Psalm 69:1-36 1 **Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. 6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children. 9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. 10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 **But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. 17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. 34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. 35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
- Zeal: (H7068) ardor, zeal, jealousy, a jealous ANGER, to become dark red, envy(1), irritation(1), jealousy(24), rivalry(1), wrath(1), zeal(14)
- Eate Me Up: (H398) A verb meaning to eat, devour, consume, burn up, feed. It is regularly used in a metaphorical sense describing the activity of fire that consumes or devours The burnt offering was consumed by fire into ashes (Leviticus 6:10).
John 2:13-23 13And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise. 17And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. 18Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21But he spake of the temple of his body. 22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. 23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
John 2:14-17 (CJB) 14In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money. 15He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins; 16and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?” 17(His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”)
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
Chapter 9 · The Laodicean Church Age
“Be zealous and repent.” Now this false church has zeal; make no mistake about that. Her zeal has literally been that of the Jews, John 2:17, “The zeal of thine house hath eaten Me up.” But it is a wrong zeal. It is for the house of their own building. It is for their own creeds, dogmas, organizations, their own righteousness. They have put the Word out for their own ideas. They deposed the Holy Ghost and made men into leaders. They have put aside Eternal Life as a Person, and make it good works, or even church conformity rather than good works.
But God is calling for another zeal. It is the zeal to cry “I AM WRONG.” Now who is going to say that he is wrong? What is it that all these denominations are based upon? — the claim to originality, and that of God, — the claim that they are right. Now they ALL cannot be right. In fact NOT ONE of them is right. They are whited sepulchres, full of dead men’s bones. They have no life. They have no vindication. God has never made Himself known in any organization. They say they are right because they are the ones that are saying it, but saying it does not make it so. They need the vindicated “Thus saith the Lord” of God, and they don’t have it.
The Queen Of Sheba
60-0710 · Klamath Falls, Oregon
67 But the thing of it is, they take the nation, the things of the world, “Who will be—who will play this play with certain-certain movie star?”
A lot of people, many people today, church members, Pentecostal people, Baptists, Presbyterians can tell you more about the movie life than they can the Bible life. More children can tell you about Davy Crockett, or—or Gunsmoke, or some of them then they can about Jesus Christ, is because that’s what they’re taught in their homes. And then talk about juvenile delinquency; it’s parent delinquency and church delinquency. That’s exactly right. Clergy delinquency of preaching the Word, and—and God working with the church, confirming the Word with signs a following.
68 Ananias and Sapphira is living in the church, on the side of the church and never called out and told their sins, because they’re the heaviest payers there is in the church. Some Ananias with a great job can put in five thousand dollars a year; he could drink, smoke, gamble, commit adultery, and he can be deacon at the same time. Brother, I’m telling you, when the Spirit of God comes into the church, It’d tear that thing open and rip it out, like He did when He come the other time to the temple. Money changers…
“Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, heady, highminded, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away.” I’m quoting the Scripture, First Timothy 3.
69 Now, when you see those things taking place and knows that the hour that we’re living, the sincerity that the church ought to be in, and yet just fabulous. You go down here at the market, or the—or go tonight for dinner, and they set you out a bowl of soup, and a big spider is in it; well, you want to sue the company. Certainly. A fly is in it, you would…Why, you’d call the waitress and bawl her out like everything. And yet you’ll walk right around, and take some man-made theology, and push it down your throat: “Join the church and that’s all you have to do.”
“Except a man be borned again, he can no wise enter into the Kingdom…?…And these signs will follow them after they’re borned again.” See? That’s what Jesus said. That brings the mark of distinction to the Church, the signs and wonders of the resurrected living Christ, living in the Church. They don’t want it today.
What Went Ye Out To See?
59-1001 · Utica, Indiana
76 When you take these people that goes now, starts off and says, “Oh, I’m going to be a Christian,” and they start off all right. First thing, about six months, they start going back. Start this way, that way. You can tell right then that the anointing is leaving them. For as long as the Spirit of Christ is in you, It’ll make you Christ-like.
77 Now a lot of people has the wrong impression of Christ. Some people thinks that Christ was a sissy. Christ was the greatest of all men. He was the example man. Not only was He man, but He was God-Man. He was “God with us; Emmanuel.” He was the humblest of men. But, you can be too humble, you can get so humble until the devil would make a puppet out of you. He was humble enough to wash the disciples’ feet. He was forgiving enough to pray for those who drove spikes into His hands. But He was Man enough to plait ropes and to run the money changers out of the house.
78 Yes, John was man enough to be meek and humble. He was man enough to stand on the banks of Jordan. He didn’t need a great synagogue or a place to preach. He was humble. He took the bright blue skies. He was humble enough that he didn’t call upon the people to have to have so much money, to pastor their church.
79 He lived off of grasshoppers and wild honey, locusts. In that country, they can them. They’re great big, long grasshoppers; pickle them, smoke them, every other way, to eat them. That’s what he lived on. And his raiment was a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him.
80 Jesus said, “What did you go to see? What did you go to see? A person that would give in with the Pharisees; a reed shaken by every wind? Go in with the Sadducees when they come in? One day he’s this, and the other day he’s that”? Said, “You didn’t go to see nothing like that.” Said, “Did you go to see somebody dressed fine? No. An intellectual? No. What went you to see?”
81 He said, “Go show John what’s happening here. The lame walk. The blind see. The deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor has the Gospel preached to them. Blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” Oh, my! That was the sign of the Messiah. That was the sign to show him.
