Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the arrangement of Tabernacle, Luke 9 refers to The Table of Showbread. It means fellowship with Jesus as the bread of life.
Luke 9:1-6
9:1. Then He calledHis twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
9:2. He sentthem to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
9:3. And He said to them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece.
9:4. "Whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.
9:5. "And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."
9:6. So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Jesus called and sent His disciples to preach the kingdom of God.
We must receive the call of God. Then, we are sent by Him.
God called twelve disciples. They refer to twelve loaves on the Table of Showbread which are set in two rows, six in a row (66). It refers to sixty six books in the bible.
Jesus calls us to have fellowship with Him as the Bread of Life or the Word of God.
The young men do not want to eat the Word of God but they want to work (serving), so they faint spiritually. It is the mistake that often happens.
Spiritual faint means one is neither dead nor raised or spiritual lukewarmness. It means he is not faithful and fervent in spirit, but unclean.
There are two kinds of the preaching of the Word of God as follows:
- Gospel word, good news.
Ephesians 1:13
1:13. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
It means the word that tells about Jesus' first coming to the world to die on the cross, so He saves the sinners.
If we eat the Gospel Word, we will be saved.
The proves that we are saved are as follows:
- We believe Jesus as the only one Savior.
- Repenting, we stop doing sin and return to God.
- Water baptism and Holy Spirit baptism, so we experience new birth from water and spirit and we receive heavenly life, namely we live in righteousness.
After living in righteousness, we can be sent as the instrument of righteousness.
- Teaching Word, the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ or bride tidings.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
4:3. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
4:4. whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
It is the word that tells about Jesus' second coming to purify us until being perfect. We as the bride are ready to greet when Jesus comes a second time.
The attitudes to the preaching of the Word of God are as follows:
- Being disappointed and offended to God.
Matthew 13:54-57
13:54. And when He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
13:55. "Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
13:56. "And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?"
13:57. So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house."
We are disappointed and offended at God if we keep and use our logic [Matthew 13:56], self-truth or the lust of the flesh.
- Receiving teaching Word that is sharper than any two-edged sword.
Revelation 1:3
1:3. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
If we receive the Word of God, we will receive the things as follows:
- Heavenly blissthat cannot be influenced by anything in the world until we receive eternal bliss.
If we receive the bliss that is not in line with the Bible, it is the fake bliss and it will not bring us to eternal heavenly bliss.
If we receive the happiness from God, we can share it to others.
- God's wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 10:10
10:10. If the ax is dull, And one does not sharpen the edge, Then he must use more strength; But wisdombrings success.
The heavenly wisdom guarantees successful and beautiful future.
Proverbs 9:1
9:1. Wisdomhas built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;
The wisdom makes us be used by God in the building of the body of Christ.
- The miracle or the power of God.
Matthew 13:54
13:54. And when He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, "Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
We receive the miracle, especially the renewal of life from carnal men to spiritual ones until being perfect like Jesus.
We have the pattern of God in our life, so we become pattern for others.
1 Timothy 4:12
4:12. Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word(1), in conduct(2), in love(3), in spirit, in faith(4), in purity(5).
There are five patterns of God as follows: in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Genesis 1:26-28
1:26. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
1:27. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
1:28. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
If we have the image of Jesus, the results are as follows:
- We receive physical and spiritual blessing until our descendants.
There is certainty from God until our future.
- We receive the power to defeat Satan the trinity.
If Satan as the source of problem has been defeated, all of our problems will be finished by God and He wipes our tear.
Defeating Satan the trinity also means that we defeat sins up to the peak of sin.
- Everything becomes good until perfect.
Genesis 1:31
1:31. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
It was very good means being perfect.
As long as we want to hear the Word and have fellowship with Jesus as The Bread of Life, everything can be good.
The thing that has been destroyed or broken can be good even very good, and perfect like Jesus.
We can be the first creation, the bride who is ready to greet when Jesus comes a second time on the clouds.
God blesses us.