When we closely and prayerfully examine Jude 1:20-23, where God says by praying in the Holy Spirit and keeping ourselves in God’s love, makes incredible miracles possible, because of most holy faith and love working together (Galatians 5:6); therefore, when we honestly, prayerfully, and obediently add 1 John 4:7-16, where believing God, loving Him and others causes God, who is Love (and Jesus, from whom faith comes—Hebrews 12:2), to become perfected in us or us to be filled with the Godhead—Father, Christ, and Holy Spirit (Ephesians 3:14-21), to cast out the satanic spirit of (tormenting) fear (2 Timothy 1:7; 1 John 4:17-21), so God can work His miracles for, in, and through us, to benefit the other members of Christ’s body, the church worldwide (1 Corinthians 12:26-27).
When we prayerfully examine Luke 18:1-8, which is Jesus’ parable of the widow that cried out to God day and night, because the unjust judge did not fear God or people, yet God put such a fear of this praying widow into that wicked judge, he granted her request, but Jesus then asks for an answer to His question: When Jesus returns for His body, the church, will He find faith on the earth? And the answer to Jesus’ question is NO!—unless there is also love for faith to work through, because Galatians 5:6 says, “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.” This is what really matters!
And James 2:14-17, strongly emphasizes “faith” that refuses to love needy people enough to help provide for their necessities, is “dead faith”, “worthless”, “just wishful thinking”, a “foolish virgin” (Matthew 25:1-13), and not the most holy faith working through perfect love, Jesus will look for when He returns for His bride, the worldwide church. Now hate tries to rule the earth.
The missing oil of the foolish virgins was their “little faith” and “imperfect love” that is soon exposed, short lived, but cannot be bought or sold in the world’s markets, for it only comes from God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, so make certain our vessels are filled with all of God’s faith and love there is (Ephesians 3:14-21; Hebrews 12:2), for this is what Jesus will be looking for when He returns for His bride, the worldwide church—the faith and love He is.
Romans 11:11-36, but especially verses 25-27, gives understanding “that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in”, because Israel, the natural olive tree, was engrafted by Gentiles, to make Israel jealous of God’s abundant blessings to Gentiles, but when our preset close, intimate relationship with God, here on earth is finished, God will then turn all His attention to bringing Israel into that same close, intimate relationship He and Gentiles enjoy, and they will be saved.
When we look closely at God’s word and how fast it is being fulfilled around us, we know “the fullness of the Gentiles” has just about come in for God to now start dealing with Israel.
It is time to focus all our attention on spiritual things instead of on worldly things, because 1 John 2:15-17, says the world and its lust—anger, greed, hatred, steal-kill-destroy jealous rioting—is passing away; therefore, the only sound, valuable, and safe place is our close, intimate, personal, loving relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit, for this is eternal and not temporal (Hebrews 11:1-3; 2 Corinthians 4:11-18).
Jim Nabors
