PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 167: LIFE TO THE FULL, Part 2
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 167 – LIFE TO THE FULL, Part 2
God is the God of the FULL HOUSE! God wants our homes filled, and the land filled. Isaiah 45:18 says, “God that formed the earth, and made it … He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited.” What else does God want us to be filled with? Check it out.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home To Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello ladies. We are doing a series called “LIFE TO THE FULL.” We began last week finding the very first Scripture about this word. We found it started right in Genesis, chapter one, where God said, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.”
We are finding that He didn’t only say it once, but this word occurs many, many times on this subject. So, let’s continue, shall we?
Now, we’re coming up to Psalm 127. I think you all know that psalm. Psalm 127 and Psalm 128 are family psalms. I believe that we should read these Psalms every now and then, or even more than that! Frequently, because they give us God’s heart about how He feels about family.
It says in verse . . . Wow, you wouldn’t believe it! It’s even torn out of my Bible, which is coming to grief here (that means it’s falling apart). But I think it’s Psalm 127:3: “Children are the heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver FULL of them.” We get that word again! “Full of them. They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”
It’s interesting that it says here in this Scripture, the parents who have “their quiver full of them” are happy. Actually, this word “happy” here should be translated “happy happy.” It’s a double word. Not just “happy,” but “happy happy.”
The parents who have their quiver full will not be ashamed. The parents who have their quiver full will have children who know how to speak in the gates. The gates are the places where everything happens in the city, the civic center of the town, the place of administration of justice.
Of course, we have our gates of the nation up there in Washington, DC. God wants us to be training and preparing children who can speak in the gates. Yes, children who not only are strong in their convictions, but they can speak out their convictions. They can speak out the truth. They know the truth and they know how to contend for the truth.
This is what this is talking about, this man, this mighty warrior, he has children who are growing up to speak truth, speak justice, and speak it in the gates of the cities where they live. Even moving out beyond there. That is such a wonderful Scripture.
I love Zechariah 9:13, too. God is talking here about Judah and Ephraim, and how He wants to use them for warfare. He wants for them to fight against the enemy. He says: “When I have bent Judah for me, FILLED the bow with Ephraim,” (filled the bow. He wanted His bow filled with His people, ready to shoot out) “And raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.”
Here God is speaking about His people. He looks upon them as arrows in the bow, ready to shoot out at the enemy. In Psalm 127, it’s telling us how we’re to raise these kinds of arrows who are ready to speak out and contend against the enemy. This verse talks about not only arrows in the bow but also the sword of a mighty man. God wants us as His people, to be His weapons of war.
Jesus Himself came . . . It says in 1 John 3:8 that Jesus came to destroy the works of the enemy. Now, He dwells in us, and He still wants to destroy the works of the enemy. Much of our lives on this earth are learning how to overcome evil, how to overcome the enemy. In fact, the crown and the rewards are going to be for those who have overcome—overcome the evil, overcome the enemy of our souls, overcome the devil.
Of course, one of the biggest ways we overcome is through the Word of God. That’s how Jesus overcame the enemy. Remember when the devil came to tempt Jesus, and Jesus answered him with Scripture: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).
And every time the enemy came to Him, He would bring the Scripture at him and speak it out. So, we overcome the enemy by the truth of the Word of God. That’s why we’ve got to know it, we’ve got to be filled with it. Also, by prayer. Of course, that’s another powerful weapon against the enemy.
So, let’s be His weapons of war. Let’s raise our children to be weapons of war. Yes, we have to make war. Goodness me, help! That doesn’t have anything to do with Jesus, does it?
But I was just reading the other day in Revelation because I’ve been reading through Revelation. Revelation 17:14: “And these” (yes, how does it go? I’m just quoting it from memory. “And these overcame . . .” Let me get to it. I did memorize it, but I’ll just get it started.
Revelation 17:14: “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” Jesus had to make war.
At this time, He is still having much grace as He waits, and waits, and waits for more to come into His kingdom. But there is coming a day when He will rise up and He will be the One Who goes forth on His white horse, to make war, and to overcome (Revelation 6:2 and 19:11).
So, war is part of our Christian life. If we put it aside, well, we’re not really in the Christian life, because it is a war. We have to realize that don’t we? Yes. Anyway, back to Psalm 127. This is the picture of a family that is blessed, a family who embrace children, whose quiver is full of children.
Now society, and even the society in the Christian church, sadly, think differently. Isn’t that interesting? It is interesting how we can think differently to the Word of God. I think, if we’re thinking differently to the Word of God, that means we’re not reading it very much, because it’s not getting into our thinking. The Word of God should be in our thinking. We should think like what the Word of God says.
