Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread - Part 1318

In that SEED shall all the nations of the earth be blessed! The question is whether you have you received the Holy Spirit of JESUS since you believed? The reason I ask is that God said He would pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh in the latter days. And, in different times in the book of Acts, we see the question asked -- "Have ye received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"

If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ by faith, I beg you to ask the Lord for forgiveness. This is called repentance. Then, the next step is to be water baptized into His death, burial, and resurrection and this will which secure the promise of God’s Spirit -- the Holy Ghost -- will be imparted to you. For by obedience to God’s command you now inherit the rich inheritance WILLED to you as a LIVING WILL by God our Saviour. For that is exactly who JESUS was.

God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16) He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. (John 1:10-11) God with us. (Matthew 1:21-23) "I am the Lord thy God and there is none beside Me." (Isaiah 43:3)

On the new testament side,  JESUS is the well of living water. JESUS ONLY is the source. He that drinks of this water JESUS gives shall never thirst spiritually. Why? Because the Holy Ghost blood flowed in the veins of the man JESUS the Christ. The life of God's humanity is in the blood.

It was the Lord who sacrificed His own body on a Cross at Calvary, purchasing for man the right to INHERIT REDEMPTION. It was because of His sacrificial offering that any and all living persons can now through faith in JESUS' sacrificial death receive freely the gift of the Holy Spirit of Life that was in the man JESUS the Christ. This inherited redemption is available to all who accept JESUS as their One and Only Saviour.

God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself. God's spiritual humanity, love, mercy, compassion and truth were embodied in the man JESUS the Christ, who was as the scripture declares God manifest in the flesh. It was in that body that all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily. Jesus was God with us as a Son. Indeed, we are fallen images of that pure humanity.

JESUS was that pure humanity who saw our plight and our hopelessness and because God is love, God made a way whereby man could be redeemed. Saved. In order to do this, man’s redemption required the death of a sinless man. (It must be a man for it was by one man’s disobedience that sin entered into man) Therefore, to meet the demands of justice it necessitated another’s death. Look back through the Old Testament, for example, and see how many sacrifices were carried out endeavouring to remove the guilt of sin but unfortunately all such endeavours were fruitless.

Thus, God put Himself in our place fulfilling all the demands of sin by the sacrifice of His own prone to sin and yet sinless body. God’s love and mercy redemptive mission was now accomplished by God Himself at no cost whatsoever to man. This kind of love and mercy is beyond our capacity to pen. Beyond our capacity to understand. Beyond our capacity to express because this kind of love - simply put - emanates from God. Yes, God is love!

JESUS, being the Son of the Holy Spirit INHERITS all things, for has He has said that all that my Father has is mine, and all that is mine is yours.

In other words, this is the Last LIVING WILL or TESTAMENT of JESUS prior to His crucifixion. GOD covenanted with Himself. God did not covenant with either you or I. God covenanted with Himself as a Son and that Covenant is an everlasting Covenant, independent of us. For Salvation is of the LORD. Paid in full for each and every one of us.

"By grace are ye saved through faith ... and that not of yourself. It is a gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)

As a consequence, what we have is the Last Living Will or Testament of the man JESUS the Christ who bequeathed all of His rightful inheritance to us. His redeemed people which He purchased to Himself with the shedding of His own blood. This is why God offers all forgiveness if we would recognize His substitution death at Calvary.
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Now the decision is in your hands. You have reached the crossroads, the Armageddon of life if you will. It is your decision and your decision alone, God has commanded that all men and women repent. Why? Because redemption has been obtained by God’s Grace and Mercy. You and I now have an opportunity to return to that exact place where Adam made the wrong decision.

Now its your turn. You decide either to continue as you are now or to call upon the name of the Lord your God thanking Him for His unconditional love toward us - fallen men and women. If you decided to accept God’s redemption, enjoy the wonder, love and grace that is Jesus. Enjoy His comfort. And follow on as the early believers were encouraged to do in Acts chapter 2. That is, repent and be baptized into the name of JESUS the Christ.

Make sure you have a good new testament and start reading. Use a notebook and pen to write notes if the margins in your Bible are not large enough. Rejoice in our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ. Pray without ceasing. Study His Word to show thyself approved unto God. Stand in the offering plate.