The Lord wants, and has every right to require, complete obedience to Him, for He alone is GOD. He alone is worthy of all our praise, worship, offerings, and service. He created all things by the Word of His power, and cares for all His creation. He provides and watches over His creation and His people and wants what is best for them. He has given us His Word that we might know Him and learn to walk in Him and through Him alone by faith in GOD the Father who is over all, GOD the Son who is the only begotten Son of GOD, and GOD the Holy Spirit who dwells within us and works to bring sinners to GOD.

     We ought to remember all that GOD has done, not setting up idols to ourselves, or to worship the event, but to worship the Lord our GOD. The Lord who sees our need for Salvation and provides Himself. The Lord our Banner, who watches over us and cares for us. The Lord our Shepherd who leads us in His righteousness. The Lord our Healer who became our sin that we might be healed of all our iniquities. The Righteous Lord who makes us a new creature in Christ. He is the great I Am and He alone is worthy of all our praise, as Creator, Redeemer, and King. He gave Himself for us, that we who have repented of our sins and placed our trust in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary could receive forgiveness and reconciliation by being born again and translated into His Kingdom and serve Him until He comes again.

     As long as we are here, as strangers and pilgrims in this land, remembering the works of our Lord and worshiping Him, we are to do His work and accomplish His will in obedience to His commands and His Word in this world. We are to minister, as His ambassadors of His Kingdom, with the Word of reconciliation to this lost and dying world, in it but not of it, that others may know our Lord Jesus Christ. We are to serve those around us who are hurting and in need that they my see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are to love one another, even as Christ also loved us, that all may know we are His disciples. We are to take His Gospel to all we meet, and as we go, share the Good News to those who will hear, that they may repent, believe, 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 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

      Israel was to remember the works of providence, deliverance, and grace by the mighty hand of the Lord. Twelve stones, one for each tribe of the people of Israel from the riverbed, to commemorate and memorialize the crossing of the river, just as the previous generations had crossed over the Red Sea. The people of Israel were also supposed to testify to those that asked, and teach their children well, so that the following generations would remember how GOD brought them through their circumstances, and that He would be with them through whatever He had brought them to.

      We are to remember what GOD has done for us, and testify of His wondrous works, that all may know that we have met the Lord and we are His. We are to live in Him, and trust Him to bring us through whatever He has brought us to, resting in His power and the mighty hand of GOD. Just as He delivered and provided for the people of Israel, so He will do so for His people today, for He does not change. His mercies are new every morning, and His love is everlasting. We are His people, bought with a price, and having received Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary we are secured by His grace unto life everlasting.

      We are lively stones, fitly placed in His Church, that we might be a witness to this lost and dying world of His mighty power and grace. We are to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, that they might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are to love one another as Christ loved us, that all may know we are His disciples. We are to go and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ from His Word, and as we go, tell all who will hear of all that He has done for us and the Good News of reconciliation by faith and forgiveness of sin that comes from true repentance, 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