Thursday, November 7, 2013
Remission can mean forgiveness or the reduction of the intensity of something: to reduce in intensity, or reduce the intensity of something. Reduction or disappearance, lessening of something. But it can also mean restore something: to restore something to a previous condition or position.
Now if we consider. That remission is ἄφεσις in the Greek and means: Freedom. Release from bondage or imprisonment. To cause to stand away.
What we get is a reduction or disappearence in the intensity of something that causes restoration. For Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Jesus Christ, Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
John 3:3; 2 Cor 5:17-18; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 8:3-4
The Ministry of Reconciliation.
Reconciliation is καταλλαγή in the Greek this word means: an exchange, an adjustment, reconciliation. Hence restoration to the divine favor.
Καταλλαγή is from καταλλάσσω. This word means to change mutually, to reconcile.
This word is a compound word.
One of the words is κατά. Which means down in place or time. And the other is ἀλλάσσω, to change, transform, make different.
God has downed the difference. He was manifested to take away our sin. He has set our differences, who we our in his own body, condemning us in His flesh. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Condemned in His flesh. That we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness. For we are dead nevertheless we live yet not us but Christ liveth in us and the life we now live, we live by the faith of the Son of God. Who loved us and gave Himself for us. We are called according to his purpose......Us, for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 6:6,7; Gal 2:20; Romans 8:28,29
The Son has made us free. So free we are indeed!!!!
The Gospel according to God
Gen 1:26 a and 27 says, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Then came the fall. We had sinned and the wages of sin is death. And that death was and is spiritual and that spiritual death caused and causes the physical death.
But God had a plan. He said, " But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:. A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of your heart. For we are his workmanship, we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. . For we are the Temple of the most High God. One body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all. Greater is he that is in us or you than He that is in the world. And that includes you. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace..... His favor and loving kindness we, you are saved; ) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Did you know that you are in the presence of God in Heaven.
A new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. But we cry, but God, He says No. But we cry, But God and He says no. As many as received me , to them give I power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. A son through the son: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God. ...... These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; Us. We have been conformed to the image of his Son, not conforming, conformed. That he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Us. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we you be made the righteousness of God in him.
He was manifested to take away our sins So He came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: So lets let it be condemned. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. We have been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. We have been made priest over these habitations, His temple our bodies and kings over our Lords creation. For He has made us kings and priests unto God and our Father. To Him be Glory and dominion, vigor great physical or mental strength and energy forever and ever Amen. For it is he that works in us to will and do His good pleasure. It isall about reestablishing us back to what we were to be from the beginning. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; For we are also his offspring. Children of the most High God. But we have been away and have forgotten who we are in Him or maybe we never knew our Father, though he be not far from every one of us. As God said through Paul, "For in him we live, and move, and have our being; , For we are also his offspring. We don't have to look far do we. We just have to seek and we will find Him. Knock and He will open Himself up to us. For it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon us you. He has come. He is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do all that He asks us to do. That is, the word of faith, which we preach. Beloved now we are the sons of God. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Blameless is am'-emp-tos in the Greek and means irreproachable. Beyond criticism: not incurring any reproach or criticism. Even more so Eph 1:4 says it like this, he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we be holy and without blame before him in love: Without Blame is am'-o-mos in the Greek and it means unblemished. Without spot without sin. Having predestinated us children, His children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted. You have been made accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience purge your inner man from dead works, Sin to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament. For what cause? As a vessel in the sanctuary you have been cleansed santified set apart for Holy use. He had Purged your inner man from Sin so that His Spirit can rest upon you to serve the living God?
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Or better stated no more sin. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. But ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. The son has made us, you free to become servants, slaves of righteousness. How is that I speak of bondage again. The commandments, God’s Love have been placed and written in our Hearts and in our minds. It is who we are now in Christ. Can you act contrary to who you are? No. So Repeat after me as we speak unto God and make our proclamation to the world. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Amen
Deut.32:6 Is not He thy Father that hath bought thee? hath He not made thee, and established thee?
