The Lord made himself a debtor not by receiving something but by promising something. One does not say to Him, "Pay for what You received" but "Pay what You promised".
Love is not only one of God attributes; it is also an essential part of His nature. "God is love" - the personification of perfect love. "My dear people, let us love one another since love comes from God and everyone who loves is begotten by God and known God because God is love. - 1John 4:7-8 -
The Lord said: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still and trust in me". "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" No one can come to the Father except through me. - John 14:1,6 - By these words, He will raise us up at the last day - the promised of giving us eternal life. In John Gospel, chapter 6, God not only show us how to gains eternal life but teaches us as well; "I am the bread of life". - John 6:48 -
I tell you most solemnly,
everybody who believes has eternal life.
If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood,
you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood
has eternal life,
for I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink. - John 6:47, 53-55 -
Grace prompted God to promise a new land to Israelites. When you enter the land that Yahweh is giving you, as he promised, you must keep to this ritual. And when your children ask you. "What does this ritual mean?" you will tell them, "It is the sacrifice of the Passover in honour of Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt and struck Egypt but spared our houses". And the people bowed down and worshiped. - Exodus 12:25-27 -
His faithfulness urged Him to fulfill that promise, in spite of the peoples and the nation's disobedience. And as apostle Paul pointed out, God's love, grace and faithfulness are particularly evident in His promise to Abraham. This promise was eventually fulfilled in the work of Christ. Christians should trust completely that God's promise of eternal life.
Compare this, brothers, with what happens in ordinary life. If a will has been drawn up in due form, no one is allowed to disregard it or add to it. Now the promises were addressed to Abraham and to his descendants-notice, in the passing that scripture does not use a plural word as if there were several descendants, it uses the singular: to his posterity which is Christ.
But my point is this: once God had expressed his will in due form, no law that came four hundred and thirty years later could cancel that and make the promise meaningless. If you inherit something as a legal right, it does not come to you as the result of a promise and it was precisely in the form of a promise that God made his gift to Abraham. In this way the promise can only be given through faith in Jesus Christ and can only be given to those who have faith. Merely by belonging to Christ you are the posterity of Abraham, the heirs he was promised. - Gal. 315-18,22,29 -
Christ seals the new covenant with his blood. He brings a new covenant, as the mediator, only so that the people who were called to an eternal inheritance may actually receive what was promised: his death took place to cancel the sins that infringed the earlier covenant. Now wherever a will is in question, the death of the testator must be established; indeed, it only becomes valid with that death since it is not meant to have any effect while the testator is still alive.
That explains why even the earlier covenant needed something to be killed in order to take effect and why, after Moses had announced all the commandments of the Law to the people, he took the calves blood, the goats' blood and some water, and with these he sprinkled the book itself and all the people, using scarlet wool and hyssop; saying as he did so: This is the blood of the covenant that God has laid down for you. After that, he sprinkled the tent and all the liturgical vessels with blood in the same way.
In fact, according to the Law almost everything has to be purified with blood; and if there is no shedding of blood, there is no remission. Obviously, only the copies of heavenly things can be purified in this way and the heavenly things themselves have to be purified by a higher sort of sacrifice than this. It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was only modeled on the real one; but it was heaven itself, so that he could appear in the actual presence of God on our behalf.
And he does not have to offer himself again and again, like the high priest going into the sanctuary year after year with the blood that is not his own or else he would have had to suffer over and over again since the world began. Instead of that, he has made his appearance once and for all, now at the end of the last age, to do away with sin by sacrificing himself. Since men only die once and after that comes judgment, so Christ too, offers himself only once to take the faults of many on himself and when he appears a second time, it will not be to deal with sin but to reward with salvation those who are waiting for him. - Heb. 9:15-28 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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