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Vol. 6.02
March-April 2014 |
THE REIGN OF THE
LORD IN ZION
– The News of Life. Obadiah 21
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Newsletter and hereby state the object of its publication: That we are living in
the last days — the end of the
Gospel age; as well as the dawning of the long prayed for Kingdom of Christ in
power; are facts not only discernible by the close Student of the word, led by
the Spirit; but the outward signs recognizable by the world, bear the same
testimony: And we are desirous that the “household of Faith” be fully awake. Not
only help awaken but to assist them to “put on the whole Armor of God that they
may be able to stand in this evil day”. And beside all this, that giving all
diligence, they add to their Faith, Virtue, and to virtue, Knowledge,
Self-control, Patience, Godliness, brotherly Kindness, and Love; whom trust in
the merit of Christ’s Sacrifice for the world. Luke 21:36; Matt. 6:10; Eph.6:13;
2 Peter 1:4-11
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BLOOD ATONEMENT WAS NECESSARY
"Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins."
—
Hebrews 9:22
When God called Israel as a nation out of Egypt, it was under the provision
that He would make a covenant with them through Moses. That covenant was that if
they would keep the Divine Law they should be released from all condemnation and
have everlasting life (Leviticus 18:5; Ezekiel 18:21). The alternative, failure,
meant punishment with death. If they would obey the Law they should not only
live Everlastingly, but be qualified to be Abraham’s specially promised Seed,
through whom all nations would be inducted into the keeping of the Law and into
the attainment of everlasting life. But God knew that they could not keep His
Law because they, like the remainder of the race, were imperfect through the
fall and His Law is the measure of a perfect man’s ability: “Thou shalt love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your
soul, and with all your mind; and thou shalt love your neighbor as thyself.”
Surely none but a perfect man could fully live up to this requirement! Hence
the Israelites continued to die the same as other people, notwithstanding their
Law Covenant. – Matt. 22:36-40. But foreknowing their inability to keep this
Law, God arranged for their continuance in His favor under that covenant by
reviving it every year on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of
Atonement. On that day the year of their relationship to God terminated.
Before looking for the antitype (the reality), let us understand the type (the
shadow). The sacrifice for sins occurred on the Day of Atonement, and consisted
of two parts: First, a bullock was slain and its blood sprinkled in the Most
Holy, and through it Atonement offered for the sins of the priestly tribe only;
then the high priest took his Secondary offering, a consecrated goat, and
treated it as he had treated the bullock. And its blood subsequently was
sprinkled in the Most Holy, “on behalf of all the people,” all the remaining
Tribes of Israel. – Lev. 16:15.
Why were these Animals killed? What is the thought which lies behind this
death of an animal? What lesson did God wish to teach in the type? The
condemnation on the Israelites for the violation of the Mosaic Law was not a
sentence to eternal torment, nor to Purgatory, but a death sentence. This is
clearly stated. By Divine commandment the people were called up between Mt. Ebal
and Mt. Gerizim and God’s Law was read in their hearing. Certain blessings were
read, which were to be the rewards of obedience. Contrariwise, curses were read,
which were to be the penalty for violation of that Law. The curses related to
death, sickness and disease.
These condemnations on Israel for failure to keep God’s Law given at Sinai
agree perfectly with the condemnation imposed upon Adam and, through him, upon
his race, for failure to obey the Divine Law originally given, which was written
in his heart, his character, when he was a perfect man in the image of God.
Hence Israel under the Law Covenant was merely condemned afresh to death – not
to eternal torment, nor to Purgatory. Then, as Israel typified the world, the
Atonement Day was arranged for them as it will be on a larger, grander scale
applicable eventually to all of Adam’s race. The death of the two animals, the
bullock and the goat, specially consecrated by the priest, effected a covering
for the sins of the people for another year, while they tried afresh to
demonstrate their loyalty to God and His righteousness by obedience to the Law;
but only failure could and did result: “By the deeds of the Law shall no man be
justified in God’s sight”; for all flesh is imperfect, weak, degenerate. – Rom.
3:20.
