Like everyone, I have had my share of losses, disappointments and times of broken heartedness. For the larger part of this year I have been going through some difficult times emotionally and have recently experienced a considerably devastating broken heart. All along I have known that God is the mender of my, our, broken heart. Normally, I do not post anything particularly personal on Facebook or here on Honeycomb about my personal life. Because of something I heard yesterday that truly gave me some real revelation into the broken heart mender God is, I had to come forth with what I just wrote to let you know this close to my heart, personal and not just a “teaching” on a part of God’s Word.
Yesterday, I was listening to a sermon Joseph Prince preached regarding the resurrection of Jesus. This particular teaching was on resting in the Power of Jesus’ resurrection life. Because Jesus died for us and was resurrected from the dead He will come back for His church and we will have glorified bodies just like His. We all know why Jesus died, but Pastor Prince focuses on why He was resurrected. We know that it was for our justification, but do we really ever look at what that means?
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-5
When God raised Jesus Christ, He raised all that receive Jesus with Him. When God raised Jesus He raised Him to sit at the right hand of Himself, which is the center of the universe and is a place of honor, authority, exaltation and rest. That is where Christ is seated and we are seated with Him!
“...that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,...
Ephesians 1:17-20
As a result of this resurrection, and because as Christians we do sit with Jesus, we can have wisdom and revelation knowledge that gives us a the ability to truly know Jesus and understand the purpose and power of God. We then can have insight into God’s Word and how it works in our lives.
After a number of other great points of truth, Pastor Prince began sharing some benefits we have from this resurrection power. One of them that blessed me was when he spoke on peace. The one I am sharing this writing with you about that became clear revelation for me is what I am going to share here, now.
Being a teaching on the power of the resurrection of Jesus, there was some preemptive teaching on His death. There was teaching on how horrible, grotesque and drawn out Jesus’ death was because all of the sin, disease, rejection, depression, torment, and all the curses were put on Jesus for mankind. The manifesting of His death was gruesome.
If one sin had not been paid for, and the debt was not paid, Jesus would not have been raised from the dead because the resurrection gave us the ability to be the righteousness of God, which could not happen with a sin hanging out there.
And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
1 Corinthians 15:17
The benefits of the finished work of Jesus are in everything we need!
When Jesus appeared to His disciples after His resurrection He spoke peace over them and showed them the payment was made so they could have that peace and the abundant life He had just bought for them, for all of us. He showed them His nail scarred hands and side.
Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” John 20:27
Remember that I started this with a broken heart. This teaching enlightened me in such a deep way regarding God mending my broken heart.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
John 19:34
That soldier wanted to make certain Jesus was dead. Roman soldiers were skilled at killing and so he took his sword and pierced under His rib cage and up toward the heart. He was not checking to see if Jesus was dead, he was applying a piercing to Jesus that would insure He was dead. The medical community, heart surgeons particularly, testify that there is a membrane sac underneath the heart where blood and water collect when the heart ruptures. That is why water and blood gushed out of Jesus' side. Medically, there was proof that Jesus’ heart ruptured and that essentially His heart had ruptured, broken into pieces, literally. Therein is the proof He died, John saw it and by the Holy Spirit recorded it. Why did Jesus die of a broken heart? So we do not die of a broken heart. People die all the time of a broken heart, but it is not necessary because Jesus did if for us, a His death and resurrection power give us the way to be mended of a broken heart.
...who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,...
Romans 4:25 - Romans 5:1
Jesus’ nail scarred hands and sword scarred side were the receipt for the justification His death and resurrection payed for and bought for mankind. We received everything we ever needed, including the peace that can provide us with the power to mend a broken heart!
The scripture, most points surrounding them and the benefit Pastor Prince explained through Jesus’ broken heart were pretty close to what he taught. The rest of this is my take on it. The point is through what he taught I was able to have that revelation knowledge that set me free from a broken heart! Praise God! It sounds simple I know, but when you get a revelation from God it means your heart receives that beauty of hope that gives you understanding about the riches of the glory we as Christians have! That revelation gives you understanding of the purpose and power of God in our lives! One word from God can burst into volumes in your heart! That is what happened as I gave attention to the Word Pastor Prince was teaching! That understanding of truth sets you free. I want to tell you that..... set me free!
Interestingly enough, today it has been three years since Baxter died and I still miss him, but my heart is mended. The revelation I received yesterday has already made a vast and wonderful transformation in me (as revelation by the Holy Spirit does). It is as if months of healing my heart happened in a few minutes. God is so good all of the time!
He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:8
If you would like to hear this 28 minute teaching you can go here,
go to the "Broadcast" drop down menu,
then to "On demand",
then to the teaching titled #348 - Rest In The Power Of His Resurrection Life (Saturday).
I am not sure how long these teachings stay on here so if you don’t see it, it is because the time has lapsed. Any of his teachings you do see are well worth the time to watch them though.
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