The LORD our Passover

Continuing the indexing for May 26^th

In Matthew 22 Jesus is correcting the Priest's because they did not know the meaning of the scriptures which they miss quoted and therefore misapplied, picking up at verse 29 where we find this; Jesus answering said to them, "Do you not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. As touching the dead, that they rise: have you not read in the book of Moses (Exodus), how in the bush God spoke to him, saying, I AM the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: you therefore do greatly err.”

This one statement of Jesus goes on even to the very day miss understand and therefore misapplied by the religious Hebrews and religious gentile peoples. They fail to grasp that God counted Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as righteous in His sight and therefore they when they passed from the scene of time were gathered to Him as Enoch and Elijah were though they did not see death body. This one example gives us the true meaning of the term “Salvation” which is not Redemption though they are similar. You see to be righteous before God means we have the ontological essence of Christ as the Spirit within not just as a covering that surrounds. This is also the meaning of “Light, Glory and yes the glow of a lamp filled with oil or candle” which shines outwardly from within a vessel, like at Mark 4 with its many figurative parables and especially verses 21 through 23 and any referenced passages your Bible's column referencing may have, for comparison.

In 1John 3 we find this statement; “Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does 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 has this hope in Him purifies himself [*], even as He is pure. Whoever commits sin transgresses the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and In Him is no sin. Whoever abides In Him sins not: whoever sins has not Him, neither knowns Him. Let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.”

In Romans 8 we find this beginning at verse 11; “But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwells in you. Therefore, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if we live after the flesh, we shall die: but if we [*] through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together with Him. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

I cannot leave with just that short portion said I must share the remainder also which states this; “For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for Him.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the Will (well, healing word) of God.

We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestined (the hidden meaning of Gen. 1:27-28, 2:7) to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestined, them He also calls: (this colon is a time sensitive mark) and whom He calls, them He also justifies: and whom He justifies, them He also glorifies.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loves us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is In Christ Jesus our Lord.”