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Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession

2/29/2016

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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of GOD. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (Heb 12:1-3)
     All those who have gone on before, faithfully testifying of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, encourage us to remain faithful in this marathon we run. We were born into the human race, and the wages we earn for the race of sin is death. When we are born again, and we must be in order to be translated from the kingdom of darkness, into the Kingdom of His Son and receive eternal life, we are set on a journey with Jesus and in Him, His righteousness in us by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary.

     Jesus Christ took our place, willingly and humbly paying the price for sIn we could not pay, and providing the only way of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father, through His obedience and sacrifice. All who have trusted Him now live in Him the righteousness of Christ and are adopted into this great family of GOD, one with the Father, not because we are now divine, or will become so, but because He has made us heirs of the righteousness which is in Christ Jesus, a new creature in Christ, risen to walk in newness of life.

     His sacrifice means we are forgiven to serve, blessed to be a blessing, empowered to encourage, equipped and enabled to engage others for Jesus Christ. We are to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need with the Word of reconciliation as GOD provides His power, direction, and abundance of grace and mercy. We are to love one another with the unfeigned love of the brethren, as He loved us, and disciple one another in His Word until we all come into the full measure of Him who is our Head. We are to witness unto Him who gave Himself for us, that others may know Him and the power of His resurrection, taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit, and as we go, proclaiming the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father to all who will hear that by repentance and faith they might receive eternal life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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Seeing Him who is invisible

2/26/2016

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to GOD must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: GOD having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. (Heb 11:1,6,39-40)
     Faith: trust and belief in what cannot be seen or what has not yet arrived. Our faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of GOD, which is given by inspiration of GOD, who cannot lie, who is Holy, Pure, Perfect, Righteous, and True. His Word, which tells us of Him and His interaction with His people and the peoples of this broken and dying world, from creation to the consummation of all things, is a reflection of Himself. The Scriptures which cannot be broken are holy, pure, perfect, righteous, and true, from Genesis to Revelation and He has magnified His Word above even His Name.

       It reveals Christ to us, slain from the foundation of the world, to pay for the rebellion and sin of all mankind, and redeemed those who surrender to Him on His terms and put their trust in Him through repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary from their sin, and who is the soon returning Judge and King, who will judge all those who have not believed in Him and rule this earth for a thousand years.

      In this faith Hall of Fame, from Abel to Zechariah, The Spirit, through the author, rehearses the faith of those who believed that the Great I AM was their Saviour, the coming Messiah, who would redeem them from their sin, and bring them to Himself. Their acts of faith are an example for us to continue, to not be weary in well doing, but to endure, to persevere, not because we can lose what GOD has given us by His grace, but because of Him who is faithful to us, and will give us not what we deserve, but what He has promised by His mercy and through His Word.

      Built upon this foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, He has brought His people into Himself, a body and a building, a living organism, each of us as lively stones fitly placed according to His will, that we might serve Him. We are called to be His priests and ambassadors, as representatives of His Kingdom, with the Word of reconciliation ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need. We are commanded to love others, to love one another as He loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may grow thereby and be conformed to the image of His Son. We are commissioned into His army of witnesses, testifying by faith of the GOD whom we have met, and taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to all we meet, and as we go where He sends us, proclaiming the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father through repentance and faith in Him that those who believe might have life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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Believe in Him to the saving of the soul

2/25/2016

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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; And having an High Priest over the House of GOD; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Heb 10:19-25)
    Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever, is our great High Priest, ever living to make intercession for those to come to GOD by Him through faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. We can come boldly into the presence of GOD because of His blood shed for us, and He will hear our petitions, strengthen us in our weakness, comfort us in our travails, and encourage us as we go through the trials of this broken and dying world. We can stand strong in Him, be faithful to Him who has and will be faithful to us, and do the work which He has for us to do, until He takes us Home to be with Him.

      We are to encourage and edify one another to be faithful, exhort and equip one another to the work of the ministry, and engage and enable people to enjoy Jesus Christ. We are to fellowship together in love and worship of our Lord who has adopted us into His family. We are to reconcile with one another, forbearing and forgiving, because GOD for Christ's sake hath forgiven us. We are to bear one another's burdens and so fulfil the Law of Christ. We are to love one another as He has loved us and keep the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace until He gathers all those who will come into His waiting arms.

