tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13379772174987919642024-03-13T06:38:08.941-07:00The Secret..Nothing but Jesus..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739104706823161217noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337977217498791964.post-13041058197086376782012-10-12T02:27:00.000-07:002012-10-12T02:27:45.103-07:00Grace<br />
<h1>
What is Grace?</h1>
Let’s first define grace so that we are sure to be
talking about the same thing. The Nelson’s Bible Dictionary defines
grace as follows.<br />
“Favor or kindness shown without regard to the
worth or merit of the one who receives it and in spite of what the
person deserves.”<br />
Grace therefore could be thought of as unmerited or
unearned favor. Grace in the Old Testament is translated from a Hebrew
word that means “favor.”<br />
The important thing to remember about grace is that
it manifests in activity that is not deserved or earned.<br />
Grace is an attribute of God. Consider the
following scripture.<br />
<br />
Exodus 34:6 (NKJV) -- {6}And the Lord passed before
him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,<br />
<ol>
<li>God is merciful</li>
<li>God is gracious</li>
<li>God is longsuffering</li>
<li>God is abounding in goodness and truth</li>
</ol>
<h1>
Illustrations of Grace</h1>
Let’s now look at some illustrations of grace from
the scriptures.<br />
Deuteronomy 7:6-9 (NKJV) -- {6}“For you are a holy
people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a
people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face
of the earth. {7}The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you
because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the
least of all peoples; {8}but because the Lord loves you, and because He
would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought
you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. {9}“Therefore know that the
Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy
for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His
commandments;<br />
<ol>
<li>Holy people (they were chosen)</li>
<li>A special treasure (because they were chosen)</li>
<li>Their state was not due to their numbers, but to
God’s love</li>
</ol>
It is true that the Israelites were God’s chosen
people. However, it was nothing that they did to establish this. They
did not earn God’s love. They did nothing to be a treasure to God. It
was purely because of God that they were chosen and became special.<br />
We shouldn’t think that we did anything to earn or
deserve the blessings of God that come to us. We should not begin to
have a puffed up head and think that we are so great because we are
blessed. We are nothing without the Lord. All that we have is because of
the grace and mercy of God. We should never think that we are so good
or so faithful that we have received this or that. It is all because of
God’s grace that we have anything.<br />
What about those people that suffer or experience a
great catastrophe? Why have they not received God’s grace?<br />
<ol>
<li>If they are still alive then they have
experienced God’s grace through sparing their life and hope.</li>
<li>I mentioned earlier that there are more forces
operating in the earth. We cannot equate experiencing a catastrophe with
the absence of God’s grace. I believe all that happens on the earth is
not God’s will. I cannot believe that it’s God’s will for someone to
lose all of their possessions in a hurricane or some other natural
disaster. It is hard for me to believe that it is God’s will that
multitudes are killed in an earthquake or the like. However, our own sin
(collectively) brings about many misfortunes that we have. This indeed
is a topic for another discussion and I will refrain from commenting
further. Suffice it for me to say that the presence of misfortune is not
necessarily the absence of God’s grace.</li>
</ol>
<br />
Let’s look at another illustration of grace in the
Bible.<br />
Deuteronomy 9:4-6 (NKJV) -- {4}“Do not think in
your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you,
saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to
possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations
that the Lord is driving them out from before you. {5} It is not
because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you
go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these
nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that
He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. {6}Therefore understand that the Lord your
God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your
righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.<br />
The Hebrews were not to think that their fortune
was somehow due to merit. The fact that their enemies were driven from
them did not mean that they were so righteous. Their enemies were driven
from them because of the wickedness of their enemies and not because of
their own righteousness.<br />
We should realize that sometimes we may indeed be
the benefactor of the misfortune of someone else according to the will
of God. If God displaces someone and we move in then we should not think
that we moved in because we were so good. We were simply the benefactor
of God’s judgment on someone else.<br />
Another illustration of God’s grace is the exodus
of the Hebrews from Egypt. We should consider that they did nothing to
deserve that deliverance and yet they received it. The only thing that
they did was to cry out to God (<b>Exodus 3:7-8</b>). They
weren’t very righteous and therefore deserved to be saved. They did
nothing to receive God’s salvation. It was through God’s grace that they
were saved.<br />
<h2>
Jesus Christ</h2>
The greatest illustration of all of God’s grace is
Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came and died for our sins. We did not
deserve this salvation. We did not earn the deliverance from our sins
and yet God provided it. Consider this scripture.<br />
Romans 5:6-8 (NKJV) -- {6}For when we were still
without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. {7}For
scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man
someone would even dare to die. {8}But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<br />
We were wallowing in the mud and yet someone came
to pull us out and clean us off. We didn’t deserve it. We were too busy
“enjoying” life. We weren’t concerned about God. However, God loved us
and provided salvation for us.<br />
We cannot boast because we have all sinned and come
short of the glory of God (<b>Romans 3:23</b>).<br />
Above all that happens to us in life we have the
confidence and hope of salvation, which we have not earned and that we
were freely given. We have access to the grace of God (salvation)
through faith. Therefore all we have to do is believe and we will
experience the grace of God, which is salvation through Jesus Christ.<br />
<h1>
Practical Grace</h1>
The grace of God is manifested in many ways and we
should not take it for granted. The grace of God is manifested in the
fact that you have a job, is receiving income, needs being met, acquired
funding for school or a project, growth of your business, prosperity of
your home, etc. God’s grace is evident in all aspects of our lives.<br />
We should not think that we could afford anything.
