Jubilee Church
Guest Speaker: Tim Fox
      • Bible Trivia
        Loading...
  • We Come Alive
  • Fall Afresh
  • Fill Me Up
  • Surrounded (Fight My Battles)
  • Closer (Bethel)
  • We Are Hungry

  • Patterned Authority

    Behind every pattern is an authority. Someone designed and produced the first pattern. It is the originator of the true pattern. It is not a knockoff version, but from the original.
    God is the originator of the true pattern of righteousness and life. All others are knockoffs. And in that, He is the sovereign authority of the pattern. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. There is an established pattern to His righteousness. As well, there is a pattern to darkness. Darkness tends to be found anywhere there is enmity against God. All patterns of life in darkness are knockoffs and do not produce the life promised but a life of lies.
    In Genesis we see Adam and Eve shifting their blame for their sin back at God. God did not just cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden (the place of the Lord’s delight) but He cast out darkness itself.
    Today, we see darkness all around us and we are supposed to be the light of Christ that cast out the darkness. The Church is residing in a world of darkness but for too long has deflected and blame-shifted to the world. It does no good to blame the world for it’s darkness. The church blames the culture, the wicked and the world that God put us in to change.
    We are supposed to be a Noah in a dark world showing them the way to salvation. We are supposed to be a Moses in this dark world showing them the way out of bondage. We are supposed to be a Hananiah, Assyria and Meshaal revealing to them the fourth man in the fire.
    In Matthew 28:18, Christ said that the Father had given Him all authority. If Christ then resides within us, we have been given full permission to operate in that authority through the name of Jesus Christ to establish the patterns of His Kingdom over the patterns of the kingdoms of this world. But that is extremely difficult to do if we have adopted the patterns of this world into our lives of compromise.
    Hear the Word of the Lord Church:
    2 Corinthians 6:14–18 ESV
    Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
    The word “yoke” comes from the Hebrew alal עָלַל meaning to be effected by or to glean from. Do not let the world’s patterns affect you and do not glean from them. If everybody in the world is doing it and the world thinks it’s okay and popular, then you should probably severely question the practice or behavior. It is called discernment, discretion, sound judgment and wisdom. Do you see a pattern here? Sin patterns produce sorrows of the soul. Righteous patterns produce peace and prosperity of the soul. It is like the rhythm of a drum. A rhythm is a pattern. The rhythm of the drum the world beats to is not at all in sync with the rhythm of the heart of Father God. Stop marching to the beat of the wrong drum. Consider the vision the Lord showed the Prophet Zechariah in 3:1-10:
    Zechariah 3:1–10 ESV
    Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?” Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments. And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.” And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord was standing by. And the angel of the Lord solemnly assured Joshua, “Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.”
    Joshua was the High Priest at that time. And the Ha Satan (the accuser) was pointing out his faults while he served before the Lord. The world will do this to you. It will try to stop your service to the Lord. Your flesh will do this to you as well.
    God has given each of you a reason to serve. So often, we are looking for a place to serve and a way to serve. But if you do not start with the right reason to serve, you follow a flawed pattern and you will either never follow through or burn out. Jesus is the reason to serve. Often people want to serve in the church but refuse to follow the right pattern. The reason to serve is the gift from the Giver, otherwise it is about you. This is just one example of how our Christian thinking is stinking from the wrong pattern because we do not have the thought patterns of the Christ in our Christianity.
    There is a difference between a gift and a talent. A talented guitar player does not reflect the glory of God. But a guitar player with the gift of worship does. If he doesn’t have a heart to worship God then he is just a talented guitar player.
    Often, the talents are visible and we esteem them. But a talent void of the gifting of God is just a talent. A gift is given and you have to choose what you will do with the gift whether it is going to reflect the glory of God or not.
    Note that God rebuked the Ha Satan (the adversary against God’s will) and clothed the servant in righteousness from his head to his feet. God called Joshua, “a brand plucked from the fire”. WOW! That is you and me. Christ has plucked us from the fires of Hell. A “brand” references a smoldering piece of wood snatched from a burning fire pit.
    Then he challenged Joshua with a proposition or a proposed pattern that had to be chosen and adhered to. God says, “Shema Joshua”, meaning “obey My Word”. That proposed pattern was to follow the pattern of God’s righteousness.
    “If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.”
    God then tells him that He will bring His Branch that will remove their iniquity in a single day.
    The word “Branch” used is semah צֶמַח and contextually is used as a title referring to Yeshua the Messiah. We see this in Isaiah 4:2 and Jeremiah 23:5 as well as others. Jesus even referred to Himself and us in this context in John 15:5 (David Guzik; Blueletter Bible).
    John 15:5 ESV
    I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
    Finally, God commands them to bring their neighbors to join them under God’s vine and fig tree. This was a Hebrew idiom referring to coming under the authority of the Law of God’s righteousness and to become a student, talmid תַּלְמִיד or disciple of the Law, the pattern of the Lord.
    In these days, we the church must face the challenge to live in the authority of the authorized pattern and overcome the patterns of darkness. Let’s start in our own lives today. Let’s break the pattern of the accuser in our lives and embrace the pattern of God’s promise.

      • Matthew 5:6ESV

Jubilee Church
jubileechurchintl@gmail.com
5014761333
http://thejube.org
7 members • 4 followers