The Table With Brother Joshua

Call Upon The Name Of Jesus And Be TOTALLY DELIVERED From Satan.

"He That Believes And Is Baptised Shall Be Saved"

- Jesus Christ Of Nazareth

The mother of the abominations in the earth offers from her golden goblet, frothing sweet red wine to all, in exchange for our souls.

She swaps her transient pleasures for our dominion.

She trades our favors for our authority in the spiritual where it matters most.

Esau and Samson discovered what they had traded off when it was too late. The mother of prostitutes serves her wine through pleasurable spiritual sexual intercourse with her packaged in the natural as the gratification of any one of:

• The lusts of the flesh.
• The lusts of the eyes.
• And the pride of life.

The Apostle wrote that the child of God has the seed of God in Him.

And we know that the life that is in God is in His Seed — even in His Son Jesus Christ.

And so we do not sin because of the inherent righteous nature of God birthed in us through His Seed.

And he added for emphasis, that the child of God cannot sin simply because He is born of God.

This direct relationship between deeds and paternity may be likened to the fact that the life of a cat in a kitten is expressed in that it does not wallow in filth.

And that the kitten cannot revel in dung because it is not a pig, but it is born of a cat.

Love is forever — love is eternal.

This organic union with The Father and The Son is what our Lord Jesus meant by knowing them both.

This is life eternal: union with The Father through The Son.

The Singular reason for the being of the the Lamb’s Wife if for her Husband.

Do This ONLY In Remembrance Of How I Loved You And Died For You - Jesus

Dearly beloved brother and sister, if you have failed in one way or another, and the devil, the prolific liar, has been whispering to you saying, The Lord no longer loves you, begin to resist those lies in the light of that which you have seen of our Lord in His recovery of His dear friend, and in His nature revealed in the psalms we just read.

Beware of Fleshly indulgence. Run in order to WIN the Prize of The HIGH calling IN CHRIST.

We would also fail again and again if we trust in our love for The Lord rather than in His love for us.

Today, we will see what is given to you and me to do that we may be sanctified.

Our main dish is the words of the Apostle of our Lord Jesus written to us in 2Corinthians 7:1:

The Apostle Paul appealed to us as those greatly loved.

Our Father’s love for us makes Him long to be in us, and with us, not only in truth but in reality.

However, the holy and righteous nature of our God compels Him to demand our sanctification.

At a previous gathering at The Table, we had seen that truth is the righteous nature of God embodied in His Word.

Therefore, the essence of what our Lord Jesus asked is that His Father should separate us from the world and make us harmonious with Himself by the birthing of His righteous nature in us.

How was God to accomplish birthing His truth in us?

1. The Lord of Heaven and earth knows those who are His.

2. Those who are Christ’s should revere The Name of our Lord Jesus with such fear, such awe, which should make us instinctively shrink from evil.

This fear of bringing disrepute to The Name of our Heavenly Father is what our Lord Jesus meant in Matthew 6:9 when He said we should hallow His Name.

In other words, we are to seek to live in a manner worthy of our Righteous Father even as a responsible child would strenuously strive to avoid bringing shame and dishonor to the family name.

The disciples had been arguing as to who was the greatest among them.

In His intervention, our Lord Jesus contrasted the leadership profile of the kingdoms of this world with that in the Kingdom of God.

He stated that the leaders of the kingdoms of this world lord it over their people, and are called providers for the people.

They exalt themselves over their subjects.

Put otherwise, the leaders in the world of Satan love the recognition and the acknowledgment, and the praise of men.

After He defined the character of leadership in the kingdoms of this world, He turned to the then potential leaders in His church, and said to them:

Our Lord Jesus stated clearly to His disciples that they were not to be conformed to the leadership profile of the world of Satan.

He said that those that are in the highest position in His Kingdom should humble themselves and take the lowest place amongst the brethren.

Furthermore, He said the leaders in His church should become in heart and in deed like servants to the saints.

Our Lord Jesus concluded His intervention in His disciples’ controversy in these words:

In today’s parlance, He said He was in their midst like domestic help.

We will pay particular attention to the fact that His words are present-continuous.

