Fire! A Bible study
about having The Fire of God
2/26/04; 4/9/04; 10/24/05;
2/21/06; 8/5/09 A-D; 2/26/10; 3/4/10
Notice:
Because these are my personal notes on the Fire of God, many things are very condensed, and many things are not self-explanatory, being without explanations. If you would like any part of this bible study explained or clarified please feel free to contact me.
Contents
1. What is ‘having the Fire of God?’ 2
The Detailed
Picture in Languages3
2. Inspirational Examples of Fire 3
Paul & Epaphras
- Zealous/Jealous
for the Body of Christ4
E. Mt. Sinai (Mosaic Covenant)6
G. Holy Spirit / Jesus’ Eyes of Fire. 6
I. God likes things to be HOT7
Test Your Salvation in General [from “foundations” teaching] 9
Jesus Doesn’t Jive With Quick Shallow Commitments. 10
C. Lack of Love for Holiness11
C. It is deep and It remains: Joh_15:16. 13
Chapter 2 – Fire & Spiritual Understanding. 14
1. The Proper Use Of Emotion14
A. David Had Emotion In Worship14
B. A Man After God’s Own heart14
C. So what do you think God is like??. 14
D. And what did He command for us to do?. 14
A. Two Well-established, Conversing Principals: 15
Remember the Road
to Emmaus?17
D. A Comparison of the two altars17
3. General Admonitions & Summations 17
4. More Scriptures/ Extra Thoughts: 18
God’s Jealousy (Zeal) Makes Hell18
Chapter 1 – Get God’s Fire
1. What is ‘having
the Fire of God?’
The BIG Picture
A. What do you think the Fire of God is?
B. Having the Fire of God is being deeply and completely zealous, passionate, desperate, hungry, and fervent for Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.
C. True spiritual Fire is a chemical reaction of 1. God’s touch on a person’s life and 2. their reaction/dedication to it
D. Having the Fire of God necessitates continually and repeatedly stirring up zeal for God
E. Having the Fire of God means giving the only reasonable response to the extreme call to give everything.
“Love so amazing so Divine, demands my soul, my life, my all”
F. What is Fire, what is it about, what does it look like, and why is it important?
-It’s not just emo
-Let me wet you appetite…
-It’s about being jealous for God (zeal for house)
-Getting a hold of that passion in life that we were all made for
-What’s it look Like? Enthusiastic, but different and better
“enthusiastic” [en_thu_siastic: meaning, “God-possessed.”]
-Having God’s Fire suggests that you are being consumed (Rom 12:1; Mk
9:49-50)
Having God’s Fire means being consumed for Jesus
God’s Fire answers the demand for zeal for the infinite God
The Detailed Picture in Languages
Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, and Latin are all alike:
jealous/zealous = same word (unlike English):
“קנא, qânâ'”
G2205 (Hebrew); “ζῆλος, [often: ζηλω] zēlos” G2205
(Greek); “Selo” (Spanish, SRV);
“zelo” (Latin Vulgate)
2. Inspirational
Examples of Fire
Phinehas:
Num_25:10-13
CAB And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused My
wrathH2534/G2372
to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealousH7065 [ζηλωσαιG2206 / ζηλονG2205] among them*, and
I did not consume the children of Israel in My jealousyH7068
[ζηλωG2205]. 12 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him My
covenant of peaceH7965
[εἰρήνηςG1515, as in peacemaker: Mat_5:9-12: εἰρηνοποιοίG1518]; 13 and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual
covenant of priesthood, because he was zealousH7065/G2206 for his
God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
*Greek:
ζηλῶσαίG2206 μου τὸν
ζῆλονG2205
ἐν αὐτοῖς
Hebrew: Same Hebrew word used for jealousy! (Examples: Gen_30:1; Num_5:14 & Num_5:30)
Psa_106:30-31
CAB 30 Then Phinehas stood up and made atonement,
and the plague ceased. 31 And
it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever.