It is the grace of God that provides us with the means to afford
anything and therefore it is the grace of God that we have anything.<br />
<h2>
Obtaining Grace</h2>
How can we obtain the grace of God if it is not
earned? We simply pray to God. This doesn’t mean that God will give us
everything that we pray for. However, we can trust in his mercy (<b>Ps.
52:8</b>). There are many gimmicks as to how we can receive this
and that. There are many teachings on how we might receive favor from
God. However, I have come to learn that the only thing we can do is ask
God for what we want and expect it to happen. Note that expecting favor
does not mean that it will be there. That is just a way to have
confidence in God. However, we should always be aware of God moving in
our lives (<b>Proverbs 3:5-6</b>).<br />
I tend to go into a store to purchase something and
expect favor. I expect things to go well so that I could get what I
want. Well sometimes things don’t go well and I have to abandon my
desire to have such and such. However, sometimes things go very well and
I am blessed with what I asked for. Sometimes God brings about a gift
by surprise. In any case, the best we can do is to ask God for what we
want. He works out the details and orchestrates events. We can only pray
and obey.<br />
I like that! Pray and obey. That is the best we
could ever do. I recall David praying for his dying son only to say that
he didn’t know what God would do so he continued to pray until
something happened (See <b>2 Samuel 12:19-23</b>). Ask God
that he might grant you favor.<br />
<h2>
Favor does not Preclude Righteous Living</h2>
We should still pursue righteous living even though
we do not earn the grace of God. As a matter of fact, those who truly
have a heart for God do not need this instruction. They are always
trying to please God even after falling sometimes. In any case, we
should still pursue the Kingdom of God even though we have the grace of
God operating in our lives. Grace does not negate the fact that we
should live a righteous life.<br />
We also should not allow guilt to diminish the
grace of God operating in our lives. We don’t deserve God’s favor so we
shouldn’t think that our actions could cause him not to extend it. If
our heart is indeed right with God then we can ask forgiveness and move
on with out life as we strive to live according to his way.<br />
<h2>
Activities and Favor</h2>
Things that happen to us are not always an
indication of God’s favor or lack of it. We can’t say that this or that
happens because of God’s favor in the strictest sense. We can say such a
thing with certain degrees of confidence once we recognize God moving
in our lives. This of course implies experience with God and therefore a
godly walk.<br />
Just because something good happens does not mean
that it was God’s favor. Just because something bad happens doesn’t
meant that it was God’s judgment. Things happen to all people on the
earth both good and bad. We have to weigh everything to God’s word and
more precisely to the path that God has directed for us.<br />
It could be very dangerous to equate activities
with God’s favor. Preachers tell you that you are blessed or that you
walk in favor if you get a new car, a new house, or more money. What
about those people in poor countries or families? Can they therefore
ever experience the favor or grace of God? Of course they can, but it
won’t necessarily be measured in dollars and cents the way we westerners
have come to think. The grace of God could manifest itself in any
number of ways in a person’s life according to the will of God.<br />
This fact will help protect us from two things. It
will help protect us from pride and justification of sins. On the one
hand we could come to believe that we are more blessed than someone else
and therefore better than someone else because we have received great
blessings such as a new car, a raise, etc. We get the “holier than thou”
attitude, which is nothing but pride based on self. However, if we
realize that we deserve nothing and that activities do not necessarily
show God’s approval or disapproval, then we will realize that we are
better than no one else. Consider that there are many criminals who have
great things, which we would at first glance say they are blessed.
