In Jeremiah 7:1-15 we read the context of 'False Religion worthless’.we may ask ourselves what do I believe these days? Or in other words who is my God?
Beware of False teachings and false teachers around you.So much of Deception around us these days.Jeremiah challenges the heathen thinking in Jer10:10 in giving a contrast picture with idols made by human hands and the Living God.He thus boldly declares that our God is true, living and he is the one who makes the earth tremble.Wow!What an awesome and Omnipotent God the Bible describes. He lives and reigns forever above all other Gods. There is no rival for Him.Alleluia!
In Jeremiah 7: 3, 5 it talks about the reformation that God expects.Reformation in three areas mainly (Thought-Word-Deed)
Reformed Thoughts
What’s on your mind? A precise practical book by Merlin Carothers challenged me during my student days. It is difficult sometimes to have a clean mind. But Gods Grace with our efforts it is possible to have a victory in overcoming sinful thoughts.Romans 8:13
Reformed Words
Think for a while do your words build people or break. In other words is it constructive or destructive. God wants our each word to be meaningful and powerful.cos we are accountable to him for each careless word we utter.
Mt 12:36 This verse makes all of us to shudder.
Reformed Deeds
Jesus being our role model and Bible being our basics we can follow Jesus lifestyle. He didn’t speak much rather He demonstrated his faith in his father while his life on earth. In Acts 1:1 Luke records it like this ‘he (Jesus) began to do and then to teach’. Here we see ‘practice precedes preaching’.
God wants the same quality of action in our lives too.
Let God help us to tame our tongue, mind and our spirit to act justly,to love mercy and to walk humbly with him. Micah 6:8
God Bless.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Hollow blocs
Col 2:6,7 ‘So then just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness’.(NIV)
Are we like hollow blocs looking strong outside and hollow inside? If we observe today’s most of building constructions hollow blocs are been used. We also notice that the work is done overnight very quickly. But it makes us to think how strong will it be? But to my findings hollow blocs are good for building small and medium sized houses.
This analogy goes well with our spiritual health check. How is our inner lives built in this post modern days. Are we spending enough time at the feet of the Lord praying and reading the word or our devotions very quick and fast every time? Facetiously someone said that believers today are called watch watching believers, very much conscious of the time we give to God. Let’s remember there is no short cut for spiritual growth.
We grow only in spiritual disciplines. It takes time not like an overnight construction. Someone said like this ‘Conversion of a soul may be a miracle in a moment but making of a saint is a life time task’. God is patiently working on us but are we patiently waiting on him?
We all have an enormous responsibility today in building our lives in Christ. What steps are we taking with the available resources at hand? Are we growing strong in God everyday or still remaining as infants showing impoverished growth? Here goes the warning from the writer of Hebrews Chapter 5:12-14
Vs 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
Vs 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
Vs 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil’
The following acronym for GROWTH will surely help us to build our lives in him. (Read my blog entry on what is Growth for more detail)
G – Get to know God personally in your life. (Why not today as you read these lines)
R – Relate to God through prayer. (Prayer is a simple conversation with God)
O –Obey his Word by doing what it says.
W –Worship him truly in Spirit and in truth.
T –Tell others what God has done in your life.
H – Have fellowship/friendship with God’s people. (Find a church in your vicinity for fellowship)
On Christ the Solid rock we stand. All other ground is sinking sand. He is our Rock eternal (Isaiah 26:4)
God Bless!
Are we like hollow blocs looking strong outside and hollow inside? If we observe today’s most of building constructions hollow blocs are been used. We also notice that the work is done overnight very quickly. But it makes us to think how strong will it be? But to my findings hollow blocs are good for building small and medium sized houses.
This analogy goes well with our spiritual health check. How is our inner lives built in this post modern days. Are we spending enough time at the feet of the Lord praying and reading the word or our devotions very quick and fast every time? Facetiously someone said that believers today are called watch watching believers, very much conscious of the time we give to God. Let’s remember there is no short cut for spiritual growth.