John the Baptist
Mar_1:2-6 WEB As it is written in
the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face… 3 The voice of one crying in
the wilderness… 4 John
came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for
forgiveness of sins. 5
All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him… 6 John was clothed with
camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild
honey.
Joh_5:35
WEB
[About John the Baptist…] ß ß
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice
for a while in his light.
Jeremiah
See Jeremiah’s persecution below
Road to Emmaus
Luk_24:31-32 KJV And their eyes were opened, and they
knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart
burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us
the scriptures?
Paul & Epaphras - Zealous/Jealous
for the Body of Christ
2Co_11:2 KJV For I am jealous2206
[zealous] over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband,
that I may present you
as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Col_4:12-13 KJV Epaphras, who is one of
you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in
prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 13 For I bear him record,
that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea,
and them in Hierapolis.
(compare
earlier in chapter 4:
Col_4:6 - From Favor to Fire)
The Apostle John,
(Remember? Rev_1:12-16)
Kamikazes For Jesus
Kamikazes always produce fire! (911)
But for us…
“…the weapons of our warfare are not
fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, (2Co_10:4
MKJV).”
And there is a right and a wrong way to burn…
Let’s compare Kamikazes with getting angry… “Did Jesus ever Get Angry?”
Jesus Got Angry
Right or wrong: Moses strikes the rock (Num_20:7-13)
Right or wrong: Jesus flips over the tables, (Joh_2:14-17; Mar_11:16-17) and gets mad over unwillingness to approve of healing on the Sabbath (Mar_3:1-5)
Right or wrong: Paul’s anger over idols (Act_17:16 – G3947 παροξύνω)
Joh_2:14-15 MKJV And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. 15 And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and the oxen. And He poured out the money-changers' money and overthrew the tables.
Mar_11:16-17 MKJV And He
would not allow any to carry a vessel through the temple. 17 And He taught, saying to
them, Is it not written, "My house shall be called the house of prayer for
all nations?" But you have made it a den of thieves. (also in Mat_21:13)
Joh_2:14-16-17 MKJV And He said to those who sold doves, Take these things away from here. Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise. 17 And His disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of Your house has eaten Me up."
Psa_69:7-12 CAB 7 For I
have suffered reproach for Your sake; shame has covered my face. 8 I became strange to my brethren, and a
stranger to my mother's children. 9 For the zeal of Your house has eaten me up;
and the reproaches of them that reproached
You have fallen upon me. 10 And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and
that was made my reproach. 11 And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I
became a proverb to them. 12 Those that sit in the gate talked against me,
and those that drank wine sang against me.
Psa_119:139
Complete Apostles' Bible Your [the]
zeal (ζῆλοςG2205) [for your house]* has quite
wasted me; because my enemies have forgotten Your words.
[* “ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ
οἴκου σου” – same as Psa_69:9]
> These are Biblical signs of zeal. (Compare: Luk_6:22, Luk_6:26)
Mar_3:4-5 MKJV And He said to
them, Is it
lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill?
But they were silent. 5
And looking around on them with angerG3709, [οργης]
being grieved because of the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man,
Stretch out your hand! And he stretched it out. And his hand was
restored whole, like the other.
G3709 ὀργή orgē
or-gay'
From G3713; properly desire (as a reaching forth or excitement of the mind), that is, (by analogy) violent passion (ire, or [justifiable] abhorrence); by implication punishment: - anger, indignation, vengeance, wrath.
(In all of this remember: be angry and don’t sin: Eph_4:26)
Elkanah
A Hebrew name “Elkanah = “God has possessed” or “God has created”” (BDB)
אלקנה from H410 [El] and H7069 [Kanah]
H7069 קנה qânâh kaw-naw'
A primitive root; to erect, that is, create; by extension to procure, especially by purchase (causatively sell); by implication to own: - attain, buy (-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess (-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
Wasted Without Fire
If you do not yet have the Fire of God, If you have been settling for less, then the sad new is that you’ve been duped to giving your life away to worthlessness. But the good news is, you don’t have to stay that way!
