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Touching the Almighty, we cannot find Him out

5/18/2016

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Behold, GOD exalteth by His power: who teacheth like Him? Who hath enjoined Him His way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? Remember that thou magnify His work, which men behold. Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. Behold, GOD is great, and we know Him not, neither can the number of His years be searched out. (Job 36:22-26)
      Elihu continues with his comments toward Job and his friends, this time exalting GOD and proclaiming His attributes in worship and praise. Elihu might not have had every thing right, but of all Job's counselors, and Job himself, Elihu seems to be the closest to trying to explain God, His wisdom and righteousness, His holiness and understanding, all from their human experience. Job and his friends, even Elihu, had no idea about what was going on in the spiritual realm, nor did any of them really know and understand the wisdom and character of the Almighty GOD whose ways are past finding out.

     We cannot know GOD apart from His revelation of Himself, for His way are above our ways, His thoughts are above our thoughts. He is far past our understanding, and our sin has corrupted our knowledge of the Holy. Because GOD loves us He has given us not only the general revelation in creation that He is, but also the specific revelation in His Word, that which was written down which reveals Him, and when He became flesh and dwelt among us. The Scriptures speak of Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD who is GOD the Son, and our Lord, who spoke all the worlds into being, has given us His Word that we might know Him.

    Those who are born again, who have repented of our sins and trusted in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for Salvation, are called to serve, not at the will of men or conformed to this world, but doing His will and accomplishing His work in this sinful and broken world we sojourn in. We are to take the Word of righteousness and reconciliation, rightly divided and fitly spoken, to this lost and dying world as His ambassadors and minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. We are to love one another as members one of another and disciple one another that we may grow in Him and be transformed by the renewing of our minds. We are to go with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and as we go where He directs 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.

     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 Lord is not slack concerning His promise

3/29/2016

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Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is Salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. (2Pe 3:14-18)
     Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, and waiting for His return, that Blessed Hope, doesn't mean sitting on the pew and wishing He would come back. It means being about our Father's business, of ministry, missions, and discipleship as we evangelize the lost and edify and mature those who are secure in Christ. It means worshiping Him who is worthy in Spirit and in Truth rather than in acts of the flesh, rejoicing in the fellowship we have in and of one another, reaching out to others who are hurting and in need, pointing people to Christ and testifying of our risen living Lord, and encouraging one another in the knowledge of Him who is our Saviour because of His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, our Redeemer because of our repentance of sin and our faith in Him, and our soon coming King, for He is the righteous Judge, the Creator and Lord of the Universe, the Holy One of Israel, and the Head of the Church.

      As we wrap up this series, having covered the general epistles, and most of the New Testament, other than Mark and Luke's Gospels, our final view of Peter's final message gives us encouragement and exhortation to look to eternal things, not temporary things. To be steadfast in our study of the Word of GOD that we may grow and mature in Christ, to be constant in our prayers to hear from GOD, and to consistent in our love and care for one another as we continue this journey, as strangers and pilgrims, foreigners in this world, but fellow saints with all who are in Christ, and all who have gone on before us to be with Jesus. With our feet firmly planted on the foundation of Christ and His Word, and having the mind of Christ, we bear one another's burdens and provoke one another to good works, while reaching out to others that they may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory, until He is done with us.

     GOD has called, commanded, and commissioned His people to be His ministers, His servants, His ambassadors, and His witnesses. We are to go out into this lost and dying world with the Word of righteousness and reconciliation, equipped and empowered to speak the Truth in love, and with the Word fitly spoken, proclaim His love, mercy, and grace to all those GOD sends our way and in our path. We are to love one another as He loved us, with charity and as members one of another, not just in the four walls of our meetinghouse, but wherever GOD'S people are doing the will of GOD and the work of the Kingdom. We are to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ as we go and proclaim in the power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit the Good News of reconciliation with the Father through repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ alone, that those who hear might believe and in believing that He 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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Be patient therefore unto the coming of the Lord

3/10/2016

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Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (Jas 5:13-16)
     For those who are in Christ, we have an advocate with the Father we can pray to, worship, praise, and trust with the cares of this life because He cares for us. We can pray for one another in the power and authority we have in Christ, not because we are any thing other than His people, but because He has told us to boldly approach the Throne of grace to find help in time of need and to bring our petitions to Him who ever liveth to make intercession for His saints. Our songs, our anointing, and our prayers are to be prayers of faith, trusting the Lord Jesus, who cannot fail, to receive our worship, because He alone is worthy, and answer our prayers and to give us what we ask for when we ask according to His will that He might be glorified in all things.

    Just as we give our children what they ask for when they ask for something that we already want to give them, so it is with our perfect Heavenly Father. He loves us, and commended that love in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, He not only wants what is best for us, but He wants to bless us and provide for us according to His riches in Christ Jesus. Every good and perfect gift comes from Him who does not change, and He already wants to give us what is best for us and what we need as we sojourn in this sinful and broken world, and do His will and accomplish His work while we are here until He is done with us and takes us Home to be with Him.

