We stand in awe as we see that for the joy that was set before Him, Jesus

Christ endured the cross, despising the shame and is seated at the right

hand of the glory on high. His mission accomplished is the salvation

of mankind, the rescue of humanity from futility, from the chains of sin,

evil and destruction.

Himself being eternal and beyond time, He entered the time and space continuum

He had created. He became one of us to make us one with Him.

Being eternally divine He became human to restore us to right relationship, to

fellowship with God.

In this way He made it possible for us who are bound by time  and death to see eternity

by having eternal life in Him.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

our life and world as one of us to make us  at one with Him.

His saving power has been declared at the Cross and at His

Resurrection.

This is how we know God as Jesus crucified, the Holy Spirit Who

raised Him from the dead and the Father Who has sent His Son

to save us has also poured the Holy Spirit in our hearts so we can

call Him our Father!

This is the Unity of the Holy Trinity Who is God for all eternity.

Make it clear to your friends and family. When you say God, you

call on the Eternal Lord Who said, Let Us (Father, Son and Holy Spirit)

make humanity in Our image, after Our likeness.

“God, Who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to

the forefathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by

His Son, Whom He has appointed heir of all things, through Whom He

also made the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time.

He is the brightness of the glory of God and the express image of God’s

nature and upholding and maintaining, guiding and propelling the

universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself

accomplished our cleansing of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the

Majesty on high.”

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”

Jesus  is the Resurrection and the Life.

“The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not

believe the Son shall not see Life, but the wrath of God remains in him.”

Jesus said:

“This is the will of Him Who sent Me,  that everyone who sees

the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting Life and I will raise

him at the last day.”

” Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting Life.”

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father

except through Me.”

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

As the message of the Best News Ever  first reaches us we become

transfixed on the Person of Jesus Christ and are transformed by Him.

We are no longer only bystanders to history or only informed about

 the most pivotal event for humanity. This message, the Message of Who God

is and who you are changes everything. This changes humanity and

it also changes your life, because your life never means the same again.

You and your life means so much to God that He came to rescue you

from vanity and futility. He came to destroy sin and death, so you can

live with Him eternally. You do what prophets and apostles have

done. You believe and therefore you will speak. It is inevitable that at

some point you will be asked to explain the hope that lives in you.

Likewise the Bible is not a book of law or history or simply an account

of events past. It is a living word of witness to the True and Living God.

It is all about His Love, for God is love. Moved and led by the Holy Spirit

Who inspired the scripture you are moved to declare the Living Jesus

Christ to a dying and desperate world.The Church and the Christian hear

the voice of the Good Shepherd, the Holy Spirit directs the Holy Scripture

to our hearts. The word that set you free will dwell in you richly so that

you may declare the same word to set others free from fear, from tyranny

and from darkness, because he whom the Son sets free is free indeed and

where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom, real freedom and ‘you will

know the truth and the truth shall set you free’ and the word of God can

not be imprisoned, it is like a two-edged sword dividing the joint and the

marrow, to reveal the thoughts and intents of the heart. The word

that proceeds from God will not return to Him void, but will accomplish

what it is intended to do.

“But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters

beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits for

salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in

the truth. For this purpose He called you through our proclamation

of the Good News, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus

Christ. So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the

traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by

our letter.”

(II. Thessalonians 2:13).

AMEN!

The Truth of God, the Eternal Word, LOGOS entered into His own creation to

reconcile the fallen and broken creation to Himself as Jesus the Christ.

He is born of the Virgin Mary as very God and very Man to fulfill the Father’s

will by defeating the Devil, sin and death. In doing this He ushered in the

Kingdom of God where righteousness reigns. The Kingdom is righteousness,

peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

In the Kingdom the New Creation and the New World is based on the New

and Everlasting Covenant through His Body and His Blood. Since Jesus

Christ is very God and very Man, both Creator and Creation, He reconciled

Mankind to God, bringing the two together in union, in  Communion by His

Body and His Blood.

This reconciliation took place on the Cross at Calvary. This is how He

transformed Humanity, Nature and History.

He broke the dominion of darkness.

He brought us Light and Life.

He accomplished our reconciliation. 

He granted us salvation.

He won the victory over Satan, sin and death.

He redeemed us  and brought about our adoption as sons

of the Living God.

He restored His own creation.

He revealed Himself to us.

He fulfilled His mission, so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled

in us , who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

As we are united to Him at baptism and identify with His death, we

demonstrate our death, so we no longer walk after the flesh, but after

the Spirit in the Newness of Life.

This is how we are translated from the dominion of darkness to the

Kingdom of God’s dear Son.

The condemnation of sin in the flesh is the revelation of God’s righteousness.

This starts your New Life, Life in the Spirit.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is also

one hope that belongs to the calling you received.

There is one Lord, one faith one baptism, One God

the Father of us all, Who is above all, Sovereign over

all, pervading all and living in us all.

Yet grace (God’s unmerited favor) was given to each

of us individually (not indiscriminately, but in different

ways) in proportion to the measure of Christ’s rich and

bounteous gift. Therefore it is said, When He ascended on

high, He led captivity captive (He led a train of vanquished

foes) and he bestowed gifts on men.(Ephesians 4.4-8).

