THE LORD'S PRAYER - THE PASSOVER ONE
These are the words Jesus prayed on the last night before
His death on the cross.
"Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that they Son may
also glorify You" (John 17:1).
It was the time when planned history was to be fulfilled in
a way that was truly to be GLORY. It is written that before the
foundation of the world, the One we know as the Son of God, the
Messiah Christ Jesus, was to come as a flesh and blood human
person, live totally righteous, overcome sin and Satan in the
flesh, and so be able to take all sin that had ever been
committed from the time of Adam, upon Himself, so human people
could have their sins washed away by His blood sacrifice. So they
could be reconciled, made at one, with the Father, and be given
eternal life from the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit. It was not
physical gold or silver, or any amount of money, or the giving of
wealth, or the collecting of "good deeds" - working whatever acts
of nobility; there was no amount of charitable works that could
redeem mankind from sin and death.
"Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conduct by
living the traditions of your society. But it was only through
the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot: Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of
the world, but was manifest in these last times for you" (1 Peter
1:18-20 - paraphrased myself)).
Yes before the foundations of this earth, the Father had a
desire, a longing, a plan. He wanted to create in His very own
image (Genesis 1:26) physical people who could be His literal
sons and daughters (John 1:12) if they would accept the way God
the Father had planned the THE way should be. That way was to have a
member of the very Godhead come to earth as a human man and give
Himself as the ransom to redeem or buy back, the children of God
who had been cut off from the Father through sin. A member of the
very Godhead was willing to step aside from the Godhead and be
the atonement sacrifice, as it is written:
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Who
being in the form of God (a part of the Godhead), did not grasp
at hanging on to being equal with God. But was willing to put aside
a mighty reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant,
and came in the likeness of human kind. Being then human He
humbled Himself, and was willing to be obedient to the plan and
only way God had said it could be, death, even death on a cross,
to atone for human sinners" (Philippians 2:5-8 - paraphrased
myself).
Only a perfect sinless member of the very Godhead could take
upon Himself the sins of all people who ever lived or will live.
It may seem strange to us that a Godhead member dying on a cross
could be "glorifying thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify Thee"
but it was so. The very act of a member of the Godhead putting
aside Godhead glory, and coming as a physical man, to live
without ever sinning, to then be willing to die on some upright
wooden pole ... to think of that as "glory" puts a perspective on
"glory" that is not the way the human mind wants to think is
glory. There was no human "gold medal" hung around the neck of
Christ. There was no "national anthem" being played over powerful
loudspeakers. There was no shouting of joy and hand clapping of
enthusiastic onlookers. The glory was certainly not in an outward
form of glory as we may think of it. But it was the time and
event of one of the most glorious spectacles the universe will
ever witness.
It was the glory of SALVATION made possible to all who will
be saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus.
The glorious way of salvation by grace through faith is
fully and deeply explained to you in my study called "Saved by
Grace" on this Website. Tens of millions of people who call
themselves "Christian" have no clue as to the truth of the matter
on being saved by grace. I pray you will not be one of them.
"As You have given Him power over all flesh, that He should give
eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is life
eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom You have sent" (John 17:2-3).
It is the Father that calls people out of darkness; it is He
that shows people what sin is, what His righteousness is, what
His way of salvation through Christ is all about. It is God the
Father that opens up the human mind so they can move towards
REPENTANCE and see that it is ONLY through faith in the glorious
work of Jesus on the cross, His shedding of His blood as THE
sacrifice for all sins, that anyone can have eternal life (John
6:44,65; 2 Peter 3:9).
God the Father is the ONLY true God, many people make gods
unto themselves, bow before them, have them as their "king pin"
but there is ONLY ONE supreme PERSON in the universe that is
above all else. God the Father is HEAD in authority over every
thing and every other being in the universe. Yes He is the head
of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:3). He is the HEAD of all His
children. The Father alone sits on the throne of the universe.
Christ Jesus sits at His right hand. All the Father's other
children will, as Jesus does, look to the Father as HEAD (1
Cor.15:24 with Rev.21:1-3,7,22; 22:3-5). Many studies in this
Website expound the truths of God and the Godhead.
