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 of the Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and where no person entered, except the high priest, once a year.

Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, the 

Holy war, a war undertaken to rescue the holy land, the ancient Judea, from the infidels; a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries; a war carried on in a most unholy manner. brothers, BROTHER, n. plus. brothers or brethren. L. frater.A human male born of the same father and mother. A male by one of the parents only is called a half-brother, or brother of the half-blood. Anyone closely united; an associate; as a band of brothers.One that resembles another in manners.                    He that is slothful in his work is a brother to him that is a great waster. Proverbs 18.            In scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote that a son of the same parents; as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. Persons of the same profession call each other brother, as judges, clergymen, professors of religion, members of societies united in a common cause, monks and the like.  Kings give to each other the title of brother.address their congregations by the title of brethren. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for man in general; all men being children of the same primitive ancestors and forming one race of beings.Brother-german is a brother by the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, or by the mother only.

you Use  to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity celestial beingsof or relating to the sky or visible heavens

                                       in a heavenly 1. The region or expanse which surrounds the earth, and which appears above and around us, like an immense arch or vault, in which are seen the sun, moon, and stars. Among Christians, the part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called the habitation of God and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits. Deut.26.The sanctified heart loves heaven for its purity, and God for his goodness. Among pagans, the residence of the celestial gods. The sky or air; the region of the atmosphere; or an elevated place; in a very indefinite sense. Thus we speak of a mountain reaching to heaven; the fowls of heaven; the clouds of heaven; hail or rain from heaven. Jer.9. Job.35.Their cities are walled to heaven. Deut.1.The Hebrews acknowledged three heavens; the air or aerial heavens; the firmament in which the stars are supposed to be placed; and the heaven of heavens, or third heaven, the residence of Jehovah. Modern philosophers divide the expanse above and around the earth into two parts, the atmosphere or aerial heaven, and the ethereal heaven beyond the region of the air, in which there is supposed to be a thin, unresisting medium called ether. The Supreme Power; the Sovereign of heaven; god; as prophets sent by heaven. I have sinned against heaven. Luke 15.Shun the impious profaneness which scoffs at the institution of heaven.The pagan deities; celestials. And show the heavens more just. Elevation; sublimity.O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.Supreme felicity; great happiness.

calling, 

                '-ing (klesis, from Kaleo, "I call"):

Is a New Testament expression. The word is used chiefly by Paul, though the idea and term are found also elsewhere. It has a definite, technical sense, the invitation given to men by God to accept salvation in His kingdom through Jesus Christ. This invitation is given outwardly by the preaching of the gospel, inwardly by the work of the Holy Spirit. With reference to Israel, it is on the part of God irrevocable, not repented of. Having in His eternal counsel called this person, He entrusted them with great gifts, and because He did thus enrich them, He also, in the course of time, summoned them to fulfill the task of initiating the world into the way of salvation, and of preparing salvation for the world. Therefore, He will not desert His people, for He Will does not revoke that call (Romans 11:29). This calling is high or upward, in Christ, that is, made in heaven by God on account of Christ and calling man to heaven (Philippians 3:14). Similarly, it is a heavenly calling (Hebrews 3:1); also a holy calling, holy in aim, means, and end (2 Timothy 1:9). Christians are urged to walk worthy of this calling (Ephesians 4:1) (the American Standard Revised Version and the Revised Version (British and American), but the King James Version has "vocation"). In it there is hope; it is the inspirer of hope and furnishes for hope its supreme object (Ephesians 4:4). Men are exhorted so to live that God will count them worthy of their calling (2 Thessalonians 1:11). They are also urged to make their calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10). See ELECTION. There is a somewhat peculiar use of the word in 1 Corinthians 1:26 and 1 Corinthians 7:20, namely, that condition of life in which men were when God called them, not many of the wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, some circumcised, some uncircumcised, some bond, some free, some male, some female, some married, some unmarried.

consider CONSIDER, v.t. L., to consider, to view attentively, to sit by; to sit. See Sit. The literal sense is, to sit by or close, or to set the mind or the eye too; hence, to view or examine with attention. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. Know, therefore, this day, and consider it in thy heart. Deuteronomy 4.Hast thou considered my servant Job? Job 1 Consider the lilies of the field how they grow. Matthew To view attentively; to observe and examine. The priest shall consider leprosy. Leviticus 13. To attend to; to relieve. Blessed is he that considereth the poor. Psalm 41. To have regard to; to respect. Let us consider one another, to provoke to love, and to good words. Hebrews 10. To take into view in the examination, or into account in estimates. In adjusting accounts, services, time, and expense ought to be considered. In the imperative, consider is equivalent to, think with care, attend, examine the subject with a view to the truth or the consequences of a measure. So we use to see, observe, think, attend To requite; to reward; particularly for gratuitous services.

