The God Of All Creation

                                                            

The cries of the profane are strangled by the tail of the serpent. As the noose is tightened they yawn and stretch their minds in bored disbelief. Prayers of selfish proclivities dissipate like the mist of the morning. God does not listen. God does not hear, the idle chatter, vain babblings of the insincere. God is not a Genie in a lamp that is rubbed who bows to every vanity of mankind. He is the King of Kings, the  Lord of Lords,  the Great I Am. The One who spoke out all of creation and holds everything together. Every proton, every neutron, every atom that exists, of every created  thing, everywhere in this endless, material universe, consist and are held together by the God of Scripture.

                                       

His Truth is the Way , His Way is the truth. He is the living God of all living things.  He is  Life,  and that life is in his Word. His Word changes hearts, His Word is the Narrow Path,  His Word is the only standard by which one finds their worth. And that Word became flesh and dwelt among us. God did that so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. 

God, through the obedience of His One and Only Son, who was in the beginning with God and was God, sent Him so that He might rescue His people  from the dominion of darkness into which we were born. A sinful, fallen people, called out by God washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ  and by the Spirit of our God. To bring us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption, through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. 

                                      

The angels in heaven rejoice at the calling of one soul from darkness to light. And they stand amazed in God's presence as his plan unfolds before them.  For God does not wish any of His people should perish for God is accomplishing his goal. A new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells. Where there is no longer any crying, any sorrow, or pain, and no more death. For the old order of things will pass away.   

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

                                       

“For who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has become His counselor?”

“Or who has first given to Him

And it shall be repaid to him?”

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:31-33)

Never Again????????????????????????????

                                                         

It appears as if the Unted States of America is not....united. Truth, Justice and the American way have been hijacked through the indoctrination of what has been called higher education. Our colleges are cesspools of rebellion, perversion and vacant ideologies  that encourage the eradication of parental authority, and the raising of children in a community of subservient comrades.

                                     

Independent thinking discouraged, freedom to chose ones life goals, if at odds with the oppressing ideology, meant with scorn, torture or death.  And pursuing  creativity quashed under the boot of terrorism and control set down by possessed egomaniacs and self centered rulers and prophets, so called, from the past. Those whose end  goal was power...for themselves;  control....by their unquestioning authority;  and the subjugation of the masses. 

                                                                                  

We are now reaping what the college professors have sown. America bad....White people oppressive....capitalism unfair and along with Christianity and its Jesus must be flung far away from the leftist, liberal, progressive, socialistic, marxist ideology. Where those working support those who can't, won't and  deplore and repudicate conversative values and whose full time vocation is protesting whatever deviates from what their professors have proclaimed in their tickled their little ears.      

                                    

                                           

I frankly am surprised from those surprised over these college students approval of those terrorists who rob, steal, maim and kill. And not only kill quickly, but torture, men, women and children in the most grotesque manner. Even bashing in or stomping on the skulls of the helpless and severing the heads of little babies in an orgy of violence that has been approved and promoted by their religion of peace. 

                                               

         

Surah 3:151: "We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve (all non-Muslims) …"

Surah 2:191: "And kill them (non-Muslims) wherever you find them … kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers (non-Muslims)."

Surah 9:5: "Then kill the disbelievers (non-Muslims) wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush …"

                                 

    

And now our borders are wide open for anyone to enter in. I ask how many of the over five million illegal aliens (as much as 10 million say some)  are ready to ponce at the chance to cause havoc, death and destruction in the United States. We have let down our guard. A trojan horse of evil has slipped through our gates. And it's only a matter of time before the dragon breaths out fire. And terror is unleashed in a vicious display. For terrorists aren't sleeping. They are just waiting for an opportune time.  