Is what your living for worth dying for? If not, then its not worth living for either. Jason Dueñas recently spoke on “wasted” (Don’t waist your life)
Guard against getting
wiser than your youthful zeal. Any “wisdom” that casts scorn on more zealous
beginnings is a purest form of utter foolishness.
3. God is Fire
Having The Fire of God becomes significantly more important
when we see what God is like
A. Consuming Fire
Deu_4:24
KJV-Based
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Heb_12:29
KJV
For our God is
a consuming fire.
Isa_42:13
Brenton The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and
crush the war: he shall stir up jealousy [LXX: ζῆλον
(zalon) - zeal], and
shall shout mightily against his enemies.
Eze_36:5
Brenton therefore, thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I
spoken...
B. Light
1Jo_1:5
KJV
…God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Jam_1:17
KJV/WEB
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the
Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
Isa_42:6 WEB I, Yahweh…. give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles…
ð
Where do you
think that the light comes from? –We’ll come back to this…
C. Abrahamic Covenant
Gen_15:17-18
KJV
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a
smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD
made a covenant with Abram…
[Animal
parts, covenant: Jer_34:18-19]
D. Burning Bush
Exo_3:2
KJV
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst
of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not
consumed. (Also see: Angels ministering spirits/fire Heb_1:7; Rev_10:1)
E. Mt. Sinai (Mosaic Covenant)
Exo_19:18 KJV And mount Sinai was
altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the
smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked
greatly.
Exo_24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was
like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of
Israel.
F. “Pillar of Fire”
4 Places: Exo_3:21-22; Exo_14:24; Num_14:14; Neh_9:12; Neh_9:19
G. Holy Spirit / Jesus’ Eyes of Fire
Rev_4:5 KJV And out of the throne
proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps
of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Rev_1:12-16 KJV-Based
And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven
golden candlesticks; 13
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of
man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a
golden girdle. 14 His
head and his
hairs were
white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like
unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of
many waters. 16 And he
had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged
sword: and his countenance was as the sun shinning in his strength.
(Also
in: Rev_2:18;
Rev_19:12.
Jesus
the same as yesterday & forever: Heb_13:8)
H. More “God = Fire” verses:
2Sam_22:9; 2Ch_7:1-3; Rev_20:9
Transition…
I. God likes things to be HOT
Rev_15:2 Sea of glass
mixed with fire
Rev_3:15-16 WEB "I know your works,
that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. 16 So,
because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my
mouth.
J. We Should be like Him
Not only is He fire,
and not only does He like fire, but He wants us to be like Him in fire
1Jn_4:17
NKJV Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have
boldness ß
on the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (Conversely: 1Jn 3:2-3) ß
4. We must have
God’s Fire
Salt, Light, City, Lamp
Mat_5:13-16 Salt…You are the light of the world, city, lamp (all light was made by fire!!) ß
(“Salt” necessitates “Fire”: Lev_2:2-16, Ezk_43:24, Mar_9:49-50. Also Read
Luk_4:33-35)
Joh_5:35 WEB [About John the Baptist…] ß ß
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice
for a while in his light.
Filled with Holy Spirit
Act_2:3-4
MKJV-Based
And tongues
as of fire appeared to them, being distributed; and it sat upon each
of them. 4 And they
were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them utterance.
Zeal
Psa_69:9
WEB
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach
you have fallen on me. [see: Psa_69:7-12]
Joh_2:17
NIV
His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will
consume me." (After driving out the $ changers)
See: Jesus
Got Angry
Rom_12:11 not lacking in eager/diligent/business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
· Not Lacking in it Rom_12:11,
·
Always Zealous/Right Zeal Gal_4:18, · “Phinehas” Num_25:5-13,
· Others: 1King_19:10, Pro_23:17, Tit_2:14
Isa 64:7 Complete
Apostles' Bible And there is none that calls upon Your name,
or that remembers to take hold of You…
Ý
Awake and Shake
ß
Isa_52:1-2 WEB Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments… 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
(Also: Samson Jdg_16:20.)
