BE PART OF GIVING LIFE

Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in. And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. (Luke 22:7-20)

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Luke 22:24-30)

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:20-21)

• Eat and Drink with Jesus.
• Sit on thrones judging.
• It is speaking of overcoming.

• He would not eat with them again until the Kingdom would come.
• He points to this eating and drinking when the kingdom comes in Luke 22:24-30.

• Luke was speaking about overcoming the tendency to be great.
• The truly great ones are those who serve.
• Wash one another's feet.
• Jesus did that.

• In other words, they must overcome in this area also.
• Not seek to be great.
• But serve.

• He said they were blind and naked.
• They were the furthest thing from true greatness.
• They exalted and spoke so much of themselves.

• He often sent His disciples before Him into the cities where He would go.

After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. (Luke 10:1-3)

And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village. (Luke 9:52-56)

• Preachers go forth to talk to you and to explain the will of God to you.
• This is preparation for your life to give you the chance to have Jesus come in.
• You can either reject or accept the preacher.
• But its only when you accept the Apostolic preacher and listen to their words that your heart is being ready for Jesus to come.
• Jesus never planned it that you could avoid an Apostolic preacher's work of preparation.

• He does something in your life.
• The preachers explain something to you about what He will do.
• And you are instructed to get the heart of a servant.
• You are instructed to allow Jesus to do what He desires to do.
• Its not the preachers you are serving.
• They are serving both you and the Lord.
• But it is Jesus you are to serve.

• And Jesus said this would cause a door to shut out Christ from having His will.
• Since this is spoken to a church, this tells us it is not only sinners that require obedience to Jesus, but Christians must always experience it as well.
• It becomes a way of life.
• The preacher instructs about serving Jesus and you allow your heart to become obedient.
• Far too many resist the part of the preacher in the Kingdom.

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. (1 Corinthians 1:21)

• They became angry because they were the ones who came to prepare for Jesus.
• So connecting that with 1 Corinthians 1:21, we realize that the preacher's job is to explain and preach so that people might receive Jesus and be saved.
• Those who reject the preachers simply miss Jesus, Himself.
• And the preacher is to simply go on and give someone else the chance.

• This is the work of the miracle that occurs once you follow the instruction of the preacher.
• When you allow Jesus in, and become servant-like, He does a work.
• It's only if you get the servant attitude though.

• If he told them about their self glorying and then said to overcome, then we know they had to overcome this self glory.
• And that would open their hearts for Jesus to come in.
• He would then do His work.
• And inside, this is the work that He does.
• He SUPS with them.
• HE EATS AND DRINKS WITH THEM.

• To sup with them.
• And while in there, Jesus spoke to them about servitude.
• And He said the reason He spoke about that was because they were appointed a kingdom and thrones.

The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Luke 22:24-30)

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:17-21)

• In fact, Jesus said the gentile kings were indeed like that.
• But this is not the way it is in Jesus' kingdom.
• We HUMBLE ourselves.
• WE BECOME SERVANTS.
• And THIS prepares us for a kingdom and a throne.

• The PREACHER of Laodicaea, the ANGEL of the church, had to tell the church about this.
• Jesus was sending a preacher to speak to the congregation, so that He could come in and sup, just as He did with the two disciples and the house where He wanted Passover.

• PASSOVER.
• COMMUNION.
• Its called the supping in Revelation 3:20.
• This is reference to the cross.

• She was thirsty.
• Like the man who carried water to the house.
• Usually people will show a thirst for living water, and it is those the preachers must notice and reach.
• God please give us sensitive eyes to recognize the souls who are thirsty, so we can follow them and offer them Jesus.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (John 4:7)

• Only when we become servants to the Lamb will we experience a miracle.

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (John 4:10)

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14)

• Living water would be created in you.
• Getting a well inside you that would be like a fountain of water springing out of you.

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:37-39)

• The only WRITTEN old testament prophecy of waters flowing from a belly, is the waters flowing from a rock that was smitten and struck by Moses' rod.
• This speaks of the cross!
• Isaiah 53 says Jesus was SMITTEN and STRICKEN and WOUNDED for our transgressions.

• Revelation 3:20 says Jesus would SUP with the soul who opens his door, and put us on thrones.
• Luke 22 has Jesus inside speaking of the blood and body in the wine and bread, and thrones to be sat upon.
• The smiting of the rock occurs inside our lives by a miracle of Jesus,.
• He makes the work of the cross a part of our lives.
• And since the smiting of Himself caused a river to flow, then when that is worked in our lives, the river will flow from us as well!
  

And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (Rev 7:13-17)

• The miracle of working the cross in your life occurs by Jesus.
• He makes it so that you can say you died with Him on the cross.
• He takes them to the throne of God.
• Serving God.
• And SERVE Him because they must have a servant's attitude.
• And this brings them to FOUNTAINS OF LIVING WATERS.

• Coming speaks of a servants attitude.
• Come to Him.
• Some are too proud to go to Jesus.
• Pride will kill the entire work.

• And that makes us fit for thrones.
• We will reign with Him.

• He said they'd sit on thrones, too.
• And we read of the throne of God and the Lamb here in Rev 7.
• And fountains of waters.

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (Rev 22:1)

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23)

• This is the same thing we read in Rev 22
• The throne of GOD AND THE LAMB is in the city and flows forth a river.

And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (Rev 21:22)

• And they sit on a throne.
• And a river comes from the throne.

Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. (Ezekiel 47:1)

Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. (Ezekiel 47:2)

And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. (Ezekiel 47:9)

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezekiel 47:12)

• But its a throne where the river comes from there.
• here its the temple.
• But Rev 21 said the temple is GOD AND THE LAMB.

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: (Rev 22:1-3)

• This can only occur if the following steps are taken first.