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He is alive

6/21/2016

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And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: He is risen; He is not here: behold the place where they laid Him. (Mar 16:2-6)
     Our Lord, having paid our sin debt, yet without sin, Himself was not subject to death. The grave could not hold Him. Death could not keep Him, for He is life. He has paid for our sins, and satisfied the Father’s wrath, and all who receive Him by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary are no longer under condemnation but free. We free to free to live in Him the life we are meant to live through Him and free to live a life of holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

     The stone was not rolled away to let Him out, but that His disciples and followers would see in, and know that He had risen, that He was alive, and would see them just as He said. The angel was sitting, no longer covering the mercy seat, but now at rest, just as we rest in Him who is our life, our peace, and our rest, because He has fulfilled the Law, made a way for us to have peace with GOD through His sacrifice and given us victory over sin, death, and the grave. We have victory in Him, not to live as we please, or to do as we will, but to accomplish His will and do the work He has for us to do in this broken and sinful world.

     The Lord Jesus has called His redeemed Church to serve Him as His ambassadors, with the Word of reconciliation and righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, and to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need with that which GOD provides. Our GOD and Saviour has commanded us to love one another as He first loved us and gave Himself for us, and to disciple one another in His Word that we might grow up into the full measure of Him who commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Our Master has commissioned us into His service to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and as we go, 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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The longsuffering of our Lord is Salvation

3/28/2016

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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of GOD, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2Pe 3:8-13)
     Our GOD is outside of time and yet intimately involved with His creation. He is patiently waiting for all who will come to Him in repentance of their sin and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary in our place and for our Salvation to surrender to Him on His terms and be born again. From our perspective it may be a great deal of time, which GOD is waiting, but in the light of eternity, and in the eyes of GOD who is eternal and not subject to our time frames, He is right and just. We ought not to equate His foreknowledge with His fore-action.

     For there is coming a day, and we know not when, that GOD will end His wait, and pour out His wrath on all those who do not believe. Those that die in their sins, even while GOD is waiting for others, are sealed in their judgment and guilt. Those who are in Christ, ought to be living in Christ and through Christ, holy, righteous, meaningful, purposeful, and abundant lives with an eternal perspective, not caught up in temporal things which do not matter, and do not last, but focusing on our Lord and all He has done and will do, not as our genie or butler to fix our problems or clean up our mess, but as the Lord of life, the redeemer of all who repent and believe in Him, and the creator of all things who reigns in the hearts of His people, and will rule this earth when He returns.

     The Church of GOD, His people and members one of another, are to be on mission for our King, that others may see Christ in us, the hope of Glory. We are to be about our Father's business, ministering to those who are hurting and in need, loving and discipling one another in the Word of GOD, and taking the Gospel to every creature. His purpose for His people, while He waits with grace and mercy, and we wait on Him is to worship Him in Spirit and in truth, not in our flesh, while we do His will and accomplish His work here on earth, until He is done with us and all who will come have received His grace by faith in Him and repentance of their sin.

      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 Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation

3/24/2016

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For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His Majesty. For He received from GOD the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure Word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of GOD spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (2Pe 1:16-21)
       We can be absolutely assured that the Scriptures, the written Word of GOD, the Sword of the Spirit are Truth, are sufficient to speak to us the thoughts and ways  of God, and the thoughts and intents of the heart, and are authoritative and profitable in perfecting the saints to do the work of the ministry and edify the body of Christ. The Word of GOD is not the words of any men, but holy men of GOD, the preachers, proclaimers, and prophets of GOD, from Adam to the Apostle John wrote as they were moved the inspired Words of our Lord, and their interaction with Him, that we might know of His plan of redemption, and learn of Him. They are true, holy, perfect, just, righteous, settled, without error, and without contradiction, for the words of Scripture are a reflection of Jesus Christ who is without sin, and He has elevated them above even His Name, which is above every name. They cannot fail, cannot lie, and cannot pass away, for GOD who has given it to us, has promised we will always have the Word of God. We are blessed when we hear them and read them, we grow when study them, are kept from sin when we memorize them, rest and follow Him as we meditate on them, and in our obedience and surrender to them He applies them in us.

     Forty authors from various walks of life and backgrounds, all with one thing in common, they were obedient servants of the Most High GOD, who transmitted His Words through their writings, and preserved them along the way, that we would have His Word just as He promised. The Word which reveals Jesus Christ, as our Creator, our Redeemer, and our King. The Word which reveals the work of GOD in love, in judgment, in mercy and grace, and in justice and correction. The Word that tells the beginning to the end, from the first Hallelujah, where the angels rejoiced in His perfect creation to the last Amen, when Christ has consummated all things. The Word that tells us of our sin and rebellion, the destruction of the world in Noah's day, and the confusion of languages at the tower of Babel, also tells of God's plan to save those who will come to Him in surrender to Him on His terms, Jew and Gentile, whom He is redeeming through His Son and their faith in Him and His finished work on the Cross of Calvary for sin and Salvation.

