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What accusation bring ye against this man?

7/31/2015

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Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto Him, Art thou the King of the Jews? Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of Me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? Jesus answered, My Kingdom is not of this world: if My Kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is My kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto Him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the Truth. Every one that is of the Truth heareth My voice. Pilate saith unto Him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. (Joh 18:33-38)
    The testimony of our Lord before Pilate. Truth stood before the authority of this world and the world knew it not. The King of kings whose Kingdom is not yet, nor of this world, had been rejected by His own, and now would be rejected by the indifference of the Gentiles. The Religious leaders of the Jews didn't want Him as King, and the Gentile authorities didn't see Truth when it stood before them. The Jews rejected Him for His Truth turned their kingdom upside down, and the Gentiles weren't looking for a new 'king' to oppose Caesar or their little kingdoms.

    Most people today aren't looking to change, don't want the Salvation that GOD provides that turns their world upside down, or refuse to surrender to our Lord and King. Though they are bound for a devil's hell because of their sIn, and are men most miserable without GOD and without hope in this world, they don't see their need, or recognize their condition. They have declared truth as irrelevant and subjective, and of no concern of theirs. Sin is a joke to be dismissed, morality is a old-fashioned concept for religious nuts, and every one does what is right in his own eyes.

    But judgment is coming. Jesus testified before Pilate that He is Truth, and He will be the final Judge, when all is revealed. We can either face Him as our Saviour, because of our repentance of our sIn and our faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, or face Him as the final Judge of our sIn against Him, the righteous Judge. The Kingdom of GOD is here, but one must be born again to see it. The Kingdom of Heaven is coming, though it was rejected when Christ came the first time, when Jesus returns to this earth to rule and reign for a thousand years. Truth is available in His Word, taught by the Spirit that indwells His own and calls all men unto Him.

    We who are His, are ambassadors of His Kingdom, and ministers of reconciliation. As surrendered subjects, we are to obey His will and Word, to meet the needs of those who are hurting and in need, as GOD provides and blesses us. As faithful family and friends, we are to love one another, even as He loves us, and grow in His Word as we become more like Him. As dedicated disciples, we are not above our Master, but must go into this world with the Truth, even as He did, and share Him with those around us, that those who hear the Gospel in repentance and believe the Good News of Jesus Christ in faith 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 with forgiveness 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 cup which My Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it?

7/30/2015

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Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon Him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am He. And Judas also, which betrayed Him, stood with them. As soon then as He had said unto them, I am He, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
The high priest then asked Jesus of His disciples, and of His Doctrine. Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou Me? ask them which heard Me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said. And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou Me? (Joh 18:4-6, 19-23)
    Some who are searching for Jesus do so out of a sincere heart to find the only Salvation from sIn and the judgment of GOD. Others, who mock and misrepresent themselves and their questions, are only seeking to criticize and argue, not to truly find answers. The Holy Spirit will tell us which and guide us how we ought to answer every man that asketh us of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear. We know Him and His Doctrine from His Word, and while not becoming like fools in our answers, we answer a fool according to His folly lest he be wise in his own conceits. While not casting our pearls before swine, we cast the seed of His Word throughout this lost and dying world that some may hear and believe.

    Those that were trying to get rid of Jesus sought an occasion to accuse Him, and only did so because the death of our Lord was by the determined counsel of GOD. No man could have taken His life, unless He allowed it, and no one would have accused Him in matters of the Law, for He was without sIn and gave the Law to Moses, except He answered not, as a Lamb led to the slaughter. He trusted His Father, and was determined and steadfast, despite the agony which was to come, to endure the Cross for our sakes and to accomplish the work His Father gave Him to do to pay the price for our sIn.

    Our Lord offered Himself in our place and for our sIn, though He was without sIn, that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in Him. We have His power, through the Holy Spirit within us to overcome sIn and to live holy lives, as He guides and directs us, in obedience to Him and His Word, so that those we speak to about Him may know of our good conversation, confession, and conscience in Christ as we testify of Him. We are not above our Master, and must not think that we will not face the same questions and accusations if we live in and through Him and He in us, the hope of Glory.