Simply put, His servitude was neither a one-time demonstration, nor was it sporadic, but it was what characterized His entire three years plus of His fellowship with His disciples.

Our KING exemplified for us that leadership in His Kingdom is not lordship or exaltation but is being a servant to our brethren.

It is only as Christ dwells in us by the power of The Spirit of God that we are able to keep our KING’S commandments within our families.

Today, as we continue on the pathway to effectively exercise the authority delegated to us by our KING, we would see how we walk as our Lord Jesus walked by being subject to higher authority.

However, before we proceed, we would come to a mutual understanding of the prerequisite internal configuration of those who would be “subject to higher authority”.

These kings are characterized by the following:

1. They know the love of God for them, and as a result, they love God and His Christ with all their being.

2. They know that ultimately, all authority is of God.

3. They are aware that men and women who are in positions of authority have been placed there by their King as His representatives.

4. These saints love the persons placed in authority over them.

5. Regardless of the conduct of the person in higher authority, they honor the person and his position as they would honor THE KING OF KINGS.

6. These kings are not subject to those in higher authority grudgingly in their hearts, but they are delighted in their inner being to do the will of their KING, even if outwardly it hurts emotionally and physically.

7. They do not obey by law, but their obedience is by the life of The Son in the power of The Spirit of God.

Such is the internal configuration of the king on the earth who would be subject to the KING OF KINGS.

With this mutual understanding, we may now continue on the pathway to effectively exercise the authority of our KING on the earth.

There are three organs through which God rules on the earth.

These three in order of priority are:

1. The spiritual

2. The family

3. The Civil

Our Lord Jesus was subject to God under men who were the custodians of God’s authority in these three branches of The Kingdom of God on the earth.

Being subject to higher authority, He could effectively exercise the authority of The Kingdom of Heaven on the earth.

He gave us the authority to rule as kings on the earth and made us priests unto God and His Father.

Being rooted in the love of our Father is the means by which we are nourished by Him.

Our number one weapon for fighting and overcoming the enemy of our soul is not prayer and fasting but is righteousness.

Does it bring fear and uncertainty to you?

Or, do you have a quiet assurance whenever the thought of your departure crosses your mind?

Do you have peace and joy if you are faced with the prospect of dying?

Our first course of the day is the words of our Lord Jesus served from John 18:36:
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.

Twice, He states that His Kingdom does not originate in this world. And our second course is also His words taken from John 8:23:
And He said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. Our Lord Jesus knew where He was not from because He knew where He was from.

He declared that He was from Above.

And He also knew His Root was not in this world.

He, therefore, stated unequivocally that He was not of this world.

In John 3:13, our Lord gave the specific location of where He came from, saying:
And no one has ascended up to Heaven except He who came down from Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven. He knew and declared that He came down from Heaven.

And in John 17:8, He would reveal His consciousness of His Root amongst these words:
For I have given to them the Words which You gave Me, and they have received them and have known surely that I came out from You. And they have believed that You sent Me.

Our Lord Jesus knew not only that He was from Heaven, but He also knew that He came out of God. He had this consciousness in Himself that He came out of God from Heaven.No doubt, He walked in the light of this awareness.

And if you and I would not be defined, and consequently, be characterized by the values and pursuits of where we do not originate from, we, also, must know without any shadow of a doubt The Spring of our being, and know where we are from. Therefore the question is where are we, His disciples, from?

Our Lord Jesus spoke these words concerning His disciples in John chapter 15:19:
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. He said His disciples do not originate from the world. And in John 17:14, He said these words to His Father about us:
I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. He repeated His words in verse 16 of the seventeenth chapter of John:
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

He not only stated that believers do not have their origin in this world, but He put us at equality with Himself when He said, “even as I am not of the world”.

This parity with He, Who came out of God from Heaven, is the answer to the question of where you and I originate from.

In other words, we also came out of God from Heaven, for we were in Christ, even as the woman was in the first man prior to God creating her out of Him.

Regardless of the sufficiency of the testimony of our Lord Jesus, we will look to His supplementary witnesses to testify to our origin.

