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The LORD turned the captivity of Job

5/27/2016

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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of Me the thing which is right, like My servant Job. (Job 42:7-8)
     As we wrap up our journey through this both difficult and interesting book of Job, possibly one of the oldest books of the Bible, we see the Word of the Lord unto Job and his friends. GOD was not pleased with Job's friends, for their mistaken characterization of Him, of their attacks on Job and his righteousness, and for their lack of comfort in his time of need. None of them were aware of the spiritual battle and trial that Job was undergoing, nor did they understand GOD and His righteousness and mercy.

     That mercy was displayed when GOD told them to repent and offer sacrifices for their sin through Job. Job prayed for his friends and forgave them and they were spared the judgment they deserved. GOD was under no obligation to offer mercy, but because of His love, He forgave them their sin. He also blessed Job with more than he had before the trial began. His property and health was restored and he had additional sons and daughters and lived a long time. He also got his request granted and his words were written in a book, the book of Job.

     In this broken and dying world there are certain truths we can count on: one, GOD is and He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Two, trials and tribulations come to all, either directed or allowed by our Sovereign King or as a result of living in this post-flood world. In all of these we can trust GOD, whether we are being tested, chastised, or just being rained on. On this side of the grass, we may never know, but we can go to our Father and seek His face and rest in Him who is our rest, our peace, our life, and our eternal security. He offers His great Salvation to all who will acknowledge and repent of their sin against Him and receive Him by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary.

     GOD, who is full of mercy and grace, is also a GOD of judgment and justice. His love is perfect, tempered and balanced by His authority over His creation. He calls His people to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need that they might see Christ in us, the hope of Glory and know of Him through His Word and through His servants. GOD commands His Church to love one another as He first loved us, and to disciple one another in His Word that we might grow thereby. The Lord has commissioned each of us who are His to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and sinful world, and as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit, 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.

     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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That ye may know there is a judgment

4/25/2016

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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of GOD hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as god, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see GOD: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. (Job 19:21-27)
    Job responds to his friends counsel with a well deserved tirade against them for their words of condemnation and rebuke. Job knew that more was going on here, even though he didn't recognize the test that was involved. He knew that GOD had brought this, even though the reality Job was not aware of is that GOD had allowed the testing of His servant. His friends were even worse in their misunderstanding of Job's test and of the nature and character of GOD. Job knew his condition and knew He would see His Lord, His Creator, Redeemer, and King.

      Job got his wish that his words be written down. History does not record who wrote them, but they were written for us to review and study that we might learn from Job. Can we say with the same certainty that we know Jesus lives, and that we shall see Him who has redeemed us from the curse and saved us from our sins and from ourselves. We have more of His revelation of Himself than Job had, and yet many still do not believe. We have His Word, which will not fail, and will never be wrong, and it leads to repentance of our sins and faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for forgiveness and Salvation. Jesus is our Lord, our Creator, Redeemer, and King.

      GOD's mercy, even in the testing of Job, means we are not consumed. His grace offers unto us eternal life in Him. But, when His cup of wrath is full, there is coming a judgment and His justice will be rendered perfectly unto all who have rejected Him. Those who have never repented of their sins and acknowledged His Holiness and their need of Him will face Jesus Christ as their Judge. Those who have never received Jesus Christ and surrendered to Him on His terms will bow to GOD in His righteous anger and justice. Those who have never been forgiven and redeemed, not as a license to sin all we want, but as liberty to live in and through Him who is our life, will suffer the second death. GOD is long-suffering, but He is also righteous and Holy, and must punish sin by death. We can never pay for our own, but Christ has already paid the penalty for sin, the just for the unjust, that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in Him.