Thus year by year continuously for over sixteen hundred years the Israelites
kept up their attempt to gain Divine favor by obedience to the terms of their
Law Covenant. And year by year they failed afresh, until Jesus came to be the
anti-typical Priest, in order that He might eventually become the anti-typical
King of Israel and the world. His priestly office was necessary to lay the
foundation for His kingly office. As a King he could not uplift to perfection
Adam and his multitudinous race contrary to the Divine sentence of death which
rested upon all, because all are sinners. It was necessary, therefore, that, in
order to become the Messianic King, Jesus must first be the Redeemer of men. He
must first provide the sacrifice for sins. Then, applying it to the satisfaction
of Justice, afterward, by virtue of the right and authority thus secured, He
could undertake the uplifting and blessing of all mankind.
THE ANTI-TYPICAL BLOOD ATONEMENT
The great lessons taught by Israel’s experiences of more than sixteen centuries
were:
(1) That all are sinners;
(2) That no sinner can justify himself;
(3) That an Atonement for Sin is necessary before Divine favor can be fully
obtained for all mankind;
(4) That since the penalty is death, only by a sacrificial death can
sinners be released from the death penalty.
We all know the arguments used by those who oppose the Bible doctrine of Blood
Atonement for Sin. They claim that it is unnecessary, that God could just as
easily as not cancel all sin without requiring the death of either a bullock or
a goat, or of Jesus or anybody else. But are not such arguments illogical? Is it
not illogical to suppose that the great Supreme Judge of the Universe would make
a law and a penalty for it, inflict the penalty justly, and afterward set aside
the penalty without a reason?
Surely no earthly judge would do so, and surely a Heavenly Judge could not do so
without inflicting the principles of His own Government; for if it is right to
impose a death sentence as a penalty for sin, and to allow that sentence to be
in effect for four thousand years before Christ, and to allow our entire race to
suffer under it for that time, would it not be unjust to afterwards institute a
change, set aside the Law, the Curse, the penalty for sin? Surely we all agree
to this!
Some, however, will say, Surely God never made such a penalty. Why should He
make a penalty which would cause the death of His Son, or the death of anybody,
to eradicate it, to set it aside? We answer that God did make such a penalty;
for it is manifest that our entire race is a dying one, which has been under the
Reign of Sin and Death for Six Great Days of a thousand years each. Moreover,
the Bible declares that God pronounced the penalty – inflicted the death penalty
as we have it – for the very purpose and object of the death of His Son that
thus He might give evidence, both to angels and to men, that His Law
is inviolable, but that His Justice is fully equaled by His Love.
“CHRIST’S BETTER SACRIFICES”
If the Jewish Law gave a hint that a sacrificial death would be necessary for
the cancellation of human sin, it also gave a hint that the death of bulls and
of goats was not sufficient for the cancellation of human sin; because the
sacrifices of the Jewish Atonement Day merely covered sin for one year, and did
not actually cancel it at all. The sacrifice was of a proper kind – a life – but
the life was not of sufficient value. Why? Because the Law of Justice would not
be satisfied to accept the death of a bullock and of a goat as the equivalent
for the forfeited life of Father Adam.
If an angel had sinned and been condemned to death, only the death of an
angel of the same grade and state would have constituted a full offset or Ransom
for his life; for the very meaning of the word Ransom is antilutron –
a corresponding price. So neither could an angel’s death redeem a man,
because it would not be the giving of a price to correspond. Neither could our
Redeemer, in His pre-human condition, as the Logos, the Word, have given His
life for Father Adam and the race, because that would not have been a
corresponding price – a Ransom-price (Greek – antilutron). To redeem
Father Adam the death of a man was required; nothing more, nothing less, would
do.
Therefore it was that the Son of God left the glory which He had with the
Father as the Logos and was made flesh, and became the Man Christ Jesus, “that
He, by the grace of God, might taste death for every man” – Heb. 2:9. In harmony
with this, St. Paul writes to Timothy (1 Tim. 2:5,6) that the Man Christ Jesus
gave Himself a Ransom for all. Thus the Apostle again declares, “As by a man
[Adam] came death [not eternal torment], by a man also [Christ] comes the
resurrection of the dead; for as all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be
made alive.” – 1 Cor. 15:21,22.
In this last text notice carefully (and also everywhere else in the
Scriptures) that the contrasts are not Heaven and hell, not joy and suffering,
but life and death – resurrection life through Christ, death by
Adam. Notice also that the penalty paid for Adam’s sin by the Man Christ Jesus
is not an eternal torment penalty, nor a purgatorial penalty, but a death
penalty. “Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.” – 1 Cor.