                                   

                            

Jesus Christ Fulfilled ceremonial Law

 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Gal. 5:1)

                                                                

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths. Col. 2:16 (The book of Hebrews tells us The high priest who is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices {still being performed when the book of Hebrews was written} that they serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things--Heb. 8)  For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. (Heb. 10:1) 

Jesus himself said to the people "you must be perfect as the Father in  heaven is perfect." Perfection does not come to one by doing good works, worshipping on a particular day, or by the food that you consume. But by grace through faith and not of yourselves. It is a gift of God not of works....perfection is obtained by the imputed righteousness of Christ imputed to your account. He is the One in whom the Father is well pleased. And the One whom God the Father says: Listen to Him.  

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or a sabbath day. These are but a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Col. 2:16-17)                           For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy spirit. (Romans 14:17) 

                                             

Jesus Christ is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. For he is the only One who can. For He is the Word that was in the beginning with God and was God.   All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (John 1:1-3) According to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen. (Romans 9:5)  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together (Col 1:15-17)                                              

Those who have the Son have life. Those who have not the Son do not have life. But the wrath of God abides on them. (1 John 5:12; John 3:36) And all God's chosen people, by grace through faith--a gift from God--not of works, wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Good works (so called) apart from faith, belief and trust in Jesus Christ  are but filthy rags (Is. 64:6)  As Jesus said, "without me you can do nothing." Nothing of intrinic value in the sight of a Holy, Righteous and Perfect God. The Father sent His Son Jesus Christ  not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  (John 3:17)

So I repeat let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Col. 2:16-17)

                                                 

   

The ceremonial laws of the Old Testament are referred to as shadows because they symbolically depicted the coming of Christ. So any insistence on the observance of such ceremonies is a failure to recognize that their fulfillment has already taken place. (NIV SB)  

Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.  (Rom. 14)

Eating or not eating certain foods does not make you more or less a child of God. As Jesus the Christ said to His disciples and says to us "“Are you so dull?” Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?  For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) Then He added “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,  thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.” (Mark 7:18-23)

                                                     

Jesus made it very plain there is no other way to be accepted By God than through Him. At His crucifixion Jesus was asked by Pilate  "Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him, “Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?”Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all."(John 18)

The perfect, sinless, faultless  Son of God obeyed His Father, came down from His heavenly throne and willingly became a man in order to pay the price for humanities sins and by grace through faith in Him, restore to a right relationship with God those who are born again, born from above,  not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)

                                                         

The ceremonial  laws are fulfilled completely in Him.  For all of it was a shadow of what God's Son would do and accomplish at the cross. The ceremonial law pointed to the Messiah Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life. No One comes to the Father except through Him. Good works do not count toward one's salvation. They are a result of it. For Jesus did not come to destroy the law and the prophets. But to fullfill it.  

 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Gal. 5:1)

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbath Day, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. (Col. 2:16-17)

The early church suffered from the intrusion of those that insisted that something else had to be added to one's faith, some secret knowledge, or ritual in order to complete salvation. And there are those today who insist on the same things. That something besides faith including abstaining some certain foods or worshipping on a  sabbath saturday.  They can become a stumbling stone to God's truth. And become the means by which they believe they are justified.   

The apostle Paul told the church in his letter to the Galatians  "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”   Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.      (Gal 2:20-21; 3:13-14; 24-29)                                            The ceremonial laws have been fulfilled in Christ but what about the moral aspect of the law?  Jesus Himself said, "If you love me keeps my commandments." We are told to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. And Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to a neighbor. Love is the fulfillment of the law.                                                                                       Under the New Covenant we don’t keep the moral law to be saved, but because we are saved. We desire to live a Holy life. To walk worthy of our call. To let our light so shine in this fallen world, that people may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.                                                                          But If you fail in those endeavors apply 1 John 1:9...and strive to do better in your Christian walk. Where once you went with the flow of the world. You now swim upstream encountering all manner of currents that temp you away from obedience to Christ. But God is faithful and will never leave you nor forsake you. For if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord  and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. You will be saved. From the wrath of God that is coming on the whole world and unto eternal life. A citizenship in heaven  where there will be no more mourning, or crying or pain for all will be renewed in the new heavens and earth where righteousness dwells. For God is faithful and just to forgive you your sin and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.     