     Until the day He calls us Home, we are to continue serving Him. We are called to be His ambassadors, ministers of reconciliation, and servants of the Most High GOD, ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need, with the Word of reconciliation and the prayers of the saints. We are commanded to love others even as we love ourselves, and to love one another as He has loved us, while we disciple His people in the Word of GOD that all may grow thereby. We are commissioned into the Army of GOD as soldiers for Christ, not with the weapons of the flesh, but with His spiritual armour, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, going forth as witnesses unto Him and in the power of the Holy Spirit proclaiming as we go the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father to those who believe and repent that they might have life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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It is Finished and Jesus has won the Victory

2/24/2016

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For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of GOD for us: Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto Salvation. (Heb 9:24-28)
      The sacrifice in the flesh of the body of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ was done once for all and is sufficient and final, never to be repeated. He paid our sin price completely and perfectly when He offered Himself in our place, to pay our sin debt, and to redeem us from the Law, from sIn, and from the grave. He was without sIn, and satisfied the Father's wrath with the shedding of His blood on that tree in humble obedience to the Law and to His Father's will. He lives, having overcome sin and the grave, and sits at the right hand of the Majesty on High, ever living to intercede for His own until He comes back to judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His Kingdom.

     That shed blood sprinkled on the mercy seat in Heaven is available to all who will receive it by faith and repentance, not as a license to keep on sinning or to do what we want, for Christ is not the minister of sin, but of righteousness and holiness for those who come to Him on His terms. Because of His righteousness, when we receive Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary in our place and repentance of our sins, we who are dead in our trespasses and sins are made alive in Christ and born again. Because of His sacrifice for the sins of the world, slain from the foundation, we who are saved and resurrected with Him are to walk in Him in newness of life, a new creature in Christ, redeemed, made whole, and cleansed to live His life in this world until He brings us Home to be with Him.

      The abundant life we now live in Him and through Him is a life of service, not to get or keep any thing He has given us by His grace, but because of His mercy and love we obey Him. We serve as His ambassadors in ministry and with the Word of reconciliation, serving and ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need that they may see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We serve one another as we disciple and fellowship together, equipping the saints and edifying the believers until we are all conformed to His image through His Word. We serve as His witnesses, proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit where and when He sends us to share the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father that those who hear and believe in Him might have life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many

2/23/2016

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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 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 your conscience from dead works to serve the living GOD? (Heb 9:11-14)
      The sacrifice of our Lord in the flesh, to pay for our sins and satisfy the wrath of the Father, was so much better than earthly sacrifices which had to be repeated, for His offering of Himself was finished and perfect, never to be repeated. His own blood, without sin, shed in our place, was given willingly and humbly by the only one who could offer Himself to pay our sin debt in His own body, as the propitiation for the sins of the world, and those who receive it by grace through faith and repentance are forgiven, made whole in Christ, born again and reconciled to the Father.

     He who knew no sin was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in Him. He has redeemed us from sin, the curse of the Law, and the grave, that we might live in the liberty that Christ brings, not a license to sin any more, but life more abundant and eternal the moment we are translated from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Our works can't save us or keep us in Him, but His love for us, demonstrated on the Cross of Calvary, means that He holds those who truly repent and receive Him by faith in Him securely in His hands, not to do as we will, but to do His will and accomplish His work, completely surrendered to Him on His terms as He lives His life in us.

      We are crucified with Christ, reckoning ourselves to be dead to sin, and offering ourselves as living sacrifices, by the mercies of GOD, to His service. As ambassadors of His Kingdom we minister to those around us who are hurting and in need with the Word of reconciliation that they may know Him and see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. As members of His body and lively stones fitly placed in His building, we are to love one another in fellowship and disciple one another in His Word until we all grow up into the full measure of Him who first loved us and gave Himself for us. As soldiers in Christ, not with the weapons of this world, but with the Gospel of Jesus Christ we go to this lost and dying world, and as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit we take the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father to all who will hear and believe, that in believing they might have life in His Name.

    For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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We have such an High Priest

2/22/2016

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For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the Law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of Heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of GOD when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better Covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first Covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. (Heb 8:4-7)
      Our great High Priest, Jesus Christ ministers in Heaven at the right hand of the Father, to intercede for His own, to give grace, and help, to chastise, and to encourage, to direct His servants as we do His will and accomplish His work in this broken and dying world. The old Covenant under the Law was given because of sIn, to shew all that we could not keep the Law, and needed a mediator to bring us into a right relationship with GOD. Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, willingly and humbly took our place and paid our sIn debt, that we might have life and have it more abundantly in Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary.

