Confirming The Word By The Signs That Follow

  
 Pro 30:5 ASV - Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.

The lost the needy the poor and hungry not only need to hear the word of God but they need to see the manifestation of Gods word on the earth.    Mar 16:17 ASV - And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;  Signs Greek: semeion    Miracle:
"a sign, mark, token" (akin to semaino, "to give a sign;" sema, "a sign"), is used of "miracles" and wonders as signs of Divine authority; it is translated "miracles" in the RV and AV of Luk 23:8; Act 4:16, 22; most usually it is given its more appropriate meaning "sign," "signs," e.g., Mat 12:38, 39, and in every occurrence in the Synoptists, except Luk 23:8; in the following passages in John's Gospel the RV substitutes "sign" or "signs" for the AV, "miracle or miracles;" Jhn 2:11, 23; 3:2

 Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Mar 16:17 ASV - And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 ASV - they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mar 16:19 ASV - So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mar 16:20 ASV - And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

 1Co 4:20 ASV - For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.     But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Believing on his name is to bring forth his word with power . It says to those that believe ! in the end of all things you and only you will be responsible for your soul .  This bible is no more than paper and ink just another book. But if we receive it as Gods word to us and manifest the power of his word in us.  Just said even if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains .  How is it that man has distorted the true gospel the very words of Christ to us his children.  Mar 16 :15-20 was to the whole church And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.    Mat 24:14 ASV - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
Jesus said he would not leave us helpless he would send another helper the holy spirit endued with power from on high .  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.   Baptized unto his death and baptized unto his resurrection .   Eph 4:4 ASV - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;
Eph 4:5 ASV - one Lord, one faith, one baptism,


To minister this precious gospel you must have evidence of its power .  The problem with the church today is that they believe another gospel , a gospel of no power no signs of the power of faith .  Jesus said greater things shall you do than I have done by your faith . Jhn 14:11 ASV - Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
Jhn 14:12 ASV - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.   God is calling souls to come and see if he is the Lord .        Rev 3:20 ASV - Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.   This door is the door of your heart , I am reminded of the Passover God gave to the children in   Exo 12:21 ASV - Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exo 12:22 ASV - And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
Exo 12:23 ASV - For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
The lamb is Jesus and you must apply his blood upon the door of you heart , you must kill the lamb and obey the commandment .   The only way the children were to be delivered from their bondage was to apply the blood upon their hearts .
When he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you               
Heb 9:22 ASV - And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Heb 9:23 ASV - It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 ASV - For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
The power of Jesus comes as he said many times in the gospels , these signs shall follow those who Believe .   Jhn 14:3 ASV - And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Jhn 14:18 ASV - I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
Jhn 15:26 ASV - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
Jhn 16:7 ASV - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.      Jesus is saying I must die and be buried for you to receive the holy spirit he said it was a promise of the father .
The holy spirit is a sign from God as to the power and life of Christ in you ,  Jesus said the only sign this evil generation will receive is the sign of Jonah .  - I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you .   Luk 24:46 ASV - and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;
Luk 24:47 ASV - and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Luk 24:48 ASV - Ye are witnesses of these things.
Luk 24:49 ASV - And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.
Act 1:8 ASV - But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
The reason most Christians do not have the signs following their testimony is that the gospel is that you be filled with the power of God and than the signs will follow those that believe . It has never been about the flesh man has no power no righteousness of his own we need the power of Christ to win souls . The hungry soul wants evidence as to this life ever lasting , you cannot give away something that does not belong to you . If Christ is living in you and you walk in his word than he will be manifested in your life people must see JESUS IN YOU !.    Jhn 14:20 ASV - In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Jhn 14:21 ASV - He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.   Manifest Greek: emphanizo  Appear, Appearing:  metaphorically, of "the manifestation of Christ" by the Holy Spirit in the spiritual experience of believers who abide in His love, Jhn 14:21. It has another, secondary meaning, "to make known, signify, inform." This is confined to the Acts, where it is used five times, Act 23:15, 22; 24:1; 25:2, 15. There is perhaps a combination of the two meanings in Hbr 11:14, i.e., to declare by oral testimony and to "manifest" by the witness of the life.    Jhn 1:4 ASV - In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Jhn 1:5 ASV - And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.   
If we are going to be a soul winner we must ask Jesus to give us that power from on high .                                        
Act 2:4 ASV - And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Act 2:38 ASV - And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Act 2:39 ASV - For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
Act 2:40 ASV - And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
Rev 3:21 ASV - He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.
"the Jews ask for signs," RV, indicates that the Apostles were met with the same demand from Jews as Christ had been: "signs were vouchsafed in plenty, signs of God's power and love, but these were not the signs which they sought... They wanted signs of an outward Messianic Kingdom, of temporal triumph, of material greatness for the chosen people.... With such cravings the Gospel of a 'crucified Messiah' was to them a stumblingblock indeed"
Jhn 6:63 ASV - It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

The Only Sign / Death ,Burial and Resurrection

                                
Mat 12:38 ASV - Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.  Looking for a sign to accuse him the more of being apostate to their religion .   Jesus knew their motive , but for the sake of the innocent , hungry people he spoke a truth that still lives in his word today to all mankind.

