SERMONS

Maw-shee-akh is the Hebrew word for Christ. It is the Name of God’s Only Begotten Wisdom-Word Who was brought to birth and clothed with Glory before God created anything. All things were made by Christ, the Wisdom-Word. Isaiah 53:5 says: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Maw-shee-akh is the Hebrew word for Christ. It is the Name of God’s Only Begotten Wisdom-Word Who was brought to birth and clothed with Glory before God created anything. All things were made by Christ, the Wisdom-Word. Isaiah 53:5 says: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Isaiah 51:1, says: “Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [tsoor] whence ye are hewn [khaw-tsab, in Hebrew, means to split, to cut, to square], and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged [naw-kar, in Hebrew, means to bore, to penetrate, to quarry, to dig, to pick out, to pierce, to put or to thrust out]. ”We were hewn and digged out of the Rock of the LORD’s foursquare Name, His tetragrammaton. The LORD’s Name is a City. The Bible says that the Kingdom of God is within us (Luke 17:21). This is our City. When man sinned in the Garden of Eden, Lucifer converted it into a City of Pride, with a Wall of Blasphemy, a Pleasant Sin Fort, a Fort of Midnight Darkness, and a Fort of Rebellion and Defiance. This is the Kingdom of God that Jesus came to Earth and died on the Cross to reclaim.

This message begins with a review of Isaiah 51:1, which says: “Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [tsoor] whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.” In Hebrew the word for hewn, khaw-tsab, means to split, to cut, to square. The Hebrew word for digged, naw-kar, means to bore, to penetrate, to quarry, to dig, to pick out, to pierce, to put or to thrust out. Are is a present tense verse. So we are, present tense, being hewn and digged.

Isaiah 51:1 says: “Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [the tsoor Rock] whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.” If we are following after righteousness and seeking the LORD, then we can look to the Rock. It is important that we follow after righteousness and seek the LORD because righteousness will lead us to the Name of the LORD.

After we have grown in the Spiritual Stature of Jesus Christ, then the Purpose of Jesus’ Stature within our hearts is to lead us to the Father. This message shows how the Father’s tetragrammaton, His Holy foursquare Name fits with God’s Feather Government. In the Wisdom Corner of His Name, there are the Dove Feathers, which is what the Father gave to Jesus when Jesus was baptized. When Jesus arose from the dead, He put on the Eagle Feathers and flew, as it were, to the highest mountain, Mount Zion, up in the regions beyond. There are the Cherubim in the Knowledge Corner. The Seraphim are in the Prudence Corner. The Seraphim are above the Cherubim and the Ark, and they watch an Altar.

Everything must be covered. After everything has been covered by God’s Love, we cover His Name with thanksgiving and praise and blessing. Then, the LORD’s Name covers it all. When we are in the Son’s realm, we learn from the Crucified Christ how to grow spiritually by crucifixion of our flesh. In the Father’s realm, we learn from the Resurrected Christ how to cover.

In the Son’s realm, we go on for God by crucifying our flesh. In the Father’s realm, everything must be covered through Love. The Principle of dwelling and abiding in the secret place is mentioned in the first verse of Psalm 91. This Psalm has twelve pairs of scales that fit with the twelve Governmental Names. If we dwell (yaw-shab, which means to sit and judge) in the secret place of the Most High, then our reward will be to abide under the shadow or vail, the vail-shadow. Then, there is the shadow that goes with the Hebrew word maw-veth, which is the Shadow of Death that is mentioned in Psalm 23:1-4. The Shadow of Death is the Shadow of God’s Hands. His Hands are personified by wings, which has to do with His Feather Government.

Proverbs 10:12 says, “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. ” We are saved by the Blood, Fire, and Water of the Crucified Christ, which was pictured in type and shadow by God’s deliverance of Israel out of Egypt by the lamb’s blood, by the Cloud and Fire, and by opening the waters of the Red Sea. After our salvation, we grow and minister in the Son’s Spiritual Stature by following the order that was established in the Mosaic Tabernacle in the wilderness. Before the Priests could minister in the Old Testament Tabernacle, they had to wash their hands and feet in the Waters at the Brazen Laver in the Courtyard. Then, they could go to the Brazen Altar and offer the blood sacrifice.

God’s Word reveals some examples of a lifted-up heart, a heart that is lifted up in pride. Forgetfulness is what produces the pride, arrogance, and haughtiness that results in a lifted-up heart. Forgetfulness of  Who God is, forgetfulness of who we are, forgetfulness of what God has done for us, forgetfulness of where we were when God found is forgetfulness of all His wonderful Mercy and Grace. The following people used their worker heart to lift themselves up: Amaziah, Uzziah, Hezekiah, and Lucifer. In so doing, they sinned against the Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, and Prudence of the LORD’s Name.

Psalm 58:8 says: “Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?” Tears are the liquid life of our soul. There are two sides to tears. First of all, they are written in a book. Precious are the tears that are written in God’s Book. Malachi 3:16 tells us that they are written in the Book of Remembrance. “Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. ”It is not the physical water that comes out of our eyes that gets written in His Book.

The message begins with a review of the Scriptures that we are to memorize in each corner of the LORD’s tetragrammaton, His Holy Name. In the Wisdom Corner, we need to memorize and quote Philippians 4:13. That is the beginning Scripture. Then, in the Understanding Corner, we quote Galatians 2:20. In the Knowledge Corner, we need to quote I Corinthians 2:2. Philippians 2:13 is the Scripture we quote in the Prudence Corner.  Wisdom is knowing how to begin right. Knowledge is knowing by experience. The Hebrew word for worketh in Philippians 2:13 is paw-al, which means to split or to separate. He splits our mouth and our heart so that He can clean them up, fix them up, and put them together so that they can function as one.

Isaiah 55:1-3 tells us to buy the Truth and sell it not. We buy the Truth with our poverty. We begin our spiritual journey with theoretical Knowledge; then, we go on to the experiential Knowledge. But in the Father’s realm, we receive experiential Knowledge first; then we move to the theory side of the scales. Experience comes by the Spirit of God, and God’s Word is Spirit and Truth; it is also theory, so there are two sides.

Ephesians 2:8-10 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them,”  The Hebrew word for work-manship, mah-as-eh, means actions. It means work, good deeds, labor, skill. It means cunning, wise, a work. The word mah-as-eh comes from the root word aw-saw, which means to do, to finish, to complete, to dress.