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The Feasts of the LORD

11/30/2017

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the Feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My Feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. These are the Feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S Passover. (Lev 23:2-5)
     All the children of Israel and their guests were to observe the Feasts of the Lord and worship the Lord on these special Holy days. From the weekly Sabbath in which they were to rest from their labours, to the remembrance of when the Lord passed over them and delivered them from Egypt. Other feasts continued throughout the year, the feast of weeks, which we call Pentecost today, the feast of trumpets blowing in the new civil year, and the Day of Atonement, the offering of the High Priest for all the sins of all the people. Lastly, the feast of booths which remembered their time wandering in the wilderness as strangers and pilgrims.
 
     God commanded certain commemorations and Holy days which were to be remembered with solemn assemblies, worship offerings, and rest. The weekly Sabbath, or day of rest, was to remember that the Lord God created all things in six days (literal 24-hour days) and rested on the seventh. Sabbath means rest, and the Israelites were to remember that God is their rest as well. The Passover commemorated their deliverance from bondage in Egypt when God passed over those who were covered by the blood of the lamb. It also looked forward to the Lamb of God, the Messiah, who would take away the sins of the world. The other feasts also commemorate and celebrate the life of Israel and what God continued to do in and for them as a people and a nation even as they give us a picture of the life and death of Christ.
 
     Today, Jesus Christ is our rest, for those who are secure in Him. We celebrate His Passover of us when we put our faith and trust in Him and received Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. His life, mission, and passion was not only a fulfillment of the Law, these feasts, and the Scriptures, but also the final sacrifice for sin for those who surrender to God on His terms and turn to Him for forgiveness, reconciliation, and salvation. We observe the Sabbath, not by resting on a particular day, but resting in Christ. We celebrate His Passover, in remembering His deliverance of us from the bondage of sin and our freedom in Christ to live His live, a life which is truly life and is eternal. We celebrate the outpouring of His Spirit upon His Church at Pentecost. We look forward to the day which the Trumpet shall sound and the Lord will call us Home to be with Him, to His return to judge and rule from Israel, and the final atonement of all things through Him who is our Creator, our Redeemer, and our King.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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A holy and perfect sacrifice unto the LORD

11/29/2017

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Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. (Lev. 22:18-21)
     All the children of Israel and their guests were to bring holy and acceptable offerings unto God. Whatever was offered unto the Lord was to be without spot or blemish, perfect and holy. To be acceptable as a sacrifice, for sin, for thanksgiving, or for any other offering, whatever animal was brought unto the Lord was to be the best and without blemish of any kind.
 
     God commanded a perfect sacrifice be brought before Him. Whosoever offered anything unto the Lord was to bring the best of their animals, pure and holy, without any spot or blemish, acceptable unto God. God is Holy and demanded and deserves the best offerings from His people. The Lord God of Israel expected that whatever was given unto Him was worthy not only as an acceptable offering but also because all the offerings ever given by the children of Israel were supposed to be a type and picture of the final offering for sin in the Messiah, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world.
 
     Jesus Christ is the final sacrifice for sin. The perfect and holy Son of God who is God the Son put on flesh and became a man, offered Himself for our sin, and satisfied the wrath of the Father through His death on the Cross of Calvary. No more sacrifices of dead animals are necessary to pay for our sin. He has finished the sacrificial system, not only fulfilling the Law completely, but also completing all the sacrifices given in His Name. Those sacrifices of bulls and goats covered their sin until Jesus came and went willingly to the Cross and finished the plan and purposes of God in Christ to reconcile whosoever will unto Himself. The offerings were to be perfect and holy, for Christ as the ultimate sacrifice for sin was perfect and holy. He lived a sinless life, was without spot or blemish, and took our place and paid our sin debt with His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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I the LORD do sanctify them

11/28/2017

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And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. (Lev. 21:1-4, 8, 12)
     The priests of Israel were to be holy and undefiled during their lifetime and while they served the Lord God and the people. They were to be sanctified and separate from that which made them impure; death, disease, the profane and unholy, and blemishes and infirmities, for they were to be a pure and spotless representatives of the people unto God as they served them and the Lord God of Israel.
 
