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Rise Up and Be Healed

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Rise Up and Be Healed

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Dana G Smith
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Keywords: Corinthians, Apostle, Cross, Christ, Gospel, healed,

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1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

The Apostle Paul established the Corinth church around 50-51 AD when he spent eighteen months there on his second missionary journey.

Acts 18:1 ¶After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

As was the Apostle’s work ethic, every shabbat or sabbath he would in in the synagogue. Here in Acts 18, see above, there were both Jews and Greeks [Gentiles] who attended the synagogue every shabbat along with Paul. This also goes along way to say that the early Apostles and the believers themselves did in fact keep sabbath on the traditional Jewish day, i.e., the evening and the morning were the first day. Shabbat would fall on the evening of the 6th day, for then according to the Word of God, the 7 th day began then. It is here we see that Paul actually reasoned with both groups, with the Jew’s demanding a sign and to many greeks or gentiles here, it was literally foolishness. But with this Apostle, signs did follow and his words came with such power that even the Gentiles were in the synagogue listening to the reasoning.

In Corinthians chapter one and verse eighteen above, the King James uses ‘preaching’, while other versions use ‘message’, and the literal meaning here for this is ‘word’. The word of the cross. To the Jews, a Messiah that came, suffered, and died on the cross, the was resurrected did not meet their ‘scriptural understanding of the situation’. They believed this Messiah would or the real one anyway would deliver Israel from their enemies, which meant the Roman power at the time. He would establish the Temple, temple sacrifices, and raise Israel to the paramount of power in the world. This was the understanding that the disciples had themselves when they asked Y’SHUA, Jesus about it. When the LORD was preparing to ascend to the Father, they had come together and the followers of the LORD asked him “Lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” To this he said “it is not for you to know the times or seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.” After this, he told them of the coming of the Holy Ghost in power and this would enable them to be His witnesses in all the earth!

Acts 1:6 ¶When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

WORD of God

The LORD had come to establish a supernatural kingdom in the earth. Yes the disciple’s were told, he would return as they saw him go, but until then, the creation of the kingdom of God on Earth began through the witnesses of the LORD in Jerusalem.

This is the work of the LORD. A work which defied the Roman authorities, the Jewish religious scholars, and even the sins of men could not stop this plan of God. It was a plan for people to ‘rise up and be healed.’ An opportunity to believe that this God loved them and they could join in his plan through faith in the Messiah. This was the word of the Gospel. The Apostle Paul lays out a simple outline of what the gospel contained in chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians. I particularly like this portion of scripture because it lays out all the gospel in a few sentences. A gospel of a Messiah whom we must receive, believe, and follow. Because of this work, many Gentiles who thought all this was foolishness have been delivered from that blindness of human wisdom and come to understand the True wisdom of God the Father who gave his only begotten Son. This is simply called the ‘love of the truth’ in 2 Thess chapter 2 and during the days of the Son of Perdition, many will not follow nor accept this ‘love of the truth’ and will follow the delusion that God will send.

1 Corinthians 15:1 ¶Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

There is one basic eternal truth here among many that stands out. This is that God in his wisdom has decided to call those in the earth who are not rich, mighty, princes, handsome, powerful, smart, wise, educated or any of the other earthly fleshly titles that makes men and women proud. God deliberately chose that which would bring the wisdom of the world into utter foolishness and reveal the wisdom of God. For God chooses those who are not wise in the flesh, or noble, or mighty. He has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound, mystify, stupify, and confuse, all those in the flesh in this world.

