He Lives!

God has promised us that He will be with us always, He will never leave us or abandon us.

Let's read Acts 1:1-11

In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the

Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.  After his suffering, he presented himself to them

and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive.

He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command:

‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard

 me speak about.  For John baptised with water, but in a few days you will be baptised with

 the Holy Spirit.’

 Then they gathered round him and asked him, ‘Lord, are you at this time going to restore the
 kingdom to Israel?’
  He said to them: ‘It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own
 authority.  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be
 my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’

 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed

 in white stood beside them. ‘Men of Galilee,’ they said, ‘why do you stand here looking into

 the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same

 way you have seen him go into heaven.’





 

What a promised God has left us with, His presence and His Holy Spirit!

God is not dead as the new movie declared and the title that bears that name on play

in the theater now. He lives among us and this is what we speak and we should

proclaim as we come to tell individual about our Lord. Celebrating His Resurrection body,

the central of our message.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Incarnate Son of God

God came to us in a flesh, in human form to make known to us God's redemptive plan of
salvation to mankind. Jesus who came from the Father, preached and revealed to us the
Words of God. Jesus is the minister of a New Covenant and a Great High Priest.
(Heb.4:14,8:6-13)

God has put an end to the many sacrifices the priests had to performs daily and annually
for the remissions of sins the Israeliets had committed.
(Heb.7:18-22) The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced by which we draw near
to God. And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,
but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:
        "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: 'You are a priest forever.'
        "Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

  One who has become a priest, not on the basis of the regulation as to his ancestry
  but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. (v.16)


  Day after day every priests stands and performs his religious duties again and again
  he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
  But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the
  right hand of God and since that time he waits for his enemeis to be made his footstool.
  For by one sacrifice he has made perfect, forever those who are being made holy.
  (Heb.10:11-13)

  The gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the
  worshiper. They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings,
  external regulations applying until the time of the new order.  (9:9-10)
  But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls
  and goats to take away sins. (10:3-4)

   When Christ came as high priest of the good things that already here, he went through
   the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, is not a
   part of this creation.
   He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most
   Holy Place once for all, by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. (9:11-12)

   For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may
   receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that he has died as a ransom to set them
   free drom the sins committed under the first covenant. (v.16)

   We have an altar from which those who minister at te tabernacle have no right to eat.
   Who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set by the Lord, not by man. (13:10,8:2)

   So this is the story of Easter, Jesus who came down from heaven and His purpose
   is to suffer and to die for our sins so that we can enter to God and have life through Him.
   But God did not abandon us God raised Jesus to life!
   God is the last Adam, the new mediator of the New covenant, He has opened a new
   way for us so that we can enter through a loving and a new relationship to God.

  Think of the CROSS that Jesus has provided for us. He fullfilled it!
  Jesus is the one whom God appointed to intercede for us.
  So let's put our sin behind us and confess it to Him and enter a new life in Him.
  You do not need to confess your sins to anybody but we have One and only
  designated Priest by God and into Him we must confess. 
  May God bless you and pray that you made your decision to ask God to be the Lord
  and Savior of your life!

The Blind Eyes Opened

(Romans 7:9-13)
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually
brought death.  For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,
deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.  So then, the law is holy,
the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order
that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death,
so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

This is Paul of Tarsus, realizing his wrongful action after God has called him to serve 
Him to preach to the Gentiles.
Before he met the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul was grudgingly went after the disciples of Jesus
Christ and all the Christians. He went from house to house in searched of them, bring them
to prison and executed them.
Paul thinks what he was doing, he was making God a favor and that his intentions was right,
but God has a plan for Paul in correcting him. Paul had an unforgetable encounter with
the Lord Jeus Christ on his way to Damascus Road while going after the followers of the Way. 
This is where Jesus revealed himself to Paul, teaching everything he needs to learn about 
God in serving Him.   (Read Acts 9:1-22)

God opened Paul's eyes to the truth to showed him that what once crooked of Paul's mind,
God makes it straight as Isaiah 55:8 say,  
    For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

God will help us to open our eyes to the truth if we invite Him in into our lives.
We all have our own inderstading who we are and what we think is right, doing our own
desires that pleased us that it actually bring death to us.
But God in His grace has given us His Son Jesus Christ so that through him we may
become His.
(Rom.8:10-11)
If Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of
righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus Christ from the dead is living
in you, He who raised  Christ from the dead will also give to your mortal bodies through
his Spirit who lives in you.