Thursday, November 30, 2006

Through Christ We Are Purged From Dead Works

"Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?" Hebrews 9:12-14

When I read all of the verses that we have studied together in these posts, I look in the mirror and have to say no, we are definitely not truly serving the Living God in the fullness of the power that Jesus came for us to have. But I am not hopeless, and I actually get excited because I believe that our Father is calling us and strengthening us with His very Own strength to be who He has born us to be. I have seen that I cannot do it and that you cannot do it, and even all of us put together cannot do it.  I do see though in our Fathers Word that He can absolutely do it through us. I have seen that it is His will, that it is His desire, and that He has provided a way and that He will cause us to walk in that way!

I believe that our Father is calling us to serve Him and that He is giving us the will, the mind, and the heart to serve Him. I believe that we are chosen to truly serve our Father as Jesus serves Him. Not with this false sense of humility that says, yeh but He was Jesus. But in power, because our Father has given us the mind of Christ. We have been made to be part Jesus’ body. We have been given the same Spirit that Jesus has and through the anointing of Christ we are now one with Him! If all of these things are true, if we are truly dead and if the only reason we live is because it is Jesus living within us, how could we serve God differently that Jesus serves Him?

This excites me to no end and as I talk to others they also are being directed by God this way. I honestly believe that the glorious church will not be divided, that we will serve our Father and that we will not have a false consciousness that condemns us, but one that glorifies God through action, thought, and deed! I believe that through Jesus we will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones. I believe that through Jesus we will have mature fellowship with our Father and that through Jesus we will be one and that the world will believe! America will believe, Asia, South America, Russia, Central America, Australia, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and Europe will all believe. I believe that through Christ we will be one and that the world will believe! Jesus prayed it in John 17, and I don’t think that He was wasting His time with just some words; this is God’s will, and thank You Father You have made it ours as well! The Word teaches us all of these things, and we have the Holy Spirit within us teaching them as well. They will be so, argue about them if you want, but our Father, Who is God, will not be stopped, and what He has spoken will come to pass!

Think about having a purged conscience, one that is fully and completely cleansed and think about being fully pleasing to God in every thought, word, and action. It’s not pie in the sky; it’s ours through the Blood of Christ. It’s who we are, it’s what we have been born of, it’s our inheritance, and in Jesus’ Name it will grow and mature within us, and it will come to pass before He returns, God has spoken it! Jesus loves you and so do I, in Him you will be blessed this day and every day for all of eternity, because as He is so are we in this world!

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