     The Law couldn't save anyone, and keeping the Law cannot bring us into a right relationship with the Father, for it must be kept perfectly and holy by faith, which we in our sinful flesh cannot do. Jesus Christ kept the Law, always doing His Father's will and so His sacrifice for sIn was perfect and holy and in keeping with the Law. As our substitutionary atonement, when we receive it by faith and repentance, it perfectly satisfies the wrath of GOD which is upon all of us who have rebelled against our Holy and Righteous GOD who has already judged and condemned all as sinners and worthy of death. Jesus Christ came to save sinners, and now abides in Heaven administering to His own, until that day when He comes back to judge the earth, and rule in His earthly Kingdom.

     Until that day, He has called His people to serve Him, ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need, as He provides and directs those of us who are His, in ministry and missions in our communities, our countries, and our world. He has commanded us to love one another and to disciple one another in His Word, that we be no more children in doctrine and His precepts, but teachers and priests of GOD. Our Lord has commissioned us into His service as witnesses unto Him, to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit, and as we go share the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father that those who repent and believe in Him might have life in His Name.

    For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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The power of His endless priesthood and eternal life

2/19/2016

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For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto GOD. And inasmuch as not without an oath He was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by Him that said unto Him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better Testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: But this man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto GOD by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Heb 7:19-25)
      The Lord liveth, and blessed be the Rock, and let the GOD of our Salvation be exalted! Our GOD reigns, as an eternal High priest He offered Himself in our place, to pay our sIn debt, and ever liveth to intercede for His own. We can approach GOD through the blood of Jesus Christ, unto the throne of Grace, because we are secure in Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. He has paid our debt and purchased our redemption in His own body on that tree, and now will receive all those who come to Him in repentance and faith. What the Law could not do, nor could we, Christ has done in Himself and for us.

      We cannot come to Him on our terms, or in our own works, for our works do not save us, but in full surrender to Him on His terms, by faith through grace alone, we receive His great Salvation and eternal life through Him who is eternal. The Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, became a man, and endured our punishment that we might live in and through Him. He offered Himself in our place that we might receive His life and be born again, having His righteousness as we do His work and will in this broken and dying world and His Spirit within to guide us into all Truth as we live and walk in Him.

      In Him we are empowered to serve others, His ambassadors with the Word of reconciliation, to minister in His Name and the authority that brings to those around us who are hurting and in need, that others might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. In Him we are encouraged to disciple one another, speaking the Truth in love, and edifying and exhorting the saints to the work of the ministry until we all grow up into the full measure of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. In Him we are equipped to witness and testify, taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we go, and telling all who will hear the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation that those who repent and believe might have life in His Name.

    For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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Let us go on unto perfection

2/18/2016

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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His Name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when GOD made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. (Heb 6:10-15)
    GOD has promised us, whom He has left to minister in this world, not of it or conformed to it, but strangers and pilgrims in this sinful and dying world, Himself. Those of us who are in Christ, who have a full assurance of Him because we have repented of our sins, and received Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, will endure to the end. Whether that is the end of our journey here, or the end of the Church age, only GOD knows, but we are to serve Him, not to gain or keep any thing He gives by grace, but because of our love for Him who first loved us.

     We who are inheritors of the faith of Abraham, grafted into the family of GOD by faith, and joint heirs of the promise of eternal life and a covenant relationship with our Heavenly Father through faith in the Son and sealed by the Holy Ghost which is within us are His ambassadors, ministers of reconciliation, with the Word of Truth. Our GOD who cannot lie, who has given to us and to others many great and precious promises, will fulfill all He has proclaimed and revealed, in His time and at His will until He has consummated all things and every Word which hath proceeded out of His mouth has accomplished every thing GOD has intended it to do.

      We are His ministers, to serve at His command, to worship and praise the one with whom we have to do. We are called to serve, to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, that others might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are commanded to love one another, edifying and encouraging one another in fellowship and ministry, as we disciple one another in His Word and are conformed to the image of His Son. We are commissioned to teach all nations, taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all we meet that they might know Him, and as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit, proclaim the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father to all who will hear that they might repent and believe and in believing have life in His Name.