We pray that the Spirit of Truth will enlighten your heart and mind as you continue to listen, Amen.

At our last gathering at The Table, we saw that our Lord Jesus grew not only physically, but that He also grew spiritually.

We saw that we are joint-heirs with our Lord Christ.

We also saw that The Kingdom of God is bequeathed to us by our Heavenly Father.

We however understood that we cannot possess our inheritance of The Kingdom of God until Christ comes to maturity in us.

Today, we will look at another perspective of our growth to maturity with the words of Lord Jesus as our main dish.

He spoke these words to us in Revelation 3:21:

We will note that our Lord Christ did not sit with His Father in His Throne until He had overcome.

Furthermore, He clearly stated that only those who overcome will sit with Him in His Throne.

As we had seen previously, only those who Christ is fully formed in possess their inheritance of The Throne and Its authority.

These are otherwise said to be overcomers by our Lord Jesus.

With this in mind, we will proceed to walk the pathway to being an overcomer, so that we may enter into our inheritance.

We begin our walk by finding out what/who do we overcome.

John 16:33 reveals in His words what our Lord Jesus overcame:

He overcame the world.

So, what or who do we overcome?

In 1John 2:12 -14, the Apostle of our Lord Jesus not only reveals the growth path of the child of God but twice, he also reveals who we overcome.

We will however only read verse 14:

We overcome the evil one.

We overcome the prince of the world our Lord Jesus overcame.

How do we overcome the world and her prince now that we know that we are to overcome the world and her prince?

In John 14:30, our Lord Jesus spoke these words:

And in Ephesians 4:27, His Apostle writes to us:

The Apostle exhorts us not to give the devil a foothold within us.

We should note that he said that except we give the devil a place in us he cannot take it.

Now, here is the summary of what is being said:

We pray that your Spirit, Soul, and Body be nourished with the Bread of Life as you continue to listen.

Today, our main dish is served from two verses that are complementary:

The first is Luke 2:40 and it reads:

And the second is Luke 2:52:

In the two verses, it is revealed that our Lord Jesus grew not only physically, but spiritually.

We will keep this in mind as we continue with our meal.

As we saw at our last gathering at The Table, our Lord Jesus said to His disciples in Luke 12:32:

Now the question is if the effective authority of The Kingdom of Heaven is handed over to all the children of God?

Or is it given to only the best-behaved children?

Or to those who work very hard to serve God in ministry?

Before we proceed to seek the answer to our question, we will mention in passing that the authority being spoken of here includes casting out evil spirits, healing the sick and all, but it transcends these.

This authority gives the bearer such power that whatever he allows/disallows in the furtherance of The Kingdom of Heaven and in harmony with the will of God is what is executed or stopped on the earth

We see demonstrations of such authority in Joshua 10:12 & 13 and Mark 4:39.

Furthermore, such is also written for us in Matthew 16: 19; and Matthew 18:19.

This authority also grants the possessor the power to bless or curse.

Whatever or whosoever he/she blesses is blessed, and whosoever/whatever is cursed is cursed as we see in Genesis 49:1–27; Mark 11:21; Mark 11:23; and Acts 13:11.

The authority being exercised is, in reality, The God of Heaven ruling through His children on the earth as is written thus in Psalm 103:19:

The Apostle Paul writes thus to us in Romans 8, verses 16 and 17:

Being children of God, we are joint-heirs with our Lord Christ.

May your spirit, soul, and body be nourished with the Life in the words of the lord as you continue to listen in the name of Jesus Christ

In Union WITH Christ, YOU Were Resurrected From THE Inherent Spiritual Death In Adam Unto Newness Of Life.

At our last gathering at The Table, we saw how great our God is when we understood that His Throne is not in Heaven, but that Heaven is His Throne, with the earth as the stool for His feet.

Consequently, we saw the infinite scope of The Kingdom of our Father.

We saw that all of the greatness and all the authority of The Kingdom of God are vested in The Name of our Lord Jesus.

We also saw that the great love which our Father loved us with is revealed tangibly in The Name of Jesus.

The Name of Jesus delivers to us here on the earth the practical benefits of the love of God.