      Until that day, we are to encourage one another, pray for one another, and forgive one another, that we may show ourselves faithful and that we are His disciples and members of His family and of His body, the Church, and members in particular. We are to pray for our ministries and those who serve as we minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. We are to pray for one another in love and for our growth as we encourage and exhort one another, and disciple one another in His Word to the edification of His people. We are to pray for our witness, as we take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world, and as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit, praying for those who hear the Good News of forgiveness through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, that they might believe and receive eternal 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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Sit on My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool

2/10/2016

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But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever: a Sceptre of righteousness is the Sceptre of Thy Kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore GOD, even Thy GOD, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail. (Heb 1:8-12)
      Our GOD shall reign for all eternity. Our Lord, who became flesh and dwelt among us, is exalted above all others. Jesus Christ is Lord, He is the Creator, He is our Saviour, our Redeemer, and He is King. He is our Righteousness, He is our Judge, all things are held together by His design, and by His power. This world is still under His control, and by Him all things consist. He is worthy of all praise and honour; for His provision, for His power, for His eternal love and mercy.

      He does not change, He cannot lie, and He that has always been, will always be. He that was slain from the foundation of the world, became man and put to death the flesh for our sin, and rose again the third day by His power and that He was without sin, and is set down at the right hand of the Majesty on High, interceding for His own. He is coming back, first for His own, then to rule an earthly Kingdom, and then the final judgment and consummation of  all things. Only those in Christ by faith through grace, from Abel to that final kingdom, will be with Him in eternity. He invites all who will to receive Him and be born again.

     Those who have acknowledged their sin as an offense against our Holy and Righteous GOD, and repented of that sin in faith, and received Him by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary are surrendered completely and without conditions on His terms to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We serve Him as members of His body. We are ambassadors of His Kingdom. We are adopted brethren, heirs of the righteousness which is His, and now live in and through Him who is our life.

    We who are new creatures in Christ by His grace and mercy, are His subjects, not slaves to sIn, nor living in sin as we want, but called to be ministers of reconciliation as we minister to those around us who are hurting and in need. We who are translated from the kingdom of darkness into His Kingdom of light are commanded to love one another with the unfeigned love of the brethren and to disciple one another in His Word until we all grow up into the image of the one which we have to do, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We who are able ministers of the New Testament are commissioned to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations and peoples, and as we go, sharing the Good News of reconciliation with the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us until all have heard, 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 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 LORD is with thee

1/8/2016

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And the Angel of GOD said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the Angel of the LORD departed out of his sight. And when Gideon perceived that He was an Angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an Angel of the LORD face to face. And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it JEHOVAHSHALOM: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. (Jdg 6:20-24)
     Our Lord, in one of His pre-incarnate appearances, comes to Gideon with the call to service and victory under the mighty hand of GOD. Gideon was rightfully fearful in the presence of GOD Himself, and when He understood, He worshiped with offerings and praise, building an altar commemorating the Prince of Peace who had come to Him. Gideon was rewarded for his faith and because GOD had work for him to do, as judge and deliverer, to lead the people of Israel as GOD once again brought peace into the land and to His people.

     Because He loves this world, GOD calls all to a covenant relationship with Him through repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. Those of us who have received Him and been born again are at peace with GOD through Jesus Christ, and are called to service and becoming Christ-like as we grow in Him and fellowship with Him. Those who have His great Salvation and love Him because of His forgiveness and reconciliation toward us are not licensed to sin more, but are called to holiness and His righteousness. He is with us and in us, and the new life we live in Him by His grace is His life in us that we live by faith in Him and for His glory.

     GOD, who is our peace and worthy of all worship, has work for us to do. His Church, which we who are His are members in particular, are His servants, His disciples, and His witnesses. We are called, each of us, no matter our condition or place in the body, to serve Him and minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, as He provides and guides us who are obedient to His Word. We are commanded, as members one of another, to disciple one another in His Word and in the love of Christ. We are commissioned to go into this world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us, and as we go, to testify of His grace, mercy, justice, and judgement, that those who hear and believe the Good News of peace and reconciliation with the Father might have life in His Name.

     For GOD is not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and the knowledge of the 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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Let them that love Him be as the sun 

1/7/2016

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Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD GOD of Israel. LORD, when Thou wentest out of Seir, when Thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD GOD of Israel. (Jdg 5:2-5)
      Deborah sang a song of praise unto the Lord for the victory that GOD brought to Israel. She worshiped Him for His deliverance of His people. Though Barak led the armies against their enemies, and Jael nailed Sisera to the floor, it was GOD that gave them the victory. The Lord moved against the enemies of Israel, and they could not overcome the children of Israel. Chariots of iron, fields of soldiers, even the very mountains cannot stand before the LORD GOD Almighty.

