A YouTube very clear explanation of the only way to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts
Here’s a talk from a 3-month-old
baby Christian. But, she sounds like a 24 year Christian veteran. It’s amazing
how deep a baby Christian can be in the knowledge of experience. Truly, “Out of
the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise.” (Matt. 21:16). As
it was said of their Master it can be said of them, “In the beauties of
holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy youth.” (Ps.
110:3).
Newborns in Christ have the eternal
life birthing experience fresh and clear in the memory. The details, the
ability to clearly articulate, the life and power and inspiration behind the
articulation, turn their expressions into the living word. As they speak the inspired
word of the Father their words, in His desired order, come alive through His
Spirit, which He put in them through His Son, their Saviour and Creator and
Messiah.
For a long time now I’ve
realized that a woeful, condemning God is the one who brings us to His Son for
His mercy. We would never need grace otherwise. And we would therefore would
never be reconciled to the kingdom of God. God has to force His grace on us, or
we could never be saved. That’s a wonderful thought.
But, it’s actually a little
more complicated than that, and a little harder for Him to accomplish. In order
for God to be just as a justifier, per Romans 3:26, we need to sense His
seriousness toward obeying His written Law, or we need to feel the heat of His
wrath against our sins in consequence to our disobedience. Everything about the
Almighty is super-serious and POWERFUL. His Law is big, and so are His
consequences. But big trouble, hardship, and threat are what the stubborn
devils and the fallen human soul must hear in order to pry us loose from sin. “GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN: THOU ART AN
OFFENCE UNTO ME: FOR THOU SAVOUREST NOT THE THINGS THAT BE OF GOD, BUT THOSE
THAT BE OF MEN.” (Matt. 16:23).
But, once we are humbled and
trembling and repentant and crying, once we are made willing “in the day of His
power” (Ps. 110:3), He immediately brings us to His Son “that we might be
justified by faith” (Gal. 3:24). And immediately, “the Spirit Itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom. 8:16, cf Jer.
31:20), because “God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into [our] hearts, crying,
Abba, Father.” (Gal. 4:6, cf Jer. 31:18,19).
“The Spirit Itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings [sighing] which cannot be uttered.”
(Rom. 8:26).
“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [deploring oneself, shaking the head in sorrow, mourning] thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed
to the yoke: turn Thou me, and I shall be turned; for Thou art the LORD my
God….
But this shall be the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
and will be their God, and they shall be My people.
And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for
they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith
the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more….
And the whole valley of the
dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron,
unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD;
it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.” (Jer.
31:18,33,34,40).
We are freed from enslavement
to Satan. “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.” (2Cor. 3:17).
The Law is tough, as our
great God is tough. That is why He writes in stone rather than on paper or
papyrus. What He has to say is in no uncertain terms and it is immutable. His
volume is always on highest of high. His font is always shouting. But, our
humbled hearts are happy for His attention. We have sucked honey from rock, and
olive oil from flinty rock. The Father’s attention would be destructive if it
weren’t for His Son as our shield. The Son took the Father’s entire vehement
wrath against our arrogant rebellion. In Gethsemane and on cross all of the
Father’s offense and disagreeableness toward our wretchedness He poured upon
His beloved equally divine, pure Son.
And the Son took it all. He
had so identified with us all, slain by our hard-heartedness since the
beginning, as only infinite love can do, that He never moved aside for a moment
to allow even a little of His greater Father’s convicting wrath to hit past
Him. The Saviour never dodged any divine retribution. Jesus, the Son of God, is
our complete Shield and Shelter. As aweful as it was, Jesus was glad to take
all of the Father’s withholden retribution, for our sinful sakes. The most
wretched and most distant from God can, trusting in His Son, be covered from
further condemnation.
As our great red Heifer, His
soul was burned to ash. Then God exalted Him to be our great High Priest. Under
infinite rejection, He poured out His soul unto infinite death, in order to be
qualified to pour out infinite grace upon His surrendering children unto life
eternal.
Now Christ can advocate for
us, “made an High Priest for ever” (Heb. 6:20). He is our screen, our spiritual
electronic grid from the wrath of His hurting Father. Jesus filters and
transforms His Father’s destructive injunction into constructive instruction in
righteousness, and into loving correction and earnest reproof. Through Christ’s
Spirit, in His presence, is fullness of joy and wisdom, assurance and hope,
strength for the day, every day if we keep Him in our thought and words.