Have Faith for We are His Family
Gen 1:27,26; 3:15;Jer31:33; Ezek36:26;2 Cor3:13 ; Eph2:10, 4:24, 4-6; 2:5,6; Joh1:12; 2Cor5:17; Rev 3:14; Rom 8:21; 1Pet 2:24;Rom8:3,4; 2Cor 5:17-21; Acts 17:28,27: Hosea 10:12; Deut 30:10-14; Rom 10:7,8; Rom 8:14; Phil 2:15; Hosea 1:10; Heb 9:13-15
earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Then came the fall. We had sinned and the wages of sin is death. And that death was and is spiritual and that spiritual death caused and causes the physical death.
But God had a plan. He said, " But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:. A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of your heart. For we are his workmanship, we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. . For we are the Temple of the most High God. One body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all. Greater is he that is in us or you than He that is in the world. And that includes you. Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace..... His favor and loving kindness we, you are saved; ) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Did you know that you are in the presence of God in Heaven.
A new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. But we cry, but God, He says No. But we cry, But God and He says no. As many as received me , to them give I power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. A son through the son: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God. ...... These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; Us. We have been conformed to the image of his Son, not conforming, conformed. That he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Us. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we you be made the righteousness of God in him.
He was manifested to take away our sins So He came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: So lets let it be condemned. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. We have been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. We have been made priest over these habitations, His temple our bodies and kings over our Lords creation. For He has made us kings and priests unto God and our Father. To Him be Glory and dominion, vigor great physical or mental strength and energy forever and ever Amen. For it is he that works in us to will and do His good pleasure. It isall about reestablishing us back to what we were to be from the beginning. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; For we are also his offspring. Children of the most High God. But we have been away and have forgotten who we are in Him or maybe we never knew our Father, though he be not far from every one of us. As God said through Paul, "For in him we live, and move, and have our being; , For we are also his offspring. We don't have to look far do we. We just have to seek and we will find Him. Knock and He will open Himself up to us. For it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon us you. He has come. He is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do all that He asks us to do. That is, the word of faith, which we preach. Beloved now we are the sons of God. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Blameless is am'-emp-tos in the Greek and means irreproachable. Beyond criticism: not incurring any reproach or criticism. Even more so Eph 1:4 says it like this, he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we be holy and without blame before him in love: Without Blame is am'-o-mos in the Greek and it means unblemished. Without spot without sin. Having predestinated us children, His children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted. You have been made accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience purge your inner man from dead works, Sin to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament. For what cause? As a vessel in the sanctuary you have been cleansed santified set apart for Holy use. He had Purged your inner man from Sin so that His Spirit can rest upon you to serve the living God?
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Or better stated no more sin. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. But ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. The son has made us, you free to become servants, slaves of righteousness. How is that I speak of bondage again. The commandments, God’s Love have been placed and written in our Hearts and in our minds. It is who we are now in Christ. Can you act contrary to who you are? No. So Repeat after me as we speak unto God and make our proclamation to the world. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Amen
Deut.32:6 Is not He thy Father that hath bought thee? hath He not made thee, and established thee?
Have Faith for We are His Family
Gen 1:27,26; 3:15;Jer31:33; Ezek36:26;2 Cor3:13 ; Eph2:10, 4:24, 4-6; 2:5,6; Joh1:12; 2Cor5:17; Rev 3:14; Rom 8:21; 1Pet 2:24;Rom8:3,4; 2Cor 5:17-21; Acts 17:28,27: Hosea 10:12; Deut 30:10-14; Rom 10:7,8; Rom 8:14; Phil 2:15; Hosea 1:10; Heb 9:13-15
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
We are God's building. His Temple. This verse speaks of each and every believer individually.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
Our foundation is laid, Jesus Christ. This is confirmed in verse 11 "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."
What makes up the rest of the believer is based upon the doctrine that a " master builder" like Paul or another used in building them. So if we have a ministry, (are a builder by the Grace of God like paul) which duty is the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: We need take heed how we buildeth thereupon.
In other words we need to be sure what we are teaching or showing is truth and of God. If we build a house out of shady material it will not hold up will it. Same applies to the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. False doctrine will only destroy those who are built with it.
Let's classify the doctrinal building material.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
The Foundation is Jesus Christ. The doctrinal building material that a professing Christian is made of is classified above as either gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble
13 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.