15:3.
We notice again that it was only the one man Adam who was tried, who sinned
and who was sentenced to death; that all of our race suffered death and its
degradation by heredity and not by virtue of a death sentence; hence it was
possible that the death of the Man Christ Jesus should constitute a full offset
to the demands of Justice against Father Adam, and would incidentally include
all of Adam’s race. God arranged Israel’s typical Atonement Day as a type of the
real Atonement Day, which began at Jesus’ baptism and has continued ever since,
and will continue for another thousand years in the future. The killing of the
bullock on behalf of the priestly family found its anti-type in the death of
Jesus, which began with His consecration at Jordan and was completed at Calvary,
three and a half years later.
As a man, Jesus offered up sacrificially His human nature, the body which He
had taken for the special purpose of sacrifice. That sacrifice was satisfactory
to God, as was indicated by His raising up Jesus from the dead. Moreover, we are
assured that our Lord was not only raised up out of death, but raised up as a
New Creature, to a still higher nature than that which He had before He
undertook the Father’s commission to be the world’s Redeemer, Prophet, Priest
and King. His resurrection was (Phil. 2:10) to glory, honor and immortality, far
above human nature, angelic nature, principalities and powers and every name
that is named. – Eph. 1:21.
The risen Son of God remained forty days with His disciples, and when He had
ascended on High He appeared in the presence of God, and according to the type
made application of the merit of His sacrifice for the Household of faith – the
anti-typical Levites. The acceptance of His Atonement Sacrifice, and
incidentally the acceptance of His waiting followers, was manifested by the
descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
ADDING MEMBERS TO HIS BODY
As Aaron in the type, by Divine direction, accepted his sons to be members
with him in the priesthood, under his headship, so in the anti-type Christ Jesus
during this Gospel Age has been accepting members to the Royal Priesthood, of
which He is the Head. And these are taken from the Levites, for which class the
Atonement was made by Aaron in type and by Jesus in anti-type. Aaron in the
type, after sprinkling the blood of the bullock and making Atonement for the
House of Levi, came forth and slew the goat.
So Christ, having finished making Atonement for the sins of the anti-typical
Levites, came forth at Pentecost to bless them and to accept them as joint-sacrificers
and as joint-heirs. The goat, which Aaron slew as the second portion of his
sin-offering, represented all the faithful footstep followers of Jesus in the
nearly nineteen centuries that have elapsed since Pentecost. Respecting these
Jesus prayed, saying, “I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou hast
given Me; ...neither pray I for these alone, but for all those who shall believe
on Me through their word, that they all may be one, as Thou, Father, and I are
one.” – “I in them and Thou in Me.” – John 17:9,20-23.
Incidentally, Jesus as the High Priest in glory began at Pentecost the
sacrificing of the goat class, His faithful followers. The work has continued
ever since. The sufferings of Jesus have thus been prolonged for centuries. As
St. Peter declares, the Prophets spake of the sufferings of Christ and of the
glory that should follow. (1 Peter 1:10,11.) The sufferings have not yet been
completed, and hence the glory has not come. When the full number foreordained
of God shall have faithfully finished their course in death the sacrifices of
the anti-typical Day of Atonement will be at an end. The great High Priest with
His Body will pass beyond the second veil into the Heavenly glories, the First
Resurrection completing the transfer. The blessing of the people will follow.
“I AM JESUS, WHOM THOU PERSECUTEST”
That Jesus thus recognizes His followers as His members is clearly attested
by the Apostle. In their flesh they are counted as members of Jesus; as New
Creatures spirit-begotten, they are counted as members of The Christ. Thus Jesus
said to Saul of Tarsus, speaking of His followers, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou Me?” “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.” (Acts 9:4, 5.)
The same thing is true of any truly consecrated follower of the Lord Jesus
Christ. While such are in the world and suffer, the sufferings of Jesus are not
completed. And the glory of Christ can be fully attained only in proportion as
the sufferings of Jesus are completed. In the type, all this was pictured in the
things which happened to the Lord’s goat, which typified the faithful,
sacrificing members, the flesh of Jesus. As the goat passed through all the
experiences of the bullock, so the footstep followers of Jesus are to have
similar trials, difficulties, oppositions, persecutions, to those which came to
the Master.