POINTS FOR PRAISE AND MEDITATION

1) There is one Lord, one Spirit, one body, one faith, one

baptism, one God and Father of us all who is above all,

pervading all and living in us all. HALLELUJAH!

2) Each believer has specifically been blessed with grace,

which is God’s unmerited favor according to the measure

of Christ’s rich gift. The measure is unlimited as we saw in

Ephesians 1.19.

3) The rich gift of Christ is described and predicted by the psalmist

who alludes to God’s Kingdom rule in prophetic and spiritual

ways which cover the past, present and future. This has to do

with each individual Christian and the Church, because this is

the holy place where the Lord dwells.

Here is Psalm 68.13-20):

“Though you (the slackers) may lie among the sheepfolds (in slothful ease,

yet for Israel) the wings of a dove are covered with silver, its pinions

excessively green with gold (trophies recovered from the enemy).

When the Almighty scattered kings in the land, it was as when it snows

on Zalmon (a wooded hill near Shechem).

Is Mount Bashan the high mountain of summits, Mount Bashan the

mount of God? Why do you look with grudging and with envy, you

many-peaked mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for

His dwelling place? Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon

thousands. The Lord is among them as He was in Sinai, in the

Holy Place.

YOU HAVE ASCENDED ON HIGH. YOU HAVE LED AWAY CAPTIVE

A TRAIN OF VANQUISHED FOES. YOU HAVE RECEIVED GIFTS OF

MEN, YES of the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell there

with them.

Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burdens and carries us day by day,

the God Who is our salvation! Selah (pause and calmly think of that)!

God is to us a God of deliverances and salvation and to God the Lord

belongs escape from death (setting us free).

4) Here in this psalm the Lord Who bears our burdens, whose

burden is easy and burden is light Jesus the Christ is the One

Who delivers and sets us free from sin and death, our God Who is

our salvation. The very name Jesus literally means (God Who IS

Salvation).

5) St. Paul in a turn of the phrase states that Jesus Christ led

captivity captive and bestowed gifts to humanity. This is different from

the context of the psalm where a train of captives were being led and the

Lord received gifts of men.

When the Lord led captivity captive He destroyed the power the

devil which kept  mankind captive to the  fear of death. This is

explained here by the author of Hebrews:

” Since, therefore His children share in flesh and blood, He himself

in asimilar manner partook of the same nature, that by going through

death He might bring to nought and make of no effect him who had the

power of death, that is the devil-

And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who

through the haunting fear of death were held in bondage throughout

the course of their lives. “(Hebrews 2. 14& 15).

In the psalm He receives gifts. In Ephesians St. Paul is saying that

the Lord gives each believer individual spiritual gifts.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

This is in accordance with the

terms of the eternal and

timeless purpose which He

has realized and carried into

effect in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Ephesians 3.11).

POINTS FOR PRAISE

AND MEDITATION

1) The mystery of God’s

secret plan for humanity

is disclosed by the Good

News which are the Best

News Ever.

2) The unlimited riches of Christ

is announced to reveal salvation

through Jesus Christ our Lord

and Savior who created all things.

3) This  will reveal God’s infinite and

complex wisdom not only to humans,

but also to the angelic rulers in the

spiritual sphere.

4) This plan is carried out according

to God’s timeless purpose which He

implemented by Jesus Christ our

Lord and Savior.

THAN YOU FOREVERMORE

HALLELUJAH LORD JESUS!

of unity and harmony. He has made

us both Jew and Gentile one body,

and has broken down, destroyed, abolished

the hostile dividing wall between us.

By abolishing in His own crucified flesh

the enmity caused by the Law with its decrees

and ordinances (which he annuled), that He

from the two might create in himself one

new human (one new quality of humanity out

of the two), so making peace.

(Ephesians 2.14 and 15).

POINTS FOR PRAISE AND MEDITATION

1) Jesus Christ is our peace.

He is the way, the truth and the life.

He is our wisdom. He is the resurrection

and the life. He is also our peace.

2) The wall of separation that existed

under the old covenant no longer

exists under the new covenant.

The barrier is no longer there.

Belief in Jesus Christ allows entering into

the covenant made possible by His

blood. This covenant is made with better,

much greater and everlasting promises.

HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS!

sin and falling away) led to condemnation

for all mankind, so one Man’s ( Jesus Christ’s)

righteousness leads to acquittal and right

standing with God and life for all.

For just as by one man’s disobedience

many were considered sinners,

so by one Man’s obedience many will

be considered righteous ( made acceptable

to God, brought into right standing with Him).

( Romans 5.18 and 19).

Consider these points:

1) Adam’s disobedience and sin brought 

condemnation and death to all humanity.

2) Jesus Christ’s righteousness and His

obedience unto death on the cross by

shedding His most precious blood,

brought salvation, right standing

and eternal life.

Therefore My Father loves Me, because

I lay down My life that I may take it again.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down

of Myself. I have power to lay it down and

I have power to take it again.

This command I received from My father.

( John 10.17 and 18).

Jesus Christ the Best Shepherd willingly took on

the sin, suffering and death of humanity.

He who knew no sin became the ultimate sin

sacrifice.

He took  on humanity by becoming a human.

He gave us salvation and eternal life.

Please meditate and pray on these points.