THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 402

We have been bought with a price. Therefore we ought to glorify God in our mortal bodies! Why? Because our bodies are the temple in which the Holy Spirit is pleased to dwell! We should also note that we have a new covenant today. This new covenant is not patterned after the former covenant - the Sinai covenant delivered to the people by Moses and written on stone.

Rather, this New Covenant is a covenant (God in Christ) of redemption. A promise SEED covenant pronounced to Adam and Eve whilst they were still in the Eden garden. The promise being that the SEED of a woman would bruise the serpent's head. The SEED spoken of here is the SEED of the Holy Spirit which SEED travels down through the ages from generation to generation until the fullness of times should come.

JESUS - GOD with us - is the manifestation of those SEEDS being brought together in the womb of a young girl name Mary. A young girl who was surrogate mother of the child JESUS who is the SON of GOD. God with us as a Son. JESUS being the SEED of the Holy Spirit.

God as a Son was manifest in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil. As the scripture declares, JESUS said, "I have come that they might have life!" Conversely, as we also know from the scriptures, the devil’s purpose was to kill and destroy. The battle of Good verses Evil now being displayed. This is because through one man, sin had entered into the world. It therefore necessitated - to balance the scale of justice - that a righteous man must die. But this could not be any righteous man that must die, but a righteous man that should also bear upon His body the agony and pain incurred from the sin that came about from Adam’s disobedience.

But there was not to be found any one upon earth who was righteous! That is why God speaks of a SEED of Promise. JESUS then is the manifestation of the Promised SEED and it is JESUS who is God with Us who we crucified in our ignorance at Calvary. This means that JESUS is the Lord of Glory who laid down His sinless body for you and I. And in whom upon His excruciating death paid fully the demands of justice for disobedience.

Because of Jesus' sacrifice, man has been redeemed back to God through the sacrificial death of JESUS who alone is the door to reconciliation. JESUS is the only door to salvation. There is no other door, although there are those who might suggest otherwise. Do not follow their erroneous deception. Search the scriptures for yourself.

For it is written, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies it abides alone. But if it falls into the ground and dies it no longer remains alone. It multiplies."

JESUS is the corn of wheat which was crucified, died, buried and then resurrected for us. We who believe in JESUS and are willingly baptized into His death and therefore planted in the likeness of His death (into a watery grave) arise from that watery grave in like manner of JESUS' resurrection to become a new creation. Redeemed by JESUS' blood, buried with Him, and resurrected with Him. A multitude more than the stars of heaven brought forth from that corn of wheat JESUS.

We are the JESUS People springing forth from that everlasting Covenant of GOD IN CHRIST. Read Acts chapter 2:37-42 and Romans chapter 6. Peace to all!