Who Are You For?

Joshua, standing on the plains of Jericho, had to decide.

He looked up and saw a Man standing in front of him

With a drawn sword in His hand.

Joshua went up to Him and asked,

'Are you for us or for our enemies?'

Neither, He replied,

'But as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.'

Then Joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence and asked Him,

'What message does My Lord have for his servant?'

The Commander of the Lord's army replied,

'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.'

And Joshua did so. (Joshua 5:13-15)

Who are you for?

Are you for a particular country, a particular church denomination,

A particular city, a particular group within the city?

Are you for your family, your wife, your husband, your son, your daughter?

Are you for a particular person? Who are you for?

That single question will determine your eternity.

Joshua answered by taking off his sandals acknowledging

That the ground he was standing on was holy

Because on it stood The Commander of the Lord's army, Christ Jesus.

With your spiritual eyes can you see The Commander of the Lord's army

Standing before you?

Are you for Him? Have you taken off your sandals before Him,

And reverenced Him?

Will Christ Jesus find faith in you when you stand before Him?

Christ is for no one, but those who live in Him.

If you live in Him you are of Him; of His Spirit.

He upholds the integrity of Heaven, the integrity of His Kingdom.

It is holy and undefiled.

His ways are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts.

As high as the heavens are above the earth are His thoughts above ours.

(Isaiah 55:9)

The only ones He esteems those who are of a humble and contrite spirit

And tremble at His Word. (Isaiah 66:2)

Christ Jesus said:

'I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man

And drink His blood, you have no LIFE in you.

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has Eternal LIFE,

And I will raise him up at the LAST DAY.

For My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

Just as the Living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father,

So the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

This is the Bread that came down from Heaven.

Our forefathers ate manna and died,

But he who feeds on this Bread will live forever.'

He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

On hearing it, many of His disciples said,

'This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?'

Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them,

'Does this offend you?

What if you see the Son of man ascend to where He was before!

The Spirit gives LIFE; the flesh counts for nothing.

The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and they are LIFE.

Yet there are some of you who do not believe.' (John 6:53-64)

In other words, only those

Who are consummately identified with Christ Jesus;

Those who continually feed on Him and His Word;

Continually partaking of the Bread of LIFE, have LIFE.

Those who live in and through Him and in whom He lives in and through.

Know this, there is only One LIFE, Christ Jesus.

He is the only Eternal LIFE

All natural life and all Eternal LFE emanate from Him.

If you live in Him you live in His LIFE.

If you do not live in Him you have no life, you are dead while you live.

You are either for Him, living in Him, or you are against Him.

Know this, the world is the enemy of Christ Jesus. (James 4:4)

If you love the world you are an enemy of Christ Jesus.

At the last battle on earth, all the nations of the earth

Come to fight against Christ Jesus.

They are completely defeated and the kingdom of the world,

Satan's kingdom, is done away with.

At that time Christ Jesus, The Commander of the Lord's army,

Establishes His Kingdom on earth for a thousand years.

As God has spoken, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!