This joy and peace is what
this new daughter of God loves to speak of. She tells of the presence of Christ
that is the only remedy for today’s depression and anxiety. The sad condition of
the world today, and especially in the Christian west, comes from our disconnection
from the God of the apostoles and our Reformation fathers, from the God of
Abraham and from the God of Noah. If we will come to the Law of God and face
the music, then and only then will we receive the Father’s fullness of justice.
That hard, unbending, Law will give us cause to repent and receive His
salvation.
The only other road to His repentance
and salvation is to live without His Law, and then reap the heaping
consequences for disobedience under the devils’ dogmatic rule. When we repent,
then for our healing from the devils’ tormenting and emptiness, the Father
brings us to Christ to be justified by faith. They may have never seen the Law
of God and all of its principles, but for those who have learned the
consequences of breaking the Law, they are equally worthy of acceptance and
pardon. “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to
Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37). “I am the bread of life: he that
cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never
thirst.” (John 6:35). Those who have been humbled and trusting in the mighty
Hand of punishment, just like those who were humbled by hearing His voice in
the Law, He gives them His “fullness of joy and…pleasure for evermore”. (Ps.
16:11).
“The Spirit of the Lord is
upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath
sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to
preach the acceptable year of the Lord [His time for acceptance].” (Luke
4:18,19).
“To appoint unto them that
mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified.”
(Isa. 61:3).
Here is our new daughter of the
Most High God:
“Hi guys. So recently I’ve
been talking to my very close friend who suffers from anxiety and depression. I
too have suffered from this in the past and I wanted to make a video here today
to talk about how we can move forward with this, a way we can really find improvement
in our lives, and a way to get out of this dark hole, this void, that so many
of us experience.
So let’s begin by talking
about the void. Though science can’t prove it, and it can’t be measured, a lot
of us, probably most of us, if not all of us, know that this exists. This
seemingly never-ending chase to fulfill this hunger for stuff that’s never,
never quite satisfied. You know?
We feed it [this unsatisfied
void] with things like drugs, material things, alcohol, TV, porn, sex,
relationships, shopping[, and eating], just, I mean, anything we can do to distract
ourselves from feeling this void there [in the heart], we will do it.
So, yeah, and so there’s lots of us that
think, ‘Well maybe if I have the next technology then I’ll be happy. Maybe if I
have the latest car, or a big house, or all of these possessions, maybe then I’ll
be satisfied.’ But you find that a lot of these people that have attained all these
things still aren’t satisfied happy. You know, you see it in Hollywood. These
celebrities that are living the dream, but they, a lot of them end up being
depressed, or even some of them have taken their lives. So it just shows when
you get to that level and you’ve attained all the things that you can ever
think would satisfy this void, and you get there and then you realize that you still
are not satisfied, this can be very disheartening.
So we’re looking into all of
these things to do temporary fixes, temporary relief from this void, this
never-ending hunger for entertainment or distraction, so you don’t have to
experience it, you don’t have to feel that empty, hollow [lack of] peace
within.
So, when we turn to these
things over and over again it becomes an addiction to things, and these
temporary fixes with things like substances, you know you’d have more of it to
have the same high, the same relief as you had before, so you always need more
and more. So, this ends up with that void that you end up returning to always,
because it’s always there. This ends up becoming a bigger void. And this can be
really destructive for us.
So this external substances
or products that are used in a way to fulfill this inner suffering, this
never-ending chase, this ever ends well. You mean, I mean look at consumerism
today, and look at the statistics for people with anxiety and depression. It’s
going up. You know, we’re always needing the newest thing, something to
consume, but it’s not fulfilling us. And depression and all of this is on the
rise in our society. And you’d think with such an advance in technology and in all of the things that we can attain—you know, we’ve got access to so much right now.
But yet the depression and anxiety is on the rise.
So this just shows that these
worldly things can’t really feed and satisfy that void fully. So we know that
these things [worldly fixes] just can’t cut it. You know. We’ve literally tried
everything.
So what does this void require,
do you think? You know, if you have a look at it by its very nature, it’s not a
physical thing [cause of the ailment], it’s spiritual. And it’s limitless in its
way about it. It’s never-ending. It can never be satisfied. So it’s, it’s
always going.
