For We Are The Workmanship Created In Christ Jesus - Part 2034

But this man (JESUS) when He had by HIMSELF purged our sin, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high! Note that when He Had by Himself purged our sin, He sat down. The work of salvation - God's plan of salvation - was finished. Complete. As such, there is no penance. There was no confessional box incorporated into God's plan. Indeed, there is nothing that you or I can add to the plan of salvation which was accomplished, on our behalf, by a loving God. A plan of salvation so comprehensive, so detailed, and so actioned that in spite of all our fiery darts of evil, God (because He is a long suffering God) loved us to HIS death.

God's love is not just in words alone, but in deed. If any man or woman sins, we have an advocate (one that pleads the cause of another) with the Father in Jesus Christ. The only righteous One. As the scriptures state, there is only One Mediator between God and man. That is, the man Jesus the Christ!

As Jesus said, "I AM the way!" (John 14:6) Yes, Jesus is the door! He is the bread of life. He is the living water that quenches your thirst day in and day out. And that same Jesus said, "No man comes to the Father but by Me." Why? Because all power is given unto Me -- Jesus-- in heaven and in earth. (Matthew 28:18)

Jesus -- both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36) Jesus -- Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending. (Revelation 1:8) He is the King of kings and Lord of lords.

So where does that leave us? Certainly, there is no pope. No priest. No Mary standing between us and God. For if we confess our sins to the God who loves us, Jesus is faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness. This is why the scriptures state that there is no salvation in any other! "Come unto Me," Jesus said, "ALL ye who are weak and heavy laden (with sin) and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)

This is why we study our Bible so that we can be equipped when we learn of Him -- for His yoke is easy and His burden light.

Also, when we gladly receive His Word, we will learn that being sprinkled with water cannot remove sin. For if water alone were to remove sin, then taking a shower should suffice. But it does not. Neither does being baptized into titles save you for titles are not a name but rather descriptive titles. Think of what Peter standing with the apostles said to the first 3,000 souls saved on the day of Pentecost That is, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)

And when we study the apostolic doctrine, we will also know that being given the last rites by man is only a religious order imposed upon people who have never taken time to read the written Word of God, resulting in an unnecessary adherence to man’s religious fanciful imaginations!

We would also learn that there has never been a man who spoke like this man. Jesus said, "Destroy this body, and in three days I will raise it up." And it happened! The consequence is that the world is faced with the historical fact that this man turned the world on its axis -- changing so much including our own calendar time lines. Everything in our world revolves around Jesus. His time on earth. His plan of salvation, first predicted in the Old Testament and then fulfilled in the New Testament.

But from the original get up and go, the religious world of business could not handle, that someone who looked like an ordinary man was capable of performing miracles, and mighty signs and wonders. For when you see Him there is no beauty that you should or would desire Him which might explain to some extent why they despised and rejected Him!

Today, we robe the Ecclesiastes in fashion. They have a form of worship but God has observed that "in vain they do worship Me, teaching as commandments the doctrines of men." What formalized religion is still to understand is that truly God desires honest worship, emanating from the innermost being of man.

Worship that is in Spirit and in truth! My Word is Spirit and is Truth! Jesus. God Himself as a Son, by His walk and talk, manifest all of God as a Son, and we are admonished to walk even as He walked. He is our life!

Stand in the offering plate.