3-11-2018 Weekly Messages
The contemplation of the week: Psalm 16: 1-11
Text: I Peter 1:1-25
The title of the Word: Let us love one another fervently by purifying our souls obeying the truth
Through Apostle Peter, the Holy Spirit speaks to the saints who have been called and justified through God’s foreknowledge, born again by the Holy Spirit, and sanctified.
He prayed for the children of God to be filled with grace and peace who are chosen by the sprinkling of blood of Jesus Christ through obeying the gospel unto sanctification.
When Jesus spoke to the religious people who did not believe in him, he said that things outside does not defile them, but that what comes out of their hearts defiles them. He spoke one by one of the thirteen iniquities that came out of them:
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. “(Mark 7: 21-23)
Through Jesus’ words, everyone born in this world is born with these things in genetic factors(DNA), regardless of his will. Because these things are in men, these are to defile themselves. It is as if the garbage can be made of a good material and is wiped out, there is still full of garbage inside It is applied to the body of man.
All these dirty things in the heart of man cannot be cleansed by anyone. Only the blood of Jesus Christ, the innocent and pure blood of the Jesus Christ who is God, can cleanse them and sanctify them. Therefore, when we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, His blood cleanse our heart in our soul, and we are chosen to be children of God.
As to this sprinkling of the blood, Jesus spoke to the Jews but they did not realize that the word was difficult to understand for them:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. .(John 6: 53-58)
Saying about them who are sanctified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, Apostle Peter testified that their old men born with DNA of Adam are considered died on the cross with Jesus Christ; and let them born again through the Holy Spirit to have lively hope.
From this time on, they no longer belong to the world, but they comes the children of God in heaven. They are looking forward to the eternal inheritance in heaven incorruptible, and faded not away
Also, while the saved children of God will suffer and trials from the rulers of the world while living in this world, they will be protected by the power of God. In addition, when they receive trials, they will have to mourn for a moment,