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The Living Sacrifice. Be
not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall
he also reap. Having been conceived by the Holy Spirit of the Lord Yahweh God Almighty, then we are to understand that the WORD of GOD, Jesus Yeshua, was born the Son of Yahweh God in the true genetic flesh of Adam/Man coming from the genetic seed of Adam's wife Ishshah. Now, as the Incarnate Son of God, Yeshua haMashiach is the Last of Adam's pure genetics that was maintained through the lineage of the faithful Hebrew women, beginning with the first woman Ishshah and ending with Mary and their genetically pure XX chromosomes. The Man Yeshua/Jesus, as the Son of God, loved His Holy Father Yahweh God perfectly, and the incomprehensible LOVE from His Father enabled Jesus/Yeshua to conquer sin's power of death with His perfect Sacrifice of His Life. His Father Yahweh God was very please with His Son's Chagigah oOfering (Presentation Offering) for the sin's of Adam kind. With Christ's assigned work of perfect Sacrificial LOVE for the sins of mankind was completely finished to the Satisfaction of His Father, the Yahweh God raised to LIFE the Son of Man from the dead of mankind in total victory over the sin and death of man kind. Jesus Christ, the Man, with His selfless victory over wickedness, satisfies the Holiness of His Father Yahweh God Almighty. With His total satisfaction in the salvation work of Yeshua/Jesus, Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God Almighty declares Jesus the Christ to be of the order of Malchizedek, and forever the only High Priest and Mediator of the New Covenant between Holy Yahweh God Almighty and sinful mankind. Consequently Jesus is able save to the utmost, those who draw near to Yahweh God through Him, (Jesus) since He (Jesus) forever lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest, Holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens. (Hebrews 7 verse 25 thru 26.) Jesus/Yeshua, the sinless Son of Man/Adam, was raised from the dead in majestic victory over the sins of the world, and is seated in the Power of Yahweh's Spirit of Holiness at His Father's Right Hand. Our Lord Jesus, the Christ of Yahweh God, makes intercession, for those souls who come to Him IN Faith, for He is the Living Sacrifice and the Lord our High Priest of Righteousness. With the Eternal Power of His Father Yahweh God Almighty, Jesus is the ever Living Sacrifice that sanctifies the flesh of His saved believers, whereby they would be witnesses to the world of the merciful Grace and Wisdom of the Eternal Yahweh God. (See The Tree Roots Talking.) The Faith of Christ the Man and the Son of God bears witness of Christ's own Selfless Offering of His LIFE that He presented to Yahweh God as a Son's LIFE Offering to set aside the sin of Adam and the sins of all of corrupted man-kind. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not (practice) the TRUTH: [Jesus Christ is the TRUTH] But if we walk in the Light, as He is is the Light, [then] we have fellowship (koinonia) one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses us from all sin. (In full Context see 1st John 1 verse 5 thru 10.) For there are three that bear witness; The [Yahweh's] Spirit [of Grace], and the Water (of the WORD), and the Blood, and these Three are One. Even though we think that we stand among the redeemed members of the Body of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, we forget about the sinful nature of our very own flesh as if there were no problems at all for us to contend with. Our callous forgetfulness, allows us to further dismiss the absolute necessity for the denial of our self will, with the carrying of our daily cross that encourages the self denial. Ah, but we say, thank goodness for Jesus Christ for now we are free from the law and and its condemnation of sin and death, for all is done that can be done! Our self righteousness will white wash our conscience from the continuing offenses of our self idolatrous flesh, causing us to ignore our sin's spreading cancer of death. And so the evil of sin still abounds in the church people: Just look around, and see if you can see yourself in the eyes of others that judge. Now the Lord said to them all, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life (for his own sake) shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same (person) shall save it." (Luke 9 verse 23 thru 24.) If you have considered this WORD of the Lord, then what does this following WORD of the Lord mean to you? Whosoever commits sin is the slave of sin. And the slave [of sin] abides not in the house for ever but the Son remains forever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. (John 8 verse 35 thru 36.) If we are set free within the Eternal TRUTH that is LIFE IN Jesus Christ, then we are members of His Body, bound together IN Jesus Christ, for we are communing IN Christ's LIFE cleansing Blood provided by Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus. For, if we are disciples that are following Christ Jesus, then we are called to walk within the narrow path of our new LIFE IN Christ, where the dead in the Body of Christ, have been birthed into the great expanse of Yahweh God's Perfect Way of Sacrificial Love IN Christ. However, when we are distracted with the cares of the world, and follow after the demands of the self centered sin that processes itself within our shallow minds of flesh, then we will stumble out of the WAY of the TRUTH, falling by the wayside in great distress. (Consider the dichotomy of suffering 2nd Peter 2 verse 19 thru 20.) Now, if in the midst of the suffering in our flesh for our own wrong choices, and we begin to hear the Voice of the Heart of Yahweh God reproving our flesh, then we should respond to Yahweh God's Spirit of Holiness calling us to return to Yahweh God's New Covenant Word of Grace IN Christ Jesus. The Grace that Yahweh God provides to repentant believers is at His Communion Table of Grace in the Blood of His Only Begotten Son. The sin cleansing Grace of Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE, is freely given IN Holy Communion, and is to be received within the Infinite TRUTH of Yahweh's Only Begotten Son Yeshua, through our Faith in the Covenant WORD of Yahweh God. Yahweh God's Sufficiency is IN His Eternal LIFE that is given to His believers through His Only begotten Son's Body and His poured out New Covenant Blood of LIFE. Because of our repentance that is born within our humility towards Yahweh God, we are each personally showing our responsibility for the death of Jesus Christ because of our sin. When we seek after Jesus/Yeshua then the innocent Lamb of Yahweh God says to the repentant sinner: Take and Eat, for this is My Body given for you. Then: Take and Drink for this is My Blood that is shed for many for the remission of their sins. When we sinners eat IN Faith of the One Body of Jesus Christ then we are partaking of the incarnate Son of Man's innocent death for our sin. Because of Faith in the Word of God, then our death, because of our sin, shall not have dominion over us for: Jesus took the cup, and gave thanks [to Yahweh His Father God], and gave it to them, saying: “Drink from it, all of you. For, this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew 26 verse 27 thru 28.) Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousness' sake: For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: For great is your reward in heaven: For so persecuted they the prophets which came before you. (Matthew 5 verse 10 thru 12.) In our Communion with Yahweh God, we remember that Holy Yahweh God, Himself, has given His Love Offering of His Only Son for the sins of the world that is beyond natural human understanding. Yahweh God's Perfect Love was IN the LIFE within the Blood of Yahweh God's only begotten Son, Yeshua haMashiach, Who was made of the the genetic flesh of the first Man, male and female. Christ Jesus the Man presented Himself as a perfect Chagigah offering to Yahweh God to make peace between Yahweh God and Man. Do you not know that the Unseen One Spirit of Father Yahweh God was within the flesh of the Man Christ Jesus, so then the Almighty Father God also suffered with the unseen Spirit of the Son of Man? How unfathomable it has been for us to understand that IN the TRUTH of Yahweh God, that the Perfect Love of Yahweh God Almighty was within the Soul of His incarnated and immaculate Son, Christ Jesus:
For indeed, Yahweh God was IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself,
not
imputing their
trespasses unto
them. (See
2nd Corinthians 5 verse 18 thru 19, and John 9 verse 29,
with John 10 verse 38,and John 17 verse 21.) This is the Perfect Love that overcomes this world of sin and death, for in the fullness of Yahweh God's New Covenant IN the LIFE Blood of His Only only Begotten Son, the Sacrificial Love of the Yahweh God exonerates the born again souls of repentant faith from their nature of sin and death. For whom the Son sets free, is free indeed to Love mankind and serve the Lord Yahweh God Almighty with gladness and singleness of heart. We beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Yahweh God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto (Yahweh) God, which is your reasonable (logical) service. And be not conformed to this world [of sin]: But be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and the perfect Will of Yahweh God”. Our Living Sacrifice of Love is Yeshua/Jesus and is maintained by the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God of the Living. Yahweh God's Sanctifying Love continues in the Communal New Covenant LIFE Blood of Yahweh God's Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. The LIFE of the One Spirit of Christ and Yahweh God the Father is to flow freely within the members of the Body of Yahweh God's Living Sacrifice, Jesus Christ. As Faith filled members within the Body of Christ, we by necessity are to partake in the Bread of LIFE, and then drink in of Christ's LIFE giving Blood, whereby our conscience will become cleared of the encumbrances from the guilt of our now confessed sinfulness. That same Love of Yahweh God will be His covering for our continuing innate weaknesses in our flesh, that produces sin in our body. Praise Yahweh God, for the Perfect Love of Yahweh God is innate to the Sacrificial LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, for Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of LIFE is One with the LIFE that is in the Holy Blood of Yahweh God's only begotten Son Yeshua haMashiach. Now because of our High Priest's mediating Living Sacrifice given for mankind's sin, the Sovereign Yahweh God of the Universe has no desire to keep forgiven man chained to the guilt of our failures, nor does He keep an account of our confessed and forsaken sins that are being cleansed by the LIFE Blood of Yahweh God's Perfect Sacrifice within Christ Jesus. The guilt of our confessed sins are obliterated in the LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus, so that in the freshness of our fellowship within the Body of Jesus Christ, selfish sin is denied its power. With our Communion with God Almighty, the cross is once again lifted up, and the Spirit of the Lord once more is leading in the forefront of our daily lives. The believer, through the Living Faith of the Christ of Yahweh God, is in sequence with our Fellowship (Communion) with the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ our Living Sacrifice. Yeshua haMashiach will eternally be empowered through Yahweh God's Spirit IN the New Covenant Blood, that enables Yahweh's Covenant people to walk in the LIFE of His Son's One Spirit. Through our Fellowship in the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, we remember that the Lord's LIFE, is a Gift of immeasurable LOVE, and has become our LIFE. Even though we may have grave weaknesses, we are made through Christ's Love, to be more than an over-comer in this world, and able to present our bodies in worshipful service as a living sacrifice that is acceptable to Yahweh God the Father. (See Romans 12 verse 1 thru 2.) "For they shall overcome the evil accuser by the BLOOD of the LAMB, and the Word of their testimony, for they loved not their life unto the death." (See Revelation 12 verse 10 thru 12.) For I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that LIFE (the LIFE of Jesus Christ) which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith, the faith which is IN the Son of Yahweh God, Who Loved me, and gave Himself up for me. (Galatians 2 verse 20 (ASV.) Be you therefore followers of Yahweh God, as dear children; and walk in Love, as Christ also has [sacrificially] Loved us, and has given Himself for us, a (Chagigah-Presentation) offering and a sacrifice to Yahweh God for a sweet smelling savor. (Ephesians 5 verse 1 thru 2.) As ambassadors of Yahweh God, called IN Christ Jesus, then we as members of His Body, are to be Christ's living sacrifices, in presenting Yahweh God's gift of peace to a lost world that suffers in the corruption of sin. To proceed to the next chapter, please click on Who will believe our report. mailto:excellent.valley@verizon.net Robert Glenn Pratten |