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He that is not against us is on our part

6/10/2016

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And He sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when He had taken him in His arms, He said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in My Name, receiveth Me: and whosoever shall receive Me, receiveth not Me, but Him that sent Me. (Mar 9:35-37)
       When we come to Christ by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary and submit to Him in complete surrender on His terms and repent of our sins we are transformed by the power of GOD to serve Him. We are no longer slaves to sin, but servants of righteousness, new creatures in Christ, walking by faith the life we are meant to live in and through Him, and resurrected to serve our Lord, doing His will and accomplishing His work in this broken and dying world. Those who are counted as great are those who die to themselves daily and serve others, esteeming others better than themselves, loving with an unfeigned heart those within the body of Christ and extending the love of GOD to those without, that they might know Him.

      We serve, not to earn or keep any of GOD'S grace or favour, for we who are in Christ have already received His righteousness, and are secure in Him, but because of His example, and because the love of GOD constrains us and commands us to love one another as He first loved us. We serve because we are not above our Master, and He came to serve, even to give His life a ransom for many, and to pay the penalty for our sin that we could not pay. GOD commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, and we now in and through Him who dwells within, love and serve others, not for our glory or to accomplish our goals, but that GOD may be glorified in us. We are His workmanship and ought to be doing that which He has set us apart to do, by His power, and in accordance with His will and His Word until He is done with us and calls us Home to be with Him.

       Until that day, His servants are to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, with the Word of righteousness and reconciliation, rightly divided and fitly spoken, as ambassadors of the King to this lost and dying world. While we are here, we are to love one another and disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may be perfect, fully equipped to every good work. GOD has called us to serve, commanded us to love, and commissioned us with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we are to go, and as we go, in the power of the Holy Spirit within us, 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.

     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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By the blast of GOD they perish

4/4/2016

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Shall mortal man be more just than GOD? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, He put no trust in His servants; and His angels He charged with folly: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. (Job 4:17-21)
     All of Eliphaz's words to Job would be true, if GOD'S mercies were not renewed every morning, and our life were not hid in Christ who is our life and our righteousness. We cannot be more just or righteousness than GOD, for we have no righteousness on our own apart from Him who put to death the flesh that we might have His great Salvation through repentance and faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. He alone is our strength, and the only way to be reconciled with the Father who is over all. It is foolish to live, or think, or act, otherwise.

      Without Christ and the eternal and abundant life He has already purchased for us, we would remain in our sins, and under the judgment of GOD, just as others who have no hope. We are but clay, made in the image of GOD but flawed by sin, and in rebellion against our Creator, who has already judged all to be guilty of sin against Him who is Holy and just. Without repentance of our sins and saving faith in Him who took our place and paid our sin debt, we would remain under His judgment and perish without the Wisdom which He gives and the mercy and grace He has freely offered to all who will come to Him on His terms. He is the Truth, the Word made flesh, He is the way, through the empty cross and empty tomb, He is the life, our Creator, Redeemer, and King.

     GOD has called His church to speak the Truth in love and the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, not as Eliphaz whose words were partially correct but not comforting. We are to take the whole counsel of GOD, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that those in need might know the Oracles of GOD. Our Lord has called His people to serve Him, as we minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, His ambassadors and servants of the King. He has commanded His children to love one another as members of His body and disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may grow thereby into the full measure of Him who is our life. GOD has commissioned His servants to go with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and as we go, in the power of the Holy Spirit who guides and directs us, proclaiming the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in the Son that those that believe that He is the Christ 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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My roarings are poured out like the waters

4/1/2016

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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. (Job 3:13, 17-19)
     Job, in his misery during this first week when his friends and comforters came and lamented his condition, didn't cry out to GOD for answers yet, but wished for death, even crying that he had never been born. Neither wish was helpful at this point, even though his grief was very real and his condition was very painful and grievous. But, even in his lamenting and crying, He didn't charge GOD foolishly.