So, the Word of God says that, blessed, “happy happy” is the man who has his quiver full, full, of them. That’s God’s thought patterns. So, we have to get with Him, don’t we? Sadly, that’s not really how we think today. I’ve been thinking about this, and I’m wondering why it is that there are so many that, they confess the Jesus is their Savior. They belong in the Christian community, and yet, they are really giving in, in this hour, to these tyrannical mandates that are coming upon us. They’re yielding to them as though they are normal. Why do they have this thinking?
I think it goes back. A lot of Christians are already deceived. They are deceived about the whole understanding of children. They don’t believe in embracing children. They don’t even believe (we were talking about last week God’s very first command to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth). They haven’t got that vision in their thinking. That have more the thinking of our humanistic society, which is two-child family, perhaps maybe three.
So, as we have given into that deception, we become more vulnerable to other deceptions. I believe that every time we give into a deception of humanism, and all the other isms that are around today (because they are so part of society), we can so easily give into them. But as we do, we become vulnerable to the next deception.
So, last year, as this plandemic came upon the world, there were so many churches who stopped meeting! I beg your pardon? They stopped meeting? And people were just as happy to have a Zoom meeting. But that, that’s good, but it’s not the real thing. It’s not biblical. * (See explanation at end).
But people gave into that. You see, if you’ve already given into one deception, you’ll give into another. And then they gave in to masks. Now they’re giving in to these vaccinations, which do carry, they have part of their thing having come from aborted babies. How can any Christian stand with that?
Many have not listened to all the truths. They’ve only heard the fake media and everybody around them. But there is so much scientific material, and so many warnings out there about these vaccinations which are at this stage, just experimental.
We are very aware of the spike protein, which has the possibility of very negatively affecting people's bodies. There have been, according to the CDC, already 12,000 who have died. But that is a very minimum number of what people really believe. There are many who say it’s up to 45,000 who have died through these vaccines already and so many who have had adverse things happen to their body. Apart from this fact, that there will be so much infertility come through this spike protein.
Of course, this is the underlying plan as Bill Gates has stated clearly. He is a eugenicist, and that these vaccinations would be for depopulation. How is it that people do not even believe what has been spoken out? I mean, this is knowledge that I have heard him say with my own ears.
Of course, now, it’s being made known that their trade secret, yes, it’s a trade secret, it’s not on the list of what is in the vaccine, but it’s now been exposed, and that is the graphene oxide, which is a poison. That is also, and apart from many other things.
So, how is it that even God’s people are giving in, caving into this? It’s very interesting. We have got to be those who are filled with God’s Word. Amen? We’ve got to think like God thinks. Anyway, let’s carry on with these Scriptures.
The next one I have, oh yes, Zechariah 8:4-5. I love this Scripture. This is a Scripture that’s yet to be fulfilled. It’s in the future, maybe the millennium. But it says here: “Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.”
Isn’t that a beautiful picture? The streets full of boys and girls. There it is again, that word, “full,” or “filling.” That’s a picture that God wants to see. It’s in the future, but it’s a beautiful picture.
I can remember back to my childhood in little New Zealand, in a little town. Actually, it was very much like that. After school, all the children would come home and throw their bags indoors, and out they would come to play in the streets with one another. We would play out on our front lawns, out on our streets, and it was so safe. I mean, today, you really, in so many areas, you cannot do that. You would fear for your children’s safety. You would be scared. Who could come and just take one of them away? But back then, that was a very safe thing.
In fact, I can remember when my oldest son was a little baby, and I would put him to sleep in his pram. We had those big prams back in those days. I would wheel it out to the front lawn. The front lawn? Can you believe it? There was a beautiful tree there. I would put him under the tree.
Of course, I would be observing him while he was sleeping. I loved him sleeping out in the fresh air. His little cheeks would get so rosy, and he would wake up and be looking at the little branches fluttering in the breeze. It was so beautiful. And yet so safe! Goodness, you couldn’t do that today. But anyway, that’s what the Scripture said.
And then, here’s the last one about this particular subject of filling the land with God’s people. I started with this Scripture, Luke 14:23. It’s a story, a parable that Jesus told, of this man who was putting on a feast. He was wanting to invite all these guests, but they all had excuses about why they couldn’t come.
So, then he said: “Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." God is the God of the full house. He wants His house to be filled. I often think, if we want God’s house to be filled, we’ll be wanting to fill our houses along the way, because this is the heart of God, a full house. Is your house a full house? Or is your house empty?