      We, the people of GOD, His ministers and ambassadors are to take the Word of reconciliation, the word of comfort, and the word of righteousness, rightly divided and fitly spoken, to those around us who are hurting and in need. The family of GOD, adopted into the fellowship of the saints, though strangers here in this world, are to love one another and disciple one another in His Word that we may grow thereby, fully equipped, encouraged, edified, and empowered to do His will and accomplish His work of ministry and missions, discipleship and mentoring, and reaching the lost of this broken and sinful world that they might be saved. For GOD has also commissioned His church, His body, the host of the Lord, to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Word of God to all nations, and as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit proclaiming to all who will hear the Good News of forgiveness of sin through repentance and reconciliation with the Father through faith in Him that those who believe that Jesus 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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Be established in the present Truth

3/23/2016

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According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2Pe 1:3-8)
     Our life is in Christ, who is our Hope, our refuge, our strength, and our peace. We will be glorified, if we are in Christ, when He comes back for His own. Those of us who have repented of our sins and received Jesus Christ by faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, are no longer citizens of this world and the kingdom of darkness. We have been translated into the Kingdom of light, and while we sojourn here for a time, we are now citizens of that Heavenly Kingdom, new creatures in Christ, awaiting the Blessed Hope of His return.

     While we wait on the Lord, serving not sitting around, for we are to continue to do all that He has commanded us to do, to make disciples, to baptize those that believe, and to disciple all who are in Christ that they may grow in Him and continue to make disciples, until He is done with us. We rest in Him who is our rest, resting from our labours to save ourselves and taking His yoke upon us and becoming more like Him as He works in us, to produce His fruit of righteousness in us. His children continue in Him and through Him the cycle of growth and obedience which produces fruit in ourselves and in those around us who we are ministering to, through His Spirit and at His command.

     God's people are called to minister, as His ambassadors, to represent the Kingdom as salt and light in this dark and broken world that needs healing and Truth, serving those around us who are hurting and in need with the Word of reconciliation as God provides. His children are commanded to love one another and to disciple one another as we become more like Him who first loved us. The Church of God is commissioned to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this lost and dying world in the power of the Holy Spirit, and as we go proclaiming the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father to all who will hear that they might repent and believe that He is the Christ 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 answer of a good conscience toward GOD

3/18/2016

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But sanctify the Lord GOD in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the will of GOD be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to GOD, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1Pe 3:15-18)
        Our hope is Jesus Christ, the only way to the Father, and we look for His return, first to take us Home to be with Him, and then to judge this earth, rule from His earthly Kingdom, and then all eternity in the presence of our Saviour.  Not because of anything we have done, but because of our faith in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary we who are in Christ have been born again, made new creatures in Christ by the power and presence of the Spirit of GOD who dwells within us. He is in us, and we are in Him and our eternal life, which began the moment we repented of our sins and received His great Salvation by faith in Him, is secured through Him who gave Himself for us.

       Our liberty in Christ is not a license to sin all we want to, or for us to do our will or to do as we please, but a call to holiness because He is Holy and Righteous. We are to walk by faith and in obedience to Him and His Word, which is a reflection of Himself as well as a revelation of GOD and His interaction with and redemption of His creation, this broken and dying world, that others might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are to live His life and do His will, and not our own, while we sojourn in this one, glorifying Him in all things, and pointing everyone to the only one who can save us from our sin, deliver us from our rebellion, and alter the final destination for those who are not secure in Christ, through a covenant relationship with Him in repentance and faith.

     He calls His children to obedience, that we might be His ambassadors for the Kingdom and witnesses of who He is, and with the Word of reconciliation minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, fully equipped and prepared to represent our Lord and Master. He commands His church to love on another as He loved us, and to disciple one another in His Word that the saints might be made perfect to do the work of the ministry and edify the body of Christ. He has commissioned His people to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power and authority we have in Him and through His Spirit and make disciples, teaching them all things, and proclaiming the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father that they might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of GOD 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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Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things

3/14/2016

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Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of GOD, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1Pe 1:22-25)
       The Word of GOD which stands forever, incorruptible and perfect, settled and established, is Truth and is profitable for Doctrine, for reproof, for correction for instruction in righteousness. GOD'S people, Holy and made righteous in Christ, are to stand on its promises, live by its precepts, share its testimonies, and proclaim its judgments. The Bible, GOD'S Holy Word is the seed for the sower and bread to the eater, it is milk to grow on and meat to digest, it is pure, holy, true, and righteous altogether for it is inspired by the Spirit of GOD, and mixed with faith brings Salvation to those that repent and Sanctification to those that obey.