1 Corinthians 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Have you ever looked in the mirror? I mean really looked at yourself and saw too much of one thing or another that made you feel inferior. I know I have. I have a mirror in our house and this mirror is one which makes me look terrible. It is here I must insist you to be real and truthful here with yourself. God doesn’t look for perfect number ten Christians! He looks for those who by faith will look to him and receive his Son “Y’SHUA, Jesus Christ as Messiah”. God uses those who will be vessels. God doesn’t look to see if your hair is all neat, or your lips are just perfect, or your eyes are set just right. He doesn’t look to see if your feet are too big, your arms to flabby, or you cheeks too puffy. God looks on the heart and takes the vessel who has sought him with all their heart, mind, and soul and begins to remake them into the image of his Son. Thank God for that. You know after it is all said and done, this body in the flesh is corruptible, it will die. It is grain that we can use for Gods purpose. When this body, as we live by faith and purity in it for God finally gives up the Ghost and dies, it becomes a seed planted for the kingdom of God. We plant the corruptible body as we plant a seed of Grain. Then that seed, God gives the increase and we gain a supernatural new body, like Christ’s. What a trade and it is all by God’s Grace and Mercy, through Faith. It is a work of God, not of man. It will glorify God and not man in the flesh. Yet all this will mean that this wisdom of God will be revealed even to the wicked on the great day of Judgment. Then they will see and understand the greatness of the plan of God and his love for mankind.

1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 ¶Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I put the section above in which talks about the ‘sowing the seed of grain’ which is our natural bodies. Thank god for this! Because we can live, work, and then when we die, there is hope, in Christ, because of his work on the Cross. This is the Word of the Cross. It is first love, then forgiveness, repentance, reunion, rejoicing, resurrection, inheritance, and eternally in heaven with the LORD of Glory. This is the perspective you and I both need. For while we live in this body there is troubles and tribulation, yet we have a hope none other in this world does. A hope that came from heaven and one that hell cannot touch. Hell can come against us, but the LORD is with us. Hell can persecute us, but the LORD will not allow any temptation to overcome us!

1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Hell can kill us, this body anyway, but Hell cannot touch our soul, prevent us from accessing heaven, nor stop our reward! In short, through the Gospel, the work of Christ, and the love of the Father, we can ‘rise up and be healed’ in the name of Jesus. In body, in mind, in soul, in spirit, and in this world. Even the Apostle Paul talks of running the race and that as he said “I keep under my body and bring it into subjection”. He did this so that when he would not be a castaway. In other words, Paul did not let his inhibitions, lusts, flesh, mind, and carnal ways take hold of him or his body. He beat it down, so to speak in the Spirit of God. He took control by the power of God and his Word. Unfortunately today many Christians in America allow the carnal lusts and inhibitions to take over and they end up in misery. Others have left the faith altogether having given themselves over the ‘desires of the flesh and of the mind’. Thus as the Apostle Peter says “it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”

1 Corinthians 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

2 Peter 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

In our work and life here on earth let us also be aware that the enemy works overtime to thwart our lives for Christ with snares, temptations, and persecutions. I want to touch on a Pauline example here in Corinthians. It is about Israel. The Apostle speaks about them being ‘baptized unto Moses’ when they passed under the sea and the cloud. The Apostle tells how that Christ was the ‘spiritual meat and drink’ for Israel at the time. Christ was that Rock, wherein the water flowed out of. He warns that what happened to Israel was a stern example that we should not ‘lust after evil things as they did’, nor ‘commit fornication as they did’, and not to be ‘idolaters as they became.’ We are not to murmur, tempt Christ, but are to understand we must take heed how we stand, lest we fall. I put previously the verse about temptation before this section. That verse you read before on ‘Temptation’ is verse 13 of Chapter 10 in First Corinthians. It comes after a warning from Paul that says, “wherefore [or because of all this] let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall”. It is after this warning that the Apostle gives the word of comfort and assurance here that temptation, the ones you and I face today are common to all men, even to the children of Israel who lived afore. It is these temptations that can snare, trap, enslave, and take away your hope and reward. But here, the Apostle says that God will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able. This is so powerful here. Many of us quite early in the game. We give in to temptation, when the reality is, we never gave the effort to fight in the Spirit of God and stand upon the Word of the LORD. But if we do stand on God’s Word, trusting the LORD, here the Apostle says, that the LORD will not suffer or allow you to be tempted above that you can stand or endure and will make a way to escape that you can bear it and overcome it! Praise the LORD! Here again, I say “rise and be healed” in the name of Jesus, you can overcome all snares, traps, and temptations.