    Those of us who are born again by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary and trusting in His great Salvation through repentance of our sin, ought not to allow our circumstances to control us, nor should we respond to them, even in trials and tribulations, we ought to be worshipful, grateful, and at rest in Him who is our peace in the midst of the storm. We may not be happy with what is happening around us, or the evil calamities we may suffer in this broken and dying world, but we can be joyful in the Spirit and wait patiently on the Lord. Though all around us may be chaotic and uncontrollable, He is our strength. Though we may not see the goodness in those things which come our way, He is our Lord and is in control, working all things for His glory and for His purpose of conforming us to His image and growing us into the full measure of Him.

      For GOD calls His Church to serve, as His ambassadors, not sitting around the meeting house congratulating ourselves on how spiritual we are because we bothered to show up on Sunday, but ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need, with the things of this life, and with the Word of GOD, rightly divided and fitly spoken. GOD commands His children to love one another in fellowship, forgiving and forbearing one another, and as members in particular, even as He loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may grow thereby.  GOD has commissioned and sent His people forth in the power of the Holy Spirit and with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that as we go into this lost and dying world, we may proclaim His Good News of forgiveness of sin through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son that in believing that Jesus is the Christ 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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Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus

2/12/2016

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But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known My ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living GOD. (Heb 3:6-12)
    We who are secure in our Covenant relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, who have reconciled with the Father by repentance and faith in Christ, and are born again from above by the Spirit of GOD that now indwells us, are fitly placed in the Body of Christ, lively stones in the building made without hands that He is building to accomplish His work and do His will in this broken and dying world. GOD has called those who respond in faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary to remain faithful, not because we can lose the Salvation that He has given us, but because He is faithful who has called us to Himself.

     GOD warns those who are not the Christian they think they are to make their calling and election sure, to trust in Him and Him alone for Salvation and not themselves or their works, that they not turn back from Him who is our rest when trouble and provocation comes. When faced with persecution or even the choice of Christ or this world's ways, many who are not truly in Christ will shrink back from Christ not having the Spirit of GOD to empower and encourage them to be stedfast and unmovable, or to guide them into all Truth.

     Those of us who are new creatures in Christ may waver for a time, but cannot be unborn again any more than we can be unborn. That security is not a license to sin, or to do as we will, but liberty to live in and for our Lord Jesus Christ whom we serve, not to gain or keep Salvation, but because we are His servants and seek to do His will and work in missions, ministry, and discipleship while we evangelize those who do not know Him. 

       We are called to serve as His ambassadors, with the Word of reconciliation, ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need. We are commanded to love with the unfeigned love of the brethren and disciple one another in the Word of GOD until we are all conformed to His image and He is done with us. We have been commissioned as His witnesses to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all we meet, and as we go, in the Power and at the direction of the Holy Spirit within us, we share the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation to those who will hear, that those who trust and repent of their sins 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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Blessed be the LORD

2/8/2016

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Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son. And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. (Rth 4:10-14)

     Boaz confronts the near kinsman, who will not redeem Ruth, because she was a Moabitess, so Boaz does what is right and lawful and redeems her and her property. The marriage leads to a child, Obed who would be the grandfather of King David, who was an ancestor of Jesus Christ after the flesh. GOD was, and continues to work His plan in the lives of His people. Boaz was the son of Rahab of Jericho, and marries Ruth of Moab, and they are included, even mentioned by name, in the genealogy of our Lord. This interlude during the time of the Judges shows that GOD is even interested in the Salvation of the Gentiles, that GOD is involved in His creation and with His people. It also demonstrates all the aspects GOD set forth in the Law of the kinsman-redeemer, which Christ would fulfill as He redeemed us from the curse of sIn, death, and the Law.

      We are redeemed, delivered and made free, one with Christ Jesus, not in deity for we do not become gods, but in relationship and fellowship with our GOD and our Saviour. We are not free to sIn or do our own will, for our will is to be surrendered to Him completely and unconditionally and we are to reckon ourselves dead, that we might live in Him and He in us, a life of holiness and righteousness which only comes from Him. We are to be set apart, Holy for He is Holy, living in this life lives that demonstrate not only our faith in Him and His Word, but His power and work in us.