Fire Makes or Breaks You
Mar_9:49-50 WEB For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
will be seasoned with salt. 50 Salt
is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it?
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
(and compare previously: Mar_9:41-48 - Gehenna Fire)
So God’s fire means…
> Either get jealous for God, or get jealously consumed by God!
> Purification or Punishment… It will Make you or Break you
See: What it did to Edom
See: God’s Jealousy Makes Hell (Deu_32:9-23)
Ax, Holy Spirit, Fire!,
Purification
Mat_3:10-12 MKJV And now also, the axe
is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring
forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. 11 I indeed baptize you with water to
repentance. But He who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am
not worthy to carry. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with
fire; 12 whose fan is in
His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the
storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Also Luk_3:16-17)
Trials That Purify
1Pe_1:7 KJV That the trial of your
faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried
with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ:
Division
Luk_12:49-53 WEB "I came to throw fire on
the earth. I wish it were already kindled. 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed
I am until it is accomplished! 51 Do
you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but
rather division. 52
For from now on, there will be five in
one house divided, three against two, and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against
father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law
against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law."
5. The Salvation of Fire
Test Your Salvation in General [from
“foundations” teaching]
2Co_13:5 WEB Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified G96. [αδοκιμοι G96]
Ú Don’t be too offended and proud than to examine your Salvation!
Ú He’s not asking you to do anything that he’s not willing to do himself (Compare Gal_2:2; 2Jn_1:8-9)
1Co_9:27 WEB but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected96. [αδοκιμος96]
So how Does “Testing” Relate to FIRE?:
Rev_3:14-20
EMTV "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea
write, 'These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the
beginning of the creation of God: 15 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that
you were cold or hot. 16
Therefore, since you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, 'I am wealthy, and have become rich, and
have need of nothing'--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked, 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold having been
tried by fire, so that you may become rich; and white robes, so that you may be
clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not appear; and eye salve, so that
you may anoint your eyes, in order that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and I am
knocking. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, then I will come in to
him and I will dine with him, and he with Me.
[Entire
context: Rev_3:14-22]
They are not zealous:
Rev_3:15 - works not hot or cold
Rev_3:16 - lukewarm = spit out
Rev_3:19 - be zealous
[“ζηλωσον” (zḗleue); Greek: Imperative V-AAM-2S or V-PAM-2S] & repent
Why are they not zealous?:
Rev_3:17
- they say they are ritch: but they are blind!
(Rev_3:18
- how to see)
Other Repentance:
Rev_2:4-5, Rev_2:16, Rev_2:22; Rev_3:3; Rev_9:20-21; Rev_16:9; Rev_16:11
Act_17:30-31 - everyone should repent
Mat_24:48-51 / Luk_12:45-46 - lack of zeal makes one sin
The Extreme Devotion of Fire
Luk_14:25-27 WEB Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
READ Verses 28-32
Luk_14:33-35 MKJV So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple. 34 Salt is good, but if the salt has become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned? 35 It is not fit for the land, nor for manure, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. -Read: Mat 10:31-39-
Mat_10:37-39 WEB He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. 38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't
worthy of me. 39
He who finds his life will lose it; and
he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
Remnant Mentality
[from “Foundations”
teaching]
Rom_9:27 WEB Isaiah cries concerning
Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the
sea, It is the remnant who will be saved; [See Isa 10:22]
Remember He says later:
Isa_64:7 WEB There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you
[The remnant is
specifically mentioned 16 times as a theme throughout Isaiah. Do you see that
the remnant is the few who stir themselves up?]