Splashing Footprints

 

Leaders have betrayed their sacred trust.                                                                                                Hordes of invaders soil a fertile land.                                                                                                         A serpent loosed bites and enslaves.                                                                                               Infecting and deceiving,  invites an early grave.                                                                                       A quick escape, a burden to the host.                                                                                                    Its people dismayed by those who plunder, those who boast.                                                             No desire to assimilate, the ambition enshined to overtake.                                                            Thunderous hordes cross waters, though no welcoming bridge.                                                        Mimic two daughters of the leech,  pleading give, give,  give. 

Compromising With Sin/Breakdown of Society

                                                                

People seem to be committing crimes and abominations in massive  quantities today. And it only seems to be getting worse. Just watch your local or national newcasts. One may say demonic influence or possession seems evident. And being how weak the flesh is, I believe that could be a very reliable statement. For Scripture tells us our struggle is against the world, the flesh and the devil. So we must be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.                                                           

Paul addresses the demonic influence in Eph. 6:10-18.  And if so,  it is still no excuse for ones  transgressions. Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We are tainted by it through and through. And our sin nature, which is with us from birth,  is decidedly influenced if we feed it with the vain, wicked, immoral, and self centered  cravings of this world which are passing away. For as a person  thinks so they are.  With what one fills their mind, you could say,  they become. Junk in-junk out. Which is the common nomenclature for a persons condition today.

                                       

                                   Not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother.                                                                              And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds                                                                                      were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. (1John3:12)

Each person is held accountable for their own rebellious acts before God. He is a Just Creator. "everyone will die for his own iniquity;" (Jeremiah 31:30)  And everyone will likewise be judged when they stand before God. (2 Cor. 5:10) Pursue unholy works of the flesh,  receive a holy condemnation and as a result a just punishment. Don't flirt with sin. For before you know it, you will be engulfed in an ocean of evil. Drowning in your own wicked lusts.                                          

If you say  God is a loving God who sent His only Son into the world to pay the sin debt. You are correct. By repenting, confessing, by  grace through faith, and not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God,  by  Jesus Christ alone. Does one enter into a right relationship with the creator. And thus has a citizenship in heaven. (Phil. 3:20-21)  A place in the kingdom of God. It is then that one is born from above a new creation. The old has passed away, all things have become new. (Gal. 5:17)

                                      

God the Father Sons torture and  torment on that cross reveals to us all how absolutely obscene, disgraceful, offensive and atrocious  our sins are before a Holy, Righteous, Perfect God.  Jesus Himself said " you must be perfect, as the father in heaven is perfect, to have a place in the kingdom of God."  (Matt. 5:48)                                           

Only His Son, by which God has spoken to us. The brightness of God's glory and the express imagine of His person. (Heb. 1:3)  The Word who was in the beginning with God and was God. (John 1:1) Only He is perfect, for He is divine. The One without sin, clothed Himself  in human flesh. Prophesied by Isaiah as a child born, a Son given, born of a virgin. (Isaiah 9:6; 7:14)  Jesus Christ is the One by whom  all things were created in heaven and on earth, (Col. 1:16) and  now sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

No mere human being could satisfy God's forgiveness. Only Jesus the  Christ, being in very nature God,  humbled Himself and  came in the likeness of men. He was obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. His was God the Father's only acceptable sacrifice for sin. (Phil. 2:5-8) All the Old Testament animal sacrifices pointed to the only perfect, acceptable redeemer, who was to come. (For without the shedding of blood, their is no forgiveness  Heb. 9:22) As John the baptist proclaimed as he saw Jesus walking toward Him, "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."  (John 1:29) 

It is God who calls us from darkness to light, by grace through faith, it's nothing we can do.  For in God's economy nothing mankind can do could  warrant His approval. Only His Perfect, Divine, One and Only Son. Born of a virgin, born under the law, could fulfill the law and the prophets. And that Jesus did. (Gal. 4:4-5)

I urge you as God the Father proclaimed to the disciples and Apostles, "Listen to Him! For this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."  Hear him who speaks boldly in our Bibles, for all Scripture is "God-Breathed."  That is God's chosen "Holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:20-21) As Our Messiah Himself has proclaimed " Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." (John 5:24)                                                 

He is coming again as promised to gather his own, His elect from the four corners of the world, and to judge the world in righteousness by the man He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to everyone, by raising Him from the dead. (Acts 17:31) This is the Gospel. 

Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. (1 Cor. 15:3-4) And though this fallen world will proclaim there are many paths to God.  Jesus Christ, very God in very flesh, proves them liars and idolaters when He proclaims" I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through me."  (John 14:6)                                                 

Jesus gives us Hope for He is called "the Blessed Hope." (Titus 2:11-14) And as he said over two thousand years ago to those throngs of people  following Him, He says to us all today...“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28)

If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. You will be saved. (Romans 10:9)

"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”(John 3:36)

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:21-22)

For those who have confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior are "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that they may proclaim the praises of Him who called them out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10)

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,  rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. (Col. 2:6-8)

Goodness of God/ Rebellion of Mankind

 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?(Rom2:4)                                                               

The goodness of God. God's longsuffering. I find it unfathomable in my simple human mind that the God of creation would allow all the evil that prevades our world today. That he doesn't just end it here and now and start all over from scratch. His laws being vacated and replaced with the worship of self, idols, and the gods of indulgence, fleshly lusts and pleasures. People  do not want to believe not only what God has said but to deny that he ever existed. That the God of scripture is the mere invention of man for control and subjugation and slavery of the masses. But the God of Scripture is very longsuffering and His plan of redemption is following the course He has ordained.

When you assess those laws you begin to realize that they are there for our protection. Protection from ourselves, from we who are so easily lead astray  and swayed to seek what is contrary to reason and logic, His enlighting regeneration of a cold dead heart to the things of God, to the way, truth and life,  for our health both physically, mentally and  spiritually.    

Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—  that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Eph. 2:11-13)

   

                                           

The apostle tells us that we were once far from the God of Scripture following the course of this world, blinded by the god of this age, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind  and had no hope. But when the fullness of time had come God sent forth His Son, born of a women born under the law. The Blessed Hope came to all the world as a Blessed redeemer of a Blessed salvation.

Once lost, blind, ignorant of the God of all creation. We have now been brought near to God through the blood of Christ. He is all of humanities great high priest. Who was tempted in every way as we are yet without sin. For Jesus  shared in our humanity and destroyed him who has the power of death, that is the devil, and frees those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 

Satan is the enemy of mankind  who desires to facilitate our rebellion against God. For he desires the destruction of God's creation in general and man in particular. Satan is a murderer from the beginning. (John 8:44) He desired man's death in the fullest sense of the word: Both physical and spiritual death. But God not satan pronounced the curse of death on the world when Adam and Eve fell into sin. Satan, an angel created by God, is subservient to  God. Without permission from God, satan is unable to do anything.   

                                                   

Jesus the Son of God was present at the creation, through whom God made the universe. (Heb. 1:2) He alone was able to destroy satan and did this by means of His death on the cross. Jesus defeated Satan by using the weapon of death. By paying the penalty for us, Jesus took the weapon of death out of satan's hands. Jesus took away the fear of death. 

Jesus  is the only Son of God, who was in the beginning with God and was God, yet He humbled Himself, came down from heaven, the Word became flesh. He is the image of the invisible God; For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. That's right. By Jesus Christ all things in creation hold together. That one who created you and gave you life itself, He made himself of no reputation,  was  conceived in the womb of a virgin, as prophesied by Isaiah. (Is. 7:14; 9:6)  And coming  in the likeness of man,  He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.                                                                

For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,  and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. (Col. 1:19-20) For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Heb. 9:22) No other door, no other way, no other path  leads to God's forgiveness and acceptance. No other god, for all other gods are all idols of man's invention. The only path they lead to is destruction and a hopeless future that only ends in eternal weeping and gnashing of teeth. As Jesus proclaimed.." "And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46)  We are bathed in His perfect righteousness, His fulfilment of the law and the prophets, when we believe in the only name under heaven by which anyone can be saved. Believe, Repent, Confess, Trust and Obey. For there is no other Way, Truth or Life but that in Jesus Christ. 

