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GENESIS 35:18 … WHAT’S HIS NAME?

September 24, 2020 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

Rachel, wife of Jacob, named the little baby as she was dying. And she knew she was dying, apparently.

The divinely inspired historian carefully says: “And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni.” Genesis 35:18. And that name means “son of my sorrow!” Indeed that’s what this child was to those around him.

Yet, immediately, his father named him “Benjamin!” The text, same verse: “But his father called him Benjamin.” With Benjamin meaning ” son of my right hand.”

Wherein is a “parable” of sorts … not literally a parable but a symbolic teaching … a Picture of Jesus!

Jesus our Saviour!

Jesus Who is a Jew! Born out of the Sons of Jacob, Judah to be exact. The Royal Tribe, the Kingly Line!

Jesus Who was the true “Son of Sorrow.” Isaiah specifically terms Him “a Man of Sorrows,” Isaiah 53:3 is the Source. Wow!

But to the Father, His Father … Jesus is (gloriously) a Literal Benjamin! The “Son of God’s Right hand!” In the Old Testament we are told this: “The LORD (God the Father) said unto my Lord (Jesus Christ), Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Psalm 110:1

In the New Testament, too … repeatedly … “Which he (God the Father) wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 1:20

Colossians 3:1 … “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.”

Hebrews 1:3 … “Who (Jesus) being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”

Hebrews 10:12 … “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” Hallelujah!

Hebrews 12:2 … “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Yes, Jesus!

Once (especially on Calvary) the “Man of Sorrows!”

But Jesus, now, the “Son of God’s Right Hand!”

Humiliated on the Cross!

Glorified in His Father’s Presence!

And I might add … coming again as well!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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“THE SONG OF SOLOMON,” OR AS HE CALLED IT; “THE SONG OF SONGS!”

September 23, 2020 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

Yes, Song of Solomon … a little Book in the Old Testament that pictures Christ and His Church most poignantly. Beautiful in its purity (when viewed Biblically through the Eyes of the Holy Spirit) … the Song of Solomon is LOADED with typology. Maybe in that sense the most “type filled” (symbolic, emblematic) Book in all Scripture!

Here’s an example, with the Shulamite Lady (a picture of the Church) speaking: “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.” Song of Solomon 4:16

The Literature teacher whould call this inspired Line an “apostrophe.” A figure of speech whereby a person addresses an inanimate object. Here she’s talking to the wind.

Our Text again … “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.”

Now let’s interpret this bit of godly Poetry. Here the “wind” represents the different circumstances of life. “North” implies breezes that are cold and bitter and uninviting! “South,” warm and balmy and pleasant, maybe even fragrant too.

But in either of these two extremes, the best days or the worst days … look what occurs! The “spices” (the graces of the Holy Spirit, such as love and joy and peace and longsuffering, etc.) “flow out!”

Wow!

In hard times, she still wants to emit joy and praise and thanksgiving!

In good times too, sweet times; not forgetting God at all, but all the more diffusing the aroma of faith and meekness and brotherly kindness and virtue and all the rest of the Holy Spirit’s Produce in a maturing Christian’s life!

Why?

To witness to the lost world?

Certainly!

But even more important than that, to the Church … the last line of our Text Verse … “Let my Beloved come into His garden, and eat His pleasant fruits.” That the Beloved (the Lord Jesus) may come to us (on windy days, no matter cold or warm) and enjoy the fragrance! And taste “HIS pleasant fruits!”

Now that’s living for Jesus!

Using life’s curves (so-called good or bad) to please our Saviour!

To delight Him!

Excuse me, I just have to say it again … Wow!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

Weather warning … I hear it’s going to be a windy day, spiritually, in your life. And do remember, the Lord will drop by to enjoy your company. Make Him delighted in the fruit He sees! The “pleasant fruit” He so deeply enjoys!

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“WITH LOVINGKINDNESS I HAVE DRAWN THEE!”