    We are compelled and constrained by His love for us and for others to do His work now, while we are here on this earth, as His ambassadors and ministers. We are called to represent Him as we stretch out our hands to the poor, and reach forth our hands to the needy, that those that will may be delivered. We are commanded to love one another, even as Christ also loved us, that all may know that we are His disciples. We are chosen as His disciples and are to learn of our Master through His Word and we are grow up in Him as He conforms us to the image of His dear Son. We are commissioned to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to all we meet, that those who hear the Gospel, repenting of their sIn and believing in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for Salvation, 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 with forgiveness 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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As the Father hast sent Me into the world so send I you

7/29/2015

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Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word; That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the Glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me. Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My Glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me. And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them. (Joh 17:20-26)
    Our Lord prayed for us, that we who are in Him would be one with Him and with each other. One in ministry, purpose, and love, for we are His people, His family, His body, and are here to accomplish His work, as He empowers us, fills us with His Spirit, that we might glorify Him and the Father who works in and through us. We who are in Him are His servants in this lost and dying world, to do His will, and to complete the work He has given us to do while we are here.

    We are here to do His work. We are to do good and be a good influence in this world, but not of it and not to the exclusion of the Gospel. The preaching of the Cross may be foolishness to them that perish, and those who live Godly in Christ Jesus may suffer persecution, but we are not to give up, or back down, from the Word of GOD and the message of Salvation through the finished and perfect work of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary. We are to speak the Truth in love, His ambassadors and ministers of reconciliation, and are to be one with the Father in purpose, one with our Lord in ministry, and one with the Spirit in unity and the bond of peace.

    Our Lord has prayed that we would be one with the Father in ministry and missions as we take His love and grace to those who are hurting and in need, as He guides and directs His body. He has prayed that we would be one with the Spirit in love as He disciples and family until have have grown into the full measure of Him. Our Lord prayed that we would be one with Him as He directs His bride with the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who are without, that they may hear the Good News and repent, 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 with forgiveness 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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Thy Word is Truth

7/28/2015

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And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine own Name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Thy Name: those that Thou gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Thy Word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy Truth: Thy Word is Truth.  (Joh 17:11-17)
    Our Lord and Saviour, who was never of the world even when He was in the world was, and is, hated by the world, and all those who oppose GOD will also hate us. He brought light and life, but men love darkness rather than light, and love their sIn rather than life. He brought Truth, because He is Truth, the Word made flesh, which dwelt among us and came to provide us with eternal life with the Father. He accomplished all that His Father told Him to do, and fulfilled the Scriptures concerning His first coming and sacrificial offering of Himself in our place and for our sIn, that we might have His abundant life, and joy unspeakable and full of glory.

    In this great High Priestly prayer, Jesus prayed for His own, all those who have repented of their sIn and put their trust in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for reconciliation with the Father. He prayed that GOD would keep us, not out of this world, but safe and secure in it, even while we are strangers and pilgrims here in this lost and dying world, and that our joy might be full in Him. We are not to love this world, for all the things of this world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, are not of the Father but of the world. We are to love all people as He does, that we might share Him and His grace, mercy, and love with them, even while we keep ourselves unspotted from the world through the washing of His Word.

    We are to minister in and to this world, to the fatherless and the widows, and those who are hurting and in need, as GOD provides and blesses us. We are to love one another, as members one of another, that all may know we are His disciples; and grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, through His Word until we all come into the full measure of Him. We are to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ to all we meet, that those who hear the Gospel and believe in repentance and faith 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 with forgiveness 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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All things whatsoever Thou hast given Me are of Thee

7/27/2015

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These words spake Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee: As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true GOD, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the Glory which I had with Thee before the world was. (Joh 17:1-5)
    Our Lord prayed to the Father that He would be glorified in all things. His time was at hand, He was ready to be offered, and He lifted up His High Priestly prayer to the Father. He acknowledge the Glory of the Father and prayed that in the Cross which was to come that Jesus would be glorified as well in His finished and perfect work. He prayed for us that we would remain in Him and continue through Him to do His will and work here on this earth. He thanked the Father for the Salvation that He has given to all who believe in Him and repent that we all may be one with Him and with the Father through the indwelling Spirit.

