MESSIANIC ENCOUNTER 2015
LIVING AND WAITING IN EXPECTATION OF THE MESSIANIC ENCOUNTER
MESSIANIC ENCOUNTER CONFERENCE 2015
JESUS THE CHRIST
Matthew 16:13-18
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar–jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
MESSIANIC ENCOUNTER CONFERENCE 2015
JESUS IS INDEED THE CHRIST.
FREEDOM
John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
SEVEN STATEMENTS OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS 3
Lu 23:43 . “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
This statement of Christ on the cross gives the best of hope even to the worst of sinners. When the thief on the cross, believed In Jesus Christ and called upon the name of the Lord, his sins were instantly forgiven, he was reconciled to God and assured of eternity.
This is how powerful the cross is
The joy of our faith-confession is that, Jesus has given us a promise to it. He calls it ASSUREDLY. In other words there is absolute certainty in the future of the believer. We cannot toy with our future. It is therefore extremely dangerous to follow any faith, religion or movement that does not give that level of certainty. There is no room for ‘Had I Known’. We cannot gamble with our eternity.
It is only Christ Jesus, who throughout Human history has been able to give that level of certainty for our future in eternity. Indeed when a person accepts Jesus Christ, in genuine repentance and confession of faith, there is an immediate assurance of eternity.
We only need to live on the confession of our faith.
Indeed, Christ in you is the hope of glory
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27)
Today if we hear the voice of the Spirit calling and we do not harden our heart and we surrender to the Lord, when Jesus comes we shall meet him in the air and shall be with him forever. Hallelujah
What singing there will be up there,
What singing there will be up there,
When face to face with Jesus we shall stand,
And join the heavenly choir in the better land,
What singing there will be up there,
What glory for the saints to share,
Oh glory, glory, glory,
What singing there will be up there,
Testimony
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Seven statements of christ on the cross 2
STATEMENT 2
Mr 15:34 … “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
The second ‘crossing’ or exchange that took place on the cross was in the statement “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Christ on the cross was forsaken so that we shall be reconciled to God and accepted by HIM. Jesus, the beloved Son of God, was forsaken on the cross, because looking down on the cross God could see “one carrying the sin of the whole world’. The scripture states that
‘He himself bore our sins’ in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; ‘by his wounds we are healed’ (1Pet 2:24 NIV).
He was made a sin offering and hence appeared a sinner, even though he had no sin.
It is by grace, through faith in Christ therefore, that we are saved. In Christ we have full acceptance and access to God. Glory! Our sins were not only forgiven on the Cross, but we have FULL acceptance in Christ. For just as through the sin of one man (Adam) we all became sinners and were separated by ‘default’ from God, so also through the obedience of One Man ‘Jesus Christ’ we have full acceptance with God (1 Cor. 15:22)
Sometimes it’s a bit intriguing how we easily identify with the sin of Adam and admit that we are sinners, irrespective of our righteous deeds, but unable to believe that we have been made righteous in Christ Jesus and hence full acceptance by God, irrespective of the sins we had committed.
Indeed, it is not because of the sins we committed that we were made sinners, rather it was because we were sinners (through Adam) that we committed sins. In the same vain it is not the good we have done or are doing that makes us righteous and accepted by God. It is rather because we have been made righteous and accepted by God, through our faith in Christ who was forsaken, that we commit acts considered righteous by God.
Praise the Lord, for the Lord is our Righteousness. May we walk in the boldness of the Lord our righteousness and not live in the guilt of the sins of the past. May we enjoy the liberation from the power of sin on the Cross, and burst in the glory of the Lord our righteousness
Y YOUNG
- “Young people served in the armed forces and were expected to fight, even die, for their country. They can be given a gun before they are entitled to vote for the politicians who give the order to fire it. Still in their teens, they can be sent to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, the Gulf, or anywhere else there is human conflict and be expected to perform demanding tasks under extreme pressure. If McDonalds, financial institutions and the armed forces are all prepared to bestow great responsibility on young people, then presumably the same will be true of the Church. Tragically, this is not the case.”
– Danny Brierley
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