Whom God Hath Set Forth A Propitiation Through Faith In His Blood - Part 1698

"For  as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND WITHOUT SPOT; who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you -- who by Him do believe in God that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently; being born not again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God which lives and abides for ever ... the Word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you!" (I Peter 1:18-25)

The Word which was with God and was God -- the SAME (not He) in the beginning and all things made by Him and not anything made that was made -- this Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, so that we could behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father -- full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-14)

Jesus! This was the He of whom John the baptizer spake, saying, "He that comes after me is preferred before me for He was before me, and of His fullness have we all received and grace for grace, for the law was given by Moses, [and] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1:15-18; Romans 5:21; John 10:30; John 8:31-32; John 14:6-12; John 18:37)

Jesus having responded to Pilate in Pilate's court, saying, -- "Thou sayest that I am King. To this end was I born and for this cause came I unto the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears My voice." (John 8:37; Matthew 5:17; Matthew 20:28; John 14:6; Revelation 1:8,11)

Yes, Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The King of kings and Lord of lords, Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending. Jesus -- after the order of Melchizedek. But those who oppose the truth that can only be found in the doctrine of Christ proclaim a different message. We have been rightly warned in the scriptures against these wolves in sheep's clothing, who refuse to "rightly divide" the truth. Indeed, apostle Paul (as one born out of due time) said, "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood ..." (Acts 20:28)

Again, the doctrine of Christ (II John 1:9; Hebrews 6:1-2)

But because of grievous wolves who have entered in among you, not sparing the flock and speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves, have systematically removed all scriptural references to the "doctrine of Christ" from their rewritten and new version bibles, spreading a false message instead that Jesus could not possibly be God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16; John 1:10-11; Matthew 1:21-23; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; Revelation 1:8,11)

At the same time, these same promoters of "another gospel" (which apostle Paul calls accursed!) have reduced the Holy Ghost which witnesses through believers in every city to a S/spirit (or one third of God/false trinity) so that we may never fully understand the doctrine of the "resurrected Christ." (Acts 2-:23-28) That in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9)

That God became our Saviour!

Similarly, as the devil runs to and fro working to deceive even the elect (if that were possible) the precious Name of Jesus (proclaimed by the angel of the Lord God) is being systematically changed by those who claim to be Jews and are not, and do lie. Revelation 3:8-9 reveals their motives and intents of these hearts, which I suggest every believer read in their own time, because the message therein speaks volumes to what is happening in the religious culture today.

Just like the devil tempting Jesus in the wilderness repeatedly said, "If Thou be the Son of God ..." (Matthew 4:3, 6) This conclusion, even when Jesus clarified His true identity -- "For it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shall thou serve." (Matthew 4:10; Deuteronomy 6:13; Deuteronomy 10:20) And unfortunately, that same lie that caught satan off guard (not knowing how much the Lord our God loved His creation to take on a body such as ours) is being falsely communicated within congregations today.

Nevertheless, "the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God ..." (Deuteronomy 10:17; Revelation 19:6; Acts 10:34)

"I [am] the Lord, and [there is] none else, there is no God beside Me; I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me. That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside Me. I [am] the Lord, and [there is] none else .... I have made the earth and created man upon it ... Surely, God is in thee and [there is] none else, [there is] no God. Verily, Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour ... but Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end!" (Isaiah 45:5-17; Isaiah 52:10; Isaiah 45:21-25)

"For I am God and there is none else ... My counsel shall stand and I will do all My pleasure." (Isaiah 46:9-10)

And as the Israel of the new testament, we are to also heed to the first commandment in both the old and the new, which specifically states, "Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is ONE LORD; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart." (Deuteronomy 6:4-6; I Corinthians 8:4, 6; Matthew 22:37; II Kings 23:25; Mark 12:29-31)

Moreover, " ... and thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates, that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give the, as the days of heaven upon the earth." (Deuteronomy 11:18-20)

And this same God, after His kindness and love, became our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7; I Timothy 3:16) He clothed/robed Himself in sin prone flesh (and yet without sin) so that He Himself -- the Word made flesh -- could bring salvation to His people. He purchased us with His precious holy blood had to be made -- wherein God prepared for Himself a body -- and became the perfect sacrifice on a cross for you and I. As apostle Paul so clearly stated, "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God!" (Acts 20:27; Luke 7:29-30)

The counsel of God? As Peter (standing with the eleven) on the day of Pentecost declared -- in one accord, this same JESUS whom ye have crucified is BOTH Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36) The Son of man is the Lord of glory. He is the great I AM. The Rock which was and is Christ. "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)

Not another God but the ONE AND SAME GOD who moved upon the face of the waters in the very beginning, who was manifest in these last days -- the fullness of time -- so that we might receive His free gift of salvation. (Genesis 1:1-2)

As we see also, the first 3,000 souls saved in the new testament body of Christ church gladly received the Word, repenting and being water baptized in the precious Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:36-47)

"The Holy Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the time then present ... 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 -- and for this cause, He is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions 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 ..." (Hebrews 9:8, 14-18)

Indeed, as we learn after Jesus was taken up, "after that He [Jesus] THROUGH the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He [Jesus] had chosen; to whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God." (Acts 1:2-3)

Lots to learn herein. The underlying message? Study the scriptures yourself to show yourself approved, so that you can rightly divide the Word. Don't let the traditions of men tell you that the Word of God does not mean what it says, or that the revised wording is easier to understand. In reading the Word of the Lord, compare the scriptures in context. Ask the Spirit of the Lord to download to you His wisdom and knowledge and don't allow the interpretations of a world with no spiritual understanding lead you astray. Line upon line and precept upon precept, give us this day our daily bread.

Drink the living water from the resurrected Spirit of Christ -- the Rock that was and is Christ -- the Rock of all ages, for He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. "I and My Father are ONE!" (John 10:30; John 14:6-12)

Most of all, do not be deceived by the wiles of a devil who himself was fooled into believing that Jesus was only a Son, and not the Lord of glory, whose abundance of love for His creation dictated that even before the world was formed that He -- God Himself manifest in the flesh -- would willingly become our Saviour. (I Timothy 3:16; Titus 3:4-7)

Stand in the offering plate.