    Eternal life with GOD is a gift given freely to those who repent of their sIn and offences against our Holy GOD, and believe that He has paid their sIn debt through His own sacrifice in our place. It is by grace through faith, and not of works lest any man should boast. We are all guilty of sIn, and sIn must be paid for. Its wages are death, and yet GOD has paid that debt through His offering of Himself on the Cross of Calvary. We who have received Him by trusting in His Word are born again by the Spirit of GOD that we might continue as His servants, family, and friends, the work He has for us to do.

    As His servants we serve those around us who are hurting and in need that they may come to know Him through us and be blessed by the mercies of our GOD. As His family we are to love one another and grow in His Word that all may know we are His disciples and members one of another. As His friends we are empowered by His Spirit to take the whole Word to the whole world that all may know of Him and the Good News of Jesus Christ. We are to share Him and the Gospel of Peace and reconciliation with the Father through faith and repentance so that those who hear and believe may 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 with forgiveness 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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Ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again

7/24/2015

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For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from GOD. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto Him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure that Thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask Thee: by this we believe that Thou camest forth from GOD. Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (Joh 16:27-33)
    The love of the Father demonstrated through the sacrifice of the Son and testified by the Spirit through the Word. Jesus was going to the Cross, and His disciples would not see Him in the flesh for three days and three nights, then they would see Him again after the resurrection. They would mourn His death, celebrate His resurrection, and after Jesus left them again and the Spirit came, they would remember all the things that they had heard and seen and Holy Ghost would guide them into all Truth. They were scattered by the Roman authorities and their own fear, but after the Spirit empowered them, they turned the world upside down with their Doctrine, their faith and the power of the Gospel.

    Jesus, the Prince of Peace, gives us a supernatural peace that passeth all understanding in this world, not of it, nor does this world have this peace, for it comes from the Spirit which the natural man cannot understand, nor doth he know the things of the Spirit for they are spiritually discerned. We know Him and therefore His peace can reign in our hearts, along with the other gifts and fruits He wills and manifests in us, when we are obedient to Him and the Word of GOD. We walk by faith and not by sight until He returns for His own and we are evermore with the Lord.

    We are to walk in this world, but not of it, as the Holy Ghost empowers us to do His will and accomplish His work that the Son may be lifted up and the Father might be glorified in all things. We are called to minister, as His ambassadors, to those around us who are hurting and in need, to meet others needs as GOD gives the increase. We are commanded to love one another and to grow in His Word as His disciples. We are commissioned to take the Gospel wherever He sends us, and tell all who will hear of the Good News of Jesus Christ that those who repent of their sIn and believe in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father 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 with forgiveness 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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He shall take of Mine and shall shew it unto you

7/23/2015

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Nevertheless I tell you the Truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on Me; Of righteousness, because I go to My Father, and ye see Me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you. (Joh 16:7-14)
    Our guide and comforter is the indwelling Holy Spirit which we received from GOD the moment we repented and believed by the power of GOD. By our faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary we were born again from above and our spirit was resurrected with His Spirit who teaches us through the Word and guides and directs our path to accomplish His will. He convicts us of sIn, for He is righteous. He reproves and corrects when we grieve or quench Him because He is Holy. He judges our motives and thoughts because the Spirit of GOD is GOD the Holy Spirit.

    The Spirit speaks to our spirit and brings to mind all things from His Word. He will never teach us any thing nor speak that which contradicts what He has led His faithful servants to speak, write, preserve, and translate so that we would know His Word. He always points people to Christ Jesus our Lord to the glory of GOD the Father. He unites the body of Christ in service and in love, in worship of our Lord and of our Father, and when we surrender ourselves and offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to Him, He brings out His fruit and bestows His gifts upon us as He wills that we may do His work and will in this world.

    The Spirit equips and enables us to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. He enlightens us in our study of the Word of GOD that we may grow thereby. He encourages us and edifies us in the body of Christ that we may love one another as Christ loved us and worship GOD in Spirit and in Truth. The Holy Ghost empowers us to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we engage those around us, that those who hear the Good News from the Word of GOD, and 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 with forgiveness 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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Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you

7/22/2015

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Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the Word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My Saying, they will keep yours also. (Joh 15:15-20)
    Though we serve the Lord Christ, He calls us friends, and through His Word tells us what He is doing and what we are to do. His Spirit guides us into all Truth, and convicts and leads us in His Way and the way we should go. We are set apart to go to this lost and dying world that they may hear the Good News of Jesus Christ and repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for Salvation and reconciliation with the Father.