With the completion of the Priest of Glory at the end of the sufferings of the
flesh will come the effusion of the blood on behalf of Israel and all of Adam’s
race of every nation. In the type Aaron took the blood of the goat, his
secondary sacrifice, and sprinkled it on the Mercy Seat on behalf of all the
people of Israel, representing all who will become the people of God of every
nation. Forthwith Divine acceptance of these sacrifices spoke the forgiveness of
the sins of all.
So in the anti-type. When our Lord the second time sprinkles the blood in the
Most Holy, the sins of all the people – the whole world – will be canceled. At
the same instant the Redeemer will take them over as a purchased possession and,
under the Divine arrangement, He will establish over them His Kingly power –
Psalm 2:6-8, 72:8; Rev.22:17, 20:6. He will reign for their blessing and
uplifting. As the great Prince of Glory He will bind the Prince of Darkness,
Satan, and destroy all his works of evil and lift poor humanity back into
harmony with God – all the willing and obedient.
Oh, how this should thrill our hearts and cause us to appreciate the Wisdom as
well as the Justice of God and His great Love manifested in the Plan which has
required Ages for development, but which was in the Divine Purpose from before
the foundation of the world!
LUGANDA TRANSLATION in
brief.
OKUSASULIRA EKIBI N'OMUSAAYI KYETAGISA !
“Era ewataba kuyiwa musaayi tewabaawo kusonyibwa”
– Abebb. 9:22.
Mukama bwe y'anununula abaana ba Isirayiri okuva emisiri, ya kolagana nabo mu
Ndagaano y'amateeka ge yawa Musa. Kale Endagaano eno yalina ebisubizo ebirungi,
obulamu eri anakwata amateeka ga Mukama, n'okufa eri obugyemu – Abalevi 18:5,
Ezekyeri 18:21. Abayisirayiri basubizibwa si bulamu bwokka wabula nti singa
bwakatwa amateeka ga Mukama, balifuse ezadde lya Ibulayimu, omunayita omukisa
okutuuka eri amawanga gonna ag'omunsi. Naye Katonda yamanya nga tebasobola ku
tukiriza mateeka ge, kuba bbo nga abantu abalala bazaalibwa n'obunafu bw'omubiri,
obw'ekibi. Bwekityo abayizirayiri ne bafa nga abantu abalala bwe bafa.
Kale olw'obunafu obwo Katonda kyava abateerawo enkola y'okwetukuza okusobola
okunywerera mu Ndagaano ye. Buli mwaka, Abayisirayiri bawangayo Ssaddaka
y'okutangirira ebibi byabwe, ku lunaku olw'ekumi, omwezi ogw'omusanvu buli mwaka.
Wano batangirira ebibi byabwe eby'omwaka; nga bawaayo ssaddaka y'ente enume wamu
n'omwana gw'embuzi, nga bakozesa Omusaayi gwabyo nga Ssadaka okusonyibwa ebibi.
Ente ye yasooka okuttibwa, omusaayi gwayo ne gutwalibwa mu maaso ga Ssanduko ya
Mukama, olw'ebibi bya bakabonna – Aaroni n'abaana be. Era oluvanyuma, embuzi
nettibwa, omusaayi gwayo ne gukolebwa ng'ogwente, olw'ebibi by'abantu bonna –
Abalevi 16:15.
Lwaki ebisolo bino bya ttibwa? Makulu ki mu kuffa kw'ebisolo bino? Kyali
kigenderelwa ki? Tulaba nti Abayisirayiri mu Mateeka batangirira ebibi byabwe
buli mwaka. Amateeka galina obulamu n'ekikolimo singa balemwa, naye okufa kwabwe
kwali kumu n'okwaweebwa Adamu olw'obugyeemu. Omusaayi gw'Ente n'embuzi
gwatangiriranga buli mwaka basobole okuddamu obupya okwata amateeka, naye nga
balemwa bulemwa! Mu Abaruumi 3:20 – Kubanga olw'ebikolwa by'amateeka alina
omubiri yenna taliweebwa butuukirivu mu maaso ge....”
Kale kino kyaleteera Yesu okujja abere Kabaka wa Isirayiri era ow'Ensi yonna.