We grow only in spiritual disciplines. It takes time not like an overnight construction. Someone said like this ‘Conversion of a soul may be a miracle in a moment but making of a saint is a life time task’. God is patiently working on us but are we patiently waiting on him?
We all have an enormous responsibility today in building our lives in Christ. What steps are we taking with the available resources at hand? Are we growing strong in God everyday or still remaining as infants showing impoverished growth? Here goes the warning from the writer of Hebrews Chapter 5:12-14
Vs 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
Vs 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
Vs 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil’
The following acronym for GROWTH will surely help us to build our lives in him. (Read my blog entry on what is Growth for more detail)
G – Get to know God personally in your life. (Why not today as you read these lines)
R – Relate to God through prayer. (Prayer is a simple conversation with God)
O –Obey his Word by doing what it says.
W –Worship him truly in Spirit and in truth.
T –Tell others what God has done in your life.
H – Have fellowship/friendship with God’s people. (Find a church in your vicinity for fellowship)
On Christ the Solid rock we stand. All other ground is sinking sand. He is our Rock eternal (Isaiah 26:4)
God Bless!
Friday, July 16, 2010
Definition of Love – Where to look at?
Unsullied love
Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners. That is why, if we are looking for a definition of love, we should look not in a dictionary, but at Calvary.
(First Paragraph is excerpted from John Stott’s “The Cross of Christ” –P 212)
Unfailing love
In a distressed, disappointing, false promising world the one true love that will not fail us is God’s love for us. You can ask will he not fail me unlike other human love. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Come to him with your broken heart and he will make it whole again. Don’t just try him, but trust him.His love will never disappoint you rather it will always comfort you.
Demonstrative love
Oh what a love that its depth not be understood fully in words which he demonstrated for us on the cross. We were not present on Golgotha when this took place two thousand years ago. But we can see today in our eye of faith and believe that the blood that he shed covers the sins of the whole world. We may ask how I know that he died for me and how it can cleanse me. Come to the feet of the cross with a humble, simple, saving faith and believe on the finished work of Christ, and you will understand how much he loves you still.
Romans 5:8 - “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
1 Cor 15:3,4 - "For what i received i passed on to you as of first importance:that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures".
It’s my personal plea to everyone who is reading these lines to believe the unsullied, unfailing and his demonstrative love for you displayed on the Cross.
God Bless.
Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners. That is why, if we are looking for a definition of love, we should look not in a dictionary, but at Calvary.
(First Paragraph is excerpted from John Stott’s “The Cross of Christ” –P 212)
Unfailing love
In a distressed, disappointing, false promising world the one true love that will not fail us is God’s love for us. You can ask will he not fail me unlike other human love. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Come to him with your broken heart and he will make it whole again. Don’t just try him, but trust him.His love will never disappoint you rather it will always comfort you.
Demonstrative love
Oh what a love that its depth not be understood fully in words which he demonstrated for us on the cross. We were not present on Golgotha when this took place two thousand years ago. But we can see today in our eye of faith and believe that the blood that he shed covers the sins of the whole world. We may ask how I know that he died for me and how it can cleanse me. Come to the feet of the cross with a humble, simple, saving faith and believe on the finished work of Christ, and you will understand how much he loves you still.
Romans 5:8 - “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
1 Cor 15:3,4 - "For what i received i passed on to you as of first importance:that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures".
It’s my personal plea to everyone who is reading these lines to believe the unsullied, unfailing and his demonstrative love for you displayed on the Cross.
God Bless.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
"Be filled with the Spirit"
What is to be filled with the Spirit?
Ephesians 5: 18 – ‘Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the spirit.’(NIV)
Being spirit filled in another words is being spirit controlled. No matter what temperaments we have, are we allowing ourselves to be controlled by his spirit?
If not let’s contemplate the literal meaning of the phrase ‘be filled with the spirit.’ The tense of the Greek is present imperative.Paul could say ‘I have been crucified with Christ’ (Gal 2:20), and yet he died daily (1cor 15:31).
