pervert and amend gender.
Masculine & Feminine and Children, the family nuclei is the true reflection of the very image of God.
Women is the first prophetic statement from God concerning the fulfillment of the will of God.
The Will of God is not directly mentioned in scripture until women is referred to.
Women was conceived and designed within the heart of God himself to be a helper unto man.
She was designed to fulfill the prophetic declaration of Gods will, the Worship of God.
The Worship of God as God defined as Good, necessitated women.
That does not make women an idol, what a contradiction and impossibility. But it is biblical truth, the fulfillment of prophecy and the worship of God, needed women.
Now a harlot Church may say divine prayers to a women, that is clear biblical error. Praying to Mary the mother of Jesus, is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit who witnesses to the truth of the Worship of God only. Mary was as the angel of the Lord declared and as her own confession testified, she was simply a fellow servant: Worship God.
So then, the Worship of God requires women.
It does not follow that men cannot worship God if they have no women in their life, either as a partner or wife or mother etc etc.
But, there is not a man born upon this earth, even genetically that has not required some DNA from the feminine. New Birth is impossible without the creative and divine original principles of life. We cannot escape the reality that God created all things by design and not per chance.
Nicodemus had struggles concerning the new birth, because of all his learning under Moses. Nicodemus’s struggled with the Adamic nature, make no mistake about that. And it was only at the Cross, that Nicodemus was really beginning to see the umbilical Cord between heaven and earth. At the Cross prophesy is fulfilled, and from his side came forth all that is good, the water to be turned into wine for the wedding feast: Behold your mother! Women what have I to do with thee, but, when my time has come you will share with all the wedding guests the best wine of Pentecost. The miracle of the sour wine within 6 (male and female) water pots, held within a Stone covenant – I thirst for living water, water that flows out to bring life unto the four corners of the earth: Every nation, family and created thing! The passion of God to pour out his love upon the whole of his creation.
They went out sons and daughters into the marketplace with new wine within new wine skins. Declaring the good, wonderful, things God had fulfilled.
The passion of God to pour out his love upon the whole of his creation.
Women was designed to be caught up with pure and unadulterated love.
Man was designed to be a custodian and leader over guarding and preserving the garden of Gods love.
A lily of the valleys, let us Worship God.
This isn’t legalism nor is it enforced. It is a safe place for passionate love.
Marriage by design is for the testimony of God: Worship God.
The ‘I Will’ of Rebecca, unto the Holy Spirit in type, the oldest servant of Abraham, was an embracing of the testimony of Jesus. Be it unto me according to thy Word.
Let there be light, let there be life. To respond to Gods ‘I Will’ is to be in harmony with the original creative word of life: Jesus, through whom all creation was framed.
Let, is not legalism and it is not religion. Let, in respect to the leading of Gods Spirit, is a response to pure love.
Before the rich young man comes running to Jesus, the Pharisees had come to Jesus to test him asking concerning whether it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife.
Jesus explains why the laws of Moses where ever given, the hardness of hearts due to the fall: The women who you gave to be with me – their was no repentance in Adam for having disobeyed Gods commandment to having lead his wife aright during her trial of temptation. Had Adam spoken at this juncture, Eve would have been lead into the Worship of God and the testimony of Jesus.
But from the beginning, Jesus is the unchanging Will of God, through whom all can find the ‘BUT’ God raised us from the death of are trespasses making us alive together in Christ – saved by Grace.
Jesus then affirms that which Adam spake prophetically when women was first brought unto him. The prophetic will of God, is brought to Man and he prophesied: Prophesy and Prophesy encounter this can only be good as it is all concerning the testimony of Jesus, through whom all creation was framed.
Prophesy, women the first stated ‘I Will’ of God is brought to man and he prophesies for the first time. Man spake prophetically, and how far Adam fell thereafter.
What a word of prophesy, ‘Man shall leave behind and hold fast to his wife’. Doesn’t every women want to know that her man is joined to her primarily, first and foremost that he holds onto her and not parents. This is polar opposite to blaming her for his own shortcomings. Marriages are marred when a spouse sides with his or her own parents against the one that should be held onto in totality and unison.
This is good in Gods eyes and this is the reproduction of the very covenant blessings of God.
Let not man separate. The meekness of the Lamb, ‘What ALMIGHTY GOD has joined together, let not his created ones separate. The humility of the nature of are Creator is interwoven into this plea and commission with his creation.
A man in union with a man is separating what God joins together. There is no natural join between same gender relationships, nature and biology teach us this and that is why the rational and logical sciences need to be overturned to define same gender unions as being natural.
It is not by chance that parents bring their children unto Jesus at this juncture, for him to bless them. And thank God, that this is the very kingdom of God.
So then the rich young ruler comes running to Jesus – divinely appointed so that all can learn from this encounter. This encounter must have something concerning the original template for life, it must having teaching linked to the pattern before the fall and the remedy to the fall of man.
