Something Has To Die For Something To Live

The natural always types the spiritual. That is the reason why Jesus used parables in explaining the kingdom of God. In the natural world, something has to die before something can live. Whatsoever any living thing eats, it must die first; be it grain, animal, fish or whatever it is. In other words, some living thing has do die for us to live. That is the law of nature so no one or nothing can escape that. If something has to die before we can live in the natural world, how much more will something not have to die before we can live eternally in the spirit. In much the same way, we must die to self in order to have an eternal life. Water baptism is a symbol of dieing with Christ and resurrecting with Him.

Christianity can be said to be the only true religion because it is the only religion that follows this law of nature.

God always demands a sacrifice. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they sewed a fig leaf to cover themeselves but God requires blood so He sacrificed an animal and made coats of skins and clothed them. (Genesis 3:7, 21)

In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Heb 9:22

In Cain and Abel's sacrifice, God accepted that of Abel and rejected Cain's. Why? Abel had a revealtion of what God requires (an animal sacrifice) but Cain did not. It is NOT as some preachers say Cain brought rotten fruit unto the Lord. By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. (Heb 11:4) He had a revelation of what God would do in the future.

This future plan was also revealed through Abraham when God asked him to sacrifice his only son. God showed how He will sacrifice the Lamb of God (Jesus) on the cross. The lamb sacrificed in Egypt saved  the Israelites. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

The blood of Jesus shed for our sins is what gives us access to God. Without Jesus' sacrifice, we would be unable to have a relationship with Him. He said, if you do not eat my body and drink my blood, you are not part of me. His body symbolises the Word and His blood represents the Spirit.


Jesus is Lord.

God bless you.

SABBATH

Should we worship on Saturdays or Sundays? Is it really important on which day you worship? This has been a bone of contention for a long time. However, God has shown us the answers to these things as he promised He will do in Revelation 10:7. One of the 10 commandments says Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

The Bible itself explain these clearly. It even tells us the meaning of the Sabbath and what it is meant for Christians today.

Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest (Sabbath) still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,

‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “And on the seventh day God rsted from all his work.” And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”

Jesus sets us free from our own works

It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before:

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience

(Hebrew 4:1-11)

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. (Col 2:16-17)

Jesus said, Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28)

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. (Mark 2:28)

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Jesus gives us rest from our works ( sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, etc).  I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5)

Rest

Jesus Is Lord

God bless you