God Living Redeemer

I had gotten into my car last night to go home from work and Dr. Tony Evans was on the radio, (I always love to listen to his messages) and he was explaining to his church the reasoning behind why God made man and put him over the physical creation. This got me thinking about why Jesus came. You see God created the earth after creating the heavens. He then created man to have dominion over the earth. As Tony had explained that God gave man dominion over the earth. This was God's representative over the earth in human flesh. When Lucifer/Devil/Satan came and tempted Adam through Eve. He then won the dominion over the earth when Adam basically bowed in submission to Lucifer by disobeying God's direct command not to eat of the tree of good and evil. Sadly this spun all of creation out of control. Sin entered into the world that effected not just man, but all of creation. God put in authority a man over his creation and through a man, he would have to redeem it back. As Dr. Evans explained, since God set the dominion of man over the earth, it would have to be a man to redeem it.

1 Cor. 15:21 tells us that death came into the world through one man's sin (Adam); and Rom. 5:12 tells us that through Adam's sin has caused all to sin. How do we know this? Paul quoting PS. 14:3 Rom. 3:10-12 that everyone has sinned and there is no one who is right before God since they have turned away from Him to their own ways. In John 8:7 when the pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, Jesus asked that if anyone one of the accusers are without sin to cast the first stone. Funny how the author continues and stated that from the oldest to the youngest they walked away. The Elder John in 1 John 1:8 that anyone who says they have no sin deceives themselves with the absence of truth. 

 When Adam sinned God held court, not in heaven, but here on earth. The sentences were handed out, man would till the ground by the sweat of his brow, women would have difficult once a month and during child birth, and Satan would be condemned to his belly and his head crushed by the birth of a woman's child. Notice God did not say that a man's son, but a woman's child. This is how God would redeem humanity.

Isaiah 52:13-15 tells us that the coming Messiah would face persecution after being lifted up. He would be beaten beyond any human recognition. Isaiah 53 is all about the coming Messiah. Each portion goes into detail of what to look for in a Messiah, 1-12 that tells us that no one has believed in the message, there was no attraction about him to be a king or even less, a coming Messiah, rejected, pierced for our transgressions, bruised for our inquiries with the chastisement of the world on him completely; and finished up with barring the sins of many and becoming an intersession for the transgressor, (us). If you want to more about this, Hebrews 4: 14-16. The author tells us that he is the great high priest and empathizes with our weaknesses and understands our temptations and has risen into heaven. 

With that being said, on back to God's plan to redeem humanity. So we see in Genesis that God laid out a plan to man, woman, and to Satan as to what would come. Satan had already won over a third of the angels in heaven, Isaiah 14:12, Ezekiel 28:16, Luke 10:18, and Rev. 12:7-9 all talk about how Satan was cast out of heaven, but only in Revelations does it mention the angels along with him. In Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-18 tells us of Jesus going into the wilderness and there he faced temptation from Satan. It does not go into detail of when the temptation started. All we know is that Christ was full of the Holy Spirit when he left for the desert and fasted for forty (40) days. What we see is that during this time, Satan looked for a weakness to over come Christ, the Son of the living God. With each temptation, Christ through the Holy Spirit faced the temptation with the spoken and living word of God. Here, Satan has God in the flesh. Knowing that if he could have tempted the first man and succeed with Adam bowing to Satan, then he could for sure find a weakness and do the same with Jesus. Just as Satan tempted Adam with food, he would start out with the same by asking him to turn stones into bread. Jesus responded by living on the word of God which is the bread of life. He tempted Jesus with tempting God with suicide, but again, Jesus would respond with the living word of God by not tempting the creator. Finally, Satan would show Jesus what has been built in this world at the time. Since Satan had dominion over this world, he felt that he could show Jesus and tempt him with all the riches of this world if Jesus would just bow to Satan. Jesus knowing the plans of God, knowing that soon, one day, this world will pass away and that the living word of God will last forever, (Matt 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 16:17 & 21:33, and Rev. 21:1). You might say that all of that was spoken after the temptation, Ps. 103:16 talks about the ending of things, and Ezekiel 7:11 also talks about the end of wickedness as well. With this knowledge, Jesus rebuked Satan and reminded him of who God is and that there is to be no idol before God. Jesus added that we are to worship God.

You see, God had to come in the flesh to redeem humanity through Jesus Christ His son. Jesus was born of a virgin (Matt. 1:18-25 and Luke 2:1-21) God became flesh to redeem us to him. It had to be a human to do this. There had to be a miracle birth for this to happen and that was Jesus. As John the Apostle told us in his letter, he stated that the Word was in the beginning and was with God and was God and that word became flesh and lived amongst us.

All of this came from Dr. Tony Evans sermon on why God became a man to die for us. As he so beautifully put it from his sermon, Jesus the Great I Am. https://tonyevans.org/podcast/ All praise to Christ our redeemer. 

Just a few more days.