Surrender is done, and yet it is never done –It is a continual yielding. It is important to point out that surrender is not once and-for-all; surrender must be continuous. Likewise we need to be continually filled with the Spirit. Thus D.L Moody prayed like this “Lord am a leaky vessel which needs your filling every moment”.
We receive the Holy Spirit at the time when we hear the Gospel of truth and accept Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. We are at that moment baptized by the Holy Spirit. People who have experienced this can rejoice with this truth. Let’s remember that Holy Spirit is a person and not some force. Some wrongly think that the Holy Spirit is only like a electric force or power which can be used for our conveniences. There are varied understanding of this doctrine of Holy Spirit and the interpretation of the words anointing, filling, baptism of the spirit, speaking in tongues and so forth. I don’t want to distort what Bible teaches about all these. Let’s look at the scriptures below (All reference from NIV) and learn as the Holy Spirit himself teaches us and brings us the understanding.
Ephesians 1:13, 14 - ‘And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory.’
Ephesians 4:30 – ‘And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.’
Romans 8:9 – 'You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.’
1John2:27 –‘As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit –just as it has taught you, remain in him’.
The person of Holy Spirit who indwells us can be very much grieved by our sinful choices that we make every day. Are we really careful in leading a life controlled by his Spirit? If not lets allow the spirit of God to take control of our mind, emotions and will. Personally explore yourselves in the understanding of this truth and I believe God will teach you more if you’re open minded.
God Bless!
Ephesians 5: 18 – ‘Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead be filled with the spirit.’(NIV)
Being spirit filled in another words is being spirit controlled. No matter what temperaments we have, are we allowing ourselves to be controlled by his spirit?
If not let’s contemplate the literal meaning of the phrase ‘be filled with the spirit.’ The tense of the Greek is present imperative.Paul could say ‘I have been crucified with Christ’ (Gal 2:20), and yet he died daily (1cor 15:31).
Surrender is done, and yet it is never done –It is a continual yielding. It is important to point out that surrender is not once and-for-all; surrender must be continuous. Likewise we need to be continually filled with the Spirit. Thus D.L Moody prayed like this “Lord am a leaky vessel which needs your filling every moment”.
We receive the Holy Spirit at the time when we hear the Gospel of truth and accept Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. We are at that moment baptized by the Holy Spirit. People who have experienced this can rejoice with this truth. Let’s remember that Holy Spirit is a person and not some force. Some wrongly think that the Holy Spirit is only like a electric force or power which can be used for our conveniences. There are varied understanding of this doctrine of Holy Spirit and the interpretation of the words anointing, filling, baptism of the spirit, speaking in tongues and so forth. I don’t want to distort what Bible teaches about all these. Let’s look at the scriptures below (All reference from NIV) and learn as the Holy Spirit himself teaches us and brings us the understanding.
Ephesians 1:13, 14 - ‘And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory.’
Ephesians 4:30 – ‘And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.’
Romans 8:9 – 'You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.’
1John2:27 –‘As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit –just as it has taught you, remain in him’.
The person of Holy Spirit who indwells us can be very much grieved by our sinful choices that we make every day. Are we really careful in leading a life controlled by his Spirit? If not lets allow the spirit of God to take control of our mind, emotions and will. Personally explore yourselves in the understanding of this truth and I believe God will teach you more if you’re open minded.
God Bless!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Just a thought on “offering and sacrifice”
I came across this nugget of truth while reading a book. A simple story but what a profound truth! Ephesians 5:1, 2 reads like this.
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (KJV)
The believer follows God, first by becoming a follower of God. This is a very important decision that a person makes in his life. It means that he is gonna be loyal to a person of Jesus Christ the rest of his life. He can then sing aloud that I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, the world behind me and the cross before me. Thus he makes himself get detached from the things of the world and get attached with God. It’s a matter of detach and attach. Where is our attachment today?