Sin doesn't seem to be an offense against God anymore. Just a slight slap on the wrist is needed for the rampant evil the permeates society today.  All the crime, murder, sexual immorality, (that is any sexual liason outside the marriage bond of a man and a women)  adultery,  divorce, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness,  blasphemy, pride, and foolishness Jesus says  comes out of a person  and defiles them.                                                  

The  Apostle Paul continues on  in Gal. 5  and 1 Cor. 6:9-11 saying  the works of the flesh include lewdness, idolatry, sorcery,(which in Paul's time was the use of intoxicating drugs used in magical incantations) hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,  envy, and  drunkenness, haters of God, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; and in addition to sexual immortality, idolators and adulterers, Paul also adds  the sins of sodomy and  homosexually. As does Jude in verse 7 where he writes "  as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh,(the strange flesh being God's messengers, the angels...See Gensis 19)  are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." 

                                                 

For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Jesus the Christ  is the answer to humanties dilemma of  death and eternal separation from God. All those sacrifices of animals in the Old Testament were but types of the one and only exceptable sacrifice that would for once and only once be the atonement for sin that God demands.   Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. (Heb. 9:27-28)

Sin is that offensive to God. And not to be trifled with. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do to be accepted by a Holy and Righteous God. For as Isaiah proclaimed "all our righteous acts are as filthy rags" (64:6)  We are fallen, tainted through and through. We are at enmity with God, and need a mediator to intercede for us. God has provided that in the person of his Son.  He is one who bruised the head of the serpent (the devil /satan), (Gen. 3:15)  Jesus Christ is the only perfect, righteous, holy sinless and undefiled suffering servant who was pierced through for our inequities, and by His stripes we are healed. Made right with God by our trusting in the only name under heaven by which we can be saved.

For God made Him who had No Sin to be a sin offering for us. So that in Him (in Christ Jesus) we might become the righteousness of God. A righteousness not of our own doing but  imputed to our account. Our sinful condition is so offensive before our Holy, Righteous, Perfect Creator God, that it took God's One and Only Son,"  the Word who was in the beginning with God and was God (John 1:1) to pay that sin debt. God has in these last days spoken to us by His Son whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high."

 The One who always obeyed His Father, took up the task  to cloth Himself in human flesh, A child born, a Son given, to live a perfectly sinless life while He walked among us on the earth, and submitted Himself to death, even the death of the cross for our sins, according to the Scriptures: As the prophet Isaiah proclaimed over 700 years before His birth when he wrote through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit "For He (God's chosen Messiah) was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. For He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed." (Is. 53:5) 

                                                                

That this chosen One of God was buried according to the Scriptures:  "And they made His grave with the wicked—But with the rich at His death Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth." And that He rose again the third day  according to the Scriptures: "He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied." (Is.53:10-12) 

Jesus Himself tells us the sign of resurrection of the Messiah was a sign of His soon rising from the death "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matt 12:40)  And an  early tradition saw the combined evidence of Ps. 16:8-11 and 110:1 as bearing witness to the Messiah's resurrection: David spoke about the Messiah, when he uttered "that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption." (Ps. 16:10;Acts 2:27)

                                                     

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Reformer John Calvin said, the scriptures are God's baby talk, to us who believe. Desire the pure milk of the word that you may grow thereby. For all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and in the  language in which the New Testament was written literally says, "is God-breathed" and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,  so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim 3:15-16)  For  whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. (James Chapter 1:21-22;25;27)                                                            