1 Corinthians 10:1 ¶Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 ¶Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

I know at times I have said, “LORD I can’t take anymore”. The body is weak, it is flesh and I know the LORD then continues to strengthen me. In the end I kept going and did not realize until I made it through that I could take it all along, I just did not know it. In these perilous end times, let us who are of the Faith of God, stand up and then be healed of any and all things that are not taken care of. Rise up and get rid of that bitterness. Rise up and be healed of that loss of Hope! Rise and be healed of that lack of vision! Rise and be healed, seek the LORD and find his comfort, strength, and the promises which he has given you. I say the first five verses of Psalm 103 on a regular basis to remind of the ‘blessings of the LORD’. I remind myself, my flesh, my mind, and my spirit that there are many benefits that stream from the LORD God, even our Father who gave his only begotten Son Y’SHUA, Jesus Christ to die for me, my family, and all those who will receive this hope and walk in it. So my friends, ‘Rise and be healed’.

Psalms 103:1 ¶<<A Psalm of David.>> Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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By the Watchman Dana G Smith

Keywords: watchman newsletter, price, redemption, slaves, servants, sin, Jesus Christ, Calvary, Cross
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What is the price of your redemption? For Christians everywhere the known fact of our redemption is focused on Calvary and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the gospel. To be redeemed, to have redemption, to be saved from error or evil, that is redemption.

What price? Christ vacarious death on the Cross! Propitation for your sins!

What price? Christ vacarious death on the Cross! Propitation for your sins!

What is the price of your redemption? For Christians everywhere the known fact of our redemption is focused on Calvary and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the gospel. To be redeemed, to have redemption, to be saved from error or evil, that is redemption. It is an act, whereby, someone or something saves another from certain evil or error.  Thus we have the error of our ways, a phrase, meaning that in our daily walk, that is, our ways, is error! For men and women everywhere, error is there, it is in the form of sin. It is a fact before God although people in the world don’t see it as such. They have no concept of redemption. They are not in bondage, error, or in evil ways, or so they think. It is easy to see a strangler, rapist, murderer, or even Hitler as evil and wicked. But many people do not see themselves as evil or in sin.

It is interesting to note here in Leviticus chapter twenty five the Lord gives the law concerning slaves. In one portion it talks about a ‘stranger or sojourner’ who lives among the children of Israel. In this segment of the chapter it specifically speaks to that ‘stranger’ waxing rich and then if one of the children of Israel becomes poor and ends up selling himself to the ‘stranger’ it gives the redemption for that Israeli. The whole concept here is that the brother [children of Israel] who has had to sell himself as a slave, can be redeemed by his brethren. The redemption price is figured in accordance with the years to Jubilee. Jubilee meaning ‘ram’s horn trumpet’ is sounded in the fiftieth year and is a time of emancipation and restoration. The year of debts cancelled, slaves freed, and everyone redeemed from their bondage. It signifies a refreshing and renewal. It is also a type of the ‘coming of the LORD’ when we all will be permanently redeemed and celebrate our own ‘jubilee’ in the millennium. But in order to be redeemed there is a price to pay!   To be redeemed from the bondage the Israeli must have someone pay, for he cannot pay; that is why he is in bondage as a servant or slave. But the price of his redemption must be paid. That is, until Jubilee. In Jubilee, those of the Children of Israel must be freed, why? Scripture says this “For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.” The children of Israel had a covenant with their God, they were already bought with a price. That price was the covenant and the law, with the sacrifices. The obedience of these people before their God, walking in his ways, thus, they were to be redeemed. The trouble, of course, Israel did not walk in the ways of the LORD. In the end, they were sent into bondage into Babylon for their rebellion.