Secondly, by loving as Christ loved. His love is pure and selfless. The hardest thing for any person to do is to deny his selfish desires and offer his life as a sacrifice. All of us can relate to the following story:
Once upon a time a Pig and a Chicken went for a walk together down the main street of town. As they were walking they were talking. The chicken noticed a sign in the restaurant that looked like a pretty good deal to him. “Hey pig. Look at that sign in the window: ‘Ham and eggs – all that you can eat.’ That’s a great deal.” The pig paused for a moment while he carefully chose his words. “A good deal you say. Well, for you it’s only an offering; but for me it’s a sacrifice.”
The point is this: the believer is to walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself as an offering and a sacrifice to God. There is to be no limit to the offering and sacrifice of our lives to God and to men.
Remember: God’s love – agape love – is always an acting love. How is our love for others? Introspect yourself for a moment while reading these lines and check your love for God and for others, and determine to walk in a sacrificial kind of love. God Bless.
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, And walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (KJV)
The believer follows God, first by becoming a follower of God. This is a very important decision that a person makes in his life. It means that he is gonna be loyal to a person of Jesus Christ the rest of his life. He can then sing aloud that I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, the world behind me and the cross before me. Thus he makes himself get detached from the things of the world and get attached with God. It’s a matter of detach and attach. Where is our attachment today?
Secondly, by loving as Christ loved. His love is pure and selfless. The hardest thing for any person to do is to deny his selfish desires and offer his life as a sacrifice. All of us can relate to the following story:
Once upon a time a Pig and a Chicken went for a walk together down the main street of town. As they were walking they were talking. The chicken noticed a sign in the restaurant that looked like a pretty good deal to him. “Hey pig. Look at that sign in the window: ‘Ham and eggs – all that you can eat.’ That’s a great deal.” The pig paused for a moment while he carefully chose his words. “A good deal you say. Well, for you it’s only an offering; but for me it’s a sacrifice.”
The point is this: the believer is to walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself as an offering and a sacrifice to God. There is to be no limit to the offering and sacrifice of our lives to God and to men.
Remember: God’s love – agape love – is always an acting love. How is our love for others? Introspect yourself for a moment while reading these lines and check your love for God and for others, and determine to walk in a sacrificial kind of love. God Bless.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Love letter to my Jesus…
Love letter to my Jesus…
All my teen and tween have gone Jesus.Twinkles have gone wrinkles have come.Am becoming old but not cold,Am not sad am glad that you’re in my life.Jesus its you holding my hand and guiding me thus far.In every hurdle and in dark times you were with me ,embracing me with your arms of love.Your unconditional sacrificial love(Agape) to this sinner is too marvelous and too generous (Jer31:3).I really cannot comprehend how much you love me.Your love is really extravagant.Jesus you’re my stronghold, my helper in trouble, my constant companion in times of loneliness, my refuge and my hiding place when threatened by enemies,my strength when am weak , my confidence when I am afraid.And you’re much more to me that I cant limit you in my words. Jesus I love to say always that you’re my everything.Sorry Jesus many times i went through slippery ground, but its your love that carried me through.Its your love that brought me back to you. I came to know you personally in my late teen as my Lord, but you know me from my birth and even before my mother conceived me (Jer 1:5).
By your Grace my love relationship started with you as I spent ample time at your feet and with your word.Love for your word increased in me and like a deer pants for streams of water so my soul thirsts for God for the living God (Psl 42:1,2). I too join with your chosen servant Paul and say now that nothing will separate me from your love neither death nor life (Romans 8:38,39).Jesus keep me in your love all my life.Your undeserved favor and love still amazes me,Jesus I really cant understand many things fully, but one thing am assured that Iam yours forever. You taught me who I am.Still teaching me…
Jesus in love for you from my early days that you kept me as your witness talking about your love.Still a long way to go in life.Will speak forth your love where there is hatred and strife. And am learning to love you more.. Like a clay in the hand of potter so iam in your hands (Jer 18:6).Melt me,Mold me and Make me.Let me be a servant in the making.Jesus i will live for you the rest of my life proclaiming your love and bringing you Glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do (Jn 17:4).