Rom_11:5 WEB Even so then at this
present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
2Th_2:3 WEB Let no one deceive
you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the
man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
1Ti_4:1-2 WEB But the Spirit says
expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying
attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies,
branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
Mat_24:12 WEB
Because iniquity will be multiplied,
the love 26 [αγαπη]
of many G4183 [πολλων;
the greater part] will
grow cold.
Jesus Doesn’t Jive With Quick Shallow Commitments
[Taken from “Connection” teaching]
Mat_8:19-23 WEB
A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you
go." 20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of
the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." 21
Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury
my father." 22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead
to bury their own dead." 23 When he got into a boat, his disciples
followed him.
Eat
flesh drink blood, Joh_6:1 (ect)
Summary
i.
Fundamental Call
Fire is the basic fundamental call to follow Jesus
Basic Call to discipleship, the only way to not be “spit out”
ii. The
Wrong Question
So many ask the wrong question: “Are you saved?” “Are you Born Again?”
When we should be asking, “Are you completely burning hot for Jesus?”
iii. Be
Ready
Be ready, or get cut into pieces (Mat_24:40-51)
iv. Only
Option
Fire is not optional. It’s not just something cute that youth groups get pumped up about.
Going extreme for Jesus is
the only way to live
“The church has been sub-normal for so long that when anyone gets up to a healthy normal temperature, they think he’s got a the flue!”
(Lenard Ravenhill)
Few answer this call… Few will
Make it!
Luk_13:23-24 WEB; also think Joh_12:39 “Could not believe…”
[repeat]
Isa_52:1-2 WEB Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments… 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
(Also: Samson Jdg_16:20.)
6. Enemies of Fire
A. Examples:
Laziness… Complacency… .
B. TV
Don’t expect God to give you that truly adventurous life of his fire if you are still filling Your mind and desires with its counterfeit portrayed on TV!
“we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spirits and powers and…” (Eph_6:12)
ð Samara Story: “why do some parents lie to their kids about Santa Claus?”
[Because they are not living the adventure of Jesus]
C. Lack of Love for Holiness
Heb_12:14 ISV “Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.”
(Similar
to Principal: “The Holy
Spirit
never makes light of sin.”)
Don’t think that you are going to get the real fire from God without holiness;
You won’t even see Him
K. Q. Story (“Without holiness…”)
7. Fake, Strange
Fire
Lev_10:1-3 WEB Nadab and Abihu, the
sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid
incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he
had not commanded them. 2
And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before
Yahweh. 3 Then Moses
said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, "'I will show
myself holy to those who come near me, And before all the people I will be
glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
A. Self/Demon-generated
Often burns solely off of
emotions,
not the reality of or obedience
to God.
· Often puts value on your loud personality instead of the depth of
True fire.
B. Doesn’t last
(“they look like they are on fire!” –But they soon “burn out” )
Mat_13:5-6 Some fell on rocky
places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly,
because the soil was shallow. 6
But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they
withered because they had no root. [Not remaining
fruit: Jn 15:16]
C. It allows Sin
When someone is “On Fire!” and they have sin in their life, then it is the fake defiling fire based on sinful man. Unredeemed emotions quickly and easily counterfeit God’s Holy Spirit, in an unholy way.
Think:
Vega Story in Puerto Rico
(Kissing in basement then… “God really moved today in church!”)
D. Loud people,
especially former drug addicts/street people are much more prone to it
8. Repent Of Zeal
1Co_13:4 - Love is not zealous?? Now what does that mean?
> 1Co_14:1 – “be zealous”: so how is love to be zealous and not be
zealous?