     The message of Hope we have is the only message which will save. Only Christ can redeem, only Jesus can deliver the lost, only GOD can forgive all sin and make us new creatures in Him, to have His abundant and everlasting life. The love of GOD constrains us to go and tell all who will hear of His love for all, commended to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. We live in Him, to serve Him, and meet the needs of those around us who are hurting and in need, with the Word of righteousness and reconciliation, rightly divided and fitly spoken, that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. We are His workmanship, loving one another in fellowship as we disciple all believers in His Word, and do His will and accomplish His work in this broken and sinful world. We go with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, where He sends us to proclaim to this lost and dying world the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in His Son, that those who believe that He is the Christ, the Son 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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Believe in Him to the saving of the soul

2/25/2016

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

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

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

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

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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In the midst of the Church will I sing praise unto Thee

2/11/2016

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For if the Word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great Salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will? (Heb 2:2-4)
      GOD has given us His Word to trust and obey, to hear, read, study, meditate, and memorize, as He applies it to our surrendered lives. GOD has testified to His written and spoken Word by the signs and miracles which verified the prophet or apostle saying "Thus saith the Lord". GOD testified of and for His Son, the Word made flesh, by the signs and miracles He performed, not as magic tricks, but as confirmation of the Deity and person of Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, who put on flesh and dwelt among us, who took our place and paid our sIn debt on that cruel Roman cross, that we who trust in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary in repentance and faith might have eternal life in Him.

     GOD so loved every one that He humbled Himself and became a man, lived a sinless life, tempted in all things just as we are, and went willingly to suffer for our sins, and provide for our Salvation. He purchased our redemption when He put to death the flesh, and because He had not sinned the grave couldn't hold Him, and He was raised again the third day according to the Scriptures. He is now sitting on the right hand of the Throne of GOD and ever liveth to make intercession for His saints, until that day when He calls us Home, judges this world and all those who oppose Him, and establishes His earthly Kingdom for a thousand years before all who are in Christ, from Abel to the last person who believes, dwell together with Him for all eternity and all who have never received Him by faith through grace are judged for their sIn and cast out into everlasting fire.

      He calls His people, the body of Christ, to live holy lives because He is holy, and to serve Him, His ambassadors with the Word of reconciliation, to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. He commands His brethren, the children of GOD to love one another as we grow in Him and disciple one another in His Word until we have all grown up into the full measure of Him who first loved us. He has commissioned us as His soldiers and witnesses to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world, and as we go, in the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us, share the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father to all who will hear that they might repent and believe, and in believing have life in His Name.

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

In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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there was no king in Israel

1/29/2016

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Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light. (Jdg 19:22-26)
       One of the harsher and more vile and wicked accounts in the book of Judges. Before the time of the kings, and when there was no judge to deliver the people in Gibeah of the tribe of Benjamen, a traveler is invited into the house of one of the townfolk, rather than lodging outside. Following this, some of the wicked men of the town came calling, not as ambassadors or to extend good will to this visitor, but to rape and abuse him, which they end up doing to his concubine. She ends up dying from her ordeal, and the traveler sends a twelfth part of her to each tribe as a message and a warning, of the sin and wickedness which took place by these Benjamites.

      This great sin and wickedness before GOD and within the land of Israel could not stand. Sin must always be dealt with, confessed to GOD, forsaken, and reconciliation with those we have sinned against sought. GOD wants us to forgive others, even as He forgives us. In fact, how we forgive those that trespass against us, can affect how GOD forgives us. Our fellowship with our Saviour, but not our relationship if we are truly in Christ through repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, can be hampered by our unwillingness to forgive others. He wants brethren to dwell together in unity, to keep the bond of perfectness through the Spirit, as we are family and members one of another.

      GOD must punish sIn, for He is Holy, and all sIn is an affront to and great wickedness and rebellion against Him. We may grade on a curve, but He has one standard of Holiness, which no one born of Adam can measure up to, that is why we need the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the mediator between GOD and men. GOD has called His Church, His children, and His servants to live lives of holiness and righteousness in Him as we do His will and accomplish His work in this broken and sinful world. He has called us to Holiness as we represent His Kingdom, His ambassadors, with the Word of reconciliation to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, that they may see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. GOD has commanded us to love one another, even as He loved us and gave Himself for us. He has commissioned us to His service as witnesses of Him, taking the Gospel as we go, and sharing His Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with all who will hear, that they might repent and believe in Him 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 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 Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of GOD unto Salvation

10/14/2015

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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the Gospel of GOD only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of GOD. Ye are witnesses, and GOD also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, That ye would walk worthy of GOD, who hath called you unto His Kingdom and Glory. For this cause also thank we GOD without ceasing, because, when ye received the Word of GOD which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of GOD, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. (1Th 2:8-13)
    We are to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not because we have to, but because of our love for our Father and our Lord Jesus, but also because of our love of our neighbours. For those who are in Christ, we are compelled because He loved us, to share His love, mercy, and grace to those everyone. We who love GOD with all of our being, and have offered ourselves as living sacrifices unto Him, give ourselves to the sharing of the Gospel that others may also know Him as we do, and be born again as we are.