CONSIDER, v.i.To think seriously, maturely or carefully; to reflect. None considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge or understanding. Isaiah 44.In the day of adversity consider. Ecclesiastes 7. To deliberate; to turn in the mind; as in the case of a single person; to deliberate or consult, as numbers; sometimes followed by of; as, I will consider your case, or of your case. The apostles and elders come together to consider of this matter. Acts 15. To doubt; to hesitate.

Jesus, NAME. --The name Jesus signifies savior. It is the Greek form of JEHOSHUA (Joshua). The name Christ signifies anointed. Jesus was both priest and king. Among the Jews, priests were anointed, as their inauguration to their office. ( 1 Chronicle 16:22 ) In the New Testament the name Christ is used as equivalent to the Hebrew Messiah (anointed ), ( John 1:41 ) the name given to the long-promised Prophet and King whom the Jews had been taught by their prophets to expect. ( Matthew 11:3 ;  Acts 19:4 ) The use of this name, as applied to the Lord, has always a reference to the promises of the prophets. The name of Jesus is the proper name of our Lord, and that of Christ is added to identify him with the promised Messiah. Other names are sometimes added to the names Jesus Christ, thus, "Lord," "a king," "King of Israel," "Emmanuel," "Son of David," "chosen of God." II. BIRTH. --Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, God is his father, at Bethlehem of Judea, six miles south of Jerusalem. The date of his birth was most probably in December, B.C. 5, four years before the era from which we count our years. That era was not used until several hundred years after Christ. The calculations were made by a learned monk, Dionysius Exiguus, in the sixth century, who made an error of four years; so that to get the exact date from the birth of Christ we must add four years to our usual dates; i.e. A.D. 1882 is really 1886 years since the birth of Christ. It is also more than likely that our usual date for Christmas, December 25, is not far from the real date of Christ's birth. Since the 25th of December comes when the longest night gives way to the returning sun on his triumphant march, it makes an appropriate anniversary to make the birth of him who appeared in the darkest night of error and sin as the true Light of the world. At the time of Christ's birth, Augustus Caesar was emperor of Rome, and Herod the Great king of Judea, but then the the subject of Rome. Gods providence had prepared the world for the coming of Christ, and this was the fittest time in all its history. 

All the world was subject to one government so that the apostles could travel everywhere: the door of every land was open for the gospel. 

The world was at peace so that the gospel could have free course. 

The Greek language was spoken everywhere with their other languages. 

The Jews were scattered everywhere with synagogues and Bibles. III. EARLY LIFE. --Jesus, having a manager at Bethlehem for his cradle, received a visit of adoration from the three wise men of the East. At forty days old he was taken to the temple at Jerusalem, and returning to Bethlehem, was soon taken to Egypt to escape Herod's massacre of the infants there. After a few months stay there, Herod having died in April, B.C. 4, the family returned to their Nazareth home, where Jesus lived till he was about thirty years old, subject to his parent, and increasing "in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." The only incident recorded of his early life is his going up to Jerusalem to attend the Passover when he was twelve years old, and his conversation with the learned men in the temple. But we can understand the childhood and youth of Jesus better when we remember the surrounding influences amid which he grew. 

The natural scenery was rugged and mountainous, but full of beauty. He breathed the pure air. He lived in a village, not in a city. 

The Roman dominion was irksome and galling. The people of God were subject to a foreign yoke. The taxes were heavy. Roman soldiers, laws, money, every reminded them of their subjection, when they ought to be free and themselves the rulers of the world. When Jesus was ten years old, there was a great insurrection, ( Acts 5:37 ) in Galilee. He who was to be King of the Jews heard and felt all this. 

The Jewish hopes of a Redeemer, of throwing off their bondage, of becoming the glorious nation promised in the prophet, were in the very air he breathed. The conversation at home and in the streets was full of them. 

Within his view, and his boyish excursions were many remarkable historic places, --rivers, hills, cities, plains, --that would keep in mind the history of his people and Gods dealings with them. 

His school training. Mr. Deutsch, in the Quarterly Review, says, "Eighty years before Christ, schools flourished throughout the length and the breadth of the land: education had been made compulsory. While there is not a single term for school to be found before the captivity, there were by that time about a dozen in common usage. Here are a few of the innumerable popular sayings of the period: Jerusalem was destroyed because the instruction of the young was neglected. The world is only saved by the breath of the school-children. Even for the rebuilding of the temple, the schools must not be interrupted." 

