BREAKING UP OUR DEPTHS

March 16, 2003 am
Mike Blume

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart: lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct thy paths.

10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Speaking of wisdom and her ways…

18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. 19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding he hath established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. 21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. 23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

This chapter in Proverbs encourages the person saved by God’s grace to reach out and live a life that is different!

It’s beyond just claiming to be a Christian.
It’s beyond just attending church.
It’s getting into a lifestyle that is powerful.
We ended our quote from this chapter by reading the words of walking a walk wherein you do not stumble, or slip and make mistakes all the time.
Having sweet sleep, where you do not fear the night, or the times of trouble.
Talk about a rest!
A life where God is your confidence!

And we see that the ways of wisdom are the key points.

God founded the earth and established the heavens.

And note that we then read of a subsequent breaking up of the depths of the earth and a pouring down from the windows of Heaven.

Is it not wonderful to think that God founded the earth with fountains locked up inside her?

And the heavens were filled with a reservoir of rains.

Since the times of Genesis’ beginnings, the earth and the heavens locked up within themselves fountains and rivers.

We read that a mist came up from the earth and watered the ground in Gen 2:6.
But something still lay locked up in both Heaven and Earth.
And it was not until we come to Noah’s day that reservoirs of fountains and stored up waters of heaven and earth were loosed out into the earth.
And Genesis 7 uses the same terms we just read in Proverbs 3.

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Compare verse 11 with Proverbs 3:20

Gen 7:11 ...all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Prov 3:20 . By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Just as the Earth and the Heavens were made in Genesis 1, later to be opened up to release their stores of flooding waters, Proverbs 3:19 says the Lord founded the earth and established the heavens by his wisdom and understanding, to be followed by speaking of His knowledge causing the depths to be broken up and the windows of heaven to pour out the floods.

And when we read those following words of the earth bursting open and the windows of heaven busting forth, we realizing that God’s wisdom in making them included the thought that He stored these precious floods in both the earth and the heaven.
His wisdom in making the heaven and earth, in other words, included the reserves of treasures in them, to one day be burst open.

Something significant is noted about Noah’s day being the time when the reserves in Heaven and Earth were burst open.

Adam was the man in the days of the beginning.

Noah was the key man in the days of the loosing.

In Adam’s day we read the ground was cursed to force man to labour in sweat for his food.

But in Noah’s day…

Genesis 5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 And he called his son’s name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning the our work and toil of our hands, because the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

From Adam, it was not until Noah was come, that something would be done that would bring COMFORT.

Noah’s very name means REST.
Something would be done.
Something would occur.

And we find that those heavens and the earth that were founded and established when God put Adam on the earth, would burst open in Noah’s day.

Both Earth and heaven.

The pouring out of the fountains of flooding waters from both earth and heaven washed a sinful world of fleshly activity and ungodliness away.

Noah was carried up and away by the flood in the ark into a new world, that was left after the cleansing waters abated from the earth.
And God inspired Noah’s father to note that Noah would bring about a rest and a comfort.

Proverbs 3 spoke about the confidence and fearlessness.

21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. 23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

And it says this after noting the very words that were noted in Noah’s day when the floods burst open.

What is God trying to tell us?

Church, you are the earth.

God made you from both heaven and earth.
He made your body from the dust of the ground and breathed into you the breath of Life as the winds of Heaven in God’s mouth breathed into us.
That was the first creation.
NEW CREATION is when the winds of the Holy Ghost blew into the upper room and filled the house and the 120 on the day of Pentecost.

And as Christians filled with His Spirit, there are treasures reserved inside of us.

Something causes them to break out and allow us to rest.
Something causes them to burst from with us, within this “Earth” of our bodies, to experience what the words of vv. 21-26 speak about.
As Noah’s day would bring a comfort and rest, the breaking forth of the floods in our lives do so as well, spiritually.

Something causes the depths within us to break open and let forth these rivers of life!

Something opens up God’s blessings from heaven!
What is that something?

BY KNOWLEDGE….

. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

We need to learn some things.

We need to be made aware of some truths.
Learn about reality!
Learn what is real in your life since you’re a Christian.
When we learn about what is within our souls since we’re saved, our depths will be broken up and these things will burst forth and through to the surface.
They’ll overflow our lives!

Knowledge of Him.