    The world hates us, and His message of hope, peace, and love, because light is come into the world, and men love the darkness because their deeds are evil. Those dead in their trespasses and sins hate us because they don't want to surrender or submit to our Holy GOD and forsake their sIn. We are no longer of this world, and strangers and pilgrims here, and those who seek their own way and their self-righteousness, who hate Him, hate us for we are His disciples. While we are here we must tell them, even when we face persecution, trials, and hatred, for our Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father and His great Salvation from sIn and the second death.

    We have the only Gospel of Hope, and Peace with GOD, that they don't want to hear, but we are called to minister anyway, lifting up our Lord Jesus so that He will draw all men to Him. We are commanded to love one another, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may know how to answer every man that asketh us reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. We are commissioned to take the whole Word to this whole world, and preach the Word, in season and out of season, when they will hear, and when they will not, that all who do hear and believe may 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 with forgiveness 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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I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman

7/21/2015

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If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples. As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love. If ye keep My Commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's Commandments, and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is My Commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Joh 15:7-13)
    Those in Christ, who are born again from above by the Spirit of GOD, are to know His Word in order to ask according to His will. We are to bear fruit and glorify our Father which is in Heaven. We are to shine in the darkness of this world that all may see His joy in us and His love through us. We know the will of GOD through the Word of GOD and bear fruit by sharing that Word that others might know Him and believe in Him and trust His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for Salvation.

    We who are His are to share His Gospel and the Word of GOD, which He has magnified above all His Name, that all may come to repentance and a new relationship with GOD the Father through the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit indwells those that are His that they might become more like Jesus until we are taken Home to be with GOD. Until the day when we are glorified and our reconciliation, that began when we were justified by faith, and continues today as He sanctifies us and makes us meet for the Master's use, we are to teach all nations to observe all that He has commanded us.

    We are called to be His disciples, ministering to those who are hurting and in need, as GOD gives the increase. We are commanded to love one another, and to grow in the Word and into the full measure of Him. We are commissioned, as ministers of reconciliation, to take the Good News of Jesus Christ, and the whole Word of GOD to this lost and dying world 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 with forgiveness 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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Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit

7/20/2015

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I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (Joh 15:1-6)
    There is so much that Jesus relates to us here. Bearing fruit: the fruit of the Spirit, new disciples, fruit of His righteousness, all happen when we are in Him, and continue only because we are in Him. Jesus Christ fills us with His Spirit when we repent and put our trust in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, and continues to empower us to accomplish His will and work while we are here through His Spirit within us, as we surrender more and more of ourselves and become more like Him.

    When the  dead fruit of our lives is surrendered and forsaken, then His fruit of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance will remain. When our righteousnesses, which are like filthy rags, are crucified, then His righteousness may bear fruit in us. When our goals and agenda are dead and buried, then He is lifted up and His Word is magnified above His Name and all men are drawn to Him that we, in His power, might win some.

    Those that are in Christ are to remain in Him, not that we can lose what Christ has done, for we cannot be unborn-again any more than we can be unborn, but maintaining our spiritual life as fervently as we maintain, or even more so, our physical lives. We must feed on GOD's Word continuously by hearing, reading, studying, memorizing, meditating, and applying His Word, more than our necessary food. We ought to communicate with our Heavenly Father throughout the day and listen for His voice that we may follow His will. He will guide us into all Truth and direct our steps and light our path. We are to fellowship with others in GOD's Family in service, worship, and in love; edifying and encouraging one another to provoke unto love and good works.

    Guided and empowered by the Spirit, knowing and doing the will of the Father, and taking the Word of Christ with us, we are to minister to all we encounter who are hurting and in need that they may see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are to love one another, even as Christ loved us, and disciple one another in His Word that we may all grow into the full measure of Him. We are to take the whole Word to the whole world, that they that believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, repenting of their sins, may receive His Good News and 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 with forgiveness 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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