He was commissioned to build his called-out Assembly, who would be members of his body, from every nation, tribe and tongue. The Messiah Jesus is gathering people who will become totally committed to loving his God and his Father Yehovah with all their hearts, minds, and strength and being as he does; and walk before Him in obedient faithfulness. The most important part of Jesus’ commission was to become a sin-offering sacrifice when he died on the stake, to reconcile all of humanity to his God and Father Yehovah.
Those who put their faith in him and have died their self-centered life, walked into the waters of baptism and were buried with Jesus by baptism into his death and rose up out of the waters of baptism in newness of life, becoming new creations, born from above by the Spirit of Yehovah.
Romans 6:4: Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as the Messiah was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life.
Colossians 2:12: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you have risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.
At their baptism, they became indwelled with God’s Spirit which is a seal that they belong to Him. They also understood that they had been bought with the most precious price in the world, the shed blood of the Lord Jesus and as a result, became his slaves and slaves of his God and Father Yehovah before whom he was acting as his agent.
Notice: The Jewish law of Agency says that whatever the agent says or does it is as if the principal was saying it and doing it!
If you are in the body of the Messiah, the called-out Assembly of God you have become children of Abraham, and members of God’s household as His sons and daughters! As His sons and daughters, we are to love one another as Jesus loves us. We must live out this truth: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another” (John 13:34-35). We should be willing to die for our brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus if that ever becomes necessary. We are also commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, which is impossible for us to do unless we are filled with the power of God’s Spirit enabling us to do so.
1 Peter 1:18-23: you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of the Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and stays forever.
The world should know that we are disciples of the Messiah because we love one another. We live in a wicked and adulterous generation. The whole world is becoming more and more violent. Divisive hatefulness is on the rise exponentially. More and more governments are becoming more right-wing in their political environment and are heading toward becoming authoritarian in these end times, which is all the more reason that we ought to show people around us that we truly love one another as a witness to them. That being said, what people see from most people who call themselves Christians are attitudes of division, hate, and all the things that the people in the world express and do. Indeed wide is the path that leads to destruction and many walk on that path.
Jesus never promise his disciples that their walk would be easy. Our walk is like walking through a rose garden and getting struck by a bunch of thorns. We have been called to walk on the narrow difficult path that leads to age upon age lasting life in the soon-coming kingdom of God as glorified immortal men and women. Men and women who will have a place in the Theocratic Government Jesus will establish; when His God and Father Yehovah sends him down to sit on the throne of David at Zion to rule over the nations as King of kings, Lord of lords!
Brothers and sisters, we are living in the last days, the time of the tribulation is right around the corner. Are we preparing for the troubled times that are already upon us? Are we going in love with one another and expressing love to all the people we come in contact with, looking at them as those reflecting the image of Yehovah, as all human beings do.
If we do not act towards our neighbors with love, it is as if we do not love our God and Father Yehovah, because they are made in His image. What we do to our neighbor is as if we are doing it to our Father Yehovah. God our Father Yehovah is love and we are to walk in love as His children. If we do; it will present to the world an amazing witness and many will be added to walk on the narrow path that leads to age upon age lasting life!
A note of encouragement for us in the last days of this age:
Heb 10:19-25: Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and [having] a high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching [the last days approaching].
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