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5-31-2020 Weekly Message
Meditation of the week: Psalms 91: 1-16
Text: Romans 8: 14-23
Word Title: Most blessing for them circumcised by Christ  to be translated before the Great Tribulation

There are two kinds of man. The first one is the one that is the bride of Christ walking with God to be translated before the Great Tribulation. The second group of man is the one that is to be saved to enter into the Millennial kingdom of Christ.

         Now, of the first group of  man, we are going to  search the scriptures. Christ had been planned to come into the world before God laid the foundation of the world (earth). In addition, the Bible says that anyone who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and enters into Christ is blessed to be adopted by God since then:
” According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” ( Ephesians 1: 4-5)

Apostle Paul, who received this blessing, testified that not only was he in Christ, but also Christ was in him. It is the same confession of Jesus saying, he is in the Father and  the Father is in Him:
“ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. ”(Gal. 2:20)

Apostle Paul testified that it is a mystery to have Christ within him, and he also witnessed that he was circumcised by Christ. He also testified of the change happened within him as the result of the circumcision of Christ:
” Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:…… In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: ”(Col 1: 26-27; 2: 11).

As witnessed by Apostle Peter, the end of faith is the salvation of our souls (1 Peter 1: 9). In other word, when anyone believes in Christ’s death and resurrection, Christ enters  in and separates our souls from the body of sins.

In other words, the unsaved person is a trinity of  dead spirit,  and the soul under destruction, and corruptible body due to sins. Therefore, God raises the spirit of those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be born again and separates the soul from the body of sins. After King David realized this after he committed adultery and murder, he prayed to God:
” Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.….  My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word..” (Psalm 51: 5; 119: 25)

King David offered a prayer of supplication to save his soul from the body of sins like dust. The Holy Spirit in David made him pray to God who is going to save souls through Christ’s circumcision in the future.

Regarding Christ’s circumcision, Apostle Paul testified to the Hebrews of what the Word, the Christ does in the body of the believers:
“ For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ” (Hebrews 4:12)

Those who are circumcised by Christ to save  the souls separated from the body of sins must live the life that follows the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ,  no longer follows the body of sins. These are the ones who have received the spirit adoption of God, so they are the ones who have received the most blessings calling  God “Ava, Father.” It is a testimony that the indwelling Holy Spirit testifies them as the children of God with the spirit within them.

Not only that, but also as the heirs of God as well as the co-heirs with Christ, seeing the glory that Christ will bring forth when he returns and establishes his kingdom, they can rejoicein the midst of suffering with Christ, even while groaning in pain while suffering. When Christ appears, they shall  live the life of looking at the day when they are adopted as sons by God.

Also, since being circumcised by Christ, they are groaning and suffering while keeping the faith in the hope  as they watch the creatures waiting to be free from the bondage of corruption and reach the glorious freedom of the children of God, they have to wait until they put off the body of sins when Christ appears in the air.

Apostle Paul testified of the mystery of the Day of Rapture, when they put off the body of sins of the children of God who are waiting for the redemption of the body:

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.. “(1 Corinthians 15: 51-52)

That’s right! When Christ returns and establishes his kingdom, only the children of God born of the Holy Spirit  shall enjoy the most blessing of glory of putting on the glorified body and reigning with Christ.

For the second group of man,  the remnant of the Jews who believe in Jesus Christ keeping the commandments during the Great Tribulation shall enter into the kingdom of Christ. Prophet Isaiah previewed and witnessed of them:
“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away..” (Isaiah 35:10)

As another group of man, an hundred forty and four thousand shall participate in the glory of Christ:

” And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: “(Revelation 14: 1-2)

Moreover, during the Great Tribulation, the Gentiles, who wash and purify their robes by the blood of the Lamb, shall participate in the glory of Christ’s Kingdom. Apostle John witnessed this sight in the Holy Spirit. They are holding palm branches. When Jesus rode on a donkey and entered Jerusalem, it reminds of those who cried out Hosanna with palm branches:
” After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

10And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.….. These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

15Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. ”(Revelation 7: 9-10,14-17)

There is another group of blessing. These are the people of the sheep when the Lord Jesus Christ comes and sits on the throne of glory to judge the nations. They are the nations of  people who helped the Jews during the Great Tribulation:

“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: …… And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me..’ (Matthew 25:31 -34,40)

That’s right! Finally, when the Lord Jesus Christ returns, and  restores Israel to establishes his own kingdom, there shall be judgments and blessings for all of them born in the world.

Therefore, we have to choose the most blessing in the last days. It is the very time when we are circumcised by Christ to put off the body of sins through believing the gospel of Christ to be the children of God as well as the bride of Christ. We are supposed to be led by the Holy Spirit to walk with God to be prepared to meet the Lord Jesus Christ in the air.  Amen! Hallelujah!