Those who are Christ's are New creations. The old has gone the new has come. So says the Scriptures. That new life is to be in the world but not of the world. For everything in the world, the cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and boasting of what we have and do comes not from the Father but from the world, so said  the apostle Jesus loved. God's chosen people, are born of God by grace through faith, according to His mercy, not by trying to appease God through obeying some religious ritual or tradition through good works to gain His favor. For that is not  acceptable since all our works are as filthy rags for their is no one who is righteous no not one. (2 Cor. 5:17; 1John 2:15-17; Romans 3:10-18)

 In our tainted, corrupt human natures we are all, by nature children of God's wrath. Nothing done for God is acceptable, as Jesus said 'without me you can do nothing" that will appease His wrath  because we are His enemies by simply being human, being born of flesh, blood and bones. We are born into sin,  handed down through a sinful adamic  nature which is defiled, and incapable of doing anything worthy of being accepted by God. Being apart from the Messiah is being apart from God. For  when you honor the Son, you honor the Father who sent Him. Those who have the Son have life. Those who have not the Son do not have life. (1 John 5:12; john 3:36)  

Only Jesus the Christ is the one mediator, between God and all persons, the one go between between God and mankind. Nothing else is acceptable. As Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)  God calls a sinner...changes their heart and gives those born again the ability to repent, confess and follow the messiah. As Jesus Himself said, "You did not chose me, but I chose you." 

God chose us. A difficult reality for many.  People are vain enough to think, It has to be that God saw something in me,  something that gained His attention and his deserving of me to enter into His kingdom. But "no one can can come to Christ unless the Father who sent Him draws them" (by grace through faith and not of ourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works, less anyone should boast. John 6:45;65 Eph 2:8-10) It is God and Him alone through the person of His perfect Son, that  saves a lost soul and nothing that person can do, no so called good works without Jesus Christ can give you a pass into God's everlasting and glorious  kingdom. 

Salvation is simply a gift from God to those chosen before the foundation of the world.  The apostle John  speaks about it when He says "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:  who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. " The will of man does not save because that will is at enmity with God . "He saves us not because of the righteous things we have done, but because of His mercy. He saves us  through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit." As Paul said to the Corinthian believers, "you were washed, you were sanctified (set apart for God)  you were justified (made right with God) in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.  Your salvation is one hundred percent from God. A gift of grace through faith and not of yourself. As Peter proclaims in 1 Peter 2:9 "You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." 

Before Jesus Christ is in a persons life, that one  walks in the darkness of this present evil age. They are blinded by the god of this age, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. Following the course of this world, the prince of the power of the air (the devil, satan) who works in the sons of disobedience. And are by nature children of God's wrath. (Eph. 2:1-5) Everyone is not born a child of God. That's what much of the popular media preach. But  David proclaimed in Ps. 51:5 "Behold I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother concieved me."  We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are born that way.  By nature we are born children of God's wrath.  We need to clothe ourselves with the full armour of God provided by God through His one and Only Son. That we may extinguish the flaming arrows of the evil one.  (Eph. 6:10-18)                                                                         

                                           

Well then you might ask who are the children of God? They are the ones who respond to that call from God unto righteousness. These are those given to Jesus Christ, by God the Father, as our savior proclaims in John 6:37, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.”  They are His, because God has given them to Him. They are born again  [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose]  born again not of perishable seed but imperishable through the living and enduring word of God. (1 Peter 1:23) 

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Heb. 4:12) The Word of God speaks to God's chosen people. As Isaiah the prophet penned  "So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it." (Is. 55:11)

What God has said, through His Holy prophets and apostles, will come to pass. David in Psalm 119:105 declared "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." In the New Testament we are told by Jesus Christ  that "He is the light of the world. Whoever follows Him will not walk in darkness but have the light of life. And Whoever believes in me will not perish, but have everlasting life."