Things happen on planet earth. We should always remember that. The fact
that someone has a lot of money doesn’t mean that he is blessed of God
as he could have acquired that money by deceit.<br />
<h1>
Conclusion</h1>
Grace is unmerited favor from God and it is
manifested in many ways including the death of Jesus Christ. We cannot
earn God’s grace and we do not deserve what He does for us. However,
God’s love for us manifests itself by grace towards us. We can
experience this grace by simply praying to God for things in our lives.
We should always expect God’s grace as you never know when it will
actually be extended in terms of daily living.<br />
Live according to God’s way and strive to please
him. Don’t go on a guilt trip when you sin because you didn’t earn God’s
love anyway. We haven’t even earned forgiveness and yet God freely
expends it to us through the blood of Christ.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739104706823161217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337977217498791964.post-87390444520149277422012-10-01T03:22:00.001-07:002012-10-01T03:22:17.720-07:00<div id="ldiv">
<strong>The Lord Is Our Refuge</strong><br />
<br />
I love you fervently and devotedly, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is
my Rock, my Fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my keen and firm
Strength in Whom I will trust and take refuge, my shield, and the Horn
of my salvation, my High Tower. I will call upon t<i>- PSALM 18:1</i><br />
<br />
A rock is a type of a sure foundation. When the waters of trial
threaten to rise up and overwhelm us, we need to do as David did and
climb up on the rock that is higher than we are. David also called the
Lord his fortress. A fortress is a castle, a fort, a defense, a place
into which we go when we are being hunted or attacked. It is not a
hiding place in which our enemy cannot find us. It is a place of
protection in which we can see and but cannot be reached because we are
safe in God’s protection.
David also called the Lord his high tower- another lofty and
inaccessible place- and his Shield and Buckler- which are part of the
protective armor that surrounds the believer( EPHESIANS 6:10-17). God is
not just above us and around us, he is even underneath us, because the
psalmist tell us; the Lord upholds the [consistently] righteous (PSALM
37:17).
God is holding us up by his powerful right and is surrounding us as the
mountains surround the holy city of Jerusalem. The devil is against us;
but God is for us, and over us, and with us, and in us. Because He cares
for us, He watches over us and keeps us so we can find rest and peace
under the shadow of his wings as we cast all our care up on him.
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739104706823161217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337977217498791964.post-83939052853238367922012-08-21T01:04:00.000-07:002012-08-21T01:04:09.834-07:00FAITH<div id="yui_3_2_0_22_134553186100993">
For many Christians believing
(faith) is sometimes still a very
difficult matter. It is mostly difficult
because some important truths taught in the Word of God regarding
believing are either not known, are not being adhered
to in a sufficient manner or are perhaps even being neglected
completely.</div>
Even believers who have been Christians and have believed on
Christ for many years, who are born of God and who
belong to the church of God, the church of the body of Christ, still
experience at times situations in their lives
where they find that believing and trusting God is not an easy matter
for them. I would like to bring to remembrance
some basic truths from the Bible which should help us to believe God
in a more effective way and to a greater degree
than before and then to receive His promises in our lives.<br />
Faith (believing) – [<i id="yui_3_2_0_22_134553186100988">pistis</i>]
in the Greek – for one is an
inner attitude of heart of trust,
conviction, a "holding to be true" of a certain reality; in various
situations then it is shown forth and manifested by
acting upon such inner conviction and trust. <br />
Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we do not act
with conviction and trust, and we even may then
try by various means to carry out our actions with more conviction.
But, we do not get much further that way because
the problem of our lack of conviction is not in our action and how we
carry it out, but rather at a different
place.<br />
One can only be of a firm conviction and unwavering faith when one
has put off any indifference and unsurety
regarding the will of God in a matter. We can only have faith and
trust to the degree that we know the revealed will of
God. In order to know God's will we need to know what the Scriptures
teach regarding a certain matter, we must know
what the Scriptures declare about it. When we know for sure that God
has promised what we need then we can approach the
matter with firm conviction and act in faith and all doubts and
unsurety will be removed. Only when we know God's will
do we have that on which to base our believing, our trust, our faith.
