FIRST
Thursday, May 17th, 2012Thus it is written, The first man Adam became
a living being. The last Adam (Christ) became
a life giving Spirit (restoring the dead to life).
(I. Corinthians 15.45).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Thus it is written, The first man Adam became
a living being. The last Adam (Christ) became
a life giving Spirit (restoring the dead to life).
(I. Corinthians 15.45).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Seek first of all His kingdom
and His righteousness, and
then all these things will
be given you besides.
(Matthew 6. 33).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming- not the
realities themselves.
For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly
year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers
would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty
for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it
is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for Me;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
You were not pleased.
Then I said,’Here I am- it is
written about Me in the scroll-
I have come to do Your will,
O God.’”
First He said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You
did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (although the law required
them to be made). Then He said, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.”
He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been
made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
(Hebrews 10.1-10).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
So it is written: “The first man became s living being”,
the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
The spiritual did not come first, but the natural and after
that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth,
the second man from heaven.
As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and
as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall
we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
(I. Corinthians 15.44b- 49).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Christ, the Messiah is therefore the Mediator of an entirely new
agreement so that those who are called and offered it may receive
the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance- since a
death has taken place which rescues and delivers them from the
transgressions committed under the first agreement.
(Hebrews 9.15).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
EVEN WE OURSELVES
For we know that the whole creation
groans and labors with birth pains
together until now.
Not only the creation, but we ourselves
too, who have and enjoy the first fruits
of the Holy Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves
eagerly waiting for the redemption
of our bodies which will reveal our
adoption as God’s sons.
( Romans 8. 22 and 23).
MEDITATION POINTS
Meditate about the following:
1) The entire creation is awaiting the
manifestation of God’s children.
2) The entire creation groans and labors
in labor pains until then.
3) We also who have and enjoy the
firstfruits of the Holy Spirit ( a foretaste
of the blissful world to come) groan inwardly
as we wait for the redemption of our bodies,
which will reveal our adoption and our
manifestation as God’s children.
4) Then the entire world will enjoy the
happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment
of knowing Jesus Christ.
For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
( Romans 6.23)
But as many as received Him,
to them He gave the right
to become the children of God,
even to those who believe
in His name.
( John 1.12)
For I delivered to you first
of all that which I also received:
that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
and that He was buried,
and that He rose again
the third day according
to the Scriptures.
( I. Corinthians 15.3 and 4).
HALLELUJAH!
PRAISE AND INSPIRATION
In His wonderful love God
provided His amazing solution
to the problem of sin, evil
and death by sending His
Unique Son Jesus Christ
to live His perfect life as
a human and atoned for
humanity on the cross
by His shed blood and rose
again so we can live with Him,
with the Father and with the
Holy Spirit forever.
EXPERIENCE THE INTENSE, INTIMATE
AND EXTREMELY RICH LOVE OF THE
FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
FOREVER!
Make your decision now, to submit to
Jesus as your Lord and Savior by
praying the following prayer:
Lord God, I confess that I am a sinner.
I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ
died for my sins on the cross and was
raised for my justification.
I do now receive and confess Him
as my Lord and Savior. AMEN!
RISEN WITH CHRIST
If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men the
most pitiable.
But now Christ is risen from the dead,
and has become the first fruits of all
who have fallen asleep.
For since by man came death,
by Man also came the resurrection
of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
(I. Corinthians 15.19-22).
POINT OF PRAISE
WE ARE RISEN WITH CHRIST!
HALLELUJAH!