1Co_3:3 – Where there is zeal (ζηλοςG2205) among you = fleshly (2Co_12:20)
Gal_5:20 – Works of the Flesh (ζῆλοι, θυμοί,)
Jam_3:14-16 - Bad Zeal is, selfish, soulish, demonic
Jas_4:1-2 - Lust makes bad zeal: "ἐπιθυμεῖτε" (v. 2a) > "ζηλοῦτε" (v. 2c)
Jas_4:5 - God's Passion (ἐπιποθεῖG1971) vs. your zeal:
> See: Heb_10:27; Zep_1:18; Zep_3:8
Rom_10:1-3 - Israel's Zeal (and see Saul's: Phi_3:6)
2Sa_21:1-11
– Saul’s Punished, wicked,
Counterfeited Zeal
Gal_4:17-18 - Zealously affected in Good
thing (Mat_23:15)
Rom_16:18;
Phi_2:21;
- Religion of own belly (Luk_14:25)
Word Study References
“...meaning envy, jealousy, anger (Act_5:17;
Act_13:45; Rom_13:13...
Gal_5:20... with éris
(G2054), contention... Gal_5:20).”
(Word
Study excerpts on G2205)
Warning Examples Of bad Zeal
Gen_4:1-16
- Cane Murders Abel
Especially:
Gen_4:4-7 - Offering (Heb_11:4 - by faith)
Gen_4:8-12 - Murder
↓
1Jn_3:12
- …and why did he slay his brother? (unrepentant zeal for personal religious
works)
Mal_2:11-13
- Profaned holiness of the Lord… (He Love you, and His holiness, but you like a
prostitute profane His holiness as my relitve did to their brother, to polute
their kindness unto you)
be warned!:
If you are zealous for your own
things, you will always rage against the truth and anyone who ever seems to
represent it.
(Luk_6:11;
2Ki_19:27-28)
Do not zealous (Jealous, envying) to preserve yourself
against people (1Co_13:4) or truth (Jam_3:14).
Repenting of zeal may make more sense if we look at the
application of the word "Passion":
Good And Bad Passion
Luk_22:15 – Pain linked to Passover: “πασχαG3957”/
“παθεινG3958”
Uses: ἐπιθυμία
= desire/lust
Act_1:3 – “παθεινG3958,”
translated as the word “passion” (KJV)
1Th_4:5 – “πάθει”
- Passions... of lust; (compare: Rom_1:26; Col_3:5)
Uses: ἐπιθυμία
= desire/lust
Same word used for sorrow...
Job_30:31; Pro_25:20
And especially see how it is used here!:
2Co_7:7-12 - "ἐπιπόθησιν"G1972 (2Co_7:7; 2Co_7:11)
(Compare: Jas_4:1-2, -above-)
Etymology:
G1972 < G1971: ἐπί
+ ποθέω
Good Zeal
2Co_11:2-4 - Godly zeal
Col_4:6
- From Favor to Fire (Col_4:12-13)
Mar_9:49-50
- Fellowship of Fire (REAL Love and Peace!)
Summaries
Pain = Passion > Desire (Lust) > Zeal (Jealousy/
Envy) > Fire of God (brought by Grace Col_4:6) or Fire of Hell (Brought by sin Deu_32:9-23;
Heb_10:27)
If you have Proper Passion, it Produces Powerful
Pursuit; But Poisoned and Polluted Passion Produces Permanent Perdition
So what does this have to do with
“Love”
Php_4:1
– “Longed for” - Hurt with loving passion for people who hurt to be with Jesus
(compare: Rom_8:23)
9. True Fire
A. It burns bugs (Exo 3:2)
B. Jeremiah’s Fire/Zeal
Depressed…
1Ki_19:4
WEB
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life…
But still Truly Zealous…
1Ki_19:14
KJV
And he said, I have been very jealous for the
LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and
I, even
I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
(Zealous,
but obviously not based on Emotion)
C. It is deep and It remains: Joh_15:16
Chapter 2 – Fire & Spiritual
Understanding
1. The Proper Use Of Emotion
A. David Had Emotion In Worship
2Sa_6:14-16 KJV And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
B. A Man After God’s Own heart
…he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will, (Act_13:22 KJV; Also see: 1Sam_13:14; 1Ki_15:3, 1Ki_15:5).
