FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
October 19
THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 27)
A Special Insight and Startling Revelation for all Worshipping Christians! Here’s what’s happening, unseen to human eyes, irrelevant to those who only live for this world, but also unperceived by professed “church believers” who, like Nicodemus, (a highly respected “teacher of Israel” and distinguished member of the Jewish Sanhedrin), have not yet undergone the Christ-prescribed genuine spiritual rebirth (being born again) through the inextricably-intertwined TWIN BAPTISMS of water immersion (never sprinkling!) symbolizing the death of the “old man” of a past sinful life and coming out of the water as the resurrection of the “new man” or “new creation in Christ Jesus.”
This is followed by the “baptism with fire” of the Holy Spirit of self-denial, self-sacrifice, resisting temptations, overcoming all hereditary and acquired sinful tendencies and habit, and fighting the spiritual battles of the Lord. Jesus personally modeled this fundamental initial requirement and it’s provisions before one can “see,” or spiritually discern, and then “enter His kingdom” on earth.”
“All righteousness cannot be fulfilled” unless these one-two steps are clearly understood and willingly taken. Christ, our Pattern Man accomplished His at the Jordan, before He could begin His three and a-half year mission. Compare Matt. 3:1-17 to John 3: 1-12.
All Bible students should be fully aware of a most fearfully deceptive thing happens in their worship experience when anyone who professes to be a “lamb” or “sheep” of Christ, calling Him Lord, Savior, Redeemer, and the “Bishop and Shepherd of his soul,” yet stops following Him by faith from His death, resurrection, and ascension.
Those who refuse to continue following Him as He assumed His penultimate office and work as our merciful High Priest, beginning in the first apartment (the holy place) of the heavenly sanctuary at His ascension in 31 A. D. He then transferred to the most holy place in the year 1844 to do His final work of “cleansing the sanctuary,” as prophesied in Dan. 8:14, also known as the “pre-advent judgment,” or investigative judgment.
Be sure to read tomorrow’s Daily Manna. It reveals the “open-and-shut-door” in the heavenly sanctuary and the stark difference between those worshipping but remain in the first apartment (holy place) experience and those who followed Christ into the second apartment or the holy place!
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.