Upon the Judgment Day everyman's work, "converts" those under their ministry shall be manifested. A professing Christian is what they believe. If they are built with Gold or silver they will be refined. If they are built with wood, hay, or stubble they will be burned up, because that is what happens to it when fire is introduced to it. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Some might take the latter part of verse fifth-teen to say that even though the minister was a heretic in spreading false doctrine and because of their ministry people were lead astray and were burned up at Judgement that they themselves are saved. That is not what the verse is saying at all. Otherwise the admonition to take heed would be for naught. Usually what ends up happening when building is various tradesmen come to do the various aspects of building, Brick layers, Carpenters, Roofers...ect; ect. So is it with the making of a Christian. "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; So just as if a tradesman might not be very apt at his trade and use faulty material or poor craftmanship so is it with ministers with false doctrine or poor example as to how a Christian is to act.
If we find that one of these is our ministry than we need to take heed as verse 10 admonishes. Because if we use inadequate material or lead by poor example and cause a child of God to be defiled by it. Or we ourselves are defiled by the inadaquate material. We will be destoyed also.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Faith, the unmoving solid foundation. As Jesus said, Faith can move mountains, though faith we do greater things than He. Not that wishy washy faith we are so use to seeing, but the Faith of Christ, that solid foundation. For the wise man, will build his house upon the Rock: and that Rock is Christ. Then when the raining of worldliness descend, and the flooding of their ways come, and the winds of lasciviousness and the deceptive fleeting pleasure of sin blow, and beat upon the House; and it will not Fall: for it is founded and built upon the Rock and that Rock is Yeshua, Jesus, the Christ.
Matt 7:24,25; Cor 10:4
Saturday, June 18, 2011
God said through Paul just after his testimony. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
This freedom Jesus talked about in John 8 He said,"Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. (In bondage too.)
And the servant (sinner) abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.: His flesh, condenming it to death on the cross in His flesh. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity (sin) captive, and gave gifts unto men. For ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. For it was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged of sin they should have had no more conscience of sins. The inner man should of been changed.
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. A figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience (the inner Man);
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.The reforming of the inner man.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption (freedom from the bondage of sin)for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge (cleanse) your conscience (the inner man)from dead works (acts that lead to death. Sin, For the wages of sin is death) to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, For what cause?
To cleanse the inner man so we can serve the Living God. What is the new testament? It is the fulfilment of the New covenant. For God hath said, for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. For it is I which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. This is and was only Possible through the cleansing blood of Jesus. We had to be cleansed and purged of the old Man. For God hath said,"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.".
If we sin it is because we want to or have not received the repentance which is from God. Not because we can't live without sinning. But we are right With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in this world. For it is God that worketh in us both to will and do His good pleasure. As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them; for we are the temple of the living God. Therefore there hath no temptation taken us but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.
And that way is through His Spirit. The power that we have available to us as the Body of Christ. God's Holy Temple.
Have Faith. Ask and we will receive. Knock and it will be open to us.
Ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Continue to Pray. Let us not doubt in our hearts, but believe that those things which we saith shall come to pass; and we shall have whatsoever we saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever we desire, when we pray, believe that we receive them, and we shall have them.
Jesus said unto us, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believeth.
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
So how does one combat unbelief? As with any temptation. Prayer and With a hardy thus saith the Lord!!
Jesus are example, when tempted in the wilderness meet each temptation with a," Get behind me Satan, It is written".
So when we are tempted and as we tarry here waiting on the Lord we can meet each avenue in life and each temptation with the same mind set. Through God’s Holy Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
This freedom Jesus talked about in John 8 He said,"Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. (In bondage too.)
And the servant (sinner) abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.: His flesh, condenming it to death on the cross in His flesh. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity (sin) captive, and gave gifts unto men. For ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. For it was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged of sin they should have had no more conscience of sins. The inner man should of been changed.
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. A figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience (the inner Man);
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.The reforming of the inner man.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption (freedom from the bondage of sin)for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge (cleanse) your conscience (the inner man)from dead works (acts that lead to death. Sin, For the wages of sin is death) to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, For what cause?
To cleanse the inner man so we can serve the Living God. What is the new testament? It is the fulfilment of the New covenant. For God hath said, for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. For it is I which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. This is and was only Possible through the cleansing blood of Jesus. We had to be cleansed and purged of the old Man. For God hath said,"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.".
If we sin it is because we want to or have not received the repentance which is from God. Not because we can't live without sinning. But we are right With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in this world. For it is God that worketh in us both to will and do His good pleasure. As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them; for we are the temple of the living God. Therefore there hath no temptation taken us but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.