"I have glorified Thee on earth: I have finished the work which
You gave Me to do" (John 17:5).
The WORK of Christ is given to us, amplified to us, in the
FOUR Gospels. Read them over and over, for in the words of Christ
you will find the way to eternal life. The work of Jesus is there
for you to discover. I have tried to put the four Gospels for you
in a modern way that is even easy for children to read, in the
series "The New Testament Bible Story."
If you want to be a disciple of Christ, you better read the
life story of Christ. And so the Father made sure to leave you
all that is important to know in what His Son did and taught
while on this earth in the flesh.
"And now, O Father, glorify Me with thine own self, which I had
with You before the world was" (John 17:5).
It's pretty simple to understand here what Jesus is saying. He
is telling us that He DID EXIST with the Father before the world
was. We have already seen in Philippians 2 that Jesus was part of
the very Godhead and was willing to put it all to one side for a
while. John was inspired to give us plain words, that a child can
understand, about the One who was God and was WITH God, before
the world was and who then became flesh. It does not take the
mind of a rocket scientist to understand the simple words of John
1:1-15. Many today have fancy ways of getting around such words,
to teach that Christ did not exists before He became a baby in
the womb of Mary. Such a teaching is one of the greatest HERESIES
man has ever devised. If you have the mind of a child you can
understand the clear words of passages like John chapter one.
Many of the "religious theologians" of Jesus' day, from their
worldly high class theology schools and rabbinic teachings handed
down from teacher to teacher, could NOT understand plain
Scriptures. Jesus once told them they were "blind leaders of the
blind" and they would all fall into the ditch. Many of the
common, "simple folk" we may call them, did understand, and so
with praise Jesus said, "I thank you Father that you have hid
these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them
unto babes." I tell you friends, as I read some of the
theological teachings of those with DR before their name, I am
amazed at times, how lacking they are in understanding the Word
of God.
"I have manifested Thy name unto the men which You gave me out of
this world: Thine they were, and You gave them to me; and they
have kept Thy word" (John 17:6).
God the Father does the calling. He is the One who opens up
the mind of persons to understand His word (John 6:44). If you
are one of those called to be a real disciples of the Lord Jesus,
then you should lift up your voice is PRAISE! At this time in
history it is NOT the MANY who are called but the few (1
Cor.1:26-31). If you will hunger and thirst after righteousness
(Mat.24:6), you will be filled, Jesus promised that. But you may
have to thirst for it, cry out for it, search the Scriptures as
the people in Berea did when the apostle Paul and Silas taught in
their midst (Acts 17:10-12). They as called "noble" - they had a
ready mind - they searched the Scriptures DAILY, to see if what
they heard stacked up with the word of God. And so, because of
this attitude of mind, many BELIEVED!
You have to have your nose in the Bible, you must be reading
it from cover to cover, searching, seeking, hungering after truth
and righteousness. If you are, you will come to see who teaches
the Word of the Lord correctly. And you will REJOICE in the
truths revealed to you by the Father.
"Now they have known that all things whatsoever You have given Me
are from Thee. For I have given them the words which You gave Me;
and they have received them, and have come to know for sure that
I came out from You, and they have believed that You did send Me"
(John 17:7-8).
Thank the Father that He is still calling, still opening the
minds of some to come to KNOW the REAL Jesus Christ, the Christ
of the four Gospels. Those who LOVE the Word, those who are
willing to be CORRECTED, taught, guided; those who hunger for
truth and righteousness, WILL be FILLED! Jesus spoke the Words of
the Father, those whom the Father is calling today will come to
know who is faithfully teaching the words of the Father.
"I pray for them: I pray not for the world (who will have their
time of salvation one day) but for them especially, whom You have
given Me; for they belong to You. And all mine are thine, and
thine are mine; and I am glorified in them" (John 17:9-10 - my
paraphrase).