     As an example and type of Jesus Christ, the Great High Priest of God, the High Priest of the people of Israel was to be pure and holy. He was to be in all respects sanctified and separate from the people, not that he was better than they, but because of his position and calling as the representatives of the people and the intermediary unto God. The priests also, were to be undefiled as they offered sacrifices unto God. Since the people of Israel could not approach God the priests were their means to offer the sacrifices for sin and for thanksgiving and praise. Because of there office and responsibility, God demanded that they be separate and undefiled by death or disease, that they be undefiled by secular pursuits and personal lusts, and all were pure before God and the people.
 
     God is holy and expects His people and servants to be holy before Him and live holy lives. Those who are not in Christ do not do so, nor can they, for they have not the Spirit of God to guide and instruct His people in the ways of God. Those who are lost are in need of the reconciliation and forgiveness that faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary brings to those who surrender to Him on His terms. Jesus Christ who is perfect in every way is our Great High Priest, Holy and without sin, and He took on our sin in our place that we might be reconciled unto God. God wants His servants to be separate and sanctified, as children and priests of God, representing Him to those who do not know Him. The unsaved who may know about God but not have a saving relationship with Him need to be born again and God wants His holy and set apart people to share Jesus, the undefiled and unblemished Lamb of God, with the world.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He has called His people to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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Ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the LORD am Holy

11/27/2017

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Ye shall therefore keep all My Statutes, and all My Judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people. Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. (Lev. 20:22-25)
     The Israelites were to keep all the Law of God in obedience by faith in the Law-giver. The Lord had called them out of Egypt and would drive out the inhabitants of the Promised Land before them to give the land unto them. He had separated them from the other nations and peoples to be holy unto God. God gave them right and wrong, clean and unclean, holy and profane and commanded them not to walk in the ways of all the other nations but keep His Law to guard it and obey it. He called them to be sanctified as His holy people. He had chosen them and they were to represent Him in their lives and through their actions and behavior.
 
     God called Israel to be a holy nation unto Him and obey His Law by faith in Him because He is Holy. He commanded His people to be sanctified and set apart from all the other nations and their ungodly abominations and practices. In order to maintain possession of the land He had promised them, they were to live lives which glorified Him and obeyed His commands, statutes, and judgements. Though as individuals they could not keep the whole Law perfectly, as a nation they were to keep His Law because His Law is holy and just and because God is Holy and Just and had set the Israelites as His chosen people.
 
     Even today, God’s people should separate themselves from the ways of the world, from that which is unclean, profane, or wrong as God has revealed to us in the Scriptures. Though the Law given to Israel does not apply in practice, having been fulfilled by Christ, the principles of holy living in Christ remain true. That which God has called unclean and which He has declared as unrighteous ought not to be practiced by those who claim His Name. Not only do we who are in Christ trust Him alone for Salvation, because of His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for our sins, but we know that there is only one God, that we worship Him alone, and stand in His authority and not in our own vain imaginations. Those we are not in Christ by faith in Him alone need His forgiveness through repentance of their sins and the new life which He alone provides to those who come to Him on His terms.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself

11/24/2017

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Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I AM the LORD. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I AM the LORD. (Lev. 19:13-16)
     God not only told His people to love their neighbours but defined who they were, both as Israelites and strangers among them. He also told them some specifics in how they were to express that love in caring for and relating to all people. He told them to treat their neighbours as they would want to be treated, equitable in business, in the care of the infirm, righteous in justice and judgement, and fair in proper relations with their neighbours both as people and as a nation. They were to respect all as persons, created in the image of God and loved by Him for He is God and He is Lord of all, Creator, Redeemer, and King.
 
     God repeated the principles of the 5th through the 10th Commandments as He spelled out some specifics in their relations with other Israelites and the strangers within their gates. These principles and statutes would also apply to those they had dealings with who were not Israelites or their guests. Since all people are created in His image, He expects all who follow Him to treat everyone as they would want to be treated. God called for upright practices in business, help for those who were handicapped, fairness and impartiality in justice and judgment, and righteousness in all relations with other people because God is righteous and He is God alone.
 