And that way is through His Spirit. The power that we have available to us as the Body of Christ. God's Holy Temple.
Have Faith. Ask and we will receive. Knock and it will be open to us.
Ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Continue to Pray. Let us not doubt in our hearts, but believe that those things which we saith shall come to pass; and we shall have whatsoever we saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever we desire, when we pray, believe that we receive them, and we shall have them.
Jesus said unto us, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believeth.
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
So how does one combat unbelief? As with any temptation. Prayer and With a hardy thus saith the Lord!!
Jesus are example, when tempted in the wilderness meet each temptation with a," Get behind me Satan, It is written".
So when we are tempted and as we tarry here waiting on the Lord we can meet each avenue in life and each temptation with the same mind set. Through God’s Holy Spirit.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Gospel Cause and affect
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. In other words, "Their lawlessnesses shall I under no circumstances still be reminded.'"
Why?
Because this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Or,"Now where there is a pardon of these, there is no longer an approach present concerned with sin".
You have been freed from your Sin. You have been Pardon from your Slavery to it. You are no longer in Bondage to it. God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Your sin Has been condemned put to death in the body of Christ at Gethsemane. It no longer exist. Therefore it is in remission and there is no more need for an offering for sin. If it is in Remission it is no longer active.
Praise God for this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
So it was asked,"Is there such a thing in the body?
Has perfection come?"
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, ....And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Know this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin. We are crucified with Christ: nevertheless we live; yet not us, but Christ liveth in us: and the life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. Be not afraid, only believe. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Let us not doubt in our heart, but believe that those things which we saith shall come to pass; and we shall have whatsoever we saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Rom 8:9,10; 6:6,7; John 8:36;Gal 2:20; Rom6:22, 8:3; 1Pet 2:24; Mark 9:29 5:36; 9:23; 11:23,24
Why are we not "walking as He walked"?
Faith.
Why?
Because this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Or,"Now where there is a pardon of these, there is no longer an approach present concerned with sin".
You have been freed from your Sin. You have been Pardon from your Slavery to it. You are no longer in Bondage to it. God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Your sin Has been condemned put to death in the body of Christ at Gethsemane. It no longer exist. Therefore it is in remission and there is no more need for an offering for sin. If it is in Remission it is no longer active.
Praise God for this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
So it was asked,"Is there such a thing in the body?
Has perfection come?"
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, ....And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Know this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin. We are crucified with Christ: nevertheless we live; yet not us, but Christ liveth in us: and the life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. Be not afraid, only believe. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Let us not doubt in our heart, but believe that those things which we saith shall come to pass; and we shall have whatsoever we saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Rom 8:9,10; 6:6,7; John 8:36;Gal 2:20; Rom6:22, 8:3; 1Pet 2:24; Mark 9:29 5:36; 9:23; 11:23,24
Why are we not "walking as He walked"?
Faith.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Hot or cold
So tell me. Are we Laodicea? The end time church. Is the Message in Revelation 3 a Message that our Lord God Of Heaven has for us. That he knows our works, that we art neither cold nor hot: He says I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Are we Laodicea? Are we blind? Has our conscience been seared with a hot iron? Has our understanding been darkened, Have we separated ourselves from the life of God through unbelief (disobedience), Hearts blinded: Being past feeling. Having given ourselves over unto licentiousness pursuing worldly desires aggressively and selfishly, unchecked by morality, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Or Are we quit simply ignoring the calling. Not sharing God's love. Spreading the good news the Gospel of God's Kingdom. In which we are suppose to be part of in the body of Christ our Fathers Holy Temple. Eyes being closed by our own choices. Blinded!!
Are we Laodicea? Are we poor? Are we not trusting in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; He says Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches. Righteousness is what our Father offers through the body of Christ. He says My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue more than choice silver. In other words what I have to offer, what I am more than willing to give to you. My fruit which is the fruit of the My Spirit. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, and temperance. As a matter of fact the fruit I have given you is for all things that pertain to life and godliness. All this He offers is better than gold. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Why? The revenue. The fruit of the fruit. The riches of God is life. A Life that is more abundant and full. A life that is everlasting in Christ Jesus. A life that attracts others. Oneness with God in Christ that the world may believe that God hast sent Him. This is the revenue that is more precious than the most purest finest silver. This why Christ came. Is this the life we are lacking? Are we poor?