Leviticus 25:47  And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
48  After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49  Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
50  And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
51  If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52  And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
53  And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
54  And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.
55  For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God

Today as believers, we have been bought with a price. Jesus spoke of the ‘kingdom of heaven’ in parables. In Matthew chapter thirteen he likened it to a “merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: who when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”

Matthew 13:45  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

The lesson here is not that we have to buy or pay our way into heaven. The lesson is, this ‘kingdom of heaven’ is so valuable, we need to give all we have just to obtain it. It is a lesson in things valuable and in the vanity of the world. It is a trouble today with all that we have as a nation and a people that we fail to see the true worth of what our Lord did for us and of the ‘kingdom of heaven’ as our final place of residence. All to often we are very slovenly and lackadaisical regarding our ‘faith and the kingdom of heaven’. We do not regard the bible nor God as we should. If it is convenient or if I get in trouble, then I will seek him, walk in faith, and keep his Word. We are too busy, too secular, and don’t give ourselves to the LORD as we should on this matter. Again, what is the price of your redemption?

What would you pay for being redeemed? What could you pay? What do you do today as the ‘servant of the LORD’ in obedience and faith? The fact here is, you cannot buy your way in but all faith and discipleship will cost you. Those who tell you redemption is free are hiding the truth! Your Redemption is not free! The things of God are not free! There is a cost, a price, and it had to of been paid!

1 Corinthians 6:9  ¶Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

The Apostle Paul in the above section of scripture reminds the Corinthians that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God!  He goes through a list and then says: “and such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus , and by the Spirit of our God”. You are washed in the blood of the Lamb, set aside through faith by Gods grace, and are now justified in the name of our Lord Jesus and the Spirit of God which dwells in you. This is leading up to the next portion of Scripture where the Apostle lets them know the following:

1 Corinthians 6:17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

If you are indeed joined to the Lord, you are one in him, one spirit. Therefore the whole point of this is, if you are joined to the Lord, don’t join yourself to a harlot. That is the world, the sins, the flesh, the carnal ways, and faithlessness. He goes on to say ‘flee fornication’. Today we have sin and especially fornication in one form or another everywhere. The world doesn’t see it as sin! God does! Therefore, as with Paul, let us agree that “our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you.” Furthermore, “ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.  The price is paid through Jesus Christ, a promise obtained by the faith of Jesus Christ is given to them that believe. This is redemption, the one sold under sin, the slave master, the task master today, the strong man, is the devil, our arch enemy Satan. He knows those who are in sin must not be redeemed, therefore he opposes any and all efforts to redeem those under his control. But God has ‘concluded all under sin’, but he has also concluded that the ‘price for their redemption from the sin and the taskmaster is the blood of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 3:22  But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Today let us remind ourselves that sin is sin, it is death, it means separation from God. Those in sin are without hope, without God in this world. They are strangers from the ‘covenants of promise’. This covenant of your promise is found in Jesus Christ, the ‘PASSOVER lamb’, the one who was slain from the foundation of the world, the ‘lamb of God’ that took away the sins of the world.  We have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ. Those who once were far off without hope, in servitude to sin and the devil are now through Christ Jesus vacarious death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead ‘sons of God’ if we have faith, repent, and believe.  It is our Lord who broke the middle wall of partition so we could enter into the ‘holies of holies’ unto our God and Father, are redeemed and headed for the ‘Jubilee’ with Christ Jesus in the millennium and beyond.

Ephesians 2:11  ¶Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12  That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14  ¶For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15  Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16  And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17  And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18  For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

We therefore observe and experience this promise today being fulfilled in us through Christ and his Spirit as we being redeemed from the power of sin and the corruption that is the world through lust overcome by the ‘blood of the lamb’, ‘the word of our testimony’, and ‘we love not our lives unto death’..

2 Peter 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Revelation 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death

The truth is if we are redeemed, we are really redeemed therefore! As such, the power of sin and lust has no hold over us. It is through Christ, the Holy Spirit, Promises of God, with that divine nature imputed into us, so that we are truly and actually set free!  The world cannot be free like this! They cannot experience the peace, love, and communion with our God and Father through Jesus Christ unless and until they are redeemed!  It is that power Christ gives us as we have received him, believing [trust in, cling too, and believe on] in Christ Jesus and his work on the Cross.