     Just as God called the Israelites to treat everyone with respect, fairness, and impartiality, as they would want to be treated, God calls us to love our neighbor as ourselves. We are to care for those who are handicapped, treat workers and customers with respect, judge with righteous judgment, and be fair and equitable in all our dealings and relationships. For the child of God we are to remember that all people are made in His image and that He died for all mankind. We are to love them enough to tell them of His love, mercy, and grace, and respect them, even if we disagree with what they do as lost people. Those not in Christ will not do as they should for they are lost and in need of the Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our lost neighbours need to repent of their sins and put their faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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Oh that men would praise the LORD for His goodness

11/23/2017

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O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever. (Psalm 107:1)

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Therefore shall ye keep Mine Ordinance

11/22/2017

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I AM the LORD your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do My Judgments, and keep Mine Ordinances, to walk therein: I AM the LORD your God. Ye shall therefore keep My Statutes, and My Judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I AM the LORD. (Lev. 18:1-5)
     God made a clear difference between the ways of the world, specifically the ways of the immediate neighbours of Israel, and the ways of God. The practices and relations of their neighbours were so heinous that God likened it to the land spewing them out and told the Israelites not to do those things lest the same happen unto them. Copying the practices of their neighbours in personal and family relations meant death but obeying God by faith meant life. God’s ways concerning relations were given to keep the Israelites safe and pure as God’s children.
 
     The Israelites were not to do as they pleased with one another. God put limits on their relationships as His children to keep them safe and because God has already solemnized the proper marriage as one man and one woman for life. The practices of the Egyptians and Canaanites had polluted the land with immoral habits, diseases, and death, and God commanded His children to live holy and pure lives before Him that He might be glorified in their faith in Him and in their obedience to His Laws.
 
     Living holy lives in today’s culture is not easy. Lost people around us live as they please and practice immoral abominations with whomever they want. Their families and their children are sacrificed on the altar of convenience and they do that which God has condemned in the name of 'love' when all the time it is lust and sin. God has told us better things, and called His people to demonstrate holiness before Him. As we walk in His ways and glorify Him in our relationships and our families, though the culture mocks and taunts us, we can point others to our Saviour, Jesus Christ. He is the Lawgiver who created marriage and proper relations. No matter what man may say, no matter what earthly laws are passed, and no matter what sin is practiced, His is the final judgment that all will have to reckon with one way or the other. Lost sinners will either repent and surrender to God on His terms and receive His gift of life by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for sin or they will bow before their judge in sorrow as they receive the justice for their deeds and for their sin.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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 life of the flesh is in the blood

11/21/2017

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Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. (Lev. 17:12-14)
     Since the days of Noah after the great flood, God had given all animals for meat. Here He reminds the people that they were not to consume the blood because life is in the blood. When animals were brought for sacrifice, the blood was poured out on the alter as a demonstration of the life offered unto God and the life He gives His people. When animals were killed for food, either domestic or wild, the blood was to be drained and the food cooked, that none of the blood was consumed.
 
     God was serious about what the blood meant, not only in the animals which the Israelites consumed but also in what was offered in sacrifice. The prohibition against consuming blood not only looked forward to the cross when Jesus would shed His blood for the sins of the whole world as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, but also because God pointed to His creation of all life. This command recognized that blood is life for mammals, man, and other creatures which have blood. It actually promotes instead of prohibiting transfusions because life is in the blood, and we can share life when we give blood. Plants and insects which do not have blood are not life in the same sense as those with blood and so can be consumed but not offered for sacrifice.
 
