Jesus Christ doesn’t commit Himself to the human heart, instead, we commit our heart to the Spirit of Christ

John 2:23-25

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• People follow miracles more than committing to Jesus Christ.
• Jesus Christ does not submit Himself to human intentions.

People follow miracles more than committing to Jesus Christ. “Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.” John 2:23

In the days of Jesus, the Passover was pretty much a national holiday where everybody met in Jerusalem. It was a festive atmosphere with music, food, entertainment etc., it lasted several days. Maybe similar to Independence Day in the United States, as they were declaring independence from slavery to Egypt. During the holiday festivities, many believed in Jesus because of the healings and other signs which He did. I’m sure many attendees thought of His miracles as just another part of the show, except for those who were healed by His miracles.

The Passover itself relates to when the Israelites put blood on the top of their doorpost and on each side so that death would pass by, and they would live. While the Egyptians suffered the plague of death, the Israelites were able to escape Egypt and their slavery. Today, the Passover represents the blood of Jesus Christ applied to the heart to bring the remission of sin and eternal life. By the blood of Jesus Christ, we are able to escape slavery to sin and death and we are given life. However, like today, the crowds didn’t believe in Jesus as the Son of God but believed in Jesus because of the miracles He did.

The spreading of blood on the doorposts is in the shape of a Cross,

Even today, people do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, but they do believe in the thing which has power over physiology to do miracles of physical healings, etc. However, the Lord Jesus did not suffer the crucifixion and die on the Cross to bring physical healings to whoever might believe, He died to atone for sin and bring healing of the soul. By His shed blood, we are reconciled to God, and because He was resurrected from the grave, we will live also in eternal life. God so loved the world that He sent His only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

The thing that has power over physiology to do physical miracles is the same thing which forms what we think, feel, do, and speak. People follow it because of the power it has over physiology, and it enables the image of the beast to speak and live through them. As it speaks and lives through them, they are conformed to their station in life, their mark in life, as they are groomed to the mark of the beast.

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?

Revelation 13:3-4

Jesus Christ does not submit Himself to human intentions. “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.” John 2:24-25

Imagine what it would be like if Jesus subjected Himself to people who only desired miracles but not the remission of sin which comes through Him. He would be nothing more than a Jeannie in a Bottle which people conjured up and flattered every time they wished for a miracle in their life. Jesus does not commit to our carnal wishes and flatteries, in contrast, we are to commit our human spirit to the Spirit of Christ.

Today, the world has committed to the human being and has discarded the need for Jesus Christ. It is a “democratic” society which embraces humanism empowered by the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and speech. Jesus Christ doesn’t commit Himself to humanism because He knows the heart of people are plagued with sin. Sin is something this world does not believe in, and they refer to the Gospel of Christ as being intolerant, hurtful to human dignity, and a blow to self-respect.

As this world progresses in serving the creature human being and not the Creator God, the true colors of what is within the heart of the masses around the world is beginning to show. As Jesus said, as it was in the days of Noah so will it be on the Day of the Lord,

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thought of his heart was only evil all the day. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Genesis 6:5-8

As followers of Jesus Christ, we discern what we feel and think by the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Although thoughts and feelings are imposed on us by the thing with power over physiology, the word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Hebrews 4:11-13

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1