Monday, April 1, 2019

PAUL'S CLAIM TO FAME

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's letter to the Romans, besides the chastisement that I had for them, he wrote that they had good intentions, that they had been perfectly instructed, but they needed their memories refreshed about their glorious salvation, the power that they had in the Holy Spirit and about Paul's own position in the body of Christ.  He wrote that his only claim to fame was that he was chosen to take the Good News from Me to the pagans, so that they would be reborn as new creations and made holy by the Holy Spirit.  (Romans 15:14-17)
    He had great joy for what Christ had done for the many pagans using what Paul had preached and done by the power of signs and wonders by the power of My Holy Spirit.  He said that he had preached the Good News to his upmost capacity and  had made it an unbroken rule to never preach where someone else had preached the name of Christ.  His reason was that he didn't want to build upon the conversion foundations that were laid by someone else.  His motivation was to fulfill the scripture that says that the people who had never been told about Christ would see Him and those who had never heard about Him would understand, speaking of Paul's mission.  (Isaiah 52:15)
    In his letter Paul asked the believers in Rome by the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of the Holy Spirit to pray for him that I would give him help from his many dangers that came upon him in his ministry.  He asked that they would pray that he would escape the believers in Jerusalem who did not understand that he was called by Me to take the Good News to the unbelieving pagans.  They had opposed him for including the Gentile pagans in My family.  He had also opposed the Jewish believers when they tried to put the believers in Rome under Jewish religious Law such as insisting on circumcision for them. (Romans 15:30-32)  Paul's desire was to go to Rome for a good, and much deserved, rest with the believers there.
    In his epilogue Paul warned the believers in Rome to be on guard against anybody who encouraged trouble between them and also anyone who put difficulties in the way of the doctrine of the Good News of Christ Jesus that they had been taught.  He complimented them that their faith In Christ was famous everywhere and that made him very happy that his work among them was being rewarded.  He challenged them to become wise in what is good, and innocent in what is bad.  He promised that I would crush satan under their feet.  As they grew in the knowledge of the power of the Holy Spirit inside of them, they would have revealed to them that they had the authoritative power of My Holy Spirit to cast the demons out of their lives and into hell.  (Romans 16:17-20; Matthew 13:36-42)
   His parting words in his letter were that they would glory only in Me, saying that I give to them the power to live according to the Good News that he preached in which he proclaimed Jesus Christ and the revelation of the mystery kept secret from the foundation of the world.  The mystery was made so clear then so that it would be broadcast to pagans everywhere to bring all of them into the obedience of faith, the mystery being that pagans would also be included in My kingdom of heaven.  It was predicted in scriptures and is part of My eternal will, that I would live in My children and write My words in their minds and in their hearts; yes, that even the pagans would be able to become My children by believing in the Good News of the resurrection of Christ.   Paul proclaimed that Christ is wisdom just as I am wisdom.  He instructed them to give glory to Me through Jesus Christ forever and ever. 
    After his chastening of them and his loving instructions to them, Paul's love and his appreciation of the many believers in Rome were apparent.  They needed the criticism and corrections in order to stop yielding to the devil's temptations of allowing their fleshly passions to take over their lives where My Holy Spirit had previously been Lord.
   Take heed in your mind of My Spirit's warnings through Paul.  Remember that the devil goes back and forth in the earth seeking whom he may devour. (I Peter 5:8) There are believers whom he can easily devour through temptations and he may gain access to their lives through their permission.  Keep up your guard. 
    Not only does My Holy Spirit personally tutor you, reveal My wisdom and knowledge to you, create a new being within you, glorify Me and reveal My truth, but He also discerns evil for you and gives you the power to cast all tempting demons into hell.   He carries on the ministry of Christ in the world.
    Your Father of Great Revealed Mysteries

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