The Word of God of the Lord came to me saying
For the word In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
God the creator and ruler of the universe He is the source of all moral authority.
God is the supreme being He is the superhuman being or spirit to worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes He is the only deity of the cross.
Many people do not understand the deeper meaning of the Cross.
What does it really mean–the Cross.
When you go throughout the world, you see many churches with steeples.
When the Communists tried to outlaw religion in Russia and in Eastern Europe, they forgot that the cross was on many of their churches and cathedrals.
The cross is worn on the necks of so many people, rappers movie stars rock stars. They will never understand the or know what the cross really means.
First and foremost the Cross shows us the depths of our sins. We don’t realize what sin is in the sight of God or how deeply it offends God. People don’t understand how it separates us from Him.
Before Jesus went to the cross, He prayed in Gethsemane. He was agonizing, sorrowful. He prayed to God,
If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will” (Matthew 26:39, NKJV).
He looked into the cup, and what did He see in that cup?
He saw the sins of the whole world! He saw murder, war, racial, liars prejudice, adultery, lying and fraud.
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.
People ask the question, “What is sin?” Sin is coming short of God’s righteousness. God is righteous and holy.
He cannot look upon sin. A diamond may be perfect to the natural eye. But if you take it to a specialist and he looks at it through a glass, he sees a defect in it. And God looks at us that way.
James 4:1-3 says: “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures”.
We are all that way. Sin has affected our minds. The Scripture says, “The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Sin also affects your will. Jesus said, “Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin” (John 8:34, NKJV).
There’s something of which you are guilty. You can’t break this habit.
You would like to, but you have no power to do it. You are a slave. You cry for freedom, but there is no escape.
But Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32, NKJV).
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
John 14:5 Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
Sin also affects your conscience. Every one of us has a conscience.
Your conscience is the Internal thoughts of self-knowledge, or judgment in right and wrong.
It is the faculty of the power of God to tap into that cause the principle within to happen. Which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of our own actions and affections,
However it will instantly approve or condemn us in our conscience state of mind.
Conscience is called by some writers the moral sense, and considered as an original faculty of our nature.
Others question the propriety of considering conscience as a distinct faculty or principle.
The consider it rather as the general principle of moral approbation or disapprobation, applied to ones own conduct of our affections.
Many all edging that our notions of right and wrong are not to be deduced from a single principle or faculty.
However it illuminates from various powers of the understanding the will of God.
Being convicted by their own conscience, they went out one by one.
John 8.
The conscience manifests itself in the feeling of obligation we experience, which precedes, attends and follows our actions.
Our conscience is first occupied in ascertaining our duty, before we proceed to action; then in judging of our actions when performed.
The estimate or determination of conscience justification of the honesty within our intellectual intelligence within our minds.
What you require cannot, in conscience, be deferred.
Real sentiment; private is base on our thoughts in telling if the truth. As far as persons believing in our story?
It has the power to depict or imaging the story once we tell it.
Consciousness is knowledge of our own actions in thought and deed.
The sweetest cordial we receive at last, is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
This primary sense of the word is nearly, perhaps wholly obsolete.
In the Knowledge of the actions of the responsive other.
In ludicrous language, reason or reasonableness.
Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require.
To make conscience or a matter of conscience, is to act according to the dictates of conscience, or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.
It is the established recovery, it’s a little red light that comes on every time we sin against God.
But you can have a conscience that doesn’t work any longer.
You have gone against your conscience for so long that it’s dead.
He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know." Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, `Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.
Dry Bones Live Again
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Some time later, I felt the Lord’s power take control of me, and his Spirit carried me to a valley full of bones.
The Lord showed me all around, and everywhere I looked I saw bones that were dried out.
He said, “Ezekiel, son of man, can these bones come back to life?”
I replied, “Lord God, only you can answer that.”
He then told me to say:
Dry bones, listen to what the Lord is saying to you,
I, the Lord God, will put breath in you, and once again you will live.
I will wrap you with muscles and skin and breathe life into you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”
I did what the Lord said, but before I finished speaking, I heard a rattling noise. The bones were coming together!
I saw muscles and skin cover the bones, but they had no life in them.
The Lord said:
Ezekiel, now say to the wind.
The Lord God commands you to blow from every direction and to breathe life into these dead bodies, so they can live again.”
As soon as I said this, the wind blew among the bodies, and they came back to life! They all stood up, and there were enough to make a large army.
The Lord said:
Ezekiel, the people of Israel are like dead bones. They complain that they are dried up and that they have no hope for the future.