      He has called us to come out of this world into Himself, no more strangers with GOD even while we are strangers and pilgrims in this lost and dying world. He has redeemed us to His service, to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. He has adopted us into His family and commanded us to love one another as He has loved us and to disciple one another in His Word until we all grow up into the full measure of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He has rescued us from ourselves and from sIn, not to continue in sIn, but to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others in the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us, that those we meet might know the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father, through repentance and faith in the Son and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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 Spirit of the LORD began to move

1/21/2016

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And Manoah said unto The Angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? And The Angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after My Name, seeing it is secret? So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on. For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that The Angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. But The Angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that He was an Angel of the LORD. And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen GOD. (Jdg 13:17-22)
       The Lord appeared unto Samson's parents to announce his birth, and to prepare them for what they would have to do in raising Samson as a Nazarite. Manoah and his wife worshiped GOD and offered sacrifices unto Him which he accepted. The Lord had not appeared unto them to dispose of them, for their life was already in His hand, but that they might be used in His service and bring forth another judge for the people of Israel who were once again oppressed by their enemies.

       GOD has a plan for His people, and when He wants to do something and shew Himself strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him, He uses His people and calls us to the work, not because of our strengths or our abilities or our gifts, for those all come from Him and He knows us better than we know ourselves, but that He will be glorified in the work in and through us. Samson's parents weren't anything special, nor would Samson do every thing right in the sight of the Lord, but it was GOD that was doing the work. When we trust Him and rely solely on Him for our strength and instruction, He can and will accomplish great things through us, not for our glory, but for the glory of the Lord who alone is worthy of all praise, honour, and blessing.

       Today, GOD works through His Church to accomplish His will and to do His work in this broken and sinful world. He calls His ambassadors to reach out as ministers of reconciliation and minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. He commands His disciples to love one another, with the unfeigned love of the brethren, and to equip, edify, and encourage one another as we grow in His Word and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ until we are all grown up into the full measure of Him. He commissions each of us to the proclaiming of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, teaching those that hear and believe the Good News all things whatsoever He has commanded us, that those who repent of their sins and trust Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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 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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Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men

12/24/2015

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During this 'most wonderful time of the year' let us put aside any controversy about the time or the date or the traditions.

Let us remember JESUS.

Let us not be like Zacharias and have doubts.
Let us not be like the inn too busy and too full for HIM.
Let us not be like Herod and Jerusalem intolerant and troubled by HIS Kingship.
Let us not be like the Priests and Scribes knowing the scriptures but indifferent to the Messiah.

Instead, let us join with Gabriel and announce HIS Coming.
Let us join with Mary and surrender to HIS will, pondering all things.
Let us join HIS cousin John and leap for joy.
Let us join the Angel host and proclaim HIS praises.
Let us join the shepherds and find HIM, telling all who will hear of WHOM we have found.
Let us join the wise men and worship CHRIST, presenting ourselves and our gifts to HIM.


AMEN

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Jefferson, Glenda, Abigail, and David

The Sweets
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If we be dead with Him we shall also live with Him

10/5/2015

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Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of GOD, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of Ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His Cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. (Col 2:12-17)
     Before Christ we were dead in sin, a descendant of Adam and worthy of death. In Christ we are made alive, a child of GOD, and by His mercy pardoned, not to sin more, but to live in His righteousness. In our former life, which we now reckon as dead, we were alienated and at war with GOD. Now we who are risen with Christ, as demonstrated by the baptismal ceremony, and are adopted into His family and reconciled with the GOD who is our Creator, our Redeemer, and our King.

     The Law which points out our trespasses and informs us of our sins and transgressions of the Law cannot save us, no matter how perfect we may try to keep it, which we cannot do. The commandments and ordinances which GOD gave His people, whether Noah, Abraham, or Moses and the Israelites cannot make us right with GOD, but was given to bring us to the place where we recognize we cannot be righteous apart from GOD, and our need of Him to save us. Only our faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary leads to life eternal. When we changed our mind about ourselves, and GOD, and turned to Him in repentance and surrender on His Terms, then by His power and because of His grace, mercy, and love we were born again from above.

