THE LORD IS = TELEIOTES

 

TELEIOTES

(pronounced tel-ah'-ee-tee-os) 

THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION

Hebrews 5:8-9

Though he was God's Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. And being made perfect, He became The Author of Eternal Salvation unto all who obey Him. 

    Now that we, too, have become the children of God, we must learn obedience through suffering as well. For those who follow Christ must follow Him all the way to the cross if they want to rise out of the grave in new bodies. 

1 Peter 2:20, 21

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps. 

    He is our example, the First of us to follow this pattern of obedience which God has set from the beginning, but now has revealed in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. -- Hebrews 9:26, 27 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

Isaiah 53:5, 12

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. 

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Romans 3:25

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. 

    Where is Jesus now? He's in heaven with His Father interceding on behalf of His people. And one of these days He's coming back to get those who have been obedient to God. 

Acts 1:9

Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 

Romans 8:34

Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God--and He is interceding for us. 

    And one of these days, when God tells Him to go and get His people, Christ Jesus will return and bring all of us with Him: we who have died and we who are waiting and watching for His return. 

    But He will not return with a blazing star in the night sky. He will not return, yet, with trump and fanfare. He will come and get us like a thief in the night: quietly and swiftly. 

    Now is the time to get ready. Accept Christ as Lord and Savior, receive The Holy Spirit into your life and be obedient to His leading, walking out our salvation by living The Word daily: by walking God's Way of Holiness, that we may see Him and live. Live a life of (agape) love now. There's not much time left.

BY HIS WOUNDS - Mac Powell

NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD - Jars of Clay 

REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH  

    

Burning Love

 

 

JEREMIAH 20:9

Jeremiah 20:9

Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His Name. But His Word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Jeremiah was compelled by The Holy Spirit burning in his heart to speak The Word which God had given him to the people who didn't want to hear it. In other words, Jeremiah couldn't help himself: he HAD TO SPEAK THE WORD OVER THE UNHEARING AND UNLISTENING people whom God loved.

There's a lot of that going on today even now. Unhearing, unlistening, uncaring, unknowledgeable people are having The WORD of GOD spoken over them. While many will refuse to answer God's beckoning call to salvation and redemption, a few will step out in faith and a little boldness to answer God's call on their souls and lives.

Know this, we are praying you out of the fire with the Love of God and The Word of God burning in our hearts, for we desire that no one go to hell, but that all would be saved. We who believe The Word of God to be True and Faithful have also stepped out in faith and boldness to speak The Word of God over your lives and your hearts.

You may cuss us out, throw stuff at us, shoot us, knife us, whip us, kick us, spit on us, beat us up, and kill us. But the prayers we have prayed with sincere loving hearts will be answered. So stop fighting God and surrender your hearts and your lives to Him. While you still have a chance.

GOD REALLY LOVES US - Crowder, Maverick

The Mercy of God - Never Fails

 

 

Lamentations 3:22

Because of the loving devotion of The LORD we are not consumed,

 for His mercies never fail. 

Psalm 103:10

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

    Though The Lord could destroy us at any time for our great wickedness against His Word, yet He restrains Himself, for it is not His will that any of us should die in our sins. He wants us to repent of our unrighteous acts against Him and obey His Word, which He has given us through the cross. For Christ is The Living Word of God sent to die for each and every one of us. 

    Who are we that God should love us so? We are His sheep even though we were once lost in the darkness of our own hearts and minds. It is why He sent His only begotten Son to die on the cross, so that us who were once lost sheep can be found sheep and placed in His pasture of love and mercy. 

    Exodus 34:7 says He extends His mercy to a thousand generations: " Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation." 

    Numbers 14:18 tells us God is slow to anger and of great mercy. He wants us live with Him when we die. But unless we choose to live for Him now, there won't be a home in heaven for the unrepentant sinner. 

     1 John 1:9 tells us " If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." God wants us to confess our sins against Him to Him. No one else has the power to forgive us for the sins we have committed against God except God. 

    It's as if you did me wrong and went to a stranger for forgiveness for what you had done to me. Would that make the wrong you did to me right? Not hardly. It is the same when we have sinned against God. To sin against God is to break His Word, to disregard His Word and to deliberately ignore His Word. To sin against God is to disobey when He tells us to do something and we don't. And when He tells us not to do something and we do it anyway. These sins need to be repented of when we come to God for His forgiveness. 

    In His unfailing mercy God will forgive the sincere repentant heart and wash the sins from the seeker's heart. He promises:

Psalm 32:5

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

Psalm 51:2

Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

1 John 1:7

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 cleanses us from all sin.