We have been called to take the message that Yehovah gave to His uniquely begotten son Jesus His anointed one to give to us. The message of the soon-coming Kingdom [Kingship] of Yehovah and all that message of hope entails!
Our God and Father Yehovah has given us all the resources we need to carry out what he wants us to do. He has given us by His indwelling Spirit, strength, ability, wisdom, and His all-encompassing love! We have a reservoir of power within to draw upon as we walk on the path He wants to walk upon through this sin-sick world reaching out to others to pull them out of the fire into His wonderful light. This being true there ought to be absolutely nothing that can hold us back from accomplishing His will for us.
He has shown you, O man, what is good: and what does Yehovah require of you, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)
For God will not forget your work, and the love which you have shown to His name, having ministered to the saints (holy ones)…. (Hebrews 6:10)
No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12)
…. God is love. (1 John 4:8)
Brothers and sisters do we realize what we are as a result of our God and our Father’s amazing grace?
Notice:
2 Corinthians 6: 16, 18: … you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk-in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And I will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord [Yehovah] Almighty.
Galatians 4:4-7: When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons; God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore you are no more a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through the Messiah.
Philippians 2:12-16: …. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you both to will and to do His good pleasure. Do all things without murmuring or disputing: That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life….
1 John 3:1-2: 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. 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. Wow!
Ephesians 2:19: Now, therefore, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints (holy ones), and members of the household of God;
Galatians 6:10: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
We indeed have the opportunity to do good to all men by bringing the good news message to them as ambassadors of the Messiah Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21; 6:1-2: Now then we are ambassadors for the Messiah, as though God did beseech you by us: we ask you in the Messiah’s stead, be you reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I scoured you: behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.)
Conclusion:
We know that Yehovah is love and as His sons, we are to reflect His love in all we do and say. We are the temple of the living God because His powerful Spirit indwells us. We are the sons of Yehovah by the Spirit of adoption and as such have been placed as sons and daughters in His household. As we read Roman chapter 11, we see that we have been grafted into the Israel of God of which the Messiah Jesus is the representative man. We know that in the Messiah we are new creations, members of the New Humanity Yehovah has been creating since Adam. We are priests of Yehovah (Revelation 1:6; 5:10).
This is what we are in the lord Messiah Jesus and as God is Love and Jesus was the outshining of the nature of Yehovah, so as new creations, in the Messiah, we ought to be the outshining of his love, as his ambassadors toward all people. That love will enable us to reach out to all men and women with the message of salvation - deliverance that will be backed up by the Spirit of Yehovah and the Messiah in us as we speak to them!
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