FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
August 13
CHRIST UPLIFTED: ‘BEHOLD THE SON OF MAN’- NOT THE ‘MAN OF SIN’! (Part 2)
The natural law of assimilation unerringly fleshes out the spiritual principle that by “constantly beholding,” especially through repetition, our thoughts, minds, valises, standards, desires, tastes, ambitions, aspirations and goals in life, and thus our moral and spiritual character itself become changed and transformed into the same image and likeness of that which our minds and thoughts dwelt upon.
Since from creation God Creator designed that man, not Homo sapiens, the “crowning act” of His creative power, would be free moral agent, intellectually abs spiritually, endowing him with a will and it’s power of choice, to choose willingly, voluntarily, and spontaneously, that is, intellectually and spiritually.
It is thus that the will is the governing power in the nature of MAN. It follows therefore that before and after the fall, man is the masters of his own eternal destiny. The plan of Creation determined that, while the plan of Redemption implemented after the fall upheld and sustained it. For as Jesus Christ the incarnated Creator us the “same yesterday, today, and forever,” so are all His plans, devices, words, and works of His hands.
Therefore, depending on who and what we are “beholding,” it is either “Look and live,” or “Look and die.” There is only one Life giver and Lifesaver who is the Lawgiver of the law of liberty, the law of life, the royal law of the soon-coming King of kings and Lord of lords, who is still our merciful High Priest, Advocate, Mediator, and righteous Judge of all the earth in the most holy of the Sanctuary in heaven, not in part of sinful, fallen earth!
By living faith LOOK UP to where the Son of man and Son of God, sacredly “wrapped up into One,” is right now, and LIVE! The saints of these last days are those “who follow the Lamb wherever He goes, wherever He is!
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF