THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 363

From many nations, God is taking unto Himself a people who were formerly nobodies. A people chosen of God before the foundation of the earth. The chosen people are the believing offspring of the SEED child of the Holy Spirit, who of God are predestined according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. To have a holy nation of redeemed, blood washed, water baptized and Holy Spirit filled born of God people inheriting the gift of eternal life through faith in the incorruptible promised Word of God.

The SEED spoken of here was the SEED of promise given of God to Eve and Abraham! God promised that this promised SEED which is the SEED of the Holy Spirit would be brought together at the fullness of time. These promised SEEDS at the fullness of time deposited by God into the womb of a young virgin girl who was a most willing surrogate mother. Whilst in her womb the child was clothed upon with sin prone flesh. But we also recognize that the child life was not of her. She was a surrogate mother of the child that was named JESUS. This child is the manifestation of the promised SEED veiled in flesh.

Faith in JESUS then is exercising faith in "God with us." Unbelief prevents the promised blessing of God. The promise of blessing hinges upon faith in CHRIST making JESUS the SEED of blessing. As many as receive JESUS who is the Spirit of God manifest in flesh the Lamb of God provides of God to be the sacrificial offering for sin. God purposely veiled His pure spiritual humanity in a sin prone body. God was in the man JESUS the Christ effectively reconciling to Himself a people which He alone foreknew. These JESUS PEOPLE == a people called by HIS NAME!

The Lord said in the scriptures that His sheep (people) hear His voice. "My sheep know the voice of their Shepherd." His sheep run to him and follow him, the sheep capable of deciphering the voice of a stranger from that of their shepherd. In other words, this analogy is showing that sheep will not follow a stranger's voice.

In the same way, salvation cannot be attained by good works or by traditional religious exercises. If any of these were in the eyes of God capable of redeeming man from the bondage of sin , then why would He deem it necessary for a righteous person to be crucified and become cursed of God? But as the scriptures point out, not only did justice demand that one righteous person die but that His blood must be totally shed and His body whipped, torn, and disfigured.

This is why the cost alone associated with man’s redemption from sin is an indescribable mystery. The blood that was shed was the life blood of the Holy Spirit (not Adamic sin prone blood) and the body crucified was the sinless body of God. For it is written that God laid down His life for us.

JESUS - God with us offers us an abundant life! A life commencing when one is reconciled to God and therefore receiving of God the promised gift of His Holy Spirit. When one receives the promised gift of His Holy Spirit, it is likened to a well of life springing up from one's innermost being -- "singing and continuous partying" within. Happiness abounds! This is why those of us who know God's presence describe His presence as an unspeakable joy that is glorious! Come to JESUS today and find out for yourself ...