     Today we recognize this same prohibition for health reasons and also because Jesus shed His blood for sins and we no longer bring an animal offering for our sins. Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary has completed the need for sacrificial offerings unto God for He is the final sacrifice for sin. We still don’t consume blood because of this instruction because we still know that life is in the blood. The blood which Jesus shed for us gives us life, not in consuming it, but in trusting in what He has done for us. The ceremonial remembrance of His life and death and life again with the fruit of the vine commemorates His offering of Himself and the shedding of His blood that we who believe in Him and His finished and perfect work on that cruel Roman cross might have life and have it more abundantly. For man and those animals with blood, when there is no more blood there is no more life. For the child of God we receive eternal life when we receive His gift of His blood shed for us which has been offered unto God on our behalf that we who could not save ourselves might be saved and born again from above.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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This shall be an everlasting Statute unto you

11/20/2017

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And this shall be a Statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a Statute for ever. (Lev. 16:29-31)
     The Day of Atonement. The once a year national Sabbath holy day in which the high priest offers sacrifices for himself, for the nation, for the tabernacle/temple, and for all the sins of Israel unto God. The ceremonial scapegoat is offered for the sins of the people and released into the wilderness. The sin offering is offered for the priests and Levites. The purification offerings are made to cleanse the temple and all those who come to God on His terms. The blood of the atoning sacrifice for all is brought and poured out upon the mercy seat of the ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies.
 
     A perpetual statute to be observed in strict obedience to the Law of God. The highest holy day of all of Israel’s feast days, pointing to the one who would make atonement for the sins of the world in His own body on the tree. Sacrifices and offerings for sin, for purification, for trespasses, offered that all may be cleansed and holy before God. A high holy day no matter what day of the week it fell on, for it was to be observed annually as commanded, and a day of reflection, repentance, and reconciliation with God.
 
     The single most important day of the year for the Israelites is important for all people, as Christ is our great High Priest, the scapegoat who took our place and our sin, and who made atonement with the Father with His own blood. He is the mercy seat, the propitiation for the sins of the world, and offers forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father for all who come to Him in repentance and faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. That which the Law pointed to and pictured in type is fulfilled in Christ who is the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. He is the final sacrifice, He is the perfect offering, and He ever liveth to make intercession for His saints at the right hand of God.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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 priest shall make an atonement

11/17/2017

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And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. (Lev. 15:10-13)
     To keep the land and the tabernacle clean those with any uncleanness were kept out, were to wash with running water often, and even the vessels which might be contaminated were to be cleaned. God directed the cleansing of His people that the land, and especially His tabernacle, would remain clean. Isolation, purification, and proper treatment were essential commands for His people to remain healthy and clean, both naturally and spiritually. Then, once the infected and unclean were cleansed and healed they brought an offering unto God for their cleansing and for atonement.
 
     God gave the Israelites proper methods of purification and cleanliness in order to keep the land, the people, and His meeting place clean. God is holy and righteous and commanded His people to be holy, to live in His righteousness, and to be clean. For those who may have been unclean temporarily, God set up standards and practices for them and for the priests to isolate them and that which was unclean for a time that any uncleanness not spread to others. He also commanded them to bring offerings unto Him for their cleansing once they were clean and to atone for their sin. They were to understand that God is the healer of their bodies, their minds, and their souls, and Israel was to offer sacrifices for this cleansing.
 
     Our sin, our outright rebellion against a Holy God who created us, leads to uncleanness, both naturally as the ultimate cause of all sickness and disease, and spiritually as sin is in fact uncleanness of the soul before God. God gives instructions on what to do with those who are unclean not just to maintain our health, but also for us to understand what sin and uncleanness of the spirit can do in our communities, our families, and our church. Those we are not of the body of Christ, because they have never repented of their sins and received Christ by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary are to be welcomed into our fellowships that they may come to know Him and have eternal life, but they are not to be accepted into leadership or to teach others because they are not born again. It’s not trying to be harsh or unkind, for we should never be so, but spiritual and corporate healthiness and isolation from the unclean, which God commands.
 
     God has sent those of us that know Him out into this world to reach the lost that they might be saved from sin. He desires that His people strive to be holy and obedient unto Him that we might minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as He provides. We serve others, equipped with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. Our GOD has commanded us to love one another with an unfeigned love, even as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD so that we may all grow in grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our Lord has commissioned those who are His with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to go where He sends us in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we go, we are to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah of GOD might have life in His Name.
 
       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 faith in Christ and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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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