Believing becomes possible by the Word of God
– believing to receive what God has promised in terms of blessing is
the result of our knowing God's Word and then
acting accordingly.<br />
<blockquote>
<b><a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Romans 10.17" data-version="kjv1900" href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Romans%2010.17" target="_blank">Romans 10:17</a>: <br />
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.</b>
</blockquote>
Here the context is speaking of having faith with a view toward
salvation; however, the principle – that
faith rests on that which God's Word promises and which we can hear
because of the preaching of that Word of God –
is the same also when it comes to receiving other blessings from God. A
renewed mind is the key to a walk in God's
power; an attitude of heart which absolutely says, "Yes!" to that
which God has revealed in His Word. <br />
Jesus Christ called the Word of God "the seed" in one of the
parables he spoke. It is the seed to life from
God, to eternal life; it is also the seed to any other blessing of God
in our lives. The Word of God declares to us the
will of God. If someone is not sure from God's Word that the desired
blessing is the will of God for him, he will sort
of try to bring in a harvest where nothing has been sown. A farmer can
have no conviction and faith in reference to a
harvest if he is not sure that the seed has been sown into the ground.<br />
God's working is according to the same principle, because He can't
grant a harvest where no seed has been sown
before – where His Word has not been recognized and where His Word is
not known and acted upon. God works via His
Word, and that is true in every regard. Heaven and earth were made by
the Word of God. God's Word must therefore first
be sown into our hearts, then it must be faithfully watered and
cultivated. The seed must remain in the ground, or
harvest can not come of it.<br />
If we want to receive the promised blessings of God, we must first
determine from God's Word that it is God's
will that we should have these blessings. If we have recognized this
and if we receive this into our hearts as truth
and keep it there, then we have sown or planted the seed. Then we can
turn to God in our prayers with a trusting heart,
because we are sure what God's will is for us. When we pray for
something and then we add perhaps an "IF it be thy
will", we actually are ripping the seed out of the ground and we
really are putting an immediate stop to receiving what
we are praying for. <br />
When we know the Word of God and when we are familiar with it, we
can believe God regarding His promises with
absolute confidence. Then we can see each time how the God given
promise will be fulfilled in our lives as we believe
that our prayer has been heard and are sure that God has done so even
before we actually experience in our life the
answer to our prayer.<br />
<blockquote>
<b><a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Mark 11.24" data-version="kjv1900" href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Mark%2011.24" target="_blank">Mark 11:24</a>: <br />
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that
ye receive them, and ye shall have them.</b></blockquote>
Furthermore, it is necessary that we do not give up in the
process, but that with patience we endure and wait
for the fulfillment of God's promise.<br />
<blockquote>
<b><a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Hebrews 10.35" data-version="kjv1900" href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Hebrews%2010.35" target="_blank">Hebrews 10:35</a>
and <a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Hebrews
10.36" data-version="kjv1900" href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Hebrews%2010.36" target="_blank">36</a>: <br /> Cast
not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of
reward. <br /> For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done
the will of God, ye might receive the
promise.</b></blockquote>
God's promise, His Word, works the miracle as we look on the <i>eternal</i>
realities (His promise, His
faithfulness, etc.) and as we act in accordance with those, and as we
do not allow ourselves to be influenced to the
contrary by <i>temporal</i> things. God Himself has absolutely no
problems to do what He has promised, as long as we do
not step in His way but rather work together with Him.<br />
<blockquote>
<b><a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Proverbs 4.20–22" data-version="kjv1900" href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Proverbs%204.20%E2%80%9322" target="_blank">Proverbs
4:20–22</a>: <br /> My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my
sayings. <br /> Let
them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine
heart. <br /> For they are life unto those that find
them, and health to all their flesh.</b> </blockquote>
God's Words are life unto those that "find" them! We must take the
time and put forth the effort it takes "to
find" the words of God. Only then can His words be life for us and be
health to all our flesh.<br />
In this section of the Scriptures we are told how we are to pay
attention and to adhere to God's Word. If we
want to receive God's blessings, we cannot be looking to many
different things at the same time. We must keep our eyes
focused on one thing only – on the promise of the Word of God. Instead
of looking at the symptoms of a sickness we
must come to the point that we do not let the words of God, the
promise of God, depart from our eyes.<br />
The power to bring about the fruit is in the seed itself, not in
the farmer who sowed the seed. The power for
bringing about the result of the promise of God is in the Word of God,
not in us, who are only planting the Word of
God. The seed can only unfold its power when it remains in the ground.
