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Some people say there is no God, some believe that man came from Evolution. Some believe that when they died, everything will come to an end.
These are all godless concepts. These are the people who anti-God, anti-Christ, living a life full of the flesh.
Praise God for the Rapture! We know the Bible talks of this day coming and what an awful day it will be in this world. The Bible assured us that it is the truth.
We know that Man is incapable of ruling his own life by His own strength so it is either God or the Devil, Christ or the Flesh who is ruling over their life.
God in His love and mercy has given us Christ to save us from our sins.
According to the Bible,
- There is a God.
- It is God who created us.
- He has provided us a Savior (Christ) to deliver us from sin and gives us eternal life.
- We are to live for Him and to serve Him only. Since Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins, we must die to self-will and live to glorify Him only. He, in turn will give us abundant life on this earth.
- We are to obey God’s commandments. All mankind will be judged for the way they live on earth, the unsaved will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment and the saved at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
- He promises to give us spiritual victory and a holy living. All Christians must abstain from moral impurity.
- He promises to give us spiritual freedom, the fruit of the Spirit and an abundant life.
Jesus Christ is our King! We are to be faithful to God, His son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We must also be faithful to our country, and our leaders because they are all set up my our God.
Our relationship with God is built on the foundation of an unbreakable blood covenant that God first made with Abraham and then with Jesus Christ.
God made the blood sacred. In all the covenant making, the blood has always had special importance.
When people of the Old Testament times enter into a blood covenant with each other, blood was looked upon not only a symbol of life but also the very life itself. It was the priority relationship. It superseded all family relationships. A blood brother was closer than a natural born brother.
The blood covenant is also a pledge. It’s the pledge of life, it was a totally unqualified commitment of each one to the other. Failure to live up to the demands of that covenant meant death. When two people or families made a blood covenant together, if one person were to break that covenant the other party was obligated, by the terms of the covenant, to kill the covenant breaker.
This was symbolic of the blood of Jesus Christ shed on our behalf to atone for our sin.
Exodus 4:24-26 tells us that when Moses was on his way back to Egypt. “The Lord met him to kill him.” Moses had broken the terms of the covenant because he had not circumcised his son which was the sign and the seal of that blood covenant. God, by the terms of that covenant, was obligated to come down and to challenge Moses. If Moses refused to abide by the terms of the covenant God would have to kill him. The terms were fulfilled and Moses’ life was spared. We must realize this is a powerful pledge.
Similarly, God is obligated to fulfill His part of the terms of the covenant. God is alive, He cannot die because He is the source of life, therefore, God cannot break His blood covenant with you and I. The pledge is irrevocable.
In the Old Testament times the pouring out of blood in animal sacrifice and an eating of that flesh was a sacred ceremony that brought the participants into communion with our God. They made the sacrifices, spilled the blood, went through the ceremony, and then ate the flesh of the sacrificial animal, symbolically they were becoming at one with their god.
When we go through the Bible, we find many times where God talks about “cutting a covenant” or “remembering a covenant.” Throughout the Scriptures we find little scattering of how a covenant was made. We have it here in Gen. 15, we have it in the story of David and Jonathan, and we also have it in many other stories.
We need to understand how solid the promises of God are to you and I. God is 100% committed, He doesn’t look for loopholes.
God has put the body of Christ together as it has pleased Him. In the members of Christ, when one member is strong another will be weak and you’re weak I will be strong. Sometimes we get upset with one another because we compare our strength with their weakness and wonder why they cannot be like us. We need others to support us in our weaknesses while we support them in their weak areas. When we do that the body of Christ will function in strength and in perfect harmony.
We know that God is perfect and complete in every way. How could God have an area of weakness? God doesn’t have an area of weakness but God has a desire. God created us because of His Love and His own free will. God desired and had a heart for a family. He created Adam and Eve that the earth might be filled with a Godly seed that related to God as children relate to their father.
When sin came in and destroyed that relationship, a blood covenant was cut because God wanted something that we could provide. We needed forgiveness. We needed to have fellowship with God. We needed God’s provision. We needed God’s strength. We needed God’s health. We needed all of these things and so God’s strength flows to our weakness and a covenant was cut from strength to weakness.