82 That’s the sign that the true holiness church today, as much as they’re falling, still it’s the mark of the calling of Jesus Christ. The men and women who stand for the unadulterated Gospel, of salvation to the soul, to the poor, to the needy. Not aristocratic bunch that’s dressed so in their churches that a poor man feels out of place, but a humble bunch of people. There’s where the Gospel is preached. The sick get well. They pray for the sick. God confirms their ministry with signs and wonders. There’s the Gospel being preached to the poor.
“Go show John these things.” Oh, my!
83 How that God took that man with no education; took that man without one suit of clothes to wear; took that man with not a robe to put over his shoulders; a man that had not a place to lay his head; a man that had not a decent meal to sit down by; and shocked the nations with him.
84 Hallelujah! Mercy! When I think of that, it wakes me to something. Must we do? I said to the wife, the other day, “Honey, I’m fifty years old. I can’t be here much longer.”
85 Then I walked out. I stood there in the woods. I went out hunting. I stood there in the woods a little bit. I thought of that, “Fifty years old. What’s the matter?”
86 Then Something said, to say to me, “God could train you for fifty years, to do a fifty-minute work.” Whatever the training has been, God knows what He’s doing. He trained Moses eighty years, to get forty years of service from him. God is training His people. God is training His Church. If we’re only willing to let God have His way, and to—to do that thing which is right. If we’re only willing to submit ourselves unto Him, that’s the thing to do.
87 God takes the simple things. Sometimes you might think that you’re in a minority here. The minority, God usually is in the minority. But, brother, when He gets ready to move, He shakes the majority with the minority. He’s God. He takes the simple things. Where did He get the stuff to make the world with? He spoke and said, “Let there be,” and there was.
88 He took a preacher without an education, raised in the wilderness on grasshoppers and honey, with no clothes hardly around him, but a piece of sheepskin, and shook the regions. And his name is immortal today. “What went ye out to see?” God takes simple things.
This Day This Scripture Is Fulfilled
65-0219
82 Besides that, He went into the temple one day. A Man went in there and found the house of God just about contaminated as it is today. They were buying, selling, changing money. And He turned over the money tables; took ropes and plaited them, and beat the moneychangers out of the temple. And looked upon them with anger, and said, “It’s written,” hallelujah, “My Father’s house is a house of prayer; and you’ve made it a den of thieves. And you, with your traditions, has made the commandments of God of none effect.”
83 Oh, could a bunch like that ever believe in Him? No, sir. They had been so hog-wallowed in the muck of societies and filth of the day, until they were so ecclesiastical froze up until they couldn’t feel the vibrations of the Power of Almighty God. No wonder the little woman could touch His garment and get healed by It; and a drunken soldier could spit in His face and feel no virtue! Depends on how you approach It. Depends on what you’re looking for. When you go to church, it depends on what you’re looking for.
84 Now we see Him standing there. No doubt but what the people had already warned him, warned…the priest had warned the people, “Now He’s coming over here next Sabbath, and, when He does, don’t you listen to Him. Now, you might go and sit here, but don’t pay no attention to what He says, because He don’t belong to our group. He’s an outcast. He has no fellowship card. He don’t even have an organization paper with Him. He doesn’t have nothing like that.” “What is He?”
85 “Some renegade boy that was born down here, illegitimate birth, by a carpenter’s home, that a mother conceived Him before they were married, and they’re trying to hide the thing up with some supernatural thing.
86 “We know that, when the Messiah cometh, He’ll come down the corridors of Heaven and go to our high priest and say, ‘Here I am, Caiaphas.’” But we find out that He didn’t do it that way, because it wasn’t written in the Word that way. It was a man-made tradition that caused them to believe that.
87 The Word had said that He would come just the way He come. And there He stood, reading the Word, and saying to them, “This day this Scripture is fulfilled in your eyes.” And still they fail to see Him or recognize Him, like they did in all other ages.
Matthew 21:13 13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- If we are his house, the dwelling place of God, don’t you think we need to be careful of what we put in and what comes out of the temple of God?
Psalm 91:9-16 9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
- Habitation: a place of residence; dwelling; abode. the act of inhabiting; occupancy by inhabitants.
Psalm 121:1-2 1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
John 10:10 10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Matthew 23:13-15 13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Romans 8:9-13 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
2 Corinthians 6:16-17 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Ephesians 3:16-17 16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Colossians 3:16-17 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
1 John 4:11-15 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Dedication
62-1111M · Elizabethtown, Kentucky
91 God always fills His temple. At the day of dedication He fills His temple. He fills it with Hisself. The same thing, today. God will fill every temple that will thoroughly dedicate itself to Him, any persons that will. The temple is not this little building here. The temple is not the one in Salt Lake City. The temple is not the one in Rome. The temple is you. You are the temple that God wants to dwell in and express Hisself through it, that all nations might know Him. You are living images of God, that God wants to work through. And any time that any man or any woman will forget all the falsehood that they’ve heard in the world, and come back to the line of the Scripture, and will keep in line.
92 Just like, Solomon did to what Moses did. Moses did to what God did. God always respected it.
93 And if we’ll come back to the original dedication and will open our hearts and empty ourselves, God, in dedication, as we give it to Him, will fill our temple with His Shekinah glory. Then the living God will be moving in a living Church, among a living people, and will spread forth His glory. Then, together, some day, one being this way, and one this way, and one one part of the country, She’ll come together to make the Bride. We’ll be caught up in the air, to meet Him.
Colossians 2:18-19 18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Colossians 2:18-19 (AMP) 18Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions [he claims] he has seen, vainly puffed up by his sensuous notions and inflated by his unspiritual thoughts and fleshly conceit, 19And not holding fast to the Head, from Whom the entire body, supplied and knit together by means of its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.