    For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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The Word of GOD which liveth and abideth for ever

2/17/2016

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Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared; Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; And being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him; Called of GOD an High Priest after the order of Melchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the Oracles of GOD; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the Word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Heb 5:7-14)
     Though He was GOD in every sense, The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, was also man in every sense except sin. He suffered every thing we deserve for our sin and every thing we bear in this life. He was tempted in all points as we are yet without sin, He experienced all of this life in the flesh, even grief and pain, again without sin, that we might be made the righteousness of Him by our repentance and faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. Our GOD has become our Salvation, by His obedience. Our Lord has become our Deliverer by His submission to the will of GOD. He has fully and sufficiently paid our sin debt and purchased our redemption that we might have life and have it more abundantly.

     The Word made flesh, who suffered and died in our place, but rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, has revealed Himself as Creator, Redeemer, and King in the pages of those Scriptures. He has given us His Word, the written revelation of Himself, that we might know Him, and His purposes and plans as Prophet, Priest, and King. He blesses those who hear, communicates with those that read, commands those that study, corrects and controls those that memorize, and comforts those that meditate on His Word as He applies its precepts and judgments to us through our submission to Him on His terms.

     We are to receive by faith the living Word, in Salvation and in sanctification until we are glorified in Him and through Him who first loved us. We are to receive by faith the written Word that we might grow in Him and through His Spirit be conformed to the image of His Son, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Once in Him and with the new life He gives through grace by faith, we are to live His life in us, indwelt by the Holy Spirit and discipled in His Word that we might reflect Him, that others may see Him in us, the hope of Glory. We are to grow up in Him, by exercising ourselves in His Word, not just for the sake of just knowledge, which puffs up, but that we might speak the Truth in love, share Him with others, and live Kingdom lives in this world, but not of it, until He is done with us and takes us Home to be with Him.

      He has called His people to serve, His ambassadors with the Word of reconciliation, ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need, taking His Word and ministering His grace into every situation. He has commanded His people to love one another, to fellowship together in worship and service, as we disciple one another in the Word of GOD until we are all grown up into the full measure of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, equipping the saints, encouraging the faithful, and exhorting the labourers, to the work of the ministry and to the edification of the body of Christ. We are commissioned into His army, soldiers of Christ with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and witnesses unto Him who has sent us forth in the power of the Holy Spirit into this lost and dying world with the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father that all who hear and believe might have life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of GOD

2/16/2016

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For the Word of GOD is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the Heavens, Jesus the Son of GOD, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. (Heb 4:12-16)
      The Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, who now sits on the Throne of grace, to ever intercede for His saints, gave us His written Word, the direct revelation of Himself, who is the Word made flesh, that we might know Him. It does not reveal everything GOD has done, or all that has ever occurred, but that which GOD revealed about Himself, as Creator, Redeemer, Judge, and King, that we might believe in Him and have a covenant relationship with GOD through repentance of our sIn, and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary.

     That same Word also shows us ourselves, our sinful condition as descendants of Adam, and sinners in this broken and dying world. It reveals the History of the Universe and the damage we have done to it and ourselves because of our sIn and depravity. It reveals the source of suffering is not GOD who made all things perfect, but man, who in Adam rebelled against GOD and brought death upon all mankind, and continues to sIn and rebel in thought, word, and deed.

     Those who are are still lost, dead in their trespasses and sins, whose thoughts and intents are only wickedness continuously, are under judgment and condemnation. But God has revealed His perfect plan of redemption and Salvation. All who repent and believe in Him are given a new life, the old things are passed away, and a new relationship with their Creator, that we might live in Him and He in us, the hope of Glory. We come to Him for help, for He is our strength, our shepherd, our peace, and our life, and through His grace and mercy we have access to the Father.

      Our calling and purpose, as children of the King, is to do His will and accomplish His work in this lost and dying world, not of it nor conformed to its mold, but renewed in our minds, servants of the most High GOD and ambassadors of His Kingdom, to serve our Master and minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. Our command and practice is to love one another as He loves us and disciple one another in His Word until we all grow up into the full measure of Him who is our Head. Our commission and place in His plan is for us to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, and as we go tell all we meet of the Good News of reconciliation with the Father, that those who hear and believe might repent and receive by faith through grace life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the Truth. Jesus loves you and wants to establish a covenant relationship with you that is real and personal. Surrender to Him on His terms and He will give you a brand new life of discipleship and fellowship with Him that is abundant and everlasting. GOD calls you to trust Him and what He has already done for you to pay your sIn debt. He has provided the only way of reconciliation with GOD, forgiveness from GOD, and Salvation through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, to give you a new life in Christ. Turn away from yourself and your sIn and turn to Him alone for eternal Life, now and always.

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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