Giving up each dream now beyond my reach and touched my the Hand of the Almighty, I press on to preach to Gospel exclusively to those whom the Lord has chosen. (You may not be one of these.)
Those not saved by the grace of God have most likely scrolled past the Light of their salvation already.
Roger Harned – reflection on why most will never talk of Jesus Christ
Social Media is not the world
Social media and broadcast media are the medium and the message to a world opposed to the Lord God.
We are in the world and of the world, born into sin and continuing in sin, unless the Lord separates us into His holiness.
Spokespersons for the world seek to sway our conversations to follow only their diverse distancing from God.
Christians must not sway back into the ways of the world — ways which demand judgment and deny the grace of Christ Jesus.
As we hear in our Lord’s High Priestly Prayer from an upper room in Jerusalem just before His betrayal, Jesus prays for those given Him — the Apostles (except His betrayer) AND for those in generations to come who will need to be protected from the evil one.
Are you one of these?
Do you need protection by the Lord God Who IS and came to the world in the Person of Christ Jesus?
Jesus, God in Person and One with the Father, prays NOT for the world but exclusively for those given to Him — souls chosen for eternal life.
The world will hear its media but never the Truth of God.
The world will read any diverse solution except that of Scripture.
I no longer preach to a world which denies Christ Jesus.
Roger@talkofJesus.com
You with ears to hear and eyes to see, read what John writes to the church.
John’s Letter
Do you have ears to hear challenging preaching directed specifically to Christians who see Christ Jesus through Scripture?
If so, turn the page and read John’s first letter & my challenge to you, beloved brother or sister in Christ.
‘What is truth?’ Pilate will soon ask the Creator of all things who came to this world of His creation.
Yet prior to the tragic truth of the trial of His righteousness sacrificed for us, Jesus prays for those given to Him:
“For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.” [CSB]
Christ Jesus, sanctified for us, prayed about truth. So just as we previously defined sanctification [in our last post linked above] let’s define truth as used in scripture.
what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truth
in the greatest latitude
the true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural intervention
the truth as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposing alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians
subjectively
truth as a personal excellence
that candour of mind which is free from affection, pretence, simulation, falsehood, deceit
The Truth of Eternal Life
All of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.
3 You return mankind to the dust, saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”
7 For we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days ebb away under your wrath; we end our years like a sigh.
But what next?
‘The days of our years are threescore years and ten… OR perhaps eighty, the Psalm reminds us… (OR perhaps a score more, but maybe just 50 years… or a death more sudden).
‘… Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.” – Psalm 90:10b NASB
Returning to the night of Jesus’ betrayal
The Messiah Jesus came to man — living among us and teaching God’s way.
The Lord looks toward heaven on this night on which He was betrayed. From an upper room in Jerusalem Jesus prays to God our Father. This perfect High Priest stands before His own Altar of suffering and Sacrifice on behalf of those the LORD has chosen.
For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
John 17:19 NASB
You will die and I will die.
The Son of Man did die… for those whom He sacrificed for Himself.
The witness of Scripture and the Gospel confirm what happened next to the Messiah of God. What will be next for you?
Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies… only the high priest enters…
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation..
.. through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
… sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh …
… “THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU.” …
For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us
AND YES, fellow sinner, you know well from Scripture what is NEXT after DEATH.
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Do You await HIM?
As Jesus our High Priest interceded for them, the Apostles only had hint of what would come next. Certain sacrifice of their Lord and ours! Probably persecution and death for each Disciple of Jesus, the only question being when.
Yet by the Lord’s prayer of protection He sent disciples into a world which hates Jesus, the Christ of GOD; a world which hates the very GOD it denies.
No question about it, ALL will die; but few await death with joyous expectation. Do you await the resurrection of our flesh and joining of your soul and the Spirit of the LORD GOD?
NONE want to face the Judgment of sin – an evil nature woven into our being which cannot face the Very Light of the Lord GOD.
Those who deny God or claim Christ falsely must, in time, face the judgment of having chosen darkness over the Light and Glory of God and of having refused God’s grace of a new choice to turn back to the path of righteousness which leads to life in paradise.
What is True of Christ Jesus?
The Good News of John about Jesus our Savior:
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
“Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
“This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil…
“But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
“I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Jesus, the Eternal One, has completed His work in the world as the Son of Man, only Son of God the Father. He is about to experience the very death of mortals condemned by sin!
So as a Perfect High Priest the Lord intercedes for sinners in prayer in an upper room in Jerusalem, a Holy of Holies before our Father God, the Most High Creator of the world and Author of all life.
13 “But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
The Lord speaks clearly to the Father and before the Apostles that He has this one more thing to say ‘in the world’ before His Disciples.
The world hates God! Jesus gave them God’s true word and now the world hates them.
Why?
They are no longer condemned by their sin, as the world is condemned to death along the the evil one. So the departing Messiah prays for God to keep them from the temporary but real power of evil.
17 Sanctify them in the truth;
Your word is truth.
18 As You sent Me into the world,
I also have sent them into the world.
19 For their sakes I sanctify Myself,
that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Jesus prays for them and us and clearly states why.
What He will do next?
The Lord will sanctify Himself so that His disciples will become like Him as they are sent also into the world.
Sanctification
“Sanctify them…”
“I sanctify myself…”
What do these formal and holy words mean to a casual worshiper of these last days?
Perhaps the time has arrived for us to receive this truth as was near for a soon-to-be crucified Savior and His Disciples.
Jesus prays: Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:17 KJV
to make ἅγιον, render or declare sacred or holy, consecrate. Hence, it denotes:
to render or acknowledge to be venerable, to hallow: Since the stamp of sacredness passes over from the holiness of God to whatever has any connection with God, ἁγιάζειν denotes
to separate from things profane and dedicate to God, to consecrate
Jesus IS the only High Priest with the Authority to sanctify any flesh of sinful man who He sends out into the world. The Lord can make you or any He chooses to be ‘a holy vessel of the LORD.’
“I have sanctified them..
Jesus continues to pray for those the Father has given Him:
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
You cannot see the face of God, O man of flesh tainted by sin!
Gaze far into the distant heavens beyond the vast sea for a light of truth, the paradise of Eden, the glory of the living Temple of the LORD. You will not enter it any more than you may enter the Holy of Holies constructed by man and destroyed by disobedience.
Jesus our High Priest prays to sanctify you through the truth.
To be continued...
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