Amongst other manifestations of the love of our Father, we saw that in The Name of Jesus, we are absolutely immunized from all toxins and from the venoms of serpents and scorpions.

In other words, in The Name of Jesus, no poison from external sources — no airborne diseases, no water-borne diseases, no venom from animals like mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, and all, can in any way hurt us.

Our Lord Jesus said this to us in Mark 16:18 and Luke 10:19.

However, we do not deliberately expose ourselves to poisonous substances or venomous animals in order that God may prove Himself: such thinking is to have fallen into the Tempter’s snare.

The Name of Jesus trumps every sickness and every disease, and He keeps physical death on hold until God’s eternal purpose summed up in His Son is accomplished in, and through us in our mortal bodies.

Furthermore, we understood that our Lord Christ was born again by His Father when God raised Him from the dead and brought Him out of hell.

And we saw His Father subsequently enthrone Him as His King on Mount Zion.

We concluded our meal by seeing that our Lord Christ is the great King ruling on the earth from the throne of His father David, in Mount Zion.

Today, our main dish is served from the words of our Lord Jesus taken from Matthew 5:14:

Mat 5:14
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

We will note the following in these two sentences:

1. Our Lord Jesus was speaking to His disciples.

2. He said to His disciples that they are the light of the world.

3. He spoke to His disciples about a city situated on a hill, which cannot but be visible to all.

Our Lord Jesus would subsequently expound these words to His Apostle in Revelation chapters 21 and 22.

We will begin with chapter 21 and verses 9–11:

Rev 21:9–11
(9) And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
(10) And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
(11) having the glory of God. And its light was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

May you be nourished with the bread of life as you continue to listen, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Our main dish of the day is served from the words of our Lord Jesus taken from Matthew 5:34 & 35:

Our focal point in this passage is not oath-taking, but the two thrones brought into view by our Lord Jesus.

These two thrones are:

1. God’s throne which is Heaven.

2. The throne of the great King situated in Jerusalem.

In His declaration, our Lord Jesus did not say that God’s throne is in Heaven; rather, He said Heaven is God’s Throne.

What difference does it make if God’s throne is Heaven, or if His throne is in Heaven?

King Solomon had this insight into the greatness of God, and spoke these words written for us in 2Chronicles 2:5–6:

And the first three verses read:

When we see the infinite magnitude of our God, and consequently the scope of His Kingdom, our hearts not only bow in humble adoration but also our confidence in Him is boosted regardless of circumstances.

Listen to again, and hear, the words of the sweet psalmist of Israel:

I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

He exhorts us to bless The Lord at all times: to praise Him in, and out of season.

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD:

And to confidently put our trust in our God, boldly and publicly, declaring in Whom we trust.

The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

In humble adoration, we rejoice in the greatness of our God.

O magnify the LORD with me.

We declare His greatness together with other saints.

Let us exalt his name together

We pray that your spirit, soul, and body be nourished with Life by the Spirit of Truth, even as you continue to feed on the bread of life, in Jesus' Name Amen.

For our main dish of the day, we turn to the words of our Lord Jesus written in John 12:25:

He states categorically that any one of us who delights in his life in this world shall lose his life.

And He goes further to reveal the prerequisite for you and me to live in our heritage of life eternal even while we are yet in our mortal bodies.

He declares that the precondition for us live in eternal life is to “hate our lives in this world”.

As we had seen previously, this world is characterized by these three parameters revealed by His Apostle in 1John 2:15 & 16:

1. The irresistible impulse to gratify the inherent nature of the devil we were all born with before we were born of God.

2. The insatiable desire for the thing money can buy.

3. Defining oneself by the values of the world of Satan.

We begin our quest to respond to our question by looking at the church in the wilderness.

After she was delivered out of Egypt, the whole nation of Israel saw The Pleasant Land through the eyes of the twelve spies as is written for us in Numbers 13.

We pray that you are nourished with the Truth, by the Spirit of Truth, even as you continue to listen in the name of Jesus Christ.

At our last gathering at The Table, we saw that whosoever believes in his heart and proclaims with his mouth that the man, Jesus, is The Christ, The Son of God, is born of God.