John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

It is why our Father has commanded all men everywhere to repent! God loves the world, those whom he had made in his image. He has made a way for all men to be saved and delivered from his wrath. He thus commands all to repent. It is not a question, but a command! We talk about commandments. This is also a commandment, so men should follow this simple command to  repent and seek the Lord!

Acts 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

What is the price of your redemption? God put the price of the ‘death of his only begotten son’ as the only cost to pay for your servitude to sin and corruption!

1 John 4:9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

1 John 5:20  And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

What is the price of your redemption? What price do you put on it? Is it worth anything at all to you? What does the thought of the ‘sinless Son of God’, the ‘incarnate God’, ‘God with us’, mean to you? You were an indentured servant and had no way to redeem or release yourself from death and separation from God! There is also no way to repay for your redemption. God doesn’t want nor expect that. He wants your obedience, faith, and love as a ‘son of God’.  If you are truly his ‘son or daughter’, then as such, you should honor your Father.

One day, if you do not quit, you will overcome! You will inherit all things, as our God says of this time: “I will be his God, and he shall be my son” – Rev 21:7.  Of this time it is written as well saying “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God” – Rev 21:3.  What is your redemption worth, take a close look, pray, ponder it, and thank God for it. Seek Him, for of that time it says: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away” – Rev 21:4.

Thank God, the former things of Sin and Corruption will pass away. As we enter into the ‘trouble coming upon all the world’, which as a snare shall try all men on the earth, let us draw near to God knowing that the day of our Redemption draws closer. That time to be with our God forever! Praise the LORD, Bless his holy name! These things will shortly come to pass!

Revelation 22:6  ¶And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

I finish by praying these found in Revelation, which in prayers, I do pray them before my God!

“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Excerpts from Rev 4:8, 11

“ Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.”

“Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”  Excerpts from Rev: 5:9-13

“ Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.” Excerpt from Rev 7:12

Behold our Lord is coming and his reward is with him, to give to every man as his work shall be! Look up, for your Lord cometh, in the clouds, every eye shall behold him! King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Word of God, he comes!

My friends have faith in the Lord, and be found in Him.

The Abundant LIFE of Christ Jesus

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The Abundant LIFE of Christ Jesus
“What does it mean to have an ‘abundant life’?
Here are pertinent truths on this saying that many misuse and misdirect Christians in their walk for Him!
By the Watchman Dana G Smith


I am writing this week about the ‘abundant life’, one that many in America seem to know so well. Or do they? When speaking to this issue will I take rank and file against those who promote the doctrine that many top Evangelical leaders teach? No, I shall not! They have their reward, I do quote here something for your first thought regarding this issue!

Psalms 50:16  ¶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17  Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18  When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19  Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20  Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
21  These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22  Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23  Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

In the Psalm above we find God saying to the wicked in essence the following: “what right do you have to declare my statutes and to speak my covenant in your mouth as if it was yours to take?” Further he says, “you hate instruction and cast my words behind you!” Now, of course this Psalmist was not talking to this generation, or was he? Who is the wicked he is speaking too! The wicked gentile nations that surrounded Israel would not of taken in their mouths the ‘covenant of the LORD’, not at all. Then the only one here that is addressed, is Israel herself, who would take the covenant of the Lord in their mouths, but would not receive instruction! Lets go further with this, Jesus spoke this to all those crowds around him:

Matthew 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

There will be many who say they know the Lord, but the Lord doesn’t know them. Why? They are workers of iniquity, or people who follow ‘lawlessness’. Well that pretty much describes American Christianity and most of the westernized world today. Lose grace, lawlessness, and professional religiosity gone amuck in the guise of real true discipleship! It is a sham, period! But who am I that you should listen to this? Well, I shall let you know this, by the Word of the Lord, these things shall not stand, nor shall they be regarded on the day of judgment. The warning is staunch here! The Psalmist says it like this, to him that will order his life, his conversation aright, that’s right, aright. Here the people who this psalmist addresses knows the right way of keeping the law, that is walking in the ordinances and statutes of God. Oh, brother, there I did it, I mentioned Law and ordinances, that will really kill your enthusiasm now won’t it? But it is the Lord who called those people workers of ‘lawlessness’. It is here that the words of the Psalmist come to ring true, this generation must repent and order their lives, the way they do things according to the Lord God and his commandments. Oh no, I did it again, this time I mentioned commandments! Get the picture here? Or maybe your one of the those who have thrown out the ten commandments, the feasts, the true sabbath, the beattitudes, the teachings of the Apostles, and also disregard the word ‘C OMMANDMENTS’in the New Testament? All of which the Lord himself kept, the Apostles kept, the early church kept, and your expected to do so also! But then, you don’t believe this do you? Or do you? Wait a minute you say, this was on the ‘abundant life’, where is that at in all this?

Psalms 50:23  Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Now let us consider all this in the light of ‘abundant life’, okay? Lest you think I have fallen off the wagon of provincial discourse regarding Torah law and you see me standing beside Moses pushing you to keep over 600 commandments of God through the flesh! Now let me be perfectly clear here, perfectly clear okay! There is life, the life is in God’s only Begotten Son, whom we call Jesus Christ in the english, and Yeshua Ha Massiach ‘his Hebrew name’.

Before we go on, let me give you one Word here that is important regarding our Savior and the words he spoke, okay? It is this, “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.” Our Lord had just finished a discourse to his followers and others around him concerning ‘eating his flesh and drinking his blood.’ This is found in John 6:54-63 a partial context of it. This was abhorrent to the jews and to his disciples when they heard this and Jesus asked them “Doth this offend you?” Well it did, of course, this was nothing they expected to hear! In the course of this, Jesus told them that the “living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me-Jn 6:57″. This astounded t hem, offended them, and many went away because of it and followed him no more! Yet, our Lord did tell them in the same context what he was talking about! He said flatly in John six and verse fifty eight, “this is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead, he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” He said to them, this is not like your fathers who [literally] ate manna in the wilderness and are dead, no this bread, myself am that manna from heaven, you must eat of me, devour me, but not like your fathers ate the manna, no! Then he says “my words are Spirit and are life.” They must devour what he says and do it. Eat of his words, eat of what he offers, and let the Spirit words come into your soul, devour them eat of them and let them bring you life. This was something they could not understand!

John 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Later on in John ten Jesus speaks on being the door to the sheepfold, he is the shepherd. It is in this context that we find one of the most misunderstood phrases today, especially in American Christianity! It is used and mostly misused to the advantage of those who are manipulating scripture to their own advantage. The trouble here is, many in the church like it so! The want to hear this, so they follow these men and women, falling headlong into this delusion that fits so well in America, that is, up till now!

Here is that phrase which today has come to mean that Christ came and died for you so you can be rich, at ease in Zion, living in the covenant of God [their version of it anyway], and never have a care.

John 10: 10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

When Jesus was on the cross he died for your house payments, your car payments, your retirement, your ability to be debt free, you freezer full, your plate filled with the finest foods, and your lifestyle rich and favored! WRONG! This is the carnal, Laodacian type of interpretation, because of this, the church is ‘wretched, poor, blind, and naked’! Now let me be clear, I am not saying your to be poor, nor am I saying you cannot be rich, I am saying we have totally lost our minds and hearts in this matter and the delusion has clouded the minds and hearts of millions of Christians today!

Here is the context of the scripture above! He relates being the door to enter in, be saved, and able to go in and out to find pasture! He also says he is the good shepherd and has given his life for the sheep. He warns of the thief who comes to kill, steal, and destroy, which he does, it is in this that he says “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.” He is putting this in the same course as ‘shepherd’, speaking to the ‘sheep’. What would such an animal think would be great for them, that is, what would be an abundant life? For one would be safety, not to get eaten by wolves. Two would be not to have a shepherd lead you in a direction where there is no water or pasture. Three is have such a reliable shepherd that he would bring you to safe pastures so you can graze in the sun, be warm, be safe, and all the cares of your life eased! It would be heaven, for that sheep. No more worries about getting eaten either by wolves or men who like mutton!