In Love with you,
Clement.
All my teen and tween have gone Jesus.Twinkles have gone wrinkles have come.Am becoming old but not cold,Am not sad am glad that you’re in my life.Jesus its you holding my hand and guiding me thus far.In every hurdle and in dark times you were with me ,embracing me with your arms of love.Your unconditional sacrificial love(Agape) to this sinner is too marvelous and too generous (Jer31:3).I really cannot comprehend how much you love me.Your love is really extravagant.Jesus you’re my stronghold, my helper in trouble, my constant companion in times of loneliness, my refuge and my hiding place when threatened by enemies,my strength when am weak , my confidence when I am afraid.And you’re much more to me that I cant limit you in my words. Jesus I love to say always that you’re my everything.Sorry Jesus many times i went through slippery ground, but its your love that carried me through.Its your love that brought me back to you. I came to know you personally in my late teen as my Lord, but you know me from my birth and even before my mother conceived me (Jer 1:5).
By your Grace my love relationship started with you as I spent ample time at your feet and with your word.Love for your word increased in me and like a deer pants for streams of water so my soul thirsts for God for the living God (Psl 42:1,2). I too join with your chosen servant Paul and say now that nothing will separate me from your love neither death nor life (Romans 8:38,39).Jesus keep me in your love all my life.Your undeserved favor and love still amazes me,Jesus I really cant understand many things fully, but one thing am assured that Iam yours forever. You taught me who I am.Still teaching me…
Jesus in love for you from my early days that you kept me as your witness talking about your love.Still a long way to go in life.Will speak forth your love where there is hatred and strife. And am learning to love you more.. Like a clay in the hand of potter so iam in your hands (Jer 18:6).Melt me,Mold me and Make me.Let me be a servant in the making.Jesus i will live for you the rest of my life proclaiming your love and bringing you Glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do (Jn 17:4).
In Love with you,
Clement.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Try these ‘add ons’ to your Prayer Life!
Faith,fervency and faithfulness..
Faith in prayer
It is looking beyond our possibilities. Christian walk is best understood as “a walk by faith and not by sight.” The Bible again and again portrays people who fashioned their lives by faith. Hebrews 11 is just a small list of millions who lived by faith. Do we have faith in God like those witnesses who gone before us? Do our prayers reflect the faith element? Situations may look impossible to us but truly it is Him-possible.
Fervency in prayer
Prayer is a deep sigh to God. Christ himself is our model in fervent prayers. His prayer in Gethsemane is one such – a Prayer offered at his breaking point. Most intense prayer comes when we are in the threshold of taking critical decisions. Oswald sanders says that prayer is a paradox – an agony and ecstasy in itself. It needs lot of fervency or in other words passion while praying. Are we really passionate to pray? It’s not a monotonous repetition of phrases. It’s a deep cry to God.
Faithful in prayer
How often we fail to be faithful in our prayers. Romans 12:12b instructs us to be faithful in prayer.
Are we faithful to pray for those who asked us to pray? Saying yes to them and not praying is being unfaithful. Even in the face of our many unanswered prayers are we consistent to pray without giving up? In Luke 18:1 the Lord says to his disciples that they should always pray and not give up.
Let’s have these three ‘add ons’- faith, fervency and faithfulness in our prayers.
Faith in prayer
It is looking beyond our possibilities. Christian walk is best understood as “a walk by faith and not by sight.” The Bible again and again portrays people who fashioned their lives by faith. Hebrews 11 is just a small list of millions who lived by faith. Do we have faith in God like those witnesses who gone before us? Do our prayers reflect the faith element? Situations may look impossible to us but truly it is Him-possible.
Fervency in prayer
Prayer is a deep sigh to God. Christ himself is our model in fervent prayers. His prayer in Gethsemane is one such – a Prayer offered at his breaking point. Most intense prayer comes when we are in the threshold of taking critical decisions. Oswald sanders says that prayer is a paradox – an agony and ecstasy in itself. It needs lot of fervency or in other words passion while praying. Are we really passionate to pray? It’s not a monotonous repetition of phrases. It’s a deep cry to God.