We saw that the church of God, empowered with the authority of the Kingdom of Heaven, is built by our Lord Jesus upon the foundation of this inspired revelation and proclamation that He is The Christ of God.

We understood that the church of The Firstborn wars against, and overcomes the gates of hell on the premise of the rock-solid foundation that Jesus is God in human flesh.

We also saw revealed in the Apostle Peter’s attempt at dissuading our Lord Jesus from embracing His Father’s will that human compassion could be in stout opposition to the will of our Heavenly Father for us.

We saw that this seeming demonstration of love by friends and family is actually Satan’s ploy to persuade you and me not to drink the cup our Heavenly Father would have us drink.

In reality, it is Satan masquerading as “protective love”, or in Biblical parlance, “Satan Himself is transformed into an angel of light”.

Consequently, we saw the need for us to be able to consistently and distinctively discern the voice of The Shepherd and Bishop of our souls

And we thus concluded our meal with the basic guide for us to rightly identify The Voice of The Good Shepherd.

Today, we will continue with the discussion between our Lord Jesus and His disciples with our main dish served from Matthew 16:21–23:

After He had discerned Satan as the one speaking to Him through Peter, our Lord Jesus declares the enmity between Satan and Himself, by stating that the prince of this world is antagonistic towards Him in a repugnant manner.

Furthermore, He reveals that we cannot delight ourselves in the things of God when we relish the things of men.

“This law of displacement”, if we would, is very clearly stated by our Lord Jesus in Matthew 6:24:

you either love God or hate Him; you either cling to God or loathe Him contemptibly.

May you be nourished in your as you continue to listen in the name of Jesus Christ.

ONLY BELIEVE In Your Heart And Proclaim With Your Mouth That Jesus Is The Son Of God And You Will Be SOLIDLY Saved.

At our last gathering at The Table, we saw that the moment we became born again, we were not only delivered from the power of Darkness, and translated into The Kingdom of God, but that The Kingdom of God was also birthed in us simultaneously.

We also saw that The Kingdom of God within us is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

We noted, even as we do emphatically now, that these three are not arranged randomly, but that they are arranged in order of priority with righteousness as the foundation for peace, and also for joy in the Holy Spirit.

We began to seek the true understanding of what righteousness is.

And we got as far as seeing that the Bible is replete with witnesses that testify that righteousness is diametrically opposed to sin, even as light is to darkness.

We saw that sin is the core nature of the devil packaged in his word of lie.

We concluded our meal by noting that acts of sin, otherwise called evil or iniquity, are the manifestations of the nature of the devil himself.

Today we will continue with our quest to understand what righteousness is, in truth.

Our main dish is served from the words of our Lord Jesus taken from John 17:25:

His first three words, “O righteous Father”, are of particular interest to us.

For us to gain the true understanding of what righteousness is, we begin at the beginning with John 1:1:

The Word of God is God.
Put otherwise, God is revealed in His Word.

In John 17:17, our Lord Jesus reveals what the word of God is:

In other words, God is truth.

Now, the Apostle of our Lord Jesus describes the means by which we were born by our Heavenly Father in these words written in James 1:17 & 18:

A complimentary verse to this is written to us in 1Peter 1:23:

The word of God, otherwise called the word of truth by the Apostle James is called seed by the Apostle Peter.

And we know that every seed produces after its kind.

What then is the fruit produced in us when we received the word of truth?

Put otherwise, what is the produce of the seed of the word of God that was planted in our hearts by believing God’s testimony that our Lord Jesus is His Son?

We pray you are nourished as you continue to listen in Jesus' name, Amen.

Christ IN YOU Is The Kingdom Of Heaven Within.

Spiritual Death And Darkness Are SUPPLANTED IN YOU, With Eternal Life And Light, By ONLY Believing In The Name Of The Son Of God.

You Were Born Spiritually DEAD.

What You Think Or Hear Comes From Either God Or That Old Serpent.

You Were Born Spiritually BLIND.

Light And Darkness Can Never Mix.

The Source Of All The Evil In This World Is The Devil.

The Kingdom Of God Embodied In His Son Is Your Good News From Heaven.