September 22, 2020 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

God speaks in Jeremiah 31:3 … “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

Yes, I suspect when each of us was born again, when Jesus saved us … part of that old fashioned conviction the Holy Spirit used was centered on God’s judgment. At least I know Hell had a part in my coming to the Lord! The “fear” of that horrible place. I did NOT want to go there for all eternity!

But the things that really (and finally) brought me to Jesus … were His Sweetness, His Loveliness, His Patience, His Love! But I really need to continue … His Mercy, His Grace … and in a summary word … His LOVINGKINDNESS!

That’s what our text is saying this morning! “With lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Thank you dear Lord! This major Hebrew noun is “hesed,” partly emphasizing that one day God “came down” to me (to earth really) and “saved” my lost soul! That’s “hesed” lovingkindness! Prior to that He “came down” in the Person of His Son and died on Calvary in order to save my lost soul!

Hallelujah!

But WHY did God come down like this?

Back to our Text … “I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Because of His “everlasting Love!”

What Moses could not do with his judgment and threats and harsh law … Jesus accomplished with His Love and Grace!

To Him be the Glory, our Lord Jesus Christ!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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“THE WRATH TO COME!”

September 21, 2020 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

I have this morning “lifted” a few words from the mouth of John the Baptist. He was preaching to the hypocritical Pharisees.

“Who hath warned you to flee from THE WRATH TO COME?” Matthew 3:7, King James Version

Today I sit in a motel room in a little Alabama City, preaching in a nearby Revival. We are just over a month from electing (or reelecting) a President. Either way, I suspect America (also a hypocritical nation) faces “the wrath to come.” By that I mean, as did John long ago, “the Wrath of Almighty God!”

Now I am not here talking about the “Tribulation,” though America (if she still exists) will undergo that dire time! I personally believe the Church will be caught up/raptured before the actual “Tribulation” begins. According to the Book of Revelation, that is.

But I am talking about the “Wrath” of God that may/could fall on our Land even today! I mean this week or next, or in the coming months thereafter! A Country that has slain sixty million (60,000,000) unborn babies over the past five decades! A Country that has made legally possible about every sexual perversion the Bible condemns! A Country that has not only turned her back on God, but is now at war with God!

How can we expect anything else than “the wrath to come.”

In fact, sooner or later … it will come!

As Believers, our only hope is, of course in the Lord … and perhaps this prayer: “O Lord, in wrath remember mercy.” Habakkuk 3:2

Though we Christians are secure “in Jesus,” our Nation is far from secure. Maybe now more than ever, far from God.

I do not want to be a pessimist, but I must be a realist too. WRATH is on the way …

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

We Christians had better brace ourselves with the Word of God!

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THE LORD AND “STRENGTH!”

September 18, 2020 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

It is said of Joseph, long ago. “And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” Genesis 49:24

Is that not an encouraging Verse?

It is as if God Almighty reached down from Heaven and laid His omnipotent Hands on Joseph’s merely human hands, thereby the Greater strengthening the weaker!

Dear Lord our God … in this way we too need your “touch!” Imparting to us Thy power!

Nehemiah of old also could claim, truthfully … “The good hand of my God (was) upon me.” Nehemiah 2:8, strength then becoming one of Nehemiah’s great traits all his life.

And God’s Hand upon our hand just might fulfill/accomplish the intent of both Psalm 18:34 and Psalm 144:1 … “He teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.” Strength to oppose the enemy!

And with His Hand upon me strengthening me … I just might also break forth in song, in joy! “The LORD is my strength and song.” Exodus 15:2

Ezra the great scribe too, listen: “And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me.” Ezra 7:28, if you’d like the exact reference.

Essentially this lesson then is about praying for strength! “Thy God hath commanded thy strength: STRENGTHEN, O GOD, that which thou hast wrought for us.” Psalm 68:28

A petition we need to loft heavenward every day, every morning!

Let’s pray it daily!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

God’s strengthening Hand … and souls being saved too! Read it please … “And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.” Acts 11:21, powerful witnessing and powerful results!

Now I’ll close with Psalm 18:1, its last Line … “I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.” Simply stating a fact!

Oh, how we need HIM day by day!

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