So, ever wonder if we aren’t
the ones who can fill this void? You know, we’ve tried everything on this
earth, and it doesn’t seem to work. So, perhaps by its very nature this void requires
something spiritual and eternal, something also never-ending, which is our
eternal God. Right? Our Creator.
So maybe, just maybe our
Creator left a little piece missing inside of us so that when we come to Him He
can make Himself where this missing piece once was, and we can instantly know
Him. Is that a big claim? Maybe. But this whole phrase of, “Only God can fill
the void”, this isn’t what I’ve just come up with. In fact this has happened to
me. And many, many, many people everywhere around the world will tell you the same
thing. That missing piece, that void, God fills that.
So, bear with me, those of
you who don’t believe in God. Please, I pray that you just keep on going, keep
on listening. Please, I pray you have an open heart and mind and ears to just
listen, and hear me out.
So you know, the void,
science can’t prove, and science can’t measure. Well, the same with those of us
who experienced the void being fulfilled by God. You know, science won’t prove
it [God satisfying our fullness]; it can’t measure it. But, it’s happening. It
just is the case. So how can this be for you? How can this be the case for you?
Well, I suggest to start
with, we need to find our original Creator to know where this missing piece is.
Right? And I think that is pretty much most of the battle, to find out who our
original Creator is. To ask Them into us, to then to have our void filled.
And I think literally everything
on this earth is designed to distract you from knowing the truth or to deceive
you, or just to keep you away from knowing the original Creator of us.
So I’m here today to tell you
our Creator is Jesus Christ. Obviously, don’t take my word for anything. Go and
do your own research, but I just need to say it. Jesus Christ is exactly who He
says He is in the scripture. He is the truth, the way, and the life. This is
what He claims to be and it truly is who He is. He also says He is the Word of
God, that He is the living Word. Now, the Quran will even tell you that Jesus
is the Word of God. But, we’re not going to get into that too much, because we’d
then go into a bit of a detour.
But, so bear in mind Jesus is
the Word of God. And He says He’s the Word, He’s the living Word. And He died
and was raised again because He is life. Now what do we find in the Bible?
“In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with
God.
All things were made by Him;
and without Him nothing was made that was made.
In Him was life.” (John 1:1-4).
So I’m here to tell you guys that
our Creator is Jesus Christ. He is the one you call upon for this void to be
transformed. And I’ll talk to you now about how this happens. So we’ve gone
through that He is the Word and the Word is God. So He is the Grand Architect
of everything. He created you. He created you perhaps with that missing piece
that He can fill.
And how can this happen? How
can He transform your life? Well, Jesus Christ can transform your life through
faith alone. Right? It’s literally that simple. But it just is very difficult for us
humans to not have that resistance in us that we’re programmed from the very
beginning to feel. You know, everything around us is against surrendering your
heart to Jesus. You look at the music industry, for one. The music videos are
just horrendous.
So, what am I saying here
then? OK, yes, so sorry, through faith alone you find Him. So I’m just going to
mention John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.” So it’s all about believing in Jesus. That’s how this transformation
happens. That’s how this void is filled.
Now, you say, ‘Maybe there’s
resistance in belief in Jesus, or having that faith, taking that leap of faith
with Him.’ You know, for those of you that are from a background that is very
scientific, and you believe in evolution, I’d just like you think for a minute,
and just question yourselves. Isn’t that belief as well? Aren’t you taking a
leap of faith to believe that we evolved from a rock or from apes? And so I’d
just really, I would love it if you could really take a leap of faith into
trusting and believing in the Creator, rather than creation. Because it’s like,
if you believe in evolution, you’re kind of trying to figure out how this
intelligent design, how this computer, was built without the person that built the
computer, without the programmer.
You know, you’re looking
inside the computer trying to understand how it came to being. That’s a massive
leap of faith to think that it just was. You know, in the beginning, there was
God. And so, I just want to talk about once you give your heart to Jesus, and
how He transforms your heart, and how this ties in with the void being filled.
So, in Ezekiel, He talks
about this, bear with me, it says here:
‘A new heart also will I give
you, and a new Spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put My
Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My
judgments, and do them.’ (Eze. 36:26,27).
So, you know, God’s saying
how He will put His Spirit inside of you. So, if we are talking about this void
that needs something of the Spirit that is eternal to be able to fill the void,
He’s talking about that right there. He’s saying He will put His Spirit within
you. He will transform your heart. And this is what has happened to so many of
us. And it’s a supernatural experience to finally feel content. For me I knew
it was a spiritual thing before. I knew no material objects would fill my void.
