VOTD
(Romans 8:35)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (Rom 8:35 ESV)
We may get separated, or even try to separate ourselves, from Christ, but we will never be able to be separated from the love of Christ. What He did He did for all of humanity. For whomever would come to Him. On the flipside, we need to focus on love. When we are being persecuted, focus on His love. When we are hungry, focus on His love. When we are in danger, focus on His love.
(John 6:37)
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. (Jhn 6:37 ESV)
There are a few warnings here. We should be secure in the fact that if you have accepted Messiah as Lord and Savior that He will never cast you out, but we should also remember that Jesus said that there will be many who say that they prophesied in His name, and cast out demons in His name, and did many miracles in His name, and yet He will tell them to go away because He never knew them. So what’s the catch? Have you not just said some prayer that you were led to say, but change your life and actually make Jesus/Yeshua LORD of your life? Do you go out of your way to not sin, because you know how much God hates sin? You can’t live in sin, and call on the grace given you as an excuse to remain in sin. Through Messiah’s blood we have the grace to be free from our sinful past/heritage, but that doesn’t mean that we are free to continue living in sin. If we feel no urgency to remove ourselves from sin, have we really been “saved” from sin?
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 29-30:7, Mark 11:27-12:27, Leviticus 9-12)
Psalms – Psalm 29 is very obviously directed at the fallen sons of God who have been given rule over the nations. It’s a reminder (though I doubt it was heeded) that even they need to give Yahweh praise, because it was Yahweh who allowed them any standing they had. To Yahweh goes all of them praise and glory. Forever and ever, amen!
Mark – The Pharisees ask Yeshua by what authority He performs these miracles and because they won’t admit that John the Baptist was a prophet of God and that they killed him, He won’t blatantly tell them by what Authority He does these miracles. But… the very next parable that He tells gives them the exact information that they’re looking for. He is sent by the Father, Himself.
Leviticus – Just think about how much blood there would’ve been. This was an extreme case, but there were sacrifices every day. Blood was shed every day to Yahweh. And these animals which were sacrificed were the choice animals. How much did the people of Israel trust in Yahweh to do this? We, today, rarely sacrifice anything. At first I thought that you would have to have more faith in order to sacrifice that way, but now I’m thinking that you get more faith when you give up more and you still have enough to live.
(Romans 8:35)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (Rom 8:35 ESV)
We may get separated, or even try to separate ourselves, from Christ, but we will never be able to be separated from the love of Christ. What He did He did for all of humanity. For whomever would come to Him. On the flipside, we need to focus on love. When we are being persecuted, focus on His love. When we are hungry, focus on His love. When we are in danger, focus on His love.
(John 6:37)
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. (Jhn 6:37 ESV)
There are a few warnings here. We should be secure in the fact that if you have accepted Messiah as Lord and Savior that He will never cast you out, but we should also remember that Jesus said that there will be many who say that they prophesied in His name, and cast out demons in His name, and did many miracles in His name, and yet He will tell them to go away because He never knew them. So what’s the catch? Have you not just said some prayer that you were led to say, but change your life and actually make Jesus/Yeshua LORD of your life? Do you go out of your way to not sin, because you know how much God hates sin? You can’t live in sin, and call on the grace given you as an excuse to remain in sin. Through Messiah’s blood we have the grace to be free from our sinful past/heritage, but that doesn’t mean that we are free to continue living in sin. If we feel no urgency to remove ourselves from sin, have we really been “saved” from sin?
1 Year Bible Plan
(Psalms 29-30:7, Mark 11:27-12:27, Leviticus 9-12)
Psalms – Psalm 29 is very obviously directed at the fallen sons of God who have been given rule over the nations. It’s a reminder (though I doubt it was heeded) that even they need to give Yahweh praise, because it was Yahweh who allowed them any standing they had. To Yahweh goes all of them praise and glory. Forever and ever, amen!
Mark – The Pharisees ask Yeshua by what authority He performs these miracles and because they won’t admit that John the Baptist was a prophet of God and that they killed him, He won’t blatantly tell them by what Authority He does these miracles. But… the very next parable that He tells gives them the exact information that they’re looking for. He is sent by the Father, Himself.
Leviticus – Just think about how much blood there would’ve been. This was an extreme case, but there were sacrifices every day. Blood was shed every day to Yahweh. And these animals which were sacrificed were the choice animals. How much did the people of Israel trust in Yahweh to do this? We, today, rarely sacrifice anything. At first I thought that you would have to have more faith in order to sacrifice that way, but now I’m thinking that you get more faith when you give up more and you still have enough to live.
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