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| 03/30/2013 recording date. audio/video is 7 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. Victory In Jesus by turtle Today coming from turtle30cshell.com I am your host Christina Farris, today we will be journeying together from the empty tomb of our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ. What does the empty tomb mean for the followers of Christ. After all the place where Christ died was shaken by earthquake and the sky darkened. The veil in the temple was ripped between the Holies of Holies and the sanctuary. The veil being the door to God that not all could enter through to talk to God. The need for intercessor came when Israel needed Moses to talk to God for them. Yet Israel had used the veil to keep people from God. Though there always been proselytes to the Jewish faith, one needed an intercessor to do so. God used a spokes men to speak to the people about Him, yet God’s ability to speak to the individual heart has always been. For He spoke to Noah, Abraham, David, and all the prophets of old. Jesus through the shedding of blood on the cross became our intercessor or doorway to God. God had used the veil first when He sent Moses to speak to Pharaoh and Moses needed a priest. A priest being someone to speak for a person about God. God’s Holy Word has always been a go between to us and Him. His word being the bargaining chip of what He would do. Much like a parent that tells a child the consequences if he goes to the party that he been forbidden to go to, will be grounded for life. When the parents execute the punishment for the disobedience, the child life being until he gets out of the house. God’s word has always been a door way to Him. When God spoke to Abraham and Abraham obeyed the voice of God it opened a relationship with God. Yet for years God has used prophets and teachers to speak to a people who desire to know God or obey God. Moses a prophet of God would learn the consequence of disobedience to the word of God. Christ became the High Priest, yet He was always the High Priest to and for God. For Christ was the word of God that became flesh. Let us read today’s passage. John 1:1-14 KJV (1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) The same was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (4) In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (6) There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. (7) The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. (8) He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. (9) That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (10) He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. (11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not. (12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (14) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. The word of God became tangible. Something human eye could see, could understand, could grasp as being true. Jews that would believe would understand that prophesy of old and grab hold of Christ, yet their very heart would be harden so Christ could be crucified. God’s word becoming a reality to the generation of the time of Christ and all future generations. For Christ’s Spirit descended into the lower parts of hell and set the captives free. He ascended to the throne taking the captives that were free with Him to His Father’s throne. The word of God became before it was ever flesh and blood. Yet it became flesh and blood so all that would believe in the name of God Son would have eternal life. This is why no other person can take the claim of being the only begotten Son of God. No one else can claim to be the word of God. One can claim to be a spokesmen for God but never the Word of God. Christ can be brother but we are not equal to Him. We are different, we must born of Holy Spirit to be a child of God. We are not born of His Spirit until we receive Christ as Lord. Jesus is the doorway to God. He has been to hell, earth, to heaven and back again. The word of God having to die so man might know the difference of the word of God being present. Until you know the difference between truth and a lie, you can not know what God speaks is the only truth that there is. We might speak truth about many things but spiritual truth can only come from God. When we refuse to believe God’s word we are cut off from the earthly promises of God like Moses who hit the rock twice and did not get to go into the promise land of Israel. The consequence of unbelief in what God speaks to our hearts can cost us many things. Yet our belief in our Savior keeps us through eternity. The veil of his blood poured out for you and for me that covers our sin. God no longer looks at our sin, but sees us has His dear child. If we love God we are going to obey His word. Yet our inward struggle of obedience is the need to resist temptation, And only by step by step, walking in faith with God even through our failures as a believer can we learn that God’s Holy Word is true and that His Son paid our sin debt, opening the door to eternal life with God. Today is Easter or some like to call it Resurrection Day. Either name is fine. Fact is Easter is celebration of the victory that Jesus had over sin and death. His victory because He was the Messiah, the perfect sacrifice for our sins. Yes we too will experience death unless Christ returns during our life time. Yet we have the hope that death will only be moment and in the next moment we will be with God, with Christ as our intercessor and hope. |
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