     In Him we are not bound to any particular Law or rules, but in have liberty and with responsibility to one another, we live the righteous life we were meant to live. We don't live our own lives, for we are dead, but out of love for our Saviour, Jesus Christ, we walk in the Spirit that indwells us, and remain in Him and He in us, to do His will and continue in obedience to His Word as He conforms us the image of His dear Son. We are now members of His Kingdom and it is He that works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure as the members of His body while we are here in, but not of, this sinful and dying world.

     While we are here, we are to be His ministers, reaching others who are hurting and in need to meet their needs as GOD provides and share the Gospel. We are to love one another as He loved us, and gave Himself for us as we grow in Him and disciple one another in His Word. As we go where He sends us, we are to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world, that all who hear and believe the Good News from His Word with faith and repentance 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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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ

9/24/2015

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 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of GOD by faith: That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of GOD in Christ Jesus. (Php 3:8-14)
    Those things we did before Christ, whether to earn Heaven when we cannot, or out of ignorance and our sIn nature, are forgiven for those in Christ, covered by His blood because we repented of them, and placed our faith and trust in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary that paid the price for those sins. Though we can, as Paul did, testify of what GOD has brought us from and through, we should not live in the past. If we are forgiven by GOD, the guilt for our sIn is gone, and we ought to move forward, forgiving ourselves, and continue in the Way through His power in us to deliver us from sIn, from the works of the Law which cannot save us, from our  own righteousness which is as filthy rags, and put on Christ.

    For those who have believed and been born again by our faith in Him, we know Him through experience, through His Word mixed with faith, without which no man can please GOD, and through His Spirit within us. We reckon ourselves dead to ourselves, dead to this world, and dead to sIn, that we may live in Christ, walk in His Word, and put on His righteousness, for He is our life. We are not perfect, entire, or complete yet, but we are to grow into Him through His Word. We have all of Christ we need to be conformed to the image of His dear Son, transformed by the renewing of our minds, resting in Him who has saved us from sIn and from ourselves. Our trust in Him to complete the work in us that He began when we were justified by faith empowers and encourages us to do His will and work in this world.

    We are equipped with His power, and His provision to minister to those around us, as GOD leads us in our ministry, to meet the needs of those who are hurting and in need. We are empowered with His Spirit to love one another, and those without, and to hear His voice from His Word and grow thereby from its precepts and Doctrine. We are emboldened by what He has done for us to take His Gospel and His Word to this lost and dying world, that those who hear the Good News of Jesus Christ, repenting of their sIn against our Holy GOD and turning to Him for Salvation, and trusting in Him and Him alone for reconciliation with the Father might have life in Him, through Him, by  Him and 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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Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us

9/10/2015

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For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of GOD. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of GOD upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. (Eph 5:5-10)
    As Christians we must understand, behavior matters. Character matters, and how we present ourselves in obedience to GOD is reflective of our position with GOD. Our Eternal life in Him and His forgiveness is not immunity with our Lord, nor can we sIn with impunity after we have received Him, for He is Holy, and calls us to be Holy. We are to be Christ-like, in humble obedience to the Father in all things, that He might be glorified in the light that shines through us. We are free because of Christ, but we are to be different than this world in all things, not just political actions, or social interactions, or even our desires and thoughts, but in all things for we are new creatures in Christ.

    Our old ways are not the way we walk any more. We now walk in the Spirit, and live in liberty but not license, and have our being in Christ and He is us. All that is of our old life is to be put away, buried for that life is dead, and we are raised to walk in newness of life. Friendship and compromise with the world is not an option either, for GOD says that the worlds system is at war with Him, and we who are on the Lord's side must not turn to the world or try to 'go along to get along', as the saying goes. Our choice was made when we surrendered all to Him in repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary and were born again. We are to come out of the world, its systems and religions, and live the new life we have received.

    As we walk in Him we are to accomplish His work and will in this world, to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as His ambassadors. As we live in Him we are to love one another and grow in grace through His Word until we all come into the full measure of Him. As we go where He sends us, we are to take His Word and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world that those who hear the Good News may repent of their sins and believe in Him 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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