God knows His own! His own will know the true God and His
Son Christ Jesus. It is BOTH the Father and Son who come to live
within each disciple via the Holy Spirit (John 14:23-24). They
are all CONNECTED together as One family - the Father and all His
children, from Christ down. Jesus is still praying for all the
Father's children. He is the great High Priest interceding on
behalf of all His brothers and sister, to the Father, as the book
of Hebrews brings out so wonderfully. He is not ashamed to call
us His brothers and sisters (Hebrews 2) and to call us His
friends (John 15:14). Notice being called Jesus' friend in verse
14 has a condition. And the only way to do what Jesus says is to
learn of Him through the four Gospels especially, and the rest of
the New Testament also. Once more it is keeping your eyes and
nose in the Word of the Lord, it is hungering and thirsting after
righteousness, it is searching the Scriptures continually.
"And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine own Name
those whom You have given Me, that they may be One, as we are"
(John 17:11).
A name signifies ownership and authority. We know that
"slander" can soon diminish a person's name. Has the Father POWER
and AUTHORITY? You bet He does! Is it possible that Christ's
request has and is being fulfilled? You bet it is possible! And
it is being fulfilled. Jesus said His flock would be "the very
little flock" as the Greek is better translated. He also said He
would build His church and the gates of hell, the grave, would
not kill it. He also added that His true disciples were the "salt
of the earth" - sprinkled here and there. Nowhere in the New
Testament is the Church of God said to ever become HUGE, the
predominate popular Christian religion of the masses. But God's
people will be here on earth, in the main, scattered, a few here
and a few there, sometimes a congregation here and there as it
was in the days of the first century apostles. There will be
times up to the coming of Christ in glory to this earth, times
when the Father's children will "turn the world upside down" as
in the days of the first century apostles. But that has not
happened very often in the last 2,000 years. As the end time as
this age gets closer to its end, it may well happen again for a
short time. Certainly in the last days the people of the Lord will
make a bold witness for the truths of God as they stand up to the end
time Beast Babylon power of the book of Revelation, many having
to die for the faith once delivered to the saints.
"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name;
those that You gave Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but
the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled. And
now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world, that
they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves" (John 17:12-13).
Jesus said that in the last days DECEPTION would be so
strong that IF it was possible even the VERY ELECT found be
deceived (Mat.24:24). But it is NOT possible to deceive the very
elect. They are the ones with their nose in the Bible, they are
the ones who hunger and thirst after righteousness, and they will
never be lost. They may and will fall at times, we are all still
sinners, but in the end they will make it through and remain
faithful to the end and be with the Father and Christ for
eternity. It is not a case of being predestinated to be saved or
lost (I have a study on this site about "predestination") - it is
a case of those called and willfully wanted to be chosen, do have
the very power of God to enable them to remain faithful to the
end.
We do need to focus on the fact that the Father is the all
powerful One in the universe, and He has more than enough power
and strength to enable His children to inherit eternal life.
Satan has been defeated by Christ. With the Father and Jesus in
us, Satan cannot win. We the children of God were born to win, as
long as you have the attitude of mind as David did (so read the
life of David and the Psalms of David), who was a man after God's
own heart (so it is written) then you can and will WIN!
With this knowledge we can then have great JOY, just as
Jesus wants us to have.
"I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world"
(John 17:14).
Those who truly follow Jesus' instructions of living by
every word of God (Mat.4:4), will not find they are liked that
much by the rest of the professing Christian world. And they will
surely be at odds with many of the ways of the society they live
in. Jesus in His ministry once said to His disciples that they
needed to "watch out" when men "speak good" about them, for so
they did to the false prophets down through history. I do not
think my Website would be too well spoken about in the world of
Christian religion. If I was invited to speak before the Congress
of the USA, including the President, I do not think they would
care for my speech and words of correction and admonition, and my
lifting up my voice like a trumpet to show the people their sins,
and to call for true deep REPENTANCE! If they did like what I
would say then I should examine what I have said, and stand it up
to the words of this verse 14.
.....................
Keith Hunt (written April 2009 Passover night)
To be continued
The Lord's Prayer #2
The Passover Prayer
LORD'S PRAYER - THE PASSOVER ONE
Part Two
"I pray that You should not take them out of the world, but that
you should keep them from the evil" (John 17:15).
