Go, Sell the Oil

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"Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest." 2 Kings 4:77Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest. (2 Kings 4:7).
After the rapture of the Church there will be the judgment seat of Christ. Then our works will be evaluated for reward. Also, there will be some loss if there was unfaithfulness in our path down here.
"Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." 1 Cor. 3:13-1513Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. (1 Corinthians 3:13‑15).
In Scripture "selling" does not necessarily mean a monetary transaction. Sometimes it means an evaluation to determine what a certain thing is worth. The debt which the woman was so concerned about was paid for by the oil.
Consider for a moment our debt and the payment made for it. What fullness of blessing that we, once beggars from the dunghill (1 Sam. 2:88He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Samuel 2:8)), are now to inherit the throne of glory We, the debtors, shall be associated forever with Christ who paid the debt and shall be in the Father's house, accepted in the Beloved.
We have and are to enjoy the blessings of "the mystery of godliness": adoption, redemption, sealing of the Holy Spirit, our acceptance in the Beloved, and our receiving an inheritance in Christ.
Do we value the truths restored and passed on to us? To truly know them we must walk in them as they are opened to us. They are fully learned only where the Spirit of God is free to use the vessels He has filled and fitted to teach them and where the assembled believers act as the pillar and support of the truth. In spite of the confusion of the great house of Christendom, the Spirit of God still gathers the Lord's own together in His name.
"For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt. 18:2020For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20).
Each person, in the presence of God and through the Word of God, will have to discover the place. Do we, by the Spirit, gather to that precious name alone, separate from man's traditions and rules of expediency?
How precious to know something of the testimony of the Spirit of God in the place where He gathers to the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ for worship. There He opens to our hearts, by the Spirit, the precious truths of God.
To slight the clear instruction of Scripture, the Word of God, will result in loss, eternal loss for some, and will expose the soul to the seductions of the enemy as little by little he lures away those who had once taken their places for the truth. He may scatter them afar until they are lost in the great delusion. Let us be warned, and let us be drawn by the cords of a Man-the cords of love.