Mat 12:39 ASV - But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:                              Generation   Greek: genea  Age:       a period ordinarily occupied by each successive generation, say, of thirty or forty years,   metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character  Born of the loins of Adam .   From the beginning of time to the end of all things there is only one remedy for an evil generation ! Jesus Christ and him crucified .  With out the shedding of blood their is no remission of sin's . From the Old testament to the New testament it was about a sacrifice for the sins of mankind . The Law brought man to a conciseness of sin , what God declared to be sin !   But we must first look at why did God destroy the earth with water .    Gen 6:13 ASV - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.   The scripture says that Noah and his sons work on the ark some where around seventy five years .  Noah preached to the people of the coming flood and judgement of God .   Noah and his family eight souls were saved , only eight of all the people in that day were saved . I must add only eight righteous people were saved . 

 I am remembering Abraham and the destruction of Sodom and the cities around Sodom .  Abraham went from fifty to ten righteous souls for God to relent of this judgement on Sodom . Abraham was remembering his nephew Lot living in Sodom and was pleading with God for his soul.  
Gen 19:29 ASV - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.  Because of Abraham God sent the angels to rescue Lot and his family .  It was because of Abraham's righteousness that God spared Lot and his family . Not even ten righteous souls were in the five cities of the plains ,  and only three souls were save out of Sodom because of a righteous mans prayer .  Jas 5:16 ASV - Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.


2Pe 2:5 ASV - and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;   1Pe 3:20 ASV - that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:   Of all humanity upon the earth in that ancient world at that time , and only eight souls were saved .  The number eight in numeric's is New beginnings , Resurrection , Jesus.
1Pe 3:21 ASV - which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Mat 12:40 ASV - for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.                                                 Jonah or Jonas = "dove"     From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.  Jonah a prophet of God was a man of flesh as we are he was commanded to go and prophesy to Nineveh a great city in his day with many people .    So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey.  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jon 4:11 ASV - and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?  One hundred and twenty thousand small children alone , Nineveh was a very large city with a vast number of people .   It took Jonah three day's to walk through the city to warn the people of the coming judgement to repent and seek God .     People in that day could not build this large city and it being  prosperous as it was. A man can walk 40 miles in a day if he has to.  Nineveh was over a hundred miles in length . God was telling Jonah the children need grace the people need judgement .   Jonah was a man chosen by God to be his prophet ,  and Jesus says in our time many are called but few are chosen ,  The gospel of God has nothing to do with religion of man , For the very reason people believe that God does not see their sin is foolish . 
God was trying the heart of Jonah to obey , all your God wants from you is to obey his word to love him .  People say what am I here for what does God expect from me ,    it is  what God has wanted from the very beginning of his word to be obedient to his commands.   Mat 22:37 KJV - Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
He is a just God slow to anger full of mercy and grace it says that he first loved you before you ever knew him .  Do we believe Gods word to be true is it as the scripture says   Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.      Jesus said he did not come to judge men he came to save men  .                                                                                                                                                                                  Jhn 12:47 ASV - And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 ASV - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.  Amos 7  And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more;  This word that will judge all man kind is that plumb line of God.

Jhn 12:49 ASV - For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Jhn 12:50 ASV - And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.
Psa 107:20 ASV - He sendeth his word, and healeth them, And delivereth them from their destructions.       Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 ASV - To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
                                                                                                                               
  Jhn 4:23 ASV - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.     
Jhn 4:24 ASV - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Jhn 14:17 ASV - even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.

Jon 3:6 ASV - And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jon 3:7 ASV - And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Jon 3:10 ASV - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.    Jonah preached what God gave him to preach ,  a word from God .    Jonah was a sign to us all he experienced the death ,burial and the resurrection  .   Jesus is telling us that unless we become as he was we will not enter into the resurrected life .         Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.   Into all the world is from the beginning of this great truth to the end of all things .  There is more than one baptizem in this word of obedience ,  John preached the baptism of repentance and the baptism of the Holy Spirit  .        Mat 3:11 ASV - I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:   God knows the heart of a man he will not endure anything short of a broken contrite heart . 
 Mar 1:4 ASV - John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.        It is very clear that repentance is mandatory for salvation , and that this repentance is of a Godly sort .   For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.                                     Do you hear a message of repentance in your time of gathering .  
 The word says that a man must first believe that God is before he can come unto him .  Heb 11:6 ASV - And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.  A man must be pricked in his heart just as the people that was broken in their heart for their sins when they ask Peter what must we do to be saved .  Acts 2
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.   Johns baptism was unto repentance .      He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved  this word repent is not a common word preached today . The seeker friendly church believes the truth will drive people away ,  Jesus said  in  Jhn 12:47 ASV - And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 ASV - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.   
 In the very end of all things Rev tells us And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.   The book of life will be opened on that day and will it read your name .  Jesus said if you do not repent unto Johns baptism and than receive the fullness of his spirit endued with power from on high be clothed with the holy spirit you will be condemned .      He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.   Repent and be baptized for the remission of your sins,  and you shall receive the GIFT of the holy spirit.   Matt 26   for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.  Mark 1 John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.    Luke 1   To give knowledge of salvation unto his people In the remission of their sins,  Luke 3 And he came into all the region round about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;  Luk 24 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Acts 2 And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.   Act 26:18 ASV - to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.  Be not deceived my friend the gospel of God will bring  resurrection life .  Let no man take thy crown
Rev 3:10 ASV - Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.   
Rev 3:11 ASV - I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.