This one verse alone disproves and idea that it is "godly"
to believe that the Lord would have you go off into the
wilderness to live a solitary life, where the mind-set is that
you deliberately come away from living in the society. Now, to be
sure there may be times when in persecution you must flee to the
hills (Jesus said so in Mat.24; Mark 13; Luke 21), but that is
not having a mind-set of deliberately deciding it is a Christian
way to live your whole life out of the sight of "the society."
There is no hint in the New Testament that any converts to
Christianity, formed groups and went into the hills or woods to
make sure they would stay out and away from the society, hiding
their light from the darkness of the world. What we find is the
exact opposite - the apostles and people of God lived in the
world, where the Gospel could be proclaimed, not only by the way
they lived, but also in evangelism, reaching out to the
unconverted, teaching the word of salvation and the Kingdom
through Christ Jesus.
What Jesus prayed for was that the Father would give
PROTECTION to His children while they did the work of the Lord in
their various nations and societies.
You will also notice this verse 15 has no TIME LIMIT! It is
a perpetual truth for all the ages to the end of this age. Hence
it KNOCKS in the HEAD, does a DEATH blow, to the teaching of the
"secret rapture" and the "two phased" coming of Christ. The
"secret rapture" teaches that Jesus will come "invisibly" -
unknown, to snatch away His church either at the beginning of a 7
year tribulation (the last 7 years of this age) or in the middle
of this supposed 7 year tribulation), and the saints are flown
off to heaven, until they return with Christ in a "visible" glory
of power return.
This verse BLOWS AWAY any such teaching by Christ or any
writer of the New Testament! Jesus NEVER prayed for any such
event as some silly "secret rapture" to take His people OUT OF
the world. Jesus prayed JUST THE OPPOSITE! There it is in clear
print, mark it in your Bible. I did not put it there when you
were sleeping last night. This verse has been there for many
centuries: "I PRAY NOT that you take them out of this world, BUT
that You will keep them from the evil."
I have a number of studies on this Website devoted to
EXPOSING the false doctrine of the "secret rapture" and the crazy
teaching that the SECOND coming of Christ will be in "two phases"
one invisible and the other visible, with "ex" number of years
between them. EVERYWHERE in your Bible the teaching of the
glorious coming of Christ at the end of this age is given, it is
ONE POWERFUL AND GLORIOUS RETURN and that is it - PERIOD!!
"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through Thy TRUTH: Thy WORD IS TRUTH!" (John
17:17).
Mark this verse also, put it in bright yellow, remember John
17:17. It is a LIFE SAVER! It is not the ideas of men or women,
it is not the "theological school" - it is not the DR before a
person's name, it is not the PhD after their name. It is not the
endorsement of a man or woman by the "clergy" proclaiming how
great a scholar this or that person is. It is not the patting on
the back of this guy or gal by others of his kind. It is NONE of
those things that is TRUTH! The TRUTH of God, His way of life,
His teachings, the truth of all topics disclosed in the Bible is
ONLY FOUND in the Father's WORD! As Isaiah wrote (Isa.8:20) "To
the law and the testimony (the Bible), if they speak NOT
according to this Word, there is no light in them."
You, your task, is to search the Scriptures daily, to see if
the Word of God stacks up with what you hear preached and taught
and written. It is the lesson of the wise people of Berea (Acts
17). I cannot give too much emphasis to Acts 17, and you
searching the Scriptures. Most will not do it, they read books
from people about what the author says the Bible teaches, they
watch DVDs from "religious fellows" BUT they will not take the
time to SEARCH the Scriptures, to check and see if what they are
hearing squares off with the Bible.
The true disciples of the Lord will be SANCTIFIED, SET APART
for Holy use and service BY THE TRUTH. Jesus prayed the Father
would set them apart by the very word of truth, God's word only,
which is TRUTH.
But YOU friend, must WANT the truth, you must LOVE to have
the truth, you must desire to be CORRECTED! You must hunger and
thirst after righteousness, then, and only then, will you be
FILLED!
"As You have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that
they also may be sanctified through the truth" (John 17:18-19).
