But After That, The Kindness and Love of God our Saviour Toward Man Appear - Part 1359

"But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." (Titus 3:4-7)

"For the grace of God that brings salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee." (Titus 2:11-15)

As believers in Jesus by faith, who have been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and thus, received the gift of the Holy Ghost, as did the first 3,000 believers on the day of Pentecost, we should not give heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth. Rather, we need to be thankful that the Lord of glory loved us enough to take on a sin-prone flesh so that we could be saved through the blood He shed on the cross for you and I.

"And for this cause, He is the mediator of the new testament that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgression [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead; otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator lives ..." (Hebrews 9:15-18)

But Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands [which are] the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us, nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others; for then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world ... but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation." (Hebrews 9:24-28)

Let those who have ears to hear, hear.

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