Faithful in prayer
How often we fail to be faithful in our prayers. Romans 12:12b instructs us to be faithful in prayer.
Are we faithful to pray for those who asked us to pray? Saying yes to them and not praying is being unfaithful. Even in the face of our many unanswered prayers are we consistent to pray without giving up? In Luke 18:1 the Lord says to his disciples that they should always pray and not give up.
Let’s have these three ‘add ons’- faith, fervency and faithfulness in our prayers.
Friday, January 8, 2010
What’s in Blood?
I was contemplating on the topic blood in these recent days and thought to write on this. My sincere prayer is that God will meet with you as you read, reflect and respond to the below lines. Why blood we may think? It sounds weird, violent and sometimes even disturbs us too. We see the blood stain as we come across every day life. It may be human blood or an animal blood. What feel it gives to us as we look at blood? Some even faint by seeing the blood.
In Hebrews 9 verse 11 onwards we see the blood of Christ. It’s too marvelous to contemplate how the precious blood of the lamb (here Christ as lamb) takes away the guilt of human conscience. Let’s take individual responsibility to understand and marvel at this truth.
This shadows the OT practices of animal sacrifice as a sign of atonement which they do as an annual reminder for the remission of their sins. We read in Leviticus 23:12.
Christ the perfect Lamb offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice. We read in Heb 10:14 “because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy" There is no need for another sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. Even if we try with any other it is not worth compared to the perfect, once for all sacrifice of Christ.
In the new covenant this picture, Christ as unblemished lamb is so vividly used by the apostles and this message of blood or Christ crucified is very much exalted by Apostle Paul in all of his epistles.
In Col 1:20 Paul writes “and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross"
We did not see the blood of Christ with our physical eyes when Christ bled and died on the cross. Isn’t it? But only with the eye of faith we believe this sacrifice of Christ has been made, and only in faith we can appreciate and apply this truth personally in our lives.
Thus the writer of Hebrews says, there is no forgiveness without shedding of blood. Heb 9:22.
Are you washed by the blood of the lamb? If not get cleansed by the Blood of Jesus. In faith believe and pray in your heart that Christ died for your sins and took away your guilt and shame nailing it to the cross. Only those who have this assurance that their sins are washed away by his blood will have a clear conscience, and they enter the kingdom of God.
God Bless!
In Hebrews 9 verse 11 onwards we see the blood of Christ. It’s too marvelous to contemplate how the precious blood of the lamb (here Christ as lamb) takes away the guilt of human conscience. Let’s take individual responsibility to understand and marvel at this truth.
This shadows the OT practices of animal sacrifice as a sign of atonement which they do as an annual reminder for the remission of their sins. We read in Leviticus 23:12.
Christ the perfect Lamb offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice. We read in Heb 10:14 “because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy" There is no need for another sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. Even if we try with any other it is not worth compared to the perfect, once for all sacrifice of Christ.
In the new covenant this picture, Christ as unblemished lamb is so vividly used by the apostles and this message of blood or Christ crucified is very much exalted by Apostle Paul in all of his epistles.
In Col 1:20 Paul writes “and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross"
We did not see the blood of Christ with our physical eyes when Christ bled and died on the cross. Isn’t it? But only with the eye of faith we believe this sacrifice of Christ has been made, and only in faith we can appreciate and apply this truth personally in our lives.
Thus the writer of Hebrews says, there is no forgiveness without shedding of blood. Heb 9:22.
Are you washed by the blood of the lamb? If not get cleansed by the Blood of Jesus. In faith believe and pray in your heart that Christ died for your sins and took away your guilt and shame nailing it to the cross. Only those who have this assurance that their sins are washed away by his blood will have a clear conscience, and they enter the kingdom of God.
God Bless!
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