Jesus sends us into the world, to proclaim the Gospel of
Christ, sent to be a witness of truth, of the holy way to live
and to act, to talk, and to think. We are not sent to put our
light under a bushel, but on the table where it can been seen and
give light to the darkness around. We are not called to go off
and live the rest of our lives in some cave, forest, mountain,
where the world will never see us, and where we will never see
the world. Jesus lived in the day to day world of His society. He
mingled with the people. He taught in the streets. He was
accessible by the all the people about Him. He moved in their
midst. He was a light of goodness and a trumpet to sound the
truths of God. He sanctified Himself with THE truth, and He here
prays to the Father that His disciples will also be set apart
with the same truth.
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on Me through their word" (John 17:20).
Yes, Jesus would build His church and the gates of death
would never kill it. It would always be here. Some, somewhere,
would carry on the torch of light and truth. It would be handed
down through all generations. The Father would always be calling,
always opening the minds of some, who would be willing to see, to
be taught, to be corrected. They would love the truth, would
desire with all their heart to grow in grace and knowledge. They
would be the ones studying their Bible, reading it from cover to
cover, and hungering for the light of truth.
Though the true flock of the Lord would be relatively not
very large, the salt of the earth, nevertheless the truth of God
would be handed on to others who would also love it, and hand it
on to their next generation. So it would be that light and truth
would never leave this earth.
"That they may be ONE; as You Father, are in Me, and I in You,
that they also may be ONE in US: that the world may believe that
You have sent Me. And the glory which You gave to Me, I have
given to them; that they may be ONE, even as We are ONE. I in
them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in ONE; and
that the world may know that You did send Me, and have loved
them, as You have loved Me" (John 17:21-23).
Do you see the STRONG cry from Jesus to the Father, that
Jesus' disciples are kept as ONE, just as the Father and Christ
are ONE. Jesus earlier had asked for it, now with more passion He
asks again that all God's children will be as ONE. Here we have
the truth that ONE can be more than a single person. In Genesis 2
we find that two can become one, a husband and wife can be ONE.
The Father's arithmetic is not like ours, with us one plus one
equals TWO, but with the Father one plus one can equal ONE!
God is ONE, the Godhead is ONE, but the Godhead at present
consists of TWO beings - the Father and the Son, Jesus Christ.
Hence we can understand John chapter 1, verses 1- 14.
Is the Father powerful enough to KEEP His children as ONE?
Oh you bet He is! Is the Father big enough to have His children
ALL understand the very foundational truths and doctrines of His
Word, correctly and all as ONE? I guess so!
Those today whom the Lord is working with, will come to find
the truth of all the basic doctrines of God, which are listed in
the first verses of Hebrews 6. Those basic truths are being
proclaimed MIGHTY POWERFULLY today via the Internet. This Website
is devoted to the truths of the Lord. Other servants of the Lord
have their Websites, and the foundational truths are the SAME.
God's people are ONE!! This request from Christ to the Father IS
BEING FULFILLED ON A LARGER SCALE THAN EVER BEFORE! A powerful
witness of the ONE unity of the Father's children is being
sounded around the world like as never before in the ages since
the first century apostles.
The Father is loving Christ. He is loving all His children.
The Father is bringing the disciples of Christ into PERFECTION as
ONE. Instant and worldwide connection through the modern Internet
and email is making it possible for truth and unity to spread
like a wild-fire and gather into ONE, all the disciples of
Christ.
"Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with
me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which You have
given Me: for You loved Me before the foundation of the world"
(John 17:24).
And so it shall be my friends, it is the truth of the Bible.
The disciples of the Lord will be with Him. No, not when they
die, for death is sleep until the day of the resurrection. All
the truth of death and resurrection is expounded in detail in
various studies on this Website. But as sure, nay, more sure,
than the rising of the sun, will be the resurrection of the
saints. At the coming of Christ, the one and only glorious
coming, when the trump of God shall sound, the dead in Christ
(and all God's children since Adam) will rise from the graves,
then all the living saints will be change from mortal to immortal
in the twinkling of an eye. The angels will go forth to gather
them all into the air, into the clouds, to the sea of glass, and
to the presence of Christ (Mat.24:29-31; 1 Cor.15; 1 Thes.4:13-
18). What wonderful JOY and GLORY that will be, for we shall see
Christ in His glory and we shall be like Him, as it is written:
"And behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us,
that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knows us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we
shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:1-2).
