We have heard of martyrs, when burnt at the stake, sing loud, and praise God,
for being able to suffer for him.........
But Jesus did no such thing...
When Jesus died there on the cross......it was doom and gloom!
The darkness lasted for 3 long hours.....
which must have seemed like an eternity to Jesus.....
as this was the first time ever, that His father God did not look on Him,
but had totally withdrawn from him!
It wasn't all that long ago, when John baptised Him and heard the voice, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!"
How could a loving Father do this?
It was because Jesus took all our sins on Him....
and God could not look on that sin.
It must have seemed like an eternity to Jesus....and then....to hear...”It is finished”
The sinner in hell will never ever hear those words.
In psalm 22 we read;
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answered not;
And in the night season, and am not silent.”
This is a prophetic psalm about Jesus and His agony suffered for us.
Further down, same psalm, he says,
verses 6;7;8;
“A reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let Him deliver him:”
He is seeing and talking about those who are there, watching him.
Then from verses 12 – 18:
“Many bulls have compassed me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gape upon me with their mouth,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint:
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me:
A company of evil-doers have in closed me;
[f]They pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may count all my bones.
They look and stare upon me;
18 They part my garments among them,
And upon my vesture do they cast lots”
Many bulls have compassed me......etc....
I have read many different meanings to this verse, but I think C.S. Lewis got the closest yet....
In C.S. Lewis’ first movie made in 2007 “THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE" he shows where Aslan gives his live in place of Edward.
The witch and all her cohorts, and this is where Lewis is correct, in my opinion, her cohorts all dance around Aslan as he lays on the table ready to die, so verses 12 and 13 are demons, bulls, and other horrible creatures, they are the ugliest looking creatures ever, who gape upon Aslan, with their mouths...( thinking they have won the battle, in this movie Aslan represents the figure of Jesus)
And in Psalm 69v 21: “They gave me also gall for my food;
And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.” This was a drink to help deaden the pain, but Jesus refused it!
I have heard people say, when they were asked to do something, “If I had known how hard this was going to be, I would never have done it”
I thank and praise God, that Jesus did not say that, yet He did know how hard it was going to be! He even said, “I delight to do thy will oh Lord”
The H.S did not come to make peace but CHRIST did
The H.S is not said to be our peace but CHRIST is (The H.S is our comforter)
God did not send “preaching peace” by the H.S...... but by CHRIST
The H.S reveals Christ......He makes us to know, enjoy and feed on CHRIST
Without the H.S we can neither, see, feel, hear, know, experience, nor enjoy CHRIST.
But the H.S never tells the soul to rest on HIS work for peace in the presence of divine Holiness.
He can only present Christ’s work as the solid basis on which the soul must rest forever.
Man’s religion knows nothing about present pardon.
It says, “Do as well as you can,
pray as often as you can,
feel as deeply as you can,
and sometime, before you die,
God will forgive you.
This is ‘Man’s religion” it comes in many forms, yet it’s still........man's religion
In the O.T ( Joshua ch 20) the gates of the cities of refuge stood open day and night...but,
it had to be entered into....
It would not do to site outside and say...
”I am close enough, this should do”
the persuer could still catch up to him and then kill him.
He had to be inside the city and stay there till the priest died...
it’s the same with Jesus...it is no good saying I pray and I read the Bible, I will do the rest later....
you have to follow Him completely, immediately....now.....tomorrow could be too late!
Thank God, that He sent His son....and Thank His Son who so willingly died for me and you!
Blessings
Yaddy
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
The old laws and the new laws.
People have asked/suggested/told me, I don’t know how many times, “do we still keep the Old testament laws?”
Well, for one thing, all the laws God gave to Moses, were for the Israelis, not for the gentiles, which is what we are.
But even if those old laws were for the gentiles too, we read in Hebrews chapter 7: ( and this is mainly all about Melchizedek who Abraham met in the book of Genesis).... but this is how I understand it to be, according to the book of Hebrews;
Verse 11: Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood ( because the Jews received the laws under this priesthood) There would not have been any need for another priest, would there?
But the priesthood was changed, so out of necessity, the law also had to be changed....Why? Because of He, of whom these things are said, comes from another tribe. He comes from the tribe of Judah, (not Levi), and no man from this tribe has given attendance at the altar.
And Jesus came from out of Judah, and Moses said nothing, as far as the priesthood is concerned, from this tribe.
So, because the priesthood was changed, transferred to another, so the law was also changed.
There was no perfection under the old law. The new priesthood is made, not like the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life...Christ Jesus.
The old Levitical priesthood was made without an oath, and, as the levites did not have to make an oath, they were born into it, but Christ with an oath by Him, said of Him...
“The Lord sware and will not repent Himself, Thou art a priest forever”
By so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
23 And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:
24 but he, because he abides for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.
25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.( that is...us)
26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 who needs not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law appoints men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appoints a Son, perfected for evermore.
And with that, the Moses law tells us we are not to commit adultery, but Jesus said, "If a man as much as looks at a woman with lust in his heart, he has committed adultery with her"
And "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" the new law, when we follow Jesus' law is more strict than the Moses law given to the Israelis.
Blessings
Yaddy
Well, for one thing, all the laws God gave to Moses, were for the Israelis, not for the gentiles, which is what we are.
But even if those old laws were for the gentiles too, we read in Hebrews chapter 7: ( and this is mainly all about Melchizedek who Abraham met in the book of Genesis).... but this is how I understand it to be, according to the book of Hebrews;
Verse 11: Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood ( because the Jews received the laws under this priesthood) There would not have been any need for another priest, would there?
But the priesthood was changed, so out of necessity, the law also had to be changed....Why? Because of He, of whom these things are said, comes from another tribe. He comes from the tribe of Judah, (not Levi), and no man from this tribe has given attendance at the altar.
And Jesus came from out of Judah, and Moses said nothing, as far as the priesthood is concerned, from this tribe.
So, because the priesthood was changed, transferred to another, so the law was also changed.
There was no perfection under the old law. The new priesthood is made, not like the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life...Christ Jesus.
The old Levitical priesthood was made without an oath, and, as the levites did not have to make an oath, they were born into it, but Christ with an oath by Him, said of Him...
“The Lord sware and will not repent Himself, Thou art a priest forever”
By so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
23 And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:
24 but he, because he abides for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.
25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.( that is...us)
26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 who needs not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law appoints men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appoints a Son, perfected for evermore.
And with that, the Moses law tells us we are not to commit adultery, but Jesus said, "If a man as much as looks at a woman with lust in his heart, he has committed adultery with her"
And "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" the new law, when we follow Jesus' law is more strict than the Moses law given to the Israelis.
Blessings
Yaddy
Friday, March 2, 2018
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