”He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Rom. 8:32)
Because of God’s covenant with us, we don’t have to carry anymore condemnation. We don’t have to carry sickness, diseases, bondages and attacks of the enemy anymore. God’s strength flows to our weakness. God’s committed to us by covenant. He didn’t spare His only Son, He made Him the covenant, He made Him the covenant sacrifice.
What is your area of weakness? Is it physical, spiritual, mental? God’s strength flows to that. By His stripes we were healed.
If it involves spiritual or mental sin in our lives, what we need is to REPENT – repent means not only to be sorry for but also to turn away from our sin, our weakness because His strength will flow to your weakness. You’re free because the covenant blood has already been shed, and you’re free. It’s yours.
We have a Savior who is our covenant, who is our representative and who is also the representative of heaven. By the blood of Calvary, the families of heaven and earth have become one.
It means that every believer can come directly to God without going through a priest.
Lord Jesus is our Great High Priest. We can confess our sins directly to God and receive forgiveness directly from God.
“For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (I Timothy 2:5)
It also means that all believers should serve God.
Lord Jesus Himself has chosen us and ordained us to serve Him.
As christians, we are to love, obey, and serve our God. Every believer should be a worshipper, reading bible everyday and a soul winner. He/she must obey what the Lord commands us to do and to follow His teachings as written in the Bible.
The church is not a building or an organization; it is the living body of Christ, and it functions as a body. Paul said to the believers in Corinthians.
“Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”(I Corinthians 12:27)
We are the body of Christ. Christ is the Head of our body. The great truth is we are Christ’s body, we must work together as the body of Christ.” A local church should function as a living body.
In the human body, we have many different members — eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, fingers, legs, tongues and feet. All are different parts, but all are equally important and are all needed for the body to function well.
Christ’s body has many members also. They are all different but all are equally important.
The Bible tells us, “For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” (I Corinthians 12 :14- 21)
Every member of Christ’s body must function. When any member of the body cannot function, the whole body will suffer. Every believer is a member of Christ’s body and has a function each which is vital to the body. The Bible says that the body of Christ must build itself up in love.
In order for the body to function properly all members must obey the head – Christ.
We must subject to Christ, it means we must subject to God’s Word. We must also submit to those whom God has placed as leaders in our church.
The Bible says, “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage ” (Hebrews 13:17)
The local church is not perfect, it is made up of imperfect people such as you and I. When the church assembles together, every member of the body of Christ has a God-given responsibility to attend to and participate including children, young people, and adults. Each member must answer to the Lord for his or her failure to perform his or her duties.
The body of Christ needs one another. One cannot become a strong Christian unless he or she share in the life of the body. When we meet with the other members of Christ’s body, we can draw strength and life from the members of the body.
God wants a body, a whole body, and not just a member here and there?
Lord Jesus gave His church two ordinances. An ordinance is a ceremony ordained by Christ which pictures a spiritual truth. We are still observing the two same ordinances till today:-
- Baptism
- The Lord’s Supper.
What Is Baptism?
Baptism – a ceremony which pictures our union with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.
- When we stand in the water to be baptized, we testify to the fact that we are crucifying ourselves with Christ on the cross.
- When we are placed under the water, it pictures our burial with Christ.
- When we are lifted up out of the water, it pictures our resurrection with Him.
Our Lord Jesus commanded every one who believes in Him to be baptized. It is a command! By baptism we are giving our testimony to the public that from now onwards, we belong to Jesus, we are united with Him in His death, burial and resurrection. We do not belong to the Kingdom of darkness anymore, now we are in the Kingdom of light.
What Is The Lord’s Supper?
The Lord’s Supper – a time of remembrance of Christ’s death on the cross.
- The cup which we drink represents His blood which was shed for our sins and iniquities.
- The bread of which we partake represents His body which was broken for us.
The Bible tells us that we are to observe the Lord’s Supper till Jesus comes again.
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