From the sea of glass, after the wedding feast of the Lamb
and His bride is completed, we shall in that day, not months or
years later, but in that day, we shall descend with Christ to the
Mount of Olives. In that day there will be only One Lord of lords
and King of kings. The nations of the Beast power and the kings
of the East, well they may gather at Meggido to unite to fight
against Jesus, the angels and the resurrected immortal saints,
but it will be "no contest" for Jesus will destroy them with the
brightness of His coming, their flesh will melt from their bones,
and the battle will be over before it could begin (Zechariah 14).
The disciples of our Lord Jesus will reign with Him for ONE
THOUSAND years, and all that is written concerning that age will
come to pass. At the end of that age, Jesus will hand over the
Kingdom to the Father (1 Cor.15:23-26). The Father will come to
earth, to the new earth, with the heavenly city Jerusalem. The
Father will dwell with His children. He will be their God, the
supreme One, the head of His family. Pain, sorrow, suffering, and
even death will be destroyed (Rev. 21 and 22).
Truly the disciples of the Lord will be with Him FOREVER,
for all eternity.
The Father has indeed loved Christ from eternity past, from
before the foundation of this earth.
This is the PROMISE of the Father. So it is written and so
shall it come to pass.
"O righteous Father, the world has not known You: but I have
known You, and these have known that You did send me. And I have
declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it; that the LOVE
wherein You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them" (John
17:25-26).
It is a wonderful BLESSING to known that you KNOW the
Father; to be called and chosen; to be granted mercy; to have
your sins washed away in the Passover blood of the Lamb. To have
Christ Jesus IN you, is the most blessed gift you could ever be
given. To be saved by grace through faith in Jesus as personal
Savior, is a gift beyond what human words can describe.
"God so LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believes in Him should NOT perish, but have everlasting
life" (John 3:16).
At this Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread time, we
reflect on the life and death of our Savior Christ Jesus. The
LOVE that both Christ and the Father have for all people, the
wish and desire for all people to REPENT, to humble themselves,
to see themselves in the light of their Holiness and Perfectness,
and say with the great Job, "I have heard of you both, by the
hearing of men, BUT NOW MY EYE SEES, and I repent in dust and
ashes."
The greatest thing you can do is to humble yourself under
the mighty hand of God, for He tells you:
"To this man will I look; even to him/her that is POOR and of a
CONTRITE spirit; and TREMBLES at my Word" (Isaiah 66:2).
Are YOU willing to LOVE God so much, and His way of life as
written in His word, that you will let nothing or nobody come
BETWEEN you and your personal relationship with the Father and
with Christ?
The LOVE they both have for you, is as wide as the universe.
They desire to share with you ALL that they have; eternal life,
glory beyond comprehension, perfect sinlessness, and the joy of
all the universe and whatever else the Father may want to do in
the ages of eternity.
Will YOU MAKE A DECISION to follow in the steps of Christ.
He set us the perfect example. His over-all life is for you to
read in the four Gospels. Will you pattern your life after His?
Oh, you will fall and stumble along the way; you are not made
perfect in the flesh; sin will be pulling at you, but we can take
encouragement by the passages of 1 John chapter one and the first
verses of chapter two. Keep them close by your side, as well as
Romans 7. Yes even the great apostle Paul fought the battle
against the flesh and sin.
That is what the feast of Unleavened Bread is all about -
fighting the battle against sin and the carnal pulls of the
flesh. You will need always to be humble, always in a repentant
mind-set, ready to admit to the Father you are a sinner, and ask
for His grace through the blood and work of Christ Jesus.
If you do this, then eternal life dwells in you. Then you
will be able to say with Paul:
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have
kept the faith; Henceforth there IS laid up for me a CROWN of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me
at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love
His appearing" (2 Timothy 4:7-8).
.......................
Keith Hunt
Written on the evening of the first day of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread - April 2009.
|
|