There are many houses today that have more TVs than they have children. But God wants us to have a full house. Maybe the Lord hasn’t given us so many children. But we can fill our houses with people. We can fill our houses, showing hospitality, inviting people in, inviting them around our table. There’s nothing like filling your house with people. It is such a blessing.
All right. Now, I’m going to move on. I found, actually, 20 different areas where God wants us to be filled. Different things that He wants us to be filled with.
No. 1: GOD WANTS OUR HOMES TO BE FILLED WITH GLORY
God wants us, well, He wants to fill our homes with His glory. Now, that’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? God is the God of Glory. He is the King of Glory. If He is the King of Glory, and we invite Him to come into our homes, then glory should fill our homes.
God had some houses on earth. He had the tabernacle. You will remember how God told Moses to build the tabernacle. It was to be built according to the pattern of the heavenly tabernacle. When they had finished building it, getting it all done, then the Bible tells us in Exodus 40:34, 35: “Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.”
Then, later on, they built a temple, a more established house for God to dwell. Then in 2 Chronicles 5:13, 14, let’s read it here: “And it came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make the sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good; for his mercy endureth forever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord. So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.”
He filled the tabernacle. He filled the temple with His glory. And then we read about Ezekiel’s temple. Now Ezekiel’s temple has not yet been built. It’s something for the future. I don’t know when it is going to happen, or how it is going to happen, but there’s loads of chapters that talk about Ezekiel’s temple.
And when Ezekiel had visions about it, he saw God filling this temple with His glory too. There’s a number of Scriptures. I’ll just give you one, Ezekiel 43:5: “The spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.”
So, God wants now, to come and fill our homes. We don’t have a tabernacle, we don’t have a temple, but we have our homes. And God wants to fill, to fill. This is the word that we’re talking about, ladies. It’s not half-filled. He doesn’t mean half-filled, or a little bit filled. He means filled. Yes.
He wants us to fill every room in our homes. I love Proverbs 24:3, 4: “Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”
Even our chambers. Chambers are more the inner rooms of the home—the bedrooms, the private rooms. Even they are to be filled. Yes, God wants every room filled. Not just one room. Every room filled with His glory.
Here it talks about filling them with “precious and pleasant riches.” Wow, that’s a big challenge, isn’t it? You know, to really . . . I know, I fall short myself. It takes time, and thought, and prayer, and creativity to think about filling every room with the presence of God. Not that we can do it, but allowing and inviting His presence into our homes, and into every room of our homes.
When we sit together at the table, we invite the presence of the Lord to come to our table, because God loves to come to tables. He loves tables. Oh, even in Psalm 128, when God is speaking about the home, the picture that He gives of the home is a family sitting around the table.
Psalm 128:3: “Thy wife shall be like a fruitful vine within thine home: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
God just loves the family sitting around the table. He loves to come and bring His presence with Him. Invite Him to your table. Invite Him into your home. Even into your bedroom. Invite Him to your bedroom, that you can fill your chambers with all beautiful and precious and pleasant riches in the blessings of the Lord. Such a beautiful thing.
No. 2. GOD WANTS UF TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
Ephesians 5:18 says, “Be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Well, it’s so easy to leak out, isn’t it? We can start the day with God. We can get into His Word. We ask Him to fill us with His precious Holy Spirit. And then we face things during the day. Maybe we get mad with the children. Maybe we get angry. Maybe we get upset. Oh, goodness me, we’re not feeling very filled with the Holy Spirit.
But being filled with the Holy Spirit is a continuous thing. It’s written in the continuous present tense. It’s a “be ye being filled with the Holy Spirit.” It’s really an abiding, abiding in Him, and He is abiding in us. So, it’s a continually being filled. You can come again, and again, and again. “Oh, precious Lord Jesus, fill me with Your Spirit.”
God has an inexhaustible well that never ever runs dry. We run dry so quickly, but we can constantly come into His inexhaustible well that never runs dry and receive of His fullness, for in Him dwells all the fullness of God. Wow! We dwell in Him, and He dwells in us. So, we are to dwell in fullness! Isn’t that amazing? I mean, it’s truth, but sometimes it’s far beyond our experience. But this is what God intends for us, to be filled with all the fullness of God as we continually keep coming to Him.
