The Feeding of Thousands...The Bread of Life!

Rerun my favorite scene of Jesus of Nazareth, when Jesus feeds the five thousands...
and Mary Magdalene came to see who Jesus was that she heard from among her people.
Mary has desperate needs. She is tired of her old lifestyle, she wants to escaped from
the shameful ways of her livelihood. She gave up hope of making her life better or
anything good will come out of Israel. People judged and ridiculed her.
So she showed up to see who Jesus was.When she saw Jesus and His miracles
of feeding the people with fish and bread she breakdown in tears and overjoyed.
At last, she found Him, the hope and the life that only Jesus can fill.
She clings to Jesus all the rest of her life.
What a great example of a woman like her! She found her Lord and Master.

You can watch this part of the video, you tube of Jesus of Nazareth, most of you
have seen this film.
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Jesus did not judge her. He forgave her. God looks at the heart!
Jesus said, "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance."
And Jesus will do the same for you and me. Remember the time when you
received Him?
What you had been through before receiving Jesus Christ into your heart...
only what matters to God is your heart!
He is the Bread of Life...God's provided redemption fulfillment, the "manna"
symbolized Jesus Christ, the Bread of God.
The Israelites when they came out of Egypt and pitched their tents and camped
at the desert, see Exodus 16:4,13-15
In John 6:32-35, Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses
who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true
bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world.
They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." Jesus said to them,
 'I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry,
 and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

May you have a blessed Easter and fruitful life in Him and to celebrate Jesus'
life and his death for delivering us from our sins to give us this gift of eternal life!

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.





 

Searching In A Wrong Places?

Is this wordly things can satisfy our soul?
The materials things of this world, the craving of our eyes, the desires of wanting more
to ourselves...are all these are valuable in your life?
God had warned the people of Israel and will take away the blessings from them
if they disobey Him and living a life of sin.
(Micah 6:14-15)
You will eat but not satisfied; your stomach will still be empty.
You will store up but save nothing, because what you save I will give to the sword.
You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil on yourselves,
you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.

If we keep looking for what can make us happy and never found it, we may become
frustrated, a failure and miserable creature. We looked for vain and exhausted.

Did you know that Jesus Christ is the only One that can give us contenment and
satisfy our soul?
"With joy you will draw water from the well of salvation."  (Isaiah 12:3)

Our frustration and our failures will actually lead us to Christ...and it is a blessings indeed!
"Godly sorrow bring repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but wordly
  sorrow brings death." (2Corinthians 7:10)

We should not look further and search for what can satisfy us. Jesus our Lord and our
Savior are standing at the door ready to receive us...if we let Him. (Revelation 3:20)

And Jesus said He is the Bread of Life.  (John 6:35)
"I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who
 believes in me will never be thisty.
"I am the bread that came down from heaven." (v.41)
  I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life.
  Here is the bread from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.
  I am the "Living Bread" that came down from heaven, if anyone eats of this bread,
  he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
  For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
  (v.47-51,33)
  Whoever eats my fleah and drink my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at
  the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
  Whoever eats my fleah and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
  Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds
  on me will live because of me. (v.54-57)

Let's take it to heart what God offered for us and a promising of eternal life through
His Son and of continuing living in Him.

Father, God we come before you and offer our cares and our concerned of this world
to you at the feet of the Cross. We want to put you first out of everything and put right
our standing position in you. Filled us conitnually with the Bread of heaven. Amen. 

Sanctuary

In that day I will restore David's fallen tent.
I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins,
and build it as it used to be, so that they may posses the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear my Name," declares the Lord, who will do these things.
(Amos 9:11)

"New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from the hills."  (V.13)

And in the New Testament this "wine" represents Jesus Christ who died on the
Cross for us, for the forgiveness of sins so that we will have eternal life.
It is the covenant of remembrance of His blood that we partake and participate
in communion with Him as children of God. 

                                         
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The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had
given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this
in remembrance of me."
In the same way, after suffer he took the cup, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it,
 in remembrance of me."
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's
death until he comes.  (1Corinthians 11:23-27,15:3-8, Mat.14:22-25)

Christ is the new meditor of a new covenant, that those who are called
may received the promised eternal inheritance.  (Hebrew 9:15)

The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless
(for the law made nothing perpect), and a better hope is introduced,
by which we draw near to God  (Heb.7:18-19)

...One who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry
   but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.  (Heb.7:16)

...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 had sworn and will not change his mind: You are a priest forever."
                (v.20-21)
  Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. (v.22)

Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from
continuing their duties; but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.
Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him,
because he always lives to intercede for them.  (v.23-25)

Such a high priest meets our need--one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from
sinners, exalted above the heavens.
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day,
first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people.
He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself. 
For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came
after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.  (v.26-28)

We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up
by the Lord, not by man.  (Heb.9:1-2)

The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are
ceremonially unclean sanctified them so that they are outwardly clean.
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead
to death, so that we may serve the living God!  (Heb.9:13-14)

For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one;
he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.
Nor did he enter heaven to offer himsdelf again and again, the way the high priest
enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world.
But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin
by the sacrifice of himself. 
Just as a 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.  (v.24-28,10:1-8)

Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will."
He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made
holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.
(Heb.10:9-10,8:13)

Day after day every priest 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. Since that time he waits for his enemies
to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy.  (v.11-14)

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
    "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord.
      I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.
     Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."  (v.15-18,8:7-12,Jer.31:33)
And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.

What a great news and a better promises of God! God has drew us closely to Himself
in behalf of His Son Jesus Christ as our Mediator, Priest. Amen!
 
   (Heb.10:20-22)
...By a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is his body,
   and since we have a great priest over the house of God, Let us draw near to God
   with a sincere heart and with a full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
   to cleanse us from agulity conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
   












     

The Token Of His Love

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you

used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler
of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are
disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the
cravings of our sinful desires. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
... But because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, MADE US ALIVE
WITH CHRIST even when we were dead in our transgressions--
IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED. And God raised us up with Christ
and seated with Him in the heaveny realms in Christ Jesus.
FOR IT IS BY GRACE YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED, THROUGH FAITH--

and this is not from yourselves, IT IS A GIFT OF GOD--NOT BY WORKS,

SO THAT NO ONE CAN BOAST. (Ephesians 2:1-9)  

THANK YOU VERY MUCH GOD FOR THIS WONDERFUL GIFT OF YOUR
SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST.

 

I pray that those who received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will continue to walk

and lived in Him.

Reflects on what God has done for you, all the good things He has delivered you from...

your bondage, failures, doubtfulness etch...

So the, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him,
rooted and built up in Him, strengthed in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing
with thankfulness. (Colossians 2:6-7)
 

As we continue to grow in Christ we are like a new growth plant that appears in due
season. Amen!