So tell them, “I, the Lord God, promise to open your graves and set you free. I will bring you back to Israel, and when that happens, you will realize that I am the Lord.
My Spirit will give you breath, and you will live again. I will bring you home, and you will know that I have kept my promise. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
If you ever get to the danger point when
you are no longer shocked or offended by sin around you or sin in your own life.
One reason you should be concerned about this is because you are guilty when you sin whether you feel guilty or not.
The Bible solemnly warns, “People are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
You see, feelings aren’t always a reliable test of the truth.
I may be convinced that nothing is going to happen to me if I walk down a dark alley at night but my feelings may be wrong, and I actually may be placing myself in great danger.
Or I may be convinced I’m in good health and have nothing to worry about but a deadly cancer still may be growing undetected inside me. Our feelings may mislead us but facts never will.
Don’t be misled by your feelings, and don’t ignore the little voice within you that prompts you leads you to do right and rebukes you when you do wrong or stray away.
It seems as though nothing is gone your way. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.
The glorifying of God. The enjoying of God.
The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all our actions. …
It’s s Tragically, to become dulled or almost silenced if we refuse to listen to that soft but still voice.
I doubt if this has happened to you, however; otherwise you wouldn’t have written me.
The Bible warns us to listen to what God is telling us, “so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness” (Hebrews 3:13).
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth” (Psalm 86:11
We are all sinners trespassing and sentence was death.” Until the blood of Jesus cleanse us of all our sin. If we confessed with our mouth and believe in our hearts that Jesus died for our sin we can be save. Which means we are no longer a space to sin.
But not only does the Cross show us our sins, it also shows us the love of God.
No matter what you have done past present or future we are forgiven. This allows us to see it is so easy to fall back into sin. It does not give us a license to sin.
The death of Christ is what makes the Good News. God is saying to you,
I love you. I forgive you.
Jesus did it all.The Cross is a pardon; it’s a reprieve from death for people who don’t deserve it.
None of us deserves to be saved. None of us deserves to go to heaven. We broke the law we are Guilty. We were sentenced to die. But the blood of Christ keeps us alive.
1 John 4:8 But God is love and God is grace and mercy. “Grace” means something that you don’t deserve, something that God just gives you. God offers you a pardon.
He offers you forgiveness; He offers you assurance of Heaven if you die.
And that can happens as soon as you say yes Lord. I accept the invitation.
God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8, KJV).
I heard a story of one of the great men of the past. The devil came to him and listed all of his sins.
The man asked, “Is that all?”The devil said, “No, I’ve got a lot more.” And he listed the rest of them.
“Now what will you do?” Satan said. Now,” said the man, “write this beneath them all: The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth from all sin” (Cf. 1 John 1:7).
Jesus died on the cross for you, and the Scripture says that you can never be the same once you have tasted the goodness of the Lord. And carried your Cross.
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new”
2 Corinthians 5:17 Do you feel that your life has been a failure? Is your life turned upside down? Do you wonder which way to turn?
Where will you be a hundred years from now? You won’t be here, but the Cross guarantees a future life. The Cross is followed by the Resurrection.
The death of Christ was not the end. There’s a Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Scripture teaches that Christ is reconciling the world unto Himself. He’ll reconcile you. You are separated from God by sin.
But when you come to the Cross, you are united with God, and you become a partaker of His own nature.
There were two thieves crucified with Jesus that day. Both of them reviled him, but one suddenly changed.
He said to Jesus, “Remember me when You come into Your kingdom” (Luke 23:42, NKJV).
He didn’t have time to join a church. He didn’t have time to be baptized. He didn’t have time to live a good life. He just said, “Remember me.”
And Jesus said, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43, NKJV).
He said today. It won’t be yesterday or tomorrow. today you will be with me in Paradise.” And the first person that Jesus greeted in Paradise, I believe, was that thief.
Jesus can do the same for you, whoever you are.
Have you ever been to the Cross and really opened your heart to Jesus Christ?
You may be a good moral person, a church-going person, you are not sure that you really know Christ as your Lord and your Savior.
I’m going to ask you to make that commitment to Christ to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God through the knowledge of Christ and the carrying of your cross,
That we being dead unto sin should live unto righteousness.
"They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God."
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
We must maintain this glorious testimony, yet our own experience often seems to contradict it.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part, he is even, il spoke of, but on your part, he is glad, verified.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Yet if any man suffers as a Christian, Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Dr. Prophet Theresa Maxwell