     Our GOD, who loves every one so much that He came and died for all of us, to pay our sin debt and provide His great Salvation to us by grace through faith, wants us who are His, to reach others. He has left us here to serve Him, not by compulsion or to earn that which He has already paid for by His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, but because we love Him and love one another. We live the life that we live in the flesh by the faith of the Son of GOD who loved us and gave Himself for us. While we are strangers and pilgrims in this broken and sinful world, we walk by faith, guided by His Spirit and His Word, as representatives of His Kingdom, and not of this world, until He is done with us and takes us Home to be with Him.

     Until then, our labor is for Him, through Him, and by Him, and we rest in Him even as we do His work and will to minister to this lost and dying world. We share Him as we minister to those around us who are hurting and in need as GOD provides. We love one another as He loved us and disciple one another in the Word of GOD. We witness for Him and what He has done in us through the Good News of reconciliation with the Father through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ that those who hear and believe might have life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the 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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That ye might walk worthy of the Lord

9/30/2015

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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son: In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the Head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. (Col 1:12-18)
      We who are truly born again by repentance of our sins and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary are made part of the body of Christ the moment we believe. We were justified by GOD's grace, and made a new creature and Kingdom citizens, with our sins forgiven, not to sin more, but to live Kingdom lives of holiness and His righteousness, that we might glorify Him in all things. We are no more citizens of this world, walking in darkness and sin, but saints of GOD, and members one of another in the fellowship of the inheritance that GOD has for His own.

       And He is the Head of the body, our Lord, Master, and King. Through the indwelling Holy Spirit and His Word we have direction and guidance that we may grow up into Him, observe to do His commands, and follow Him in obedience, to do His will and work in this lost and dying world. The physical Kingdom of Heaven is not here, for the King has not returned yet, but the Spiritual Kingdom of GOD is within and we are to live as His ambassadors, representing the Kingdom that is and is to come. We live for and through Him, the life we live now in the flesh is not our own, we are bought with the price of His precious blood shed for our sins, to pay our sin debt, and to free us from the penalty of sin and give us victory over its power until He calls us Home and away from its presence.

        Until that day, we have work to do, not to earn His great Salvation, for He has paid it all, or keep us in His good graces, for we obey our Lord and Saviour out of love for Him who has redeemed us and adopted us into Himself and His family. We are His saints, children of GOD who are to minister to one another in His power and share His mercy with those around us who are hurting and in need that they may see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are all one in the body of Christ, and members in particular, who are to love one another as He loved us, and disciple one another in His Word that we may all grow thereby. We are His witnesses, taking His Word and the Good News to all who will hear, that they may repent and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ and receive Him by faith 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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But now in Christ Jesus ye are made nigh unto GOD by His blood

8/28/2015

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But GOD, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of GOD: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:4-10)
    It is only by the mercies of GOD, which are renewed every morning, that we are not consumed. All are born into sIn, and for many prIde keeps them there, but GOD out of the riches of His grace, commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. After three days and three nights in the tomb, He was raised again according to the Scriptures and ever liveth to make intercession for His saints. All those who are born again by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary are His saints, not because of any thing we have done, but by His mercy and grace.

    We cannot save ourselves, for if we could Christ would not have had to die in our place. We cannot earn any favour with GOD, for then it would not be grace or His gift to us, purchased in His own blood. We cannot affect our Salvation, or our relationship with GOD once we truly have it through repentance of our sins and faith in Him, for it is by His power and His Spirit changing us from once we once were into what He wants us to become in Him. All those things we once thought and did are buried at the Cross for those who repent and believe. Our past is behind us, covered by His blood, and as far from GOD as the east is from the west, forgiven, not to sIn willfully any more or continue in sIn, but to live in liberty and love through and for Him and to accomplish His will and work in this sinful and broken world.