In Acts 2:2, this is when they were waiting for the initial filling of the Holy Spirit, back in the early church. “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house.” Not just a little bit of the house, not just some parts. “It filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
No. 3. GOD WANTS US TO BE FILLED WITH JOY
Romans 15:13: “Now the God of hope fill you” (we get it so many times, ladies, this word “fill.” “Fill.” Are you getting it? We’re not to be half-filled, a little bit filled, or a tiny bit filled. But filled to the top and overflowing) “Now the God of hope fill you with ALL joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”
There’s a few more Scriptures about joy. John 15:11: “These things have I spoken unto you” (Jesus said) “that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”
You see, Jesus wants us to be full of joy. And do you notice that it’s talking about His joy, that “My joy will remain in you.” Yes, it’s His joy, which becomes our joy. So, ladies, sometimes you’re facing things in your life. I know that they really don’t. . . well, how can you have joy about them?
But you see, our joy is not dependent on our circumstances, what we’re going through, or whatever we’re facing. Our joy is Christ in me, the hope of glory. It’s His joy. When He comes to dwell in me, when He comes to dwell in you, He comes with His joy. So, we embrace His joy, and we can be joyful, because of His joy, not because of our circumstances.
In John 16:24, Jesus said: “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My Name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”
In Acts 2:28, it was speaking back of David. David said: “Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of joy with Thy countenance.”
Now, in this Scripture, the word “make” is the same word for being filled. The word “filled” in the New Testament. Last week I told you about the word “filled” in the Old Testament. It’s the word male. In the New Testament, it is the Greek word. It’s the word pleroo. Here in this Scripture, the word “make” is pleroo, and also the word “full” is pleroo. So, it comes two times.
In Acts 13:51, Paul and Barnabas had been out preaching the Gospel, but persecution rose up against them, “and they expelled them out of their coasts.” But what happens? It says: “They shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost,” even in the midst of persecution.
In 1 John 1: 3-4, it says: “Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son, Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.”
One more Scripture as we end, 2 John 1:12. John the disciple was writing to the elder lady, and he says to her: “I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.”
So, God wants us to be full of joy, and He wants our joy to be full. Can you say amen? Can you get with this? Not half-joyful, but fully joyful.
And I love this Scripture. Why does he say our joy will be full? “Because I want to come to you and talk to you face to face. Did you know that true fellowship is face to face? In the Greek, it really means “mouth to mouth.” You are speaking with one another, facing one another.
This is important. This is the fellowship that God talks about in the Word of God. And He commands us to have fellowship with one another, to have face-to-face fellowship with one another. That’s what happened with this plandemic last year, and churches were closed, and they had their Zoom meetings.
Yes, you could still hear the Word, but you were not having fellowship. You were not meeting together with the saints, and assembling together with them, which the Word of God commands us to, so we can have that face-to-face fellowship. It is a beautiful thing. It brings such joy.
There’s nothing like true fellowship in the Lord. And every believer needs it. We cannot really live this Christian life on our own. We have to do it together. It is a togethering. And that’s how God intends it to be. Of course, it brings our joy to the full too.
Anyway, time is gone, and I’ve got some more points for you next week.
“Dear Father, we love You, and we want to thank You, that You, Lord Jesus, are filled with all the fullness of God. And You dwell in us. Oh, Lord God, You want to dwell in us, in all Your fullness. Help us to open our hearts and our lives unto Your fullness.
Lord God, save us from living this half-measure kind of life. Bring us into living life to the full. Lord God, I pray that You will save us from having our homes just half-filled, or even just a little bit filled with Your presence, and with Your glory, and with Your Spirit. Lord, we want to open up our homes, and every room of our homes to the fullness of Your Spirit, to the fullness of Your presence.
Lord God, we pray, that as we see things that grieve the Holy Spirit, things that are unholy, oh, God, things that are against what Your Word says. Give us grace, and courage, and strength to come against them, Lord God. That we will create and build holy homes for Your presence, that You can fill every room. Fill our dining rooms, our lounges, our bedrooms, every room with Your presence. We ask in the Name of Jesus. Amen.”
* To clarify. Of course, zoom meetings can be a great encouragement, and can add to church life. Here I am speaking on a podcast to you. But they shouldn’t take the place of God’s mandate to gather together as it says in Hebrews 10:25 that we must “not forsake the gathering of ourselves together.” Church is far more than a meeting. It is a gathering to fellowship with one another, pray for one another, love one another, break bread with one another, show hospitality to one another, care for one another, etc. Our faith is not only a personal faith, but a together faith, a mutual faith, a “you and me” faith (Romans 1:12).
Blessings from Nancy Campbell * www.abovwerubies.org
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