The Comfort of the Scriptures Leads to Everlasting Hope
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through the comfort of the scriptures we might have hope”. (Roman’s 15:4)
When we place our faith in Jesus, God sends a new Spirit, a Holy Spirit to birth us into his Kingdom and to protect us with an Everlasting New Covenant.
A Covenant is an agreement with God. Every Covenant was sealed with blood.
“Jesus picked up a cup of wine and gave thanks to God. He then gave it to his disciples and said, "Take this and drink it. For this is my blood of the new covenant that is being poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins”. (Mt 26:27-27)
These are the Permanent Gifts We Receive When We Enter the New Covenant
EVERLASTING GRACE, meaning we are loved and saved by faith in Jesus and not by anything we do or don’t do
EVERLASTING RIGHTEOSNESS because we receive the righteousness of Jesus and not our own.
EVERLASTING JOY UNSPEAKABLE unspeakable knowing our destination is final and God has established us.
EVERLASTING PEACE that is beyond all understanding knowing all things work together for good for us.
EVERLASTING COURAGE and CONFIDENCE based on “The Two Immutables”
1.God’s EVERLASTING PROMISE and
2 God’s EVERLASTING OATH
God swore to never punish us but to give us salvation. ( Heb. 6:13-19) and (Isaiah 54:9)
EVERLASTING HOPE of SALVATION when we firmly realize this, it become an impregnable helmet to protect our mind from Satan’s attack of doubts.
EVERLASTING COMFORT is gained as we read the scriptures and realize these truths.
God (Yah) never withdraws a gift. His gifts are permanent. May he fill you with grace and his joy unspeakable and full of glory.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
January 23, 2010 a Turning Point in my Life.
January 23, 2010 a Major Turning Point in my Life
Being raised as a Catholic had its pluses and minuses. On the plus side I heard about Jesus early and attended church 6 days a week. I went to Catholic schools for 16 years. On the minus side my religious training was about the need to never sin and obey all the rules set forth by the church. We learned very little about God’s love , forgiveness and mercy. We were taught to confess our sins to a priest or if we died before confessing we would probably go to a fiery hell full of demons, or if we were lucky we might only have to spend 15,000 years in a fiery place called purgatory.
Once it was ingrained into my head that my salvation depended upon me behaving perfectly it was hard to see it any other way.
I first heard that we are saved by faith and grace when I was about 30 and heard many preachers throughout the next ten years saying there is nothing we can do to gain or lose our salvation, it has all been done by Jesus. Somehow I thought they were off the mark and never could believe it. I then spent the next ten years among Mennonites who also worried that we might lose our salvation by bad behavior.
Here I am 66 years old and today January 23rd after about a 12 day illness during which I poured over the scriptures the page opened wide and there was the thing I had unknowingly hungered and searched for since I first started to seriously follow Jesus in 1977. I’m sure I had read over it many times but today there was Romans 4:8 illuminated before my eyes.
“Romans 4:8 Happy, How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him.”
I wept when the full import of it hit me. God made a promise and swore an oath that he would greet me and my memory of my sins without wrath or rebuking, but with mercy and deliberated forgetfulness of my evil deeds. Praise God almighty, free at last. My unrighteousness or righteousness played no role in this, it was because of God’s love mercy and grace and Yahshuah’s faithfulness that this exists; it is for everyone and those who believe it are the most blessed for they can live in joy and not fear. Thank you father for healing this blind man’s eyes. I once was blind but now I see.
Being raised as a Catholic had its pluses and minuses. On the plus side I heard about Jesus early and attended church 6 days a week. I went to Catholic schools for 16 years. On the minus side my religious training was about the need to never sin and obey all the rules set forth by the church. We learned very little about God’s love , forgiveness and mercy. We were taught to confess our sins to a priest or if we died before confessing we would probably go to a fiery hell full of demons, or if we were lucky we might only have to spend 15,000 years in a fiery place called purgatory.
Once it was ingrained into my head that my salvation depended upon me behaving perfectly it was hard to see it any other way.
I first heard that we are saved by faith and grace when I was about 30 and heard many preachers throughout the next ten years saying there is nothing we can do to gain or lose our salvation, it has all been done by Jesus. Somehow I thought they were off the mark and never could believe it. I then spent the next ten years among Mennonites who also worried that we might lose our salvation by bad behavior.
Here I am 66 years old and today January 23rd after about a 12 day illness during which I poured over the scriptures the page opened wide and there was the thing I had unknowingly hungered and searched for since I first started to seriously follow Jesus in 1977. I’m sure I had read over it many times but today there was Romans 4:8 illuminated before my eyes.
“Romans 4:8 Happy, How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him.”
I wept when the full import of it hit me. God made a promise and swore an oath that he would greet me and my memory of my sins without wrath or rebuking, but with mercy and deliberated forgetfulness of my evil deeds. Praise God almighty, free at last. My unrighteousness or righteousness played no role in this, it was because of God’s love mercy and grace and Yahshuah’s faithfulness that this exists; it is for everyone and those who believe it are the most blessed for they can live in joy and not fear. Thank you father for healing this blind man’s eyes. I once was blind but now I see.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Jesus Was an Optimist
When it came to father's protection, Jesus was an optimist.
He said no one could snatch us from his hands or Father's hand,
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
He said no one could snatch us from his hands or Father's hand,
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Joh 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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