But still with the spiritual stuff I was seeking the wrong spiritual stuff, and
it was leading me into some really dark places.
So, you know this changing of
our hearts and God putting His Spirit in us happens through belief in Jesus
Christ as our Messiah, that He died for our sins and He rose again because He
is the Lord of life.
It also says, I’ve got
another little verse we’re here, just to confirm what I just said again. I mean
it just constantly says the same thing over and over again throughout the Bible,
and it’s always foreshadowing Jesus. It’s just incredible. It’s so
multi-dimensional, the text. It really is the living word. So in Ephesians 3:16
it says... Oh no, start in verse 14. It’s very pretty.
‘For this cause I bow my
knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Of whom the whole family in
heaven and earth is named,
That He would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with might by His
Spirit in the inner man;
That Christ may dwell in your
hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend
with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness
of God.’ (Eph. 3:14-19).
So there is so much of a
transformation that happens when you come to Christ and you give Him your
heart. That’s why you are called, ‘born again’. And there’s so much to talk
about that, as well. Jesus says you must be born again to even see the kingdom
of God.
So for me when I let go of
all resistance and I accepted Jesus, He washed me. He really did. I mean we all
have bad times still. You know, we’re in this world. It’s a fallen world. There’s
things all the time that are bad that you have to deal with. But my anxiety and
depression has dramatically, dramatically lowered, because I know the Lord. I
know He’s with me.
And so there’s a beautiful
song, actually, I think this is originally in psalms, and it says here: ‘He
brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my
feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And He hath put a new song in
my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall
trust in the LORD.’ (Ps. 40:2,3).
So He’s saying there, how He
takes us out of the miry clay. We’re in this swamp and we don’t know where to
go. And we’re being chased by the enemy. And it’s all-consuming. But He pulls
us out of there. He sets us on a rock. He establishes a new song in our heart
for Him because we feel Him in there now. That void is gone. He’s there.
So I just wanted to say that
this is for everyone if you are willing to just give Him a go, just give Him a
chance. And yeah, so, it’s another thing I want to say, as we all go through
hardships still; but when you walk through life, and you have these struggles
and things can get you down, you’re not alone when you’ve accepted Jesus. You
know He’s there, and you’re walking with Him. He gives you so much strength! He really
does!
And there’s another verse
here. I should probably be saying the names and chapters. I’ll write that at
the bottom of the video then. We’ve got Matthew 11:30 here. And He says, “Come
unto Me…” This is Jesus talking. He says, “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me;
for I am meek [gentle] and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30)
You know, you come to Jesus
and everything is just so much easier. Everything is just... You are not in the darkness any more.
You are not darkness any more. So because Christ has this power to answer our
prayers and fill this void and walk with us and dwell within us, put His Spirit
in us—all of these amazing things that happens
as a Christian and a walk with knowing the true Creator of everything, all
the supernatural things that occur. Of course they’re going to occur, we’ve
found the Creator! He’s incredible. He’s incredible. There’s so many accounts
of things that have happened that are just, just beyond [our comprehension]. So I just wanted to
say that that may be why there so many Christians that are willing to die for their
faith. Because it’s so true. It’s so answered and clarified and true that you
can’t not see the truth any more. So you’re willing to die for your faith
because you’re willing to die for your Creator. Because of course you are, you
know Him. And so why wouldn’t you die for your Father, if you love Him? You
know, just like you’d die for anyone in your family because you love them. When
you find God and you know your Father, you’re going to die for your Father. Aren’t
you?
And so there’s just one last
little thing I wanted to read in Galatians 5:11 [actually verses 22 and 23].
And that is the fruits of the Spirit. So…. “But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness [kindness], goodness, faith[fullness],
meekness [gentleness], temperance [self-control]: against such there is no law.”
(Gal. 5:22,23). So this just shows that as a Christian, knowing the Creator
brings you so much joy, so much contentment in your heart, just the power to
transform, and just do amazing things in your life. Really. And so I pray for
everyone who has not come to Christ yet. I really pray that you seek Jesus because
He can do anything. He can really work wonders in your life and do incredible
healing in your life, as He has for me. And you don’t have to go alone any more.
You’ve never been alone….”
The video cut short before
she was finished speaking. View it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIb_rSdyb2k&t=727s
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