Post by Les Brewer on Dec 28, 2022 20:57:50 GMT
THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST CLEANSES US FROM ALL SIN!
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
— Job 1:5
The passed few days has been a great moment to us as believers in the body of Christ. It has been a blissful moment both for those who are in congregational Retreat and for those who Resorts to celebrate the season.
Whichever way you passed through these few days ago, it is very important to note that we have an enemy who is not after our welfare but to see us fall, so he can use every available means to try in order to see us fall. I have heard and seen a situation where people quarrels, nurture hatred and keep Malice on a retreat ground because of sharing of food, just as it happened in Acts 6, where there was a complained of being neglected because of the sharing of physical provisions, I discovered also that in the congregational Retreat ground the enemy can get us to fall during the time of sharing the meals if care is not taken.
So it goes to those who went to resorts places for celebration, it might be easier for the enemy to get you to fall at a time like this when the REASON FOR THE SEASON, ought to make us go higher in our spiritual life and relationship with God.
But if you have become a victim already, let be early before these days go far just a Job did, in rising up early to make atonement for sin.
What the patriarch did early in the morning, after the family festivities, it will be well for the believer to do for himself before entering any other thing. Amid the cheerfulness of household gatherings it is easy to slide into sinful levities, and to forget our avowed character as Christians. It ought not to be so, but so it is, that our days of feasting are very seldom days of sanctified enjoyment, but too frequently degenerate into unhallowed mirth. There is a way of joy as pure and sanctifying as though one bathed in the rivers of Eden: holy gratitude should be quite as purifying an element as grief.
Alas! for the poor hearts, that facts prove that the house of mourning is better than the house of feasting.
Come, believer, in what have you sinned in these days? Have you been forgetful of your high calling? Have you been even as others in idle words and loose speeches? Then confess the sin, and fly to the sacrifice. The sacrifice sanctifies. The precious blood of the Lamb slain removes the guilt, and purges away the defilement of our sins of ignorance and carelessness. This is the best ending of a Christmas-season—to wash anew in the cleansing fountain.
Believer, come to this sacrifice continually; if it be so good today, it is good every day. To live at the altar is the privilege of the royal priesthood; to them sin, great as it is, is nevertheless no cause for despair, since they draw near yet again to the sin-atoning victim, and their conscience is purged from dead works.
Gladly I close this festive days,
Grasping the altar’s hallow'd horn;
My slips and faults are washed away,
The Lamb has all my trespass borne.
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Come this moment for cleansing from all sins and short comings in the passed few days...
God bless us all.
Have a wonderful day and a blessed day.
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
— Job 1:5
The passed few days has been a great moment to us as believers in the body of Christ. It has been a blissful moment both for those who are in congregational Retreat and for those who Resorts to celebrate the season.
Whichever way you passed through these few days ago, it is very important to note that we have an enemy who is not after our welfare but to see us fall, so he can use every available means to try in order to see us fall. I have heard and seen a situation where people quarrels, nurture hatred and keep Malice on a retreat ground because of sharing of food, just as it happened in Acts 6, where there was a complained of being neglected because of the sharing of physical provisions, I discovered also that in the congregational Retreat ground the enemy can get us to fall during the time of sharing the meals if care is not taken.
So it goes to those who went to resorts places for celebration, it might be easier for the enemy to get you to fall at a time like this when the REASON FOR THE SEASON, ought to make us go higher in our spiritual life and relationship with God.
But if you have become a victim already, let be early before these days go far just a Job did, in rising up early to make atonement for sin.
What the patriarch did early in the morning, after the family festivities, it will be well for the believer to do for himself before entering any other thing. Amid the cheerfulness of household gatherings it is easy to slide into sinful levities, and to forget our avowed character as Christians. It ought not to be so, but so it is, that our days of feasting are very seldom days of sanctified enjoyment, but too frequently degenerate into unhallowed mirth. There is a way of joy as pure and sanctifying as though one bathed in the rivers of Eden: holy gratitude should be quite as purifying an element as grief.
Alas! for the poor hearts, that facts prove that the house of mourning is better than the house of feasting.
Come, believer, in what have you sinned in these days? Have you been forgetful of your high calling? Have you been even as others in idle words and loose speeches? Then confess the sin, and fly to the sacrifice. The sacrifice sanctifies. The precious blood of the Lamb slain removes the guilt, and purges away the defilement of our sins of ignorance and carelessness. This is the best ending of a Christmas-season—to wash anew in the cleansing fountain.
Believer, come to this sacrifice continually; if it be so good today, it is good every day. To live at the altar is the privilege of the royal priesthood; to them sin, great as it is, is nevertheless no cause for despair, since they draw near yet again to the sin-atoning victim, and their conscience is purged from dead works.
Gladly I close this festive days,
Grasping the altar’s hallow'd horn;
My slips and faults are washed away,
The Lamb has all my trespass borne.
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Come this moment for cleansing from all sins and short comings in the passed few days...
God bless us all.
Have a wonderful day and a blessed day.