C. So what do you think God is like??
--We see him in David--
Zep_3:17
KJV+
The LORD3068
thy God430
in the midst7130
of thee is
mighty;1368
he will save,3467
he will rejoice7797
over5921
thee with joy;8057
he will rest2790
in his love,160
he will joy1523 over5921 thee with singing.7440
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“joy1523”H1523
גּוּל גּיל gı̂yl
gûl gheel, gool A primitive root; properly to spin around (under the influence of any violent emotion), that is, usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear: - be glad, joy, be joyful, rejoice. |
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“singing.7440”
H7440 רנּה rinnâh
rin-naw' From H7442; properly a creaking (or shrill sound), that is, shout (of joy or grief): - cry, gladness, joy, proclamation, rejoicing, shouting, sing (-ing), triumph. |
D. And what did He command for us to do?
Mat_5:11-12 / Luk_6:22-23 – Rejoice in the face of persecution
If we rejoice in the face
of evil, how much more should we in the presence of God?
Hebrew & Greek Words for Rejoicing:
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Hebrew: “H5970 עלץ
‛âlats aw-lats' A primitive root; to jump for joy, that is, exult: - be joyful, rejoice, triumph.” (Strong’s) Used in
8 places:
1Sa_2:1; 1Ch_16:32; Psa_5:11; Psa_9:2; Psa_25:2; Psa_68:3; Pro_11:10; Pro_28:12; |
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Greek: “G21 ἀγαλλιάω agalliaō
ag-al-lee-ah'-o From ἄγαν
agan
(much) and G242; properly to jump for joy,
that is, exult: - be
(exceeding) glad, with exceeding joy, rejoice (greatly).” (Strong’s) “To exult,
leap for joy, to show one's joy by leaping and skipping denoting excessive or
ecstatic joy and delight… Often spoken of rejoicing with song and dance
(Sept.: Psa_2:11;
Psa_20:5;
Psa_40:16;
Psa_68:3).”
(Word Study) “G4640 σκιρτάω skirtaō
skeer-tah'-o Akin
to σκαίρω
skairō
(to skip); to jump, that is, sympathetically move (as the quickening of a fetus): - leap (for joy).” (Strong’s) Used
as a reference to how to rejoice in Luk_6:23 |
Psa_5:11
CAB But let all that trust in You be gladH8055 / G2165 in You:
they shall rejoiceH7442
/ G21 * forever, and You shall dwell
among them; and all that love Your name shall rejoiceH5970 / G2744 in You.
[*Psa 5:11:
“αγαλλιασονται”
- not so directly marked in Stong’s, but almost exactly the same as
“αγαλλιασθεG21” in Mat_5:12]
E. Self Control!
Think: “Spirits of prophets subject” (1Co_14:32)
-If their spirit is subject, how much more their emotions!
-Emo. fundamentally different than spirit, make the distinction!
-“I
just want to be lead by the spirit…” [Þ Then have self
control.] But we translate this to mean ð ‘I just want to be
jerked about by my emotions .’ ð If you are looking to
be jerked around, you open your self to other spirits that will tickle your
emotions. The devil will gladly give you an experience if that’s what will get
you to take on a counterfeit “holy spirit”.
2. Two Goodly Fires
· There is fire by choice, but there is also fire by Revelation!
ß
A. Two Well-established, Conversing
Principals:
Rom_9:16
WEB
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has
mercy.
Heb_11:6
MKJV
But without faith it
is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to
God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek 1567
Him.
ß Hebrews Tangent About “Seeking” ß
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Seek1567 ἐκζητέω ekzēteō
ek-zay-teh'-o From
G1537 and G2212; to search out, that is, (figuratively) investigate, crave, demand,
(by Hebraism) worship: - en- (re-)
quire, seek after (carefully, diligently). (Strong’s) |
Þ 2Ch_7:14
KJV
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways… (Also: Zac_8:21-22)
(This
is important because these two principals reflect the Two types, or “aspects”,
of true fire)
So What does this mean?