Naye kyamugwanira okusoka okola Ssadaka y'okutangira ebibi kuba tasobola kuba
Kabaka w'abajemu era abalina okufa. Abantu bonna bayonoona mu Adamu era bafa.
Yesu yalina okuwa Ssadaka y'okutangirira ebibi by'abantu, nga Kabona era
oluvanyuma ebibi nga bibagyidwako, olwo ayambe abantu bonna okumanya obutukirivu.
OMUSAAYI OGUSASULIRA EKIBI, OKWANAMADDALA
Abayisirayiri bye bayiga mu bbanga ly'amateeka:
1.
Abantu bonna bayonoona!
2. Tewali
muntu ayinza okwesasulira, ne y'elongoonsa oba okw'etukuza.
3.
Okutangirira ebibi kye tagisa eri abantu okusobola okuda eri Katonda,
4.
Okuva empera y'obugyemu bweri okufa, bwekityo okusonyibwa ky'etegasia Ssadaka
y'okufa, okutukiriza obw'enkanya bwa Katonda.
Mukama bwatyo bwe yatekateeka obutuukirivu mu bw'enkanya. Empera y'ekibi kufa,
era okununulibwa kw'omuntu kyetagisa omu okufa, okuda mu kifo kya Adamu, ekyo
Yesu kye yakolera ddala. Kino kiraga Amaanyi ga Katonda wamu n'okwagala kwe nti
obwenkanya n'okwagala byenkana, naye nga tewali kikola kukosa kilala.
OMUTANGO GWA YESU GWA
MUWENDO MUNGI
(Okusinga Ogw'Ebisolo).
Mukama ya kiraga mu mateeka nti ebibi bigyibwawo na Musaayi, era abaana ba
Isirayiri bawangaayo Ssadaka buli mwaka ez'okutangirira ebibi byabwe, ente
n'embuzi, enaku nga 10 omwezi gw'omusanvu. Kino ne kikakasa nti ebibi bigenda na
kuyiwa musaayi, naye omusaayi gw'ebisolo te gwamalawo kibi. Ekibi kyagya lwa
Adamu kugyeema, era Adamu yali muntu. Kale, ekibi kyonna kivawo lwa Mutango,
olwo nga kyetagisa omuntu atukiridde nga Adamu bwe yali nga tanayonoona,
okusasulira obugyemu bwa Adamu – nga afa mu kifo kya Adamu. Okusasula omuwendo
ogwenkanankana – gamba, Malayika bw'ayonoona, asasulibwa bulamu bwa Malayika;
bwekityo, n'Omuntu asasulibwa bulamu bw'Omuntu.
Kino kye kya leteera Yesu okuleka ebitibwa bye mu Ggulu, afuke omuntu, okusobola
okuwaayo Omutango eri ebibi bya Adamu. Omuntu Yesu kyeyava awaayo obulamu bwe,
nalega ku kufa ku lwa buli muntu – Abebb.2:9. Wano Omutume Paulo kyava akakasa
nti “Okufa nga bwe kwagya olw'omuntu omu, n'okuzukira kwabafu kwabaawo
olw'omuntu omu. Abantu bonna nga bwe bafira mu Adamu, bwekityo mu Kristo Yesu
Abantu bonna mwe balifuukira abalamu” – 1 Abakkolinso 15:21-22.
Tulaba wano nga Omuntu omu yeyayonoona, abantu bonna nebasikira ekibi, wewaawo,
n'empera y'ekibi (Abaruumi 5:12). Kale abantu bonna bafa olw'ekibi kya Adamu.
Bwekityo, olwobuwulize bw'omuntu omu, Yesu Kuristo, Abantu bonna ba kusonyiyibwa,
babeere balamu nga bayita mu kuzukira, kubanga Yesu yabasasulira. Tulaba
okutangirira ebibi kw'Abayisirayiri nga kulaga okutangirira ebibi by'abantu
bonna, era nga kino Yesu akitukiriza ku muntindiro ogwawagulu. Yesu kwe kuwaayo
obulamu bwe, olw'enyumba ye (Ekkanisa), era bwamala okugitukuza olw'omusaayi gwe,
nagikiriza ku lunaku lwa Penticosti, n'efuuka ekitundu ky'omubiri gwe. Era okuva
olwo, Ekkanisa ewaayo Ssadaka yayo nga embuzi, okubonabona kwayo kukirizibwa,
olwo nga Ssadaka zombi ziwedde, abantu bonna mu nsi bawebwe omukisa –
Okubikk.22:17.