The Blessed Hope 2nd Coming Of Christ

 Every Believers "Blessed Hope" The 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ

There are what are called essential doctrines of the Christian faith. If a church doesn't have even one of these it is not a Christian church. They are not following God's truth. Those essentials are as follows: The virgin birth of the savior...that His mother Mary had not come together with Joseph to whom she was betrothed....that she was indeed a virgin as prophesied by the prophet Isaiah over 700 years before Jesus Christ's birth. Another essential that our God is triune...one in essense-- three in person. All sharing the same divine nature that Christianity declares as the trinity....essential number three the absolute necessity of the cross....for without the cross and the suffering servant, the lamb of God there is no blessed hope for salvation for the lost... For without the shedding of blood their is no forgiveness. (Heb. 9:22).... essential number four of the Christian faith is the inspiration of Scripture....that all of scripture is literally "God/Breathed"...that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit... and the last but surely not the least essential of the Christian faith is the resurrection and second coming of Jesus Christ. That one day Jesus will return with those who have died in Christ, to gather His elect together and to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom God has ordained. The man Christ Jesus. Having giving assurance to us all by His resurrection from the dead. That second coming is what we'll take a look at as we delve into the Scriptures and find out more about our Blessed Hope. We begin in the gospel of Matthew:

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let them deny themselves , and take up the cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a person if they should gain the whole world, and loses their own soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for their soul? (Matt. 16:24-25) The Blessed Hope is truly that Jesus Christ came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. So he shared in our humanity, took on a body of flesh, blood and bones. One hundred percent human. Laying side certain divine attributes yet one hundred percent divine, being in very nature God and without sin. There has never before been a being like Him and there never will be again. He is "theanthropos" the God/Man. Who came to save His people from their sins.

From 1 John 2:15-17 of the classic amplfied bible we're told this by the Apostle John:

Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father but are from the world. And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in their life abides (remains) forever. (1 John 2:15-17 AMP CLASSIC)

The Apostle Paul teaches us with these words from Philippians chapter 3:17-21:

Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. (Phil 3:17-21) Imagine by grace through faith and not of yourself. It was God the Father who gave you to the Son to nurture and cherish. You have been given eternal life and no one can snatch you out of His hand. Then Jesus adds these words, "I and my Father are One.

And those who believe in (has faith in, clings to, relies on) the Son has (now possesses) eternal life. But whoever disobeys (is unbelieving toward, refuses to trust in, disregards, is not subject to) the Son will never see (experience) life, but [instead] the wrath of God abides on him. [God’s displeasure remains on him; His indignation hangs over him continually.] (John 3:36 AMP CLASSIC) Jesus has come to redeem us from our sin nature, bought us with a price, His perfect, precious, sinless life to an eternal home in heaven free from the wrath of God that is coming upon the entire world.

When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed. (2 Thess 1:7-10) For it is in that day of the Lord, the day of Christ, the day of God that the living, the dead and those who return with Christ from heaven will all come together for what is our Blessed Hope:

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. (`1 Thess 4:15-18-5:1-3)

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:10-13) The most amazing words found in this Scripture from Peter are the words "hasten its coming"....or speed its coming. That is a startling statement indeed. How can mere mortals have a vital part in shortening the time set for the coming of God's day? In Matthew 24:14 When Jesus spoke about the last day, He instructs His followers to proclaim the gospel to all nations. "And then the end will come." And in Acts 3 Peter tells the people to repent in order to hasten the coming of the Lord.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the BLESSED HOPE and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. (Titus 2:11-13) He is the blessed hope for he saves His chosen people from their sins, makes them right with God, gives them everlasting life, saving the redeemed from the wrath of God in the judgement that is coming upon all who refuse to believe, because they love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil.

When He (Jesus) had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:34-38)

Think carefully about what Jesus says. To deny His free gift of salvation; to turn away from the gospel, the good news, is the worse possible scenario to a life. You may gain the whole world but in the process your own soul is lost in an eternity absent from the presence of God and the glory of His power. That is a foreboding prospect indeed. To be standing before the judgement seat of Christ and hear Him say "depart from me, I never knew you." Such is the wide road that the world follows to destruction. A road that ends in eternal punishment. For when Jesus spoke of His betrayer, Judas Iscariot in Matt. 25:24 He proclaimed "woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”