Are we Laodicea? Are we naked? God say's Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. For when our King comes to see the guests, he saw there some which had not on a wedding garments:
And he saith unto them, Friends, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garments? And they were speechless. Feeling the shame.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind them hand and foot, and take them away, and cast them into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. The wedding Garments....The Body of Christ our Lord's Holy Temple. Are you naked?
But we are chosen. Way before the foundation of the world, We are chosen that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. When we heed the calling again even after falling away. If we arise, and come to our Father in repentance. A thinking that is different That emotional outcry making us cease from our own ways and return unto the Heavenly Father.
When we are yet a great way off, our Father see us, and has compassion, and runs, and falls on our necks, and kisses us.
And we say unto him, Father, we have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called by thy name.
But the father says to the host of Heaven, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on them; and put a rings on there hands, and shoes on there feet: That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. For this my children were dead, and are alive again; they were lost, and is found.
Rev 3:14-15 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write..... I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Hot is zestoV zestos in the Greek.
It means boiled, to be hot, fervent. It is translated hot in the KJV.
Fervent is showing passionate enthusiasm: showing ardent or extremely passionate enthusiasm or glowingly hot: glowing as a result of intense heat.
Ardent is glowing: shining or glowing brightly, with a fiery quality (literary) ardent embers.
So tell me Laodicea are we Ardent, Glowing brightly because His Spirit rests in and on us? Are we Fervent? Showing extremely passionate ethusiasim For our Father and His Mission to save the Lost. Are you boiling over with His love unable to contain yourself?
Are we Laodicea? Are we blind? Has our conscience been seared with a hot iron? Has our understanding been darkened, Have we separated ourselves from the life of God through unbelief (disobedience), Hearts blinded: Being past feeling. Having given ourselves over unto licentiousness pursuing worldly desires aggressively and selfishly, unchecked by morality, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Or Are we quit simply ignoring the calling. Not sharing God's love. Spreading the good news the Gospel of God's Kingdom. In which we are suppose to be part of in the body of Christ our Fathers Holy Temple. Eyes being closed by our own choices. Blinded!!
Are we Laodicea? Are we poor? Are we not trusting in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; He says Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches. Righteousness is what our Father offers through the body of Christ. He says My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue more than choice silver. In other words what I have to offer, what I am more than willing to give to you. My fruit which is the fruit of the My Spirit. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, and temperance. As a matter of fact the fruit I have given you is for all things that pertain to life and godliness. All this He offers is better than gold. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Why? The revenue. The fruit of the fruit. The riches of God is life. A Life that is more abundant and full. A life that is everlasting in Christ Jesus. A life that attracts others. Oneness with God in Christ that the world may believe that God hast sent Him. This is the revenue that is more precious than the most purest finest silver. This why Christ came. Is this the life we are lacking? Are we poor?
Are we Laodicea? Are we naked? God say's Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. For when our King comes to see the guests, he saw there some which had not on a wedding garments:
And he saith unto them, Friends, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garments? And they were speechless. Feeling the shame.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind them hand and foot, and take them away, and cast them into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen. The wedding Garments....The Body of Christ our Lord's Holy Temple. Are you naked?
But we are chosen. Way before the foundation of the world, We are chosen that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. When we heed the calling again even after falling away. If we arise, and come to our Father in repentance. A thinking that is different That emotional outcry making us cease from our own ways and return unto the Heavenly Father.
When we are yet a great way off, our Father see us, and has compassion, and runs, and falls on our necks, and kisses us.
And we say unto him, Father, we have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called by thy name.
But the father says to the host of Heaven, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on them; and put a rings on there hands, and shoes on there feet: That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. For this my children were dead, and are alive again; they were lost, and is found.
Rev 3:14-15 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write..... I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Hot is zestoV zestos in the Greek.
It means boiled, to be hot, fervent. It is translated hot in the KJV.
Fervent is showing passionate enthusiasm: showing ardent or extremely passionate enthusiasm or glowingly hot: glowing as a result of intense heat.
Ardent is glowing: shining or glowing brightly, with a fiery quality (literary) ardent embers.
So tell me Laodicea are we Ardent, Glowing brightly because His Spirit rests in and on us? Are we Fervent? Showing extremely passionate ethusiasim For our Father and His Mission to save the Lost. Are you boiling over with His love unable to contain yourself?
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