So anyone can seek God and find Him, but in the end no one can do anything unless God has mercy on the work of His hands, and causes it to happen upon His helpless creation.
Both of these realities are gloriously displayed in the Allegory and representative symbols of the Two Alters:
The Tabernacle
B. Two Altars
The First Altar is Sacrificial, (AKA: “The Brazen
Altar”). Sacrifice is your choice, it is practically self-initiated, (though it
is still a sweat smell to the Lord: Gen_8:21, Lev_1:9…, *Eph_5:2, Phil_4:18).
Psa_116:17
WEB
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call on the name of
Yahweh.
(Also: Amo_4:5, “of praise”: Jer_33:11, Heb_13:5,)
The Second Altar is the altar of incense, where God has his angels add incense to our
prayers, and they ascend before Him; The incense is an addition of Grace. In this fire we are God-initiated and closest to God. Without such from the Lord we are ultimately left to our own
resources, especially when it comes to fire.
· The
"fire on the altar" before the Lord is not the sacrificial altar, but the altar of incense and prayer.
Rev_8:3-5 KJV And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. 5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar…
C. Examples
Think: Prophets
Jeremiah:
Jer_20:7-9 WEB Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. 8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. 9 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't contain.
ß (Sounds like) ß
Psa_69:9 WEB For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. [see: Psa_69:7-12]
Isaiah:
Isa_6:1-7 (KJV-Based) In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried unto the other, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 And the posts of the door shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, “Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, “Look, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.
The Apostle John,
The fire that he saw in Jesus' eyes stayed with him!
(Remember? Rev_1:12-16)
Saul's vision of Jesus, fall: Act_9:1-9 (Jason + I
thought of it at the same time)
Remember the Road to Emmaus?
This (alter) leads to revelation/ open eyes
D. A Comparison of the two altars
Can’t
completely separate the two, but…
The first altar is bronze, but the second is gold, indicating the second is superior, just as revelation from God is to our choice to pursue Him.
Important Saying: There is nothing like sacrifice to catapult you into the fire of God, and even less is there anything that will completely consume, captivate, amaze, overtake, and push you over the edge into the fire of God like Revelation!
3. General Admonitions & Summations
A. Don’t get caught up and distracted by the glamour of being “On Fire”
If you do then you will never get it. [You’ve got to remain]. –I’m NOT saying, “Don’t get pumped up”
B. It comes best by experiences! (Why do you think that the prophets are so zealous??)
[Because they have seen things from God!]
C. The priest will not start a fire on the altar until you first bring a sacrifice
D. The only way to do this is to pray! Many come to youth group wanting the glamour, but aren’t willing to pay the price. ‘Fervent + Effective prayer’ (Jas_5:16)
4. More Scriptures/ Extra Thoughts:
Israel Consume Esau
Oba_1:17-18 KJV But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Shake and Awake
Psa_35:23
KJV
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my
God and my Lord.
God’s Jealousy
(Zeal) Makes Hell
Deu_32:9-23 KJV For the LORD'S portion
is his
people; Jacob is
the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste
howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As
an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her
wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did
lead him, and there
was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the
earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck
honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat
of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys
of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art
waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he
forsook God which
made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,
with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that
came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art
unmindful, and hast forgotten God
that formed thee. 19 And
when the LORD saw it,
he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his
daughters. 20 And
he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be:
for they are
a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is
not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
and I will move them to jealousy
with those which are not a
people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and
shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend
mine arrows upon them.
(More on Hell: Jon_2:5-7)
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Some Journaling from Repent of
Zeal
Until you know truth, you need to be
the most weak, passive, unexpressive, quiet, self-contained person there is:
Because if not...
(A) You will pollute others, and you
have to have the integrity to not love satan in this way
(B) Because you have no right to
care about anything that is not truth.
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