Keep hearing the good news!

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." - Luke 4:18 - 19

Gospel is literally good news! What then is the good news? The good news is the blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor will be poor no more! More importantly, sinners can be made the righteousness of God in Christ through the one complete sacrificial work at the cross. All our sins are forgiven through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

The gift of salvation has to be received in order for the redemptive power to be effective in our lives. Once we have accepted Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are grafted into the kingdom of God, we are sons and daughters of the most high God! As Christ is so are we in this world!

Jesus was never sick. Jesus was never in lack. Jesus was never hurried. Jesus was never angry towards the sinners. Even His "chiding" was to encourage His disciples to take more from Him! We always see a perfect Jesus! We see His healing virtue manifested in a mighty way when He healed all who come to Him for healing. We see How he touched the lepers and the leprosy left them. Wow, what a personal and thoughtful act! Jesus knew the lepers were missing human touch and He just fulfilled that very lack.

Distance is never an issue where healing is concerned. Jesus can heal from where He is now at the right hand of God. The bible says Jesus healed a centurion's servant from afar when He heard the request for healing that servant. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is still healing today!

When Jesus was on earth, He was never in lack. The bible says wise men from the east came to worship Him and presented to Him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Riches and honor follow after Jesus. When we pursue Jesus, riches and honor follow us! So stop striving to pursue the richness of the earth through our own effort. Pursue Jesus and allow the Holy Spirit to lead us into all blessings. Surely, the blessings of the Lord make one rich and no sorrowful toil can make up to it.

Jesus knows our every need. When the fishermen in the bible caught nothing the night before, Jesus gave them a net breaking and boat sinking harvest of fishes! When the Samaritan woman needed love, Jesus provided the ultimate love the woman had always wanted. The bible tells us that even when Lazarus was dead for four days, Jesus was able and willing to raise him from the dead.

Keep hearing the gospel. For out of it comes the answer to our every need. For out it we see the beauty and perfection of Jesus Christ. And when we behold Jesus Christ, we are been transformed from glory to glory in His image! Hallelujah!

The covenant keeping God

Covenant is more than a lawful agreement between two or more parties. In the old testament, people will usually have an incision on their wrists and be joined together at the wrist to signify they are now in covenant. Whatever one party has, the other has also. There is no longer an distinction between whose assets they belong to. Both parties now have all their assets combined.

When God cuts a covenant with man, God can keep His part but man can't and God knows it all along from the beginning. That's why when God cut a covenant with Abraham, God put Abraham to sleep and in his place, a pillar of fire goes through the cut pieces of the animals and God, represented by a pillar of cloud, goes through them in the opposite direction. In that instance, God the Father cuts a covenant with God the Son! That's why Jesus has to die at the cross for man's transgressions and his sins!

For by one man's offense, all are made sinners. And through that One Man's sacrifice at the cross, whosoever accepts Him and His salvation is made the righteousness of God! What Jesus has accomplished at the cross is so much more than what Adam has committed in the beginning. For the precious blood of Jesus is able to cleanse us of our sin and sins forever and for everyone who had lived and the very last man who will ever live! Whoever accepts the gift of righteousness are being grafted into the kingdom of God and can come to the throne of grace in times of need to cry out Abba, Father!

Adam was originally given the key to govern the earth and to have dominion over it. Yet he gave up his right to the devil when he sinned against God in the garden of Eden. It will not be righteous for God to just take the key away from the devil "forcefully" as it will be an injustice for God to do so. God is a just God. He has the master plan to send Jesus to die at the cross and to rise from the grave three days later to show the world He has conquered death and the devil has no right to the key and no right to stand before God to accuse Christians of any sin.

For Jesus has come to earth that He created to be a Man so that He can righteously redeem man from his sin! It takes a kinsman redeemer to redeem man from his state of sin and to cleanse him of all his sins. God cannot just forgive all the sins that men had committed or are committing or will commit by sweeping them under the carpet. He has to judicially judge man for his sins and He did it through the sacrificial work of Jesus at the cross. Through that one complete sacrifice at the cross by Christ Jesus, whosoever believes in Him is made the righteousness of God in Christ!

God has kept His part of the covenant and Jesus has, on behalf of men, kept the other part of the covenant! Now! We have what Jesus has! We inherit what Jesus inherits! We have His shalom peace which He bequeathed to us! We are made prosperous for Jesus has no lack. We are made whole in our bodies for Jesus is full of health and energy and power!

Thank you Abba Father for Your faithfulness in keeping Your part of the covenant You cut with man. And thank you Jesus for keeping man's part of the covenant. And thank you Holy Spirit for indwelling in us forever for those who have accepted the gift of salvation. We are to reign in life through the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. Hallelujah!

I am the beloved of the Lord

Jesus loves me this I know. For the bible tells me so. That's part of a Christian song. I will sing this song to me son regularly. There is another part of the song that says Jesus is strong.

For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to die for the world that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. The moment a sinner accepts Jesus Christ as His savior and Lord, that sinner is transformed from a state of sin to a state of right standing with God. He/she is made the righteousness of God in Christ. All his/her sins are forgiven forever!

God cannot punish a Christian for his/her sins for the punishment has been vetted on Jesus Christ and it will be an injustice for God to punish Christians for their sins. That is not to say Christians should live a lifestyle of sin. How shall it be where Christians are dead to sin and alive to righteousness! How can it be where Christians see the grace and loveliness of Lord Jesus Christ. When we fall in love with Christ Jesus, we shall fall out of love with sin. For sin shall not have dominion over us for we are not under law but under grace!

It is fine to know that Christians are saved from eternal damnation. More importantly, be conscious that we are the beloved of the Lord. Beloved means to be deeply loved, very close to the heart, according to one dictionary. That means we are deeply loved by Father God and we are very closed to His heart. For as Christ is, so are we in this world. The heart of Father God is full of Jesus and we are in Him. So we are His darlings. He only has good thoughts toward us.

As the beloved of the Lord, we get to enjoy whatever Jesus is! Jesus is full of love. We can to enjoy His love and because He first loves us, we can love one and another. Out of the abundance of grace we can extend favor to another. Jesus is wisdom personified. We have the mind of Christ and His wisdom shall manifest greatly in our lives. Jesus is full of shalom life! This shalom life flows mightily in our lives. Jesus is shalom. The bible says Jesus has bequeathed His shalom to us. We have the peace which surpasses all understandings of the world.

As the beloved of the Lord, we are joint heir with Christ! Whatever He has, we have. Behold the Lord Christ Jesus and see our lives been transformed by Lord Christ Jesus. We see Jesus in the word. We see His loveliness and abundance of grace through His word. We are been transformed effortlessly by beholding Jesus.

All our needs are supplied. There shall be no lack in our lives for Christ has given His life, His very person for our every need. There IS fresh manna for today. Take no thought for tomorrow. Live today.There is sufficient grace for today. Be constantly mindful of the truth we are the beloveds of the Lord. Hallelujah!