In just a few days I will continue to step out in faith and move to Ethiopia by their new year. This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time. Right now I am still needing people that are willing to support me monthly. I have been faithful to God during this time by stepping out, walking away from my job. It has been a test of my faith believing God for the big and small things in all of this. I do know that God is moved by faith and not by fear, desperation, anxious emotions, or by anything else. Just as one day last week a family was in need of a bed. They had seen my ad on craigslist and called me. They really did not have the money because they needed to pay other things too.
Well they shared their story with me and I did the same, then they got ready to pay me and as I was looking at the money that was being pulled out I started to get focused on my need to move and everything else. Well this thought went through my mind saying, "If you take that money, you will be making a big mistake!" so I thought about it and as I did I knew that it was God and I started focusing on their need. She went to give me the money to pay for the bed and I refused it. I told them that if I took that money then I would be making a mistake and I need a blessing to move to Ethiopia. They broke down and started crying, prayed and then they left.
Later on that night I was with some friends and shared that story with them. We had talked about how at times God puts on our hearts to give or do something for Him and we miss it. We ended up praying for my situation and in return I was blessed with a gift of $400. Now that is faith in action. That is what I mean that God is moved by faith and sowing into others. That is what God is looking for. Just as I sowed into this pastor and his wife, God returned to me double than what I in turn gave them. God is so good.
So I am asking you to seek the face of God and ask him how can you sow into what I am about to do with Mission Ethiopia. I am still looking for monthly supporters that are willing to support me monthly. I have just a few more days until my flight leaves. I have stepped out in faith believing God to fulfill His promises to me concerning this. I believe God has called me to Ethiopia with all of my heart. It is the only place I feel at home at. My heart and mind are there. I was asked the question and God forbid that it would happen, "What if things did not work out with you and Hanna? Would you up and leave just because?" My answer to that is no I would not up and leave. Like I had said, this is where my heart is. This is what I want to do and what I have wanted to do. So my heart belongs to God first and foremost, then to Hanna. I love her with all of my heart and I am very excited about the plans we have together and I believe with all of my heart that God is using all of this to get me to move, cause all I have been doing is waisting time and I am tired of waisting time. click here and watch this!
So I am asking you if you would move with me by faith. I believe God has called me to do this work with single mothers, widows, and orphans. I cannot do it without you at all. Just as God used me to fulfill a need with that family, God can use you to fulfill this need to bring hope and empowerment to single mothers, widows, orphans.
If you so choose to partner with me, let me first and foremost say thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This work cannot happen without you. If it could, then it would not be much of a sacrifice or a move of faith. If you choose to donate here is how:
I am needing monthly supporters. I am asking that monthly supporters just give $20 a month. Or if you would like to do one time donation you can do that too. All you have to do is click on one of the buttons on top of the page either wepay or paypal and you can make your donations there. Or if you want to send a check in you can do that by making it out to Belmont Church and put in the memo Christopher Fisher/Ethiopia and mail it to Belmont Church ATTN Rob Fraizer 68 music Sq. East Nashville, TN. 37203 Please email me at fisher.cmichael@gmail.com to let me know so I can keep track of what you are going to do and also so I can email you each month to share with you what God is doing.
Thank you again for your time and potential support.
Blessings
Chris

Control

This past week has been some trying times, not only in my walk with God, but also in my relationships too. With the events of this past week reminded me today of what happens when we try to force things to happen.

As I was driving I began to think about when I was younger. 12 I think. I had purchased this model train to put together. See, I loved putting models together growing up. It is what my uncles did and I got to help them, so the desire was passing onto me. Well this particular model was giving me some trouble. I was trying to get the engine and the wood car to connect. For some reason they were not connecting. I was getting angry at every attempt, and at every attempt I failed. I at one time threw the car across the room, and went and picked it up, and tried again.Well when that attempt failed, I simply put the train down and went to bed discussed.

The next morning I woke up and took the train and car to my stepfather for him to put it together. He should be able to do it. He is much older than I, and he just might have that touch to connect the two together solving my problem that caused my outburst of anger and inpatients. He looked at it and attempted to join the two cars together, but failed also. He then pointed out to me that the hitch that joined the two together was broken, and that it was not fixable. So I investigated the problem. I went to check out the very area where I threw the car at, and there I found the piece that was needed to join the two cars together. Out of my anger and trying to force the the two cars together the wrong way, I ended up breaking the train.

Looking back on that I can see that if I would have sat the train down the first time at failure and took to the much wiser stepfather, he could have put it together, and I would have had a complete train, but my forcing the two together only ended up ruining it.

As I thought of this I began to see how my current issue with school was happening. Financial Aid had told me that they would not be able to process my student loan application until the end of September. I was getting worried, and angry over this. I have goals and dreams to fulfill, and they are standing in the way of them. I have mission work to do.

Trying to find reason in all of this, I was making myself sick. Emailing and talking to people who I think could help, but only finding none. Could there be a bigger picture in all of this? Could God be leading me a different direction? What was it that I could not see? Why was I feeling like the failure when it was out of my hands?

So looking at the situation I would try harder to control the situation. Anyways, it was my future in the balance here, and with just two semesters left I could not just stop now. I have to finish. So I emailed a newspaper editor who was looking for stories such as mine. After I sent the story, I did not feel justified, but only discussed at my attempt to control what was out of my control. So I prayed asking God to help me. I went for a run, and on my way to the park I thought of the story above, and one of my pastors I emailed. I had seen how I was trying to control the situation out of desperation and anger. Somehow God began to get through to me. I began to see that by me forcing the situation, in the end I was not going to be happy with the outcome, and having a, (I wish I could turn back time) moment.

I have been reminded of the scripture of Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
and His promise of Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Letting this go has brought joy to look into the future knowing that He who holds it has predestine me for it.