NZE YESU GWE
MUYIGANYA
Tulaba nti Ekkanisa efuuka omubiri
gwa Kuristo, era bonna bwatwalibwa okuba ekitundu kya Kuristo, mu mubiri
ekitundu kya Yesu. Wano Yesu kyava agamba Saulo nti “Saulo Saulo, ogyiganyizaki?,
nze Yesu gw'oyiganya” – Ebikko.9: 4-5. Kale, okubonabona kw'Ekkanisa kumu
n'okubonabona kwa Kuristo. Oluvanyuma, tulaba okuwa omukisa abantu bonna,
okutandikira ku gwanga lya Isirayiri. Wano, Kuristo natwala amawanga gonna okuba
obusikabwe, era wa ku gafuga mu butuukirivu. Okusalira buli muntu omusango mu
myaka olukumi nga afuga. Buno obufuzi bwe Bwakabaka bwa Katonda ku nsi – Zabbuli
2:6-8, 72:8; Okubikk.22:17, 20:6, 5:9-10.
Amina.
THE DIVINE PLAN OF AGES
“A Plan of Ages, which he formed for the
ANOINTED Jesus our Lord”
— Eph. 3:11, Emp. Diag.
“Write down the Vision and make it plain upon tables that every
one may read it fluently.”
— Hab. 2:2-3 L.T.
The 3 Worlds
— 2 Peter 3:5-13
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SOME BIBLE TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
(EGIMU KU MITWE EGIYIGIBWA)
1. Why does God permit Evil/ Satan to do
injury?
(Lwaki Katonda owekisa aleka Satan okukola
obubi?)
2. The Most Holy Faith — the Faith which was
delivered to all Saints.
(Okukkiriza okutukuvu enyo - Okwaweebwa
abatukuvu ba Katonda.)
3.
The study of Bible Covenants.
(Okuyiga Endagaano Za Katonda mu baibuli)
4.
Church History— The Seven Churches and
Seven Angels; Rev. 2
(Ekanisa Omusanvu ne
Bamalayika baazo Musanvu
—
Okubikkulirwa 2)
5.
The Armageddon & The End of the World.
(Olutalo ddekabusa era
olwenkomerero y’ensi)
6.
Tongues, Miracles, Visions and Prophesying.
(Ebyamagero, Okulabikirwa, Okwogera mu nnimi
era n’Obwanabbi)
7.
The TRUE Christian Baptism!
(Okubatizibwa okuli mu byawandikibwa, okw’amazima.)
And many others (Nebirala)!!!!
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DESIRING GOD’S GREAT BLESSING!
Desiring to obtain God’s blessing but indifferent in doing His will results in
failure. Serving and improving the life conditions of your fellow men towards
God, is one source of God’s blessing. Therefore, desiring to spread God’s
Message of life but thinking you are too busy with work of whatever sort, poor
to give financial support as you may not have enough for food, or you are not
talented to speak, or feeling bodily imperfection that a person may ask you what
you can not explain; yes in whatever form of constraint: We advise you to
consider the many and varied opportunities the LORD of heaven has placed before
you to serve your fellow men and women; Example, obtain copies of this monthly
Newsletter — look at People interested in God’s word around you; at work place,
home, neighbors, at your church, sending a copy to mother, father, friends &
relatives in different places of the Country. Those who could promote this work
in other right way, the opportunity stands. Yes, how refreshing and motivating
you may contribute to changing Peoples lives, and yourself be God’s righteous
Servant in the belief of Christ and the TRUTH.
GROWING IN FAITH
Growth in faith is
a desired state of Christian for desired fruitage of Christ likeness; But this
must be in line with the will of God as expressed in 1 Thess. 5:21 KJV — “Prove
all things; hold fast that which is good.” In line with this exhortation we
advise all who are earnest students of Scriptures and our Newsletter, to prove
all our studies with the only standard given by God (Isaiah 34:16) and please
communicate to us! It is also, our privilege to share the message of God’s love
with others; hence we advise those who received the first publications to share
them with God’s People.
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