Jesus is the only teacher who was not born from the Adamic fall.
A good teacher, teaches the theology of Romans.
Sin entered the whole human race through one man, Adam. Not through his prophetic helper, she was deceived, but man was disobedient to speak truth unto her.
Good teaching teaches the divinity of Christ and the virgin birth.
Good teaching preaches grace through are Saviour and High Priest Jesus Christ.
Moses and Elijah, with him speaking of his descent at Jerusalem.
Jesus as he was setting out on his journey! His journey to where, destination known, the Cross of Calvary.
Jesus was journeying to the Cross, because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Accept the Holy and anointed pure Lamb of God. The second Adam, in whom we received the gift of eternal life if we believe his sacrifice fulfilled the prophetic ministry.
The Spirit and the bride say ‘come’. When we are filled with the helper from on high we are a declaration of the Word of God: COME – an invitation to the wedding supper of the Lamb. The Spirit and bride being at one with the beloved. A unison of pure unadulterated love.
The rich young ruler is presented with more than goodness in Jesus, but the very LIFE of God.
Jesus again affirms as he did with the Pharisees, the laws of Moses. But as with the Pharisees Moses laws came not out of the passionate realm of love but rather due to the granite that had deceitfully trespassed into the ‘Let’ within the heart of man.
This rich young ruler, he was an excellent man. He ran to Jesus to ask the most important question of all.
This man had an understanding of inheritance. He understood something within Gods original mandate entailed dominion and reigning. He knew as the Prodigal Son did, that God was not mean and wanting servitude without an inheritance, without possession of the land.
This man was truly manly, and he akin to Cornelius had not come running to Jesus just to inherit without any thoughts of Charity to the suffering of others.
Look at how quickly he learned and responded to Jesus, ‘Teacher’, dropping the good.
What would have happened if he had chosen to continue with the Good, perhaps it would have led him into the Worship of God, perhaps he may have been the first, akin to Peters revelation in Ch 8, to have seen the bride of Christ Spiritually.
Jesus loved him. And as Jesus always did, he did not withhold truth from this man, one thing he lacked, the testimony of Jesus, the fulfillment of prophesy: It is Finished, Worship God. Father, into thy hands I commit my Spirit.
Where was Jesus’s inheritance at Calvary? Was it not being sanctified through the water and the blood that flowed out from his tender heart.
‘In Him’ – when it pleased the Father to reveal his Son in me.
Ephesians Ch 1 v3-6.
What good thing must I do to inherit eternal life! This man had a clear conscious but he knew something was missing, it made him run to Jesus, not due to a lack physically or materially.
God had honored and prospered this man due to his obedience, yet this man knew that he lacked fellowship, deep fellowship with God, the source of all life.
Jesus was not offending or correcting this man, when he said ‘Why do you call me Good’. He was speaking directly into the deep thirst that man has for intimacy with his Creator.
Trade all that you have acquired and follow me, exchange all you have to follow my journey to Calvary. Can you imagine the Apostleship of this man, had he followed Jesus, he may have surpassed Stephen and Paul.
Could this man, have died with his Saviour. Would the Father have honored him, by placing him at his Son right hand. Perhaps, he would have inherited all of Jesus and none of me, and have been between the tree of Life and the new heavens and earth.
Could this man have received the very love of God, that the Godhead has for a sin sick world: For God so loved this World that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
What an encounter.
No wonder the disciples where amazed, they saw first hand this mans integrity and his great desire to ask a question no one else had asked with sincerity.
Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God. Children!! All must receive the kingdom as a Child. He blessed them and laid his hands upon them.
The inheritance was not procured through something the children had done. They simply responded to his ‘Let’ them come to me. The inheritance as with the returning prodigal was IN the Fathers heart.
With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God – the things of God are possible with God – Come unto me, all who are striving to do to enter and inherit eternal life.
Good teacher! A good teacher, must have a bride! It is according to the divine revelation of God from the beginning.
Had he understood the Good, he would have left all (Father and mothers blessing and all he had benefited from them) and have cleaved unto Him. Much fruit would have come, treasure in eternity, multitudes of rays of light, distinct from the darkness. Rebecca’s brothers speak the prophetic blessing upon her life, according to the covenant from the beginning and sworn by oath unto Father Abraham.
Had he left all he would have inherited the Good. The new covenant of spontaneity and Joy, ‘Come see a man who told me all I ever did’, ‘Is this not the Christ’, Worship God.
A spring of everlasting of life.
Note:
I’m thankful to the Lord and prayer of friends for getting through this week.
It hasn’t been perfect, my obedience having wavered. But I thank God he fenced me in.
Perhaps, I should have returned to work a day or two before I did.
May the Lord bless you,
May the Lord keep you,
And may the Lord make HIS face shine upon you and give you peace, Amen.
eternalrays 