The Word of God can only unfold its power when
we keep it in our hearts, when we leave it in our hearts. When we do
not let God's Word depart from our eyes and when
we keep it in the midst of our hearts, then we are "good ground" of
which Jesus said that it would bear fruit. As a
farmer has absolute confidence and absolute trust that the seed which
he sowed in the spring time is already working in
the ground and will bring forth fruit, so we can actually have even
more trust and an even more firm believing that
God's Word is already at work in our life and that it will bring forth
the promised fruit.<br />
The farmer doesn't run out to his field every morning to dig in
the ground and see if the seed has already done
something – no, he just knows it, and he is convinced of it! He
doesn't doubt the whole time and is not asking
himself fearfully if perhaps the seed will maybe bear some fruit. He
knows the way in which the seed works, he knows
the power resident in the seed, and he knows that he is only sowing
and perhaps doing a bit of watering when the seed
of itself grows into a plant and then bears fruit. He does not see the
fruit at the time when he sows, but he has the
full conviction that the seed will bring forth the fruit. This is how
it must be with us when we sow God's Word into
our hearts – even though we do not immediately and right away see the
fruit, we still have all the reason in the
world to be absolutely convinced that the Word of God will bear its
fruit in our lives.<br />
<blockquote>
<b><a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Hebrews 11.1" data-version="kjv1900" href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Hebrews%2011.1" target="_blank">Hebrews 11:1</a>: <br />
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not
seen.</b></blockquote>
As long as we keep our eyes firmly fixed on God's Word, as long as
our ears are attentively turned to God's
Word, as long as we keep God's Word in our heart, we have the right
seed in the ground. If other things are distracting
our eyes, our ears and our heart, we have the wrong seed. Our harvest
will be different from what we really expected.
It would be as if we wanted to harvest wheat when and where we sowed
tares – that is not possible!<br />
<div id="yui_3_2_0_22_134553186100999">
Faith is the firm confidence for
that which God's Word promises!
It's "the substance of things hoped for", and
what the Word of God promises is what we are then hoping for and which
we as of yet do not see. The promise in God's
Word is the firm basis on which our faith, our believing, can rest and
must rest. When we look on what God says then
our believing will increase and our trust in our heavenly Father will
become stronger. When we practice this in our
lives it will be easier for us to believe than to doubt because the
foundation on which our faith rests is much more
firm and reliable than the one on which the doubts are built.</div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_22_134553186100996">
We should not doubt our <i>faith
(believing)</i> but rather doubt
our <i>doubts</i> for they are not
reliable!</div>
Our God is absolutely reliable – the more we know Him the more we
will take Him at His Word with absolute
trust and unwavering faith, and we will receive His blessings in our
lives in an abundant way.<br />
God is a faithful God who keeps His Word. Even the unfaithfulness
of man cannot have any ill effect on God's
faithfulness to His Word. God's Word works effectually in those who
believe. All of God's promises are "Yeah" and
"Amen"!<br />
Our greatest challenge really is to become familiar with God in a
more detailed and better manner, to know Him
and to know what He can and is willing to do! His ability and His
willingness to bless those who fear or reverence Him
is communicated to us on almost every page of the Bible in very clear
terms. God works via His Word in our lives. We
must get to know Him, we must know what and how God works. <br />
We must become absolutely sure of God's Word, His revelation to
man. Then we will not have too many
difficulties to trust Him and to believe Him. Then it takes confidence
and courage to hold fast to what we know! The
more sure we are of a matter, the more firm we hold on to it.<br />
Our God is able! Our God is willing! Our God is faithful! Let us
receive His Word into our hearts with
joyfulness, let us help and support each other in this quest by
edifying one another with His Word and by reminding
ourselves and each other of the promises God has made. That way we
indeed can expect miracles every day! <br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05739104706823161217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337977217498791964.post-71972720100256063152012-08-18T02:24:00.001-07:002012-08-18T02:24:17.116-07:00<b>The Blood of Jesus was shed to not only forgive, but to remove
sin!</b><br />
In the Old Testament, the priests would sacrifice lambs, goats, etc.
to cover the people's sins. However, this sacrifice was not significant
to remove the stain of sin. But since Christ shed His blood, our sin can
be REMOVED from our account! In Hebrews 10, it paints us this picture
very clearly.<br />
<i>Hebrews 10:1-22, "For the law having a shadow of good things to
come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers
thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?
because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again
made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the
world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body
hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book
it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou
wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the
law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the
first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the
right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made
his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that
are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for
after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into
their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living
way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say,
his flesh; And having a high priest over the house of God; Let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure
water."</i><br />
Jesus tells us in Matthew 26 that His blood is shed for many for the
remission of sins. The word remission here is referring to the Greek
word aphesis which means:<br />
<i>"Forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had
never been committed), remission of the penalty."</i><br />
With that said, read this verse to yourself and meditate (that is to
soak in) it's meaning!<br />
<i>Matthew 26:28, "For this is my blood of the new testament, which
is shed for many <u>for the remission of sins</u>."</i><br />
John the Baptist also confirmed this when He said that Jesus, the
Lamb of God, taketh away the sin... not just cover... but taketh away!<br />
<i>John 1:29, "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and
saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which <u>taketh away the sin of the world</u>."</i><br />
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