     Its very words are pure and trustworthy, preserved and protected, without error or mistake for they are given by the GOD who cannot fail and cannot lie, and it is a reflection of Him who has revealed Himself to us through it. Its Laws are just, its Commands are sure, and its statutes are right for they are revealed to us from our Holy GOD who wants us to know Him through its pages. Its Author is GOD, its subject is Christ and His interaction with His creation from the beginning, His people throughout history, and in judgment of those who have not trusted in Him and His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, its object is the Salvation of sinful man, that they repent of their sin and surrender to GOD on His Terms and be born again.

     GOD'S Word equips those of us who are redeemed for ministry as we hear, read, study, memorize, and meditate on it, that we might serve those around us who are hurting and in need as ambassadors for Christ, taking the Word of reconciliation to this lost and dying world. His Word encourages and edifies us as we love one another with an unfeigned love and as He applies it, we grow in the knowledge of Him and are discipled by its teachings, adjust our thinking to His thoughts, repent from its chastisements, and learn to obey its righteous instructions. The Word of GOD, with its everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ empowers us to go into this broken and sinful world and in the power of the Holy Spirit that is within us proclaim the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father that those who believe in Him 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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Seeing Him who is invisible

2/26/2016

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to GOD must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: GOD having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. (Heb 11:1,6,39-40)
     Faith: trust and belief in what cannot be seen or what has not yet arrived. Our faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of GOD, which is given by inspiration of GOD, who cannot lie, who is Holy, Pure, Perfect, Righteous, and True. His Word, which tells us of Him and His interaction with His people and the peoples of this broken and dying world, from creation to the consummation of all things, is a reflection of Himself. The Scriptures which cannot be broken are holy, pure, perfect, righteous, and true, from Genesis to Revelation and He has magnified His Word above even His Name.

       It reveals Christ to us, slain from the foundation of the world, to pay for the rebellion and sin of all mankind, and redeemed those who surrender to Him on His terms and put their trust in Him through repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary from their sin, and who is the soon returning Judge and King, who will judge all those who have not believed in Him and rule this earth for a thousand years.

      In this faith Hall of Fame, from Abel to Zechariah, The Spirit, through the author, rehearses the faith of those who believed that the Great I AM was their Saviour, the coming Messiah, who would redeem them from their sin, and bring them to Himself. Their acts of faith are an example for us to continue, to not be weary in well doing, but to endure, to persevere, not because we can lose what GOD has given us by His grace, but because of Him who is faithful to us, and will give us not what we deserve, but what He has promised by His mercy and through His Word.

      Built upon this foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, He has brought His people into Himself, a body and a building, a living organism, each of us as lively stones fitly placed according to His will, that we might serve Him. We are called to be His priests and ambassadors, as representatives of His Kingdom, with the Word of reconciliation ministering to those around us who are hurting and in need. We are commanded to love others, to love one another as He loved us, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may grow thereby and be conformed to the image of His Son. We are commissioned into His army of witnesses, testifying by faith of the GOD whom we have met, and taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to all we meet, and as we go where He sends us, proclaiming the Good News of forgiveness and reconciliation with the Father through repentance and faith in Him that those who 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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Let us go on unto perfection

2/18/2016

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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His Name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when GOD made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. (Heb 6:10-15)
    GOD has promised us, whom He has left to minister in this world, not of it or conformed to it, but strangers and pilgrims in this sinful and dying world, Himself. Those of us who are in Christ, who have a full assurance of Him because we have repented of our sins, and received Him by faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary, will endure to the end. Whether that is the end of our journey here, or the end of the Church age, only GOD knows, but we are to serve Him, not to gain or keep any thing He gives by grace, but because of our love for Him who first loved us.

     We who are inheritors of the faith of Abraham, grafted into the family of GOD by faith, and joint heirs of the promise of eternal life and a covenant relationship with our Heavenly Father through faith in the Son and sealed by the Holy Ghost which is within us are His ambassadors, ministers of reconciliation, with the Word of Truth. Our GOD who cannot lie, who has given to us and to others many great and precious promises, will fulfill all He has proclaimed and revealed, in His time and at His will until He has consummated all things and every Word which hath proceeded out of His mouth has accomplished every thing GOD has intended it to do.

      We are His ministers, to serve at His command, to worship and praise the one with whom we have to do. We are called to serve, to minister to those around us who are hurting and in need, that others might see Jesus in us, the hope of Glory. We are commanded to love one another, edifying and encouraging one another in fellowship and ministry, as we disciple one another in His Word and are conformed to the image of His Son. We are commissioned to teach all nations, taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all we meet that they might know Him, and as we go in the power of the Holy Spirit, proclaim 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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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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