John 10:9  I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11  I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12  But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13  The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14  I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15  As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Jesus says it best here in Luke twelve! Take note of this context of verses 23 through 38! It is from our Saturday night study “What is life?” The poignant and to the point verse here is, “the LIFE is MORE than MEAT and the BODY is MORE than RAIMENT.” Yes the shepherd will take care of us, but our goal is not the end all of food, meat, clothes, houses, trucks, and all life has to offer. This is ‘covetousness’ and this is what preachers are causing when they misuse this verse and others to bring such carnal tripe to the teachings of Christ Jesus! No where does it say we are to take scripture and lay it out, pushing it before God that we will get rich in this life! The truth to all this is found in verses 29-31 which says in essence do not seek what you will eat, what you will drink, or what you will wear or worry, nor be doubtful. All these things the gentiles, the nations themselves seek after and your Father knows you have need of these things!
But rather, our Lord says “seek ye the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you.” The whole point is found in verse 34 which says “for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Our hope, source, and Father is in heaven who loves us. Our hope or source is not the world nor its things! We are to be girded about, watching, waiting, working for Him, doing as Our LORD say too, read verses 36 to 38, here is the blessing! To be doing HIS will, when he comes, yea, that will be ‘abundant life’, that will be a ‘blessing’.

Luke 12:23  The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
24  Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
25  And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26  If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
27  Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28  If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29  And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30  For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
31  But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
32  Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33  Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
34  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35  Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
36  And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
37  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38  And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

In conclusion, let me say that our LORD was about Life, redemptive power both to enable us to walk in him today and be free from the power of sin and darkness and to be His when he comes. Our fullest abundant life is and will be in the ‘next life’ with him! Today, this life can have purpose, and in itself can be abundant, but that abundance does not mean carnal abundance per se. For many believers around the world are suffering for the cause of and in the context of carrying their own crosses for Jesus Christ. Many have lost their lives, yet the carnal abundance was never theirs. But if we do have such abundance, let us draw near to God and do as he says, let our hearts truly be on Him and not on the abundance which has nearly cost the church in America her soul! If you truly want to have that ‘abundant life’ that Christ said, then ‘take up your cross and follow me, saith the LORD’. It is this road of carrying the cross that you will know Christ, as Paul said of this road:

Philippians 3:9  ¶And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11  If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

You must find that ‘abundant life’ in Christ. To walk this path you must have the purpose, calling, and faith in your Lord to lead you to that place of ‘his abundance’ for you! Our Eternal hope lays in what Christ did for us beyond this temporal world we now live in. For if in this life only, as Paul says, ‘we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.’ Take your eyes off the physical, for life is more than food and the body than raiment! Lift up and catch the vision today!

1 Corinthians 15:19  If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

The Cup and the Baptism of Suffering

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There are only certain ones who shall listen and truly hear the Lord. Those who are the Lord’s will hear his voice, everyone else will not! If they hear his voice, then, they shall follow him. If they obey his Word, then they will read these words and understand his Word in them.

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The righteous Judgment of God upon the end time church in the world. The judgment, the separation of the sheep from the shepherds, and the gathering of the remnant of God. The ‘cup and the baptism’ of the LORD is ours to drink and to fully undergo in his name.

