3-12-2017 Weekly Message

The contemplation of the week: Psalm 50: 1-23

Text: I Peter 1: 1-23

Title of the Word: Do you live a life of cleansing your soul by obeying the truth?

          The apostle Peter believes that the one who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and that the soul was saved did not see him, but loved him, believed that he still could not see him, and rejoiced with joy, looking at the full glory he would receive with him.

         The apostle Paul also testified that when he wrote to the saved Christians in Rome, they regarded the present sufferings as not being compared with the glory that would appear to them, including himself (Romans 8:18). He is testifying of the glory that will come with all creation when the Lord comes and restores all things in the future.

          When the apostle Peter testified in the Holy Spirit about the testimony of the apostle Peter, who was saved did not see Him, but was glad to see His glorious glory, saying, ” How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?“(Hebrews 9:14).

           As the mind is glad when the human body is washed clean, the blood of Christ without blemish, spotlessness flows spiritually, and the dirty things deeply rooted in conscience are washed away instantly, the joy is full of indescribable joy It is.

And to receive praise, glory, and honor from Jesus Christ, who will be revealed to righteous Christians in the coming days. This exhortation is a very important exhortation to all Christians saved on earth.

       To Jewish religious men pretending to be clean on the outside, Jesus spoke of the sins rooted in their hearts in their souls: ”   To Jewish religious men pretending to be clean on the outside, Jesus spoke of the sins rooted in their souls in their souls:

 ” That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,  Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.“(Mark 7: 20-23)

            But they did not realize what the Lord said. And all the religious people in the world, like their old Pharisees and scribes, are working hard to cleanse the surface, but they do not know what the dirty things are in them and like to be recognized as righteous people. Not only religious people outside the church, but also people in the church today do not realize this, so they see their whole life as a religious person and do not even know it. In other words, if you do not realize how dirty a sinner you are, you cannot come to Him and repent and be cleansed of sins by forgiveness of sins.

            All the laws God has given to Israel through Moses, including the Ten Commandments, have been given to realize that there are thirteen filthy sins in man. The unclean things in the heart of the one who spoke to the Jewish religious people, “Love your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Is the state of the evil mind in a totally depraved state in which the Word cannot be performed. The first four commandments of the Ten Commandments are to love God in full, and the following six commandments are a loving commandment that neighbors love themselves.

        The Apostle Paul firmly testified to those in Rome that all men had already broken the Ten Commandments:

” For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” (Romans 3:23). It is a testimony that man is not seeing the glorious salvation of God by sinning against his neighbor against God. He was  ” Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.“(Romans 3: 24-28).

  Through the righteousness which the Lord Jesus Christ, the only God, performed on the cross, we were justified by righteousness, justified by his righteousness. Therefore, the Apostle Peter encouraged the faithful Lord Jesus Christ to be praised, glorified, and honored by the coming forth Jesus Christ of righteousness by receiving the blood of Jesus Christ in his heart. This exhortation is a very important exhortation to all Christians saved on earth.

 The Christian, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, cleansed of the soul, testified of what to do while living in this world: ” Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:“  (1 Peter 1: 13-17)

           He also testified that the soul cleansed through Christ’s blood can do true love when it dwells in the sanctity of things and souls that need to be kept clean:

” Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:“ (1 Peter 1:22)

          That is correct! It is also the Word of God that sanctifies the born-again Christians, the Word of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the word of God, which is the incorruptible seed, that will make man regenerate. The Apostle Paul also testified against this in the Ephesian Church that the water in the Word of God cleanse and sanctify the Christian:

” That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5: 26-27)

       Also, concerning the will of God to the children of God, the apostle Paul testified in detail to the saints of the Thessalonian Church: ” For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. “(I Thessalonians 4: 3-6)

           When the apostle James wrote to the twelve tribes scattered widely, he testified that the Word of God is like a mirror about the process of cleansing with water by the Word:

” Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. “(James 1:19-25).

             That is correct! By faith in Christ Jesus, by the life of the holy man, until the day when the soul will be cleansed and justified by grace, come to him, and strive not to be ashamed when he comes. The way to repay the salvation of grace is to keep his beauty as a bride in faith until the end, and to receive him in glory. In the testimony of the apostle John, who received the most of the Lord’s people, we can see what God is pleased with:

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. “(1 John 3: 2-3)

              David, who confessed that the word of the Lord is the lamp on my feet, and the light in my path “(Psalm 119: 105), confessed that he was washing himself in the Word for the rest of his life to become like him when he stands before Christ he clearly confessed:” As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be

satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” (Psalm 17:15) Amen! Hallelujah!