     If GOD be for us, who can be against us. Though in this life they may seem to be victorious for a season, or even have the upper hand against us for a time, GOD has already won. Our weapons are not carnal, or of this world, but mighty through GOD to the pulling down of strong holds. We don't war against the flesh, but against principalities and powers, that though they have some rule over the darkness of this world for now, they are on a short leash, and thanks be to GOD who hath given us the victory in and through our Lord Jesus Christ.

     GOD, put on flesh and dwelt among us, and conquered sin, death, and the grave on that cruel Roman cross when He finished the payment for our sin. He took away all the ordinances which were against us, not so that we could sin all we want to, but so that we could live holy, victorious, and righteous lives in and through Him and shine as lights in this world, and dwell in Him and He in us, until He brings us into His presence and we are evermore with the Lord.

     Until then we, as His ambassadors, are called to minister in His Name to those around us who are hurting and in need, as salt and light to a thirsty and dark world that needs to see and know the love of GOD. While we are here, as His children and members one of another, we are to love one another and disciple one another in the Word of GOD, that we may be equipped to heal, encouraged to shine, and enabled to the battle He has already won, as we grow into the image of His Son through His Word and in His Spirit. As long as He tarries we, as His witnesses, are to go out into this lost and dying world with the shining light of His Gospel and praise Him, and as we go, telling all who will hear of the Good News of Jesus Christ, that those who will hear and believe in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary 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 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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It shall be a witness between us that the LORD is GOD

12/23/2015

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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your GOD, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His Commandments, and to cleave unto Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD. Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you. GOD forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our GOD that is before his tabernacle. (Jos 22:5, 26-29)
     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
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That ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you

12/22/2015

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All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs. These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities. And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which He sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that He sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. (Jos 21:41-45)
       In addition to the cities of refuge, for the slayer of blood, GOD gave cities in every region to the Levites, who worked in the temple and had no land for themselves. He had promised that they would be maintained through the offerings of the people, and now He gave them cities to live in throughout the nation of Israel, that they might minister to the people, even as the people were to minister to those subdued peoples that remained within, and their neighbours without. GOD gave them peace, that they might witness of His power and glory.

       We are called to be a Kingdom of priests, an Holy nation, a peculiar people. GOD has work for His people to do, to be about His business, and to glorify and testify of Him, not only through our lives, but also with our words. Our words and deeds ought to be holy and to honour our Lord, who gave Himself for us. We ought to also, appreciate and honour those who minister in the Word and in positions of service and authority within the body under the headship of Jesus Christ.

      No matter where GOD has called us to serve, or how, we ought to honour Him, hold fast to our profession as His people, and through His Word, in the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us, direct others to Christ and His great Salvation through repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary. He has called all His people to the ministry of reconciliation, that we might meet the needs of those around us who are hurting and in need. He has commanded His body to love one another, even as He also loved us, and to disciple one another in His Word until we all come into the full measure of Him. He has commissioned His servants and friends to be witnesses unto Him, that as we go, we may take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world, that all who hear the Good News 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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According unto the Word of the LORD which He commanded

12/9/2015

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Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the Covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. And afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. There was not a Word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them. (Jos 8:30-35)
     After the victory over Ai, at the direction and under the mighty hand of GOD, Joshua and the people of Israel worshiped GOD. They reviewed the Word of GOD, reading all the Words to the people, and reminded themselves of His majesty, power, Commandments and providence for the His people. Reading GOD's Word in praise reminded them of His love, but also His judgments and corrections upon those who oppose GOD and those He chastens because He loves them. All that were present of the people of GOD heard His Word and rejoiced and praised the GOD of the Word because of His victory and because He is worthy of all our praise.

    We ought to praise our GOD, worshiping Him not only in Spirit and in Truth as He desires, but in love and with His Word. We ought to sing His psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord who has purchased us with His own blood for He is worthy. We who are born again, not by our own will or works, but by His power and Spirit, because of our repentance and our faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary ought to love His Word as a love letter to us. We should hear, read, study, meditate, and memorize the History book of the Universe and praise Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, who created us in His image, has redeemed us from our sIn through His great Salvation, and has given us His Word that we might know Him and He might live it in us, until the day He bring us unto Himself that we might be with Him where He is.

      Until that day, equipped with His Word to the ministry He has given us, we are to forth and in His power and at His direction, accomplish His work and do His will in this lost and dying world. As ministers of reconciliation, we are to take the Word of reconciliation and minister to those around who are hurting and in need that they might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. As disciples of our Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to love one another even as Christ also loved us, and disciple one another in His Word that we might grow thereby into the full measure of Him. As witnesses of His majesty, power, and redemption, we are to take the Gospel, and as we go, share the Good News of Jesus Christ with 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 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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