Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, He may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the Word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My Saying, they will keep yours also. (Joh 15:15-20)
Though we serve the Lord Christ, He calls us friends, and through His Word tells us what He is doing and what we are to do. His Spirit guides us into all Truth, and convicts and leads us in His Way and the way we should go. We are set apart to go to this lost and dying world that they may hear the Good News of Jesus Christ and repentance and faith in His finished and perfect work on the Cross of Calvary for Salvation and reconciliation with the Father.
The world hates us, and His message of hope, peace, and love, because light is come into the world, and men love the darkness because their deeds are evil. Those dead in their trespasses and sins hate us because they don't want to surrender or submit to our Holy GOD and forsake their sIn. We are no longer of this world, and strangers and pilgrims here, and those who seek their own way and their self-righteousness, who hate Him, hate us for we are His disciples. While we are here we must tell them, even when we face persecution, trials, and hatred, for our Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father and His great Salvation from sIn and the second death.
We have the only Gospel of Hope, and Peace with GOD, that they don't want to hear, but we are called to minister anyway, lifting up our Lord Jesus so that He will draw all men to Him. We are commanded to love one another, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may know how to answer every man that asketh us reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. We are commissioned to take the whole Word to this whole world, and preach the Word, in season and out of season, when they will hear, and when they will not, that all who do hear and believe may 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
The world hates us, and His message of hope, peace, and love, because light is come into the world, and men love the darkness because their deeds are evil. Those dead in their trespasses and sins hate us because they don't want to surrender or submit to our Holy GOD and forsake their sIn. We are no longer of this world, and strangers and pilgrims here, and those who seek their own way and their self-righteousness, who hate Him, hate us for we are His disciples. While we are here we must tell them, even when we face persecution, trials, and hatred, for our Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father and His great Salvation from sIn and the second death.
We have the only Gospel of Hope, and Peace with GOD, that they don't want to hear, but we are called to minister anyway, lifting up our Lord Jesus so that He will draw all men to Him. We are commanded to love one another, and to disciple one another in the Word of GOD that we may know how to answer every man that asketh us reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. We are commissioned to take the whole Word to this whole world, and preach the Word, in season and out of season, when they will hear, and when they will not, that all who do hear and believe may 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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