We are told by the Apostle Peter that the “the time is come that ‘judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God.’ Here we see a divine separation that God, in his Righteous Judgment allows. Such a dividing line that through the ‘suffering’ as a Christian, God is righteous, in a judicial sense, allowing ‘suffering’ to be used in this sense to separate and judge those who believe. In the passages below regarding ‘judgment’ and ‘righteous judgment’, both are used in a context, in which, the believers are suffering as Christians. Pointedly here, persecuted and facing tribulation all because of Christ.  It is here we find that the Apostle Paul tells the Thessalonians in verse four of chapter one that ‘we glory in you in the churches of God’. Why did the Apostle and those with him glory as such? Because he says “For your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure.” It is the righteous judgment of God to allow this, sifting, shaking, and bringing believers in the true position with Christ, in which they share in Christ, in his sufferings!

Judgment:  krisis (??????, 2920) primarily denotes “a separating,” then, “a decision, judgment,” most frequently in a forensic sense, and especially of divine “judgment1, executing of divine judgment.

1 Peter 4:16  Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 Peter 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Righteous G1342: ‘righteous, observing divine laws; in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others.’
Judgment G2920: ‘a separating, then a decision, in executing divine judgment’
Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

2 Thess 1: 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2 Thess 1:5  Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

It is here that we must understand the depth of this and the calling associated with it. We find that the Apostles at the start did not really understand the mission of our Lord. Neither did they fully grasp the call and the level to which they must attain. Here in Matthew we find James and John coming to Jesus and asking to be able to sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.  The point I bring here is not to understand why they asked, or that it was not the Lords to grant to sit there. The point here is that Jesus asked them plainly “can you drink of the cup that I drink of? And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

Mark 10:35  And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.
36  And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
37  They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
38  But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
39  And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
40  But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared

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Upon the Hill I Walked

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Upon the Hill I Walked

A Psalm
By the Watchman Dana G Smith
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Upon the hill I walked on that day.
Near the cross of the three that hung.
The clouds were thick and black in a moment,
When at the words, a rumble was heard.
The words that rang out clear to me saying
“It is Finished.”
Sunshine gave way on that fateful day,
Wind stirred into a torrent greatly,
Silence stilled the masses as in this moment,
Surely all knew, yes, surely they knew,
That this was God,
God has just died upon that tree.

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Matthew 27:41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

There were those who wept.
The soldiers gambled and mocked at this one.
Crowds grew near and shook their heads saying;
“who did this one think he was,
could he save himself?” they ridiculed.
Laughing, swearing, and cussing they passed by!
Then all was silent, it was over.
Soldiers left,
The crowds in their homes,
Now on the hill,
There those cursed crosses,
Three hung silently as the wind swept by.
But of the three, one was innocent,
He was the Lamb,
Sacrificed for the world,
Blood spilt for the sins of many,
This one called Y’Shua.

The Messiah of God had been laid shortly thereafter,
In a tomb not far from where I walked.
The followers of this one had hoped for much,
They had seen it all,
Plans for the kingdom dashed,
These had scattered to the four winds,
Yet, I alone, look on, wondering still!

Three days gone,
The women come running, saying
“He’s gone, from the tomb,
He’s alive, excitedly they screamed”!
Days passed by and many had witnessed his rising.
I alone, saw him not,
Till on that day,
In the room with the others,
This one appeared and said unto me;
“Reach in with your finger”
“Behold my hands”
“Reach in with your hand,
Thrust it into my side, be not faithless, but believing”,
So said Y’Shua, the ONE of God unto me, Thomas!

John 20:26 ¶And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
John 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Further he looked at me and said surely,
“blessed are they that have not seen,
yea and yet have believed”.
As for me, Thomas,
“Now I believe,
This indeed is the Christ, the Son of God, Y’Shua Ha Massiach,”
He who came, did die and arose,
Then ascended unto God, standing at his right hand,
Yet to come again, so this I say,
“Believe and stay not thy faith in this ONE, the ONLY Begotten Son,
Of the True and LIVING GOD”,
This I Thomas say, who now believes,
Who has been redeemed by the blood of this LAMB!

Blessed be the LORD God who has done this!
Blessed be the Son of God who came!
Blessed be the Father who sent his Son!
Blessed and joyous are they who know this,
Yea, those who have received of this LAMB!

For they are the Son’s of God!

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.