    We who are His, in obedience to His Word and the Spirit of GOD who guides us, go and minister, as His ambassadors to those who are hurting and in need, that they might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We who are His, resting in Him as He works in us both to do and to will of His good pleasure, love one another in the unity of the Spirit and the fellowship of His saints. We who are His, in submission to His commission of His own, go and tell the Good News, and as we go where He sends us we tell every one we meet of our Saviour and Lord so that those who believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ and repent 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 saith unto him, Follow Me

8/11/2015

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So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me more than these? He saith unto Him, Yea, Lord; Thou knowest that I love Thee. He saith unto him, Feed My lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; Thou knowest that I love Thee. He saith unto him, Feed My sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me? Peter was grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me? And he said unto Him, Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed My sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake He, signifying by what death he should glorify GOD. And when He had spoken this, He saith unto him, Follow Me. (Joh 21:15-19)
    Simon Peter, the pebble who testified of the Rock of Ages, then denied our Lord three times, is now tested and verified in both heart and head of his love for our Lord. Jesus confirms his love and tells him all three times, reminiscent of his denials, to feed the flock of GOD, the lambs who are new in Christ, the sheep that are growing in the faith, and the sheep that are themselves leaders in the body of Christ. We are all in need of feeding from the pastors who break the bread of life before us and feed us from the Word of GOD. We are all called to go to those who don't yet know Him that they also may be fed, and learn of Him, in repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary.

    The pastors and teachers who are called to teach, and sent to the people of GOD are to minister from the Word, giving the sense, and causing all to understand the reading. They are called to teach statutes and judgments, and to observe to do all the Word they search diligently to give to the people whom GOD has sent them to feed. We are all called to grow in His Word and to give those that teach us double honour for the calling of GOD upon them and take that which we have learned to those without that we may be able to answer every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear, that they might receive His great Salvation and be born again.

    The followers of GOD are called to give of themselves in His service, and may even sacrifice their lives in testimony of our Lord. We are all, as ambassadors of the Kingdom of GOD, to keep ourselves unspotted from this world, to not be a friend of this worlds ways and systems, but a friend of GOD, and to love Him, in surrender to His ways and His thoughts, which are above ours, that all may see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are called to be His hands and feet in this lost and dying world to meet the needs of those who are hurting in love and mercy as GOD provides. We are commanded to love one another, as He loved us, and to feed the flock of GOD, as we all grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We are commissioned to take the milk, bread, meat, and honey of GOD's Word to those who are not of His Kingdom that they may hear the Gospel, believing in repentance and faith in the Good News of Jesus Christ, 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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... but joy cometh in the morning

8/7/2015

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 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing Him to be the gardener, saith unto Him, Sir, if thou have borne Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto Him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My GOD, and your GOD. (Joh 20:14-17)
    He is risen, He is risen indeed. He has conquered death, for He is life, and has the keys to death and hell. He has overcome the grave, for He is without sIn, and is the way to the Father, for all who repent and believe. He has opened paradise, led captivity captive, and secured the Salvation of all the faithful who look to Him for eternal life. He endured the Cross, despising the shame, because of the joy that was set before Him, and is alive for ever more, and we in Him. He sits at the right hand of the Father, until His time to return to judge the nations and rule His earthly Kingdom. He that ascended will return just as He promised, in triumph and victory, the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Saviour and living Master, Jesus Christ.

    Our Lord, who triumphed over sIn, and hath victory over the grave, sends us, His royal ambassadors, to be His ministers, to this lost and dying world. We have the message of hope, that Jesus lives, and because He lives, we have power, hope, victory, blessings, and the promise that GOD will overcome. We also have a message of warning, that GOD has and will judge sIn, that the wages of sIn is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Our liberty is not a license to sIn, because sIn is an offense against our Holy GOD, who calls us to be holy, and chose us in Him to be holy and without blame before Him in love.

    Because He lives, we can reach out to others in ministry, pouring our lives into others as GOD has blessed us, to meet the needs of those who are hurting and in need, that they might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. Because He lives, through His indwelling Spirit that He has sent to each one of us, we can love one another, forbearing and forgiving one another, as Christ hath forgiven us. Because He lives, we can learn of Him, through the Scriptures which speak of Him, as we disciple one another in His Word. Because He lives, we can share Him with others, telling those who are without the Good News of Salvation by faith and repentance that those who hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with its victory over the second death, 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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