His home training. According to Ellicott, the stages of Jewish childhood were marked as follows: "At three the boy was weaned, and word for the first time the fringed or tasseled garment prescribed by ( Numbers 15:38-41 ) and Deuteronomy 22:12 His education began at first under the mothers care. At five he was to learn the law, at first by extracts written on scrolls of the more important passages, the Shema or creed of ( 2:4 ) the Hallel or festival psalms, Psalm 114, 118, 136, and by catechetical teaching in school. At twelve he became more directly responsible for his obedience of the law; and on the day when he attained the age of thirteen, put on for the first time the phylacteries which were worn at the recital of his daily prayer." In addition to this, Jesus no doubt learned the carpenter's trade of his reputed father Joseph, and, as Joseph probably died before Jesus began his public ministry, he may have contributed to the support of his mother. (IV. PUBLIC MINISTRY. --All the leading events recorded of Jesus life are given at the end of this volume in the Chronological Chart and in the Chronological Table of the life of Christ; so that there will be given only a general survey. Jesus began to enter upon his ministry when he was "about thirty years old;" that is, he was not very far from thirty, older or younger. He is regarded as nearly thirty-one by Andrews (in the tables of chronology referred to above) and by most others. Having been baptized by John early in the winter of 26-27, he spent the larger portion of his year in Judea and about the lower Jordan, till in December he went northward to Galilee through Samaria. The next year and a half, from December, A.D. 27, to October or November, A.D. 29, was spent in Galilee and northern Palestine, chiefly in the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee. On November, 29, Jesus made his final departure from Galilee, and the rest of his ministry was in Judea and Perea, beyond Jordan, till his crucifixion, April 7, A.D. 30. After three days he proved his divinity by rising from the dead; and after appearing on eleven different occasions to his disciples during forty days, he finally ascended to heaven, where he is the living, ever-present, all-powerful Saviour of his people. Jesus Christ, being both human and divine, is fitted to be the true Saviour of men. In this, as in every action and character, he is shown to be "the wisdom and power of God unto salvation." As a human, he reaches down to our natures, sympathizes with us, shows us that God knows all our feelings and weaknesses and sorrows and sins, brings God near to us, who otherwise could not realize the Infinite and Eternal as a father and friend. He is divine, in order that he may be an all-powerful, all-loving Saviour, able and willing to defend us from every enemy, to subdue all temptations, to deliver from all sin, and to bring each of his people, and the whole Church, into complete and final victory. Jesus Christ is the center of the history of the world, as he is the center of the Jesus Christ [S]

By anyone's account, Jesus of Nazareth is the most significant person who has ever lived. He has influenced more lives and had more written about him than any other person in history. He is the only one who ever made a credible claim to being more than just another human being and to this day almost a billion people revere him as the supreme revelation of God. The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of Jesus' life and his basic teachings, with each topic being introduced by a short account of the modern discussion that surrounds it. Introducing the whole is a brief discussion of the nature of the sources from which Jesus' life and teachings are derived and concluding it is a discussion of who Jesus understood himself to be.each of the twelve chief disciples of Jesus Christ. important early Christian teacher, especially St. Paul. A person deputed to execute some important business; but appropriately, a disciple of Christ commissioned to preach the gospel. Twelve persons were selected by Christ for this purpose; and Judas, one of the number, proving an apostate, his place was supplied by Matthias. Acts 1. The title of apostle is applied to Christ himself, Heb. 3. In the primitive ages of the church, other ministers were called apostles, Rom. 16; as were persons sent to carry alms from one church to another, Philip. 2. This title was also given to persons who first planted the Christian faith. Thus Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, and the Jesuit Missionaries are called apostles. Among the Jews, the title was given to officers who were sent into distant provinces, as visitors or commissioners, to see the laws observed. Apostle, in the Greek liturgy, is a book contained the epistles of St. Paul, printed in the order in which they are to be read in churches, through the year. High Priest is only one of the many titles applied to Jesus: Messiah, Savior, Son of God, Son of Man, Friend of Sinners, etc. Each one focuses on a particular aspect of who He is and what that means for us. In the book of Hebrews, Jesus is called a High Priest (Hebrews 2:17; 4:14). The word “priest” carries a couple of primary meanings. First, it means one who mediates in religious services. It also means one who is holy or set apart to perform those services. 