By His knowledge.

It’s awareness of what is inside us!

Christ is in you!
Truths about what lies dormant in our lives must be learned!
You can have gifts lying within you inactive and dormant, like Timothy.
When we learn who we are and who He is, we will experience an authority rise up and out of our lives which will move us to see miracles, and heal the sick, and cast out devils.
We will start taking charge in our lives.

Speaking of the phrase BY HIS KNOWLEDGE…

Eph. 1:17…That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his might power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.

We need to know how great his power towards us really is!

If you have power to the degree He used power to raise Christ up from the dead, then you have a lot of power towards you!

No wonder Paul said we’re seated with Jesus!
If God has power towards us wherewith He raised up Christ from the dead to sit in heavenly places, then it only stands to reason that we’re thereby seated with Christ in heavenly places.

You need to know some things so something deep inside, in the depths, will break open in your life.

Proverbs says that you will have a confidence if this occurs.
You will not fear when this occurs.

Paul asks the Romans why they do not know they were baptized into Christ’s death when they were baptized into Him.

According to Romans 6:2, we are dead to sin and should never live any longer in it!
And as if to answer a shocked congregation with mouths agape, wondering how on earth they could ever live outside of sin, Paul then asks, “Know ye not that you were baptized into Christ to be baptized into His death. And if you’re baptized into His death then that means you are also risen with Him, from the dead, freed from sin.. because those who are dead are freed from sin. So now you can live over sin, because when Christ arose, with whom you were risen, He arose for death and sin to never have power over Him again! So you are also risen over sin and death. DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS?!!”

Knowing this --- the knowledge of Him… causes the depths to break up and open!

Something starts to come up and out of our lives.

Faith rises up!

It lifts us away and floods out all the uncleanness and unbelief and brings us into a veritable new world.

Genesis 7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth…

Fleshly living is then GONE!

There’s a lot of flesh in Pentecostal people.

This means there is much carnality and fleshly ways.
Fake Christianity, although a genuine Christian new birth occurred.
Fake Christian living is putting on the looks of a spiritual life, when in reality we fear and dread the night.
No confidence.
Bitter sleep.
Proverbs says our sleep can be sweet!

We trip up too much.

Did you know there is grace to overcome those slip-ups?

Contrast these verses:

Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Romans 8:11 But if the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live.

The quickening of our mortal bodies is the enlivening, and the life-giving of power to override lusts.

But it all started way back in chapter 6 with simply KNOWING SOME THINGS.
Once you know about them, you can have FAITH FOR THEM.

Church, everyone one of you have God’s power towards you that equals the power He used to resurrect Christ and put Him over all other powers.

And everyone one of you, me included, are unaware of much of that power.
We know it mentally, but not in heart-engendered belief.
We’re in need of HIS KNOWLEDGE.
That is why we need preaching like this.

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us…

It’s power that works in us.

It’s down there inside us.

It’s waiting to be utilized.. tapped into.

The world’s earth holds and houses treasures… oil reserves… gold and silver.

It’s right there waiting for man to tap into it.
There is POWER IN US.
It’s there right now!
Healing power is in you in the Holy Ghost.
Victorious power over every devil that exists!
Power over sin.
Power so exceeding and great that it’s beyond what you can even imagine!
IN YOU RIGHT NOW.
And what is going to break open those depths and see it come forth?
What is going to also break open Heaven and see it pour out blessings in barrels and barrels?
HIS KNOWLEDGE.
No wonder Paul prayed THAT I MIGHT KNOW HIM!

Since God first saved us, these reservoirs were stored up within us.

We just never knew about them!
Since “New Creation began” they were there.

I’ve sown the seed of the word in your hearts now.

You know how there are four kinds of soil.
Stony soil that will not remember one thing I said after the service.
Shallow soil from which the devil easily steals it away.
Thorny soil, in which some hearts are just too struck on the things of the world to appreciate and experience all the word has to offer.
And good soil.
You determine your soil type—YOU.

Now that I’ve sown the word, come up to the altar and let the Lord rain down His spirit on your soil, and bring that life in this word forth!

Worship and allow God to rain on you.
Worship, praise and prayer after the word is given will allow God to bring the increase.
It allows the rain of the Holy Ghost to quicken your mortal bodies so you do not live after the flesh, but rather begin doing things after the Spirit!