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  The first place we find the word used in the Bible is in Genesis 14. Abraham, the friend of God, entered into battle to rescue his nephew Lot, who had been captured by the army of Elam. On his return, Abraham was met by Melchizedek, King of Salem and priest of the Highest God. This man, whose name means the “king of righteousness,” blessed Abraham and the Highest God who gave victory to Abraham. In return for this blessing, Abraham gave a tithe (10 percent) of all the spoils of war to Melchizedek. By this act, Abraham acknowledged Melchizedek’s high position as the priest of God. 
  
  Years later, Abraham's great-grandson Levi was singled out by God to be the father of the priestly tribe. When the Law was given on Mount Sinai, the Levites were identified as the servants of the Tabernacle, with the family of Aaron becoming the priests. The priests were responsible for making intercession to God for the people by offering the many sacrifices that the law required. Among the priests, one was selected as the High Priest, and he entered into the Most Holy Place once a year on the Day of Atonement to place the blood of the sacrifice on the Ark of the Covenant (Hebrews 9:7). By these daily and yearly sacrifices, the sins of the people were temporarily covered until the Messiah came to take away their sins.
  
  When Jesus is called our High Priest, it is with reference to both of these previous priesthoods. Like Melchizedek, He is ordained as a priest apart from the Law given on Mount Sinai (Hebrews 5:6). Like the Levitical priests, Jesus offered a sacrifice to satisfy the Law of God when He offered Himself for our sins (Hebrews 7:26-27). Unlike the Levitical priests, who had to continually offer sacrifices, Jesus only had to offer His sacrifice once, gaining eternal redemption for all who come to God through Him (Hebrews 9:12). 
  
  One other important point about Jesus' priesthood—every priest is appointed from among men. Jesus, though God from eternity, became a man in order to suffer death and serve as our High Priest (Hebrews 2:9). As a man, He was subject to all the weaknesses and temptations that we are, so that He could personally relate to us in our struggles (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus is greater than any other priest, so He is called our “Great High Priest” in Hebrews 4:14, and that gives us the boldness to come “unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16 KJV).
  

  
  

  our confession Though the believer has been cleansed from their sins once and for all, they need to confess their daily sins to God. This is for the purpose of unbroken fellowship - it is not to keep ourselves saved. The blood of Christ settled the believer's guilt once and for all. However, we need to be constantly cleansed from everyday sins. Agree With GodL 

  
  

  The word confess comes from the Greek word homologeo. It literally means to say the same thing. Confession means to agree or acknowledge fully. Therefore when we confess we say the same thing as God does about our sin. We have God's viewpoint on the matter-we see it as he does. We also acknowledge with him that sin has awful disastrous effects. Confession does not mean rendering lip service or mouthing deeds with vain repetition. This includes: Own up to the fact that the thought or action is wrong. Do not try to justify yourself by rationalizing that it really did not sin. Such rationalizations as, Everyone's doing it, It's just a natural human error, or It's not really so bad is not the the the real confession. 

Romans 11:5-6Helpful? Yes No

So too at the present time, there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

1 Corinthians 1:18

Isaiah 14:26-27Helpful? Yes No

This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Titus 1:2Helpful? Yes No

in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Romans 8:28-39Helpful? Yes No

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Deuteronomy 7:7-8Helpful? Yes No

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Hebrews 3:1Helpful? Yes No

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

Ephesians 1:11Helpful? Yes No

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

1 Corinthians 1:18Helpful? Yes No

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

Romans 9:11Helpful? Yes No

though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—

John 17:24Helpful? Yes No

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see the glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

John 17:9Helpful? Yes No

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

John 10:28-29Helpful? Yes No

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

John 6:37Helpful? Yes No

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

1 Peter 1:20Helpful? Yes No

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

1 Peter 1:15-16Helpful? Yes No,

but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

1 Timothy 1:1Helpful? Yes No

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14Helpful? Yes No

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this, he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:7Helpful? Yes No

God has not called us for impurity but in holiness.

Romans 3:20Helpful? Yes No

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight since through the law comes to to to to to to to to go to the knowledge of sin.

Luke 10:21Helpful? Yes No

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Matthew 11:25-26Helpful? Yes No

At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Revelation 17:8Helpful? Yes No

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast because it was and is not and is to come.

Revelation 13:8Helpful? Yes No

and all who dwell on the the the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

1 Peter 2:9Helpful? Yes No

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Ephesians 3:11Helpful? Yes No

This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Ephesians 2:5Helpful? Yes No

even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 1:9Helpful? Yes No

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

1 Corinthians 3:21-22Helpful? Yes No

So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,

Romans 9:24Helpful? Yes No

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

Acts 2:47Helpful? Yes No

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Matthew 1:21Helpful? Yes No

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”